Sports, Entertainment & Heroes

Teacher's Reference Material

• Allen, Marcus, with Carlton Stowers. MARCUS. St. Martin's Press, 1997. In-depth and insightful autobiography.
• Campbell, Joseph. THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES. Pantheon Books, 1949
• Carlyle, Thomas. Notes and introduction by Michael K. Goldberg. ON HEROES, HERO WORSHIP, AND THE HERO IN HISTORY. University of California Press, 1993
• Covey, Steven. THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990
• Flaum, Eric. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHOLOGY: GODS, HEROES, AND LEGENDS OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS. Philadelphia: Courage Books, 1993.
• Freedman, Samuel G. SMALL VICTORIES: THE REAL WORLD OF A TEACHER, HER STUDENTS, AND THEIR HIGH SCHOOL. Harper and Row, 1990. By following her throughout a school year, the author shows how Jessica Siegel, her students, truant officers, and other teachers made a difference in even the bleakest of situations.
• Gardner, Howard. EXTRAORDINARY MINDS: PORTRAITS OF 4 EXCEPTIONAL INDIVIDUALS AND AN EXAMINATION OF OUR OWN EXTRAORDINARINESS. Harper Collins, 1997. Includes Mozart, Freud, Virginia Woolf, and Mahatma Gandhi. Also discusses the giftedness of ordinary individuals.
• Gelb, Arthur; A.M. Rosenthal, and Marvin Siegel, editors. THE NEW YORK TIMES GREAT LIVES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Times Books, 1988. Complete, easy-to-use reference.
• Hamilton, Edith. MYTHOLOGY. New American Library, 1969.
• Lanker, Brian. I DREAM A WORLD: PORTRAITS OF BLACK WOMEN WHO CHANGED AMERICA. Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1989. Interviews with 75 women of courage and intelligence, accompanied by full-page photographs of each.
• McBride, Joseph. STEPHEN SPIELBERG: A BIOGRAPHY. Simon & Schuster, 1997. In-depth coverage of the most successful director in movie history.
• Nicklaus, Jack, with Ken Bowden. MY STORY. Simon & Schuster, 1997. Complete life story of one of golf's greatest stars.
• Richardson, Dot, with Don Yaeger. LIVING THE DREAM. Kensington Books, 1997. Personal story of the 1996 Olympic Gold Medal Winner for women's softball, orthopedic surgeon Dot Richardson.
• Ripken, Cal, Jr. and Mike Bryan. THE ONLY WAY I KNOW. Penguin, 1997. Story of the record-breaking shortstop's journey to fame.
• Rovin, Jeff. ADVENTURE HEROES: LEGENDARY CHARACTERS FROM ODYSSEUS TO JAMES BOND. Facts on File, 1994
  
• Severin, Tim. THE ULYSSES VOYAGE: SEA SEARCH FOR THE ODYSSEY. Dutton, 1987. The author travels the route from Troy to Ithaca described in Homer's Odyssey, in an attempt to determine whether the places are fact or fantasy.
• Switzer, Ellen and Costas. GREEK MYTHS: GODS, HEROES AND MONSTERS: THEIR SOURCES, THEIR STORIES AND THEIR MEANINGS. Athenaeum, 1988. The authors relate ancient mythology to the present and to all of Western civilization.
• Turner, Glennette Tilley. TAKE A WALK IN THEIR SHOES. Puffin, 1992. Biographical sketches of 14 prominent African-Americans, accompanied by simple skits about each subject.