When Jose Canseco burst into the Major Leagues in the 1980s, he changed the sport -- in more ways than one. No player before him possessed his mixture of speed and power, which allowed him to become the first man in history to belt more than forty home runs and swipe more than forty bases in the same season. He won Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and a World Series ring. Canseco shattered the mold of the out-of-shape baseball player and ushered in a new era of superathletes who looked like bodybuilders, made outrageous salaries, and enjoyed rock-star lifestyles. And the ticket for this ride? Steroids. Behind the gaudy stats and the glamour of his public life, Canseco cultivated a secret just about everyone in MLB knew about, one that would alter the game of baseball and the way we view our heroes forever. Canseco made himself a guinea pig of the performance-enhancing drugs that were only just beginning to infiltrate the American underground. Anabolic steroids, human growth hormones -- Canseco mixed, matched, and experimented to such a degree that he became known throughout the league as "The Chemist." He passed his knowledge on to trainers and fellow players, and before long, performance-enhancing drugs were running rampant throughout Major League Baseball. Sluggers scooping up pitches at their ankles and blasting them out of the park, pitchers cranking fastballs inning after inning -- Canseco showed the players how to customize their doses to sculpt the bodies they wanted, and baseball as we know it was the result. Today, this issue has crept out of the closet and burst into the headlines as players balloon to herculean proportions and hundred-year-old records are not only broken, but also demolished. In this shocking memoir, Canseco sheds light on a life of dizzying highs and debilitating lows, provides the answers to questions about steroids that millions of fans are only now beginning to ask -- and suggests that, far from being a passing trend, the steroid revolution is only a taste of things to come. Who's juiced? According to Canseco's authoritative account, more than you think. And baseball will never be the same.

From Emma Caulfield, the popular actress who portrayed Anya on Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and co-writer Camilla Rantsen, comes Contropussy, a story about a cat with a major itch to scratch. By day she is a mild mannered feline, but by night she comes alive, adventuring in the city, eventually finding herself a pawn in political schemes.

The Boston Globe's number-one bestseller is back, revised and updated for the 2008 season and presented in a new trim size. Jerry Remy's name and face are already known to millions of fans. During baseball season 400,000 or more households tune in to listen to his broadcast of Red Sox games. But many learned to love him years ago when he was traded to the Sox, earning a trip to the 1978 All-Star Game in his first year with the team. Remy hit .278, scored eighty-seven runs, and stole thirty bases that season. Injured in 1984, Remy never played another game. In 1988 he began his work as an announcer, working color commentary for Red Sox broadcasts on NESN, a basic cable channel available throughout New England and by satellite across the country. In Watching Baseball Remy explains America's favorite sport by going inside the minds of coaches and players to reveal the game within the game. He takes readers around the diamond, pointing out the positioning of infielders, what's really going on during batting practice, how catchers and pitchers call a game, the difference between high cheese and a knuckler, and much more.

This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon—aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language—to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. Laura Miller uses social science and popular culture sources to connect breast enhancements, eyelid surgery, body hair removal, nipple bleaching, and other beauty work to larger issues of gender ideology, the culturally-constructed nature of beauty ideals, and the globalization of beauty technologies and standards. Her sophisticated treatment of this timely topic suggests that new body aesthetics are not forms of "deracializiation" but rather innovative experimentation with identity management. While recognizing that these beauty activities are potentially a form of resistance, Miller also considers the commodification of beauty, exploring how new ideals and technologies are tying consumers even more firmly to an ever-expanding beauty industry. By considering beauty in a Japanese context, Miller challenges widespread assumptions about the universality and naturalness of beauty standards.

Rev. ed of: Dictionary of slang and unconventional English / by E. Partridge. 8th ed.1984.

You would think waking up from a coma would be the best thing to ever happen to someone. A love triangle changed John forever. It left him with no trust in humanity. A new sense of bitterness, hate, confusion, scars and stitches. This is all dramatic but even worse is after his hospital stay is the fact that deep down he’s not scared and unable to sleep which leads him to slowly lose his mind. He hears voices and begins to see things from sleep deprivation. The newly turned twisted loner soon finds that the only way he’s able to sleep at all is from pills, drinking, any extreme high or from the aftermath of a adrenaline rush. Finding this “high” soon takes over his life. His new path turns him into a person he never thought he would be. He’s finally alive and acting out trying everything that he never thought he never would have the nerve to try before which includes being a sexual deviant, drugs and even murder.

Michael Collins's life is fast approaching a dead end. Passed over for an expected promotion at work, his only friend is bourbon, and his soon-to-be-ex-wife is having a shameless affair with her boss. When he discovers he owns the 23 million dollar winning Lotto ticket, he thinks he has won the key to happiness-his cheating, venomous wife never needs to know. Norm Feinberg has lost nearly all his retirement savings on the advice of his "full service" broker. To get out of representing petty crooks and flakes for another fifteen years, he is ready to do about anything. Then Michael Collins walks into his office looking to swindle his wife out of her share of the big Lotto jackpot. Norm devises a plan to cheat the cheater and make off with the winnings. Mike Collins will be the perfect patsy. Joe McDonald wanted to know what would happen if a man let big money go to his head before he even got his hands on it. Lotto is the answer. McDonald is a retired insurance broker and is enjoying his second career as a writer. He lives on Mercer Island, Washington, with his wife, Beverly.