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From Darkness to Dynasty

The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots

By: Jerry Thornton

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From Darkness to Dynasty

The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots

By: Jerry Thornton

Long before the Patriots took the 21st century by storm and became the most dominant team in NFL history, pro football was something entirely different in New England, something comically atrocious and riddled with heartbreak. Before those juggernaut years of Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, and sold-out crowds at Gillette Stadium came a hapless franchise that managed only a single playoff victory in a quarter century and spent its entire first decade of existence just trying to establish a permanent home field (and even when they did, none of the toilets worked). In From Darkness to Dynasty, bestselling author Jerry Thornton irreverently chronicles those easily glossed-over, downtrodden decades--years when the team claimed more headlines for lawsuits, arrests, power struggles, drug problems, and inept, bizarre, behavior from players, coaches, and owners than for anything they accomplished on the field. Relive the behind-the-scenes dysfunction, the turmoil of prolonged irrelevance, and the improbable way the Patriots finally ascended to greatness. By turns hilarious and eye-opening, this is an essential history for fans and disparagers alike, and a pointed reminder that the best stories of triumph start with humble beginnings.

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Triumph Books

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164125565X

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9781641255653

Digital Compression for Multimedia

Principles and Standards

By: Jerry D. Gibson

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Digital Compression for Multimedia

Principles and Standards

By: Jerry D. Gibson

Digital Compression for Multimedia" captures in a single reference the current standards for speech, audio, video, image, fax and file compression. It is intended for engineers and computer scientists designing and implementing compression techniques, system integrators, technical managers, and researchers. The essential ideas and motivation behind the various compression methods are presented and insight is provided into the evolution of the standards.

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500

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Morgan Kaufmann

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1558603697

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9781558603691

Information Theory and Rate Distortion Theory for Communications and Compression

By: Jerry Gibson

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Information Theory and Rate Distortion Theory for Communications and Compression

By: Jerry Gibson

This book is very specifically targeted to problems in communications and compression by providing the fundamental principles and results in information theory and rate distortion theory for these applications and presenting methods that have proved and will prove useful in analyzing and designing real systems. The chapters contain treatments of entropy, mutual information, lossless source coding, channel capacity, and rate distortion theory; however, it is the selection, ordering, and presentation of the topics within these broad categories that is unique to this concise book. While the coverage of some standard topics is shortened or eliminated, the standard, but important, topics of the chain rules for entropy and mutual information, relative entropy, the data processing inequality, and the Markov chain condition receive a full treatment. Similarly, lossless source coding techniques presented include the Lempel-Ziv-Welch coding method. The material on rate Distortion theory and exploring fundamental limits on lossy source coding covers the often-neglected Shannon lower bound and the Shannon backward channel condition, rate distortion theory for sources with memory, and the extremely practical topic of rate distortion functions for composite sources.

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115

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Springer Nature

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3031016807

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9783031016806

The Concise Encyclopedia of The Great Recession 2007-2012

By: Jerry M. Rosenberg

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The Concise Encyclopedia of The Great Recession 2007-2012

By: Jerry M. Rosenberg

The Concise Encyclopedia of the Great Recession 2007-2012 brings to the present the necessary information for understanding the first major recession of the 21st century and one of the deepest since the Great Depression itself. Its description of recession-related actors and events since its start provides an in-depth understanding of this major rupture in modern economy, forever changing, some have argued, not only the distribution of income in the United States but the balance of economic power across the globe. Acclaimed by The New York Times as the "leading business and technical lexicographer in the nation" and serving as business terminology consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary for a quarter century, Jerry M. Rosenberg provides the most accurate and current explanation of this economic catastrophe of the last five years. Rosenberg describes and updates the events, actors, institutions, rules, regulations, and current impact of this global financial crisis that pushed banks, financial institutions, and corporations across the world to the edge. With entries on key individuals, companies, government programs, financial instruments, and institutions, Rosenberg provides an essential reference to the most critical recession the United States has faced since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This work is an ideal tool for scholars and students seeking more information on this major event in world history.

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709

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Scarecrow Press

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0810883414

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9780810883413

Five Rings

The Super Bowl History of the New England Patriots (So Far)

By: Jerry Thornton

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Five Rings

The Super Bowl History of the New England Patriots (So Far)

By: Jerry Thornton

Since 2001 the Patriots have played in eight Super Bowl championships and won five, a run of excellence unparalleled in all of professional sports. In a league designed to ensure that no one franchise can dominate over time, New England won for over a decade and a half. A dynasty that began with an improbable run to a championship in 2001 has rebuilt, rebooted, and retooled several times over, winning most recently in 2017. But during those years, no other franchise reached the same level of controversy, drama, and turmoil - or even came close. Jerry Thornton, bestselling author of From Darkness to Dynasty, provides an all-access pass to the Patriots' years of unparalleled greatness from the unique perspective of an observant, obsessive, utterly dedicated fan.

