It's a marriage made in BBQ heaven: America's foremost grilling guru takes on ribs. Baby backs and spare ribs, short ribs and long ribs, pork ribs, beef ribs, lamb ribs, and more - a passionate, single-subject celebration of meaty, smoky, sweet 'n' spicy, crowd-pleasing, fall-off-the-bone-tender ribs. A perfect rib is the culmination of the ...
Now in its 14th edition, the "Baseball Prospectus" is the industry leader among annual baseball guides. The 2009 edition contains cutting-edge essays on performance analysis and offers accurate projection on players' statistics.
"Forging Genius" combats the impression that Casey Stengel was merely a clown who lucked into success with a powerful Yankees dynasty. Steven Goldman documents Stengel's learning experience of bad breaks with bad teams and demonstrates how these failures put him in position to succeed with the Yankees. Stengel was much more than a funnyman, ...
Heat up the Foreman. Plug in your rotisserie! Make meals in your fireplace and start using that fancy range-top grill. In a marriage made in BBQ heaven, Steven Raichlen, America's grilling guru, brings his mastery of live-fire cooking to the world of indoor grilling. Now, neither snow nor rain nor gloom of apartment regulations will stay the cook ...
Here, the best team in baseball statistics takes on the only subject that really matters in baseball: Why do teams win pennant races? Statistical analyses of baseball abound: different ways of breaking down batting performance, pitching performance, fielding performance, managerial performance, expected wins and the like. But the one aspect of ...
The "New York Times" bestselling guide to Major League Baseball returns, bringing together the top young baseball writers and analysts in the business to provide the definitive look at the season to come.
Identifying the "new industrial revolution", the authors present a vision for "cooperating to compete" in today's rapidly-changing business world. Nagel, Goldman, and Preiss show exactly why mass production is a thing of the past, and why customized products are the key to business survival.
Featuring humorous and incisive essays on all 30 teams--by some of the top young baseball writers and analysts--along with an in-depth look at major players and top prospects, this compilation offers a cutting-edge analysis of America's favorite pastime.
It's the gold standard of statistical guides, lauded by insiders: " Baseball Prospectus is one of the first things I read every day." -- Theo Epstein, Boston Red Sox General Manager " Baseball Prospectus has become the standard by which all scouting guides should be measured." -- Billy Beane, Oakland Athletics General Manager And the ...
Mitchell Wells may not survive eleventh grade. He really only has one friend, his best friend, David. His normally decent grade point average is in limbo due to a slightly violent, somewhat inappropriate claymation film. And girls . . . well, does hanging out with his sister count? When David tells Mitchell he's gay, Mitchell's okay with it--but ...
Ever since it was built in 1931, the Empire State Building has been the symbol of New York, and it has retained its fascination even though it has lost its crown as the World's Tallest. In this unique and visually exciting book on the phenomenon--an irresistible gift for anyone who loves New York, Art Deco architecture, or popular culture- ...
Praise from business leaders for Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations "This book is right on target! It clearly and concisely depicts the dramatic changes that are taking place in the marketplace. I recommend this book to every company that wants to remain competitive in an agile world." - Jerry Junkins Chairman, President and CEO, Texas ...
This book is a guide to the care and maintenance of the upper limb. It provides information on how to avoid unnecessary injuries and get proper treatments.
The defiance, anger, passion and optimism of America's "most celebrated and most detested" radical lawyer, William Kunstler, ring throughout this selection of his unpublished speeches. The consequence of Kunstler's outspoken opposition to war, racism and political repression was an extensive FBI file, which included secretly recorded transcripts ...
"...Steve Goldman and Carol Graham point to agility as the key competency for dealing with an uncertain future. All health care organizations need to take note of this book if they are to move to the second curve."-Ian Morrison, futurist, author of The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change Agility in Health Care offers more than theories; ...
The essays presented in this work address the complex social rootedness of contemporary industrial competitiveness, ranging from the austerely economic through the political and managerial to the richly sociological.
The Brain Korea 21 Program (BK21), which seeks to make Korean research universities globally competitive and to produce more high-quality researchers in Korea, provides funding to graduate students and professors who belong to research groups at top universities. The authors develop quantitative and qualitative models to evaluate how well BK21 is ...
This collection examines the features of Western culture and of the practices of science and technology that anchor the idea of progress in the face of more than a half century of intellectual criticism.
Mitchell Wells may not survive 11th grade. He really only has one friend. His normally decent grade point average is in limbo due to a slightly violent, somewhat inappropriate claymation film. Then his friend reveals he's gay, one of the most popular girls in school decides she "must" date Mitchell, and prom's coming up.
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