Jeff Passan

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

Yahoo’s lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports—the pitching arm—and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors. Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers—five times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the game’s lifeblood. Their import is exceeded only by their fragility. One tiny band of tissue in the elbow, the ulnar collateral ligament, is snapping at unprecedented rates, leaving current big league players vulnerable and the coming generation of baseball-playing children dreading the three scariest words in the sport: Tommy John surgery. Jeff Passan traveled the world for three years to explore in-depth the past, present, and future of the arm, and how its evolution left baseball struggling to wrangle its Tommy John surgery epidemic. He examined what compelled the Chicago Cubs to spend $155 million on one arm. He snagged a rare interview with Sandy Koufax, whose career was cut short by injury at thirty, and visited Japan to understand how another baseball-mad country treats its prized arms. And he followed two major league pitchers, Daniel Hudson and Todd Coffey, throughout their returns from Tommy John surgery. He exposes how the baseball establishment long ignored the rise in arm injuries and reveals how misplaced incentives across the sport stifle potential changes. Injuries to the UCL start as early as Little League. Without a drastic cultural shift, baseball will continue to lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually to damaged pitchers, and another generation of children will suffer the same problems that vex current players. Informative and hard-hitting, The Arm is essential reading for everyone who loves the game, wants to keep their children healthy, or relishes a look into how a large, complex institution can fail so spectacularly.

The Arm

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Keith Law

Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us about Ourselves

In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, baseball writer for The Athletic and author of the acclaimed Smart Baseball, offers an era-spanning dissection of some of the best and worst decisions in modern baseball, explaining what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how their legacy has shaped the game. For years, Daniel Kahneman's iconic work of behavioral science Thinking Fast and Slow has been required reading in front offices across Major League Baseball. In this smart, incisive, and eye-opening book, Keith Law applies Kahneman's ideas about decision making to the game itself. Baseball is a sport of decisions. Some are so small and routine they become the building blocks of the game itself--what pitch to throw or when to swing away. Others are so huge they dictate the future of franchises--when to make a strategic trade for a chance to win now, or when to offer a millions and a multi-year contract for a twenty-eight-year-old star. These decisions have long shaped the behavior of players, managers, and entire franchises. But as those choices have become more complex and data-driven, knowing what's behind them has become key to understanding the sport. This fascinating, revelatory work explores as never before the essential question: What were they thinking? Combining behavioral science and interviews with executives, managers, and players, Keith Law analyzes baseball's biggest decision making successes and failures, looking at how gambles and calculated risks of all sizes and scales have shaped the sport, and how the game's ongoing data revolution is rewriting decades of accepted decision making. In the process, he explores questions that have long been debated, from whether throwing harder really increases a player's risk of serious injury to whether teams actually "overvalue" trade prospects. Bringing his analytical and combative style to some of baseball's longest running debates, Law deepens our knowledge of the sport in this entertaining work that is both fun and deeply informative. --Billy Beane, Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations, Oakland A's, on Smart Baseball

The Inside Game

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Mary Roach

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

When Nature Breaks the Law

One of Bookpage's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join America's funniest science writer (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.

Fuzz

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Erin Morgenstern

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways. A first novel. Reprint.

The Night Circus

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Alexandra Johnson

From Pepys to Blogs

A Brief History of Diaries

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The Disney Institute

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Perfecting the Art of Customer Service

Exceeding expectations rather than simply satisfying them is the cornerstone of the Disney approach to customer service. Now, in honour of the 10th anniversary of the original BE OUR GUEST, Disney Institute is revealing even more of the business behind the magic of customer service. In this updated edition, BE OUR GUEST highlights the successes many of these companies have achieved, plus key processes and best practices that have made Disney a trusted and revered brand around the world for more than 85 years.

Be Our Guest (Revised and Updated Edition)

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Green Light

Seuss

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A compilation of more than a dozen previously published Dr. Seuss books, plus essays by nine authors and other book lovers, including Audrey Geisel, widow of Dr. Seuss.

Your Favorite Seuss

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Jodi Picoult

A Novel

Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior. By the author of My Sister's Keeper. Reprint. A best-selling book.

House Rules

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Reba White Williams

A Coleman & Dinah Greene Mystery Number 4

The 4th book in the Coleman and Dinah Greene mystery series! The fellowship at the Art Museum of Great Britain was too good for Dinah to pass up. She never expected that she'd find herself homesick and unhappy. With her husband Jonathan busy opening a London branch of his investment banking business and with her cousin Coleman home in New York, struggling to get her second magazine up to speed, Dinah feels very much alone. Fortunately, she makes friends with Rachel Ransome and, through her, meets a member of the royal family. Things seem to be turning around...until Rachel comes under the suspicion of the Palace Police, sweeping Dinah into her troubles. Now Coleman needs to come to England to help as the source of Rachel's difficulties becomes more apparent--and more vexing. Can the three women join forces to extricate themselves from a conflict that goes back centuries?

