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Long before the Moneyball Era, the Earl of Baltimore reigned over baseball. History’s feistiest and most colorful manager, Earl Weaver transformed the sport by collecting and analyzing data in visionary ways, ultimately winning more games than anybody else during his time running the Orioles from 1968 to 1982. When Weaver was hired by the Orioles, managers were still seen as coaches and inspirational leaders, more teachers of the game than strategists. Weaver invented new ways of building baseball teams, prioritizing on-base average, elite defense, and strike throwing.

Tatooine—a harsh desert world where farmers toil in the heat of two suns while trying to protect themselves and their loved ones from the marauding Tusken Raiders. A backwater planet on the edge of civilized space. And an unlikely place to find a Jedi Master in hiding, or an orphaned infant boy on whose tiny shoulders rests the future of a galaxy.

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

The Joker is dead, but not forgotten. Gotham City is saved, but it is still not safe. By night, its new symbol of hope, Batman, continues his fight to protect the innocent and the powerless. By day, his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, wonders whether there may someday be a future beyond skulking the city’s rooftops or the cavernous halls of his stately manor alongside the ever-dutiful Alfred Pennyworth. But even after death, the Clown Prince of Crime’s imprint can be seen in more than just the pavement.

The lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, complaining, and procrastination. No organization or individual can achieve goals, compete in the marketplace, fulfill a vision, or develop people and teams without personal accountability.

For when your job is real, but your role is…negotiable.A podcast about building products, launching them, and figuring out how to stay useful along the way.

Fröken Eva är en världsvan, intelligent och elegant kvinna i det sena 1950-talet. Från det stilla livet i Hemköping tar hon uppdraget att eliminera professor Kosmos, en spion och förrädare. Men allt går inte som tänkt och nu är framtiden för Sveriges rymdindustri i fara. När hennes uppdrag ställs på ända blir hennes nya uppdragsgivare den svenska säkerhetstjänsten, T-kontoret.

Filipinos have very interesting creatures that lurk within their myths and legends. This great collection will dive into famous as well as lesser known tales. Enjoy!

Die Sternenflotte war alles für Cristóbal Rios - bis zu einem schrecklichen, unerklärlichen Tag, an dem alles schiefging. Ziellos und orientierungslos ergreift er die Chance auf eine Zukunft als unabhängiger Frachterkapitän in einem von der Föderation verratenen Gebiet, der Grenzregion zum ehemaligen Romulanischen Imperium. Sein größter Wunsch: in Ruhe gelassen zu werden.

Have you ever feared being trapped as part of a sculpture? Have you seen a haunted painting of a beautiful woman that will touch your body and soul? Or how about feeling the unbridled horror of having doctors perform macabre medical procedures on you while you lie helplessly upon their theater table? Prepare yourself to face these terrors, and so many, many more, that skulk silently within these minutes. No theme, no boundaries, no limits—just Bloody Good Horror.

This action- and suspense-packed novel by John Winn Miller introduces Captain Jake Rogers, a hardened smuggler transporting contraband through the U-boat infested waters of the North Atlantic in the beginning phases of World War II. He takes on cargo few other captains would be willing to carry—if the price is right. But after witnessing the oppression of Jews in Amsterdam, Rogers agrees to take on the most dangerous cargo he has ever transported.

Den familjen Creutz står inför ännu en förlovningsmiddag. Förra gången blev familjen en medlem mindre när Ebba sköts inför alla gäster. Mordgåtan har ännu inte lösts av polisen, det finns inga misstänkta och mysteriet blev bara tätare när det visade sig att hon skjutits av en silverkula. Tidningarna spekulerade i om hon var en vampyr som måste undanröjas. Hemkommen från hemligt uppdrag ramlar Ludvig Bleck rakt in i denna historia som han mest av allt vill slippa. Han har nämligen sin egen historia med den blivande bruden, en historia han inte vill gräva i.

Kirstin Beck está decidida a escapar a Occidente. Desde la ventana de su casa adosada, a sus espaldas, una alambrada que cruza un cementerio, ve cómo cierran la frontera con Berlín Oeste, donde Tony Marino, un escritor norteamericano que allí trabaja, observa en la cercanía el progreso del levantamiento, al tiempo que ve a una atractiva mujer en su ventana. Kirstin sujeta una pizarra con ayuda para que este la vea, lo que los lleva a un plan, aunque difícil empresa, para que ella cruce la frontera.

When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction—only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters their party across the strangest new world they’ve ever encountered.

The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike. Now, John E. Miller, one of America’s leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, combines analyses of both women to explore this collaborative process and shows how their books reflect the authors’ distinctive views of place, time, and culture. He also addresses two controversial issues: How much did Lane actually contribute to the writing of the Little House books, and what was Wilder’s real attitude toward American Indians?

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Don’t go in the water. It’s dark. It’s deep. It’s scary as hell. There is no better keeper of secrets than the menacing, murky depths of the ocean. Unfathomable creatures, mysterious disappearances, abandoned ships, deadly pirates. Even experienced seamen are susceptible to the horrors that lay hidden far below the surface. It’s all a game of chance. Be in the wrong place at the wrong time and you’ll become something’s meal. The dark deep is ominous and unforgiving and it has no conscience.

When 18-year-old Barbara rejects her parents' Christianity, God's grace pursues all three - through grief and conflict to joyful reconciliation. This honest, vulnerable account, written by father and daughter, offers invaluable lessons for parents and children at any age or stage - and for anyone with a prodigal loved one - showing how struggles may be faced with humility, courage, and hope.

Seventeen authors reimagine the biblical apocalypse and all the hell that follows in 16 horrifying tales. What if the prophecies of Revelation hit today? What sort of craziness and evil would ensue? With this list of excellent authors contributing, it’s sure to be a hell of a listen!

A cab ride to an infamous cemetery takes a sinister turn when the passengers discover they may be the graveyard’s next residents. Fun and games unleash evil beyond imagination when a young couple rolls the dice of a board game from hell. And a treasure hunt turns deadly when a pair of explorers discover what’s really hiding deep in the woods....