Research: 356 books
Nuclear Powered Baseball: Articles Inspired by The Simpsons Episode 'Homer At the Bat'
SABR Digital Library, #34
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The Simpsons and baseball. Since its debut in 1989 (that's back in the last century!), The Simpsons has run for 27 seasons and (back in 2009) became the longest-running American scripted primetime television series. Though it would be considered sacrilege in some circles, some might even see it...
China’s Macroeconomic Outlook
Quarterly Forecast and Analysis Report, February 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book is a quarterly forecast and analysis report on the Chinese economy. It is published twice a year and presents ongoing results from the “China Quarterly Macroeconomic Model (CQMM),” a research project at the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University. Based on the CQMM...
Manufacturing and Investment around the World
An International Survey of Factors Affecting Growth and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Manufacturing and Investment around the World: An International Survey of Factors Affecting Growth and Performance
There are significant differences between countries in terms of industrial manufacturing growth, competitiveness and capacities to attract foreign direct investment.
This...
The Philosophy of Recognition
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The theory of recognition is now a well-established and mature research paradigm in philosophy, and it is both influential in and influenced by developments in other fields of the humanities and social sciences. From debates in moral philosophy about the fundamental roots of obligation, to debates...
Urban China
Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development...
China‘s Macroeconomic Outlook
Quarterly Forecast and Analysis Report, October 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This report is a partial result of the China’s Quarterly Macroeconometric Model (CQMM), a project developed and maintained by the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University. The CMR is one of the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored by the Ministry...
The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox: Pandemonium on the Field
SABR Digital Library, #47
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The '67 Red Sox fulfilled a seemingly Impossible Dream, overcoming 100-to-1 odds by climbing out of ninth place to capture the pennant for the first time in 21 years. Thousands of delirious fans streamed onto the field at Fenway Park mobbing the team, dismantling the scoreboard, climbing the screen...
Essential Ethnographic Methods
A Mixed Methods Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This is Book 3 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
Essential Ethnographic Methods introduces the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools that ethnographers and other qualitative researchers use on a regular basis. It provides ethnographers with tools to answer the principal...
Word, Liturgy, Charity
The Diaconate in the U.S. Catholic Church, 1968–2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the restoration of the diaconate as a permanent and stable order of ministry in the United States, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University undertook a contemporary study of the diaconate in the United States. Building...
The Miracle Braves of 1914: Boston's Original Worst-to-First World Series Champions
SABR Digital Library, #18
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Long before the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season, Boston's now nearly forgotten "other" team, the 1914 Boston Braves, performed a baseball "miracle" that resounds to this very day. The "Miracle Braves" were Boston's first "worst-to-first" winners...
China’s Macroeconomic Outlook
Quarterly Forecast and Analysis Report, February 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book is a quarterly forecast and analysis report on the Chinese economy. It is published twice a year and presents ongoing results from the “China Quarterly Macroeconomic Model (CQMM),” a research project at the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University. Based on the CQMM,...
Engineering Firms
A Survey of Factors Affecting their Growth and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Engineering Firms: A Survey of Factors Affecting their Growth & Performance
This is a detailed study of business-economic growth and performance in engineering. It covers a wide range of firm types – in all the main engineering fields – in Britain, the United States, Europe, and Japan.
The...
Can He Play? A Look at Baseball Scouts and Their Profession
SABR Digital Library, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
They dig through tons of coal to find a single diamond. They spend countless hours traveling miles and miles on lonely back roads and way too much time in hotels. Their front offices expect them to constantly provide player reports and updates. So much of their time is spent away from family and friends,...
by IDP Research Division
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The Qur'an contains the revelations of Allah, the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe, to mankind. It is the message from God to man and therefore of utmost importance to us. To properly grasp a message, one needs
first of all to understand its contents exactly, and for this purpose one must...