welch michael author (14 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. Collart, Bartley (illustratore). Signed Copy . Signed/Inscribed by Gruebl on front endpage.

Condizione: As New. Collart, Bartley (illustratore). Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Book has no visible wear and tear - looks and feels just like new. Fantastic reading for the culturalist in your life.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Book has shelf wear, spine is slightly shaken, indentations on back cover, slight crack in cover, not severe, name of previous owner on text block, otherwise this is a solid copy, the book has tight binding, clean pages, a great reading copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover withh unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket edges are a little creased, with some foxing on the inner flaps and inside. Page block and page edges are tanned, with foxing on the page block. Light lines on some of the pages, possibly a printing issue, however this has not affected the legibility. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Pascuzzo, Phil (jacket design); Welch, Tara (author photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with white spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Michael MacCambridge; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Source Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Author Interviews; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "Michael MacCambridge has produced a riveting book you didn't know needed to be written until you turn the first page - at which point you realize it's indispensable history. The Big Time is part cultural biography and part stroll down charming lanes of nostalgia, revisiting indelible characters at their peak powers, from Chrissie Evert to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. But mainly it's an engrossing appraisal of an American decade that changed, well, everything." - Sally Jenkins, author. "If you remember how great sports were in those days, The Big Time will remind you, and if you doubt how great, this book will show you." - Roy Blount Jr., author. "A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture. Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in The Big Time, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade: the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning of athletes' gaining a sense of autonomy for their own careers, integration becoming - at least within sports - more of the rule than the exception, and the social revolution that brought females more decisively into sports, as athletes, coaches, executives, and spectators. More than politicians, musicians, or actors, the decade in America was defined by its most exemplary athletes. The sweeping changes in the decade could bee seen in the collective experience of Billie Jean King and Muhammad Ali, Henry Aaron and Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Joe Greene, Jack Nicklaus and Chris Evert, among others, who redefined the role of athletes and athletics in American culture. The '70s witnessed the emergence of spectator sports as an ever-expanding mainstream phenomenon, as well as dramatic changes in the way athletes were paid, portrayed, and packaged. In tracing the epic narrative of how American sports was transformed in the '70s, a larger story emerges: of how America itself changed, and how spectator sports moved decisively on a trajectory toward what it has become today, the last truly "big tent" in American culture." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 112 pages. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 104 pages. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 276 pages. 6.00x0.70x8.90 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Welch, Chris (book design); AND Partners (jacket design); Daniel, Jonathan (jacket photograph); Deitch, Dan (author photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition silver gray boards, red spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Michael Lewis; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by John Ruskin, Unto This Last; Preface; Epilogue and Acknowledgments. "I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it - before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: How did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?" With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar's Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities - his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission - but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers - numbers! - collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. What these geek numbers show - no, prove - is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base on balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. Billy paid attention to those numbers - with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to - and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinguish its three most prominent and(and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Bog Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win.how can we not cheer for David?" - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 3rd edition. 584 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 276 pages. 6.24x0.80x9.24 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 276 pages. 6.00x0.70x8.90 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 276 pages. 6.24x0.80x9.24 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.