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A House Unlocked
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lively, Penelope, PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "blessed... able to render matters of great import with a breath, a barely audible sigh, a touch." In A House Unlocked, Lively bridges personal and social history in telling the story of Golsoncott, the country house in Somerset, England, that her grandparents bought in . As her narrative moves from room to room, from object to object, she paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid change -- and of the family that changed with the times. As she charts the course of the domestic tensions of class and community among her relatives, she brings to life the effects of the horrors of the Russian Revolution and the Holocaust, through portraits of the refugees who came to live with them. A fascinating, intimate social history, A House Unlocked is an eloquent meditation on place and time, memory and history, and above all a tribute to the meaning of home. "An inspiration.... This book helps define one of our leading novelists." -- Brian Martin, The Financial Times
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Murphy, Jim, PUBLISHER: Scholastic Press, Two-time Newbery Honor Book author has written an amazing account of one of America's most famous hoaxes When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in , the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions. News of the giant spreads like wildfire, and well over a thousand people come to view him in the first five days alone Everyone has their own idea of his true origin: Is he an ancient member of the local Onandaga Indian tribe? Is he a biblical giant like Goliath? Soon the interests of world-renowned scientists and people from around the globe are piqued as arguments flare over who he is, where he came from, and if he is real--or just a hoax. In a riveting account of how the Cardiff Giant mystery snowballed into one of America's biggest money-making spectacles--and scams--Jim Murphy masterfully explores the power of 19th-century media and the unexpected ripple effect that a single corrupt mastermind can produce when given a stage.
Pebbles Monochromes & Other Modern Poems:
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Howells, William Dean / Cady, Edwin, PUBLISHER: Ohio University Press, For William Dean Howells, the s throbbed with literary warfare over theory and criticism (realism), and social justice. But the terrible climax was more personal and came in the death of his daughter in . The blow altered him radically. Among other changes, a poetry new to him emerged, a poetry in the modern tradition. This "new" poetry is available now as never before in Pebbles, Monochromes, and Other Modern Poems, . It is metaphysical, agnostic, and ironic with a modernist voice. Praised at the century's start by figures as notable as Stephen Crane, Henry and William James, W. E. B. DuBois, and Hamlin Garland, Howells arises again at the end of the century, hailed by the likes of John Updike and Gore Vidal. This rich cache of modern poems by W. D. Howells, lost for so long, is now made accessible under the editorial eye of Edwin Cady. Its significance is central to the understanding of the literary history and culture that defined the modern era and to the progeny that grew from that fertile soil.
I Didn't Know That!: How to Take Care of Your Home, Your
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: O'Keefe, Patrick / Herr, Tad, PUBLISHER: Creative Homeowner, Patrick O'Keefe's daughter came to him just prior to her wedding day and said, jokingly, "Dad, I know there are a lot of things you take care of around the house that I never knew about. Before I leave, can you give me a list of things that my husband should be doing?" That got him to thinking and writing this book In O'Keefe's opinion, many young men and women don't seem as self-reliant as he remembers being, possibly because courses like shop and home economics have been dropped from many schools over the years. In addition, women, for many reasons, find themselves coping with responsibilities traditionally relegated to men. His book, drawn from life experiences, is intended as a friendly, basic guide to life on one's own: home/apartment ownership, car ownership, as well as little challenges for those--both male and female--who have never been on their own.
Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Philipps, David, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, They were once known by the famous moniker, "Band of Brothers." Now, 60 years later, the notorious army unit from Fort Carson, Colorado calls themselves the "Lethal Warriors," having seen the worst of the violence in Iraq. Many of its members are plagued by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and some, misdiagnosed or untreated since returning from war, embarked on drug-fuelled crime sprees, some of which resulted in murder. Here, David Philipps applies his piercing insight and relentless investigative skills not only to this particular unit, but to the broader issue of PTSD as it rages throughout the country. He highlights the inspiring story of General Mark Graham, a former commander at Fort Carson and one of the few officers who had the vision and guts to recognize PTSD as a growing problem with soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and to do something about it. Graham has opened his doors to the community for help, speaking candidly about the issue and offering a potential lifeline to the soldiers, and a solution to this deadly problem.
