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The Great Baseball Revolt

The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League

By: Robert B. Ross

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The Great Baseball Revolt

The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League

By: Robert B. Ross

The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the National League's salary cap and "reserve rule," which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a star-studded group that included most of the best players of the National League, who bolted not only to gain control of their wages but also to share ownership of the teams. Lasting only a year, the league impacted both the professional sports and the labor politics of athletes and nonathletes alike. The Great Baseball Revolt is a historic overview of the rise and fall of the Players League, which fielded teams in Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Though it marketed itself as a working-class league, the players were underfunded and had to turn to wealthy capitalists for much of their startup costs, including the new ballparks. It was in this context that the league intersected with the organized labor movement, and in many ways challenged by organized labor to be by and for the people. In its only season, the Players League outdrew the National League in fan attendance. But when the National League overinflated its numbers and profits, the Players League backers pulled out. The Great Baseball Revolt brings to life a compelling cast of characters and a mostly forgotten but important time in professional sports when labor politics affected both athletes and nonathletes.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803294786

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Teaching EAL

Evidence-based Strategies for the Classroom and School

By: Robert Sharples

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Teaching EAL

Evidence-based Strategies for the Classroom and School

By: Robert Sharples

This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It provides a concise, helpful introduction to the latest research underpinning three key areas of EAL practice: How children acquire additional languages How language works across the curriculum How you can establish outstanding EAL practice in your school. Other key features include case studies from experienced EAL specialists, extensive reading recommendations for teachers who want to build on their knowledge, and a detailed chapter on Ofsted based on interviews with senior inspectors. This book will prove an invaluable guide and support for everyone working with bilingual learners. In clear, short chapters it gives a thorough grounding in the evidence and principles needed to create outstanding EAL provision.

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Multilingual Matters

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1788924452

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9781788924450

Health Informatics: Practical Guide Seventh Edition

By: William R. Hersh,Robert E. Hoyt

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Health Informatics: Practical Guide Seventh Edition

By: William R. Hersh,Robert E. Hoyt

Health informatics is the discipline concerned with the management of healthcare data and information through the application of computers and other information technologies. The field focuses more on identifying and applying information in the healthcare field and less on the technology involved. Our goal is to stimulate and educate healthcare and IT professionals and students about the key topics in this rapidly changing field. This seventh edition reflects the current knowledge in the topics listed below and provides learning objectives, key points, case studies and extensive references. Available as a paperback and eBook. Visit the textbook companion website at http://informaticseducation.org for more information.--Page 4 de la couverture.

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Lulu.com

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1387642413

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9781387642410

The Nebula Planet

Galactic Command Series

By: Robert Fitton

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The Nebula Planet

Galactic Command Series

By: Robert Fitton

Fitton's Galactic Command Series. Voyage 24. Join Commander John Ross and the crew of ESS-14, after the Antarian War, to a planet bordering a nebula on the edge of the galaxy. Ross chases a derelict ESS Commander and his Antarian conspirator. Beyond the Nebula is an enclosed solar system, controlled by omnipotent life forms that desire a cataclysmic future for Galactic Command.

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iUniverse

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0595485359

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9780595485352

Handbook of Metal Treatments and Testing

By: Robert B. Ross

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Handbook of Metal Treatments and Testing

By: Robert B. Ross

From reviews of the first edition:; A must for engineering libraries. - Materials Review Series; Encyclopaedic and of immense practical value. - Physics in Technology

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0412313901

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Resilient Health Care, Volume 2

The Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work

By: Robert L. Wears,Erik Hollnagel

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Resilient Health Care, Volume 2

The Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work

By: Robert L. Wears,Erik Hollnagel

Health systems everywhere are expected to meet increasing public and political demands for accessible, high-quality care. Policy-makers, managers, and clinicians use their best efforts to improve efficiency, safety, quality, and economic viability. One solution has been to mimic approaches that have been shown to work in other domains, such as quality management, lean production, and high reliability. In the enthusiasm for such solutions, scant attention has been paid to the fact that health care as a multifaceted system differs significantly from most traditional industries. Solutions based on linear thinking in engineered systems do not work well in complicated, multi-stakeholder non-engineered systems, of which health care is a leading example. A prerequisite for improving health care and making it more resilient is that the nature of everyday clinical work be well understood. Yet the focus of the majority of policy or management solutions, as well as that of accreditation and regulation, is work as it ought to be (also known as ’work-as-imagined’). The aim of policy-makers and managers, whether the priority is safety, quality, or efficiency, is therefore to make everyday clinical work - or work-as-done - comply with work-as-imagined. This fails to recognise that this normative conception of work is often oversimplified, incomplete, and outdated. There is therefore an urgent need to better understand everyday clinical work as it is done. Despite the common focus on deviations and failures, it is undeniable that clinical work goes right far more often than it goes wrong, and that we only can make it better if we understand how this happens. This second volume of Resilient Health Care continues the line of thinking of the first book, but takes it further through a range of chapters from leading international thinkers on resilience and health care. Where the first book provided the rationale and basic concepts of RHC, the Resilience of Everyday Clinical Work b

