The first book to chronicle the life and ideas of “the serious baseball fan’s high priest” (New York Times), the impact of his brilliant and entertaining writings, and how someone who never pitched a ball, held a bat, or managed a team fundamentally changed the way baseball is interpreted, analyzed, and even played.Bill James has been called “baseball’s shrewdest analyst” (Slate) and “part of baseball legend” (The New Yorker), and his Baseball Abstrac...

Small businesses can benefit from business outsourcing. Rather focusing exclusively on the costs of outsourcing certain activities of your business, you should also consider the benefits such a change would bring. Cost Reduction Business outsourcing can help lower your business’s expenses. Let’s say you have clothing business. The equipment you’re using is not the best in the line, and it contributes to increasing your production costs. But what if you simply outsource your equipment needs...

Death and Friendship.Love and Gaming.Mind and Machine.The Meaning of Life.High School Graduation.The End of the World.That Kind of Stuff.If you press them, anyone who games will admit to some variation on the idea of how they'd love to be the hero for real, just once. Just for one day. But right now, I'm on an empty street five hundred kilometers from home, barely able to walk. I'm soaked and shivering, wearing someone else's clothes, and w...

In the great Free City of Yewnyr, the Blackheath Refuge is home to the victims of the most powerful magic in the Elder Kingdoms -- those wounded in body and mind by dark mana, ancient curses, and the hunger of the undead.When an invisible killer is unleashed within the refuge, the brash investigator Elathien Solo must contend with indifferent authorities, a spurned lover, and a young patient's terrible secret as she searches for the truth.And even as a dark conspiracy of mu...

A year and a half has passed since the dark road that took Chriani across the Clearwater Way and back, at the side of the princess he once loved. Despite the anger and ambivalence to duty that once held him back, rank and commission have taken him to the frontier of the Greatwood and riding with the rangers, Kathlan at his side to help him focus on the challenges of a soldier's life.But when Chriani finds himself targeted by Ilvani hunters tied to an ancient prophecy that might ups...

The only thing being scared was good for was giving up. When Emmet said it, Sidnye hadn't realized how right he was.She'd been afraid before. She was numb now.Numb was better.* * *It's one thing to talk about your world falling apart, as you're hit with headaches and dreams that let you see things happen before they happen. It's another thing when your world falls apart for real, because your school is attacked by alien bugs and you have to escape in a stars...

It's the classic tale — but not exactly the way you remember it…Paris, France. 1625.A young woman named d'Artagnan bears the heart and the blade of a musketeer, but must prove herself before she can earn her rank and uniform.The spy and assassin Milord de Winter advances an agenda of villainy and unbridled ambition, and will destroy anyone who gets in his way.The so-called 'three inseparables' of the queens' musketeers — the noble Athos, the forthright Porth...

Sidnye Dupree was going on thirteen years old when she broke the Bishop's nose with a dodgeball and dreamed the dream of the shooting star. But even if she'd known then what was happening to her, it would have been far too late to stop it...* * *Life is complicated enough when you live full-time at boarding school because your parents are dead, and when the other students around you are mostly idiots, and when you're doomed to spend the rest of your existence in cafeteria d...

AN EBOOK-SINGLE SHORT STORY — A TALE OF THE ENDLANDSSkos Andarost was the name the mage had been born with, but it had been a generation since he had been known as anything other than Jarrn Dark Andarost. The tattoos that snaked across his arms and chest marked him as one of the Jarrnath, the sorcerous order that had long since spread from its birthplace in Ajaeltha, north to the Gracian wilderness and the Vanyr frontier where the ever-present threat of war masked the movements and...

Times of Perseverance: Hope and Healing on the Battlefields of Life is a phenomenological narrative chronicling a Jewish man's tenacious survival from personal and family Traumatic Brain Injury, while capturing a transparent glimpse into the soul of a wounded man. His brother's severe Traumatic Brain Injury reveals that God leads a person to himself in times of tragedy. Moreover, his near death experience which was a result of human error teaches about God's forgiveness from Scripture. Thi...

Read by the author.Is America the next missionary graveyard? Or is it ripe for spiritual revolution? The statistics seem grim. Every year, the decline of Christianity continues at a rapid pace, especially among young adults. Churches across the country are closing their doors, dying, or are being "adopted" by nearby larger churches. What is the story church leaders hear? We've lost the next generation.But this decline in religious affiliation has not made u...

The main challenges and strategies of success forCHRISTIAN WOMEN LEADERSAre you showing up for your own life? Or are you watching it slowly drain away, each moment emptied of its potential?At age twenty, Halee Gray Scott was doing things her way when God challenged her with these two questions. Confronted with the brevity of human life, she determined to start living with purpose and passion and help others do the same. For...