David Ross

Of the many storylines to the Chicago Cubs incredible 2016 season was the late career renaissance of David Ross, the 39-year-old journeyman player affectionately known to his Cubs teammates as "Grandpa Rossy." Ross became the unlikely heart and soul of the championship team, who finally broke the near 100-year Cubs curse. At the end of the Cubs victorious game seven--in which Ross entered the game in the 5th inning and proceeded to hit a crucial home run (becoming the oldest player to homer in World Series History), he was carried off the field by his teammates. Ross's late career blossoming and role as a Cubs mentor has been one of the defining sports stories of 2016, inspiring a write-in campaign for him for the All Star game, an endless series of feature stories and becoming the nightly talk of TV analysts and sports radio. This book would be memoir of Ross' career -- written with veteran collaborator Don Yaeger -- with the championship run at Wrigley this year as the capstone through line. The book's captivating frame is the final day of Ross's career - Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, with looks book at pivotal moments in Ross' life and career. Ross's fairy-tale season is a feel-good story that captures the hearts of Cubs die-hards and baseball fans everywhere.

British and European soccer attendances from boom to bust and back again. The stories behind the crowds in all 55 UEFA countries including lower divisions and non-league. Records, stats and history of the big - and not so big - games. David Ross, author of the acclaimed 'ROAR of the Crowd,' the definitive history of Scottish football attendances, has now turned his attention to Europe. This book looks at the history of league (and in many cases non-league) attendances in every European country. From the great post-war boom to the decline of the 1980s and the subsequent rise again in the past two decades, he traces the patterns of each country's progress.

The World's Most Powerful Battleships features 52 of the greatest warships to have sailed and fought in the last 500 years. Beginning with King Henry VIII's flagship, the book covers all the main periods of battleship development, including the great sail ships, steam-driven warships, and the great battleships of the two world wars. Each entry includes a brief description of the battleship's development and history, a profile view, key features, and specifications. Packed with more than 200 artworks and photographs, The World's Most Powerful Battleships is a colorful guide for the military historian and naval warfare enthusiast.

Seven kinds of love...sexual passion, love of parents, love of children, love of siblings, love of friends, love of country, love of wisdom...Peggy Avakian's older brother discovered the Classical Greek, SEVEN KINDS OF LOVE, in a book from a library on Long Island when he was fifteen. He told her they were the facts of life and Peggy worried they were all out of her reach.As the story begins, Peggy has left her childhood, "lower-middle-class ghetto called home", and wandered away to Boston; but San Francisco, Brooklyn, Oxford and Dublin beckon.The last family connection Peggy has is a rare old Italian drawing her long lost brother found years before. She wants to find out who drew the Old Master drawing and what it's worth. Unfortunately, that seems to mean stalking Eric Matheson, a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He seems to have all seven kinds of love.Eric resents any involvement with Peggy or her drawing. More and more, it's an involvement that breaks his hold on life as her crazy stalking involves his family. Peggy tells her side of the story first and then Eric tells his side.

Remember middle school? Being afraid to wear the wrong clothes, scared of saying something stupid in class or awkward attempts at that first kiss? How about parents who don't understand? Or, teachers who put you to sleep in 0.2 seconds? Hunter McCain is living through all this and much more as an eighth grader at Franklin Middle School. Add in a cookbook filled with recipes far more interesting then lasagna or a casserole. Love potions, strength formulas, and invisibility are just some of the entrees offered up in the archaic treasure. But these recipes may not be the tastiest; brownies sprinkled with toe nails, fudge using arm pit hair, or gum made from spider webs could just ruin an appetite. Come on the zaniest adventure of a life time as Hunter and his friends use the cook book to encounter bullies, pretty girls, school projects, a dodge ball tournament, parents and even bank robbers.

Shane is a nerdy outcast who loves reading and fantasizing about medieval adventures. Danny is a skateboarding socialite who is always getting himself into trouble by being very mischievous. Together, the two of them uncover a secret that could change the world, and they are forced to set off on an adventure through space and time. Along the way, they encounter ancient warriors, fire breathing dragons, mystical prophecies, secret societies, advanced technologies such as time travel and teleportation devices, and many more life altering things.

