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A Statistical History of Rugby League -

By: Stephen Kane

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A Statistical History of Rugby League -

By: Stephen Kane

The “Greatest Game of All” or Rugby League as it is known to some has given me nearly a half a century of pleasure and a little pain. In 1966 at the ripe old age of 6 I was introduced to our game when my Uncle Harry moved into the bedroom I shared with my younger brother in a 2 bedroom fibro joint in Rockdale(Dragon Territory). Harry was playing lower grades for Jack Gibson’s Roosters and went on to play for St George in the 1971 Grand Final against my other front rower mate John Sattler and his Rabbitoh’s. By the age of 9 I had memorized every player in the Big League magazine. The game became my obsession. Even if I had not been lucky enough to play over 100 games in the best competition in the world(arguably in any sport) Rugby League was in my blood. As a Rothmans Medal winner (the official player of the year award in 1983 succeeded by The Dally M Medal) I have always been aware of the history of our great game and its effect on society especially in the northern states of Australia. Apart from obtaining a Law degree at Sydney University I studied the Politics in Sport while completing my Arts Degree at Macquarie University. I believed our game was ahead of sports like baseball, gridiron and basketball that relied heavily on statistics to rate their great players. Ours is a game of passion made for the blue collar working classman relying on guts and determination not on how many yards and minutes someone makes or plays. However as we get older we all like to dig deep into history and see who had the ability and drive to play even one game in the toughest competition playing the greatest game of all. This book does what none other has attempted to do—tell a story using numbers and statistics about our great game. It is something every player and fan would do well to study. Stephen Kane the author of this book could be a reincarnation of Stephen Harold Gascoigne, better known as Yabba whose statue stands proudly at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Yabba was known for his knowledgeable witticisms shouted loudly from “The Hill”, a grassy general admissions area of the SCG. A lot like Yabba “Kaney” can be found every winter Sunday on the hill at Greenfield Park Albury(or away in Junee, Temora or Wagga) cheering his beloved Thunder to victory in the Group 9 Premiership loudly and clearly from 10 am to 5.30pm. In his spare time since breaking his back 7 years ago he has collected statistics on players in the NSWRL(now known as the NRL) dating back to 1908. The first words Kaney said to me was “I have every Rugby League Week ever published” as he showed me his “EELS tattoo”. “You got sin binned once in your career at North Sydney Oval in 1983 or was it 1984?”? I knew I was in the company of a Rugby League tragic. This study of our game will help all of us who love the game and those of us lucky enough to have played it a better insight into the players of the greatest game of all from the top to the bottom. Written by Mike Eden, who played 110 Games for Manly, Easts, Parramatta and Gold Coast, is Gold Coast Player Number 1, and Won the Dally M award for Player of the Year in 1983

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1483643972

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Optimization for Data Analysis

By: Stephen J. Wright,Benjamin Recht

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Optimization for Data Analysis

By: Stephen J. Wright,Benjamin Recht

Optimization techniques are at the core of data science, including data analysis and machine learning. An understanding of basic optimization techniques and their fundamental properties provides important grounding for students, researchers, and practitioners in these areas. This text covers the fundamentals of optimization algorithms in a compact, self-contained way, focusing on the techniques most relevant to data science. An introductory chapter demonstrates that many standard problems in data science can be formulated as optimization problems. Next, many fundamental methods in optimization are described and analyzed, including: gradient and accelerated gradient methods for unconstrained optimization of smooth (especially convex) functions; the stochastic gradient method, a workhorse algorithm in machine learning; the coordinate descent approach; several key algorithms for constrained optimization problems; algorithms for minimizing nonsmooth functions arising in data science; foundations of the analysis of nonsmooth functions and optimization duality; and the back-propagation approach, relevant to neural networks.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009019120

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Byrd's Line

A Natural History

By: Stephen C. Ausband

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Byrd's Line

A Natural History

By: Stephen C. Ausband

Byrd often mused about what would happen to the land in the future. While some of the dividing line still feels like wilderness, it is crisscrossed today by bridges and roads, its forests felled and paved over for parking lots and subdivisions, its waters diverted or drained. Ausband's story, therefore, is a natural history of a changed region."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813921341

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Personal Reminiscense of Early Days in California With Other Sketches

By: Stephen J. Field

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Personal Reminiscense of Early Days in California With Other Sketches

