Touching Base


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The revised and expanded edition of Touching Base examines the myths, realities, symbols, and rituals of America's national pastime. Steven Riess details the relationships among urban politics, communities, and baseball while exploring how Progressive Era sensibilities shaped debates over issues like Sunday games, ballpark construction, and promotion of the games. Focusing on Atlanta, New York, and Chicago, Riess looks at all the participants--from spectators to owners to players--in analyzing how baseball both influenced and mirrored broader society.




Touching Base


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Discusses the ideology of baseball, professional baseball and urban politics, politics, ballparks, and the neighborhoods, social reform, and baseball as a source of social mobility.




Who Touched Base in My Thought Shower?


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Does the phrase 'going forward' make you sick to the back teeth? Does the idea of a 'nurture bubble' make your blood boil? Steven Poole takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the meaningless corporate jargon that irritates employees up and down the country.




Federal Register


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Dealing with Difficult Parents


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This book helps teachers, principals, superintendents, and all educators develop a repertoire of tools and skills for comfortable and effective interaction with parents. It shows you how to deal with the parent who is bossy, volatile, argumentative, aggressive, or maybe the worst - apathetic. It provides specific phrases to use with parents to help you avoid using "trigger" words which unintentionally make matters worse. It will show you how to deliver bad news to good parents, how to build positive credibility to all types of parents, and how to foster the kind of parent involvement which leads to student success.




City Games


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Investigative reporters Newfield (NY Daily News) and Barrett (Village Voice) attempt to expose the Koch administration's descent into corruption and criminality. No bibliography. Dealing primarily with the time of the industrial radial city (1870-1960), Riess (history, Northeastern Illinois U.) examines the complex interrelationship and interdependence of sport and the city. He shows how demographic growth, evolving spatial arrangements, social reform, the formation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of American sport. Heavily annotated, with many striking bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




Match You


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One week to teach her the ways of love. Three weeks to find him a wife. Former virgin Janey Pankowski accepts the reality of her situation. Once their bedroom tutoring arrangement comes to an end, she and Nyall will settle into a friendship consisting of occasional meetups for scones and coffee. She will advance to a more suitable man, perhaps an insurance adjuster who drives a beige sedan, while Nyall will resume his glamorous life in his French chalet and go back to his many mistresses. For plain folk like her and fancy folk like him, that's the way the world works. She'll even help him find his romantic destiny. She'll gather up a bevy of beautiful, successful women from which he'll be able to pick a fiancée appropriate to his position. And if it hurts her heart? She'll deal with it. Nyall is counting on her to find him the perfect wife. She also secretly hopes that planning the Charming Cinderella Ball will ease the ache of waking each morning cradled in his arms, his hungry lips moving over her body. Yep, her matchmaking plan should provide excellent closure for their temporary bargain. There's only one small problem with the plan. Nyall keeps sabotaging it. A steamy romantic comedy. Note: This is Book 2 in a 2-book series. It follows directly after the events in Book 1.




The Attorney-client Privilege in Civil Litigation


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Previous editions published : 1997 (2nd) and 1989 (1st).




Routine Dynamics


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Exploring the power of routines in navigating our increasingly complex world, this volume argues that routines are as much engines of change as they are of stability, and that organizations are in a position to benefit from both.




The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010


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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2009-2010 is an anthology of scholarly essays that utilize the national game to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark and constitute a significant academic contribution to baseball literature. The essays represent sixteen of the leading presentations from the two most recent proceedings of the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held, respectively, on June 3-5, 2009, and June 2-4, 2010. The anthology is divided into five parts: Baseball as Culture: Dance, Literature, National Character, and Myth; Constructing Baseball Heroes; Blacks in Baseball: From Segregation to Conflicted Integration; The Enterprise of Baseball: Economics and Entrepreneurs; and Genesis and Legacy of Baseball Scholarship, which features an essay written by the co-creator of baseball scholarship, Dorothy Seymour Mills.