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John Henry Newman : hans liv och verk
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2011
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
247 kr
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John Henry Newman katolsk teolog, författare, diktare och kardinal saligförklarades den 19 september 2010. Hans rika författarskap har med djärva grepp fört det teologiska tänkandet in i nutiden och visat på dess förenlighet med förnuft, vetenskap och bildning. Brian Martins biografi berättar …
Statistics for Physical Sciences
An Introduction
Av Brian Martin
E-bok, 2012
642 kr
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Statistics for Physical Sciences is an informal, relatively short, but systematic, guide to the more commonly used ideas and techniques in statistical analysis, as used in physical sciences, together with explanations of their origins. It steers a path between the extremes of a recipe of methods …
Random Selection in Politics
Inbunden, 1999
853 kr
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How might the entire citizenry of a country make the decisions that affect them? Carson and Martin provide the first accessible and comprehensive overview of random selection as a possible process for transforming our modern political systems. Building on the theoretical work of the likes of John …
Random Selection in Politics
E-bok, 1999
963 kr
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How might the entire citizenry of a country make the decisions that affect them? Carson and Martin provide the first accessible and comprehensive overview of random selection as a possible process for transforming our modern political systems. Building on the theoretical work of the likes of John …
Nineteenth Century
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 1989
659 kr
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The 19th century volume demonstrates the variety of English literature in an age of social, intellectual, religious and scientific ferment. The shift to Romanticism is portrayed with extracts from major figures such as Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge and the contribution of women writers is fully …
Probability and Statistics for Physical Sciences
Häftad, 2023
814 kr
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Probability and Statistics for Physical Sciences, Second Edition is an accessible guide to commonly used concepts and methods in statistical analysis used in the physical sciences. This brief yet systematic introduction explains the origin of key techniques, providing mathematical background and …
Probability and Statistics for Physical Sciences
E-bok, 2023
1118 kr
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Probability and Statistics for Physical Sciences, Second Edition is an accessible guide to commonly used concepts and methods in statistical analysis used in the physical sciences. This brief yet systematic introduction explains the origin of key techniques, providing mathematical background and …
Be Infants in Evil
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2014
223 kr
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But two of his parishioners have other ideas. Noleen, a blind woman who knows more than she lets on, wants him to hear her confession. Jacinta, an unmarried mother and recent convert to Islam, needs proof that she has left the church. And then Henry arrives - twelve years old and on a quest of his …
Justice Ignited
The Dynamics of Backfire
Av Brian Martin
Inbunden, 2006
1569 kr
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Attacks can backfire on attackers—sometimes spectacularly. In March 1991, an observer videotaped several Los Angeles police beating Rodney King with their batons. Shown on television, the beating caused enormous damage to the reputation of the police and led to the chief's resignation. This …
Justice Ignited
The Dynamics of Backfire
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2006
566 kr
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Attacks can backfire on attackers—sometimes spectacularly. In March 1991, an observer videotaped several Los Angeles police beating Rodney King with their batons. Shown on television, the beating caused enormous damage to the reputation of the police and led to the chief's resignation. This …
Baseball's Creation Myth
Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2013
573 kr
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The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children's game of rounders as had been believed. The tale, embraced by Americans, has long been proven …
Tecumsehs of the International Association
Canada's First Major League Baseball Champions
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2015
396 kr
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This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an 1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball. The Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, were among the founding members of the International Association in 1877, the first league established to challenge the struggling National …
Pud Galvin
Baseball's First 300-Game Winner
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2016
396 kr
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Despite his outstanding pitching record, James Francis "Pud" Galvin (1856-1902) was largely forgotten after his premature death. During his 18-year career with Pittsburgh, Buffalo and St. Louis, he was one of the best-paid players in the game--but died penniless. The diminutive hurler was the first …
Scientific Knowledge in Controversy
The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate
Av Brian Martin
Inbunden, 1991
1561 kr
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Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate is a study of today's most heated and long-lived health controversy as well as a study of the role of power in science. It uses the tools of sociology of knowledge and political economy to analyze battles over …
Whistleblowing: A Practical Guide
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2013
181 kr
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If you do nothing, the problem will continue. If you speak out, you become a target for attack - and the problem may still continue. Whistleblowing: A Practical Guide tells how to assess your options, prepare for action, use low-profile operations, negotiate official channels, leak, build support …
Controversy Manual
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2014
244 kr
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Climate change, psychiatric drugs, genetically modified organisms, nuclear power, fluoridation, stem cell research - these are just a few of the hundreds of issues involving science and technology that are vigorously debated. If you care about an issue, how can you be more effective in arguing for …
Nineteenth Century
Av Brian Martin
E-bok, 1989
702 kr
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The 19th century volume demonstrates the variety of English literature in an age of social, intellectual, religious and scientific ferment. The shift to Romanticism is portrayed with extracts from major figures such as Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge and the contribution of women writers is fully …
Detroit Wolverines
The Rise and Wreck of a National League Champion, 1881-1888
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2017
396 kr
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The Detroit Tigers were founding members of the American League and have been the Motor City's team for more than a century. But the Wolverines were the city's first major league club, playing in the National League beginning in 1881 and capturing the pennant in 1887. Playing in what was then one …
Man Who Made Babe Ruth
Brother Matthias of St. Mary's School
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2020
396 kr
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At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited Boutilier--known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation of St. Francis Xavier--with making him the man …
Barney Dreyfuss
Pittsburgh's Baseball Titan
Av Brian Martin
Häftad, 2021
517 kr
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A young German immigrant, Barney Dreyfuss was an American success story in business and in baseball. He fell in love with the game after settling in Paducah, Kentucky, where he discovered he had a knack for assembling good players on the diamond. Relocating to Louisville, he became involved in the …
New Recruit
Av Brian Martin, Raymond Miles
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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The New Recruit is a story about a young girl who is devastated when her father leaves the family home. Hurt by the past and unsure of the future, she retreats into her own bruised world, but through the help and understanding of Sharon, her one true friend, Susan slowly begins to heal. She was …
Latimer
Av Brian Martin
E-bok, 2023
43 kr
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The narrator resigns his post at an Oxford school where Latimer''s son has been educated. This enables him to develop his relationship with Latimer''s wife, Francine, in order to discover more about Latimer himself - whose past is not what it seems. As events descend into a spiral of distrust, …
Double Bind of Mr Rigby
Av Brian Martin
E-bok, 2023
45 kr
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Pelham Rigby is an investigative journalist for a London newspaper, and his travels take him around the world on missions that can never be discussed. Roxanne is the beautiful wife of a Spanish businessman with a dubious past, but she only has eyes for Rigby. Arne is the powerful CEO of Myrex, …
