Finding the Hidden Ball Trick

Finding the Hidden Ball Trick
By:"Bill Deane"
Published on 2015-02-18 by Rowman & Littlefield

The dying art of the hidden-ball trick dates back to the early days of pro baseball, with seven successful executions documented in 1876 alone. This ruse occurs when a baseman conceals the ball instead of returning it to the pitcher. When the runner steps off the base, he is summarily tagged out with the hidden ball. The trick has been used some 264 times with success, a rarity roughly in the class of the no-hitter. The hidden-ball trick has produced many hilarious stories throughout the years, and even enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in 2013 when it was employed twice late in the season. In Finding the Hidden-Ball Trick: The Colorful History of Baseball’s Oldest Ruse, every known execution of the hidden-ball trick in the major leagues is documented, compiled from decades of research. This book recounts how the hidden-ball trick has completed triple plays, ended games, resulted in two arrests, cost a Hall of Famer a managing job, and even occurred in a World Series. Stories include how Fred Merkle gained revenge on Johnny Evers, how Gary Carter was caught to end a game—on his birthday—and how Lou Boudreau was nabbed the day after saying the play was obsolete. In addition to a complete chronological listing of every documented ruse, Finding the Hidden-Ball Trick also includes descriptions of tricks that went awry and a list of unsubstantiated accounts. This unique compilation of baseball stories will be of interest to baseball scholars and fans alike.

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword trick.

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Money in Classical Antiquity

Money in Classical Antiquity
By:"Sitta von Reden"
Published on 2010-11-18 by Cambridge University Press

This book was the first to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates that the crucial factors in its increasing influence were state-formation, expanding political networks, metal supply and above all an increasing sophistication of credit and contractual law. Covering a wide range of monetary contexts within the Mediterranean over almost a thousand years (c.600 BC–AD 300), it demonstrates that money played different roles in different social and political circumstances. The book will prove an invaluable introduction to upper-level students of ancient money, while also offering perspectives for future research to the specialist.

This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword money.

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The Economy of Prestige

The Economy of Prestige
By:"James F. ENGLISH"
Published on 2005 by Harvard University Press

This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige.

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword economy.

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The Sharing Economy

The Sharing Economy
By:"Arun Sundararajan"
Published on 2016-05-13 by MIT Press

The wide-ranging implications of the shift to a sharing economy, a new model of organizing economic activity that may supplant traditional corporations.

This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword economy.

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How Fashion Designers Use Math

How Fashion Designers Use Math
By:"John C. Bertoletti","Rhea A. Stewart"
Published on 2009-10-01 by Infobase Publishing

Outlines the ways fashion designers use math to sketch their ideas, use symmetry appropriately, figure out how much fabric they will need for a prototype, and determine how much the tailors who make the clothes will be paid.

This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword fashion.

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Bad Trick

Bad Trick
By:"Bill Morlin","Jeanette White"
Published on 2001 by New Media Ventures, Inc.

This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword trick.

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Tip-Based Nanofabrication

Tip-Based Nanofabrication
By:"Ampere A. Tseng"
Published on 2011-07-25 by Springer Science & Business Media

Nanofabrication is critical to the realization of potential benefits in the field of electronics, bioengineering and material science. One enabling technology in nanofabrication is Tip-Based Nanofabrication, which makes use of functionalized micro-cantilevers with nanoscale tips. Tip-Based Nanofabrication: Fundamentals and Applications discusses the development of cantilevered nanotips and how they evolved from scanning probe microscopy and are able to manipulate environments at nanoscale on substrates generating different nanoscale patterns and structures. Also covered are the advantages of ultra-high resolution capability, how to use tip based nanofabrication technology as a tool in the manufacturing of nanoscale structures, single-probe tip technologies, multiple-probe tip methodology, 3-D modeling using tip based nanofabrication and the latest in imaging technology.

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword tip.

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The Politics of Jesus

The Politics of Jesus
By:"John Howard Yoder"
Published on 1994-06-09 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Tradition has painted a portrait of a Savior aloof from governmental concerns and whose teachings point to an apolitical life for his disciples. How, then, are we to respond today to a world so thoroughly entrenched in national and international affairs? But such a picture of Jesus is far from accurate, argues John Howard Yoder. Using the texts of the New Testament, Yoder critically examines the traditional portrait of Jesus as an apolitical figure and attempts to clarify the true impact of Jesus' life, work, and teachings on his disciples' social behavior. The book first surveys the multiple ways the image of an apolitical Jesus has been propagated, then canvasses the Gospel narrative to reveal how Jesus is rightly portrayed as a thinker and leader immediately concerned with the agenda of politics and the related issues of power, status, and right relations. Selected passages from the epistles corroborate a Savior deeply concerned with social, political, and moral issues. In this thorough revision of his acclaimed 1972 text, Yoder provides updated interaction with publications touching on this subject. Following most of the chapters are new \

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword politic.

