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Author: Fran Manushkin Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1479592358 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 37
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Katie has joined the Super Scouts, where every scout is like a sister. Katie's ready for some outside fun on a treasure hunt, but she and her partner Janie are nothing alike! On their nature hike, Katie finds out that being friends doesn't always mean agreeing, and that you can never have too many sisters!
Author: Fran Manushkin Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1479592358 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 37
Book Description
Katie has joined the Super Scouts, where every scout is like a sister. Katie's ready for some outside fun on a treasure hunt, but she and her partner Janie are nothing alike! On their nature hike, Katie finds out that being friends doesn't always mean agreeing, and that you can never have too many sisters!
Author: Jim Russo Publisher: ISBN: 9780929387697 Category : Baseball scouts Languages : en Pages : 222
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Russo calls on his experience as a professional scout to give readers insight as to what it takes to get into a successful franchise, from being first spotted to progressing through the minors into the big league
Author: Jim Allen Publisher: ISBN: 9781642340204 Category : Languages : en Pages : 384
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Veteran journalist and four-wheel drive historian Jim Allen and recognized collector and Scout expert John Glancy built the most in-depth book about Scout trucks on the market. The book includes details about all your favorite Scout models from the very first to the last one to leave the factory and some the public never saw.
Author: Patrick R. Foster Publisher: Motorbooks International ISBN: 076034860X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 211
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"Pat Foster's International Harvester Trucks is a complete illustrated history of one of the most recognizable commercial truck brands in the US"--
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: Lou Gorman Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786431636 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 277
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Lou Gorman is best known for having assembled the great but star-crossed Red Sox team of 1986. Few, perhaps, know that he also laid the foundation for the Mets club that clawed past them. Or that he is the only baseball executive involved in the start-up of two teams (the expansion Mariners and Royals), that he won a World Series with the Orioles, or that he has drafted Roger Clemens, signed George Brett, developed Jim Palmer, and traded away Jeff Bagwell. In all, Gorman has spent parts of five decades in the front offices of five major league franchises, directly involved in the development of clubs that won three World Series, five pennants and eight division titles. The stories behind those teams and Gorman's dealings with players, managers, and other of baseball's higher-ups are shared here for the first time.
Author: Julia Galef Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735217556 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 290
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"...an engaging and enlightening account from which we all can benefit."—The Wall Street Journal A better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making. When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe—and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a "scout" mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world—which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.
Author: Fran Manushkin
Author: Fran Manushkin
Author: Jim Russo
Author: Jim Allen
Author: Patrick R. Foster
Author: Fran Manushkin
Author: Michael Lewis
Author: Michele Dufresne
Author: Lou Gorman
Author: Paul Wallem
Author: Julia Galef