Most Popular Books by Michael E. Goodman

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1996.

Describes the background and history of the Seattle SuperSonics pro basketball team.

Examines the history, players, and future of the Atlanta Braves baseball team.

Profiles Wyatt Earp, a peace officer in the "Wild West" who is remembered for his part in a gunfight at the O.K. Corral, where a dozen men fought, several died, and only Wyatt was not shot.

Presents a history of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team that also includes detailed information and statistics on one all-time great player from each position.

A profile of the versitile frontiersman known as Buffalo Bill.

Presents the history, players, and accomplishments of the New York Rangers.

Chronicles the history of the basketball team that won the NBA championship during the 1974-75 season.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1999.

Highlights the key personalities and memorable games in the history of the team that moved to Atlanta from Milwaukee in 1966.

A biography of baseball superstar Barry Bonds.

Examines the history, players, and future of the New York Mets baseball team.

Highlights the key personalities and memorable games in the history of the team that is the oldest professional club, formed in 1876.

Traces the history of the Philadelphia Flyers from its beginnings through present day.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1996.

A team history of the Giants, who arrived in San Francisco in 1958 from New York where they had played for seventy-five years, thrilling fans on both coasts.

A team history of the San Diego Padres, a minor league franchise for many years, but a major league member since 1969.

A team history of the Seattle Mariners, a club formed in 1976 with the awarding of an American League franchise to Seattle.

A team history of the Chicago Cubs, featuring outstanding players over the years.

A team history of the Houston Astros, formerly the Colt 45s, who play in the world''s first indoor baseball stadium, the Astrodome.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1996.

Highlights the history and key players and coaches of the Denver Nuggets.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1996.

Examines the history, players, and future of the New York Yankees baseball team.

Whether it is the Eichmann capture, the Munich revenge plot or the Entebbe rescue mission, they all illustrate the independence and determination of Israel’s intelligence community. They also show that the tiny Middle Eastern country is willing to take a lot of risks to do things its own way. Only hours after the nation of Israel was established on May 14, 1948, five neighboring Arab nations attacked, hoping to wipe out the new country. The attackers had far more soldiers and weapons than Israel but underestimated how much information Israeli spies had already gathered about the Arab nations’ military capabilities and strategies. The war quickly turned in Israel’s favor. Israel’s survival from 1948 to today has depended on its maintaining a well-established intelligence network to gather secret data, carry out covert operations, and counter terrorism. At the heart of this network is the Mossad, a shadowy organization charged with keeping Israel safe from outside enemies by any means necessary. Read all about Israel’s formidable spy network and their espionage missions around the world. Michael E. Goodman was born in Savannah, Georgia. He attended Yale University and graduate school at Brown University. He began as a high school English teacher in Providence, RI, and Teaneck, NJ, before turning to writing and editing and serving as an executive in corporate communications. He is a former senior editor at Scholastic and Prentice-Hall and executive editor at Peoples Education.

After the Cold War ended, new conflicts and enemies emerged across countries with the emergence of extremist groups. Terror attacks today involve guns, bombs, toxic chemical and biological substances. Even in peaceful times, spies need to use both modern espionage tools and old-fashioned spying techniques to uncover or protect state secrets. Modern spies face diverse situations including discovering animals with embedded chips to monitor activity in enemy territory or go through intercepted communications such as e-mails, voice messages and telephone conversations. Although there have been several technological developments in spying tools available, they come with their own limitations like drone weapons being unable to distinguish between terrorists and peaceful civilians. Take a peek into the world of corporate espionage in organizations zealously protecting their trade secrets through cases such as Proctor & Gamble spying on Unilever to stay ahead of competition. Unravel international secrets from covert operations such as the search for and killing of Osama bin Laden by American special forces in this book. Michael E. Goodman was born in Savannah, Georgia. He attended Yale University and graduate school at Brown University. He began as a high school English teacher in Providence, RI, and Teaneck, NJ, before turning to writing and editing and serving as an executive in corporate communications. He is a former senior editor at Scholastic and Prentice-Hall and executive editor at Peoples Education.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1996.

A team history of the club that broke the hearts of Brooklyn fans when it left its East Coast home for Los Angeles.

A history of the Houston Rockets, a team which began life in San Diego, California, and moved to Houston in 1971.

Describes the background and history of the Sacramento Kings pro basketball team.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1996.

Russia, the world’s largest country in total area, remains one of the most unknowable. Russian intelligence agencies play a major role in protecting their country and their espionage missions from the eyes of outsiders. In 1565, the ruthless Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible created a 6,000-member security force called the Oprichnina. Officers of the Oprichnina dressed all in black and rode black horses. They terrorized the Russian people, killing thousands whom they blamed for made-up acts of treason. Many rulers after Ivan also created their own security forces to spy on Russians at home or living outside the country. The Russian security forces of the 20th and 21st centuries—known at different times as the Cheka, NKVD, KGB, and SVR—have added to a long tradition of power, fear, and secrecy that began more than 400 years ago. Read all about these formidable Russian intelligence agencies, their spy networks, and their surveillance operations around the world. Michael E. Goodman was born in Savannah, Georgia. He attended Yale University and graduate school at Brown University. He began as a high school English teacher in Providence, RI, and Teaneck, NJ, before turning to writing and editing and serving as an executive in corporate communications. He is a former senior editor at Scholastic and Prentice-Hall and executive editor at Peoples Education.

Traces the history of the team from its beginnings through 1996.

Features the history of the Memphis Grizzlies basketball team, including players Lawrence Moten, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, and Bryant Reeves.