With more than 200 duotone images, this book captures the first season of the Houston Texans, from the NFL players' draft to the final game of the team's inaugural year.

Love is a full contact sport... Mark Coleridge is living the dream. He’s making big bucks as a pro football player with his favorite team, the Savannah Sharks. Life seems perfect. But after winning his latest game, he looks up at the Jumbotron and is shocked to see Tessa Black, his high school sweetheart. And standing next to her is a little boy who looks suspiciously familiar… Suddenly, football has to take a backseat. Mark’s a father… and still in love with the girl who ghosted him five years ago. Sure, he’s angry she hid his son from him. But when he learns why, it just makes him want her even more. Tessa’s loved Mark for as long as she can remember. But she knew if she told him she was pregnant, his dreams of playing in the NFL would have been over. She couldn’t bring herself to do it back then. Can she let him into her life now? Mark’s a good dad, and Tessa can’t help but fall for him all over again. But she knows football will always be his first love. And her focus has to be on her son. Can their love score a touchdown this time?

Imagine a management philosophy based not upon serving a company's customers, but on serving the company's employees. Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies in India, has put such a philosophy into practice with remarkable results. His "employee first, customer second" mantra has been recognized globally as an example of organizational innovation, and was deemed a "new and radical management philosophy" ripe for the picking in the Western world by Business Week. In this book, Nayar himself describes his blunt refusal to treat the flesh and blood of HCL--its people--as "human resource" or as "intellectual capital" or even as an asset like all its other assets-and how his unique perspective led to an holistic transformation of his organization. By putting employees on top of the organizational pyramid, he argues, your company can fully realize the value created in the interface between customers and employees. This book leads managers and executives through the five core aspects of Nayar's approach, demonstrating how to create a sense of urgency, overhaul incentives and reporting structures, foster transparency in communications and feedback, provide platforms for achievement and personal growth, and finally recognize the potential of every individual in the organization. The "Employee First" philosophy should be the fulcrum of the transformation journey of any organization.

The funny, frank, and revealing inside story of Gene Klein's two tumultuous decades as owner of the San Diego Chargers, presenting a hilarious view of the business of sports and the sport of business.

Learn about the opposites in Baby’s world in this interactive photographic board book! This bright, playful board book introduces sets of opposites for babies to identify, from up and down to quiet and noisy! Each pair of concepts is demonstrated with fun photographs of young ones, making for an adorable read. And Baby Up, Baby Down is perfect for bedtime, with an ending that will settle Baby off to sleep.

Most people would like to find a way to double their money every five years without risky investments, endless research, stock trading and taxes on the trades. Ellis Traub will show you how. Making investing fun and simple, he shows investors a proven system for acquiring wealth through the process of investing in companies. True investors view stocks as they were intended, as part ownership of the companies. Over the long term, they expect their stock to grow in value, year after year, as their companies increase their earnings. Beginning investors can invest in individual companies - profitably and wisely - using the interactive, step-by-step process outlined in Take Stock: A Roadmap to Profiting from Your First Walk Down Wall Street.

Get ready for some football—and romance—in USA Today bestselling author Leslie North’s trilogy about three sexy Atlanta Sharks football players who find life off the gridiron much sweeter thanks to the women they fall for. In First Down, Mark Coleridge realizes not only is he a father, but he still very much loves the woman who gave him a son. But Tessa Black’s not so sure they make a good team... Quarterback James Sullivan finds himself falling for the Sharks’ new, sexy conditioning coach, Daisy Katrakis, in Red Zone. But Daisy can’t let herself fall in love with a player—or can she? In Touchdown, star wide receiver Maxwell Smith suddenly finds himself guardian of triplets and enlists the help of their aunt, Gillian Collier. But his biggest surprise is how quickly he falls for her. Three tough football players have some big challenges when handed a playbook they didn’t anticipate—babies, instant families, and…love.

First Down Devotions highlights the role of faith in the life of National Football League players as inspiration for today's believers.

Fitness enthusiasts from weekend warriors to professional athletes will be inspired to improve their bodies and their lives with this comprehensive fitness training routine by Super Bowl champion Keyshawn Johnson. The rigorous program marries mental exercises with a pictorial guide to Keyshawn's own exercise routines in order to promote the commitment to winning and the paramount importance of an unflinching belief in one's dreams and inner values for increased athletic proficiency and a complete and successful life.