LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john rossi

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john rossi

  • The 1964 Phillies
    John P. Rossi
    In 1964, thousands of Philadelphia baseball fans were caught up in the Phillies’ unexpected run at the National League pennant. After nearly a decade of continuous defeat, the Phillies shocked the baseball world, taking over the National League in mid-July and holding on to first place for 73 consecutive days. And then, as the team’s first pennant in a generation seemed with...
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    43,00 €

  • Confession
    John Rossi / Kaly Rossi
    Kaly Rossi was a fifteen-year-old teenager living a normal life in 1970s Cheyenne, Wyoming, when she began dating her first boyfriend, Eric. Despite the red flags in their relationship, Kaly and Eric were inseparable, liked the same music, had the same couple friends, and were madly in love-until the day Kaly woke up with morning sickness.In a candid retelling of her journey th...
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    16,63 €

  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance
    John Paul Rossi / Samuel P. Black
    First Published in 2001. This study explores the development of automobile insurance through the career of one of the industry’s entrepreneurs, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build. ...
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    83,47 €

  • Baseball and American Culture
    John P. Rossi / John PRossi / John Rossi
    This book provides a general history of baseball that connects developments in the sport with key themes in American history. Following each chapter are important readings that illustrate and document these connections and discussion questions that can be used in the classroom. ...
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    37,64 €

  • The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell
    John Rodden / John Rossi
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    33,79 €

  • The 1964 Phillies
    John P. Rossi
    In 1964, thousands of Philadelphia baseball fans were caught up in the Phillies’ unexpected run at the National League pennant. Nearly a decade of continuous defeat had earned them little more than the reputation for an unprecedented record of consecutive losses. But in that ’64 season the Phillies shocked the baseball world, taking over the National League in mid-July and h...
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    42,98 €

  • National Game
    John P. Rossi / John PRossi
    John Rossi offers not only an expert overview of baseball over the past 175 years; he shows how the game has reflected and contributed to changes in American society over time. The National Game chronicles baseball’s popular successes and financial failures; its interleague wars and continuing struggles between owners and players; and its accommodations to radio and television-...
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    25,22 €

  • A Whole New Game
    John P. Rossi
    Bismarck once said that God looked after drunkards, children and the U.S. of A. Some say that baseball should be added to the list. It must have been divine intervention that led the sport through a series of transformative challenges from the end of World War II to the game’s first expansion in 1961. During this period baseball was forced to make a number of painful choic...
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    42,71 €