Download or read book Numbers Don t Lie Tigers written by Danny Knobler and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tigers fans have witnessed improbable feats, extraordinary achievements, and unmatched performances during the team's 100-plus seasons. Numbers Don't Lie: Behind the Biggest Numbers in Tigers History details the numbers every Tigers fan—from the rookie attending his first game at Comerica Park to the veteran who recalls Denny McLain's days on the mound—should know. Author Danny Knobler tells the stories behind the most memorable moments and achievements in Tigers history, including 2: the number of no-hitters Justin Verlander has in his career; .366: Ty Cobb's career batting average, the highest in MLB history; and 1,918: the number of games played together by Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker as a record-setting, double-play combination. Featuring over 50 entries that span more than a century of Tigers magic, this fan book is an engaging, unique look back at the history of one of baseball's most entertaining franchises.
Download or read book The Numbers Don t Lie written by Wade P. White and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout much of the highly-successful golfing career of Jack Nicklaus, many players arrived being touted, "the next Nicklaus." However, only one player has taken that mantle head-on to move forward the standard set by Nicklaus - Tiger Woods. Woods' explosive start in competitive golf at an early age propelled him further and faster in many areas over Nicklaus beginning with his junior amateur days. But has Woods succeeded in de-throning Nicklaus? As both players have repeatedly stated that the standard of greatness in golf revolves largely around performance in the major championships, that will be the focus of this book, but not exclusively. While comparing eras is typically regarded as impossible, the purpose of this book is to quantify and place into perspective these two players' records in such a way as to add debate to the subject of who the greatest player thus far has been.
Download or read book The Good the Bad the Ugly Detroit Tigers written by George Cantor and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Detroit Tigers documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Tigers highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the impressive run to the World Series in 2006 and the clutch hitting of Kirk Gibson in 1984, as well as the horrendous years when the Tigers were in the cellar of their division and the particularly disastrous 2003 season. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.
Download or read book The Lady or the Tiger written by Peter Lantos and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing tale, two distinctly different lives intersect with unpredictable, tragic consequences. John Weyland is a hard working business man, struggling on two fronts. At home, his wife feeds her hunger for self indulgence with material objects, as she desperately climbs the social ladder. At the office, he is tormented by the questionable practices of corporate executives driven by lust for power. Maria Nystrom is a brilliant researcher whose aspiration is to apply her knowledge of chemistry for the betterment of life for mankind. After a brief, failed marriage, she meets John, the two fall in love, and she leads John to a totally different, more fulfilling kind of life. Fate, however, intervenes and John, who has been unable make important decisions, suddenly has to make the most important choice of his life. Will he be able to make it?
Download or read book Year of the Tiger written by Sohaila Abdulali and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New York in the 1990s is rich, unmolested, full of hubris and joy. Zara Hussain - young, successful Wall Street trader - lives in the East Village with her twin Kabir, a free spirit and musician, and their older sister Salma, a scientist who is looking for an acceptable husband. Their best friend Sam helps them chase their extraordinary dreams when he's not indulging his own passion for tigers. The story begins with a crisis in Immigration at JFK Airport, which results in Zara vowing to stay in the US and Kabir deciding to return to India. As the year draws to a close, the siblings' lives have turned upside down. Zara is involved in a snowballing financial scandal on Wall Street; Kabir is faced with the unfamiliar joys of responsibility; and Salma has found a possible and dangerous love. Along the way we meet a motley bunch - Benny, a mentally ill man desperately searching for beauty; Mildred, one of Kabir's many lovers; Rick, the Hussains' neighbour who wants to sail the seven seas; and the moon as it makes sudden appearances. In elegant prose and vivid imagery, Sohaila Abdulali brings to life the rich, vibrant landscape of New York before 9/11"--Publisher's description
Download or read book The Numbers Game written by Michael Blastland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numbers saturate the news, politics, and life. The average person can use basic knowledge and common sense to put the never-ending onslaught of facts and figures in their proper place.
Download or read book Big 50 Detroit Tigers written by Tom Gage and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big 50: Detroit Tigers: The Men and Moments that Made the Detroit Tigers is an amazing, full-color look at the 50 men and moments that made the Tigers the Tigers. Award-winning beat writer Tom Gage recounts the living history of the Tigers, counting down from No. 50 to No. 1. Big 50: Tigers brilliantly brings to life the Tigers' remarkable story, from Ty Cobb and Kirk Gibson to the rollercoaster that was the "Bless You Boys" era to Justin Verlander's no-hitters and up to today.
Download or read book The Lady Or the Tiger written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner. Inspired by the classic tale of a prisoner's dilemma, these whimsically themed challenges involve paradoxes about probability, time, and change; metapuzzles; and self-referentiality. Nineteen chapters advance in difficulty from relatively simple to highly complex.
