New Releases by Robin Roberts

Describes the life and career of Mike Cameron, baseball player with the Seattle Mariners, and presents his views on the importance of teamwork.

Discusses common injuries that some athletes face, explains how many sports injuries can be prevented, and tells about treatment and what you can do to ensure a speedy recovery.

Helps potential athletes determine sports that match their skills, interests, and desire to play as a team or as an individual.

Explains how lifelong participation in sports promotes health, confidence, and life skills, and how girls can get the most out of various levels of competition.

Describes various aspects of being a woman who plays professional basketball: the training, travel, game play, interacting with fans, and everyday life.

Eight women discuss their work in various sports-related careers, including referee, athletic trainer, agent, writer, and nutritionist, and describe the skills and education needed.

Discusses the fundamental skills of basketball--dribbling, passing, shooting, and rebounding; understanding the team concept; dealing with difficult situations; and more.

WNBA, ESPN, and ABC personality Robin Roberts invites girls to explore their love for sports through a wide selection of fascinating sports-related topics that speak directly to them.

Boldly going where no one has gone before, Robin Roberts forges intriguing links between feminist politics and theory and the second Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. This lively discussion shows how science fiction''s ability to make the familiar strange allows Star Trek to expose and comment on entrenched attitudes toward gender roles and feminist issues. By having aliens or sexually neutral beings enact female dominance or passivity, experience pregnancy or maternity, or suffer rape or abortion, Star Trek provides viewers with a new perspective on these experiences and an antidote to explicit and implicit cultural biases. Roberts maintains that the relevance of Star Trek: The Next Generation to feminist issues accounts as no other factor can for the program''s huge following of female fans. The incisive and innovative readings in Sexual Generations provide food for thought about how the final frontier can clarify pressing questions of our own space and time.

Every generation or so, a team comes along whose march toward victory is so improbable that you can''t help but root them along. The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies was that kind of team; young and spirited, the Whiz Kids played a raw, emotional brand of baseball, nipping the Brooklyn Dodgers on the final day of the season to bring the National League''s perennial doormat its first title in 35 years. Hall-of-Fame member Robin Roberts, the team''s ace starter, peppers his recollections with snippets of oral history from his teammates to produce a book as lively as the team itself.--

This fascinating study is the first to examine the history of gender and science fiction and the first to discuss science fiction pulp magazines'' images of women as well as postmodernism and feminist science fiction. Robin Roberts begins with Shelley''s Frankenstein, in which a female alien appears, and continues through H.G. Wells, the 1950s pulp SF magazines, Doris Lessing and feminist utopias, and the new generation of science fiction writers, including Joan Vinge, Sheila Finch and many others.