The Little Giant Book of Basketball Facts
Author: Wayne Stewart
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781402724152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains a collection of basketball facts, trivia, and history.
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The Little Giant Book of Weird & Wacky Facts
Author: K. R. Hobbie
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781402715488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains hundreds of interesting trivia questions and answers on a variety of subjects.
The Little Giant Book of Eerie Thrills and Unspeakable Chills
Author: Ron Edwards
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781402715464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ghosts, specters, and spooksoh my! These scary, creepy, spine-chilling, and thrilling tales will turn Halloween into a real fright nightbut theyre also great any time a kid craves a little hair-raising amusement. With more than 350 pages, there are plenty of otherwordly shivers to please any daring and wide-eyed young reader.
The Little Giant Book of Baseball Facts
Author: Michael J. Pellowski
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781402742736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides more than one-thousand baseball facts about pennant races, pitching feats, hitting achievements, player nicknames, and baseball slang.
The Little Giant Book of Animal Facts
Author: Glen Vecchione
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781402707858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A handy and fun size illustrated guide that features big information, with more than 1,000 fun facts about animals familiar, unusual, and just plain bizarre. Whether kids are curious about cats, millipedes, parakeets, porpoises, or even the giant mola mola fish, the knowledge they uncover will make them say “wow.” * The forked tongue of a snake enables it to smell "in stereo." * The lungs of a horse are three times larger than those of a lion. * African elephants stay on their feet for 30 to 40 years. * Belching cows contribute to the greenhouse effect by adding methane to the atmosphere. Kids will feel smart entertaining their friends with everything new they know.
Weird and Wacky Facts
Author: Arkady Leokum
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781402749872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How strange it is! Kids will go crazy over every wacky, sometimes icky, always entertaining fact in this brand-new Little Giant compilation. The topics range from food to customs, animals to history, nature to sports. For example, in Marostica, Italy, an immense chess board is built into the public square: the pawns and all the pieces are human beings, and the knights sit on real horses! Or how about this: Maine actually has a law that prohibits anyone from stepping out of a plane while it's in the air. From weird worms that stop island natives in their tracks to 4000 year old bathrooms with modern drainage systems, each tidbit of information is truly a treat.
The National Basketball Association
Author: Frank P. Jozsa
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9814313904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in the United States and Canada. This book discusses the development, growth, and success of the 61-year-old NBA from a business perspective. Covering the late 1940s to 2009, it focuses on the league's expansions and mergers, team territories and relocations, franchise organizations and operations, basketball arenas and markets, and NBA domestic and international affairs. Readers will gain an insight into when, how, and why the NBA emerged, reformed, and gradually matured to become one of the world's most dominant, prosperous, and popular professional sports organizations today.
The Basketball Book of Why (and Who, What, When, Where, and How)
Author: Wayne Stewart
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-11-01
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1493072773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How was basketball born? Why is the area in the paint and around the free throw circle known as the key? When did the NBA begin play? What team was arguably the worst NBA squad ever? Who was the highest drafted college player who never played a single game in the NBA? This book provides over 100 questions and detailed answers concerning the traditions, rules, and history of basketball. Organized by the sport’s three eras—its birth through 1945, the NBA from 1946 through 1999, and the game today—it answers questions about the sport at all levels, from college games to the Olympics. A bonus chapter provides a who, what, when, where, why, and how of basketball—the perfect resource to settle arguments or to answer challenging trivia questions.
The National Basketball Association
Basketball
Author: Fred Ramen
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2007-01-15
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9781404209923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the history, rules, and strategy of basketball.
