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  • As They See 'Em

    A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires

    de Bruce Weber ...
    Named One of the Best Baseball Books Ever Written by EsquireAn insider’s look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America’s favorite pastime is conducted in a manner that is clean, crisp, and true.Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Life Is a Wheel

    Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist

    de Bruce Weber ...
    Life Is a Wheel chronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an “entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging” (The Associated Press).During the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer for The New York Times, bicycled across the country, alone, and wrote about it as it unfolded. Life Is a Wheel is ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    As They See 'Em

    A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires

    de Bruce Weber ...
    Narrado por Charley Steiner ...

    Completo

    13 hora 28 minutos

    Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong. As They See 'Em is an insider's look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America's favorite pastime is conducted in a manner ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Listener

    de Bruce Weber ...
    Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, Jack Larner retaliates violently against a sadistic prison guard and is cast into solitary confinement. In the darkness and isolation of his tiny cell, he undergoes a bizarre and inexplicable transformation. When he emerges he appears quite normal, but with one exception: when in Larner's presence, no one can tell him a lie.Larner ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Most Interesting Man in the World

    de Bruce Weber ...
    We all have our heroes. While growing up we try to emulate them, and they are beacons we strive to follow, hoping that someday we can shine as brightly as they did.As time passes, the veil of illusion falls slowly from our eyes and, as happens to the characters in these stories, our admiration for them gradually fades as we learn of their faults and frailties, and find that in many ways they are ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind

    Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn

    Peter Mitchell, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his chemiosmotic theory, was a highly original scientist who revolutionized our understanding of cellular metabolism and bioenergetics. This is the only full biography of Mitchell, and it should be of considerable interest to biophysicists, biochemists, and physicians and researchers focusing on metabolism, as well as historians of ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation, + Web-Based Software

    The TraderEx Course

    Series Libro 428 - Wiley Trading
    An interactive guide to successfully trading in today's marketsMastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation is a guidebook to interactive computer trading simulation designed to provide participants with hands-on experience in making tactical decisions and implementing them in different market environments-from continuous order drive markets to call auction markets, and from dealer ... Leer más

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  • Queer Media Images

    LGBT Perspectives

    Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media images, this book scrutinizes LGBT media representations and how these representations contribute to ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Kissing Lucy Thai

    As with all of Bruce Weber's short story books, the settings for these tales span the globe, from the leafy suburbs of Scarsdale, New York to the steamy jungles of Laos, from the desert canyons of the Southwest to tiny villages in northern France, and from a stuffy apartment in Tel Aviv to the banal suburbs of Las Vegas.But settings are no more than stages for the same dramas enacted daily by ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Coping with Rapid Growth in Rural Communities

    This book integrates the most current research findings on the economic, demographic, fiscal, and social consequences of rapid growth in rural communities and offers strategies that can be used to mitigate the often disruptive impact of that growth. While working extensively with government officials and citizens in rural communities, Drs. Weber and Howell became aware of the need for a ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • The End of Arrogance

    America in the Global Competition of Ideas

    Free-market capitalism, hegemony, Western culture, peace, and democracy—the ideas that shaped world politics in the twentieth century and underpinned American foreign policy—have lost a good deal of their strength. Authority is now more contested and power more diffuse. Hegemony (benign or otherwise) is no longer a choice, not for the United States, for China, or for anyone else.Steven Weber and ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The Iron Cage Revisited

    Max Weber in the Neoliberal Era

    Series series Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
    At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern life in words that have often been translated as "iron cage." During the industrial era, that image caught on and was often used by scholars to express concerns about the extent to which the actual character of modern life contradicted its emancipatory ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD