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Author : Jonah Keri
Publisher : ESPN
ISBN 13 : 0345517733
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Extra 2% written by Jonah Keri and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.

Author : Timothy C. Tricas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharks and Rays written by Timothy C. Tricas and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharks and rays have long held the fascination of a great many people, and as well as exploring their history, biology, environment and the myths that surround them, this book also gives practical advice on the best ways and places to see them.

Author : George Miller MacKee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book X-rays and radium in the treatment of diseases of the skin written by George Miller MacKee and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521016460
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Candia L Sanders
Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 145258530X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soul Rays: Discover the Vibratory Frequency of Your Soul written by Candia L Sanders and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Soul Ray is a frequency of choice before a given lifetime, a vibration of energy and color in which to explore emotional, mental and physical attributes of soul awareness. Improve your relationships, health, career and your personal connection to the Divine discovering your personal soul ray frequency. This is but one window into the dimensional aspect of the soup, yet its brilliance is bright, colorful, full of story and insight. Explore the personality profiles of the twelve distinct, unique, yet intertwined rays, illuminating family and friends multiple complexities and specialties. Peruse the temperaments and emotional resumes of the specific soul rays, offering relationship and career guidance. Study the individual physical traits, strengths and weaknesses and health of each child, comparing diet, food, exercise and supplements. Understand the guilds and value of global influences. Perceiving and understanding the importance of your special Soul Ray is a unique window into the greater cosmic perspective of your Divine self and soul/sole direction. This intriguing intuitive materials is guaranteed to open your consciousness to greater possibilities.

Author : E. R. Tracy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521768063
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ray Tracing and Beyond written by E. R. Tracy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete introduction to the use of modern ray tracing techniques in plasma physics describes the powerful mathematical methods generally applicable to vector wave equations in non-uniform media, and clearly demonstrates the application of these methods to simplify and solve important problems in plasma wave theory. Key analytical concepts are carefully introduced as needed, encouraging the development of a visual intuition for the underlying methodology, with more advanced mathematical concepts succinctly explained in the appendices, and supporting Matlab and Raycon code available online. Covering variational principles, covariant formulations, caustics, tunnelling, mode conversion, weak dissipation, wave emission from coherent sources, incoherent wave fields, and collective wave absorption and emission, all within an accessible framework using standard plasma physics notation, this is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in plasma physics.

Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gamma-Ray Observatory written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book R006: Total instrumental analysis of rocks Part A, X-ray spectrographic determination of all major oxides in igneous rocks, and precision and accuracy of a direct pelletizing method written by and published by NV Bureau of Mines & Geology. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert D. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectral Gamma-ray Logging Studies written by Robert D. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Masayoshi Nakasako
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 443156618X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book X-Ray Diffraction Imaging of Biological Cells written by Masayoshi Nakasako and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author describes the development of the experimental diffraction setup and structural analysis of non-crystalline particles from material science and biology. Recent advances in X-ray free electron laser (XFEL)-coherent X-ray diffraction imaging (CXDI) experiments allow for the structural analysis of non-crystalline particles to a resolution of 7 nm, and to a resolution of 20 nm for biological materials. Now XFEL-CXDI marks the dawn of a new era in structural analys of non-crystalline particles with dimensions larger than 100 nm, which was quite impossible in the 20th century. To conduct CXDI experiments in both synchrotron and XFEL facilities, the author has developed apparatuses, named KOTOBUKI-1 and TAKASAGO-6 for cryogenic diffraction experiments on frozen-hydrated non-crystalline particles at around 66 K. At the synchrotron facility, cryogenic diffraction experiments dramatically reduce radiation damage of specimen particles and allow tomography CXDI experiments. In addition, in XFEL experiments, non-crystalline particles scattered on thin support membranes and flash-cooled can be used to efficiently increase the rate of XFEL pulses. The rate, which depends on the number density of scattered particles and the size of X-ray beams, is currently 20-90%, probably the world record in XFEL-CXDI experiments. The experiment setups and results are introduced in this book. The author has also developed software suitable for efficiently processing of diffraction patterns and retrieving electron density maps of specimen particles based on the diffraction theory used in CXDI.