There is no greater reward for a hockey player than winning the Stanley Cup. The Ultimate Prize chronicles the evolution of the sport from the first recorded game played in 1875 to the 2002 Champion Detroit Red Wings. Photographs and statistics of teams, coaches, players, owners, and hockey executives are listed year by year. Facts, legends, and lore will engross the reader. Unique among team sports trophies, the Stanley Cup has been called "the people's trophy." It travels the globe making public appearances up to 300 days of the year. The names of the men (and some women!) who have won it are engraved right on the Cup itself. Hockey players of all ages dream not just of winning the championship but of actually hoisting the glittering silver trophy high above their heads. It is one of sport's ultimate icons and perhaps the world's best-known piece of folk art. Included in The Ultimate Prize are chapters on Stanley Cup heroes, top play-off moments, and the history of the Stanley family. Did you know that Lord Stanley never watched a team that won his trophy, nor ever played the game himself? All seven of his sons played hockey as a team and were outstanding athletes. Daughter Isobel Stanley played the game, too. In truth, the Stanley family is every bit as responsible for the "Stanley Cup legacy" as his Lordship himself. The Ultimate Prize—misspelled player and team names, wrong names, erroneous years won, and even double listing of players. Every hockey fan or sports enthusiast will want a copy of this treasure.

President Idrissa Bandada didn't think much when he cancelled an acclaimed freest and fairest election ever held in black Africa. But the events to follow would soon force the now retired general into a rethink. A supposed respectable businessman gets killed in a five-star hotel in the eastern city of Enugu. In a politically volatile country, such deaths are no news. But when such gruesome ends start repeating in quick succession, one name, The Dean; the unseen assassin claiming the murders; sends panic throughout the entire nation. The new President, Sabo Achaba, isn't going to fold hands in Aso Rock. He sends the security service, the SSS and soon his special elite guards, the B-Gang to get rid of the supposedly sole gunman. But The Dean is proving difficult to get that it seems the combined forces of the SSS and B-Gang are not professional enough. Meanwhile, The Dean, the intractable assassin, glides slowly with his team to the major target-General Achaba in Aso Rock. They call it Operation Octopus . A racing, hat-topping, suspense-filled thriller that mirrors an era steeped in military adventurism in Nigeria's not-too-distant past. If The Senator was engrossing, The Ultimate Prize will simply keep you on toes. -Henry Okoduwa (The Sun)

Synopsis: a comic science fiction thriller. Schrodinger is a 'googolionaire', (that's one followed by a hundred zeroes) which means he can afford anything. He trades planets and corporations like other people swap football cards. People who say no to him soon cease living. But he has a problem. As a priant quadril, unless he can find a quadrant to mate with soon, he will die. And quadrants, like Malina, are extremely rare. Schrodinger pursues Malina across the galaxy. And the terrifying truth is that he will stop at nothing to secure the ultimate prize.

To raise it means you've won it, and to win it means you've survived an epic journey fraught with peril and untold adversity. The highly anticipated sequel to "Raising Stanley" has arrived. Ross Bernstein, the best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books, including "The Code: Football's Unwritten Rules" "and" "Its Ignore-at-Your-Own-Risk Code of Honor," interviewed more than 100 current and former NFL players and coaches who all had one thing in common--they were all champions.

"MLB champions in their own words"--Jacket.

Price of Success: Owner of the Espiritu racing team, Marco de Cervantes thinks he knows exactly what's going on inside Sasha Fleming's pretty little head. The trouble is Sasha has no interest in becoming a trophy wife and Marco's not used to not getting what he wants.

Learn all about the Stanley Cup, the hockey championship of the NHL, and what it takes to win it.

Invigorate your reading life with 25 unique challenges and reward yourself with 25 bookish surprises! This delightful collection of 25 challenges and rewards inspires bookworms to engage with their reading life in a fresh new way. Each pocket inside this portfolio challenges readers to a bookish challenge. Once the reader completes a challenge, they can open the pocket to claim their prize. This one-size-fits-all gift is appropriate for readers of all ages, genres, and abilities. Bibliophiles are encouraged to: Read personally Re-read a book you loved as a child. Ask a family member what book has made a lasting impression on them. Find and read that book. Read compassionately Read a book that features an indigenous person. Read a book about a person with a disability. Read broadly Visit your local bookstore and ask a bookseller to recommend a book based on your recent favorites. Read in a place you’ve never read before. Engage creatively Make (or order) a snack or meal described in a book you’ve read. Write a letter to someone who has influenced your reading life. Prizes are all thoughtfully curated to supplement the reading life and include: A laser-engraved wooden bookmark Bookish greeting cards Coffee cup sleeve Book darts A mini notebook And much more!

Liberally laced with humor and vivid illustrations from the sports and business worlds, Men Who Win is written to help men get away from the modern rat race which stresses competitiveness, and into life's ultimate pursuit--the challenge to live for Christ.

How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety. These price tags are often unfair, infused as they are with gender, racial, national, and cultural biases that often result in valuing the lives of the young more than the old, the rich more than the poor, whites more than blacks, Americans more than foreigners, and relatives more than strangers. This is critical since undervalued lives are left less-protected and more exposed to risk. Howard Steven Friedman explains in simple terms how economists and data scientists at corporations, regulatory agencies, and insurance companies develop and use these price tags and points a spotlight at their logical flaws and limitations. He then forcefully argues against the rampant unfairness in the system. Readers will be enlightened, shocked, and, ultimately, empowered to confront the price tags we assign to human lives and understand why such calculations matter.