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Strategic Leadership

Governance and Renewal

By: Brian Leavy,Peter McKiernan

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Strategic Leadership

Governance and Renewal

By: Brian Leavy,Peter McKiernan

This is a concise, thematic strategy text which will help students to see organizations from the perspective of the Chief Executive and to understand and debate the challenges, opportunities and issues which constitute the role of the CEO.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137208937

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9781137208934

Finding the Left Arm of God

Sandy Koufax and the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1960-1963

By: Brian M. Endsley

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Finding the Left Arm of God

Sandy Koufax and the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1960-1963

By: Brian M. Endsley

This is the story of the L.A. Dodgers' volatile fortunes during Sandy Koufax's transformation from a wild left-hander with a losing record on the verge of quitting the game, to an artist with exquisite control of the baseball--a veritable Mozart on the mound. From the Dodgers' sudden plunge into the baseball wilderness in 1960, to their return to pennant contention in Koufax's breakout year of 1961, through their catastrophic 1962 season--precipitated by Koufax's freak midseason finger injury--to their redemption in 1963 with their second World Championship on the West Coast, the narrative is set against the backdrop of John F. Kennedy's fleeting New Frontier presidency.

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McFarland

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0786474157

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The Man Who Made Babe Ruth

Brother Matthias of St. Mary's School

By: Brian Martin

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The Man Who Made Babe Ruth

Brother Matthias of St. Mary's School

By: Brian Martin

At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited Boutilier--known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation of St. Francis Xavier--with making him the man and the baseball player he became. Matthias saw something in the troubled seven-year old and nurtured his athletic ability. Spending many extra hours on the ballfield with him over a dozen years, he taught Ruth how to hit and converted the young left-handed catcher into a formidable pitcher. Overshadowed by a fellow Xavierian brother who was given the credit for discovering the baseball prodigy, Matthias never received his due from the public but didn't complain. Ruth never forgot the father figure who continued to provide valuable counsel in later life. This is the first telling of the full story of the man who gave the world its most famous baseball star.

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McFarland

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1476673365

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9781476673363

The Statement

A Novel

By: Brian Moore

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The Statement

A Novel

By: Brian Moore

The hunt is on for an elusive Nazi war criminal in this “absorbing intellectual thriller that keeps you guessing . . . until the final page” (The New York Times). For four decades Pierre Brossard has eluded capture as one of the most vicious SS officers in history. Condemned to death in absentia he’s tenuously protected by an intricate web of Nazi collaborators and an extreme right-wing faction of the Catholic Church. With nothing more than a suitcase and a prayer, Brossard seeks refuge in a monastery outside Salon-de-Provence. He knows the Committee for Justice is closing in. With every reason to fear his days are numbered, he realizes only one man can help him get away with murder: Commissaire Vionnet, a retired police chief who, forty years earlier, allowed Brossard to escape. But two other men are collaborating as well: a hired assassin known only as T, and Cardinal Primate Delavigne, reformist of the postwar church. He’s as unstoppable as T, as ruthless as Brossard, and he can’t wait to play this game to its unpredictable end. “An exciting, classic novel of hunter and hunted” inspired by a true story, The Statement was made into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, and Alan Bates (The Washington Post).

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Open Road Media

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1504050320

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The Philosophy of Quantitative Methods

Understanding Statistics

By: Brian D. Haig

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The Philosophy of Quantitative Methods

Understanding Statistics

By: Brian D. Haig

The Philosophy of Quantitative Methods focuses on the conceptual foundations of research methods within the behavioral sciences. In particular, it undertakes a close philosophical examination of a variety of quantitative research methods that are prominent in (or relevant for) the conduct of research in these fields. By doing so, the deep structure of these methods is examined in order to overcome the non-critical approaches typically found in the existing literature today. In this book, Brian D. Haig focuses on the more well-known research methods such as exploratory data analysis, statistical significant testing, Bayesian confirmation theory and statistics, meta-analysis, and exploratory factor analysis. These methods are then examined with a philosophy consistent of scientific realism. In addition, each chapter provides a helpful Further Reading section in order to better assist the reader in extending their own thinking and research methods specific to their needs.