The Ry Cooder Anthology the Ufo Has Landed 2CD
Tracklist: Disc 1 1. Get Rhythm 2. Low Commotion 3. Available Space 4. On a Monday 5. Do Re Mi 6. Which Came First 7. Very Thing That Makes You Rich, The (Makes Me Poor) 8. Down in Hollywood 9. Smells Like Money 10. Let's Work Together 11. I Got Mine 12. Cherry Ball Blues 13. Jesus on the Mainline 14. Tattler 15. Teardrops Will Fall 16. Maria Elena 17. Jesse James Disc 2 1. Paris, Texas 2. Theme from Southern Comfort 3. Tamp 'Em Up Solid 4. Billy The Kid 5. Crazy 'Bout an Automobile (Every Woman I Know) 6. Drive Like I Never Been Hurt 7. Feelin' Bad Blues 8. Boomer's Story 9. How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too) 10. Alimony 11. Always Lift Him Up - Kanaka Wai Wai 12. Theme from Alamo Bay 13. Dark End of the Street 14. Why Don't You Try Me 15. Poor Man's Shangri-La 16. Going Back to Okinawa 17. Little Sister perfetto, come nuovo
The Beatles ABBEY ROAD LP Vinile UK RaRo
The Beatles ABBEY ROAD Vinile LP 33 giri Originale Manufactured in U.K. (EMI Apple PCS [Yex ] Stereo) [Matrix / A: YEX Matrix / B: YEX ] COVER: Excellent LP: Excellent TrackList: A1 Come Together 4:21 A2 Something 3:03 A3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer 3:27 A4 Oh! Darling 3:27 A5 Octopus's Garden 2:51 A6 I Want You (She's So Heavy) 7:47 B1 Here Comes The Sun 3:05 B2 Because 2:46 B3 You Never Give Me Your Money 4:02 B4 Sun King 2:27 B5 Mean Mr. Mustard 1:06 B6 Polythene Pam 1:13 B7 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window 1:57 B8 Golden Slumbers 1:32 B9 Carry That Weight 1:37 B10 The End 2:20 Formazione: John Lennon - voce, chitarra ritmica, pianoforte elettrico ed acustico, organo Hammond, sintetizzatore, tamburello, maracas Paul McCartney - voce, basso, pianoforte elettrico ed acustico, organo Hammond, sintetizzatore, percussioni George Harrison - chitarra solista, voce, organo Hammond, harmonium, percussioni Ringo Starr - batteria, percussioni, cori, pianoforte, timpani; voce in Octopus's Garden
Katerina's Wish
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mobley, Jeannie, PUBLISHER: Margaret K. McElderry Books, In this moving debut, an immigrant girl discovers that hard work and determination can make dreams come true. Katerina has a dream. It's her papa's dream, too. Her family came to America to buy their own farm. But a year later, Papa is still working in the dangerous coal mine. Each day, the farm seems farther away. Then Katerina is reminded of the carp that granted three wishes in an old folktale. When her younger sisters hear the story, they immediately make wishes. Trina doesn't believe in such silliness--but what is she to think when her sisters' wishes come true? A farm is still too big to wish for. But, with the help of the neighbor's handsome son, Trina starts building her dream with hard work and good sense. Then tragedy strikes, and it seems that nothing Trina wishes for will ever come true again. With warmth and gentle humor, Jeannie Mobley tells the story of a girl whose determination is as inspiring as her dreams.
L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Grea
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sides, Josh, PUBLISHER: University of California Press, In an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass--embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South--is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, "L.A. City Limits "critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities--and limits--quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
Mrs. Stanton's Bible
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kern, Kathi, PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press, Mrs. Stanton's Bible traces the impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's religious dissent on the suffrage movement at the turn of the century and presents the first book-length reading of her radical text, the Woman's Bible. Stanton is best remembered for organizing the Seneca Falls convention at which she first called for women's right to vote. Yet she spent the last two decades of her life working for another cause: women's liberation from religious oppression. Stanton came to believe that political enfranchisement was meaningless without the systematic dismantling of the church's stifling authority over women's lives. In , she collaboratively authored this biblical exegesis, just as the women's movement was becoming more conservative. Stanton found herself arguing not only against male clergy members but also against devout female suffragists. Kathi Kern demonstrates that the Woman's Bible itself played a fundamental role in the movement's new conservatism because it sparked Stanton's censure and the elimination of her fellow radicals from the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Stanton's Bible dramatically portrays this crucial chapter of women's history and facilitates the understanding of one of the movement's most controversial texts.
