More Than Merkle

Author : David W. Anderson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803259468

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More Than Merkle by David W. Anderson Pdf

?I have done a report of some kind on the Fred Merkle story, whether in print, on radio, or on TV, on or about its anniversary, September 23, virtually every year since I was in college. The saga has always seemed to me to be a microcosm not just of baseball, nor of celebrity, but of life. The rules sometimes change while you?re playing the game. Those you trust to tell you the changes often don?t bother to. That for which history still mocks you, would have gone unnoticed if you had done it a year or a month or a day before. That?s who Fred Merkle is. I have often proposed September 23 as a national day of amnesty, in Fred Merkle's memory.??Keith Olbermann, from his foreword.

Author : Rebekah Merkle
Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781944503529

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Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity by Rebekah Merkle Pdf

The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much is indisputable. So, First-Wave feminists held rallies for women's suffrage. Second-Wave feminists marched for Prohibition, jobs, and abortion. Today, Third-Wave feminists stand firmly for nobody's quite sure what. But modern women--who use psychotherapeutic antidepressants at a rate never before seen in history--need liberating now more than ever. The truth is, feminists don't know what liberation is. They have led us into a very boring dead end. Eve in Exile sets aside all stereotypes of mid-century housewives, of China-doll femininity, of Victorians fainting, of women not allowed to think for themselves or talk to the men about anything interesting or important. It dismisses the pencil-skirted and stiletto-heeled executives of TV, the outspoken feminists freed from all that hinders them, the brave career women in charge of their own destinies. Once those fictionalized stereotypes are out of the way--whether they're things that make you gag or things you think look pretty fun--Christians can focus on real women. What did God make real women for?

Author : Judith Merkle Riley
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402270598

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The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley Pdf

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! "Absorbing and arresting." —New York Times "Fascinating and factual." —Los Angeles Times "Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun." — Kirkus Reviews "An outstanding historical novel of 17th–century France ... based on a real–life scandal known as the Affaire des Poisons, this tale is riveting from start to finish." —Library Journal For a handful of gold, Madame de Morville will read your future in a glass of swirling water. You'll believe her, because you know she's more than 150 years old and a witch, and she has all of Paris in the palm of her hand. But Madame de Morville hides more behind her black robes than you know. Her real age, the mother and uncle who left her for dead, the inner workings of the most secret society of Parisian witches: none of these truths would help her outwit the rich who so desperately want the promise of the future. After all, it's her own future she must control , no matter how much it is painted with uncertainty and clouded by vengeance. "Take a full cup of wit, two teaspoons of brimstone, and a dash of poison, and you have Judith Merkle Riley's mordant, compelling tale of an ambitious young woman who disguises herself as an ancient prophetess in order to gain entry into the dangerous, scheming glamour of the Sun King's court. Based on scandalous true events, The Oracle Glass brims with our human foibles, passions, and eccentricities; it's a classic of the genre and unlike any historical novel you have ever read." —C. W. Gortner, author of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

Author : Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro,Guillermo Navarro-Arribas,Nicola Dragoni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031257346

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Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology by Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro,Guillermo Navarro-Arribas,Nicola Dragoni Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings and revised selected papers from the ESORICS 2022 International Workshops on Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, DPM 2022 and CBT 2022, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, during September 26–30, 2022. For DPM 2022, 10 full papers out of 21 submissions have been accepted for inclusion in this book. They were organized in topical sections as follows: differential privacy and data analysis; regulation, artificial intelligence, and formal verification; and leakage quantification and applications. The CBT 2022 workshop accepted 7 full papers and 3 short papers from 18 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections: Bitcoin, lightning network and scalability; and anonymity, fault tolerance and governance; and short papers.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : CORNELL:31924054596188

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Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board by United States. National Labor Relations Board Pdf

Author : Paul Aron
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780470322123

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Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot? by Paul Aron Pdf

Advance Praise for Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot? "Aron has found the Rosetta stone to all of baseball's enduring mysteries, and he skips it along the pond with utter disregard for the ducks. His fortunate readers will have so much fun they may not even notice that they are becoming, page by page, real experts. Here is surefire water-cooler ammo." --JOHN THORN, editor of Total Baseball "Paul Aron puts a distant replay on the most famous controversies in baseball history. This is more fun than if he'd been there with a camcorder." --ALLEN BARRA, author of Clearing the Bases and Brushbacks and Knockdowns "Paul Aron has hit a home run for baseball fans. He dissects the evidence on baseball's 28 most charming mysteries. The result is a well-written, enjoyable, enlightening tour of the last hundred years of baseball history." --ANDREW ZIMBALIST, author of Baseball and Billions "Paul Aron's book on elements of baseball is both wise and fun, illuminating and entertaining." --ROBERT ADAIR, author of The Physics of Baseball "The essential last word for every fan who loves to debate baseball fact and fiction." --MICHAEL SHAPIRO, author of The Last Good Season

