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  The Physics of Baseball - Third...

  Robert K. Adair

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  A “fascinating and irresistible” blend of science and sports that reveals what a baseball (or bat, or player) in motion does—and why (The New York Times Book Review). 
   
  How fast can a batted ball go? What effect do stitch patterns have on wind resistance? How far does a curveball break? Who reaches first base faster after a bunt, a right- or left-handed batter? The answers are often surprising—and always illuminating. 
   
  This newly revised third edition considers recent developments in the science of sport such as the neurophysiology of batting, bat vibration, and the character of the “sweet spot.” Faster pitchers, longer hitters, and enclosed stadiums also get a good, hard scientific look to determine their effects on the game. 
   
  Filled with anecdotes about famous players and incidents, The Physics of Baseball provides fans with fascinating insights into America’s favorite pastime. 
   
  “Delivers scads of interesting facts.” —The Wall Street Journal

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  Bioneers Series 3-09: Plants and...

  Michael Pollan

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  Award-winning journalist for the New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World, takes a fresh perspective on the co-evolution of people and plants.  Was the development of agriculture a human triumph or might it have been the great domestication of the human by the grasses?

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  Disputed Earth - Geology and...

  Peter Doyle

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  Geology controls the outcome of battle and no more so than during the trench warfare of the Great War; this new book by expert Peter Doyle takes us through the details. An understanding of terrain has been the mark of a great commander from at least the time of Sun Tzu, and most campaigns can be interpreted and understood from this standpoint. It is the Great War, a war of trenches and dug-outs, of mines and mud, that epitomises the struggles of commander and soldier alike in the prosecution of battle against the obstacles set for them by terrain. This book, based on twenty-five years of study, takes the geology of northern France and Flanders and examines such issues as: What created Flanders mud? How were the Germans able to dig deep dug-outs to resist the British on the Somme? and, Why were the British successful at mine warfare? These and other issues are dealt with in this volume illustrated throughout with maps and photographs.

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  Interstate 69 - The Unfinished...

  Matt Dellinger

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  New Yorker contributor and decade-long staffer Matt Dellinger uses the controversy surrounding Interstate 69 as a lens through which to examine middle America's current political, social, and economic landscape, including hot-button issues like NAFTA and the country's troubled infrastructure. If completed, I-69 will stretch from Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. In the works for more than twenty years, the highway has been both eagerly anticipated as an economic godsend and the center of a firestorm of protests by local environmentalists, farmers, ranchers, anarchists, and others who question both the wisdom of building more highways and the merits of globalization.Part history, part travelogue, Interstate 69 chronicles the last great highway project in America, introducing the people who have worked tirelessly to build it or stop it from being built, and the many places it would change forever.

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  The Psychology of Persuasion -...

  Cecily Mattis

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  The Psychology of Persuasion: Discover Smart and Proven Strategies on How to Increase Your Social Media InfluenceThere is no doubt today that Social Media sites have come a long way and that they are an integral part of everyone’s life, for marketers and nonmarketers alike. While you may have all the correct social media sites set up for your business, do you know if you are using them to your advantage?This audiobook will teach you different aspects of how you can increase your rangeof social media influence for your business. You will also discover the best way to track how you are doing when it comes to social media inside this eBook along with other useful tips.This audiobook will discuss the following topics:- Why Social Media Influence is Important- Increasing Your Influence on Your Social Sites- Social Media Influence and Your Business- How to Connect with Other Social Media Influencers- Alternative Methods to Track Your Level of Influence- Social Media Influence and Your Health- How Others Are Incorporating Social Media Influence- Posting Your Content on Social Media- And many more!As an online marketer one of your main goals is to become a person of influence in your niche or industry. If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  The Secret Life - Three True...

  Andrew O'Hagan

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  The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL—"in real life"—now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. 
  In The Secret Life, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL. "Ghosting" introduces us to the beguiling and divisive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to ghostwrite with unforeseen—and unforgettable—consequences. "The Invention of Ronnie Pinn" finds the author using the actual identity of a deceased young man to construct an entirely new one in cyberspace, leading him on a journey deep into the Web's darkest realms. And "The Satoshi Affair" chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian Web developer who may or may not be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto—and who may or may not be willing, or even able, to reveal the truth.

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