The Mad Trapper of Rat River
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: North, Dick, PUBLISHER: MacMillan of Canada, They called it The Arctic Circle War. It was a manhunt the likes of which we will never see again. The quarry, Albert Johnson, was a loner working a string of traps in the far reaches of Canada's Northwest Territories, where winter temperatures average forty degrees below zero. The chase began when a Mountie came to ask Johnson about allegations that he had interfered with a neighbor's trap. No questions were asked. Johnson shot Officer Millen dead through a hole in the wall of his log cabin. A vicious firefight ensued. When the Mounties returned with reinforcements, Johnson was gone, and The Arctic Circle War had begun. It was a forty-eight-day odyssey across the harshest terrain in the world. On Johnson's heels were a corps of Mounties and an irregular posse on dogsled, supplied by airplanes dropping food. Johnson, on snowshoes, seemed superhuman in his ability to evade capture. The chase stretched for hundreds of miles, and during a blizzard crossed the Richardson Mountains, the northernmost extension of the Rockies. It culminated in the historic shootout at Eagle River. There will never be another chase like it.
Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lal, Vinay, PH.D., PUBLISHER: Pluto Press (UK), During the media frenzy over the Millennium celebrations, there was hardly any mention of the fact that, for the majority of the world, there was no Millennium at all. This linear understanding of time is a specifically Western - and Christian - concept. This is just one of many examples that Vinay Lal uses to demonstrate that nearly every idea which we take for granted in the west is part of a politics of ideas. Oppression is usually associated with class struggle and other forms of economic monopoly. Lal looks beyond this, deconstructing the cultural assumptions that have emerged alongside capitalism to offer a devastating critique of the politics of knowledge at the heart of all powerbroking. Other topics examined are the concept of 'development', which has provided a mandate for surreptitious colonisation; and the idea of the 'nation state', something we have lived with for no more than two centuries, yet is accepted without question. Linking this to the emergence of 'international governance' through the United Nations, the US, and imperial economic bodies (such as the IMF and WTO), Lal explains how such universalisms came to dominate the trajectory of Western thought.
Shaken
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ferrier, Sade', PUBLISHER: Xulon Press, Shaken I know, I know, you're disappointed; the goody two-shoes Christian girl got pregnant. If it's any consolation, I think I received my punishment. Raheem Rodriguez, my amazing boyfriend, disappeared. It was almost like a magic trick, except I didn't clap at the end. I got used to the whole "single parenthood" deal pretty quickly, I suppose. Four years after Raheem's infamous vanishing act, I was doing just fine. Everything was looking up - that is, until he came back. Who would've known that his return would set off a series of - for lack of a better word - interesting events? All I know is that things went from better to worse in a flash, and I wasn't prepared at all. Sade' Ferrier fell in love with the Arts at a very young age, writing her first short story when she was only eight years old. She draws inspiration from both her faith and the many controversial issues she observes in society. Singing, dancing, and acting also hold regal thrones in her heart, fueled only by her love for God.
