"Dennis and Jeanne DeValeria pay overdue homage to the Pittsburgh Pirates' Flying Dutchman, perhaps the premier shortstop in baseball history." — The Toronto Globe and MailHonus Wagner is generally acknowledged as the finest shortstop in baseball history. Along with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson, he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. His rise paralleled the development ...

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Honus Wagner, whose career in baseball stretched from 1895 to 1917, was the first American sports superstar of the twentieth century. One of the first five players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in its first year (1939), he was arguably the best shortstop in baseball history. His great career and the dawn of baseball as a popular entertainment occurred simultaneously, and he has become an icon of the early game; his 1909 baseball card, one of which sold for $451,000, is a ho...

Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women “coming home” to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common ground between Dogen’s Zen teachings and Habe...

This revised and updated third edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 1991. In this vilifying volume you will rediscover terrifying tales by, amongst many others, Ramsey Campbell, Robert McCammon, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth Hand, Michael Marshall Smith, Charles L. Grant, Joel Lane and Thomas Tessier, along with an overview of the year in horror by the editors and a nightmare necrology of those who kicked off this mortal coil durin...

This book focuses on public policy issues in Caribbean, evaluating current policy and suggests realistic improvements and alternatives. It also focuses on following themes: economic policy, the regional business environment, regionalism and integration, health care, labor and migration and gender.

Umfassende Einführung zum Filmverstehen unter zeichentheoretischer Perspektive. Es werden Medien als solche, ihre technischen Grundlagen und ihre Wirkungsästhetik behandelt. Aus zeichentheoretischer Perspektive sind Medien materielle, technische und sozial institutionalisierte Kommunikationsmittel, die der Herstellung, Verbreitung und Verarbeitung von Zeichen dienen. Mediale Zeichen übernehmen - zu Zeichensystemen geordnet - in der Kultur die Funktion kultureller Selbstreproduktion und erm...

What role do material objects play in the in-situ, embodied and spatial circumstances of interaction? How do people organize their embodied conduct with regard to such objects, and how is this consequential in and for their work practices? In this volume, contributors focus on these questions in terms of connections between ongoing courses of interaction within work practices, object materiality and mobility in space, bodily movement and manipulation of objects, and language. The chapters ...

Managing large and complex organizations; balancing the needs of business-as-usual, new products and services and business change; assuring risk across everything the business does; these are all core requirements of modern business which are provided by the discipline of portfolio management.The Handbook of Project Portfolio Management is the definitive publication that introduces and describes in detail project portfolio management in today’s ever-changing world. The handbook con...

In the ten years since this Gower Handbook was first published, Programme Management has been transformed to become the vehicle of choice for realising the objectives of large scale, complicated, business, government and social investment. The Second Edition of this Gower Handbook is a completely new text; designed as a definitive guide to the current state of Programme Management. To that end the text offers foundation theory and knowledge around key issues such as, managing programme con...

Im Januar des Jahres 1569 kommt es auf der irischen Insel Inishkeere zu einigen dramatischen Ereignissen. Seit langer Zeit verdächtigen die Bewohner der Insel die Einsiedlerin Kiuna Macgullygosh, junge Mädchen in ihr Haus zu locken und deren Blut zu trinken. Als eines Tages der Hexenjäger Jonathan Thuerlaen in dem kleinen Dorf ankommt, beauftragen ihn die ängstlichen Menschen, dem Treiben der verhassten Druidin ein Ende zu bereiten. Noch am selben Abend suchen Thuerlaen und sein Begleiter ...

Die Zukunft - trotz aller Errungenschaften so ungewiss wie nie zuvor. Im 22. Jahrhundert hat die Menschheit Raumstationen in der Unendlichkeit errichtet und erforscht das Sonnensystem - bemüht, im Weltall das zerbrechliche Gleichgewicht aufrechtzuerhalten, das auf der Erde zwischen den zwei Machtblöcken existiert: der "Union" und den "Republiken". Mark Brandis ist Testpilot und fliegt für die neutrale Venus-Erde Gesellschaft für Astronautik (VEGA). Als er mit dem neuen Prototyp Delta VII u...