Papers on the business side of baseball, originally presented at the annual Middlebury College conference on economic issues in 1991. It looks at the players' labour market; the impact of the fans; pay, performance and competitive balance; and the influence of race on salaries.
Memories of Growing Up in a Hong Kong Squatter Village
Diamond Hill was one of the poorest and most backward of villages in Hong Kong at a time when Hong Kong itself was poor and backward. We moved there in 1956 when I was almost 10. I left when I was 19. Those were the formative years of my life. It's a time that I remember well and cherish. Gambling and gangsters; fires and food stalls; the Walled ......
A classic Western tale of redemption and revenge, Peter Buckow gets a new lease on life after surviving the noose. He must decide whether he will buckle down and earn an honest living, or ride off, guns blazing, in pursuit of them men who viciously left him for dead.
Drawing from the works of George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and Mikhail Bakhtin, this work argues that everyday interactions are inescapably dramas, conducted through the use of dialogues in order to promote mutual understanding.
In a 1967-68 interview to be published posthumously, the founder of Russian formalism Viktor Shklovsky spoke freely and without fear of censorship about life in Russia and his relationship with other famous artists and literary theorists. This volume offers the first English translation of the six-hour phono-document.
Studies of Diversity in the Therapeutic Relationship
During the course of psychotherapy, therapist and patient engage in an ""intersubjective negotiation"" based on their respective individualities. In this series of essays arranged in eight ""dialogues,"" leading clinicians wrestle with questions of race, culture, gender, and sexuality as they apply to the therapeutic relationship.
Galileo Galilei was a great scientist, and therefore not afraid of causing controversy, even if he had to pay a great price. This book deals with motion and the resistance of solids. It is the summary statement of a life devoted to scientific experimentation and free inquiry un-trammeled by tradition and authority.
Galileo Galilei was a great scientist, and therefore not afraid of causing controversy, even if he had to pay a great price. This book is regarded as the summary statement of his life devoted to scientific experimentation and free inquiry un-trammeled by tradition and authority.
Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent
Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of borders and ethnic identities. ......
