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  In Scoring Position - 40 Years...

  Bob Ryan, Bill Chuck

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  Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he's attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It's a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting. The tattered scorebooks he's filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare historic achievements, and more. In Scoring Position captures the incomparable spirit of baseball, with its infinite possibilities and madcap anomalies. Ryan, alongside baseball historian and statistician Bill Chuck, has scoured his scorecard archives for the most singular events—a switch-hitter being hit by a pitch from both sides of the plate in the same game; a player batting for the cycle off four different pitchers; even back-to-back pinch-hit home runs with two outs in the 9th. Featuring some of the game's biggest names and wildest scenarios, this is a fascinating romp through baseball history, exuding a pure zeal for this sport that fans of all teams will recognize in themselves.

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  Instant Genius - How to Think...

  The INSTANT Series

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  What immediately pops into your mind when you hear the word genius? Perhaps you think of people like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, or Thomas Edison, just to name a few.What did all these folks have? What common factors made them geniuses? And is it possible for you to be like them?Now, what is a genius? Geniuses are, first and foremost, extraordinary individuals....They are always somewhat ahead of their times, and their contributions to the world have shaped society into what it is today. With all their remarkable feats of achievement — just look at how far we have come in modern medicine, science, and technologies — geniuses have helped mankind evolve into more intelligent beings; they have pushed us to all strive for even greater possibilities.So how do you become a genius?The widely accepted notion is that you're either born with a genius IQ or you're not. However, being a genius has little to do with your level of intelligence. Everybody has his or her own form of genius. The key is learning how to unlock that inner genius of yours.Within Instant Genius you will learn:How to easily create a custom "genius trigger button", step by step, so you can activate it to turn on your full intellectual mental capacity at will anywhere, anytimeHow to channel your inner genius, through the power of your subconscious mind, by doing the "subconscious self-session" technique to open doors to new ways of thinkingHow to use personalized "visual mental imprints" as your sources of inspiration and motivation in order to spark your creative genius and generate unlimited innovative ideas

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  Abbott and Costello: Featuring...

  John Grant, Bud Abbott

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  Lou is happy since he is in love. Lou is thinking of getting married. He has spring fever. Lou's girl has a date tonight with Lon Chaney. Lou talks tough, and Lon Chaney enters. Lon warns Lou to stay away from his girl. Lou goes over to his girl's house and Lon arrives. Lou pretends he is Bud's girlfriend. Lou as Lulu dances with Lon.

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  Gustave Courbet

  Georges Riat

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  Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape.
  He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert his independence; he had that quality of bluster and brutality which makes the revolutionary count in art as well as in politics. In both directions his spirit of revolt manifested itself. He went to Paris to study art, yet he did not attach himself to the studio of any of the prominent masters. Already in his country home he had had a little instruction in painting, and preferred to study the masterpieces of the Louvre. At first his pictures were not sufficiently distinctive to arouse any opposition, and were admitted to the Salon. Then followed the Funeral at Ornans, which the critics violently assailed: “A masquerade funeral, six metres long, in which there is more to laugh at than to weep over.” Indeed, the real offence of Courbet’s pictures was that they represented live flesh and blood. They depicted men and women as they really are and realistically doing the business in which they are engaged. His figures were not men and women deprived of personality and idealised into a type, posed in positions that will decorate the canvas. He advocated painting things as they are, and proclaimed that la vérité vraie must be the aim of the artist. So at the Universal Exposition of 1855 he withdrew his pictures from the exhibition grounds and set them in a wooden booth, just outside the entrance. Over the booth he posted a sign with large lettering. It read, simply: “Courbet – Realist.” Like every revolutionary, he was an extremist. He ignored the fact that to every artist the truth of nature appears under a different guise according to his way of seeing and experiencing. Instead, he adhered to the notion that art is only a copying of nature and not a matter also of selection and arrangement. In his contempt for prettiness Courbet often chose subjects which may fairly be called ugly. But that he also had a sense of beauty may be seen in his landscapes. That sense, mingled with his capacity for deep emotion, appears in his marines – these last being his most impressive work. Moreover, in all his works, whether attractive or not to the observer, he proved himself a powerful painter, painting in a broad, free manner, with a fine feeling for colour, and with a firmness of pigment that made all his representations very real and stirring.

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  12 Good Reasons To Look Up Uranus

  Kevin Joslin

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  Dream of becoming a Welsh language square-dance caller? Know your lucky vitamin? 
  
  Look no further for the answers. 12 Good Reasons to Look Up Uranus is a hilarious collection of horoscopes as read out on Sir Terry Wogan's radio show that will brighten and enlighten every day of the months ahead. Whether a long-standing offer of marriage from Jim Davidson or a surprise offer from a small man with a firm handshake, you need to know what your stars have in store for you. 
  
  The only book to guide you through the coming year.

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  Hokusai

  Edmond de Goncourt

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  Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe - greatly influenced 
  the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters, such as Vincent van Gogh. Considered during his life as a living Ukiyo-e master, Hokusai fascinates us with the variety and the significance of his work, which spanned almost ninety years and is presented here in all its breadth and diversity.

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