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Promising summer for District 15 underdogs
With the odds almost always stacked against them, the smaller towns in the District 15 Little League Williamsport tournament have to fight tooth and nail for every win on the summer diamonds. But with the change in landscape this year, the ultimate goal of a raising a District 15 championship banner could be more obtainable than ever for teams pulling players from a smaller population pool.
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A Mathematician At The Ballpark: Odds And Probabilities For Baseball Fans $12.99 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.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.

Odds The $20.33 Rated: RSynopsis: Betting on high school sports by day and spending late nights at speakeasy-style casinos, for this group of teenagers, underground gambling is life. However, as the stakes get higher, and a regular turns up dead, one high school senior will find himself in way over his head as he searches for the truth. With unrelenting twists and turns, The Odds is one thriller that will have audiences guessing until all the cards have been dealt.

The Odds $20.78 No Synopsis Available

Odds $15.19 The Homicide Department is upside down Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potocki’s life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her boss’s health, she can hardly think. A young boy in Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood dies of a suspicious overdose. The Narcotics police are working on tips and they draft Colleen and Potocki to help them. In this same neighborhood, four young kids have been abandoned and are living on their own. The Philips kids, brainy in school, are reluctant to compromise themselves. But they need cash. Connecting these people and their stories is Nick Banks, just out of prison and working off a debt to an old acquaintance involved in the drug trade. Nick is a charmer, a gentle fellow who’s had a lot of trouble in his life. One day he gives free food to the Philips kids, little guessing how connected their lives are about to become. Kathleen George’s latest work pushes the edge a spectacularly original crime novel.

Statistics Hacks: Tips & Tools for Measuring the World and Beating the Odds $14.89 <div><p>Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into <i>Statistics Hacks</i>. These cool tips, tricks, and mind-boggling solutions from the world of statistics, measurement, and research methods will not only amaze and entertain you, but will give you an advantage in several real-world situations-including business. </p><p> This book is ideal for anyone who likes puzzles, brainteasers, games, gambling, magic tricks, and those who want to apply math and science to everyday circumstances. Several hacks in the first chapter alone-such as the "central limit theorem,", which allows you to know everything by knowing just a little-serve as sound approaches for marketing and other business objectives. Using the tools of inferential statistics, you can understand the way probability works, discover relationships, predict events with uncanny accuracy, and even make a little money with a well-placed wager here and there.</p> <p> <i>Statistics Hacks</i> presents useful techniques from statistics, educational and psychological measurement, and experimental research to help you solve a variety of problems in business, games, and life. You’ll learn how to:</p> <ul><li>Play smart when you play Texas Hold ‘Em, blackjack, roulette, dice games, or even the lottery</li> <li>Design your own winnable bar bets to make money and amaze your friends</li> <li>Predict the outcomes of baseball games, know when to "go for two" in football, and anticipate the winners of other sporting events with surprising accuracy</li> <li>Demystify amazing coincidences and distinguish the <i>truly</i> random from the only <i>seemingly</i> random–even keep your iPod’s "random" shuffle honest</li> <li>Spot fraudulent data, detect plagiarism, and break codes</li> <li>How to isolate the effects of observation on the thing observed</li></ul><br/><br/><p>Whether you’re a statistics enthusiast who does calculations in your sleep or a civilian who is entertained by clever solutions to interesting problems, <i>Statistics Hacks</i> has tools to give you an edge over the world’s slim odds.</p></div>

Baseball’s 28 Baserunning Plays (DVD) $35.82 Baseball’s 28 Baserunning Plays presents a comprehensive overview of the 28 possible plays of baseball offense. In an easy-to-understand manner, each play is explained and demonstrated in detail. The DVD features an on-the-field demonstration of each offensive play. Among the topics covered: steal plays, hit and run, fake steal, and bunts.

Odds ‘r $9.39 An amusing and quirky compendium of everything you’ve ever wondered about worried about or wished you knew… Odds ‘R has picked some of the best brains around to deliver the most fascinating and factual odds-based Q&A on life love sex sports death and much much more sure to challenge and amuse even the most devoted trivia buff. Gone With the Wind — What is the chance that anyone in the U.S. will die from flatulence? A)Zero B)1 in 140 million C)1 in 280 million B) 1 in 140 million Whewwww! Who knew? It’s hard to imagine but according to CDC records between 1999 and 2001 there has been an average of about 2 deaths per year- from flatulence! No word on what these unfortunate folks had eaten before theypassed. Source: CDC 2005 In the "Ooops" Category About 200 surgical implements are used in the average operation. What’s the chance of someone dying from a "foreign object" mistakenly left in the body during an operation? A)1 in 40 million B)9 in 40 million C)19 in 40 million B)9 in 40 million "We’re missing a scalpel!" isn’t what you want to hear coming out of post-op. Of the 40 million annual surgeries performed in U.S. hospitals an average of 9 deaths a year are caused by "foreign objects being left in the body during surgery." And you thought the Seinfeld Junior Mint episode was just a joke! Source: CDC 1998 Granny Gets it On — What is the chance that an American woman over the age of 75 has a sexual partner? A)1 in 2 B)1 in 4 C)1 in 10 B) 1 in 4 Go Granny go! According to the AARP about 25% of women over 75 have regular sexual partners. The rest are sticking with "Not tonight dear I’ve had a heat attack." Source: AARP; myhealthyhorizon.com 2003 To learn more about odds and the Odds ‘R game visit www.oddsrgames.com. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Odds Are Against It $2.99 Rural mail carrier Tammy bumps heads in a nightmare during a rare spring snow storm. Twenty years before she was kidnapped and shot by a drug addict she met along her route. Now she picks up another stranger along her route and the memories come flooding back. Is she about to be kidnapped and shot again? No she tells herself because the odds against it are so great.

