New Releases by Bob Ryan

This book is written under the impression that God is raising up an army of men to be Spiritual Warriors. These men do not need a stage or a position. They may be pipe-fitters or professionals; they may landscapers or lawyers. They are being drawn by the Holy Spirit to engage personally and collectively. As Men of Fire who make a difference, they are defined by what they do. This book asserts that men need to recapture their passions for “building, breaking, providing and protecting” in their homes, churches, and community. Men are ready to gather at fires as they define themselves through stories. Retelling life experiences at campfires, BBQ pits, and bonfires expose a man’s passions and announce readiness to address life as Men of Fire. Stories need a safe place to surface the passions that have been surrendered to television warriors and superheroes consigning themselves as the “keeper of the remote.” From emerging young men sitting at the feet of fathers and spiritual warriors, to men who have been told to sit down and be quiet, God is raising up Men of Fire today to face God’s challenges as spiritual warriors that face life with courage and commitment.

A love letter to Red Sox baseball from one of America''s foremost scribes Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he''s attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season he spent on the Red Sox beat. The tattered scorebooks he''s filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare historic achievements, and more. In Scoring Position: Boston Red Sox captures the incomparable spirit of the game at Fenway and beyond. Ryan, alongside baseball historian and statistician Bill Chuck, brings Red Sox history to life through the prism of his scorebooks, writing with verve and passion about the most astonishing feats, improbable comebacks, and madcap anomalies he''s had the privilege of witnessing. Featuring some of the franchise''s biggest names and wildest scenarios, this is a fascinating romp through modern Red Sox history and includes reproductions of dozens of scorecards from Ryan''s collection.

A high school football player is caught up in a web of young love, Native American beliefs, kidnapping, national security, and the newly formed Space Force.

A definitive BEGINNER''S Manual for STARTUP''S Hoping to start A BUSINESS! Have you ever wished that you could start your own business and live life how you want to? You''ll learn everything you need to know to stand out from the crowd in this book! Do you have an excellent product or service concept but are unsure how to develop it into a business? If so, you must have this book. Purchase now and begin understanding today! Is it safe to say that you are an ongoing entrepreneur who battles to distinguish your clients and convey genuine top-notch esteem? These pages contain everything you need to know!

«De todos los jugadores a los que me he enfrentado, el único al que he temido de verdad es a Larry Bird.» Del prólogo de Magic Johnson Para entender el baloncesto hay que entender a Larry Bird. Considerado por muchos el mejor alero que jamás ha existido, formó junto a Michael Jordan y Magic Johnson el trío que protagonizaría la edad de oro de la NBA. Con otro trío, el que formaría con Robert Parish y Kevin McHale, revivió a los Boston Celtics para llevarlos a ganar tres campeonatos, consiguió tres MVP consecutivos y firmó algunas de las páginas más memorables de la historia del baloncesto. Y todo ello sin saber saltar, ni correr, ni driblar. Publicadas poco antes de su retirada en 1992, estas memorias revelan el testimonio vital y profesional de una figura poco dada a las entrevistas y en gran parte desconocida. Larry Bird se sincera sobre algunos de los capítulos más decisivos de su vida y de su carrera: la angustia por el suicidio de su padre, la férrea disciplina que convirtió a un chico de pueblo en una superestrella nacional, la magia del Boston Garden y los Celtics, la feroz rivalidad con los Lakers o su relación con Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan o Isiah Thomas.

A love letter to the game of baseball from one of America''s foremost scribes Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he''s attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It''s a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting. The tattered scorebooks he''s filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare historic achievements, and more. In Scoring Position captures the incomparable spirit of baseball, with its infinite possibilities and madcap anomalies. Ryan, alongside baseball historian and statistician Bill Chuck, has scoured his scorecard archives for the most singular events—a switch-hitter being hit by a pitch from both sides of the plate in the same game; a player batting for the cycle off four different pitchers; even back-to-back pinch-hit home runs with two outs in the 9th. Featuring some of the game''s biggest names and wildest scenarios, this is a fascinating romp through baseball history, exuding a pure zeal for this sport that fans of all teams will recognize in themselves. Part of the collection at the library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, this volume also features reproductions of dozens of scorecards from Ryan''s collection.

Deputy Sheriff Sean Jansen has enough to worry about solving a murder without his mother, who actually found the body, interfering and butting into the investigation. Details life in the oyster business in western Washington.

Historical novel based on true accounts, about the public hanging of a Chinese immigrant in South Bend Washington in 1902. Shows the way of life, mindset of the times, and the character of the people involved.

