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Was it Babe Ruth who said it best when he once remarked, "Baseball was, is, and always will be to me the best game in the world"? Or Mickey Mantle when he channeled Lou Gehrig during his 1969 farewell address: "I never knew how someone dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand"? Since the New York Highlanders became the New York Yankees in 1913, this dynamic franchise has captured the hearts and minds of fans across...
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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1976, Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith is considered one of the greatest sportswriters ever to live. Put alongside Ring Lardner, Red Smith was beloved by those who read him because of his crisp writing and critical views.
Originally released in 1982, The Red Smith Reader is a wonderful collection of 131 columns with subjects ranging from baseball and fishing to golf, basketball, tennis, and boxing. As John Leonard of the...
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Sunspot Literary Journal believes in the power of the written word.
Sunspot speaks truth to power by drawing on the power of every human being. The publication is dedicated to diverse voices in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, scripts and screenplays from around the world. Photography and art, ranging from collages to digital art, are featured in the digital-only quarterly editions.
Since launching in January of 2019, Sunspot has showcased voices hailing...
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There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped through the cracks, went unread, missed their rightful appointment with posterity. They were ahead of their times or behind their times or on a whole different schedule than the rest of the universe.
What do you do when a book that you love has been neglected...
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"Winner of the 2012 Book Merit Award in the Professional, Reference category, New York Book Show" Donald J. Albers is senior acquisitions editor at the Mathematical Association of America. Gerald L. Alexanderson is the Michael and Elizabeth Valeriote Professor of Science at Santa Clara University. They are the editors of Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews and More Mathematical People: Contemporary Conversations.
Top mathematicians talk...
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This long overdue anthology of New Narrative includes both classic New Narrative texts and rare supplementary materials, allowing the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social struggle to bound back to life, ripe with dramatic propulsion, to form a new map of late 20th century creative rebellion.
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From merchantman to man-of-war...
William Richardson was always certain he would be a seaman. His father and all his brothers were mariners so it was not unusual that he should go to sea in his turn. By the last part of the eighteenth century Richardson was an accomplished and experienced young mariner who had made steady progress in promotion and who had travelled sea-routes across the globe, including time served in the notorious slave trade. These...
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This volume aims to show how southerners have faced their post and constructed a self. The essays in this volume explore the different personal narratives and strategies southern authors have employed to channel the autobiographical impulse and give artistic expression to their anxieties, traumas and revelations, as well as their relationship with the region. With the discussion of different types of memoirs, this volume reflects not only the transformation...
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A survey of exemplary SoTL research projects and the use of their results on a broader scale.
When the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) emerged, it often concentrated on individual faculty practice in one classroom, it is now, however, increasingly common to find work in SoTL focused more broadly. SoTL studies may engage with a cluster of courses, a program, a particular population of students, a pedagogical approach, or a field-all of...
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For nearly 50 years, Climbing Magazine's goal has been to inspire and entertain with compelling coverage of climbing in all its forms, from bouldering to the big walls, trad rock to sport climbing, ice climbing to mountaineering. Vantage Point offers a collection of the most inspiring, thought-provoking, and humorous stories featured in Climbing over the past five decades-an anthology that will move you to grab your chalkbag, rope, and harness.
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Este libro recoge varios textos que describen distintos aspectos de la música de la región Pacífica colombiana y su influencia en la cultura de la zona, así como la historia de narcotráfico y conflicto que subsiste allí También analizan la forma como se generaron ritmos y prácticas a partir de la mezcla entre la herencia africana y los ritmos e instrumentos del interior del país
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"Sex & The City meets The Wall Street Journal....Juicy, smart, dramatic and insightful-an addictive read."
-Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties
In The Secret Currency of Love, edited by Hilary Black, acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning women writers explore the fraught and powerful connections between love and money. As featured on the "Today Show"--with contributions by Karen...
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Mircea Pitici holds a PhD mathematics education from Cornell University, where he teaches math and writing. He has edited The Best Writing on Mathematics since 2010.
The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014 makes...
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¿Qué sentido tiene que un panadero haga pan solo para panaderos o un barbero que afeite solo a barberos? Lo mismo ocurre con la filosofía: los filósofos deberían escribir para todo el mundo y no solo para los iniciados. Los manuales de filosofía suelen centrarse en aquellas cuestiones de las que el filósofo se siente más orgulloso -el conocimiento, la política, la historia, la sociedad, la estética, la religión.
Sin embargo, hay otros temas...
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Les chroniques de la commune de Saint-Gilles.
Commune de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Saint-Gilles a toujours été une zone de passage. Paroisse dédiée à saint Gilles en 1216, le village d'Obbrussel (Haut-Bruxelles) est traversé pendant des siècles par les marchands et les brigands, les rois et leurs armées, mais aussi par les épidémies.
Au XIXe siècle, la Révolution industrielle s'installe à Saint-Gilles, avec la gare du Midi,...
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The Institute for Advanced Study in essays and photos
This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy, the book captures the spirit of curiosity, freedom, and comradeship that is a hallmark of this unique...
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In this remarkable collection, 22 writers describe suicidal despair or mania-or coming to terms with a generational legacy of mental illness. Into Sanity includes personal essays by contributors from all over the United States and a preface by Mark Vonnegut, who judged the contest at Talking Writing magazine that sparked these true stories.
The media has paid more attention to suicide risks and depression in recent years, especially after the death...
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Este libro fue publicado en el contexto de la celebración del bicentenario de la independencia de Colombia, en 2010 Los textos que reúne rescatan mitos que aportaron a la fundación y la construcción de nación, por eso aparecen personajes como la India Catalina, Policarpa Salvarrieta Y Miguel Antonio Caro, además de episodios históricos como la pérdida de Panamá, el boom del café y la resistencia realista frente a la independencia en lo que...
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