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Sidewinder

Creative Missile Development at China Lake

By: Ron Westrum

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Creative Missile Development at China Lake

By: Ron Westrum

In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone in the weapons industry desired. This is the story of how that unorthodox team, led by visionary Bill McLean, overcame U.S. Navy bureaucracy and other more heavily funded projects to develop the world’s best air-to-air missile. Author Ron Westrum examines that special time and place—when the old American work ethic and “can do” spirit were a vital part of U.S. weapons development—to discover how this dedicated team was able to create a simple and inexpensive missile. Today, many decades after its invention, the Sidewinder missile is still considered one of the best that America has to offer. In a time of billion-dollar weapons development contracts, astronomical cost overruns, and defense acquisitions scandals, this revealing, highly readable tale about one of the most successful weapons in history should be of interest to anyone concerned with national security."=

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Naval Institute Press

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1612513638

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Creative Missile Development at China Lake

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Here's the Catch

A Memoir of the Miracle Mets and More

By: Ron Swoboda

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Here's the Catch

A Memoir of the Miracle Mets and More

By: Ron Swoboda

In time for the 50th anniversary of the Mets' miraculous 1969 World Series win, right fielder Ron Swoboda tells the story of that amazing season, the people he played with and against (sometimes at the same time), and what life was like as an Every Man ballplayer. Ron Swoboda wasn’t the greatest player the Mets ever had, but he made the greatest catch in Met history, saving a game in the 1969 World Series, and his RBI clinched the final game. By Met standards that makes him legend. The Mets even use a steel silhouette of the catch as a backing for the right field entrance sign at Citi Field. In this smart, funny, insightful memoir, which is as self-deprecating as a lifetime .249 hitter has to be, he tells the story of that magical year nearly game by game, revealing his struggles, his triumphs and what life was like for an every day, Every Man player, even when he was being platooned. He shows what it took to make one of the worst teams in baseball and what it was like to leave one of the best. And when he talks about the guys he played with and against, it’s like you’re sitting next to him on the team bus, drinking Rheingold. Here's the Catch is a book anyone who loves the game will love as much.

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Thomas Dunne Books

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1250235677

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9781250235671

501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die

By: Ron Kaplan

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501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die

By: Ron Kaplan

Propounding his "small ball theory" of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that "the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature." Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable--vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining, and occasionally brilliant. From this bewildering array of baseball books, Ron Kaplan has chosen 501 of the best, making it easier for fans to find just the books to suit them (or to know what they're missing). From biography, history, fiction, and instruction to books about ballparks, business, and rules, anyone who loves to read about baseball will find in this book a companionable guide, far more fun than a reference work has any right to be.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496209885

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9781496209887

Critical Steps

Managing What Must Go Right in High-Risk Operations

By: Tony Muschara,Ron Farris,Jim Marinus

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Critical Steps

Managing What Must Go Right in High-Risk Operations

By: Tony Muschara,Ron Farris,Jim Marinus

Critical Steps happen every day at work and at home, purposefully. Work does not happen otherwise. If an operation has the capacity to do work, then it has the capacity to do harm. Work is energy directed by human beings to create value. But people are imperfect—we make mistakes, and sometimes we lose control of the work. Therefore, work is the use of force under conditions of uncertainty. A Critical Step is a human action that will trigger immediate, irreversible, and intolerable harm to an asset, if that action or a preceding action is performed improperly. Whether the human action involves clicking on a link attached to an e-mail message, walking down a flight of stairs with a newborn baby in arms, engaging the clutch on a gasoline-driven chain saw, or administering a medication to a patient in a hospital, these all satisfy the definition of what constitutes critical risks in our daily lives, professionally or personally. The overarching goal of managing Critical Steps is to maximize the success (safety, reliability, productivity, quality, profitability, etc.) of people’s performance in the workplace, to create value for the organization without losing control of built-in hazards necessary to create that value.

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CRC Press

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1000476839

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9781000476835

The Fall of the Roman Umpire

By: Ron Luciano,David Fisher

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The Fall of the Roman Umpire

By: Ron Luciano,David Fisher

The wildly funny, bestselling author of The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two has collected into one volume the best of baseball's bloopers, blunders, and bench-warmers. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs.

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Bantam

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0553261339

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9780553261332

The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments

By: Ron Smith

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The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments

By: Ron Smith

Rich full-color and black-and-white photographs highlight the third book in The Sporting News Selects series--ranking the great players, the great games, and the greatest moments in the history of baseball.

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190

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Contemporary Books

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0892046260

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9780892046263

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Sidewinder

Sidewinder

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Here's the Catch

Here's the Catch

501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die

501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die

Critical Steps

Critical Steps

The Fall of the Roman Umpire

The Fall of the Roman Umpire

The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments

The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments

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