Product Description: Among the runners of C. C. Pyle's First Annual International Transcontinental Foot Race were an assortment of underdogs, including twenty-year-old Oklahoman and part Cherokee Andy Payne, who wanted to win over the girl of his dreams and pay off the mortgage on his family's farm; Paul "Hardrock" Simpson, who was in over his head but couldn't let down his North Carolina hometown; Mike Kelly, a luckless boxer from Indiana; Seattle's Ed Gardner, one of four black runners who encountered bigotry; Charles Hart, a sixty-three-year-old Englishman hoping his best days weren't behind him; and Frank Johnson, a middle-aged husband, father, and steelworker from St...read more

Offers a detailed account of the 1928 3,423-mile foot race across America; the legendary sports promoter, C. C. Pyle, who sponsored the event; and Andy Payne, a twenty-year-old part-Cherokee Oklahoman who entered the contest and competed against many world-class athletes in the hopes of saving his family's farm.

Product Description: This book contains 15 amazing, easy-to-do close-up magic tricks: - make George Washington's face change VISUALLY on a dollar bill! - have coins mysteriously travel from one hand to another! - make a rubber band disappear right at your fingertips! - do some truly astounding card tricks! - link paper clips and a rubber band together INSTANTLY (while you're not even touching them)! - see through solid cups! All of the tricks use common items you have around the house: playing cards, coins, rubber bands, dollar bills, toothpicks and paper clips...read more

Provides step-by-step instructions for designing, constructing, and testing a fully functional CNC robot. (view table of contents)

Presents a broad range of interdisciplinary work on language development, meaning-oriented linguistics, and language evolution.

Product Description: A senior police officer is brutally murdered at a bogus domestic disturbance in an unoccupied house in a quiet street on Sydney's North Shore. Assigned to the case is the infamous chief inspector Stephen Dunn with his sidekick, Detective Sergeant Raymond Ellis, from Sydney's largest police headquarters overlooking the iconic Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House...read more

Product Description: If bad credit has happened to you, there is something you can do about it Feeling broke and battered? We know the feeling―heck, everyone knows it. According to the Wall Street Journal, 110 million Americans have bad credit―almost 50% of the adult population...read more

Product Description: For Magicians Only... Geoff's THIRD set of lecture notes contains some KILLER, and surprisingly-easy-to-do, COMMERCIAL material. Something for absolutely EVERYBODY (from close-up to stage performers) at ALL skill levels: cards, coins, newspaper, rocks and LOTS of miscellaneous ideas & tips to improve what you already do and to make your performing life MUCH easier...read more

Product Description: This easy-to-use handbook features a battery of tests which assesses logical, numerical, verbal, and abstract reasoning powers, as well as technological and clerical skills. Completely revised, updated, and expanded, the guide takes into account personality, motivation, and individual interests, and matches the results against an extensive index of over 400 careers...read more

Product Description: The incredible story of a flood of near-biblical proportions—its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America's natural-disaster policies for the next century.The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400...read more