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The Computer and the Brain

The Computer and the Brain
By:"John von Neumann","Ray Kurzweil"
Published on 2012-06-26 by Yale University Press

First published in 1958, John von Neumann's classic work \

This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword computer.

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The Economy of Literary Form

The Economy of Literary Form
By:"Lee Erickson"
Published on 2000-03 by JHU Press

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This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword economy.

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Nylon

Nylon
By:"Susannah Handley"
Published on 1999 by JHU Press

Beginning in a test tube and ending on the catwalk, Nylon brings together social history and the story of fashion.

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword fashion.

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Basics Fashion Design 02: Textiles and Fashion

Basics Fashion Design 02: Textiles and Fashion
By:"Jenny Udale"
Published on 2008-08-19 by AVA Publishing

Textiles and Fashion explores the art of creating fashion textiles, from practical processes including fibre production, dyeing and finishing, to construction techniques such as weaving and knitting.

This Book was ranked 6 by Google Books for keyword fashion.

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Spraying southern pines not practical for tip-moth control

Spraying southern pines not practical for tip-moth control
By:"Charles X. Grano","Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La.)"
Published on 1968 by

This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword tip.

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The Tip of the Tongue State

The Tip of the Tongue State
By:"Alan S. Brown"
Published on 2012 by Psychology Press

This book brings together the body of empirical findings and theoretical interpretations of the tip of the tongue (TOT) experience – when a well-known or familiar word cannot immediately be recalled. Although research has been published on TOTs for over a century, the experience retains its fascination for both cognitive and linguistic researchers. After a review of various research procedures used to study TOTs, the book offers a summary of attempts to manipulate this rare cognitive experience through cue and prime procedures. Various aspects of the inaccessible target word are frequently available – such as first letter and syllable number – even in the absence of actual retrieval, and the book explores the implications of these bits of target-word information for mechanisms for word storage and retrieval. It also examines: what characteristics of a word make it potentially more vulnerable to a TOT; why words related to the target word (called \

This Book was ranked 8 by Google Books for keyword tip.

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Money

Money
By:"Douglas Gale"
Published on 1982-09-30 by Cambridge University Press

This book deals mainly with what can be described as the general-equilibrium approach to monetary theory. The author does not attempt an encyclopaedic treatment, rather Gale investigates the central problems and ideas in the development of topical monetary theory. The first part of the book - technically the easier - deals with questions which will be recognized as falling within the traditional field of (macroeconomic) monetary theory, although the treatment is unflaggingly microeconomic. The second part is less conventional, dealing with the general equilibrium theory of money in a fundamental way.

This Book was ranked 33 by Google Books for keyword money.

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One For The Money

One For The Money
By:"Janet Evanovich"
Published on 1999-02-24 by Simon and Schuster

The New York Times bestselling blockbuster novel from Janet Evanovich that began the wildly entertaining Stephanie Plum series. Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey. She's a product of the \

This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword money.

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The Culture of Fashion

The Culture of Fashion
By:"Christopher Breward"
Published on 1995-05-15 by Manchester University Press

This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meaning from medieval Europe to twentieth-century America. Breward's work provides the reader with a clear guide to the changes in style and taste and shows that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society, especially when concerned with sexual and body politics.

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword fashion.

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The Worry Trick

The Worry Trick
By:"David A Carbonell"
Published on 2016-02-02 by New Harbinger Publications

Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply \

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword trick.

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The Tip of The Spear: U.S. Army Small Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007

The Tip of The Spear: U.S. Army Small Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007
By:"Jon T. Hoffman"
Published on 2010-11-29 by Government Printing Office

“The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 at first seemed to herald the arrival of a new way of war, as Germany’s blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of World War II. But the initial victory in Iraq soon devolved into a persistent counterinsurgency conflict reminiscent of the long U.S. effort to pacify the Philippines after the quick defeat of Spain in 1898. In Iraq, American soldiers and their Coalition partners had merely traded one fairly weak and generally conventional opponent for a much more durable, diverse, and determined foe relying on the tactics of the guerilla and the terrorist.This volume focuses on that second and longer campaign of the war in Iraq, but it is not a narrative of the overall course of the conflict. Instead, it provides a soldier’s-eye view of the war in the form of detailed accounts of a handful of battles. Each one illustrates the everyday challenges that America’s soldiers face in a difficult struggle against an inventive and often elusive enemy. Weapons, doctrine, and procedures developed to fight a conventional campaign against a similar opposing force had to be adapted to fit a different type of conflict. The U.S. Army’s combat and support forces have shown both resourcefulness and resilience, while leaders and soldiers in the field have demonstrated the same courage as previous generations called upon to sacrifice in the name of freedom.”

