Best Selling Books by Robert E. Wells

W.E.B. DuBois called for a Negro elite, the talented tenth of the African American population to become the leaders of the race. This is the story of a portion of that intelligentsia, true Renaissance men whose talents extended beyond scholarship to the fields of sport and athletic competition. They were scholar-athletes who found themselves immersed in a virtually all-white privileged and patrician world of classical studies and old world attitudes. For the most part, they achieved far beyond the expectations of a prejudiced world. They became champions, All-Americans and Olympians; later, doctors, lawyers, teachers, clergy, businessmen and political leaders. DuBois was seeking such men, although he did not likely consider athletic participation as a part of the equation. Today we recognize the contributions made by such athletes as Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali to the ascension of the African American. The men in these pages, epitomized by the likes of William Henry Lewis, Fritz Pollard and Paul Robeson, helped pave the way for those great athletes, at the same time demonstrating that the scholar athlete came from diverse social, economic, ethnic and racial backgrounds. Sport and the Talented Tenth is the first book to focus entirely on early African American athletes in predominantly white colleges and universities. Bob Wells has discovered 145 black men who, between 1879 and 1920, performed in athletics at 39 colleges in the New England states, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Their athletic experiences included involvement in 13 sports and are detailed game-by-game, meet-by-meet. Attention is paid to the problems they faced - the prejudice, discrimination and outright racism of classmates, teammates, opposing athletes, and the unwritten social policies of opposing administrations. An examination of their family backgrounds, athletic achievements, wartime service and post -graduate careers is discussed in a concluding synthesis.

The blue whale is the biggest creature on Earth. But a hollow Mount Everest could hold billions of whales! And though Mount Everest is enormous, it is pretty small compared to the Earth. This book is an innovative exploration of size and proportion, which can really helps little kids come to grips with the idea of relative size.

If medals were awarded to animals for living a long time, then a giant tortoise would certainly win one. Some giant tortoises have lived for more than 150 years! Still, there are things on this planet much older than giant tortoises. Some of the giant sequoia trees that grow in California could be more than 3,000 years old. But the trees aren''t that old compared to the Barringer Crater in Arizona--that was made about 49,000 years ago. And it''s almost impossible to imagine that 65 million years ago, the T. rex dinosaur roamed this planet--but we have the skeletons to prove it!

In this work about the water cycle, readers discover that the molecules in their glass of water may have once been part of a dinosaur watering hole.

Illustrates the concept of big, bigger, and biggest by comparing the physical measurements of such large things as a blue whale, a mountain, a star, and the universe.

Provides a simple introduction to the use of levers, pulleys, and wheels to move heavy objects.

Compares the speed of various animals, from humans to cheetahs to peregrine falcons, with even faster things like rockets, meteoroids, and light.

Resum: Els guepards són ràpids. Superen qualsevol persona, fins i tot un corredor de marató o un velocista. Però hi ha coses que van fins i tot més de pressa. Un avió supersònic pot cobrir 32 km en el temps que un guepard corre 1,6 km. I una nau espacial hauria recorregut gairebé 643 km en aquest temps! En aquest llibre trobaràs coses molt ràpides, algunes de les quals ja coneixes i altres en les quals no havies pensat. Et sorprendrà descobrir quina cosa és la més ràpida de totes.

Une baleine bleue, c''est énorme, le plus gros de tous les animaux. Oui, mais cette baleine est toute petite, comparée à une montagne. Et celle-ci n''est qu''un gros caillou à la surface de la Terre, qui, elle-même ... Pour découvrir, à partir de 6 ans, les notions d''échelle et de proportion dans l''univers de l''infiniment grand.

Provides a simple introduction to the use of levers, pulleys, and wheels to move heavy objects.

Compares the speed of various animals, from humans to cheetahs to peregrine falcons, with even faster things like rockets, meteroids, and light.

Cuando hace calor, no hay nada que apetezca más que un vaso de agua fresca. Pero ¿sabías que el agua que bebes es realmente antigua? Algunas de las moléculas que te tragas cuando bebes agua puede que hayan estado en alguna charca donde bebieron los dinosaurios hace millones de años. ¿Cómo es posible? Pues gracias al sorprendente ciclo del agua.