45 giri musica anni 80 (lotto 1)
23 vinili 45 giri anni 80, in buone condizioni. 1-BLACK life calls/ wonderful life euro; 2-THE BLOW MONKEYS it doesn't have to be this way/ask for more euro; 3-NEW ORDER true faith/ euro; 4-CAMEO word up/urban warrior euro; 5-KIM WILDE you came/ stone euro; 6-TRACY SPENCER take me back euro; 7-EIGHTH WONDER j'ai pas peur/ i'm not scared euro; 8-RICK ASTLEY never gonna give you up euro; 9-PERCY SLEDGE when a man loves a woman euro; 10-THE POLICE every breath you take euro; 11-ROBBIE NEVIL dominoes/ neighbors euro; 12-LIVING IN A BOX euro; 13-VIA VERDI you and me euro 14-DEBBIE HARRY french kissin/ rockbird euro; 15-MANDY SMITH you're never alone/ i just can't wait euro; 19-OFF step by step euro; 17-LOS MARINEROS ti devi decidere/ eredice euro; 18-RUMORS timex social club euro; 19-GIPSY KINGS bamboleo/ quiero saber euro; 20-JOE TRIO i'm just lookin/ back home euro; 21-WHITNEY HOUSTON all at once/ hold me euro; -SAMANTHA FOX dream city/ nothing's gonna stop me now euro; spedizione esclusa.
The Money Making Guide to Bonds: Straightforward Strategies
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Richelson, Hildy / Richelson, Stan, PUBLISHER: Bloomberg Press, Bonds are the financial Cinderellas of the new millennium. Investors became aware of their charms when they saw their stock portfolios tanking while bonds were delivering double-digit returns. With the discovery that bonds could be a lucrative as well as a safe investment came a major problem: no single source of easily accessible information has been available that uniformly describes bonds, compares their relative strengths and drawbacks, and tells how to select and profit from buying them -- until now. Registered investment advisers Hildy and Stan Richelson have written The Money-Making Guide to Bonds to serve as this solid and thorough, yet user-friendly, resource on the subject. Over 35 different types of bonds and 20 types of bond funds are described, highlighting the specific advantages, risks, and tax implications of each. The stock market decline clearly demonstrated to investors that bonds belong in every portfolio. The Money-Making Guide to Bonds not only gives readers the information they need to select bonds suited to their needs but also tells them how to allocate bonds within a portfolio and then concludes with specific strategies for reducing taxes and increasing income.
What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wright, Ronald, PUBLISHER: Knopf Canada, From the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of A Short History of Progress comes another surprising, frightening and essential book. The USA is now the world's lone superpower, whose deeds could make or break this century. For better and worse, America has Americanized the world. How did a marginal frontier society, in a mere two centuries, become the de facto ruler of the world? Why do America's great achievements in democracy, prosperity and civil rights now seem threatened by forces within itself? Brimming with insight into history and human behaviour, and written in Wright's captivating style, What Is America? shows how this came to pass; how the United States, which regards itself as the most modern country on earth, is also deeply archaic, a stronghold not only of religious fundamentalism but of "modern" beliefs in limitless progress and a universal mission that have fallen under suspicion elsewhere in the west, a rethinking driven by two World Wars and the reckless looting of our planet. A fresh, passionate look at the past and future of the world's most powerful nation, What Is America? will reframe the debate about our neighbour and ourselves.
Telecomando per cancelli - universale
TELECOMANDO X CANCELLO Telecomando universale compatibile con la maggiorparte dei telecomandi di cancelli elettrici e garage di marca faac/nice/came e di qualsiasi altra marca che abbiano una frequenza di mhz a codice fisso. L'apparecchio ha dimensione molto ridotte e da' la possibilita' di memorizzare fino a 4 codici di radiocomandi diversi. E' un telecomando dal design curato e moderno e dotato di un copri tasti scorrevole, 4 pulsanti per comandare fino a 4 cancelli e batteria (27a 12v) sostituibile senza causare la perdita dei codici memorizzati e facilissimo da programmare. COME MEMORIZZARE: 1Cancellazione della memoria esistente: Premere contemporaneamente i tasi A e B del telecomando fino a che il led non inizi a lampeggiare in modo costante, rilasciare i tasti. Con questa procedura verranno cancellate le impostazioni di tutte e due le memorie. 2Programmazione del telecomando: Sistemare il telecomando di fronte al radiocomando da duplicare a circa mezzo centimetro di distanza tra loro. Premere contemporaneamente il tasto da duplicare sul radiocomando originale ed il tasto da programmare sul telecomando acquistato (A o B) il led inizierà a lampeggiare in modo costante, dopo circa 3 secondi rilasciare i tasti. Ripetere la stessa procedura per programmare gli altri tasti del telecomando.
Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Owen, Frank, PUBLISHER: Broadway Books, Outrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder. Welcome to the decadent nineties club scene. In , journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on Special K, a designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally notorious Limelight, a crumbling church converted into a Manhattan disco, where mesmerizing music, ecstatic dancers, and uninhibited sideshows attracted long lines of hopeful onlookers. Owen discovered a world where reckless hedonism was elevated to an art form, and where the ever-accelerating party finally spun out of control in the hands of notorious club owner Peter Gatien and his minions. In" Clubland," Owen reveals how a lethal drug ring operated in a lawless, black-lit realm of fantasy, and how, when the lights came up, their excesses left countless victims in their wake. Praised for his risk-taking and exhilarating writing style, Frank Owen has spawned a hybrid of literary nonfiction and true crime, capturing the zeitgeist of a world that emerged in the spirit of "peace, love, unity and respect," and ended in tragedy.
The Towers Hold Memories
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mozeika, Lynn, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, Lynn Mozeika graduated from Lyndon State College in with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology and minored in early childhood education. She started working on a masteras degree at Adelphi University while working at St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York. She discontinued working on her degree to have a child who has become the inspiration and birth of much of her writing. She always had an interest in poetry, childrenas literature and writing. Most of her writing comes from her experiences or someone elseas, simple everyday occurrences, something said that stays with her, or a feeling about something. She can have two poems about the same situationaone often containing the good of a situation and one containing the dark side of the situation. When this happens, she doesnat realize it until she has read through her poems. She rarely has experienced writeras block because when she thinks of something, she writes it down immediately, wherever she is. She was once at a restaurant and went to the ladies room to write something down, and a woman came in and asked if she was in the right place because she saw her sitting in a chair writing. That is how it goes for hera]
Scheda cancello + 5 telecomandi
RICAMBIO COMPATIBILE con le più famose marche di cancelli automatici, FAAC, CAME, BFT, NICE, Aprimatic, SERAI, DITEC, Novotecnica, TAU, Prastel, ecc. Il Kit è super collaudato testato da molto tempo e quindi attendibile, non gettare il tuo vecchio motore per cancello scorrevole con Euro il tuo cancello ritornerà al suo normale funzionamento, fedele negli anni fino ad ora. Prodotto NUOVO ed in GARANZIA, supporto telefonico per l'installazione, fornitura degli schemi elettrici per la compatibilità. Il tuo motore lo puoi rigenerare con questa scheda elettronica e farlo continuare a funzionare come ha fatto per anni fino ad ora. Il Kit viene proposto in sostituzione delle vecchie schede ormai fuori produzione ed introvabili, in alcuni casi potrai anche recuperare i tuoi telecomandi seguendo le indicazioni che ti verranno fornite al momento dell'acquisto, oppure usufruire della ricevente a 433 Mhz che è già a bordo della scheda in vendita. P.s. la scheda può essere anche usata per applicazioni su basculanti a contrappesi. Pagamento per mezzo accredito su POSTA PAY oppure contrassegno Spese di spedizione contrassegno Euro Spedizione a mezzo corriere espresso. Consegna stimata in 2-3 giorni Per conferme d'ordine invia una email
Access virus indigo b pezzi di ricambio+spese incl
PEZZI DI RICAMBIO SYNTH ACCESS VIRUS INDIGO B. Non riesco a trovare il trasformatore per poterlo alimentare e avendone provati presso un tecnico 2 non erano sufficientemente potenti per poter dare corrente stabile. Il synth è funzionante in tutte le sua caratteristiche e funzioni, ma ovviamente senza alimentazione non serve a nulla e a malincuore sono costretto a venderlo come pezzi di ricambio. Per chi fosse interessato per qualsiasi pezzo può contattarmi e scegliere quello che ha bisogno. I PEZZI DI RICAMBIO DOVREBBERO ESSERE COMPATIBILI CON LE 3 VERSIONI A - B - C CAME TASTI, DISPLAY E KNOB. -SCHEDA MADRE E PROCESSORE VENDUTO -KNOB TUTTI E MANOPOLE PER PITCH E MODULATION FUNZIONANTE 80€ -DISPLAY FUNZIONANTE 150€ -TASTIERA MECCANICA GOMMINI E MOLLE CON RISPOSTA FUNZIONANTE 70€ -PLACCHE LATERALI E CASE POSSONO ESSERE TRANQUILLAMENTE USATI. 50€ VENDO RESTANTE IN BLOCCO A 180 EURO + 25 EURO DI SPESE O PER CHI VUOLE PUO' MANDARE CORRIERE PER IL RITIRO. Al momento dell'acquisto mi riservo di non offrire supporto o garanzia in quanto non sono un tecnico e i ricambi vengono acquistati sotto la propria responsabilità e il proprio giudizio. GARANTISCO il loro funzionamento avendo testato 2 alimentatori ma poco potenti rispetto a quello originale