Odds and Ends : But Mostly Odds $20.47 No Synopsis Available

Odds And Ends $7.99 The purpose of "Odds and Ends" is to show how relying on God will help us through our diffi culties. It is for people who are not familiar with the Bible and those who may have stepped away from reading the Bible. The topics are universal. The verses are short and can be read in less than a minute. What diffi culty are you facing right now? Look up a verse that pertains to that situation and read it. Meditate on it and write it down on an index card. Carry the card around with you and refer to the verse frequently. At the end of two weeks, compare where you were and where you are now. One of two things will change – the situation or you.

Gap Creationism Explained : Explained $29.24 No Synopsis Available

Ockham Explained $15.69 Ockham Explained is an important and much-needed resource on William of Ockham, one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages. His eventful and controversial life was marked by sharp career moves and academic and ecclesiastical battles. At 28, Ockham was a conservative English theologian focused obsessively on the nature of language, but by 40, he had transformed into a fugitive friar, accused of heresy, and finally protected by the German emperor as he composed incendiary treatises calling for strong limits on papal authority. This book provides a thorough grounding in Ockham's life and his many contributions to philosophy. It begins with an overview of the philosopher's youth and the Aristotelian philosophy he studied as a boy. Subsequent chapters cover his ideas on language and logic; his metaphysics and vaunted "razor," as well as his opponents' "anti-razor" theories; his invention of the church-state separation; and much more. The concluding chapter sums up Ockham's compelling philosophical personality and explains his modern appeal.

Odds Against $6.25 No Synopsis Available

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Against The Odds $5.82 The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power or for blood. The Loyalists meanwhile fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet the apparent victim of Family politics she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn For information about this or any other Orbit title visit the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.ukThe worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power or for blood. The Loyalists meanwhile fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet the apparent victim of Family politics she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn For information about this or any other Orbit title visit the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Long Odds $1.19 pubOne.info present you this new edition. The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain, as we used to call him in South Africa. He told it to me one evening when I was stopping with him at the place he bought in Yorkshire. Shortly after that, the death of his only son so unsettled him that he immediately left England, accompanied by two companions, his old fellow-voyagers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good, and has now utterly vanished into the dark heart of Africa. He is persuaded that a white people, of which he has heard rumours all his life, exists somewhere on the highlands in the vast, still unexplored interior, and his great ambition is to find them before he dies. This is the wild quest upon which he and his companions have departed, and from which I shrewdly suspect they never will return. One letter only have I received from the old gentleman, dated from a mission station high up the Tana, a river on the east coast, about three hundred miles north of Zanzibar

Odds and Gods $8.99 Wagner got it wrong. The twilight of the gods isn’t that cataclysmic. After all there’s a comfy chair a warm fire and three meals a day at the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home. Passing the time with Aphrodite who’s still quite sprighty with the aid of her Zimmer frame isn’t heaven – but it’s close.Wagner got it wrong. The twilight of the gods isn’t that cataclysmic. After all there’s a comfy chair a warm fire and three meals a day at the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home. Passing the time with Aphrodite who’s still quite sprighty with the aid of her Zimmer frame isn’t heaven – but it’s close.

Impossible Odds $9.59 Elite warrior swordsmen, they are unequalled in any time or realm . . . The King’s Blades The King has decreed that new Blades must be sworn into the service of the Grand Duke Rubin, deposed by a foul usurper and currently on the run. But none of the rough youths being readied at Ironhall possess the seasoning to survive what better, more skilled Blades already have not. Still, two woefully unprepared candidates are approached with an offer of early bonding and probable death: deft but dense, rude Ranter, and eager, impetuous Ringwood . . . with a third, the inadequate swordsman but potentially able spy Bellman, enlisted into their threadbare ranks. Joining the Duke’s entourage along with the courageous and prescient White Sister Trudy, the would-be champions must restore a rightful ruler to the throne or die in the process. But before them waits an army of the dead. And the Duke whom the Blades must protect to the last drop of their lifeblood is not the liege they imagined . . .

