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Since forming in 1888, the Texas League has produced some of the
most beloved American baseball players and seen more than its fair
share of colorful events. In 1931, Houston pitcher Dizzy Dean
pitched and won both ends of a double-header in Fort Worth,
throwing a three-hit shutout in the second game. In 1906, center
fielder Tris Speaker pitched for Cleburne to beat Temple 10-3. In
1998, Arkansas' Tyrone Horne hit for the "homer cycle" in San
Antonio, finishing to a standing ovation. "The Texas League
Baseball Almanac" delivers day by day the record-breaking events,
personal triumphs and memorable games that helped to shape baseball
in the region. Join authors David King and Tom Kayser on a
nine-inning trip down one of minor-league baseball's most historic
institutions, both in season and off.
For undergraduate and graduate electronic commerce courses. Explore
the many aspects of electronic commerce through a managerial
perspective. Electronic Commerce provides a thorough explanation of
what EC is, how it's being conducted and managed, and how to assess
its opportunities, limitations, issues, and risks-all from a
managerial perspective. By presenting EC through a managerial
approach, this text makes the subject matter practical, relevant,
and beneficial to majors and non-majors alike.
Norfolk's churches are home to some of the highest-quality and
best-preserved medieval stained glass in Britain. Panels produced
in the county's extensive and long-lasting workshops, centred in
the historically important city of Norwich, can be found in some
270 buildings, including churches, museums and country houses.
Moreover, recent research has revealed for the first time the
original location of many of the panels now dispersed around the
county. In Stories in Glass, Paul Harley and David King reveal
these treasures to a new audience. Harley's exquisite photographs
are set alongside historical and artistic explanations that
illuminate the social, economic and religious background to the
windows we see today. With 200 colour images, and maps showing the
locations of the windows discussed, this beautifully illustrated
guide will appeal to the explorer and collector alike. Â
The Effective Change Manager's Handbook helps practitioners,
employers and academics define and practise change management
successfully and develop change management maturity within their
organization. A single-volume learning resource covering the range
of knowledge required, it includes chapters from established
thought leaders on topics ranging from benefits management,
stakeholder strategy, facilitation, change readiness, project
management and education and learning support. Endorsed by the
Change Management Institute and the official guide to the CMI Body
of Knowledge, The Effective Change Manager's Handbook covers the
whole process from planning to implementation, offering practical
tools, techniques and models to effectively support any change
initiative. The editors of The Effective Change Manager's Handbook
- Richard Smith, David King, Ranjit Sidhu and Dan Skelsey - are all
experienced international consultants and trainers in change
management. All four editors worked on behalf of the Change
Management Institute to co-author the first global change
management body of knowledge, The Effective Change Manager, and are
members of the APMG International examination panel for change
management.
Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a
fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals
and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from
1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts
across a wide swath of generations and perspectives, shedding light
on the musical, political, and social aspects of this movement. The
narrators highlight many of the major folk revival figures,
including Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon, Phil Ochs, Mary Travers, Don
McLean, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Ry Cooder, and Holly Near.
Together they tell the stories of such musical groups as the
Composers' Collective, the Almanac Singers, People's Songs, the
Weavers, the New Lost City Ramblers, and the Freedom Singers.
Folklorists, musicians, musicologists, writers, activists, and
aficionados reveal not only what happened during the folk revivals,
but what it meant to those personally and passionately involved.
For everyone who ever picked up a guitar, fiddle, or banjo, this
will be a book to give and cherish. Extensive notes, bibliography,
and discography, plus a photo section.
Sustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected
by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental,
technological and political issues. Energy, Transport, & the
Environment: Addressing the Sustainable Mobility Paradigm brings
together leading figures from business, academia and governments to
address the challenges and opportunities involved in working
towards sustainable mobility. Key thinkers and decision makers
approach topics and debates including: energy security and resource
scarcity greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions urban planning,
transport systems and their management governance and finance of
transformation *the threats of terrorism and climate change to our
transport systems. Introduced by a preface from U.S. Secretary of
Energy, Steven Chu and an outline by the editors, Dr Oliver
Inderwildi and Sir David King, Energy, Transport, & the
Environment is divided into six sections. These sections address
and explore the challenges and opportunities for energy supply,
road transport, urban mobility, aviation, sea and rail, as well as
finance and economics in transport. Possible solutions, ranging
from alternative fuels to advanced urban planning and policy
levers, will be examined in order to deepen the understanding of
currently proposed solutions within the political realities of the
dominating economic areas. The result of this detailed
investigation is an integrated view of sustainable transport for
both people and freight, making Energy, Transport, & the
Environment key reading for researchers, decision makers and policy
experts across the public and private sectors.