The Claxion government created the eugenics program with the promise of a brighter future. It started as a voluntary program, but failed to reach the sixty-five percent that was needed to improve future generations. Voluntary turned to legal requirement and legal requirement turned to force. Any Claxion that continued to refuse to be altered at the genetic level was tortured into submission. When torture failed to persuade, the executions started.It was that moment when the Rangers arrived and quickly devastated the government and military structures and left no eugenicist in power. The Claxion people had their day in court and all involved were sentenced to death for their crimes.The first generation following the eugenicists discovered a frightening reality. Space sickness was a death sentence for all who left the planet. The second generation lost most to the sickness, but others due to a softening of the bones. The third generation faired the same as the second.Trax''l was part of the fourth generation. He survived the sickness and received training to prevent the falls from killing him. He found work as ships security and is given an offer by the first Ranger he has ever met. Go through their training and become a Ranger. Trax''l owed the rangers everything and joining their ranks would mean he can repay them in some small way.Will Trax''l survive training and join their ranks?

Geopeko was the exploration arm of the Australian mining company, Peko-Wallsend Limited. From a start as a small copper miner in the Northern Territory, Geopeko''s discoveries built Peko-Wallsend into one of Australia''s premier mining companies. It was a leader in the development of the geological theories and technologies that underpin mineral discovery. Geologist John Elliston and geophysicist Lew Richardson built a team of earth scientists, technicians, and drillers that laid the foundation for the success. This is the story of that success, compiled by those who were responsible for it, with an analysis of why it was successful.

This book creates a new platform from which to see evangelism. What did Jesus mean when He declared, "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven?" What is our identity and our calling? We are created by the Father to exercise dominion (not domination) over the earth. This book challenges our current understanding of the Good News and shows how Scripture offers "even better news." This is an edgy, controversial, but Spirit-led look at evangelism from God''s eyes, rather than those of the traditional Church. One reader wrote: "Unbelievable! What a work of love and encouragement! The overall theme is wonderfully uplifting. Finally a gospel message I can feel good about sharing with our broken hurting world." - Jeff Gudim

Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the “quintessential American sportswriter.” For the past twenty-five years, he has also been a regular on various ESPN shows, especially The Sports Reporters, spreading his knowledge and enthusiasm for sports of all kinds. Born in 1946 in Trenton, New Jersey, Ryan cut his teeth going with his father to the Polo Grounds and Connie Mack Stadium, and to college basketball games at the Palestra in Philadelphia when it was the epicenter of the college game. As a young man, he became sports editor of his high school paper-and at age twenty-three, a year into his Boston Globe experience, he was handed the Boston Celtics beat as the Bill Russell era ended and the Dave Cowens one began. His all-star career was launched. Ever since, his insight as a reporter and skills as a writer have been matched by an ability to connect with people-players, management, the reading public-probably because, at heart, he has always been as much a fan as a reporter. More than anything, Scribe reveals the people behind the stories, as only Bob Ryan can, from the NBA to eleven Olympics to his surprising favorite sport to cover-golf-and much more It is sure to be one of the most talked-about sports books of 2014, by one of the sports world''s most admired journalists.

The Equality Laws were written and passed to ensure equality for all - under the assumption that fairness for all was to be the dawn of a new age for all nations on Earth; rather, it created a world of darkness. Jared was born into this world of darkness, and sentenced to death for violating the Equality Laws. Through the sacrifice of his father, a stranger comes to Jared''s aid and takes him into a world of light. As Jared learns the truth about himself and the world, he must once again enter the world of darkness on a mission that could cost him his life - as well as everyone he has come to love.

Herein is the story of a boy Rusty whose heartstrings are stretched taut with happiness, fright, sorrow, shame and physical pain while budding to adulthood. Rusty''s often self inflicted predicaments are conveyed in hindsight with hilarious jocularity while the urgency of their real occurrence in time are confessed with honest clarity so profuse it''s impossible not to become entangled in Rusty''s wheeling emotions. The joy and innocence of Rusty''s spirited childhood is slowly eroded by deceit, misunderstandings, mistakes and heartbreak, yet Rusty rushes energetically forward while stumbling into brief rations of excitement and love for fuel. It arduously teaches Rusty to try to look at life with a little bit of levity and be convinced that another good time is bound to come sooner or later. The book shows the things we often work for the hardest sometimes become what we wanted least, and during such work we discover the things we just happen to get are of what sweet dreams are made.