America at Odds $71.39 No Synopsis Available

AMERICA AT ODDS $28 No Synopsis Available

The Devil’s Odds $30.22 No Synopsis Available

Overwhelming Odds $12.19 No Synopsis Available

Surviving the Odds $16.53 No Synopsis Available

Inevitable Odds $24.33 No Synopsis Available

Reducing the Odds $62.4 No Synopsis Available

Overcoming the Odds $141.89 No Synopsis Available

Odds and Evens $24.33 No Synopsis Available

What Are the Odds? $16.53 No Synopsis Available

Defying the Odds $10.72 No Synopsis Available

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The Odds Of Being $14.58 No Synopsis Available

Against All Odds $7.99 The Odds (Boney Itchy and Squeak) have vanquished their mortal enemy Larry Harry and his two sidekicks but that doesnt stop these dastardly bullies from trying to compete against Squeak in a radio-controlled airplane contest. But everyone is blown away when the winner turns out to be a girl. And not just any girl. Samantha Moss is eerily similar to Squeak — she can match him note for scientific note. Itchy isnt too keen on inviting her into the clubhouse but it turns out the boys need all the help they can get: aliens have landed in their town . . . and have cloned the Odds! There are Itchys and Boneys and Squeaks all over the place. It takes all their imagination and scientific know-how to come up with a plan to stop the clones — but will it work?

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Religion Explained $17.09 While human religious practice and belief are extraordinarily varied, they are nevertheless not infinitely so. The varieties of belief have provided generations of anthropologists and religious scholars with material for research; there have been fewer attempts to explore what religious beliefs have in common – and fewer still that have been convincing. Following in the footsteps of Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker’s explorations of what languages have in common beneath their vast superficial variety, Pascal Boyer explores the commonalities of religious belief, bringing the new tools of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology to bear on the ways in which beliefs reflect human needs and the ways in which our minds work. This is no sense an attempt to explain religion away, or to reduce it to simplistic nostrums; Boyer is himself an anthropologist, and rejects almost all the usual obvious, but unsatisfying, explanations for religion, in a book that is certainly ambitious and provocative, but also a rich exploration of this profound and important area of human experience – an area that is almost as universal and central to our shared humanity as our common use of language. ????

Consciousness Explained $10.99 This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes’ dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. What people think of as the stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, the author argues, but "multiple drafts" of reality composed by a computer-like "virtual machine". Dennett considers how consciousness could have evolved in human beings and confronts the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.

The Odds Get Even $5.49 Boney Itchy and Squeak are the Odd Fellows just a bit different from everybody else and the best of friends. They hang out in their tree house in Boneys backyard where five lookout posts and three escape hatches allow them to keep an eye on (and get away from) their mortal enemy: bully Larry Harry. But after getting pelted with eggs pummelled in gym class and sabotaged every year at their schools Invention Convention the Odds have had enough. Theyre going to put an end to Larrys reign of terror and theyre going to use their knowledge of science and the local legend of a haunted mill to do soif that is they dont get tangled up in their own schemes first. Natale Ghent award-winning and critically acclaimed author of No Small Thing and All the Way Home returns with a hilarious story of friendship and comeuppance. The Odds Get Even perfectly captures the childhood spirit of secret plans and adventures while showing that being different isnt such a bad thing.

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Emotion Explained $58.45 No Synopsis Available

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Science Explained $48.75 No Synopsis Available

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Contra Todo Against All Odds $12.49 Rated: NRSynopsis: The drama CONTRA TODO stars Lumi Cavazos (THE BLACK PIMPERNEL) and tells the story of a doomed couple in Los Angeles that will have to fight against all odds to survive.

Against All Odds: A Novel $9.59 For FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Evan Cooper dignitary protection duty should have been a piece of cake. But Monica Callahan isn’t making it easy. For FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Evan Cooper and his partner dignitary protection duty should have been a piece of cake. Unfortunately Monica Callahan isn’t making it easy. Estranged from her diplomat father–who is involved in a sensitive hostage situation in the Middle East–she refuses to be intimidated by a related terrorist threat back in the States. That is until a chilling warning convinces her that the danger is very real–and escalating. As Coop and his partner do their best to keep her safe Monica’s father triggers an abduction that puts his daughter’s life at risk. And with every second that ticks by Coop knows that the odds of saving the only woman who has ever breached the walls around his heart are dropping. After all terrorists aren’t known for their patience–or their mercy. Book one in the Heroes of Quantico series this suspense-filled novel will whisk readers along for the thrilling ride.

Popular Errors Explained $13.99 In 1841 John Timbs wrote a book called Popular Errors Explained. It went on with Timbs’ other great series ‘Curiosities of to become one of the great popular books of the 19th century, running into many editions and selling hundreds of thousands of copies. Some say the popularity of his one hundred and fifty volumes led him to outsell a certain Mr Dickens. Stewart McCartney, under the Timb’s title of Popular Errors Explained has created a new book, capturing the zeal and enthusiasm of the original, to be ‘agreeable, by way of abstract and anecdote so as to become an advantageous and amusing guest at any intellectual fireside.’ The book has completely new material – around 200 or so ‘popular errors’ from science and literature, history, sport, popular culture and so on. Each entry will have that eyebrow raising ‘I didn’t know that!’ or ‘Surely that cannot be true!’ feel. Every one will explode a commonly held misbelief.