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The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969

By: William J. Ryczek

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This book traces the history of the New York Mets from the franchise's inauspicious beginnings--the 1962 team, led by Casey Stengel and made up of players like Rod Kanehl and Jay Hook, lost 120 games--through the miraculous championship season of 1969. Based on interviews with more than one hundred former players and extensive research by one of the more highly regarded baseball historians writing today, the book covers the era in unprecedented detail. Any Met fan from the 1960s will find some familiar stories along with some they've probably never read before. Presented in an easy-to-read, narrative style, this book traces the rapid ascent of the Mets and explores the reasons for their early failure and dramatic success.

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McFarland

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078645525X

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume VI

Continuity and Change, 1940-1965

By: William F. Thompson

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume VI

Continuity and Change, 1940-1965

By: William F. Thompson

The sixth and final volume in the History of Wisconsin series examines the period from 1940-1965, in which state and nation struggled to maintain balance and traditions. Some of the major developments analyzed in this volume include: coping with three wars, racial and societal conflict, technological innovation, population shifts to and from cities and suburbs, and accompanying stress in politics, government, and society as a whole. Using dozens of photographs to visually illustrate this period in the state's history, this volume upholds the high standards set forth in the previous volumes.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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0870206338

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Secrets of Special Ops Leadership

Dare the Impossible-- Achieve the Extraordinary

By: William A. COHEN

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Secrets of Special Ops Leadership

Dare the Impossible-- Achieve the Extraordinary

By: William A. COHEN

The Navy SEALs. The Green Berets. Delta Force. These are just a few examples of what are known as ""special ops"" -- unique fighting forces trained to beat overwhelming odds on every mission. Using principles like speed, purpose, repetition, surprise, and simplicity, elite units such as these have throughout history accomplished extremely challenging tasks against vastly superior forces. When something seemingly impossible must be achieved, special ops forces are the ones called upon for a miracle. Just as special ops are needed for critical tasks in battle, ultra-high achievers are needed for special circumstances in business: situations where time is important, when resources are low or insufficient, where you are challenging conventional wisdom or established competitors, or where crisis is imminent. But can commando techniques really work in business? If you can inspire and lead your employees to work at peak performance, they will accomplish dramatic, almost fantastic feats for you -- just as fighting commandos do in battle situations. Secrets of Special Ops Leadership reveals the essential methods commando leaders employ, using dramatic real-life stories of commando leadership from biblical times all the way up through Iraq and Afghanistan in 2005, and showing how similar techniques are used by present-day business leaders such as Steve Jobs, Mary Kay Ash, Robert Townsend, and others. You'll learn the fourteen core practices of special ops leadership, including how to: * Create the Best If you think you can just call some of your regular employees together and give them a pep talk and an impossible task to do, you're wrong. Business commandos aren't born. They must be created. Your first task as a special ops business leader is to recruit, select, train, and motivate the right people. * Build a Commando Team Using models such as Carlson's Raiders, who fought for the U.S. Marines during World War II, the book explains how to work with different personalities, agendas, priorities, and motivations to create a team that works efficiently and effectively to get the job done. * Dare the Impossible Like the Sayeret Mat'kal, the Israeli Special Ops unit that staged the miraculous raid on Entebbe to free hostages on an Air France plane hijacked by terrorists in 1976, successful business ops must aggressively seek out opportunities and know when to transcend conventional thinking to stage an assault and take action. When they've got the right problems to work on, business commandos can do many times the work of normal employees, accomplish more with less, complete projects against looming deadlines, and create innovative new products and strategies. Secrets of Special Ops Leadership gives you the ammunition you need to get a business commando unit up and running and achieve the impossible for your organization.

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AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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0814408400

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9780814408407

Resource Allocation and Productivity in Education

Theory and Practice

By: William L. Boyd,William T. Hartman

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Resource Allocation and Productivity in Education

Theory and Practice

By: William L. Boyd,William T. Hartman

Resource allocation decisions made by school boards, principals, and teachers are critical for they determine the adequacy and equity of resources actually made available for specific schools, educational programs and individual students. The most important resources are often concealed by aggregate state or district measures such as dollars per student. For these decisions, the most important resources are elements such as basic and supplemental staffing levels, staff time, funding amounts for textbooks and supplies, selection of new equipment (particularly technology), and support for new or renovated facilities. The authors review current practices at each important decision-making level in school districts, from the school board to the classroom. At each juncture, the findings are interpreted to reveal both the causes of the practices and their implications for improving school effectiveness. This book provides new research in helping to inform and improve resource allocation practices in schools. The general conclusion is that improvement in the resource allocation practices in education requires a shift in focus to results instead of inputs, a strong emphasis on student learning as the primary focus of decisions, and systematic evaluation of results.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313005672

