Author: Architctural League NYThe Architectural League of
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: situating, architects
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-04-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1568985738
ISBN-13: 9781568985732

Architecture has become an increasingly multidisciplinary profession, where concepts, techniques, and materials are readily shared with other disciplines, and the many ways an architect can define and address a design problem has redefined the role of the architect. "Situating" implies a wide-ranging approach to all phases of design, creating a more dynamic understanding of site and open-ended work that both acknowledges existing conditions and allows for mutability and change over time. In Young Architects 7: Situating, young architects were asked to broaden the concept of "siting" to inclu

Author: Pamela Thomas-Graham
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: league, ivy, mysteries, mystery, crushed, orange
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-10-11
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0671016725
ISBN-13: 9780671016722

Pamela Thomas-Graham’s beguiling and atmospheric Ivy League novels simmer with hot button issues -- and unveil layers of malice and murder inside the life academic. Harvard economics professor Nikki Chase is intent on becoming the first tenured African-American woman in her department. But with her affinity for solving crimes, she may make her name in a place where the highest levels of human intellect can court the lowest impulses of the human heart.PUBLISH OR PERISHA working weekend at a Princeton conference is just what Nikki needs to deflect the pre-holiday pressures -- both professi

Author: Ned McIntosh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: little, league, guide, baseball, managing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-02-08
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0071548033
ISBN-13: 9780071548038

Learn how to manage your youth team to success

Author: Warren N. Wilbert
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: league, national, monopoly, challenge, ban, american, arrival, johnson
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-07-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0786430133
ISBN-13: 9780786430130

In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League’s supremacy. This book covers the American League’s origins in the Western League, the decisions and planning that laid the groundwork for the American League, and in detail, the 1901 season that established the AL as a new major league.

Author: Neil W. Macdonald
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: league, baseball, clubs, profession, national, lasted, founding
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2004-05
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0786417552
ISBN-13: 9780786417551

In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicago’s National Association team, believed that a league run efficiently with honest competition would survive and flourish. Hulbert, relying on his pragmatic philosophy of "molasses now, vinegar later" and working with his prize recruit Albert Spalding, founded the National League in 1876. That inaugural season of the National League is chronicled in this heavily documented work. The league fell far short of Hulbert’s dreams in its first season, but he stuck to his belief

Author: William McNeil
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: league, professional, baseball, integrated, america, winter, california, first
Number of Pages: 335
Published: 2002-07
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0786413018
ISBN-13: 9780786413010

The California Winter League was the first to bring together Negro League teams and white professional teams in one league. It operated from October through February each year from the early part of the century until the late 1940s and generally consisted of one or more Negro League teams, which included Hall-of-Famers Satchel Paige, Turkey Stearnes, Willie Wells, and Cool Papa Bell on their rosters, and three or more white teams, which were made up of major league players who lived in California as well as minor leaguers from the top-rated Pacific Coast League. This work is the fir

Author: Jason Porterfield
Publisher: Rosen Central
Keywords: baseball, league, major, inside, east, national, division
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2009-01
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 1435850432
ISBN-13: 9781435850439