Introduces the concepts of probability to help baseball fans develop a better understanding of the game.

A Mathematician at the Ballpark: Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans

Science & Math

Ross, Ken

History & Philosophy

Pi Press

In A Mathematician at the Ballpark, professor Ken Ross reveals the math behind the stats. This lively and accessible book shows baseball fans how to harness the power of made predictions and better understand the game. Using real-world examples from historical and modern-day teams, Ross shows: • Why on-base and slugging percentages are more important than batting averages • How professional odds makers predict the length of a seven-game series • How to use mathematics to make smarter bets A Mathematician at the Ballpark is the perfect guide to the science of probability for the stats-obsessed baseball fans—and, with a detailed new appendix on fantasy baseball, an essential tool for anyone involved in a fantasy league.

Mathematics

Penguin Publishing Group

In Environmental Conflict in Alaska, Ken Ross presents a detailed yet readable account of the salient environmental controversies of Alaska's statehood period. As "the last frontier," Alaska lured unusually fervent devotees of the exploitation ethic who sought to make quick profits or recreate the pioneer experience in a land of minimal regulations. The state also attracted passionate environmentalists-enthralled by natural beauty-who found increasing support from a public anxious about pollution and resource depletion.At statehood, Alaska awaited apportionment among state, federal, and Native claimants. A unique mix of conditions, Ross maintains, precipitated high-stakes, often dramatic battles over whales, wolves, and other wildlife as well as the lands and waters where they roamed. The conflicts helped shape the national environmental agenda and generated a vibrant environmental community in Alaska. They doomed some destructive projects, mitigated others, and gave birth to more open, interdisciplinary, and international models of natural resource management.Ross maintains that over the years, the conflicts strengthened principles of government and corporate accountability, public participation in management decision, and sustainable use of natural resources. At the millennium, this leaves Alaska a chance to retain much of the prisine quality regarded by so many as its primary value. Sure to be the standard account for years to come, Environmental Conflict in Alaska documents one state's fateful trials surrounding its own irreplaceable portion of our nation's great natural heritage.

Environmental Conflict in Alaska

History

Americas

Univ Pr of Colorado

In Environmental Conflict in Alaska, Ken Ross presents a detailed yet readable account of the salient environmental controversies of Alaska's statehood period. As "the last frontier," Alaska lured unusually fervent devotees of the exploitation ethic who sought to make quick profits or recreate the pioneer experience in a land of minimal regulations. The state also attracted passionate environmentalists-enthralled by natural beauty-who found increasing support from a public anxious about pollution and resource depletion.
At statehood, Alaska awaited apportionment among state, federal, and Native claimants. A unique mix of conditions, Ross maintains, precipitated high-stakes, often dramatic battles over whales, wolves, and other wildlife as well as the lands and waters where they roamed. The conflicts helped shape the national environmental agenda and generated a vibrant environmental community in Alaska. They doomed some destructive projects, mitigated others, and gave birth to more open, interdisciplinary, and international models of natural resource management.
Ross maintains that over the years, the conflicts strengthened principles of government and corporate accountability, public participation in management decision, and sustainable use of natural resources. At the millennium, this leaves Alaska a chance to retain much of the prisine quality regarded by so many as its primary value. Sure to be the standard account for years to come, Environmental Conflict in Alaska documents one state's fateful trials surrounding its own irreplaceable portion of our nation's great natural heritage.

University Press of Colorado

A companion volume to Environmental Conflict in Alaska, Pioneering Conservation in Alaska chronicles the central land and wildlife issues and the growth of environmental conservation in Alaska during its Russian and territorial eras.The Alaskan frontier tempted fur traders, whalers, salmon fishers, gold miners, hunters, and oilmen to take what they could without regard for long-term consequences. Wildlife species, ecosystems, and Native cultures suffered, sometimes irreparably. Damage to wildlife and lands drew the attention of environmentalists, including John Muir, who applied their influence to enact wildlife protection laws and set aside lands for conservation. Alaska served as a testing ground for emergent national resource policy in the United States, as environmental values of species and ecosystem sustainability replaced the unrestrained exploitation of Alaska's early frontier days.Efforts of conservation leaders and the territory's isolation, small human population, and late development prevented widespread destruction and gave Americans a unique opportunity to protect some of the world's most pristine wilderness.Enhanced by more than 100 photographs, Pioneering Conservation in Alaska illustrates the historical precedents for current natural resource disputes in Alaska and will fascinate readers interested in wildlife and conservation.

Pioneering Conservation in Alaska

Harry Morgan sees an old flame while driving home after taking his grandson to school. After thirty years since their romantic affair, they steadily renew a once passionate relationship. But after so many years alone, can they forfeit their independence at the cost of a new relationship? They are older, wiser, and they battle to find a compromise as feelings intensify and their interaction becomes ever hotter. A romantic tale that delves into the psychological effects of an affair in later life and story which many over forties will recognise as being very real.

AN OLD AFFAIR

Romance

Contemporary

Independently published

The true stories of three childhood friends who find themselves in World War II from Saipan to the Battle of the Bulge to hauling explosives across the Pacific. Ken Ross, Normand Black and Carl Swendsen are teenagers fresh out of high school who enter military service after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

We Didn't Know We Were Heroes

Black, Normand

Swendsen, Carl

Military

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

An account of a uniquely located county’s involvement in the Civil War – unique because of its connections to Canada and access to the ocean.The "Home Front" chapter outlines the politics, attitudes toward the war, recruitment successes and failures, effects on home life, and relations with Canada. Army regiments containing 50 or more county soldiers are briefly followed through the war.Soldiers’ wartime experiences, from mundane to tragic to glorious, are recounted.Navy life and operations are outlined, and effects of the war on coastal seafaring.Whenever possible, county participants’ names are connected to the battles and other experiences of the war.An appendix lists some 4,700 names of soldiers and sailors – more than 10% of the county’s population – and their assignments and fates.In light of the information offered herein, the reader is invited to consider (as does the author) the eternal questions of the meaning of this great conflict and what lessons it may carry for our present and future.The book includes 45 photographs over four chapters, 6 tables, and an extensive appendix of soldiers listed by town of origin and including their age, regiment, rank and fate.

Washington County, Maine in the Civil War: 1861-66

Two ways of life clash when a naïve young journalist from Vermont enters the cynical world of Washington DC under right-wing Republican rule. At stake are her personal and professional integrity - and the future of American freedom.

USA 2084

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Monster Giggles (Joke File - Funfax)

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd.

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A Mathematician at the Ballpark: Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans

A Mathematician at the Ballpark: Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans

Environmental Conflict in Alaska

Environmental Conflict in Alaska

Pioneering Conservation in Alaska

AN OLD AFFAIR

We Didn't Know We Were Heroes

Washington County, Maine in the Civil War: 1861-66

USA 2084

Monster Giggles (Joke File - Funfax)