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Probability and Statistics for Physical Sciences, Second Edition is
an accessible guide to commonly used concepts and methods in
statistical analysis used in the physical sciences. This brief yet
systematic introduction explains the origin of key techniques,
providing mathematical background and useful formulas. The text
does not assume any background in statistics and is appropriate for
a wide-variety of readers, from first-year undergraduate students
to working scientists across many disciplines.
A young German immigrant, Barney Dreyfuss was an American success
story in business and in baseball. He fell in love with the game
after settling in Paducah, Kentucky, where he discovered he had a
knack for assembling good players on the diamond. Relocating to
Louisville, he became involved in the professional game with the
Colonels. Faced with ouster from the National League, he took his
players to Pittsburgh, where he became owner of the Pirates and
forged a winning tradition, leading the club to six pennants and
two World Series. This first biography of Dreyfuss chronicles the
innovative career of the Hall of Famer executive who built Forbes
Field-the National League's first concrete-and-steel ballpark, into
which he put $1 million of his own money-pushed for creation of the
office of commissioner to govern the game and helped initiate the
modern World Series.
The Detroit Tigers were founding members of the American League and
have been the Motor City's team for more than a century. But the
Wolverines were the city's first major league club, playing in the
National League beginning in 1881 and capturing the pennant in
1887. Playing in what was then one of the best ballparks in
America, during an era when Detroit was known as the ""Paris of the
West,"" the team battled hostile National League owners and
struggled with a fickle fan base to become world champions, before
financial woes led to their being disbanded in 1888. This first
ever history of the Wolverines covers the team's rise and abrupt
fall and the powerful men behind it.
Despite his outstanding pitching record, James Francis ""Pud""
Galvin (1856-1902) was largely forgotten after his premature death.
During his 17-year career pitching for Pittsburgh, Buffalo and St.
Louis, he was one of the best-paid players in the game. He died
penniless. The diminutive hurler was the first to reach 300 wins,
long before that statistic was considered a benchmark of
excellence. Only four pitchers have amassed more victories. But
because he played in two leagues today not considered ""major,""
not all of his wins have been counted by the baseball
establishment. Through the efforts of a determined researcher,
Galvin's record was documented decades after his death and he was
enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 1965 with 365 wins. This book
offers the first comprehensive telling of Galvin's story, covering
his complete record and his use of a testosterone-based
concoction-with eye-popping results-which earned him criticism as a
pioneer of performance enhancing drugs.
This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an
1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball. The
Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, were among the founding members of
the International Association in 1877, the first league established
to challenge the struggling National League, formed a year earlier.
The team played against the top competition of the day and defeated
nines from Chicago, St. Louis and elsewhere. They became the first
champions of the International Association when they defeated
Pittsburgh with the help of Fred Goldsmith, one of the first
curveball pitchers. This is also the story of the International
Association, the only one of the six leagues challenging the
primacy of the National League that has never been accorded major
league status. To this day it has been relegated to minor league
status to the detriment of some of the pioneer players in the game.
But two of his parishioners have other ideas. Noleen, a blind woman
who knows more than she lets on, wants him to hear her confession.
Jacinta, an unmarried mother and recent convert to Islam, needs
proof that she has left the church. And then Henry arrives - twelve
years old and on a quest of his own. Will Father Patrick ever find
peace?
Attacks can backfire on attackers_sometimes spectacularly. In March
1991, an observer videotaped several Los Angeles police beating
Rodney King with their batons. Shown on television, the beating
caused enormous damage to the reputation of the police and led to
the chief's resignation. This incident and others, such as the 2003
invasion of Iraq and the 1965 surveillance of Ralph Nader, prove
that all sorts of attacks can backfire, from torture and massacres
to job dismissals and reprisals against whistle-blowers. Through
numerous detailed case studies, Justice Ignited presents the first
comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of backfire, as it reveals
the most promising tactics for causing the backfire of unfair
attacks. Understanding backfire_both promoting and inhibiting it_is
vitally important for activists and everyone else who wants to be
effective in the face of injustice.
Attacks can backfire on attackers-sometimes spectacularly. In March
1991, an observer videotaped several Los Angeles police beating
Rodney King with their batons. Shown on television, the beating
caused enormous damage to the reputation of the police and led to
the chief's resignation. This incident and others, such as the 2003
invasion of Iraq and the 1965 surveillance of Ralph Nader, prove
that all sorts of attacks can backfire, from torture and massacres
to job dismissals and reprisals against whistle-blowers. Through
numerous detailed case studies, Justice Ignited presents the first
comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of backfire, as it reveals
the most promising tactics for causing the backfire of unfair
attacks. Understanding backfire-both promoting and inhibiting it-is
vitally important for activists and everyone else who wants to be
effective in the face of injustice.
At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was
hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate
the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited
Boutilier-known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation of St.
Francis Xavier-with making him the man and the baseball player he
became. Matthias saw something in the troubled seven-year old and
nurtured his athletic ability. Spending many extra hours on the
ballfield with him over a dozen years, he taught Ruth how to hit
and converted the young left-handed catcher into a formidable
pitcher. Overshadowed by a fellow Xavierian brother who was given
the credit for discovering the baseball prodigy, Matthias never
received his due from the public but didn't complain. Ruth never
forgot the father figure who continued to provide valuable counsel
in later life. This is the first telling of the full story of the
man who gave the world its most famous baseball star.
Narrated by Johnny James, a young Oxford fellow, HOLT COLLEGE tells
the story of the Principal of Holt College, Dr Willoughby Morris.
Morris's increasingly autocratic rule of the college brings him
into conflict with many of the college fellows who begin to
manoeuvre for his removal but when there is a leak from the college
finance committee to the undergraduate newspaper about an expenses
scandal and the news is picked up by the national press that
Morris' dictatorship is rocked to the core. A haunting portrait of
one man's life, HOLT COLLEGE shows the inner political workings of
one of the country's oldest institutions and the perils that come
when such a world is made public.
Argues for social defense as a grassroots initiative linked to
challenges to oppressive structures in society, such as patriarchy,
police, and the state. Filled with examples from Finland to Fiji.
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