This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword tip.

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Computer Simulation of Biomolecular Systems

Computer Simulation of Biomolecular Systems
By:"W.F. van Gunsteren","P.K. Weiner"
Published on 1997-11-30 by Springer Science & Business Media

This book is the third volume in this highly successful series. Since the first volume in 1989 and the second in 1993, many exciting developments have occurred in the development of simulation techniques and their application to key biological problems such as protein folding, protein structure prediction and structure-based design, and in how, by combining experimental and theoretical approaches, very large biological systems can be studied at the molecular level. This series attempts to capture that progress. Volume 3 includes contributions that highlight developments in methodology which enable longer and more realistic simulations (e.g. multiple time steps and variable reduction techniques), a study of force fields for proteins and new force field development, a novel approach to the description of molecular shape and the use of molecular shape descriptors, the study of condensed phase chemical reactions, the use of electrostatic techniques in the study of protonation, equilibria and flexible docking studies, structure refinement using experimental data (X-ray, NMR, neutron, infrared) and theoretical methods (solvation models, normal mode analysis, MD simulations, MC lattice dynamics, and knowledge-based potentials). There are several chapters that show progress in the development of methodologies for the study of folding processes, binding affinities, and the prediction of ligand-protein complexes. The chapters, contributed by experienced researchers, many of whom are leaders in their field of study, are organised to cover developments in: simulation methodology the treatment of electrostatics protein structure refinement the combined experimental and theoretical approaches to the study of very large biological systems applications and methodology involved in the study of protein folding applications and methodology associated with structure-based design.

This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword computer.

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Fashion; or Life in New York. A comedy in five acts [and in prose].

Fashion; or Life in New York. A comedy in five acts [and in prose].
By:"afterwards RITCHIE MOWATT (Anna Cora)"
Published on 1850 by

This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword fashion.

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Byrne's Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards

Byrne's Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards
By:"Robert Byrne"
Published on 2015-01-27 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Fully illustrated—in color for the first time!—with drawings of nearly 350 mind-boggling trick shots, Byrne’s Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards will teach you everything from the basic “butterfly formation” to the most difficult and impressive shots. Robert Byrne will help novice and experienced players alike perfect their trick shots and learn about the historical context of each trick. Trick shots are anything amusing, surprising, or educational that can be done on a pool or billiard table with standard accessories, and have been around as long as the game itself. Byrne demonstrates historical shots, including some invented by the famous Captain Mingaud, the world’s first professional exhibition player, and newer tricks seen while travelling to tournaments around the world. Filled with easy as well as hard, and technical as well as showy tricks, the book’s clear diagrams, paired with secret insider tips, describe simpler stunts for the beginner, those that take years of practice, and some that the author doubts you’ll ever be able to do. Whether you want to impress a crowd, a group of friends, or yourself, Byrne’s wild, stunning, and unforgettable trick shots will make you question some principles of physics and wow an audience of one or one-hundred.

This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword trick.

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Looptail

Looptail
By:"Bruce Poon Tip"
Published on 2013-09-17 by Hachette UK

Much in the same vein as DELIVERING HAPPINESS, LOOPTAIL combines both Bruce Poon Tip's extraordinary first-person account of his entrepreneurial instincts to start and develop G Adventures, a highly-successful international travel adventure company, and along the way, he reveals his unusual management secrets that not only keep his employees fully engaged but also keep his customers extremely happy.

This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword tip.

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Q Tip

Q Tip
By:"Brenda K."
Published on 2004-04 by Trafford Publishing

Q TIP talks about one Correctional officer's personal experience of working at San Quentin State Prison. Being and African American female C.O. working in a men's institution, Officer K. is candid and for real when talking bout the things she went through. As Officer K puts it, she went through seven years of bad luck, and had to get out of The Q by any means necessary! You will find this book exciting and exhilerating, and written in such a way that you can put yourself there as an Officer, Inmate or Convict. The main reason Q TIP was written is so our younger generation can learn from other people's mistakes. Officer K wants you to think and pay attention to what's really going on inside an institutional setting. The prison industry is designed to conquer and destroy an entire generation of people, whether they are Black or Brown. Officer K doesn't want you to get caught up in the game. So when you read Q TIP, and you will read it sooner or later, Officer K just wants you to think. You THINK you THANK!

This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword tip.

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Politics

Politics
By:"Aristotle"
Published on 2012-07-31 by Courier Corporation

Intellectually stimulating work describes the ideal state and ponders how it can bring about the most desirable life for its citizens. Famed Jowett translation of Aristotle's masterwork.

This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword politic.

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