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Oxford University Press

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0190871725

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9780190871727

Aspects of Alterity

Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate

By: Brian Treanor

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Aspects of Alterity

Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate

By: Brian Treanor

Every other is truly other, but no other is wholly other." This is the claim that Aspects of Alterity defends. Taking up the question of otherness that so fascinates contemporary continental philosophy, this book asks what it means for something or someone to be other than the self." "After a thorough assessment and critique of otherness in Levinas's and Marcel's work, including a discussion of the relationship of ethical alterity to theological assumption, Aspects of Alterity traces the transmission and development of these two conceptions of otherness. Ultimately, Aspects of Alterity makes a case for a hermeneutic account of otherness."--Jacket.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823226840

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9780823226849

New Jersey 9/11 Memorials

A Photographic Guide Including the National Memorials

By: Brian M. Holmes

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New Jersey 9/11 Memorials

A Photographic Guide Including the National Memorials

By: Brian M. Holmes

New Jersey 9/11 Memorials: A Photographic Guide brings September 11 memorials and monuments from New Jersey communities large and small, together in one beautiful and informative photo book. Share the memories, history, and heart-felt tributes in this respectful photographic guide. Includes the National September 11 memorials. Foreword by Thomas H. Kean, former Governor of New Jersey and 9/11 Commission Chairman

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Holmes House Press

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1477535098

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9781477535097

The Listeners

A History of Wiretapping in the United States

By: Brian Hochman

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The Listeners

A History of Wiretapping in the United States

By: Brian Hochman

They’ve been listening for longer than you think. A new history reveals how—and why. Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early twentieth century—and they have spied on their own customers too. Such breaches of privacy once provoked outrage, but today most Americans have resigned themselves to constant electronic monitoring. How did we get from there to here? In The Listeners, Brian Hochman shows how the wiretap evolved from a specialized intelligence-gathering tool to a mundane fact of life. He explores the origins of wiretapping in military campaigns and criminal confidence games and tracks the use of telephone taps in the US government’s wars on alcohol, communism, terrorism, and crime. While high-profile eavesdropping scandals fueled public debates about national security, crime control, and the rights and liberties of individuals, wiretapping became a routine surveillance tactic for private businesses and police agencies alike. From wayward lovers to foreign spies, from private detectives to public officials, and from the silver screen to the Supreme Court, The Listeners traces the long and surprising history of wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping in the United States. Along the way, Brian Hochman considers how earlier generations of Americans confronted threats to privacy that now seem more urgent than ever.

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Harvard University Press

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067427573X

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The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955

A Devil’s Bargain

By: Brian Carroll

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The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955

A Devil’s Bargain

By: Brian Carroll

This book brings into dramatic relief the dilemma, or devil's bargain, that faced the black press in first building up black baseball, then crusading for the sport's integration and, as a result of that largely successful campaign, ultimately encouraging and even ensuring the demise of those same black leagues. Taking a thematic approach, this book focuses each of its chapters on a singular event or phenomenon from and for each decade of the period covered, a period that spans the roughly four decades of the black leagues' existence. Thus, the book drills down on a handful of representative events and phenomena to present a history of the black press and black baseball. Themes include the many ways team owners and the weekly newspapers' editors and writers worked in concert to build up the leagues, the paired fortunes of black players and black writers, the desperation to save the Negro leagues when it became clear integration threatened their survival, and finally the black press’s response to the residues of baseball's decades of segregation.

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Routledge

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1317499301

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Raising the Hunley

The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine

By: Brian Hicks,Schuyler Kropf

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Raising the Hunley

The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine

By: Brian Hicks,Schuyler Kropf

The history of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron “fish boat” vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of South Carolina. For more than a century the fate of the Hunley remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Civil War. Then, on August 8, 2000, with thousands of spectators crowding Charleston Harbor, the Hunley was raised from the bottom of the sea and towed ashore. Now, award-winning journalists Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf offer new insights into the Hunley’s final hours and recount the amazing true story of its rescue. The brainchild of wealthy New Orleans planter and lawyer Horace Lawson Hunley, the Hunley inspired tremendous hopes of breaking the Union’s naval blockade of Charleston, only to drown two crews on disastrous test runs. But on the night of February 17, 1864, the Hunley finally made good on its promise. Under the command of the heroic Lieutenant George E. Dixon, the sub rammed a spar torpedo into the Union sloop Housatonic and sank the ship within minutes, accomplishing a feat of stealth technology that would not be repeated for half a century. And then, shortly after its stunning success, the Hunley vanished. This book is an extraordinary true story peopled with a fascinating cast of characters, including Horace Hunley himself, the Union officers and crew who went down with the Housatonic, P. T. Barnum, who offered $100,000 for its recovery, and novelist Clive Cussler, who spearheaded the mission that finally succeeded in finding the Hunley. The drama of salvaging the sub is only the prelude to a page-turning account of how scientists unsealed this archaeological treasure chest and discovered the inner-workings of a submarine more technologically advanced than anyone expected, as well as numerous, priceless artifacts. Hicks and Kropf have crafted a spellbinding adventure story that spans over a century of American history. Dramatically told, filled with historical details and contemporary color, illustrated with breathtaking original photographs, Raising the Hunley is one of the most fascinating Civil War books to appear in years.