Bloody Royal Prints

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Deni Bown

David Joyce

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Information on choosing and caring for perennials accompanies a photographic guide to more than 1,000 plants by type, size, color, and season of interest

Perennials

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Two books in One

Money to Burn AND Intent to Kill

T. Greenwood

To refocus on her painting, Wyn Davies agrees to be temporary caretaker for a property on a remote Maine island, where she discovers a box of mysterious images that may help her come to grips with a crime committed against her twenty years earlier.

Golden Hour

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Garth Stein

A 14-year-old boy's efforts to save his parents' troubled marriage and uphold his dementia-afflicted grandfather's final wishes are shaped by a ghost who cannot rest until past debts are paid. By the best-selling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain. 300,000 first printing.

A Sudden Light

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Amy Welborn

Stories of Catholic Heroes and Saints Throughout History

What do heroes do?

Do they fight monsters? Sometimes, but they also hold the hands of people who are sick and lonely. They build schools. They study the planets. They forgive those who have harmed them. Heroes are people who look at the world around them, see what needs to be done, and through the grace of God find the strength to help others.
nbsp;In the thirty-six stories in Loyola Kids Book of Heroes, you'll meet a Catholic nun who stood up to the most infamous outlaw in the Old West. You'll learn how entire villages of men and women devoted their lives to building great cathedrals to show their love and respect for God. You'll learn about John the Baptist, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, Charlemagne, St.nbsp;Albert the Great, Dorothy Day, St.nbsp;Patrick, and many others. Most of all, you'll learn that with God's help anyone can be a hero and make the world a better place.

Loyola Kids Book of Heroes

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Andrew Heywood

Social Studies

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of politics, covering areas as diverse as comparative government and political philosophy, international relations and political economy, from an international perspective.

Politics

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Tyler DeAngelo

Brad Emmett

To Get Laid

Provides simple introductions to the guitar, wine, cooking, religion, astronomy, French, handyman skills, and magic tricks, along with suggestions for activities in each area intended to make a man seem knowledgeable and impress women.

Learn Just Enough

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Russ VerSteeg

Jack P. Sahl

Government

Cases and Materials, Third Edition

Most Sports Law students are passionate about sports, and would love to work in the field of Sports Law. That goal has shaped the content of this book. Although there are precious few opportunities for students to become sports agents, there are thousands of other opportunities available for lawyers in the world of sports. Leagues, conferences, schools, teams, shoe and apparel companies, equipment companies, and media (both electronic and print) have jobs that would be fabulous for a sports nut with a law degree. Thus, although this book does have a chapter on Sports Agency, it covers a broad range of other topics and issues, dealing with both professional and amateur sports. Familiarity with a variety of topics will provide the best foundation for students to determine which aspects of Sports Law they would like to pursue. About the authors: Professor Russ VerSteeg has been involved in sports since childhood. In high school he pole vaulted and ran cross country. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1979) and Magna Cum Laude from the University of Connecticut School of Law (1987). Between college and law school he taught high school and coached track and cross country. He has taught at New England Law Boston since 1991 and specializes in Sports Law, Intellectual Property, and Legal History. He has published seven books and over 30 law review articles. He has served on the USATF Women's Pole Vault Development Committee, Pole Vault Safety Certification Board, and coaches both at the USATF club, Skyjumpers Connecticut, and Norwich Free Academy in Connecticut. Professor Jack Sahl is the Faculty Director of the Miller-Becker Center for Professional Responsibility at the University of Akron School of Law. He earned his BA from Boston College, a JD from Vermont Law School, and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. He has played a variety of sports, including NCAA Division I soccer. Professor Sahl has advised athletes, managers, and agents. He has served as Akron's Alternate NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative since 2002 and as a member of Akron's Faculty Senate's Athletic Committee since 1999. He was appointed to Akron's NCAA Athletics Certification Self-Study Committee in 1996 and has taught Sports Law for over twenty-five years. Professor Sahl also teaches evidence, professional responsibility, and entertainment law, among other subjects. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles, book chapters and the book, EVIDENCE PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS. Professor Sahl clerked for Chief Judge William Holloway Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was senior counsel to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sports Law

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Publications International Ltd. Staff

Fascinating Facts and Untold Stories

Explore history's most fascinating people, places, groups, and events. Amazing History features more than 80 informative and entertaining articles, from the ancient world to the recent past. Read about history's shortest war, the fate of Russia's imperial family, the Bavarian Illuminati, renowned women of the Wild West, notorious art thefts, and the lost colony of Roanoke Island. History buffs will find new angles on familiar topics, while trivia fans will enjoy plenty of obscure and unusual facts. 272 pages

Amazing History

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Drew Antunes

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