Chosen first overall in the 2008 National Basketball Association (NBA) draft, Derrick Rose is one of the most explosive players in basketball. He learned the game from his older brothers while growing up in a tough neighborhood in Chicago. After one year at the University of Memphis, Derrick brought his high-flying game to the Chicago Bulls. Learn all about Chicago's biggest sports star and his dream of bringing the NBA championship to his hometown.

"The amazing science behind America's favorite pastime."

Play ball How Baseball Works is a behind-the-scenes examination of the physics of baseball: home runs, curve balls and stolen bases.

Baseball relies on scientific principles more than any other sport. Here's how the pros use physics to throw pitches that seem to defy gravity. Kinetic energy plays a role in knocking the ball out of the park. The number crunching for statistics shows the importance of mathematics to the game.

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"Sheinkin has made a career of finding extraordinary stories in American history." --The New York Times Book Review

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story--and more. It's an unflinching look at the U.S. government's violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures. Expertly told by three-time National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin, it's the story of a group of young men who came together at that school, the overwhelming obstacles they faced bo...
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