Download or read book Tiger Tales written by C.D. Gorri and published by C.D. Gorri. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Island Stripe Pride! This series evolved after penning what was supposed to be one Shifter holiday romance into multiple stories involving members of this New York based Tiger group. Follow the tough males of the Island Stripe Pride as they traverse rocky terrain trying to woo and claim their fated mates in this Paranormal Romance Tiger Shifter series. Take a look inside: The Tiger King’s Christmas Bride He’s the ruler of a Tiger Pride spending the holidays in his solitary cabin in the woods. Will this scroogey Tiger find love where he least expects it? Claiming His Virgin Mate Alex Kensington is a Tiger Shifter from the Island Stripe Pride. In Maccon City on business for his Neta, he runs into the one person he never expected to meet. His fated mate. Tiger Claimed Trench Tora is and Enforcer for the Island Stripe Pride. When his Neta sends him to investigate a vlogger claiming to have seen a man turn into a dog, he doesn’t expect to be attracted to the curvy beauty. More than that. He thinks she’s his mate. Take a walk on the wild side and try these steamy Island Stripe Pride paranormal romance tales! Keywords: tiger shifters, curvy girl mates, human shifter mates, tiger shifter romance book, tiger pride romance ebook, curvy girl romance, fated mates paranormal romance, tiger shifter bbw romance series, strangers to lovers, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, shifter romance ebook, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy wolf shifter mates, strangers to lovers, instant attraction, shifter pride romance series, urban fantasy, fantasy romance
Download or read book The Political Brain written by Drew Westen and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University, has explored a theory of the mind that differs substantially from the more "dispassionate" notions held by most cognitive psychologists, political scientists, and economists -- and Democratic campaign strategists. The idea of the mind as a cool calculator that makes decisions by weighing the evidence bears no relation to how the brain actually works. When political candidates assume voters dispassionately make decisions based on "the issues," they lose. That's why only one Democrat has been re-elected to the presidency since Franklin Roosevelt -- and only one Republican has failed in that quest. In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. Elections are decided in the marketplace of emotions, a marketplace filled with values, images, analogies, moral sentiments, and moving oratory, in which logic plays only a supporting role. Westen shows, through a whistle-stop journey through the evolution of the passionate brain and a bravura tour through fifty years of American presidential and national elections, why campaigns succeed and fail. The evidence is overwhelming that three things determine how people vote, in this order: their feelings toward the parties and their principles, their feelings toward the candidates, and, if they haven't decided by then, their feelings toward the candidates' policy positions. Westen turns conventional political analyses on their head, suggesting that the question for Democratic politics isn't so much about moving to the right or the left but about moving the electorate. He shows how it can be done through examples of what candidates have said -- or could have said -- in debates, speeches, and ads. Westen's discoveries could utterly transform electoral arithmetic, showing how a different view of the mind and brain leads to a different way of talking with voters about issues that have tied the tongues of Democrats for much of forty years -- such as abortion, guns, taxes, and race. You can't change the structure of the brain. But you can change the way you appeal to it. And here's how
Download or read book The Scorecard Always Lies written by Chris Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Tiger Woods broke down in tears on the 18th green at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, legions of spectators strained their eyes to read the emotion on his face. Like the millions watching on television, they knew that Tiger had just won the British Open, and that his father had recently died. Beyond that, however, they knew precious little -- only that he played with a Nike golf ball, carried an American Express card in his wallet, and, presumably, drove a Buick. They were hungry for more, but everything else about his off-course life, and those of his fellow pros, was forbiddingly well-guarded. Until now. In The Scorecard Always Lies veteran Sports Illustrated golf correspondent Chris Lewis reaches past the results, stats, and sound-bites to focus on the personalities and personal lives of the sport's top players. While embracing all the drama and excitement of the 2006 PGA Tour season, he takes us inside the locker rooms, hotel rooms, and private planes to deliver an unrivaled, behind-thescenes look at the Tour and the men who play it. Lewis spent thirty weeks of the 2006 season on the road with the best golfers in the world, exploring their backstories, motivations, and preoccupations, and collecting telling, character-revealing tales. He bore witness to both the hard work and the privilege that frame their lifestyles. But he also discovered a Tour that to this point remained largely unknown -- one where a player while pursuing dreams of glory might also be suing his agent, going through a messy divorce, or looking to throw down in the locker room with one of his peers. There's John Daly trying to explain how his wife has just been taken off to jail. There's Chris Couch making a midnight, barefoot run through a derelict district of New Orleans, fearing he was about to be kidnapped, and taking refuge in a tattoo parlor. We watch as Tiger Woods tries to deal with losing his father to cancer, while refusing to abandon his fondness for blue humor. We see Phil Mickelson hanging with rock stars, sharing a Masters victory gift with a national championship-winning college football coach, and hooking up a sportswriter with a would-be groupie's phone number. All in all, we get a rare glimpse of the off-course lives of the Tour's stars and their supporting cast. At turns humorous, touching, and insightful, the book sheds new light on every aspect of Tour life, from easygoing Tuesday practice rounds to feverpitch Sunday showdowns, always taking care to show how their off-course concerns inform their every swing. Fans will savor the fullest portrait yet of a group of players who, throughout their successes and struggles, remain unfailingly smart, funny, and engaging, and make up the most intriguing subculture in all of sports.
