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Paperback. Zustand: Good. A New York Times bestseller Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide. More than a century old, the game of baseball is resistant to change--owners, managers, players, and fans all hate it. Yet, now more than ever, baseball needs to evolve--to compete with other professional sports, stay relevant, and remain America's Pastime it must adapt. Perhaps no one knows this better than Bud Selig who, as the head of MLB for more than twenty years, ushered in some of the most important, and controversial, changes in the game's history--modernizing a sport that had remained unchanged since the 1960s. In this enlightening and surprising book, Selig goes inside the most difficult decisions and moments of his career, looking at how he worked to balance baseball's storied history with the pressures of the twenty-first century to ensure its future. Part baseball story, part business saga, and part memoir, For the Good of the Game chronicles Selig's career, takes fans inside locker rooms and board rooms, and offers an intimate, fascinating account of the frequently messy process involved in transforming an American institution. Featuring an all-star lineup of the biggest names from the last forty years of baseball, Selig recalls the vital games, private moments, and tense conversations he's shared with Hall of Fame players and managers and the contentious calls he's made. He also speaks candidly about hot-button issues the steroid scandal that threatened to destroy the game, telling his side of the story in full and for the first time. As he looks back and forward, Selig outlines the stakes for baseball's continued transformation--and why the changes he helped usher in must only be the beginning. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Tired of Fads? If you feel overwhelmed by the constant parade of old ideas repackaged into miracle-promising quick fixes, this book's for you. Four Secrets of High Performing Organizations presents solid, down-to-earth advice that will help you avoid falling for the latest management fads. This straightforward story may appear simple, but it represents complex ideas gleaned from many years of real-world learning. Four Secrets helps you assess your unique leadership situation. It suggests a comprehensive set of practical concepts that you can begin using immediately to create more effective and productive organizations. Once you've learned the four secrets, this book undoubtedly will become one of your most used and useful references.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Tired of Fads? If you feel overwhelmed by the constant parade of old ideas repackaged into miracle-promising quick fixes, this book's for you. Four Secrets of High Performing Organizations presents solid, down-to-earth advice that will help you avoid falling for the latest management fads. This straightforward story may appear simple, but it represents complex ideas gleaned from many years of real-world learning. Four Secrets helps you assess your unique leadership situation. It suggests a comprehensive set of practical concepts that you can begin using immediately to create more effective and productive organizations. Once you've learned the four secrets, this book undoubtedly will become one of your most used and useful references.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A New York Times bestseller Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin The longtime Commissioner of Major League Baseball provides an unprecedented look inside professional baseball today, focusing on how he helped bring the game into the modern age and revealing his interactions with players, managers, fellow owners, and fans nationwide. More than a century old, the game of baseball is resistant to change--owners, managers, players, and fans all hate it. Yet, now more than ever, baseball needs to evolve--to compete with other professional sports, stay relevant, and remain America's Pastime it must adapt. Perhaps no one knows this better than Bud Selig who, as the head of MLB for more than twenty years, ushered in some of the most important, and controversial, changes in the game's history--modernizing a sport that had remained unchanged since the 1960s. In this enlightening and surprising book, Selig goes inside the most difficult decisions and moments of his career, looking at how he worked to balance baseball's storied history with the pressures of the twenty-first century to ensure its future. Part baseball story, part business saga, and part memoir, For the Good of the Game chronicles Selig's career, takes fans inside locker rooms and board rooms, and offers an intimate, fascinating account of the frequently messy process involved in transforming an American institution. Featuring an all-star lineup of the biggest names from the last forty years of baseball, Selig recalls the vital games, private moments, and tense conversations he's shared with Hall of Fame players and managers and the contentious calls he's made. He also speaks candidly about hot-button issues the steroid scandal that threatened to destroy the game, telling his side of the story in full and for the first time. As he looks back and forward, Selig outlines the stakes for baseball's continued transformation--and why the changes he helped usher in must only be the beginning. Illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Dinnertime Just Got Dangerous Being a cyborg insect isn't so bad, except when hungry reptiles think you're on the menu. The evil spider Darchon is kidnapping history's greatest thinkers, so Laurel and the TimeFlyz race back to 1775, trying to protect Benjamin Franklin. But things get crazy when Darchon changes some turtles into fly-eating supermunchers Can Laurel and her friends save the famous inventor--not to mention themselves. Adi Darda Gaudiamo (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Meet Meat is an entertaining, fun, and engaging story with a purpose, written in a memorable Seuss-like rhyme. Perfect for children ages 4-10, Meet Meat uses the adventures of a lovable dairy cow named Meat to encourage kids to overcome fear, break free of stereotypes, and become the best version of themselves they can be. While written for kids, the book serves as a reminder to readers of all ages that though we face major challenges and fears in life, we can look to God in our darkest moments and trust Him to deliver us. It also emphasizes and celebrates every person's unique gifts and abilities and encourages people everywhere to find their own special version of "Moo-hoo!" The story: Meat is a sweet dairy cow known for her positivity and encouragement. When Meat learns that her owner, Farmer Drew, has decided to sell her to a butcher to raise money for a new plow, she becomes depressed and distraught. She seeks counsel from her friends and is advised to pray for deliverance. Renewed by her prayer and filled with hope, she courageously seizes her opportunity and becomes a "Wow-Cow" barista at the local Steerbucks cafe. With her caffeinated udders, Meat becomes a local favorite and then a national star. Meat reminds us to never give up in the face of adversity and to believe in a Creator who loves us and equips us with special gifts for the sake of others in need.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Mat Broome (illustrator).