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CRC Press

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131706514X

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9781317065142

Body Cavity Bombers: the New Martyrs

A Terrorism Research Center Book

By: Christopher Flaherty,Robert J. Bunker

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Body Cavity Bombers: the New Martyrs

A Terrorism Research Center Book

By: Christopher Flaherty,Robert J. Bunker

authoritative account of a significant new terrorist tactic that is likely to become more pervasive in our increasingly sophisticated technological and medical age in which it is becoming easier for the terrorist adversary to use the types of body cavity bombs that will be capable of evading detection technologies ... Dr. Joshua Sinai, Washington, DC-based consultant on counterterrorism studies and author of Active Shooter: A Handbook on Prevention. Body Cavity Bombers shows how what was once a lurid Hollywood fantasy has emerged as a legitimate threat, dissects the risk with clinical precision, and soberly considers the remediation options. Dr. Nils Gilman, Director of Research at Monitor 360 and co-editor of Deviant Globalization. A timely and important book about a disgusting subject. In showing how the human body might be used to carry and conceal explosive devices, terrorism experts Bunker and Flaherty have left no stone unturned. Dr. Martin van Creveld, one of the worlds leading writers on military history and strategy, with a special interest in the future of war, and author of twenty books including The Transformation of War. Those in the front line of identifying and taking necessary action to counter these new techniques of destruction would be well advised to read Dr. Bunker and Dr. Flahertys realistic assessment. Dr. Stephen Sloan, internationally recognized terrorism scholar and author/co-author of fourteen books on terrorism.

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iUniverse

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1491703113

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9781491703113

Advanced Processes for 193-nm Immersion Lithography

By: Yayi Wei,Robert L. Brainard

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Advanced Processes for 193-nm Immersion Lithography

By: Yayi Wei,Robert L. Brainard

This book is a comprehensive guide to advanced processes and materials used in 193-nm immersion lithography (193i). It is an important text for those new to the field as well as for current practitioners who want to broaden their understanding of this latest technology. The book can be used as course material for graduate students of electrical engineering, material sciences, physics, chemistry, and microelectronics engineering and can also be used to train engineers involved in the manufacture of integrated circuits. It provides techniques for selecting critical materials (topcoats, photoresists, and antireflective coatings) and optimizing immersion processes to ensure higher performance and lower defectivity at lower cost. This book also includes sections on shrinking, trimming, and smoothing of the resist pattern to reduce feature sizes and line-edge roughness. Finally, it describes the recent development of 193i in combination with double exposure and double patterning.

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SPIE Press

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0819475572

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The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

By: James Robert Bent Hathaway

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The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register

By: James Robert Bent Hathaway

Chief among its contents we find abstracts of land grants, court records, conveyances, births, deaths, marriages, wills, petitions, military records (including a list of North Carolina Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line, 1775-1782), licenses, and oaths. The abstracts derive from records now located in the state archives and from the public records of the following present-day counties of the Old Albemarle region: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington, and the Virginia counties of Surry and Isle of Wight.

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0806304413

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Instruments and Institutions of American Purpose

By: Robert Gallucci,Philip Zelikow,Ashton Carter,Richard Falkenrath,Diana Farrell,Lael Brainard,David Lipton,Ivo Daalder,Samuel Berger,Thomas Donilon,Andrew Krepinevich,John Podesta,Antony Blinken

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Instruments and Institutions of American Purpose

By: Robert Gallucci,Philip Zelikow,Ashton Carter,Richard Falkenrath,Diana Farrell,Lael Brainard,David Lipton,Ivo Daalder,Samuel Berger,Thomas Donilon,Andrew Krepinevich,John Podesta,Antony Blinken