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Presidio Press

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0307416488

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9780307416483

Bums No More

The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers, World Champions of Baseball

By: Brian M. Endsley

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Bums No More

The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers, World Champions of Baseball

By: Brian M. Endsley

This is the story of the 1959 Dodgers, a team that rose above its disastrous first season on the West Coast for an out-of-nowhere World Series title. One of baseball's greatest underdog champions, the '59 Dodgers were a rag-tag team made of long shots salvaged from the minor leagues and over-the-hill ballplayers who reached back for one final triumph. After surviving a thrilling three team pennant race, they met fellow long shots the Chicago White Sox in an underdog World Series. Here, the team's story is recounted in detail, with game-by-game highlights, and set against the cultural backdrop of the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and the rock and roll cultural revolution.

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McFarland

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0786455675

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In the Shadow of the Capitol Dome

Critical Legal Theory and State Level Educational Policymaking

By: Brian Boggs

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In the Shadow of the Capitol Dome

Critical Legal Theory and State Level Educational Policymaking

By: Brian Boggs

The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution places education firmly under the purview of the states. As such, and from the time the first public education system was conceived in the United States, there have been endless battles under the domes of state capitals everywhere to create, control, and reform educational policy. However, despite the prominent role that states and their legislatures have as central actors in forming educational policy, very few policy actors and even fewer academics have been able to pierce the veil of policymaking at the state level. This case study addresses that gap by examining how one particular educational policy – The Michigan Public Education Finance Act – was created, lived, died, and was resurrected in the State of Michigan. Through the exploration of this policy, there is a particular focus on the use of critical legal theory to examine hidden power structure embedded in the legislative legal system and apply this often-overlooked critical approach to education policy research. Readers will come to understand what educational policymaking looks like at the state level and how to engage their voice in the process. With the increasing political nature of education policy and the fight to control it in the halls of local state capitals, educators as well as the public need to know how to access the political system and have their voice heard. However, it can also appear to be impenetrable to an outsider. This book will demystify the policy making process.

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IAP

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When to Stop the Cheering?

The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball

By: Brian Carroll

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When to Stop the Cheering?

The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball

By: Brian Carroll

When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the Negro National League, which started in 1920, and finishing with the dissolution of the Negro American League in 1957.

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113586361X

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Baseball's Creation Myth

Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story

By: Brian Martin

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Baseball's Creation Myth

Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story

By: Brian Martin

The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children's game of rounders as had been believed. The tale, embraced by Americans, has long been proven false but to this day, Cooperstown is celebrated as the birthplace of baseball. The story has captured the hearts of millions. But who spun that tale and why? This book provides a surprising answer about the origins of America's most durable myth. It seems that Abner Graves, who espoused Cooperstown as the birthplace of the game, likely was inspired by another story about an early game of baseball. The stories were remarkably similar, as were the men who told them. For the first time, this book links the stories and lives of Graves, a mining engineer, and Adam Ford, a medical doctor, both residents of Denver, Colorado. While the actual origins of the game of baseball remain subject to debate and study, new light is shed on the source of baseball's durable creation myth.

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1476602069

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The Act of Documenting

Documentary Film in the 21st Century

By: Brian Winston,Gail Vanstone,Chi Wang

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The Act of Documenting

Documentary Film in the 21st Century

By: Brian Winston,Gail Vanstone,Chi Wang

A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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150130917X

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9781501309175

Expanding the Human in Human Rights

Toward a Sociology of Human Rights

By: Brian Gran

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Expanding the Human in Human Rights

Toward a Sociology of Human Rights

By: Brian Gran

First Published in 2016. The global struggle for human rights has been, fundamentally, a struggle by oppressed groups against the structures of their oppression. As such, sociological work into the experiences of women, racial and ethnic minorities, children, LGBTQ communities, the mentally ill, and others helps us understand the promises and challenges of pursuing human rights. This book presents the fundamental insights gleaned from the scholarship on groups in society for the study of, understanding of, and, ultimately, realization of human rights.