Author : Andreas M. Antonopoulos,David A. Harding
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781098150051

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Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos,David A. Harding Pdf

Join the technological revolution that's taking the financial world by storm. Mastering Bitcoin is your guide through the seemingly complex world of Bitcoin, providing the knowledge you need to participate in the internet of money. Whether you're building the next killer app, investing in a startup, or simply curious about the technology, this revised and expanded third edition provides essential detail to get you started. Bitcoin, the first successful decentralized digital currency, has already spawned a multibillion-dollar global economy open to anyone with the knowledge and passion to participate. Mastering Bitcoin provides the knowledge. You supply the passion. The third edition includes: A broad introduction to Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain—ideal for nontechnical users, investors, and business executives An explanation of Bitcoin's technical foundation and cryptographic currency for developers, engineers, and software and systems architects Details of the Bitcoin decentralized network, peer-to-peer architecture, transaction lifecycle, and security principles New developments such as Taproot, Tapscript, Schnorr signatures, and the Lightning Network A deep dive into Bitcoin applications, including how to combine the building blocks offered by this platform into powerful new tools User stories, analogies, examples, and code snippets illustrating key technical concepts

Author : Maury Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781632860262

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Stealing Games by Maury Klein Pdf

The 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of life dominated by machines, technology, and urban culture. Baseball, too, was evolving from the dead-ball to the live-ball era--the cork-centered ball was introduced in 1910 and structurally changed not only the outcome of individual games but the way the game itself was played, requiring upgraded equipment, new rules, and new ways of adjudicating. Changing performance also changed the relationship between management and players. The Giants had two stars--the brilliant manager John McGraw and aging pitcher Christy Mathewson--and memorable characters such as Rube Marquard and Fred Snodgrass; yet their speed and tenacity led to three pennants in a row starting in 1911. Stealing Games gives a great team its due and underscores once more the rich connection between sports and culture.

Author : Jung Hee Cheon,Thomas Johansson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031172342

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Post-Quantum Cryptography by Jung Hee Cheon,Thomas Johansson Pdf

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on post-quantum cryptography, PQCrypto 2022, held in as a Virtual Event in September 2022. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They cover a broad spectrum of research within the conference's scope, including code-, hash-, isogeny-, and lattice-based cryptography, multivariate cryptography, and quantum cryptanalysis. The papers are categorized in the following topical sub-headings: Code-Based Cryptography; Multivariate Cryptography and the MinRank Problem; Quantum Algorithims, Attacks and Models; Implementation and Side Channel Attacks; Isogeny; Lattice-based Cryptography; Cryptanalysis.

Author : Benjamin L. Merkle,Robert L. Plummer
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493410248

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Greek for Life by Benjamin L. Merkle,Robert L. Plummer Pdf

Learning Greek is one thing. Retaining it and using it in preaching, teaching, and ministry is another. In this volume, two master teachers with nearly forty years of combined teaching experience inspire readers to learn, retain, and use Greek for ministry, setting them on a lifelong journey of reading and loving the Greek New Testament. Designed to accompany a beginning or intermediate Greek grammar, this book offers practical guidance, inspiration, and motivation; presents methods not usually covered in other textbooks; and surveys helpful resources for recovering Greek after a long period of disuse. It also includes devotional thoughts from the Greek New Testament. The book will benefit anyone who is taking (or has taken) a year of New Testament Greek.

