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Author: Richard T. Parrette Jr. Publisher: High Hopes Publishing LLC ISBN: 0984519378 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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Adventure story for children. A young, mechanically inclined boy and his friend find a strange machine buried in the woods. This discovery leads the boys on a series of mysterious adventures.
Author: Richard T. Parrette Jr. Publisher: High Hopes Publishing LLC ISBN: 0984519378 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Adventure story for children. A young, mechanically inclined boy and his friend find a strange machine buried in the woods. This discovery leads the boys on a series of mysterious adventures.
Author: Richard Parrette, Jr. Publisher: ISBN: 9780984519361 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The adventure begins when Billie Bean finds an old machine buried in the woods. Only after meeting a wizard, a dragon, and little green men do they realize it's their thoughts coming to life because of the Magic Machine. Follow their journeys in this rhyme filled story with colorful pictures as they travel from adventure to adventure. The imagination is a wonderful thing!
Author: Michael Lewis Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393066231 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 337
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Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers 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). Lewis first looks to all the logical places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant players—but discovers 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 numbers 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 had 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. He paid attention to those numbers?with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. 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?
Author: Jonah Keri Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465003737 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 520
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In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball-people like Bill James, Billy Beane, and Theo Epstein-think about numbers and the game. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, from hitting, pitching, and fielding to roster construction and the scouting and drafting of players, the experts at Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of the game, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and enjoy.
Author: Sarah Britton Publisher: Clarkson Potter ISBN: 0804185395 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 585
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At long last, Sarah Britton, called the “queen bee of the health blogs” by Bon Appétit, reveals 100 gorgeous, all-new plant-based recipes in her debut cookbook, inspired by her wildly popular blog. Every month, half a million readers—vegetarians, vegans, paleo followers, and gluten-free gourmets alike—flock to Sarah’s adaptable and accessible recipes that make powerfully healthy ingredients simply irresistible. My New Roots is the ultimate guide to revitalizing one’s health and palate, one delicious recipe at a time: no fad diets or gimmicks here. Whether readers are newcomers to natural foods or are already devotees, they will discover how easy it is to eat healthfully and happily when whole foods and plants are at the center of every plate.
Author: Bill Harley Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 156145494X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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A young orphan's hopes and an unusual bicycle bring about magical results in this imaginative middle grade adventure from award-winning author Bill Harley. Life is an adventure for ten-year-old Darius Frobisher. His eccentric father Rudy sells insurance four days a week. The other three days he goes on exotic journeys. But when his father flies off in a hot air balloon and doesn't come back, Darius's happy, carefree life suddenly comes to an end. He is sent to live with his notoriously nasty Aunt Ida, where he has to sleep alone in a cold, damp basement and dodge the horrible teenage boy next door. Darius sees a ray of hope when he finds a rusty old bicycle in the basement and begins to repair it in secret. Then one day he is startled to see an old man with long flowing hair riding a bicycle across the sky! That gives Darius a strange and wonderful idea. Now he knows what he has to do to get away from his miserable life.
Author: Bill Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Publisher: Soyinfo Center ISBN: 1948436027 Category : Soybean industry Languages : en Pages : 479
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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 108 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
Author: Kathryn Hume Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 025205413X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 325
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In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly disparate and unconnected writers including T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ralph Ellison, Russell Banks, Gloria Naylor, Tim O'Brien, Maxine Hong Kingston, Walker Percy, N. Scott Momaday, John Updike, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Julia Alvarez, Thomas Pynchon, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Don DeLillo. Hume explores fictional treatments of the slippage in the immigrant experience between America's promise and its reality. She exposes the political link between contemporary stories of lost innocence and liberalism's inadequacies. She also invites us to look at the literary challenge to scientific materialism in various searches for a spiritual dimension in life. The expansive future promised by the American Dream has been replaced, Hume finds, by a sense of tarnished morality and a melancholy loss of faith in America's exceptionalism. American Dream, American Nightmare examines the differing critiques of America embedded in nearly a hundred novels and points to the source for recovery that appeals to many of the authors.
Author: Richard T. Parrette Jr.
Author: Richard T. Parrette Jr.
Author: Richard Parrette, Jr.
Author: Richard Parrette, Jr.
Author: Michael Lewis
Author: Jonah Keri
Author: Sarah Britton
Author: Bill Harley
Author: Bill Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Author: Kathryn Hume
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