[PDF] The Only Game in Town

• Author : Fay Vincent
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2007-04-03
• ISBN : 9780743273183

An account of baseball in the 1930s and 1940s is presented from the perspectives of players who share memories about such topics as the dominance of the Yankees, the impact of World War II, and the integration of African-American ballplayers.

• Author : John Bibee
• Publisher : InterVarsity Press
• Release Date : 1988-06-28
• ISBN : 0830812024

Daniel, a new boy in Centerville, struggles over whether to join the evil but tempting Cobra Club or align himself with the children who ride the Spirit Flyer bicycles.

• Author : Mohamed A. El-Erian
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release Date : 2016-03-01
• ISBN : 9780300222531

An incisive analysis of the state of the global economy and what the future holds. Surrounded by sluggish growth, high rates of unemployment, rising inequality, growing financial instability and increased social tensions, pessimism about our future abounds. Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, one of the world's most influential economic thinkers, explains lucidly the realities of the economic choices that we will soon face. The path that the global economy and markets are on is ending. But what comes thereafter is far

• Author : Gordon Donnell
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release Date : 2007-03
• ISBN : 9780595438532

John Congo is a troubled gambler fleeing a dark past. He risks his life's winnings to reach for respectability, only to discover that he has bought into a billion dollar corporate swindle on the suckers' side of the table. He is a small player and his opponents are pillars of the community, but life on the edge of the law has taught him to fight. His tactics attract the police and the FBI and put him on a collision course

• Author : David Remnick
• Publisher : Random House
• Release Date : 2010-06-08
• ISBN : 9780679603665

For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning the lowering of standards for baseball achievement—in 1930. John Cheever pens a story about a boy’s troubled relationship with

• Author : Peter Achinstein
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 1991-04-18
• ISBN : 0195345053

This volume brings together eleven essays by the distinguished philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. The unifying theme is the nature of the philosophical problems surrounding the postulation of unobservable entities such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. How, if at all, is it possible to confirm scientific hypotheses about "unobservables"? Achinstein examines this question as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century episodes: the debate between particle and wave theorists of light, Maxwell's kinetic theory of gases, and

• Author : Larry Diamond,Director Center on Democracy Development and the Rule of Law Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner,Marc Plattner
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release Date : 2001-09-19
• ISBN : 0801868424

With contributions by more than thirty of the world's leading scholars of democracy, this volume presents the most comprehensive assessment available of the state of democracy in the world at the beginning of the new millennium.

• Author : Günther Heydemann,Karel Vodička
• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• Release Date : 2017-10-01
• ISBN : 9781785333187

More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and the former East Germany—that went on to join the European Union. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations that have taken place in

• Author : Mohamed A. El-Erian
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2017-06-02
• ISBN : 0300222637

• Author : Larry Diamond,Marc F. Plattner,Yun-han Chu,Hung-mao Tien
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release Date : 1997-09-08
• ISBN : 0801857945

An in-depth analysis of the struggle to consolidate new and fragile democracies—available in two paperback volumes for course use. The global trend that Samuel P. Huntington has dubbed the "third wave" of democratization has seen more than 60 countries experience democratic transitions since 1974. While these countries have succeeded in bringing down authoritarian regimes and replacing them with freely elected governments, few of them can as yet be considered stable democracies. Most remain engaged in the struggle to consolidate their new

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1976
• ISBN : UOM:39015076069767

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1978
• ISBN : IND:30000117992713

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : UOM:39015047351682

• Author : Gianfranco Baldini,Adriano Pappalardo
• Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
• Release Date : 2009
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105131679297

Presents an analysis of electoral systems in 21 democracies and their impact in times of volatile voters and unstable electoral outcomes. This book offers a reappraisal of classical theories on electoral systems.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1992
• ISBN : STANFORD:36105070220749