By: Stephen J. Field

Reproduction of the original: Personal Reminiscense of Early Days in California With Other Sketches by Stephen J. Field

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3752363266

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Marlborough's America

By: Stephen Saunders Webb

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Marlborough's America

By: Stephen Saunders Webb

Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of “salutary neglect,” but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces, under the spur of war, became capitalist, coercive, and aggressive, owing to the vigorous leadership of career army officers, trained and nominated to American government by the captain general of the allied armies, the first duke of Marlborough, and that his influence, and that of his legates, prevailed through the entire century in America. Webb’s work follows the duke, whom an eloquent enemy described as “the greatest statesman and the greatest general that this country or any other country has produced,” his staff and soldiers, through the ten campaigns, which, by defanging France, made the union with Scotland possible and made “Great Britain” preeminent in the Atlantic world. Then Webb demonstrates that the duke’s legates transformed American colonies into provinces of empire. Marlborough’s America, fifty years in the making, is the fourth volume of The Governors-General.

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Yale University Press

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030017859X

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9780300178593

Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

Containing Notes on the Various Governmental Organizations; Lists of the Principal Colonial, State and County Officers, and the Congressional Delegations and Presidential Electors, with the Votes of the Electoral Colleges. The whole arranged in Constitutional Periods

By: Stephen C. Hutchins

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Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

By: Stephen C. Hutchins

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752521082

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A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society

By: American Philosophical Society,J. Stephen Catlett

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A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society

By: American Philosophical Society,J. Stephen Catlett

Rev. ed. of: Guide to the archives and manuscript collections of the American Philosophical Society. 1966.

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American Philosophical Society

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0871696606

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Why Can't Church Be More Like an AA Meeting?

And Other Questions Christians Ask about Recovery

By: Stephen R. Haynes

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Why Can't Church Be More Like an AA Meeting?

And Other Questions Christians Ask about Recovery

By: Stephen R. Haynes

Do Christians need recovery? Or is recovery something needed by the church itself? Addiction—whether to a substance or to a behavior—is a problem within faith communities, just like it is everywhere else. But because churches are rarely experienced as safe places for dealing with addiction, co-addiction, or the legacy of family dysfunction, Christians tend to seek recovery from these conditions in Twelve-Step fellowships. Once they become accustomed to the ethos of vulnerability, acceptance, and healing that these fellowships provide, however, they are often left feeling that the church has failed them, with many asking: why can’t church be more like an AA meeting? Inspired by his own quest to find in church the sort of mutual support and healing he discovered in Twelve-Step fellowships, Stephen Haynes explores the history of Alcoholics Anonymous and its relationship to American Christianity. He shows that, while AA eventually separated from the Christian parachurch movement out of which it emerged, it retained aspects of Christian experience that the church itself has largely lost: comfort with brokenness and vulnerability, an emphasis on honesty and transparency, and suspicion toward claims to piety and respectability. Haynes encourages Christians to reclaim these distinctive elements of the Twelve-Step movement in the process of “recovering church.” He argues that this process must begin with he calls “Step 0,” which, as he knows from personal experience, can be the hardest step: the admission that, despite appearances, we are not fine.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467462748

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As Long as They Don't Move Next Door

Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods

By: Stephen Grant Meyer

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As Long as They Don't Move Next Door

Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods

By: Stephen Grant Meyer

The first full-length national history of American race relations examined through the lens of housing discrimination."--Jacket.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847697010

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Man Cave Under Construction

Counting the Cost

By: Stephen B. Wright

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Man Cave Under Construction

Counting the Cost

By: Stephen B. Wright

In John Grisham’s book “The Rainmaker” he tells the story of a once moral attorney, and I paraphrase, who crosses the line into deception and that line soon disappears. This seemingly suggests that if you are introduced to an idea or concept long enough, it becomes normal. A norm that is now introduced as truth. The bigger picture is the serpent introduced an alternative view of the tree to Adam and Eve in the garden that has since become a norm. Sin is progressive. I heard this saying “Sin takes you further than you want to go, keeps you longer than you wish to stay, and cost you far more than you are willing to pay.” The consequences of lifestyle changes and revised laws that we accept now, will become our children’s children code of conviction, because it will be the only thing they know. The reality is you can’t unlearn what you know, until you understand the truth about what you know. This concept is called Deconstruction. “Man Cave under Construction” –Stephen B. Wright