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Mat Broome (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR.Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde-like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king and the corn dog is the "backbone of this great country." "There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is perfect." -Bill Callahan "He told her he was a one-woman man and she was it for him. Teal said that was good because he was it for her. It and It. Both of them were It." Kody Rawlee Green is stuck in juvie. Tella "Teal Cartwheels" Carticelli is packing her bags for Rome--on the orders of her parents, who want her as far from Kody as possible. But teenage love is too strong a force for the obstacles of reality. And the highway beckons. Leaving their abusive pasts behind them in Jersey, Kody and Teal set off on a cross-country road trip equal parts self-destruction and self-discovery, making their way, one stolen car at a time, toward bigger, wider, bluer skies. Along the road, of course, there's time to stop at Graceland, classic diners, a fairgrounds that smells of "pony shit and kettle corn," and time for run-ins with outsize personalities like the reincarnated Grand Canyon tour guide Dead Bob and the spurious Montana rancher Bill Gold. On their heels, all the while, is Teal's brother, Neil Carticelli, who's abandoned his post in the navy to rescue the sister he left behind. But does she really need saving? These all too American tropes find new expression in Bud Smith's own freewheeling prose-and in Rae Buleri's original illustrations-filling Teenager with humor, poetry, and a joy that's palpable in every unforgettable sentence. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's easy to design, build, and post a Web page with Google Page Creator or CoffeeCup HTML Editor, but a friendly guide still comes in handy. Creating Web Pages For Dummies(R), 9th Edition introduces you to Web design software and online page-building tools, and walks you through the process in record time.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. It's easy to design, build, and post a Web page with Google Page Creator or CoffeeCup HTML Editor, but a friendly guide still comes in handy. Creating Web Pages For Dummies(R), 9th Edition introduces you to Web design software and online page-building tools, and walks you through the process in record time.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Adi Darda Gaudiamo (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In volume three of Tomo we discover the sweeping history of Argon Falls, the true story of Hana's parents, and why Jou's raccoon Tomo can talk. Ariel Padilla (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In this lucid update of his best-selling book on football's offensive ga, e. legendary coach Bud Wilkinson discusses the fundamaentals of sound offensive football and indispensable advice that will help the individual player and coach as well as the team improve performance. Included in this lavishly illustrated book are: Special exercises and drills for developing your strength, agility and skill 16 different techniques for beoming a better lineman 14 running patterns every wide receiver should know The keys to becoming a better running back, quarterback, kicker or punter 10 offensive formations The 2 things ever coach should remember in building an offensive game plan.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. As she finds out more about herself and the strange creature Tomo, Hana learns how protecting the sword from those who would use it for evil can bring on big trouble in book two of the manga-style Tomo series written by Jim Kreuger with illustration by Ariel Padilla. Ariel Padilla (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. As she finds out more about herself and the strange creature Tomo, Hana learns how protecting the sword from those who would use it for evil can bring on big trouble in book two of the manga-style Tomo series written by Jim Kreuger with illustration by Ariel Padilla. Ariel Padilla (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon, and Atul Gawande's Better,a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgery's most demanding fields The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career: telling a patient's husband that his wife has died during surgery; struggling to complete a twenty-hour operation as mental and physical exhaustion inch closer and closer; and flying to retrieve a donor organ while the patient waits in the operating room. Within these more emotionally charged vignettes are quieter ones, too, like growing up in rural Ohio, and being awakened late at night by footsteps in the hall as his father, also a surgeon, slipped out of the house to attend to a patient in the ER. In the tradition of Mary Roach, Jerome Groopman, Eric Topol, and Atul Gawande,Last Night in the OR is an exhilarating, fast-paced, and beautifully written memoir,one thatwill captivate readers with its courage, intimacy, and honesty.