Finance and Accounting for Business gives a user or non-specialist perspective on accounting. It introduces financial and management accounting and finance clearly and comprehensively to business and management students and those from other disciplines who need a broad understanding of this topic for use in their future career.Accounting and finance are ''need to know'' subjects for managers and students of business. Until now both students and lecturers have been frustrated by the lack of a book which does justice to the importance of these subjects and which connects with both the theory and the practice of management. Based upon thirty years'' teaching experience Bob Ryan has produced an original and dynamic text designed to meet the needs of the student and lecturer. The book gives students on executive or general MBA courses an overview of the role of accounting and finance in business, and is also suitable for undergraduates of business and management studies.

A chance meeting with legendary Mountain Man, Jim Bridger at age 14 changed Jeffery''s life. At age 16, he ran away from home to escape his drunken abusive father and fulfill a dream to become a Mountain Man. He was ill prepared for this life and would have died if not for Crow Medicine, a Shoshone his age who became his best, and only, friend. Young Fergus Kilcooley lost his mother and father in a Comanche a raid on the family homestead on the Brazos in Texas. His 16-year-old sister, Blair, was taken prisoner prompting the angry Irishman to set out to find her, bring her home, and kill as many Indians as possible in the process. Destiny brought them all together and Sprit valley became the perfect place to cure the hate in Fergus, the shame of Blair, and the loneliness in Jeffery.

The Rivals marks the first joint project from the top sports writers of New York Times and the Boston Globe--and what better subject than the two baseball teams whose crossed fortunes obsess and define each city. A Struggle for the Ages. . . BOSTON GLOBE JANUARY 6, 1920 RED SOX SELL RUTH FOR $100,000 CASH -------- Demon Slugger of American League, Who Made 29 Home Runs Last Season, Goes to New York Yankees -------- FRAZEE TO BUY NEW PLAYERS The Yankees vs. the Red Sox. Each baseball season begins and ends with unique intensity, focused on a single question: What''s ahead for these two teams? One, the most glamorous, storied, and successful franchise in all of sports; the other, perennially star-crossed but equally rich in baseball history and legend. In The Rivals sports writers of The New York Times and The Boston Globe come together in the first-ever collaboration between the two cities'' leading newspapers to tell the inside story of the teams'' intertwined histories, each from the home team''s perspective. Beginning with the Red Sox''s early glory days (when the Yankees were perennial losers), continuing through the Babe Ruth era and the notorious trade that made the Yankees champions (and marked the Sox with the so-called "Curse of the Bambino"); to Ted Williams vs. Joe DiMaggio; Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk; Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez; down to last year''s legendary playoff showdown, The Rivals captures the drama of key eras, events, and personalities of both teams. And who better to tell the story than the baseball writers of the two rival cities? For The New York Times, it''s Dave Anderson, Harvey Araton, Jack Curry, Tyler Kepner, Robert Lipsyte and George Vecsey who report on the Yankee view of the rivalry, while The Boston Globe Gordon Edes, Jackie MacMullan, Bob Ryan, and Dan Shaughnessy recount the view from the Hub. And their stories are richly illustrated with classic photographs and original articles from the archives, capturing the great moments as they happened. For Red Sox fans, Yankees fans, or anyone interested in remarkable baseball history, The Rivals is an expert, up-close look at the longest, and fiercest of all sports rivalries.

Corporate finance is a key subject within business, but one that often presents a real challenge to those coming to grips with it for the first time. Often teachers too find it a challenging subject to put across in a practically relevant way whilst at the same time ensuring that the ?mathematics gap? between the capabilities of the student and the demands of theory are effectively bridged. Corporate Finance and Valuation is designed to overcome these challenges by presenting the subject in the simplest way possible and by connecting vital principles with vivid practical examples. Corporate Finance and Valuation offers a practical managerial perspective on the subject. The three themes of value, return and risk are developed and form a unifying thread throughout the book. Practical tools and techniques for identifying and solving financial problems in the real world are presented. For every practical finance problem, from estimating a company''s cost of capital through to the valuation of its intangible assets, Corporate Finance and Valuation places emphasis on how the job can be done using readily available tools and freely available data.

This book describes an integrated capital appraisal procedure that is commanding increasing attention in the academic world, industry, commerce and the professions. Formal techniques are widely used for the analysis of capital projects but are limited by their scope and by the difficulty in interpreting the significance of the results they produce. The FAP model overcomes these difficulties by creating an integrated process for the appraisal of the financial and strategic benefits of new project proposals and for the assessment of risk.

"Includes a broad range of topics including risk management, program management, and instructor credentialing. Technical chapters on both high and low elements give detailed standard operating procedures for many common elements."--Back cover.

This anthology features the best sports writing from the heyday of Sport magazine.

This account of Boston''s remarkable victory in the first modern World Series of 1903, in which the fledgling American League triumphed over the Pittsburgh Pirates of the time-honored National League, chronicles with stirring detail the events that led up to baseball''s first Fall Classic.