wyszukanych pozycji: 71
Cracking Baseball's Cold Cases: Filling in the Facts about 17 Mystery Major Leaguers
ISBN: 9780786475452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "cold cases" of major leaguers about whom virtually nothing is known. (In many instances, the various baseball encyclopedias list only their names and one other word: "deceased.") Some of these mysterious players had negligible professional careers and their time on a major league diamond was more the result of good fortune than anything else; others were stars in their day and then vanished.
The Biographical Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research is committed to... This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "cold cases" of major leaguers about w...
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127,66 zł |
A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, New, Revised and Expanded One-Volume Edition
ISBN: 9781566638531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The only book ever to win both the Seymour Medal and the Casey Award as the best baseball book of the year, Peter Morris's magisterial encyclopedia of the national pastime will surprise, delight, and educate even the most knowledgeable fan. With its thousand-odd entries, A Game of Inches illuminates the origins of items ranging from catcher's masks to hook slides to intentional walks to baseball's reserve clause. Now with new material and completely redesigned in a one-volume paperback, the book remains endlessly fascinating, impeccably researched, and engagingly written.
The only book ever to win both the Seymour Medal and the Casey Award as the best baseball book of the year, Peter Morris's magisterial encyclopedia of...
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116,87 zł |
The Science of Mindfulness and Guided Meditation: How to use mindfulness to reduce stress and anxiety and induce better sleep
ISBN: 9798713483838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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31,83 zł |
Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939
ISBN: 9780773503236 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Other Canadian film producers concentrated their efforts on short productions, mostly in government or commercial companies such as Associated Screen News of Montreal. The works of Gordon Spalding, Bill Oliver, and Albert Tessier are discussed in this context. Morris concludes with the founding of the National Film Board which, under the dynamic guidance of John Grierson, was to breathe new life into a moribund industry. In a postscript Morris explores some of the reasons for the unique development of Canadian film making -- particularly its use of natural settings and documentary when...
Other Canadian film producers concentrated their efforts on short productions, mostly in government or commercial companies such as Associated Screen ...
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145,47 zł |
Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball
ISBN: 9780803246300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Most baseball fans want to hear about stellar players and spectacular plays, statistics and storied franchises. Level Playing Fields sheds light on a usually unnoticed facet of the game, introducing fans and historians alike to the real fundamentals of baseball: dirt and grass. In this lively history, Peter Morris demonstrates that many of the game s rules and customs actually arose as concessions to the daunting practical difficulties of creating a baseball diamond.Recovering a nearly lost and decidedly quirky chapter of baseball history, Level Playing Fields tells the engaging...
Most baseball fans want to hear about stellar players and spectacular plays, statistics and storied franchises. Level Playing Fields sheds ligh...
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83,10 zł |
Across the Floor: A Life in Dissenting Politics
ISBN: 9781784534509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. On 20 June 1998 Peter Temple-Morris, Conservative MP for Leominster, crossed the floor to join his rivals on the Labour party benches. What drove a seasoned Conservative politician one of the so-called Cambridge Mafia, with 24 years experience as a Conservative MP to change his allegiance so radically? In this memoir of a long and varied political career, Temple-Morris answers this question, unveiling the slow, gradual process of disillusionment with the Conservative party, especially under Margaret Thatcher, and the growing appeal of the New Labour movement under Tony Blair. As well as...
On 20 June 1998 Peter Temple-Morris, Conservative MP for Leominster, crossed the floor to join his rivals on the Labour party benches. What drove a se...
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233,87 zł |
International Travel: Everything You Need To Know
ISBN: 9781548787318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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58,97 zł |
Introduction to Game Theory
ISBN: 9780387942841 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The mathematical theory of games has as its purpose the analysis of a wide range of competitive situations. These include most of the recreations which people usually call "games" such as chess, poker, bridge, backgam- mon, baseball, and so forth, but also contests between companies, military forces, and nations. For the purposes of developing the theory, all these competitive situations are called games. The analysis of games has two goals. First, there is the descriptive goal of understanding why the parties ("players") in competitive situations behave as they do. The second is the more...
The mathematical theory of games has as its purpose the analysis of a wide range of competitive situations. These include most of the recreations whic...
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272,35 zł |
Employment Law in Agriculture and Estate Management
ISBN: 9781853411588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Outlines the laws and regulations relating to employment in the rural community of England and Wales.
Outlines the laws and regulations relating to employment in the rural community of England and Wales.
