This book covers the history, theory, and practice of bonding elastomers to solid substrates. It provides information of methods, equipment, and bond evaluation. Numerous detailed examples of research into the variables that affect bonding, bond strength, and bond durability are provided to give the reader deeper understanding of this technology.
Now in its 13th edition, this handbook continues to act as an almanac for all the baseball action that happened on the playing field the previous season. Includes a sneak preview of 2002 with exclusive player projections.
Celebrating its tenth edition, "STATS Major League Handbook" is the dictionary for the action happening on the field. The book contains player career statistics, 1998 team statistics, manager tendencies, 1999 projections, and more.
Written by the leading authority on sports card values, this collectors' classic is the definitive guide to organizing and pricing baseball card collections. A bestseller for over 25 years, The Official(R) Price Guide to Baseball Cards continues to cover all major baseball card manufacturers, including Bowman, Donruss/Playoff, Fleer, Topps, and Upper Deck. - Nearly 300,000 prices for individual cards and complete sets issued from 1948 to the present - Professional advice on buying, selling, grading, and storing cards - Valuable coupons for discounts on Beckett Grading Services and Beckett magazines
Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy provides the sports community—students, professionals, and casual sports fans—with the essential mathematics and statistics required to objectively analyze sports teams, evaluate player performance, and predict game outcomes. These techniques can also be applied to fantasy sports competitions. Readers will learn how to: - Accurately rank sports teams - Compute winning probability - Calculate expected victory margin - Determine the set of factors that are most predictive of team and player performance Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy also illustrates modeling techniques that can be used to decode and demystify the mysterious computer ranking schemes that are often employed by post-season tournament selection committees in college and professional sports. These methods offer readers a verifiable and unbiased approach to evaluate and rank teams, and the proper statistical procedures to test and evaluate the accuracy of different models. Optimal Sports Math, Statistics, and Fantasy delivers a proven best-in-class quantitative modeling framework with numerous applications throughout the sports world. - Statistical approaches to predict winning team, probabilities, and victory margin - Procedures to evaluate the accuracy of different models - Detailed analysis of how mathematics and statistics are used in a variety of different sports - Advanced mathematical applications that can be applied to fantasy sports, player evaluation, salary negotiation, team selection, and Hall of Fame determination
In this study, James R. Harrison compares the modern cult of celebrity to the quest for glory in late republican and early imperial society. He shows how Paul's ethic of humility, based upon the crucified Christ, stands out in a world obsessed with mutual comparison, boasting, and self-sufficiency." --
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