Most Popular Books by Gerry Brown

For the fourth year, ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports reporting, joins forces with Information Please, North Americas favourite sports reference source, to create the most sophisticated, hip, and informative sports almanac ever published. Like its hugely successful predecessors, with more than 125,000 copies sold, this new volume combines great sports writing from Chris Berman, Dan Patrick, Kenny Mayne, and others, easily accessed facts, in-depth statistics, hundreds of photographs, and thousands of charts and tables. It reviews the top 10 highlights for each sport, reflects every notable change in the sports world over the past year, and gives a full recap of the World Series and major competitions for professional and amateur alike. Weighing in at more than 950 fact-filled pages, this amazing volume is a source of endless entertainment and solid information for fans who cant know or read enough about the sports they love. Information Please Sports Almanac has existed for over fifty years. It is newly compiled every year by a full-time staff with contributors from the best sports writers in the continent.

Gerry Brown takes us on a journey featuring stories about the ''stars and dogs'' of customer experience and tells us why a customer ''winning'' is so critical in today''s connected and unforgiving world, and how you can adopt four simple principles that can be the difference between long term business success and ignominious failure.

The #1 bestselling sports almanac is the ultimate resource for sports professionals and fans everywhere. ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports, once again brings enthusiasts the most authoritative sports reference book ever published. Whether in search of new world records, trivia knowledge, or the most intriguing sports stories of the past year, sports fans will welcome the latest edition of this bestselling almanac, which showcases all the facts like no other almanac. ESPN fans will find familiar segments from many of ESPN''s outlets, including studio shows, radio, on-line, and ESPN The Magazine, as well as: --In-depth branding of statistics from ESPN''S award-winning "Inside the Numbers" --SportsCenter''s Top Ten Moments from each sport --Exclusive essays and analysis from your favorite ESPN personalities --Hundreds of photographs --Thousands of tables and graphics --Fast access to all the facts: world records, champions, year-by-year, sport-by-sport --Top sports news stories of the year --A full recap of the 2004 World Series, 2004 Summer Olympics, and 2004 Ryder Cup Reflecting the distinctive personality of ESPN, and packed with the sports highlights and details of the past year, the 2005 ESPN Sports Almanac is clearly the champion in its field.

For more than 25 years, Gerry Brown has been an investigative journalist. He broke the Lord Archer and Monica Coghlan story, revealed the Frank Bough sex-and-drugs scandal and unveiled Pamella Bordes as something more than a Parliamentary researcher. This book takes the reader behind the headlines to reveal the truth about Fleet Street reporting. It details how surveillances are set up and carried out, the lengths to which a hack will go to get a story, and the truth about many famous-name cases, told in an accessible and humorous way. The book is an unapologetic defence of tabloid journalism.

For over 10 years, the ESPN Sports Almanac has been the definitive source for answers to almost every sports question. Record holders to champions, auto racing to the Iditarod, ballparks to business news, plus a who''s who of the dearly departed athletes of the year past--the ESPN Sports Almanac 2009 tracks them in hundreds of photos, thousands of tables, countless facts and figures, plus expert analyses from ESPN''s most popular personalities (Chris Berman, Stuart Scott, Mike Golic, Mike Greenberg, Dick Vitale, et al.). Add fan input from ESPN.com''s SportsNation polls, along with ESPN''s unique brand of humor, and this latest edition will keep the ESPN Sports Almanac the reigning champion and a New York Times best-seller.