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82,06 zł |
God*star: An apocalyptic vision of dark magick, rock music, and the world of UFOs
ISBN: 9781909370142 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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100,17 zł |
Gaudeamus
ISBN: 9781840026672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What if bed-hopping among university students was not just inevitable, but mandatory? A sexy, radical girl, an over-sexed jock, and an ancient professor of ancient Greek discover that with the lights off, a serious attempt to end discrimination can also be a very dirty joke. Peter Morris' new play is an all-American undergraduate sex farce. What if bed-hopping among university students was not just inevitable, but mandatory? A sexy, radical girl, an over-sexed jock, and an ancient prof... |
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51,92 zł |
Stork Reality: Stories from Unplanned Fatherhood
ISBN: 9781491706435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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47,48 zł |
Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero
ISBN: 9781566638708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Today's baseball catcher stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance back of the batter without protective gear. Then the introduction of the curveball in the 1870s led them to move up directly behind home plate, even though they still wore no gloves or other protection. Extraordinary courage became the catcher's most notable requirement, but the new positioning also demanded that the catcher have lightning-fast reflexes, great...
Today's baseball catcher stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this ...
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82,17 zł |
The Age of Consent
ISBN: 9780413771865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 39 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Condemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new play from the winner of the Sunday Times Playwriting Prize 2001 Few kids have a secret as chilling as Timmy's. Stephanie loves Raquel to death. Acutely topical, darkly satirical and brutally uncompromising - these two monologues explore the shattering of childhood innocence. "The play opens up a moral minefield. Who can, or should, consent to what? Can anyone consent to something on the behalf of another? What power can anyone,... Condemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new pl... |
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62,31 zł |
7,240 Miles to Feed His Sheep
ISBN: 9780615908823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An ordinary Mormon boy finds himself doing extraordinary things in a land far from home; Pete's decision to leave his loved ones and all things familiar, becomes one of the greatest challenges he would ever face. The boundaries of his comfort zone are put to the test as he endeavors to seek out and find those who are searching for answers to the many questions that arise as we all sojourn through this mortal life; at the same time, he develops a deeper understanding of those things, and discovers a mighty change within himself. Ironically, there is little difference between Pete and the...
An ordinary Mormon boy finds himself doing extraordinary things in a land far from home; Pete's decision to leave his loved ones and all things famili...
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54,59 zł |
Ocracoke: Blackbeards Island
ISBN: 9781533328311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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90,84 zł |
Guardians
ISBN: 9781840026429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In monologues that mingle fierce irony with humane warmth, heartbreaking emotion with breathtaking intelligence, Guardians offers storytelling at its simplest--and its most complex. A disgraced American soldier tells her story, and a clever English journalist tells how he got his. Winner of a Fringe First Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In monologues that mingle fierce irony with humane warmth, heartbreaking emotion with breathtaking intelligence, Guardians offers storytell... |
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62,31 zł |
From the Light Behind the Daylight
ISBN: 9781499734461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Web like and deeply beautiful. Peter Morris's work has a mellifluous poetiscism to soothe and tantalize as an array of thoughts and emotions sensitively unfold. With words of many shades weaved like the richness of tapestries, the journey of Houtumous is of the soul sensuously playing with the concepts of time, sexuality and spirit. Bittersweet yet up-lifting, this artistic work is to be missed at one's peril, in these shallow times. Peter Morris gives us back that rare thing: our essence. He shows us, through the eyes of the sage, that deeper meaning is everywhere and proves the...
Web like and deeply beautiful. Peter Morris's work has a mellifluous poetiscism to soothe and tantalize as an array of thoughts and emotions sensitive...
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108,28 zł |
No Repeat of Yesterday
ISBN: 9781915494573 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Set in a fractured, depopulated Britain, 'No Repeat of Yesterday' is a fast-paced thriller that asks questions about the trust we invest in those who wield power. The 2070s. A military-controlled regime fosters social cohesion via the charade of an external military threat. To this end, RAF pilot Nicole Dibaba conducts spectacular nocturnal raids against unoccupied industrial targets. As millions embrace the apparent realities, alternative voices invade the state-controlled media. Dibaba's refusal to execute unconscionable orders brings her into conflict not just with her commanders but...
Set in a fractured, depopulated Britain, 'No Repeat of Yesterday' is a fast-paced thriller that asks questions about the trust we invest in those who ...
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61,76 zł |
The Wiley Guide to Project Technology, Supply Chain & Procurement Management
ISBN: 9780470226827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A complete guide to managing technical issues and procuring third-party resources
The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects address critical, need-to-know information that will help professionals successfully manage projects in most businesses and help students learn the best practices of the industry. They contain not only well-known and widely used basic project management practices but also the newest and most cutting-edge concepts in the broader theory and practice of managing projects. This fourth volume in the series offers expert guidance on the supply... A complete guide to managing technical issues and procuring third-party resources
The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects address ... |
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360,78 zł |