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The collaborative effort of Timothy Jacobs and Russell Roberts, 100
Athletes Who Shaped Sports History is a compilation of one hundred
single-page biographies summarizing the lives and achievements of
great athletes ranging from Ted Williams, Patty Berg, and Sugar Ray
Leonard, to Jackie Robinson, Michael Jordan, and Wayne Gretzky. A
black-and-white photograph or a simple sketch of each of the great
sports figures accompanies the brief narrative describing their
role in the particular sport they embraced. 100 Athletes Who Shaped
Sports History is recommended as a quick and easy read for sports
trivia buffs, as well as being a great book to introduce young
people to the varied and diverse world of sports legends.
A wesome collection of facts about the best 100 baseball players
who ever stepped up to the plate. The first of the '100' is Mike
Kelly, the first baseball superstar, best known for stealing bases
The 100th listing is for New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter,
who has won four World Series rings in his first six season, and
seems destined for the Hall of Fame. Each entry is satisfyingly
dense with facts and informational nuggets, and, just like the
other books in the '100' series from Tallfellow, features:
Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental
country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet, since the late
twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space
than land space, and more water space than perhaps any other
country in the world. This watery version of the United States
borders some twenty-one countries, particularly in the
archipelagoes of the Pacific and the Caribbean. In Borderwaters
Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental national mythologies to
advance an alternative image of the United States as an
archipelagic nation. Drawing on literature, visual art, and other
expressive forms that range from novels by Mark Twain and Zora
Neale Hurston to Indigenous testimonies against nuclear testing and
Miguel Covarrubias's visual representations of Indonesia and the
Caribbean, Roberts remaps both the fundamentals of US geography and
the foundations of how we discuss US culture.
Environmental Quality Management provides a quantitative analysis
of regional residuals environmental quality management in the Lower
Delaware Valley. Originally published in 1976, this study takes a
management outlook to discuss new systems such as a non-linear
aquatic eco-system model and reaches conclusions which have
influenced research and management decisions about REQM across the
world. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental
Studies.
First published in 1981. This collection includes a careful
selection of some of the wittiest and most pungent of Russell's
writings, that are instructive and delightful, both for the
philosopher and the layman. The reader will gain an appreciation of
the serious thought and keen humour of Russell's writings as well
as understand why Russell has been both an influential and
controversial figure for more than half a century.
Environmental Quality Management provides a quantitative analysis
of regional residuals environmental quality management in the Lower
Delaware Valley. Originally published in 1976, this study takes a
management outlook to discuss new systems such as a non-linear
aquatic eco-system model and reaches conclusions which have
influenced research and management decisions about REQM across the
world. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental
Studies.
First published in 1981. This collection includes a careful
selection of some of the wittiest and most pungent of Russell's
writings, that are instructive and delightful, both for the
philosopher and the layman. The reader will gain an appreciation of
the serious thought and keen humour of Russell's writings as well
as understand why Russell has been both an influential and
controversial figure for more than half a century.
While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has
been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian
accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely
overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by
Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters, as well as a
newly recovered lecture by Wright, previously published only in
Indonesian. Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher introduce and
contextualize these documents with extensive background information
and analysis, showcasing the heterogeneity of postcolonial
modernity and underscoring the need to consider non-English
language perspectives in transnational cultural exchanges. This
collection of primary sources and scholarly histories is a crucial
companion volume to Wright'sThe Color Curtain.
Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental
country bordered by Canada and Mexico. Yet, since the late
twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space
than land space, and more water space than perhaps any other
country in the world. This watery version of the United States
borders some twenty-one countries, particularly in the
archipelagoes of the Pacific and the Caribbean. In Borderwaters
Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental national mythologies to
advance an alternative image of the United States as an
archipelagic nation. Drawing on literature, visual art, and other
expressive forms that range from novels by Mark Twain and Zora
Neale Hurston to Indigenous testimonies against nuclear testing and
Miguel Covarrubias's visual representations of Indonesia and the
Caribbean, Roberts remaps both the fundamentals of US geography and
the foundations of how we discuss US culture.
