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Few sports lovers are as obsessed with rules and statistics as baseball fans. In So You Think You Know Baseball?, lifelong baseball enthusiast Peter E. Meltzer catalogues every noteworthy baseball rule from the Major League rulebook and illustrates its application with actual plays, from the historical to the contemporary. You can read the book from start to finish or consult it while watching a game to understand the mechanics of a play or ho...

About the Contributor(s): Warner M. Bailey is the Director of Presbyterian Studies at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. He writes on the impact of biblical studies on the life of the church.

Combines the species and habitat approaches to plants and vegetation. This book features 700 plant species that are selected as those which are common, conspicuous or useful ecological indicators, species which collectively make up most of the vegetation in Britain and Ireland.

About the Contributor(s): Lina Rong is Professor of Old Testament at Hebei Catholic Major Seminary in Shijiazhuang City, People's Republic of China. She is also Visiting Professor at the Institute of Formation and Religious Studies in Manila, Philippines.

Eine unproblematische, frauenfreundliche Einführung in die Thematik der Keuschhaltung des Mannes ¿ ideal geeignet für nervöse Schlüsselhalterinnen oder als Liebesgabe eines Mannes, der von seiner Liebsten keusch gehalten werden möchte.

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This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare’, s life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized, it...

Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers.

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Intriguing analysis of how firms evolve in response to performance feedback, examining consequences and improvements.

Respecting the autonomy of disabled people is an important ethical issue for providers of long-term care. In this influential book, George Agich abandons comfortable abstractions to reveal the concrete threats to personal autonomy in this setting, where ethical conflict, dilemma and tragedy are inescapable. He argues that liberal accounts of autonomy and individual rights are insufficient, and offers an account of autonomy that matches the rea...

Algebraic geometry, central to pure mathematics, has important applications in such fields as engineering, computer science, statistics and computational biology, which exploit the computational algorithms that the theory provides. Users get the full benefit, however, when they know something of the underlying theory, as well as basic procedures and facts. This book is a systematic introduction to the central concepts of algebraic geometry mos...

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Discusses the context and content of aesthetics as they relate to philosophical history and imagination.

An engaging introductory guide to Anton Chekhov.

Political conflict in Western democracies has traditionally emerged from politics rooted in competing ideologies and interests. With the rise of politics of identity, political conflict is morphing as political parties align themselves with identities, rather than ideologies or interests.

From Arias to Zadok the Priest - over 700 entries by international experts explore all aspects of Handel's life and work.

Many students now begin life and medical science degrees with far less mathematical knowledge than they need - and they struggle as a result. This second edition of Catch Up Maths & Stats brings students up to speed with the subject quickly and easily.

A routine neck adjustment left Sandy Nette trapped in her own body. Paralysed by a series of violent strokes after her arteries were ripped by a chiropractor, she was unable to move or swallow or talk. Suddenly, Sandy was a prisoner of locked-in syndrome, devastatingly aware of the world around her but completely unable to reach it. Sandy could only communicate with those around her by blinking. Barely into her forties, she had been ca...

Soccer Italian Style coaches Mirko Mazzantini (AFC Fiorentina) and Simone Bombardieri (Empoli FC) are both professional academy coaches and in this book demonstrate their brand new training program for U5-8 year olds. This book contains their detailed philosophy and methodology to train technique, individual tactics, motor skills and coordination, as well as 20 full sessions (100 practices).