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WestBow Press

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197367372X

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Mucocutaneous Manifestations of Viral Diseases

By: Stephen Tyring

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Mucocutaneous Manifestations of Viral Diseases

By: Stephen Tyring

Contains numerous color illustrations of the characteristic clinical and histological manifestations of viral ailments to aid in quick diagnosis and treatment. Mucocutaneous Manifestations of Viral Diseases outlines a brief taxonomy and history of each disease a timeline of infection and progression clinical

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0203910737

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Research Methods in Physical Activity

By: Jerry R. Thomas,Philip Martin,Jennifer L. Etnier,Stephen J. Silverman

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Research Methods in Physical Activity

By: Jerry R. Thomas,Philip Martin,Jennifer L. Etnier,Stephen J. Silverman

Research Methods in Physical Activity, Eighth Edition, offers step-by-step information for every aspect of the research process, providing guidelines for research methods so that students feel capable and confident using research techniques in kinesiology and exercise science disciplines

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Human Kinetics

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1718201028

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DeLee & Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine E-Book

By: Mark D. Miller,Stephen R. Thompson

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DeLee & Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine E-Book

By: Mark D. Miller,Stephen R. Thompson

The revised, streamlined, and reorganized DeLee & Drez’s Orthopaedic Sports Medicine continues to be your must-have orthopaedics reference, covering the surgical, medical, and rehabilitation/injury prevention topics related to athletic injuries and chronic conditions. It provides the most clinically focused, comprehensive guidance available in any single source, with contributions from the most respected authorities in the field. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Be prepared to handle the full range of clinical challenges with coverage of both pediatric and aging athletes; important non-orthopaedic conditions involved in the management of the athlete; rapidly evolving techniques; and sports-related fractures. Understand rehabilitation and other therapeutic modalities in the context of return to play. Take advantage of in-depth coverage of arthroscopic techniques, including ACL reconstruction, allograft cartilage transplantation, rotator cuff repair, and complications in athletes, as well as injury prevention, nutrition, pharmacology, and psychology in sports. Equip yourself with the most current information surrounding hot topics such as hip pain in the athlete, hip arthroscopy, concussions, and medical management of the athlete. Remain at the forefront of the field with content that addresses the latest changes in orthopaedics, including advances in sports medicine community knowledge, evidence-based medicine, ultrasound-guided injections, biologic therapies, and principles of injury prevention. Enhance your understanding with fully updated figures throughout. Take a global view of orthopaedic sports medicine with the addition of two new international section editors and supplemental international content. Access even more expert content in new "Author’s Preferred Technique" sections. Find the information you need more quickly with this completely reorganized text.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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145574221X

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Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Fifth Edition

By: Diana Nicoll,Stephen J. McPhee,Michael Pignone,Chuanyi Mark Lu

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Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Fifth Edition

By: Diana Nicoll,Stephen J. McPhee,Michael Pignone,Chuanyi Mark Lu

SELECT. INTERPRET. DIAGNOSE. A Doody's Core Title! 5 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW! "This is a valuable book, packed with useful, immediately understandable information. I highly recommend it to all as a reference." -- Doody's Review Service 350+ laboratory tests, microbiology tests, plus coverage of diagnostic imaging and electrocardiology Evidence-based information Convenient tables and algorithms Key references accompany each test Diseases associated with abnormal results More than two dozen NEW clinical laboratory test entries PMID numbers for all literature references to facilitate online research

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McGraw-Hill Medical

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0071489681

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A Statistical History of Rugby League -

A Statistical History of Rugby League -

Optimization for Data Analysis

Optimization for Data Analysis

Byrd's Line

Byrd's Line

Personal Reminiscense of Early Days in California With Other Sketches

Personal Reminiscense of Early Days in California With Other Sketches

Marlborough's America

Marlborough's America

Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society

A New Guide to the Collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society

Why Can't Church Be More Like an AA Meeting?

Why Can't Church Be More Like an AA Meeting?

As Long as They Don't Move Next Door

As Long as They Don't Move Next Door

Man Cave Under Construction

Man Cave Under Construction

Mucocutaneous Manifestations of Viral Diseases

Mucocutaneous Manifestations of Viral Diseases

Research Methods in Physical Activity

Research Methods in Physical Activity

DeLee & Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine E-Book

DeLee & Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine E-Book

Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Fifth Edition

Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Fifth Edition

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