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At Left Linebacker Chip Demory
Nathan Aaseng
Paperback (Chariot Family Pub, Feb. 1, 1988)Chip has to choose between being a newly popular football player and his old moral values.
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Basketball: You Are the Coach
Nathan Aaseng
Hardcover (Lerner Pub Group, April 1, 1983)The reader is invited to make coaching decisions for ten crucial situations in pro basketball play-off-games. Presents the coaches' actual decisions and their results.
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History of Sports - Track and Field
Nathan Aaseng
Hardcover (Lucent Books, Aug. 21, 2001)Track and Field is the most basic of athletic competition as it measures athletes' speed, strength, and coordination. Since the revival of the ancient Olympic games in 1896, the sport has provided its share of inspiring moments as well as controversies.
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More With Less: The Future World of Buckminster Fuller
Nathan Aaseng
Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, May 1, 1986)A biography of the architect and inventor whose investigations into the principles of nature influenced his designs and helped revolutionize our world.
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Business Builders in Fast Food
Nathan Aaseng
Hardcover (Oliver Pr Inc, Jan. 1, 2001)Profiles ten entrepreneurs who started fast food businesses, including Fred Harvey (Harvey House), Walter Anderson and Billy Ingram (White Castle), J.F. McCullough and Harry Axene (Dairy Queen), Maurice and Richard McDonald and Ray Kroc (McDonald's), Harland Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken), and Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza).Profiles ten entrepreneurs who started fast food businesses, including Maurice and Richard McDonald and Ray Kroc (McDonald's), Harland Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken), and Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza).
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Michael Crichton
Nathan Aaseng
Hardcover (Lucent, March 15, 2002)Profiles the life of Michael Crichton, revealing how his childhood interests helped him to become a best-selling author of technothriller books and films, as well as creator of the television series, ER.
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Navajo Code Talkers
Nathan Aaseng
Hardcover (Walker & Co, Nov. 1, 1992)Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language
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Navajo Code Talkers
Nathan Aaseng
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Oct. 1, 2002)On the Pacific front during World War II, strange messages were picked up by American and Japanese forces on land and at sea. The messages were totally unintelligible to everyone except a small select group within the Marine Corps: the Navajo code talkers-a group of Navajos communicating in a code based on the Navajo language. This code, the first unbreakable one in U.S. history, was a key reason that the Allies were able to win in the Pacific. Navajo Code Talkers tells the story of the special group, who proved themselves to be among the bravest, most valuable, and most loyal of American soldiers during World War II.
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The Peace Seekers: The Nobel Peace Prize
Nathan Aaseng
Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Dec. 1, 1987)Profiles of nine Nobel Peace Prize winners who fought for peace by resisting violence through words, marches, and protests.
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Eric Heiden Winner in Gold
Nathan Aaseng
Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Jan. 1, 1981)Heiden's own evaluations of his record-breaking performances at the 1980 Winter Olympics highlight a biography of the great speed skater which covers his whole life, beginning with the day he received his first pair of skates
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Business Builders in Real Estate
Nathan Aaseng
Hardcover (Oliver Pr Inc, July 1, 2002)Profiles seven real estate developers: John Nicholson, John Jacob Astor, William Levitt, Del Webb, Walt Disney, Paul Reichmann, and the Ghermezian brothers.
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A Winning Season for the Braves
Nathan Aaseng
Paperback (Chariot Family Pub, Feb. 1, 1988)Although at first Ryan and the other members of the Braves baseball team are disappointed in the strange coaching tactics of their new coach, they eventually discover the benefits of cooperating and listening to what he has to say about baseball, life, and God.