En esta nueva obra el economista y escritor Russell Roberts logra
acercarnos al funcionamiento de la economĂa a travĂ©s de los
conflictos cotidianos del protagonista de su relato. Un relato que
no sĂłlo revela el prodigioso mecanismo por el que se establecen
los precios y se mueven los engranajes de la economĂa, sino que
además invita al lector a hacerse preguntas sobre la enorme
influencia que ello tiene en nuestras vidas.
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Custodians (Hardcover)
Joanna Vestey, Russell Roberts, Alexander Sturgis
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Custodians brings together for the first time, in this beautifully
compiled collection, images of many of Oxford's most prestigious
buildings along with some rarely seen, but wonderful venues and
their 'Custodians'. Photographer Joanna Vestey set out to explore
the extraordinary colleges and buildings of Oxford, behind the
closed doors, often beyond the reach of the 9.5 million visitors a
year who come here, and to meet the 'Custodians' playing a pivotal
role in perpetuating these world-renowned institutions. Rarely do
we get to catch a glimpse behind the closed facades of these iconic
structures and to see the spaces that lie within. All the images
have been captured in the University City of Oxford, known as the
"City of Dreaming Spires" and show its extraordinary breadth of
architecture since the arrival of the Saxons. It includes venues
such as the 17th Century Divinity School, the mid-18th century
Radcliffe Camera continuing through to the most recent award
winning RIBA-nominated chapel at Ripon College completed last year.
Venues such as the Sheldonian Theatre and Christchurch College sit
alongside perhaps lesser known venues such as The Real Tennis
Courts or the John Martyr Pawsons cricket pavilion portraying the
breadth and diversity constituting the city. The 'Custodians' and
their surroundings enjoy equal status in Joanna's formal
compositions; they seem to belong together, yet do not fuse into
one, thereby asking us to question how we are all largely shaped
and influenced by the structures around us - how defined we are by
them and how much they form us. Full of unexpected venues
beautifully photographed, this book will appeal to the historian,
city visitor, people interested in architecture and interiors as
well as to the extensive alumni network of the colleges themselves.
It will also appeal to an audience interested in contemporary
photography.
This book describes the key events that took place in the Pacific
theater during World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the
Battles of Midway and Okinawa. In addition to historic photos, this
book includes a table of contents, two infographics, critical
thinking questions, two "A Closer Look" special features, a reading
comprehension quiz, a glossary, additional resources, and an index.
This Focus Readers title is at the Voyager level, aligned to
reading levels of grades 5-6 and interest levels of grades 5-9.
Did you know----that a New Jerseyan was the first president of the
United States?--that New Jersey was the site of the first organized
college football game?--that New Jersey was the location of one of
the most devastating espionage attacks of World War I?--that the
heroics of a New Jersey woman saved thousands of people from dying
of yellow fever?--that one of the first American folk heroes lived
in New Jersey--and jumped off waterfalls?
These and other fascinating stories can be found in the newly
updated "Rediscover the Hidden New Jersey," a treasury of New
Jersey stories that celebrate the unique heritage and importance of
the Garden State. Russell Roberts has scoured New Jersey, from High
Point to Cape May, to bring readers a delightful potpourri of
facts, essays, lists, photos, stories, and legends about New
Jersey. Readers will learn how New Jersey used to be the center of
the motion picture universe, the origin of the Jersey Devil and
other popular tall tales, where Norman Mailer and Abbot &
Costello were born, where Aaron Burr and Leo, the M-G-M lion, lie
buried, and much more. Learn about the geology of New Jersey, find
out about the state's ever-changing weather, and how New Jersey was
chosen for the famous (or infamous) War of the Worlds radio
broadcast that panicked the nation. All this and more is in
"Rediscover the Hidden New Jersey," the ultimate New Jersey
book.
This revised edition contains new sections on Lawnside, the Morris
Canal, Albert Einstein in Princeton, The Bordentown Manual Training
School, Rockefeller/Ocean County Park, the bicycle railroad, Morro
Castle, Alice Paul, and more.
Born into a high-status family of the Batak ethnic group indigenous
to North Sumatra, Sitor Situmorang (1924-2014) was a Dutch-educated
Indonesian nationalist who experienced firsthand the transition
from the Dutch East Indies of his youth to the modern Indonesia of
his adulthood. The stories in this collection are a window into the
world of a writer dedicated to exploration and change but
resolutely attached to the land, people, and stories of his
homeland. Set variously in western Europe, post-independence
Jakarta, and modernizing communities in his native North Sumatra,
the stories live in-as the translators put it-the "perpetual
tension between the urge to wander and a longing for origins."
