Best Selling Books by Bruce Weber

A look at the career of the baseball superstar discusses how Mays robbed Cleveland''s Vic Wertz of a key hit in the 1954 World Series, became the first member of baseball''s 300-300 club, and led the National League in homers four times. Original.

Offers brief profiles of Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey, Jr., Barry Larkin, Frank Thomas, Lee Smith, Mike Piazza, Gary Sheffield, Roberto Alomar, Juan Gonzalez, Jack McDowell, John Burkett, and Cal Ripken, Jr., and discusses the new Cleveland stadium and prospe

In this collection of short stories, A hardened, cynical man from Brooklyn finds compassion and love in a McDonalds in Nogales, Arizona. An adventurer relaxing along a picturesque stream witnesses an amazing act of will. A harried businessman learns peace and the value of being still from a master and repays him with mobility. A detective inadvertently solves a decades-old crime that rocked a city. A middle-aged lothario, offered a chance to avoid embarrassing himself with a much-younger woman, takes it, and in doing so, impresses her more than he had thought possible. A young man learns humility, and that some debts simply cannot be repaid. A burglary victim and the cross-dressing burglar become intimate friends. A well-meaning would-be rebel strikes a blow against the gray-suits, only to realize the folly of his attempt at heroism. A middle-aged man, finally able to realize his dream on a 40-foot ocean-going boat discovers his boat has been hauled away, but receives a greater reward for his anguish. A veteran police officer learns the hard way that perhaps he should be in another line of work, even as his rookie partner learns he''s perfect for the job. A felon who finds enlightenment seeks forgiveness for past sins, but discovers that he isn''t as enlightened as he thought. A young boy who feels betrayed finds the true meaning of loyalty, responsibility, and forgiveness.

The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) resulted in the protection of over 11 million acres of public forestland in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. This paper quantifies the amenity effect arising from protected NWFP lands on long-run community economic growth. Using community fixed effects and postmatching panel regression to control for many sources of bias, we find highly localized and positive amenity impacts on the growth in median income, population, and property values for small communities close to protected NWFP land, as compared to communities far from the NWFP. We find no effect on medium-sized communities.

Economic development in rural areas affects the natural environment, which in turn affects economic growth--both rural and urban. These shared interests and feedback effects in the natural environment are increasingly recognized as important economic and political issues, and necessitate a new framework for better understanding them. This article asks why such a framework does not exist and why it should be developed. It then presents such a framework by integrating regional, urban, and environmental economic insights. The framework focuses on the interactive location decisions of firms and households and centripetal forces for concentration and centrifugal forces for decentralization. The article captures the economic and environmental consequences of rural-urban relocation and feedback effects through changes in agglomeration economies, congestion costs, natural and social amenities, and the location of economic opportunities. Results show that some feedback effects reinforce the initial forces, but others weaken them. We present two examples to demonstrate the application of the framework. The first focuses on how agglomeration economies affect the effectiveness of environmental regulation and illustrates the benefits of incorporating regional and urban economic insights into environmental policy analysis. The second example focuses on how conservation policy can create localized amenities that help resource-rich regions avoid the natural resource curse and illustrates how concepts and perspectives from resource and environmental economics can improve our understanding of regional and rural issues.

Link Porter is an Iraq war veteran suffering from agoraphobia. He''s terrified of open spaces, bright lights, loud noises, and crowds. He spends his days holed up his tiny darkened apartment, reading psychology textbooks and endlessly psychoanalyzing himselfBut Link Porter comes to realize that running from life is not always so easy, that sometimes a man''s fate comes searching for him as relentlessly as the Hound of Hell, and that one afternoon, on a Saturday like any other, would come knocking at his door.

A former elementary teacher presents humorous stories and jokes about all aspects of school life