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1317259947

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Designing Service Excellence

People and Technology

By: Brian Hunt,Toni Ivergard

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Designing Service Excellence

People and Technology

By: Brian Hunt,Toni Ivergard

The moment of truth-that instant when consumers experience and judge service quality-is often a deciding factor in business success. Designing Service Excellence: People and Technology provides practical information on the design, management, and organization of many different types of service industries, such as hotels, restaurants, banks and fina

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CRC Press

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1439840474

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Public and Third Sector Leadership

Experience Speaks

By: Brian Howieson,Julie Hodges

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Public and Third Sector Leadership

Experience Speaks

By: Brian Howieson,Julie Hodges

What can we learn from leaders in the public and third sectors? This book is unique in that it provides an opportunity for the voices of these individuals to be heard. Each leader considers what leadership means to them, their experience of it, and the complex challenges they face as a result of profound changes in the economy, polity and society.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1783504919

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Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights

By: David L. Brunsma,Keri E. Lyall Smith,Brian K Gran

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Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights

By: David L. Brunsma,Keri E. Lyall Smith,Brian K Gran

Long the province of international law, human rights now enjoys a renaissance of studies and new perspectives from the social sciences. This landmark book is the first to synthesize and comprehensively evaluate this body of work. It fosters an interdisciplinary, international, and critical engagement both in the social study of human rights and the establishment of a human rights approach throughout the field of sociology. Sociological perspectives bring new questions to the interdisciplinary study of human rights, as amply illustrated in this book. The Handbook is indispensable to any interdisciplinary collection on human rights or on sociology. This text: Brings new perspectives to the study of human rights in an interdisciplinary fashion. Offers state-of-the-art summaries, critical discussions of established human rights paradigms, and a host of new insights and further research directions. Fosters a comprehensive human rights approach to sociology, topically representing all 45 sections of the American Sociological Association.

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Routledge

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131725838X

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21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Vol. Book 21) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

By: Patrick O'Brian

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21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (Vol. Book 21) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

By: Patrick O'Brian

To the delight of millions of Patrick O'Brian fans, here is the final, partial installment of the Aubrey-Maturin series, for the first time in paperback. Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. The three chapters left on O'Brian's desk are presented here both in printed version-including his corrections to the typescript-and a facsimile of his manuscript, which goes several pages beyond the end of the typescript to include a duel between Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer who is courting his fiancée. Of course we would rather have had the whole story; instead we have this proof that O'Brian's powers of observation, his humor, and his understanding of his characters were undiminished to the end. Includes a Facsimile of the Manuscript.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393344142

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Koufax Throws a Curve

The Los Angeles Dodgers at the End of an Era, 1964-1966

By: Brian M. Endsley

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Koufax Throws a Curve

The Los Angeles Dodgers at the End of an Era, 1964-1966

By: Brian M. Endsley

The conclusion of the Sandy Koufax Era was a wild roller coaster ride for the LA Dodgers. Overly dependent on the fragile left arm of their to-be Hall of Fame left-hander, they careened from their worst season since World War II in 1964 after losing Koufax to an injury in mid-August, to a World Series Championship in 1965 on the strength of his shutout performance on short rest in Game 7 with the Twins, to an ignominious World Series collapse to the Orioles in 1966 after he single-handedly saved the Dodgers' 1966 regular season in the final game. In the last two seasons of his career, Koufax averaged an impressive 27 complete games, 27 wins and 350 strikeouts. Yet 16 days after winning his second straight unanimous Cy Young Award, he shocked Major League Baseball by announcing he was going to retire. Like a supernova that had lit up the sports world for six years, he flamed out and was gone by age 30.