Author : Michael Smithson,Edgar C. Merkle
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781466551732

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Generalized Linear Models for Categorical and Continuous Limited Dependent Variables by Michael Smithson,Edgar C. Merkle Pdf

Generalized Linear Models for Categorical and Continuous Limited Dependent Variables is designed for graduate students and researchers in the behavioral, social, health, and medical sciences. It incorporates examples of truncated counts, censored continuous variables, and doubly bounded continuous variables, such as percentages. The book provides broad, but unified, coverage, and the authors integrate the concepts and ideas shared across models and types of data, especially regarding conceptual links between discrete and continuous limited dependent variables. The authors argue that these dependent variables are, if anything, more common throughout the human sciences than the kind that suit linear regression. They cover special cases or extensions of models, estimation methods, model diagnostics, and, of course, software. They also discuss bounded continuous variables, boundary-inflated models, and methods for modeling heteroscedasticity. Wherever possible, the authors have illustrated concepts, models, and techniques with real or realistic datasets and demonstrations in R and Stata, and each chapter includes several exercises at the end. The illustrations and exercises help readers build conceptual understanding and fluency in using these techniques. At several points the authors bring together material that has been previously scattered across the literature in journal articles, software package documentation files, and blogs. These features help students learn to choose the appropriate models for their purpose.

Author : Todd Peterson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786457526

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Early Black Baseball in Minnesota by Todd Peterson Pdf

Though they played in the years before Rube Foster formed the first Negro League, the St. Paul Gophers and their bitter crosstown rivals, the Minneapolis Keystones, had the talent, bench depth, and determination to rival many of those later, better known teams. (The Gophers, in fact, beat Chicago’s celebrated Leland Giants in 1909, laying claim to blackball’s western championship.) Focusing on these two clubs, author Peterson lays out the early history of African American baseball in the Upper Midwest. Included are new statistics and more than 50 rarely seen photographs.

Author : Judith Merkle Riley
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788633130

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A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley Pdf

A village girl receives a divine vision that will lead her into the chambers of the English Inquisition... Young, wealthy and twice married, Margaret has a modest enough ambition: she wishes to write a book. But this is 1355, and the notion of a woman wanting to record her experiences and thoughts is not just arrogant, it’s possibly heretical. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and it is only starvation that persuades Brother Gregory, a renegade Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the unseemly task of chronicling her life. As she narrates her life story, an extraordinary tale unfolds filled with perilous brushes with death, where a mix of miracle and Margaret’s innate intellect pull her through. But this is a world where a clever woman is at constant risk of being accused of witchcraft... A Vision of Light, first in the critically acclaimed historical Margaret of Ashbury Trilogy is a remarkable novel that challenges all of our notions about women’s roles in the medieval era, perfect for fans of Ariana Franklin, Sarah Perry and Jessie Burton. ‘Both arresting and absorbing’ The New York Times ‘Fascinating and factual...If all chronicles of earthly life were recorded with such drama, flair, and wit, the world would be full of history majors’ Los Angeles Times

Author : Judith Merkle Riley
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402270628

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The Master of All Desires by Judith Merkle Riley Pdf

"A delightful blend of history, romance, and the supernatural, served with a generous helping of wit and humor."—Booklist Nostradamus, a ruthless queen, and a young poet find themselves in the fight of their lives... Lady Sibille never goes looking for trouble, but trouble always seems to find her. When she inadvertently becomes the master of an ancient cursed head of Menander the Magus—the Master of All Desires—she suddenly has the power to grant any wish, at a steep price. Queen Catherine de Medici is trying to obtain the power of the Master in order to get rid of her husband's mistress. But she does not understand that the Master is malic itself, twisting the wishes that he grants to bring destruction. But only Nostradamus knows that evil befalls all who wish upon this accursed object. Can he stop these determined women before they unwittingly destroy the entire kingdom of France? Praise for The Master of All Desires: "Mixing history and fantasy with élan, Judith Merkle Riley offers a tightly woven, suspenseful, and fiendishly funny novel...Lush period detail and sprightly dialogue laced with humor and courtly pomp anchor Riley's romantic adventure with stylized whimsy and historical plausibility."—Publishers Weekly "Another darling mix of history, romance and the occult from Riley, a writer who excels at getting the background right and creating strong, intelligent heroines."—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Bill Gruber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476673172

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Baseball in a Grain of Sand by Bill Gruber Pdf

Part sports journalism, part history, part memoir, this many-sided narrative follows one season with the Blue Devils of Moscow, Idaho--a rural American Legion baseball team. Showcasing baseball's enduring place in American life, the author draws on the lore of the game, and conversations with diverse fans and players--an outdoorsman juggling his son's schedule of games with bear hunting; a bewildered German college student, holding a baseball for the first time; former St. Louis Cardinal pitcher & Yale baseball coach John Stuper; the proud owner of a Derek Jeter jersey in Hokendauqua, Pennsylvania, to name a few.