Provides a behind-the-scenes analysis of professional baseball's hidden rules, revealing the impact of unwritten codes of conduct, retaliatory behaviors, and cheating, with examples involving such figures as Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Don Drysdale.

"A Delicate Truth opens in 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for

Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hugh's privileged upbringing as a Boston Brahmin, yet his drive and ambition outpace Hugh's ambivalence about his own life. These two young men form an unlikely friendship, bolstered by a fierce shared desire to transcend their circumstances. But in just a few short years, not only do their paths diverge, one rising on Wall Street, the other becoming a kind of global humanitarian, but their fri

Is it possible to eat normally, five days a week, and become slimmer and healthier as a result? Scientific trials of intermittent fasters have shown that it will not only help the pounds fly off, but also reduces the risks of diseases ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular disease and even cancer.

After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.

Speeches from : As you like it, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Henry V, Henry VIII, King Lear, Macbeth, Richard II, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, and Twelfth Night.

"The world is more overwhelming than ever before. Our work is more demanding than ever. Our busniesses are more complicated and difficult to manage than ever. Our economy is more uncertain than ever. Our resources are scarcer than ever. There is endless choice and feature overkill in all but the best experiences. The simple life is a thing of the past. Today, success requires that you do not more, but less. In other words, the solution is subtraction. In our summary of The Laws of Subtraciton by

At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to the Minneapolis police department its

Based on Jake Breeden's experience coaching thousands of leaders in 27 countries, and new research in economics, neuroscience, and psychology, Tipping Sacred Cows reveals how to overcome the dangerous behaviors that masquerade as virtues at work, and how to lead with fewer self-imposed limitations and greater results.

Davidson's trio of novellas feature Undead Queen Betsy Taylor, round-the-clock superhero Karen Kilher and leader of the Pack Lara Wyndham. Matters of the heart take center stage as each of these mystical women struggle to find the answer to the ultimate question: How far do you go for love?

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time.