La Hora de Las Pesadillas
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stine, R. L. / Batlles Vinn, Camila, PUBLISHER: Ediciones B Grupo Zeta, Each heart-pounding, fast-paced story in this collection features lively writing and young characters who come into contact with the tricks and illusions on life's darker side. A child loses his head inside a pumpkin. A skin-crawling spider spell is cast on a sorcerer's apprentice. A visit to the hospital for a tonsillectomy takes a ghoulish turn. Each story begins with an author's introduction that explains how the idea for it came to him, and features a spooky illustration by artists such as Edward Koren and Bleu Turrell. Historias ma s sombri as jama s contadas son reunidas en este libro para lectores valientes. Hay que hacer acopio de valor para explicarlas, ya que fueron creadas en el momento ma s misterioso de la noche, cuando las luces se apagan, el mundo se adentra en las tinieblas y oscuras visiones se aduen an de nuestra mente. Cada cuento empieza con una introduccio n por el autor en que explica de donde viene sus ideas, y una ilustracio n por artistas como Edward Koren y Bleu Turrell.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lewis, Michael, PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company, Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard). I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it-before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar's Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities-his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission-but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers-numbers -collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and physics professors. What these geek numbers show-no, prove-is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Billy paid attention to those numbers -with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to-and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win...how can we not cheer for David?
Purple Fables
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Swann, Ingo, PUBLISHER: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, "If a fable is a legendary story of supernatural happenings," Mr. Swann says, "or a narration intended to enforce a useful truth, then these four are fables--which shouldn't be confused with fairy tales targeted only for children. These, then, are tales for kind and loving people of all ages." "The Temple of Sanity" tells of an idea that became a reality and grew into an insitution, only to develop rules and leaders, cliques and critics... "A Clay-Modeling Lesson" tells of the four identical boys separated at birth and raised Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and atheist, and how they met as representatives of their respective communities... "The Fate and Destiny of a Traveling Clairvoyant" tells of a woman with a special talent, who found that people prefer seeing dimly to seeing clearly... "Watcher of the Purple River" tells of an old woman and a young man, and how she taught him to watch the river of life... These fables came to Ingo Swann as a gift from a part of himself: He awoke four mornings in a row and literally had to write them. They have in common a gentle wisdom, a kindness, an empathy, that will make them immediately precious--and then unforgettable--to the reader whose heart is open.
A Lemoncode Sceptic and Orange Answers
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Venter, Tertius Hj, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, This book is based on the actual email communications between the writer and a sceptic who came across the author's website www.torquetalk.nl on the internet. He decided to write to the author to find out more about the author's convictions and motivation for his website and in particular whether the author had any hard evidence for what he believed to be true. He chose to stay anonymous throughout the communications that took place over a period of three to four weeks. Difficult, but very relevant questions were asked about the hard evidence for the existence of God. The text was kept as accurate and true to the original emails as possible. Changes that were made were mainly to make the text more readable. Where it was felt necessary, sentences, paragraphs or questions were changed to make them more understandable and clearer to the reader. The author has also expanded on some of the answers as he revised the text and felt that more complete explanations could be helpful. Due to the nature of the correspondence, the responses to some of questions or statements do not always follow immediately but a paragraph or two later. It was kept as such to stay as true to the original correspondence as possible.