Running Fitness presents a structured and practical training guide aimed at a large portion of the running community, including beginners and those looking to improve in the sport. Author David Ross, a runner of many years experience, provides a training path that develops running capability from a simple 5K race up to full marathon, whilst making the sport easily accessible to those who wish to enjoy many years of fulfilment, success and longevity. Learn about warm-up and cool-down drills, speed and hill training, long runs, race pace, recovery and rest, plus cross training, core fitness, diet and energy supplements.

The Saleswoman and The Househusband is a semi-autobiographical novel. Stuart and Lisa lose their jobs in Boston and become desperate. After searching for jobs for a year, Lisa settles. Her job will be selling engines to Amish farmers. Her art history degree won't help her there. It's no help that Amish men won't talk to her. Stuart and their two kids follow Lisa down to live in a stone hut at the epicenter of the Old-World. What if Lisa quits her job in this misogynist minefield? Could they sell the old hut? How will they find new jobs now that their resumes are even more decrepit? Lisa and Stuart are suddenly forced to confront all these questions at once.

th Although photography has its beginning in the 17 century, it was only in the 1920’s that photography emerged as a science. And as with other s- ences, mathematics began to play an increasing role in the development of photography. The mathematical models and problems encountered in p- tography span a very broad spectrum, from the molecular level such as the interaction between photons and silver halide grains in image formation, to chemical processing in ?lm development and issues in manufacturing and quality control. In this book we present mathematical models that arise in today’s p- tographic science. The book contains seventeen chapters, each dealing with oneareaofphotographicscience.Eachchapter,exceptthetwointroductory chapters, begins with general background information at a level understa- able by graduate and undergraduate students. It then proceeds to develop a mathematical model, using mathematical tools such as Ordinary Di?erential Equations, Partial Di?erential Equations, and Stochastic Processes. Next, some mathematical results are mentioned, often providing a partial solution to problemsraisedby the model.Finally,mostchaptersinclude problems.By the nature of the subject, there is quite a bit ofdisparity in the mathematical level of the various chapters.

A brand new collection of powerful insights into business team-building… 4 pioneering books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 4 remarkable eBooks help you create and inspire great teams to unprecedented levels of performance Your success is crucially dependent on your ability to create, lead, and inspire teams to achieve extraordinary results. The comprehensive resources in this 4 eBook package will help you do precisely that. In Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success, the legendary Ken Blanchard ("The One Minute Manager") and former Southwest Airlines CEO Colleen Barrett help you achieve breakthrough performance by leading with love. They explain what "love" really means in the organizational context, why leading with love is not "soft" management, how to handle inappropriate behavior, how to make "servant leadership" work, and how to sustain leadership with love. Next, in 17 Rules Successful Companies Use to Attract and Keep Top Talent: Why Engaged Employees Are Your Greatest Sustainable Advantage, David Russo top workforce optimization consultant David Russo identifies exactly what great organizations do differently when it comes to managing people. Russo distills these differences into actionable rules covering everything from resourcing and compensation to leadership development, risk-taking to change management. You'll learn how to build genuine esprit de corps in any environment, ensuring that your employees' efforts, minds, and hearts stay focused on your mission, and stay committed to results and competitive advantage. In Managing People and Performance: Fast Track to Success, David Ross reveals how to get the best possible performance out of every member of your team, whatever their personality or skill set. Using Ross's breakthrough tools, techniques, checklists, and guidance, you'll master indispensable skills for creating, developing, and managing high performance teams--and, at the same time, accelerating your own career development. Finally, in How to Get What You Want...Without Having to Ask, international best-selling author Richard Templar brings his inimitable blend of originality, imagination, wisdom, and straight talk to the challenges of negotiation, persuasion, and influence. The world-renowned author of best-sellers like The Rules of Life, Templar offers up 100 clever, simple, pain-free ways to get people throughout your organization to happily say "yes" to you, and smooth your team's path to success! From world-renowned leaders and performance experts Ken Blanchard, Colleen Barrett, David Russo, David Ross, and Richard Templar