The Baseball Fan's Companion covers everything from the basic rules to the all-important strategies of the game - some simple and others wonderfully complex. You'll learn how a "double switch" works, the difference between a slider and a curve, the subtle methods umpires use to run and control the show, and even how keeping score in writing can greatly enhance your involvement in and enjoyment of the game. And you'll also hear about the business side of this mega-dollar sport, from free agency to no-cut contracts to the roles of GMs, owners, and the labor union.

The Baseball Fan's Companion: How to Master the Subtleties of the World's Most Complex Team Sport and Learn to Watch the Game Like an Expert

Sports & Outdoors

Bakalar, Nick

Baseball

wiley

LA Sabiduria De Juan Pablo II: Los Pensamientos Del Papa Sobre Temas Fundamentales (Spanish Edition)

Balkin, Richard

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Harpercollins

Hepatitis is a growing epidemic caused by a number of viruses labelled A to G. Each one requires a different diagnostic and therapeutic approach. Alan Berkman explains how they are contracted and how to deal with them.

Hepatitis a to G: The Facts You Need to Know About All the Forms of This Dangerous Disease

Berkman, Alan, M.D.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

American Satire

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Plume

A comprehensive guide to the diagnosis & treatment of teenage depression (TD). If ignored or poorly treated, clinical TD can be a devastating illness for adolescents & their families. Drawing on her many years of experience as a psychiatrist working with teenagers, Empfield answers the questions that parents & teens have about depression, providing detailed information on: how depression is diagnosed; identifying the different types of depression; which teenagers are most at risk; assessing the risk of suicide; the drugs used to treat TD -- what they are & how they work; when a teenager needs to be hospitalized for depression; & the effect of depression on other teenage problems. Includes case studies as well as first-person accounts from teenagers.

Understanding Teenage Depression: A Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management

Empfield, Maureen

Mental Health

Diane Pub Co.

Quotations from the Pope's writings cover human rights, the laity, love, marriage, peace, progress, poverty, suffering, death, women, work, and other religions.

The Wisdom of John Paul II: The Pope on Life's Most Vital Questions

Politics & Social Sciences

John Paul II, Pope

Philosophy

Dove Entertainment Inc

Delightful doses of medical miscellany about wacky doctors and their curious patients, from their smallest bones (the stapes) to their heaviest organs (the liver) 
In this addictive collection of trivia, Nicholas Bakalar, the "Vital Signs" columnist for The New York Times, spoons out the things you never realized you really want to know about your body and your health. 
Bakalar shares the wonders of medicine, from medical firsts (in 1667, the first survivor of a blood transfusion received sheep's blood) to medical onlys (rabies is the only infectious disease that is 100 percent curable when treated and 100 percent fatal if not). He takes a tour of diseases that belong in horror movies: liquefying organs, flesh-eating bacteria, mushrooms sprouting in the throat. He notes remarkable remedies, such as dark chocolate, which can stand in for blood-pressure pills. And he dissects the chemistry of the human body (including the 0.0000000000000015259 percent that is radium). 
With a specialist's attention to the funny bone as well as the gray matter, Bakalar's The Medicine Cabinet of Curiosities tickles the curiosity of both the healthy and the hypochondriac, following Voltaire's dictum that "the art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

MEDICINE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Reference

Times Books

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