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Let's say you're the manager of one of the most beloved franchises
in Major League Baseball, with every past and current player
available on your bench. Game time is approaching and the ump needs
your line-up card. Who's your starting pitcher? Fireballer Dwight
Gooden, lights-out Tom Seaver, or run-stingy Jacob de Grom? Is Gary
Carter behind the plate or Mike Piazza? Who'll bat clean-up?
Combining statistical analysis, common sense, and a host of
intangibles, Brian Wright constructs an all-time All-Star Mets
line-up for the ages. Agree with his choices or not, you'll learn
all there is to know about the men who played for and managed New
York's Amazin' Mets.
Brigid of Kildare, Ireland, is uniquely venerated as both a goddess
and a saint throughout Ireland, Europe and the USA. Often referred
to as Mary of the Gael and considered the second most important
saint in Ireland after St Patrick, her widespread popularity has
led to the creation of more traditional activities than any other
saint; some of which survive to this day. As a result of original
historical and archaeological research Brian Wright provides a
fascinating insight into this unique and mysterious figure. This
book uncovers for the first time when and by whom the goddess was
'conceived' and evidence that St Brigid was a real person. It also
explains how she 'became' a saint, her historical links with the
unification of Ireland under a High King in the first century and
discusses in depth her first documented visit to England in AD 488.
Today, Brigid remains strongly connected with the fertility of
crops, animals and humans and is celebrated throughout the world
via the continuation of customs, ceremonies and relics with origins
dating back to pre-Christian times. Using a combination of early
Celtic history, archaeology, tradition and folklore from Ireland,
Britain and other countries, this comprehensive study unravels the
mystery of a goddess and saint previously complicated by the
passage of time.
During the Second World War Birmingham suffered 365 air raid alerts
and 77 actual air raids. These raids took place between the 8th
August 1940 and the 23rd April 1943. There were over 9,000
casualties of whom 2,241 were killed. This book contains the first
hand accounts of some of those who survived. The Memorial shown on
the front cover "The Tree of Life" by Lorenzo Quinn is dedicated to
the memory of all victims of the Blitz on Birmingham. The memorial
was donated to the City of Birmingham by the Halcyon Gallery on
behalf of its founders Racna and Lionel Green, in association with
Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Air Raids Remembrance
Association.
The conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance
of biodiversity and to the world's ability to feed its growing
population. There are now more than a thousand genebanks worldwide
involved in the ex situ (meaning "away from the source") storage of
particular classes of crops. Since the 1970s, the eleven genebanks
maintained by the centres of the Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) have become pivotal to
the global conservation effort. However, key policy and management
issues - usually with economic dimensions - have largely been
overlooked.This provided the impetus for a series of detailed
economic studies, led by IFPRI, in collaboration with five CGIAR
centres: CIAT (based in Colombia), CIMMYT (Mexico), ICARDA (Syria),
ICRISAT (India) and IRRI (Philippines). This book reports these
studies and discusses their wider implications.
WINNER OF THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD Rich and diverse
narratives of Indigenous Toronto, past and present Beneath many
major North American cities rests a deep foundation of Indigenous
history that has been colonized, paved over, and, too often,
silenced. Few of its current inhabitants know that Toronto has seen
twelve thousand years of uninterrupted Indigenous presence and
nationhood in this region, along with a vibrant culture and history
that thrives to this day. With contributions by Indigenous Elders,
scholars, journalists, artists, and historians, this unique
anthology explores the poles of cultural continuity and settler
colonialism that have come to define Toronto as a significant
cultural hub and intersection that was also known as a Meeting
Place long before European settlers arrived. "This book is a
reflection of endurance and a helpful corrective to settler
fantasies. It tells a more balanced account of our communities,
then and now. It offers the space for us to reclaim our ancestors'
language and legacy, rewriting ourselves back into a landscape from
which non Indigenous historians have worked hard to erase us. But
we are there in the skyline and throughout the GTA, along the coast
and in all directions." -- from the introduction by Hayden King
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