With his irreverant personality, laid-back approach, and penchant for the unexpected, Joe Maddon is a singular presence among Major League Baseball managers. Whether he's bringing clowns and live bear cubs to spring training or leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years, Maddon is always one to watch. In Try Not to Suck, ESPN's Jesse Rogers and MLB.com's Bill Chastain fully explore Maddon's life and career, delving behind the scenes and dissecting th...

In The Franchise: Chicago Cubs, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team. This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans' history of the franchise, going beyond well-worn narratives of yesteryear to uncover the less-discussed moments, decisions, people, and settings that fostered the Cubs' one-of-a-kind identity. Through wheeling and dealing, mythmaking and community building, explore where the organization has been, how it got ...

A Collection of Pagan Oriented Poetry, a Philosophical look at just about everything That will spur your mind to thought, give you insight into just how and why we sometimes don’t have words to explain things.

The frontline of any company is going to be their sales team, without sales the company is going to flounder and die, if you go back through the history of any large company there is a small company and before the small company existed there was a person with an idea and he had to sell it to someone else. With that said and no matter where you are or which company you are with the art of developing new customers is the one constant throughout. It doesn’t matter if you are selling a product...

In the following I will try to explain to the best of my ability about the general concepts of Paganism / Wicca, as well as offer insight into my own belief system compared to the generally accepted view points on this subject. I would also like to state clearly and upfront that mine is not the last word on any of the topics that will be discussed, and I encourage you to go out and find as much information that you can, so that you can make up your own mind based upon the things that are i...

In the following I will try to explain to the best of my ability about the general concepts of Paganism / Wicca, as well as offer insight into my own belief system compared to the generally accepted view points on this subject. I would also like to state clearly and upfront that mine is not the last word on any of the topics that will be discussed, and I encourage you to go out and find as much information that you can, so that you can make up your own mind based upon the things that are i...

With his irreverant personality, laid-back approach, and penchant for the unexpected, Joe Maddon is a singular presence among Major League Baseball managers. Whether he's bringing clowns and live bear cubs to spring training or leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years, Maddon is always one to watch.In Try Not to Suck, ESPN's Jesse Rogers and MLB.com's Bill Chastain fully explore Maddon's life and career, delving behind the scenes and dissec...

With its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It's a thinking game. It's also a shifting game. Nowhere is this more evident than in the statistical revolution which has swept through the pastime in recent years, bringing metrics like WAR, OPS, and BABIP into front offices and living rooms alike.So what's on the horizon for a game that is constantly evolving? ...

The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball’s most colorful and controversial decade.The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the ‘70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative sport to its very foundations.Outspoken players embraced free agency, openly advocated drug use, and ev...

"... [Annie Hwang's] poetry sings for every aching soul....talks about every loving heart....Speaks of the unflinching reality of life....Cries for the dreams that we all are craving for....." -Munia Khan

Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature.

Mihai Eminescu is considered Romania's greatest poet. The Tear-Drop Prince is his only children's story and is popular throughout Romania. This is the tale of the Prince searching for true love, adventure and honour. Eminescu was born in 1850 and died in 1889. As a Romantic poet, his language reflects the sweetness in his language. The cover is illustrated by Emil Childescu and translated into English by A.I. Marin in 2011.