One of the thirteen original colonies, the state of New Jersey is a
study in contrasts. It is both the Garden State, home to the
Rutgers tomato, but also the birthplace of the nation’s first
industrial complex, Alexander Hamilton’s Society for Establishing
Useful Manufactures. The onetime industrial behemoths, from
Paterson in the north to Camden in the south, give way to legendary
resort towns along the coast like Ocean City and Cape May. Baby
Parades that began at Asbury Park still delight New Jerseyans,
where once the Lindbergh kidnapping at Hopewell engendered grief.
In 1877, Menlo Park became the birthplace of Edison’s phonograph,
and in 1938 Orson Welles would use a radio broadcast to bring an
imaginary invasion of Martians to Grover’s Mill. The Miss America
Pageant grew famous in Atlantic City, just as
the Hindenburg airship disaster at Lakehurst remains
etched in the historical memory of Americans everywhere. Historic
Photos of New Jersey is a kaleidoscopic tour of this colorful
state, from the early days of photography in the 1860s to the
recent past in the 1970s. Nearly 200 photographs reproduced in
vivid black-and-white, with informative captions and introductions,
tell the story.
During the first generation of black participation in U.S.
diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a
vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures
worked as U.S. representatives abroad. Through the literary and
diplomatic dossiers of figures such as Frederick Douglass, James
Weldon Johnson, Archibald and Angelina Grimke, W. E. B. Du Bois,
Ida Gibbs Hunt, and Richard Wright, Brian Roberts shows how the
intersection of black aesthetic trends and U.S. political culture
both Americanized and internationalized the trope of the New Negro.
This decades-long relationship began during the days of
Reconstruction, and it flourished as U.S. presidents courted and
rewarded their black voting constituencies by appointing black men
as consuls and ministers to such locales as Liberia, Haiti,
Madagascar, and Venezuela. These appointments changed the
complexion of U.S. interactions with nations and colonies of color;
in turn, state-sponsored black travel gave rise to literary works
that imported international representation into New Negro discourse
on aesthetics, race, and African American culture.
Beyond offering a narrative of the formative dialogue between
black transnationalism and U.S. international diplomacy, "Artistic
Ambassadors" also illuminates a broader literary culture that
reached both black and white America as well as the black diaspora
and the wider world of people of color. In light of the U.S.
appointments of its first two black secretaries of state and the
election of its first black president, this complex
representational legacy has continued relevance to our
understanding of current American internationalism.
Stanford University student and Cuban American tennis prodigy
Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby mega-store hikes its
prices the night of an earthquake. He crosses paths with provost
and economics professor Ruth Lieber when he plans a campus protest
against the price-gouging retailer--which is also a major donor to
the university. Ruth begins a dialogue with Ramon about prices,
prosperity, and innovation and their role in our daily lives. Is
Ruth trying to limit the damage from Ramon's protest? Or does she
have something altogether different in mind?
As Ramon is thrust into the national spotlight by events beyond
the Stanford campus, he learns there's more to price hikes than
meets the eye, and he is forced to reconsider everything he thought
he knew. What is the source of America's high standard of living?
What drives entrepreneurs and innovation? What upholds the hidden
order that allows us to choose our careers and pursue our passions
with so little conflict? How does economic order emerge without
anyone being in charge? Ruth gives Ramon and the reader a new
appreciation for how our economy works and the wondrous role that
the price of everything plays in everyday life.
"The Price of Everything" is a captivating story about economic
growth and the unseen forces that create and sustain economic
harmony all around us.
This title focuses on the Battle of Gettysburg and the Siege of
Vicksburg, helping readers understand how these two events altered
the course of the war. Critical thinking questions and two "Voices
from the Past" special features help readers understand and analyze
the various views people held at the time.
This book describes the key events that took place in the Pacific
theater during World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the
Battles of Midway and Okinawa. In addition to historic photos, this
book includes a table of contents, two infographics, critical
thinking questions, two "A Closer Look" special features, a reading
comprehension quiz, a glossary, additional resources, and an index.
This Focus Readers title is at the Voyager level, aligned to
reading levels of grades 5-6 and interest levels of grades 5-9.
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