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Mr. Basketball
George Mikan, The Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of the NBA

Michael Schumacher
ISBN: 9781596912137
$24.95 Hardback 336 pp, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4"
Published November 2007
The definitive biography of the first dominant big man in professional basketball, published on the sixtieth anniversary of his debut with the Minneapolis Lakers.
 
Left for Dead
Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History

Nick Ward and Sinead O'Brien
ISBN: 9781596914551
$24.95 Hardcover 6 1/8 x 9 1/4", 192pp.
Published August 2007
 
Golfing on the Roof of the World
In Pursuit of Gross National Happiness

Rick Lipsey
ISBN: 9781596910508
$24.95 Hardcover 5 1/2” x 8 1/4”, 272pp.
Published June 2007
For lovers of golf and travel, a journey to the only golf course in the last Buddhist kingdom.
 
Stealing the Wave
The Epic Struggle between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo

Andy Martin
ISBN: 9781596913806
$24.95 Hardcover 5 1/2 x 8 1/4", 224 pp.
Published June 2007
The mythic story of the bitter feud between the two men who rewrote the rules of big-wave surfing.