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1476632391

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Early Exits

The Premature Endings of Baseball Careers

By: Brian McKenna

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Early Exits

The Premature Endings of Baseball Careers

By: Brian McKenna

Each story contains an overview of the baseball figure, including career-ending details, and many entries contain background information describing the historical significance of the individual and his or her place within the baseball community."--BOOK JACKET.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810858584

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The Minor League Milwaukee Brewers, 1859-1952

By: Brian A. Podoll

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The Minor League Milwaukee Brewers, 1859-1952

By: Brian A. Podoll

Statues of Hank Aaron and Robin Yount, two of Milwaukee's baseball heroes, stand outside the city's palatial new Miller Park. Aaron and Yount represent two generations of major league baseball in Milwaukee, but what about professional baseball in Milwaukee before the arrival of the major league Braves in 1953? Why was it such an important city for minor league baseball? This book traces Milwaukee's baseball history from the game's first appearance in the city in 1859 to the Brewers' last American Association season in 1952. It covers Rufus King, the man responsible for bringing baseball to Milwaukee, and his efforts at getting the game off to a successful start in the city, Milwaukee's status as the largest minor league market in the Northwestern League and Western Association, legendary manager Connie Mack, southpaw Rube Waddell, Hall of Fame player Hugh Duffy, who managed the team to its only Western League pennant in 1903, widowed owner Agnes Malloy Havenor, who chose veteran third baseman Harry Clark to lead the Brewers to their first two AA pennants in 1913 and 1914, colorful owner Otto Borchert, the Brewers' pennant-winning 1936 season under manager Al Sothoron, the "golden era" of minor league baseball in the city, highlighted by owner Bill Veeck's sideshows and colorful managers Casey Stengel, "Jolly Cholly" Grimm, and Nick "Tomato Face" Cullop, and the last years of minor league baseball in 1952 before the arrival of the Braves.

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0786414553

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The Interviewer's Book

Hiring the Right Person

By: Mary Hanson,Brian McIvor

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The Interviewer's Book

Hiring the Right Person

By: Mary Hanson,Brian McIvor

The Interviewer’s Book is a practical, short guide to help anyone who has to carry out job interviews, such as managers, supervisors, team leaders and others. It is designed to help them develop their interviewing skills and ensure they make good selection decisions. The Interviewer’s Book: Provides a step-by-step guide to the interviewing process for employers and interviewers, from advertising a job position to hiring the chosen candidateIs clearly structured, with the aims and central ideas of each topic set out at the start of each chapterContains real-life examples and tips from professional interviewersFocuses on how to make the interviewing process as successful as possible, with an emphasis on how best to structure an interviewIs short and to-the-point, recognising that employers and managers have a multitude of other things to do as well as hire staff.

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1909518131

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Deeper

By: Roderick Gordon,Brian James Williams

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Deeper

By: Roderick Gordon,Brian James Williams

As Will continues to look for his lost father in the underground world he has found, he discovers an evil plot that will harm the world above.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0439871786

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9780439871785

The Ibsen Cycle

The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken

By: Brian Johnston

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The Ibsen Cycle

The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken

By: Brian Johnston

Attempting no less a task than to demonstrate that Ibsen planned his last twelve plays, beginning with Pillars of Society, as a cycle paralleling exactly Hegel's account of the evolution of the human consciousness, The Phenomenology of Mind, Johnston offers a fresh look at the Norwegian master. Although there is little specific biographical data in support of the author's thesis, he argues compellingly for it in his analysis of the texts themselves. After discussing Hegel's dramatic method of exposition and Ibsen's philosophy, Johnston examines each of the twelve plays in considerable detail. Provocative and sophisticated in its approach, this volume should be widely available to scholars and advanced students of modern drama. ---Library Journal

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Penn State Press

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0271008091

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Add A Zero

From €5,000 to €50,000 in an Irish Racing Season

By: Brian O'connor

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From €5,000 to €50,000 in an Irish Racing Season

By: Brian O'connor

It's March in Ireland - the flat season is about the start and Irish Times racing correspondent, Brian O'Connor has decided to boldly go where no racing correspondent has gone before. He puts his money where is mouth is and attempts to turn Euro 5,000 into Euro 50,000. But can he actually do it ... In Add A Zero, we join him on his quest as we're taken through the highs and the lows of the world of Irish racing, where we meet with leading personalities, trainers and jockeys such as Aidan O'Brien, Dermot Weld, Michael Kinane, John Magnier and many others. From drunken dinner parties to famous racecourses like the Curragh and Galway, the tips keep on coming - with mixed results! - in a book for racing buffs and novices alike. As the season progress so does the book, but will Brian show that there's no such thing as a poor bookie? Or will his horse romp home? A betting man might ask 'what are the odds?

