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Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics

1 review
Gabriel B., Ph.D. Costa, Michael R. Huber, ...

McFarland, 2007

It's great!!!
Out of all the Sabermetrics books I've read, this exceeds my expectations. I've learned more about the mathematics of baseball. Kudos!!

Country Boy: A Biography of Albert Lee

2 reviews
Derek Watts

McFarland, 2008

An informative and enthralling read
Biographies can oh-so-often be a mundane list of dates and events chronicling the life and times of person being written about. Derek Watts fills the life story of Albert Lee with colour and anecdotes that leads you from chapter to chapter, wanting to know what happens next. Each chapter is composed carefully and details a particular direction that Lee has taken at that time - a period of 4 to 7 ...

Flash Gordon Serials 1936-1940: A Heavily Illustrated Guide

1 review
Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich, ...

McFarland, 2008

Excellent book for Flash Gordon fans!
This book is loaded with many great photos from the three Flash Gordon serials. Although a little pricey, the number of and quality of the photos made it worth the price. Each episode of the series is given a brief synopsis followed by comments. This is a great book for any fan of the Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serials.

The Great Monster Magazines: A Critical Study of the Black and White Publications of the 1950s, 1960s and ...

1 review
Robert Michael (Bobb) Cotter

McFarland, 2008

monster movie lovers beware
If you are a fan of comics, you might find this very superficial overview interesting, but fans of monster MOVIE mags will be disappointed. Though he warns in the product description that he covers both film and comic magazines, it is not evenly divided, but very heavily weighted towards comics. When Castle of Frankenstein gets 2 and a half pages, but a Marvel monster comic mag called Monsters ...

The Fourth of July Encyclopedia
James R. Heintze

McFarland, 2007

This is the first comprehensive reference work on America's Independence Day. Bringing attention to persons, places, and events of historical significance, the book focuses on the Fourth of July as it has been commemorated over the span of more than two centuries, starting with the first celebrations: public readings of the Declaration of Independence that occurred within days of its signing. Biographical sketches feature presidents (and how ...

H. Beam Piper: A Biography (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy) (Critical Explorations in ...
John F. Carr

McFarland, 2008

H. Beam Piper is one of science fiction's most enigmatic writers. In 1946 Piper appeared seemingly from out of nowhere, already at the top of his form. He published a number of memorable short stories in the premier science fiction magazine of the time, Astounding Science Fiction , under legendary editor John W. Campbell. Piper quickly became friends with many of the top writers of the day, including Lester Del Rey, Fletcher Pratt, Robert ...

The USS Puffer in World War II
Craig R. Mcdonald

McFarland, 2008

Submarines were responsible for about 55 percent of the tonnage of the Japanese fleets sunk during World War II. The 22 percent casualty rate of U.S. submariners was the highest of the military services. This volume traces the career of the submarine the USS Puffer from the laying of her keel and her commissioning on April 27, 1943, until her departure for the scrap yard in late 1960. Compiled from interviews with former crew members, including ...

The Polish Deportees of World War II: Recollections of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal Throughout ...

1 review

McFarland, 2007

Virtually Forgotten Soviet Genocide Against Poles
Piotrowski, the author, dedicates this book: "To the victims of Soviet crimes against humanity". Everyone has heard of what the Nazis did to the Jews, but who ever heard of the 2-3 million Polish gentiles also murdered by the Germans? Even fewer have so much as an inkling of the millions of victims of Communism. The Soviet genocide directed against Poles, reliant as it was on shootings and ...

Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection: A New Study of the Authorship Question

1 review
Samuel L. Blumenfeld

McFarland, 2008

Stunning evidence; meticulously researched.
Blumenfeld has made a highly persuasive and thoroughly gripping case that the mere concept of Shakespeare as eminent playwright and poet is a real stretch of the imagination. One cannot, and should not, dismiss the author's thesis that Marlowe--child prodigy, scholar, literary genius, and highly valued spy--is the author of the brilliant poems and plays attributed to Shakespeare. The chapters ...