From August 3-8, 2008, the Aspen Strategy Group gathered in Aspen, Colorado to assess the instruments and institutions of American power and purpose. Aspen Strategy Group members, government officials, academics, and journalists formed a bipartisan group of foreign policy and national security practitioners from a wide range of government agencies. This publication is a collection of the fifteen papers that were used to guide their discussions during the course of the conference, along with a scene setter and concluding observations."--The Acknowledgments

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Aspen Institute

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0898435013

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The Priesthood of All Believers in the Twenty-First Century

Living Faithfully as the Whole People of God in a Postmodern Context

By: Robert A. Muthiah

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The Priesthood of All Believers in the Twenty-First Century

Living Faithfully as the Whole People of God in a Postmodern Context

By: Robert A. Muthiah

Robert Muthiah believes a deepened theology of the priesthood of all believers is essential for answering the crucial questions of what shape the church should take in the twenty-first century, and how this theological query relates to the lived experiences of congregations. Emerging churches, which tend to develop vibrant practices of the priesthood of all believers, need to develop more fully their ecclesiological underpinnings, while historic churches, with a well-developed theology of the priesthood of all believers, need a renewed vigor to allow this theology to shape their congregational lives. With recourse to relevant New Testament texts and theological conversations, The Priesthood of All Believers in the Twenty-First Cenutry argues for a fresh understanding and embodiment of the priesthood of all believers by setting ecclesiology, postmodern culture, and congregational practices in dialogue. Elements of the discussion include ecumenical and Free church perspectives, Trinitarian correspondence, postmodern social structures, the relevance of Alasdair McIntyre's social practices for congregations, and forms of congregational leadership.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1606080946

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9781606080948

Atlas of Zebrafish Development

By: Robert Bryson-Richardson,Silke Berger,Peter Currie

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Atlas of Zebrafish Development

By: Robert Bryson-Richardson,Silke Berger,Peter Currie

Zebrafish are widely considered an excellent model system for vertebrate development. The embryo is transparent, thereby enabling visualization and use of labelling and transgenic approaches. Moreover, because of the ease of inducing new mutations in zebrafish and similarity with the human genome, this organism may be used effectively for disease studies. For example, mutant zebrafish are being utilized for testing drugs that will combat a range of human diseases, from Alzheimer's and cancer to kidney failure and congenital heart disease. For the first time, this atlas provides the research community with a complete reference for zebrafish anatomy spanning the early embryo all the way to adulthood. The authors employ the technique of optical projection tomography (OPT), and offer a series of sections in multiple planes from each sample. The contents are organized by developmental stages, with over 200 images that contain annotations describing anatomical structures relevant to development. In addition, chapters feature explanatory text that highlights major developments in the zebrafish during each stage. Provides the first comprehensive anatomical resource that covers all regions of zebrafish anatomy from the larval period to adulthood The over 200 images include explanatory notes Each chapter contains a concise description of key anatomical features that factor in zebrafish development Despite many years of use as a model system, until now there has never been a guide to zebrafish at the larval stage The book's website contains a database of over 10k sections from different regions as well as 3D images that are interactive

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Academic Press

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0123740169

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9780123740168

Perceptual Modification

Adapting to Altered Sensory Environments

By: Robert B. Welch

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Perceptual Modification

Adapting to Altered Sensory Environments

By: Robert B. Welch

Perceptual Modification: Adapting to Altered Sensory Environments is about the study of human perception using a particular research strategy: the systematic alteration of vision or audition. It is assumed that by observing how the sensory apparatus copes with this disturbance it will be possible to formulate valuable hypotheses about the structure and development of ""normal"" perception and perceptual-motor coordination. The specific goals of this book are, first, to organize the vast and confusing literature on adaptation to perceptual rearrangement and, second, to assess its contribution to the understanding of ""normal"" perception and perceptual learning. The book begins with discussions of adaptation to small prism-induced displacements of the visual field. Separate chapters follow on the proposition that adaptation to prismatic displacement and other forms of rearrangement is actually a form of learning; adaptation to inverted and reversed vision; optical tilt; illusory motions of the visual field; size-depth distortions; and distortions of form. Subsequent chapters deal with studies of auditory rearrangement; examine individual and interspecies differences in adaptability; and the study of adaptation to the visual distortions encountered by the underwater observer. The book is written for researchers and graduate students in experimental psychology. It will be of value and interest whether the reader is a specialist in the area of perceptual modification, or indeed a generalist.

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1483274780

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Health Informatics: Practical Guide Seventh Edition

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Handbook of Metal Treatments and Testing

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Advanced Processes for 193-nm Immersion Lithography

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Instruments and Institutions of American Purpose

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