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370

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University Press of New England

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1512603228

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9781512603224

The Other Mrs. Kennedy

An Intimate and Reevaling Look at the Hidden Life of Ethel Skakel Kennedy

By: Jerry Oppenheimer

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The Other Mrs. Kennedy

An Intimate and Reevaling Look at the Hidden Life of Ethel Skakel Kennedy

By: Jerry Oppenheimer

She's the real power behind the Kennedy name. Now, for the first time, her secrets are exposed.. She ruthlessly mocked her sister-in-law Jacke's breathy voice and often referred to her as "the Debutante" She kept a lengthy "enemies list" and blackballed those who she felt were disloyal or critical of the Kennedys She turned Hickory Hill into an eerie shrine that included life-sized photos of Bobby in closets that startled visitors She made one fo the most difficult decisions of her life when she agreed to "pull the plug" on Bobby as he lay dying after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan She distanced herself from her own Skakel family, whose scandals exceeded those of even the Kennedys.

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772

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Macmillan

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0312956002

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9780312956004

From the Great Recession to the Covid-19 Pandemic

A Financial History of the United States 2010-2020

By: Jerry W. Markham

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From the Great Recession to the Covid-19 Pandemic

A Financial History of the United States 2010-2020

By: Jerry W. Markham

This volume narrates the financial history of the United States during a period of great upheaval in the early part of the 21st century. It is divided into three chronological sections: the first section describes the recovery of financial markets after the Great Recession. It begins with an overview of the state of the economy at the start of the new decade, including some of the political storms affecting the economy and financial markets. It explores the uneven nature of the recovery and volatility in the Treasury during these years. The second section sets forth regulatory responses to the Financial Crisis of 2008, including the massive fines imposed on large banks by a swarm of regulators. It examines the “too big to jail” prosecution model, cases involving Libor and foreign exchange manipulation and the impact of rogue traders. It also looks at the developments in payment systems, rise of crowdfunding as a source of capital, and high-frequency trading. The third section describes the rules adopted under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 that broadly affected financial markets. It also recounts the Trump trade wars and ends with an account of the financial and economic turmoil that occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The volume will be an essential addition to academic and public libraries with readers drawn from business schools, departments of economics and finance, and historians.

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341

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Routledge

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1000550486

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9781000550481

Instant Replay

The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer

By: Jerry Kramer,Dick Schaap

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Instant Replay

The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer

By: Jerry Kramer,Dick Schaap

A sports classic, Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap's Instant Replay takes readers inside the 1967 season of the Green Bay Packers, following that storied team from training camp to their dramatic victory in Super Bowl II. Candid and often amusing, Jerry Kramer describes from a player’s perspective a bygone era of sports, filled with blood, grit, and tears. No game better exemplifies this period than the classic “Ice Bowl” conference championship game between the Packers and the Dallas Cowboys, which Kramer, who made the crucial block in the climactic play, describes in thrilling detail. We also get a rare and insightful view of the Packers’ legendary leader, coach Vince Lombardi. As vivid and engaging as it was when it was first published, Instant Replay is an irreplaceable reminder of the glory days of pro football.

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Anchor

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0307743381

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9780307743381

Six Rings

The Super Bowl History of the New England Patriots

By: Jerry Thornton

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Six Rings

The Super Bowl History of the New England Patriots

By: Jerry Thornton

Revised and updated for 2020! The New England Patriots' feat of six Super Bowls in 17 years represents the gold standard of dominance every sports franchise strives for. With Bill Belichick and Tom Brady at the helm, the Patriots' unlikely victory back in February 2002 became a fulcrum that tipped decades of failure into a run of dynastic success. In this revised and updated edition, bestselling author Jerry Thornton provides a behind-the-scenes look at each of the team's six championships, revealing the adversity they faced and reveling in the hard-fought victories they earned. This is the story of a franchise, a culture, and a people told from a true fan's perspective. It's about a franchise that has seemingly dealt only in extremes, hated by the nation in a way that has only fortified the strength of its supporters. Most of all, it's a story about remarkable people defying history to write their own. Six Rings is the must-read account of this unforgettable era in football.

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Triumph Books

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1641255625

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9781641255622

Favorite Flies for the Upper Midwest

50 Essential Patterns from Local Experts

By: Jerry Darkes

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Favorite Flies for the Upper Midwest

50 Essential Patterns from Local Experts

By: Jerry Darkes

This new entry in the Stackpole Favorite Flies series covers flies for the Upper Midwest—Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. This area has fishing that is very different than the rest of the Midwest (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois), and Jerry Darkes leads anglers through it. The Favorite Flies series pulls together fifty important (either from a historical or fishing or both standpoint) flies from a particular region, tied by anglers with close ties and local knowledge of the place. Each fly featured in a spread that includes large, easy to see image, recipe, tying notes, and a supplemental image or possibly a few tying steps if a technique needs to be illustrated. This book, though not a tying manual, showcases important flies that work well on the water for a given area and a fishing/tying resource and tribute to the region.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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081177421X

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9780811774215

Book's by Jerry Kraft

From Darkness to Dynasty

From Darkness to Dynasty

Digital Compression for Multimedia

Digital Compression for Multimedia

Information Theory and Rate Distortion Theory for Communications and Compression

Information Theory and Rate Distortion Theory for Communications and Compression

The Concise Encyclopedia of The Great Recession 2007-2012

The Concise Encyclopedia of The Great Recession 2007-2012

Five Rings

Five Rings

The Other Mrs. Kennedy

The Other Mrs. Kennedy

From the Great Recession to the Covid-19 Pandemic

From the Great Recession to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Instant Replay

Instant Replay

Six Rings

Six Rings

Favorite Flies for the Upper Midwest

Favorite Flies for the Upper Midwest

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