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9780313005671

The Thermodynamics of Simple Materials with Fading Memory

By: William A. Day

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The Thermodynamics of Simple Materials with Fading Memory

By: William A. Day

This Tract gives an account of certain recent attempts to construct a satisfactory theory of thermodynamics for materials which have a memory for the past. Naturally it draws heavily on the writings of those who have made significant contributions to the field. I am particularly grateful to Professor C. A. Truesdell of The lohns Hopkins University for his invitation to write the Tract and to Professor A. E. Green of Oxford for his comments on various parts of the manuscript. Hertford College, Oxford December 1971 W. A. Day Contents Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Preliminaries 5 1. 1 Vector and Tensor Analysis. 5 1. 2 Paths and Line Integrals . 7 1. 3 Kinematics and the Balance Laws 11 1. 4 Simple Materials with Memory 15 21 Chapter 2 A Theory of Thermodynamics . 2. 1 Processes. 21 2. 2 The Thermodynamic Inequality . 23 2. 3 Heat Conduction Inequalities . 24 2. 4 The Conversion of Heat into Mechanical Work 27 31 The Construction of the Entropy Chapter 3 The Clausius Inequality 31 3. 1 3. 2 Fading Memory . 34 3. 3 The Entropy in Equilibrium. Thermostatics. 38 3. 4 The Entropy away from Equilibrium. The Clausius- Planck Inequality 45 Chapter 4 Applications . . 55 4. 1 Thermoelasticity and Materials of Differential Type 55 4. 2 A Class of Viscoelastic Materials . . . . . . 60 Chapter 5 Thermodynamics based on the Clausius-Duhem Inequality . . . . . . . . . . 77 5. 1 The Clausius-Duhem Inequality. 78 5.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642653189

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Whispers in the Cedars

Port Gibson, Mississippi’s Wintergreen Cemetery

By: William Sanders

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Whispers in the Cedars

Port Gibson, Mississippi’s Wintergreen Cemetery

By: William Sanders

Whispers in the Cedars: Port Gibson, Mississippi's Wintergreen Cemetery by William L. Sanders “The purpose of this book is not only to list those laid to rest in this beautiful, historic burial ground, but also to provide an easy and accurate way to locate specific graves, by using the maps and locations referenced within.” In this, author Sanders has admirably succeeded. Thoroughly researched, Whispers in the Cedars provides a systematic guide to this revered resting place in Port Gibson, Mississippi. Wanting “to let the stones speak” for themselves, Mr. Sanders records the information contained on each gravestone. And an extensive Index of Last Names offers ready access to the contents. “It is my sincere wish that the reader will find this book not only valuable as a genealogical reference tool, but may find it entertaining as well. I hope you enjoy it!” Again, a wish fulfilled in this book of remembrance and dedication.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480925136

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Philosophy of Private Law

By: William Lucy

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Philosophy of Private Law

By: William Lucy

On what basis does tort law hold us responsible to those who suffer as a result of our carelessness? Why, when we breach our contracts, should we make good the losses of those with whom we contracted? In what sense are our torts and our breaches of contract 'wrongs'? These two branches of private law have for centuries provided philosophers and jurists with grounds for puzzlement. This book provides an outline of, and intervention in, contemporary jurisprudential debates about the nature and foundation of liability in private law. After outlining the realm of the philosophy of private law, the book divides into two. Part I examines the various components of liability responsibility in private law, including the notions of basic responsibility, conduct, causation and wrongfulness. Part II considers arguments purporting to show that private law does and should embody a conception of either distributive or corrective justice or some combination of the two. Throughout the book a number of distinctions - between conceptual and normative argument, between jurisprudential 'theory' and private law 'practice', between legal obligation and moral obligation - are analyzed, the aim being to give students an informed grasp of both the limits and possibilities of the philosophy of private law.

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OUP Oxford

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0191581437

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9780191581434

Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems

Applications to Fossil Fuel and Groundwater Resources

By: William E. Galloway,David K. Hobday

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Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems

Applications to Fossil Fuel and Groundwater Resources

By: William E. Galloway,David K. Hobday

Nonrenewable energy resources, comprising fossil fuels and uranium, are not ran domly distributed within the Earth's crust. They formed in response to a complex array of geologic controls, notably the genesis of the sedimentary rocks that host most commercial energy resources. It is this genetic relationship between economic re sources and environment that forms the basis for this book. Our grouping of petro leum, coal, uranium, and ground water may appear to be incongruous or artificial. But our basic premise is that these ostensibly disparate resources share common genetic attributes and that the sedimentological principles governing their natural distributions and influencing their recovery are fundamentally similar. Our combined careers have focused on these four resources, and our experiences in projects worldwide reveal that certain recurring geologic factors are important in controlling the distribution of com mercial accumulations and subsurface fluid flow. These critical factors include the shape and stability of the receiving basin, the major depositional elements and their internal detail, and the modifications during burial that are brought about in these sediments by pressure, circulating fluids, heating, and chemical reaction. Since the first edition of this book in 1983, there has been a quantum leap in the volume of literature devoted to genetic stratigraphy and refinement of sedimentologi cal principles and a commensurate increase in the application of these concepts to resource exploration and development.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642610188