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. In volume three of Tomo we discover the sweeping history of Argon Falls, the true story of Hana's parents, and why Jou's raccoon Tomo can talk. Ariel Padilla (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Almost a generation ago, a small school from the Northwest made its first noise in college basketball. For the first time, the Gonzaga Bulldogs won games in the NCAA tournament of 1999, going all the way to the Elite Eight. Then they validated their arrival with Sweet 16 appearances the next two years. Unlike other unheralded programs that have emerged to make national headlines, the Zags didn't go away. They have stacked solid season upon solid season and as they enter 2016-17, they boast an 18-year streak of playing in the NCAA tournament -- a run of success that includes eight straight years of March Madness victories. A few years after the men's program took off, the Gonzaga women also reached unprecedented heights -- partly with the help of a fan base that couldn't get tickets to the men's games, but pushed the women to a top-15 national ranking in attendance. Glory Hounds is the story of how it all came together at Gonzaga for both men and women, how it changed the school, and how -- in a turbulent time of here-and-gone players in college basketball -- it continues. The Gonzaga story is woven deeply into the longevity of head coach Mark Few and his choice to stay at the school in the face of multiple offers to move elsewhere. Glory Hounds takes a close look at Few, his small-town roots and his decision to stay put. The book explores the rise of Few's longtime assistant, Tommy Lloyd, and his recruiting acumen overseas that has made Gonzaga one of the most popular destinations for foreign players. It documents the almost zany events that led to the construction of a new arena on campus in 2004; the unforgettable season of Adam Morrison in 2006; and the heartbreak and redemption of Josh Heytvelt. It chronicles the redshirt-year growth that has aided the program, and it details the paradox that keeps Seattle from becoming a productive recruiting pool for the Zags. Gonzaga's women authored their own rise to prominence, and Glory Hounds recounts that ascent, as well as the wizardry of the best women's player in school history, Courtney Vandersloot. Glory Hounds is the first attempt to bind together the various elements that, in a span now stretching into a generation, have made the Gonzaga story so compelling.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No, it's not a message from outer space! Just read it backwards, starting from the bottom line, to discover what this specially coded message says. (The extra letter "X" at the beginning was thrown in just to make the message a bit more mysterious.) Codes have been used for centuries. Now, with the help of this entertaining book, you, too, will be able to decipher dozens of secret messages. Veteran cryptographer Bud Johnson not only describes the different techniques used in secret writing but also explains -- clearly and simply -- how to make and break six different kinds of codes: simple letter grouping, reverse trail, shift code, key word code, date shift code, and twisted path code. You'll even learn techniques for creating your own confidential messages! Cartoons by illustrator Larry Daste accompany the 51 practice messages, along with easy-to-follow instructions explaining each type of code and how to use it. There's also a glossary defining common terms used by cryptographers, a sheet of reproducible graph paper for writing out messages, and a page of ready-made alphabets for shift and key word codes. And if all those funny drawings and helpful guidelines aren't enough to help you decode our secret messages, don't worry. Solutions are included at the end of the book.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No, it's not a message from outer space! Just read it backwards, starting from the bottom line, to discover what this specially coded message says. (The extra letter "X" at the beginning was thrown in just to make the message a bit more mysterious.) Codes have been used for centuries. Now, with the help of this entertaining book, you, too, will be able to decipher dozens of secret messages. Veteran cryptographer Bud Johnson not only describes the different techniques used in secret writing but also explains -- clearly and simply -- how to make and break six different kinds of codes: simple letter grouping, reverse trail, shift code, key word code, date shift code, and twisted path code. You'll even learn techniques for creating your own confidential messages! Cartoons by illustrator Larry Daste accompany the 51 practice messages, along with easy-to-follow instructions explaining each type of code and how to use it. There's also a glossary defining common terms used by cryptographers, a sheet of reproducible graph paper for writing out messages, and a page of ready-made alphabets for shift and key word codes. And if all those funny drawings and helpful guidelines aren't enough to help you decode our secret messages, don't worry. Solutions are included at the end of the book.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. For readers of Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon, and Atul Gawande's Better,a pioneering surgeon shares memories from a life in one of surgery's most demanding fields The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career: telling a patient's husband that his wife has died during surgery; struggling to complete a twenty-hour operation as mental and physical exhaustion inch closer and closer; and flying to retrieve a donor organ while the patient waits in the operating room. Within these more emotionally charged vignettes are quieter ones, too, like growing up in rural Ohio, and being awakened late at night by footsteps in the hall as his father, also a surgeon, slipped out of the house to attend to a patient in the ER. In the tradition of Mary Roach, Jerome Groopman, Eric Topol, and Atul Gawande,Last Night in the OR is an exhilarating, fast-paced, and beautifully written memoir,one thatwill captivate readers with its courage, intimacy, and honesty. …

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