ESOL Practice Grammar: Supplementary Grammar Support for ESOL
Students: Entry Levels 1-2 This book has been designed for adult
students studying ESOL at schools and colleges in the United
Kingdom. It is also ideal for students who are interested in
learning grammar in the context of UK culture. The material take
the key grammatical structures at Entry Levels 1 and 2 from the
Adult ESOL core curriculum as its basis. The rationale underlying
the book is to make grammar accessible, relevant and memorable. A
bold and eyecatching design have been used to reinforce these three
aspects of the book. Key features of the course include: *30 units
matching the ESOL curriculum; * accessible explanations; *
attractive full-colour format; * graded practice activities; *
focus on language patterns; * contextualized language; *
communicative interaction and genuine language development; *
database of essential topic-based vocabulary; * accommodation of
student differentiation; * for class study, self-study, or for home
reference; * includes full answer key. See also the higher-level
version of this book: ESOL Practice Grammar: Supplementary Grammar
Support for ESOL Students: Entry Level 3
First published in 1984. This book brings together and develops the
economic theory relating to the design and operation of systems of
non-central government - positing major developments in several
areas. It considers what functions systems most suitably perform in
non-central governments, and their appropriate size and structure.
How these authorities might finance themselves - by taxes, charges
or loans - is analysed in detail. It also examines the use of
grants by higher tiers of government and how such programmes should
be designed. Concentrating on contemporary economic concerns, it
relates the theory to practice in countries such as Australia,
Canada, West Germany, the UK and USA.
Pete Seeger is one of the most recorded artists in American
history, and his recording catalog tells us not just the story of
his career but the story of our culture and its political and
social history. A Pete Seeger Discography: Seventy Years of
Recordings is a comprehensive listing of the 45s, 78s, LPs, and CDs
recorded by Seeger in his various incarnations: with the Almanac
Singers, with the Weavers, as a solo artist, and with other
musicians and contributors. David King Dunaway provides
information, with easy to use cross-references, on rare recordings
and archival collections. The discography offers details on
Seeger's recording history, including the album title, song(s),
other artists on the recording, the publisher and number, and the
year or exact recording date if known, as well as the original
release date and the re-releases of each recording. Structured to
make locating details easy for readers, the recordings are
organized chronologically and categorized by albums, singles,
private pressings, and foreign releases. Readers can easily
cross-reference through album and song title indexes and a
contributing artist index. An appendix listing the unreleased
archival holdings of the Smithsonian Folkways collection under Moe
Asch completes the volume, and a photospread with more than 30 of
Seeger's album covers convey a pictorial recording history of this
well-loved artist. The authors gratefully acknowledge Furthermore:
a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, for their funding assistance in
preparing this discography.
The interconnectedness of communities, organisations, governing
bodies, policy and individuals in the field of disaster studies has
never been accurately examined or comprehensively modelled. This
kind of study is vital for planning policy and emergency responses
and assessing individual and community vulnerability, resilience
and sustainability as well as mitigation and adaptation to climate
change impacts; it therefore deserves attention. Disasters and
Social Resilience fills this gap by introducing to the field of
disaster studies a fresh methodology and a model for examining and
measuring impacts and responses to disasters. Urie Bronfenbrenner's
bioecological systems theory, which is used to look at communities
holistically, is outlined and illustrated through a series of
chapters, guiding the reader from the theory's underpinnings
through research illustrations and applications focused on each
level of Bronfenbrenner's ecosystems, culminating in an integration
chapter. The final chapter provides policy recommendations for
local and national government bodies and emergency providers to
help individuals and communities prepare and withstand the effects
of a range of disasters. This book will be of great interest to
scholars and students of disaster and emergency management,
disaster readiness and risk reduction (DRR), and to scholars and
students of more general climate change and sustainability studies.
First published in 1984. This book brings together and develops the
economic theory relating to the design and operation of systems of
non-central government - positing major developments in several
areas. It considers what functions systems most suitably perform in
non-central governments, and their appropriate size and structure.
How these authorities might finance themselves - by taxes, charges
or loans - is analysed in detail. It also examines the use of
grants by higher tiers of government and how such programmes should
be designed. Concentrating on contemporary economic concerns, it
relates the theory to practice in countries such as Australia,
Canada, West Germany, the UK and USA.
The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the
North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives. East Anglia was
a distinctive English region during the Middle Ages, but it was one
that owed much of its character and identity to its place in a much
wider "North Sea World" that stretched from the English Channel to
Iceland, the Baltic and beyond. Relations between East Anglia and
its maritime neighbours have for the most part been peaceful,
involving migration and commercial, artistic, architectural and
religious exchanges, but have also at times beencharacterised by
violence and contestation. All these elements have played a
significant role in processes of historical change that have shaped
the history both of East Anglia and its North Sea world. This
collection of essays discusses East Anglia in the context of this
maritime framework and explores the extent to which there was a
distinctive community bound together by the shared frontier of the
North Sea during the Middle Ages. It brings together the work of a
range of international scholars and includes contributions from the
disciplines of history, archaeology, art history and literary
studies. David Bates is Professorial Fellow in History at the
Universityof East Anglia, Robert Liddiard is Professor of History
at the University of East Anglia. Contributors: Anna Agnarsdottir,
Brian Ayers, Wendy R. Childs, Lynda Dennison, Stephen Heywood,
Carole Hill, John Hines, David King, Robert Liddiard, Rory
Naismith, Eljas Oksanen, Richard Plant, Aleksander Pluskowski,
Christopher Scull, Tim Pestell, Charles West, Gareth Williams, Tom
Williamson.
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