Why did Barry Sanders one of the game's most exciting and explosive running backs, suddenly retire just as he was closing in on the all time NFL rushing record? In this amazing books Barry Sanders reveals of the first time why he left the game at the height of his career and how he came to make of the biggest decisions of his life.

Growing up, many people thought that Barry Sanders, now playing for the Detroit Lions, was too small to become a great running back. Over the course of his record-setting college and professional careers, Sanders has proved them all wrong. In this revised edition, author Ron Knapp provides an exciting account of Sanders' rise to greatness both on and off the field.

In this wonderful exploration of the meaning of laughter, Barry Sanders queries its uses from the ancient Hebrews to Lenny Bruce, turning up evidence of its age-old power to subvert authority and give voice to the voiceless.

Covers the personal life and football career of the well-known running back for the Detroit Lions.

In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern societys indifference to the individual. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, when care for human beings began to disappear slowly, and ending with the modern era, when societal events require less person-to-person interaction and introduce radical changes in common attitudes toward death and life, Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying. Our days are filled with a continuous bombardment of ''information'' that demands our attention and brings us out of our world and into a sterile one of inhumanity and abstraction. Weve also lost the original sense of a collective consciousness. This loss has been culminating for two centuries now, dating back to the rise of European powers and worldwide colonization. We pick our poisons among several forms of radical fundamentalisms, each one not only a threat to the other but a threat to humanity itself. From references of Edgar Allan Poe to Abu Ghraib, this is a fascinating and worrisome story, impeccably researched and compellingly written.

Untangling the world's love-hate relationship with America

Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions is one of the leading running backs of the NFL. While at Oklahoma State University, he received college football's highest honor by winning the Heisman Trophy.