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Some Do Care

By: Anne Colby,William Damon

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Some Do Care

By: Anne Colby,William Damon

A look at the lives of twenty-three American moral leaders shows how these hometown heroes acquired their moral goals and sustained them in the face of grave risk and sacrifice, working for everything from civil rights to the poor.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439118809

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The Captors' Narrative

Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier

By: William Henry Foster

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The Captors' Narrative

Catholic Women and Their Puritan Men on the Early American Frontier

By: William Henry Foster

The author reconstructs the lived experience of both captors and captives to show that captivity was always intertwined with gender struggles, providing a novel perspective on the struggles over female authority pervasive in colonial America.

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Cornell University Press

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0801440599

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9780801440595

The A to Z of the Holiness Movement

By: William Kostlevy

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The A to Z of the Holiness Movement

By: William Kostlevy

It is much harder to define a religious movement than it is to define a religion or denomination. That applies especially when that movement almost defies definition as the Holiness Movement does. The Holiness Movement is a Methodist religious renewal movement that has over 12 million adherents worldwide. Perhaps the most familiar public manifestation of the holiness movement has been its urban holiness missions, and the Salvation Army-noted for its service ministries among poor and people suffering the dislocations that accompany war and disaster-is the most notable example. The A to Z of the Holiness Movement relates important new developments in the Holiness Movement—such as the widely discussed "Holiness Manifesto"—are thoroughly discussed, and the content has also been expanded to include information on figures from Asia and Africa to reflect the continued growth of the Holiness Movement. With a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries, this reference has information that cannot be found elsewhere.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461731801

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9781461731801

Memoirs

By: William Tecumseh Sherman

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Memoirs

By: William Tecumseh Sherman

Before his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depression. Drifting between the Old South and new West, Sherman witnessed firsthand many of the critical events of early nineteenth-century America: the Mexican War, the gold rush, the banking panics, and the battles with the Plains Indians. It wasn't until his victory at Shiloh, in 1862, that Sherman assumed his legendary place in American history. After Shiloh, Sherman sacked Atlanta and proceeded to burn a trail of destruction that split the Confederacy and ended the war. His strategy forever changed the nature of warfare and earned him eternal infamy throughout the South. Sherman's Memoirs evoke the uncompromising and deeply complex general as well as the turbulent times that transformed America into a world power. This Penguin Classics edition includes a fascinating introduction and notes by Sherman biographer Michael Fellman.

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Penguin

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0140437983

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9780140437980

History Of Chartered Surveyors In Singapore, The: The First Hundred Years: 1868 - 1968

By: William James Jones

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History Of Chartered Surveyors In Singapore, The: The First Hundred Years: 1868 - 1968

By: William James Jones

There is a rich history of achievements by Chartered Surveyors in Singapore going back as far as the 1880s. Their stories have largely gone untold. This book tells the stories of individual Chartered Surveyors in Singapore over the first hundred years since the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors was founded (1868 to 1968) and explains the role they played in the development of Singapore. The book also includes the stories of the pioneer Singaporean Chartered Surveyors from the 1940s onwards, many of whom studied overseas but returned to Singapore where they would play important roles in the real estate industry over future decades.Related Link(s)

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World Scientific

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9811268460

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The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969

The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969

The History of Wisconsin, Volume VI

The History of Wisconsin, Volume VI

Secrets of Special Ops Leadership

Secrets of Special Ops Leadership

Resource Allocation and Productivity in Education

Resource Allocation and Productivity in Education

The Thermodynamics of Simple Materials with Fading Memory

The Thermodynamics of Simple Materials with Fading Memory

Whispers in the Cedars

Whispers in the Cedars

Philosophy of Private Law

Philosophy of Private Law

Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems

Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems

Some Do Care

Some Do Care

The Captors' Narrative

The Captors' Narrative

The A to Z of the Holiness Movement

The A to Z of the Holiness Movement

Memoirs

Memoirs

History Of Chartered Surveyors In Singapore, The: The First Hundred Years: 1868 - 1968

History Of Chartered Surveyors In Singapore, The: The First Hundred Years: 1868 - 1968

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