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1444743953

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The Fix Is Still In

Corruption and Conspiracies the Pro Sports Leagues Don't Want You To Know About

By: Brian Tuohy

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The Fix Is Still In

Corruption and Conspiracies the Pro Sports Leagues Don't Want You To Know About

By: Brian Tuohy

In this long-anticipated sequel to his jarring takedown of professional sports, The Fix Is In, internationally recognized game fixing expert and scholarly authority Brian Tuohy further reveals the truths all sports fans need to know. Based on dedicated research and previously unreleased FBI files, each chapter exposes sports in a manner none of the major leagues’ broadcast partners would dare attempt. No sport or league is spared as Tuohy rips through not only the likes of the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and NASCAR, but also the PGA, UFC, eSports, horse racing, boxing, and both NCAA football and basketball. Along the way, championships are revealed as frauds, referees are exposed as accomplices, and legends are demolished. No sports fans should watch another game until they read this book and understand what truly is being presented as “pure” in America’s professional sports leagues.

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Feral House

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1627310878

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The Roots of Fake News

Objecting to Objective Journalism

By: Brian Winston,Matthew Winston

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The Roots of Fake News

Objecting to Objective Journalism

By: Brian Winston,Matthew Winston

The Roots of Fake News argues that ‘fake news’ is not a problem caused by the power of the internet, or by the failure of good journalism to assert itself. Rather, it is within the news’s ideological foundations – professionalism, neutrality, and most especially objectivity – that the true roots of the current ‘crisis’ are to be found. Placing the concept of media objectivity in a fuller historical context, this book examines how current perceptions of a crisis in journalism actually fit within a long history of the ways news media have avoided, obscured, or simply ignored the difficulties involved in promising objectivity, let alone ‘truth’. The book examines journalism’s relationships with other spheres of human endeavour (science, law, philosophy) concerned with the pursuit of objective truth, to argue that the rising tide of ‘fake news’ is not an attack on the traditional ideologies which have supported journalism. Rather, it is an inevitable result of their inherent flaws and vulnerabilities. This is a valuable resource for students and scholars of journalism and history alike who are interested in understanding the historical roots, and philosophical context of a fiercely contemporary issue.

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Routledge

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0429626967

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Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be

Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age

By: J. Richard Middleton,Brian J. Walsh

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Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be

Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age

By: J. Richard Middleton,Brian J. Walsh

J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh offer an introduction, evaluation and response to postmodern culture that comes straight from the heart of the gospel.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830818561

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Clinical Applications of Cryobiology

By: Barry J. Fuller,Brian W. W. Grout

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Clinical Applications of Cryobiology

By: Barry J. Fuller,Brian W. W. Grout

This book presents a state-of-the-art summary of the applications of low temperature to clinical situations, together with details of the underlying principles of biology. It provides specific information for the clinicians and research workers in a number of areas of current interest and attempts to provide a unifying theme of cryobiology of interest and value to those researching a clinical problem. Specific topics discussed include the effects of low temperatures on mammalian systems in the absence of ice and how the changes can be modulated to achieve desired results; low temperature storage of tissues and organs for transplantation in the liquid state; the effects of whole body hypothermia in man and how it relates to mammal hibernation; problems associated with ice formation and the subsequent freezing of cells and tissues; cryopreservation of blood cells, reproductive cells, and tissues, such as the skin and cornea. Other interesting issues featured include the developments in cryopreservation of large, highly-organized structures and the destructive powers of ice formation in cryosurgery of diseased tissues.

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0849354293

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Freedom and the Fifth Commandment

Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1919–21

By: Brian Heffernan

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Freedom and the Fifth Commandment

Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1919–21

By: Brian Heffernan

The guerilla war waged between the IRA and the crown forces between 1919 and 1921 was a pivotal episode in the modern history of Ireland. This book addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of a powerful social elite: the Catholic clergy. The close relationship between Irish nationalism and Catholicism was put to the test when a pugnacious new republicanism emerged after the 1916 Easter rising. When the IRA and the crown forces became involved in a guerilla war between 1919 and 1921, priests had to define their position anew. Using a wealth of source material, much of it newly available, this book assesses the clergy’s response to political violence. It describes how the image of shared victimhood at the hands of the British helped to contain tensions between the clergy and the republican movement, and shows how the links between Catholicism and Irish nationalism were sustained.

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Manchester University Press

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1526117983

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