Download or read book Tiger Claimed written by C.D. Gorri and published by C.D. Gorri. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to New York City's secret Shifter world where the Island Stripe Pride runs wild and these Tiger Shifters are searching for their mates! His Tiger wants to claim her, but she wants to reveal his secret… The Shifter Council of New York City has announced a warning to all its citizens. Danger is lurking on the horizon, and now, more than ever, the supernatural community must work to keep their secret. With increasing reports from normals of supernatural activity in the Big Apple, their entire existence is at risk. Trench Tora is an Enforcer for the Island Stripe Pride. When his Neta sends him to investigate a vlogger claiming to have seen a man turn into a dog, he doesn't expect to be attracted to the curvy beauty. More than that. He thinks she's his mate. Bria Grotto is trying to make a name for herself among the millions of paranormal investigators out there by investigating claims of the supernatural in the big city. Just when she thinks she caught her big break, Bria finds herself hunted by the very creatures she means to catch on camera. Should she trust the big, sexy stranger who comes to her rescue? Even if it means giving up her prize footage… Keywords: tiger shifter romance book, tiger pride romance ebook, curvy girl romance, fated mates paranormal romance, tiger shifter bbw romance series, strangers to lovers, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, shifter romance ebook, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy wolf shifter mates, strangers to lovers, instant attraction, shifter pride romance series, urban fantasy, fantasy romance
Download or read book Gearz 1 written by and published by Bluewater Productions. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the 10th Muse comes the newest female group of unlikey heroes. Lonely high-schooler Karen Miller just wanted a dog. Instead, she got three of the most powerful, deadliest and hippest robot bodyguards to hit the sleepy town of Westville.The good news? KarenÕs three robots Ðquickly become her best friends. The bad news? Someone very high up, Oval Office high up, wants those robots back. And he wonÕt stop at anything. Can an ordinary, if slightly unpopular, teen survive killer robots, super-powered school custodians, snotty classmates, chemically boosted monsters and hooded assassins while staying on track to become class valedictorian? Karen MillerÕs about to find out.
Download or read book When You Trap a Tiger written by Tae Keller and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL • WINNER OF THE ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother. Some stories refuse to stay bottled up... When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal--return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni's health--Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice...and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller, the award-winning author of The Science of Breakable Things, shares a sparkling tale about the power of stories and the magic of family. "If stories were written in the stars ... this wondrous tale would be one of the brightest." —Booklist, Starred Review
Download or read book The Good the Bad the Ugly Cleveland Indians written by Mary Schmitt Boyer and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Indians highlights, lowlights, wonderful and wacky memories, legends and goats, the famous and the infamous. You'll relive the impressive playoff run in 2007 but also the horrendous moments, such as the Indians 23-2 loss to the Twins in 2003. There was the opening of Jacobs Field in 1994, but also the black eye that was 10¢ beer night in 1974.The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Cleveland Indiansincludes the best and worst Indians teams and players of all time, the most clutch performances and performers, the biggest choke jobs and chokers, great comebacks and blown leads, plus overrated and underrated Indians players and coaches. There are Indians you loved for all the right reasons, and those you couldn't stand, sublime and embarrassing records, and trades, both savvy and savagely bad. Brawls and fights. Rivalries. Compelling photos. And much more.
Download or read book Numbers Don t Lie written by Vaclav Smil and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vaclav Smil is my favorite author… Numbers Don't Lie takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes From the author of How the World Really Works, an essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world--exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production. Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. In Numbers Don't Lie, Smil answers questions such as: What's worse for the environment--your car or your phone? How much do the world's cows weigh (and what does it matter)? And what makes people happy? From data about our societies and populations, through measures of the fuels and foods that energize them, to the impact of transportation and inventions of our modern world--and how all of this affects the planet itself--in Numbers Don't Lie, Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge conventional thinking. Packed with fascinating information and memorable examples, Numbers Don't Lie reveals how the US is leading a rising worldwide trend in chicken consumption, that vaccination yields the best return on investment, and why electric cars aren't as great as we think (yet). Urgent and essential, with a mix of science, history, and wit--all in bite-sized chapters on a broad range of topics--Numbers Don't Lie inspires readers to interrogate what they take to be true.
Download or read book The Tiger That Isn t written by Andrew Dilnot and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics scares and depresses most of us, but politicians, journalists and everyone in power use numbers all the time to bamboozle us. Most maths is really simple - as easy as 2+2 in fact. Better still it can be understood without any jargon, any formulas - and in fact not even many numbers. Most of it is commonsense, and by using a few really simple principles one can quickly see when maths, statistics and numbers are being abused to play tricks - or create policies - which can waste millions of pounds. It is liberating to understand when numbers are telling the truth or being used to lie, whether it is health scares, the costs of government policies, the supposed risks of certain activities or the real burden of taxes.
