Defining Greatness

Who belongs in baseball's Hall of Fame? That is, which players have EARNED the right to be there? In this book, Professor Michael Hoban uses Bill James' Win Shares system to come up with a formula tha

Examining in great detail six veterans of the sport who have helped bring closed-wheel racing into the homes of millions of fans nationwide, this book features detailed personal profiles and biographi

愛真的能勝過一切的險阻嗎？這真是個難題──而在許多人都喬裝假扮成他人的狀況下又更艱難了。幸好，所有這些令人困擾的假身分，最後都成為令人發噱的笑點。“Do not be afraid of greatness! Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”莫要害怕地位之崇

Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy.Prose short stories featuring the everyday school lives of My Hero Academia’s fan-favorite characters. At U

Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy.Prose short stories featuring the everyday school lives of My Hero Academia’s fan-favorit

Robert E. Lee seemed destined for greatness. His father was a Revolutionary War hero and at West Point he graduated second in his class! In 1861, when the Southern states seceded from the Union, Lee

Lopez, the most influential Latina performer in history, open up about her life's most defining period.

Christians were never meant to “just get by.” You were created to rise above adversity and display greatness! In this compelling book, best-selling author John Bevere explores what it takes to finish

“Secretariat is an elegantly crafted, exhilarating tale of speed and power, grace and greatness, told with such immediacy that the reader is lost in the rush of horses and the clatter and ring of the

本著作以引導聲部加上對位法則作為研究方法之基礎，將確認調進行 (key-defining progression) 及一對一對位的二聲部的聲部結構(voice structure)結合，從而延伸為三聲部或四聲部的引導聲部織體，以此作為線條流動方向及 agogic progression 的依據。具體將 Palestrina-Fux-Bach 的傳承，化為 agogic progression 在詮釋與表達的理論基礎，將傳統 agogic 在個別音符的流動擴展為三到四聲部的線條流動的 agogic progression 。硏究取向以和弦擴充(chord prolongation)及和聲進行為基底， agogic progression 發展出以聲部結構為經，確認調進行為緯，專注在三或四聲部的聖詠曲織體，成功地將個別音符的 agogic 延伸為流動的多聲音片 agogic progression。Tonal music is an art language with highly civilized products. As an art form, the vocabularies, syntax and techniques are integrated as one to portray the vast varieties of music emotion.Agogic is exactly such term used to describe human feeling and emotion. It not only describes degrees of speed, but also refers to the character of a composition. Since, the variety of agogic terms appearing on scores to describe all shades of human feeling and emotion.Music theory teaching should not be detached from human sentiment. Agogic, to author's view, is embedded in harmonic progression. She propo

My Hero Academia: School Briefs, Vol. 1-6 我的英雄學院日常篇 (小說版)(共6本)成為英雄的路上，不只有戰鬥與挑戰，還有笑聲與青春的片段。出久與1-A的夥伴們，在宿舍裡共同生活、籌備校慶、迎接節慶，也在訓練營中彼此扶持。他們經歷著與我們不那麼不同的校園日常，在友情與夢想中一天天成長。人氣角色們的日常，以小說形式展開，是熱血之外最溫柔的《我的英雄學院》。Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy.Prose short stories featuring the everyday school lives of My Hero Academia’s fan-favorite characters.The U.A. High School Hero Course teaches young hopefuls everything they need to become heroes. Between killer events like the Sports Festival and internships, there’s even Parents’ Day! That’s when all the kids get the chance to show their parents what they’re made of!---------------Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy.Prose short stories featuring the everyday school lives of My Hero Academia’s fan-favorite characters.At U.A. High School, it’s tradition for students to attend a training camp in the woods. Though the kids are mostly there to imp

Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy.Prose short stories featuring the everyday school lives ofMy Hero Academia’s fan-favorite characters.Midoriya and the rest of class 1-A will be cohabiting once they move into their new dormitory, Heights Alliance. Class president Tenya Ida, who hopes to become as spectacular a hero as his brother, will have to lead his classmates and enforce law and order during their dorm days.

Experience Lara Croft's defining moment as she becomes the Tomb Raider. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara must master a deadly jungle, overcome terrifying tombs, and persevere through her darkest hou

The Origins of a Legendary PhotographerAnnie Leibovitz's photographic breakthrough and Rolling Stone reportageFor more than half a century, Annie Leibovitz has been taking culture-defining photographs

The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller Presumed Innocent, INNOCENT continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. F

Revivalis the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic succ

Plainsong, set in Kent Haruf''s fictional Holt County, Colorado, is an unforgettable classic, exploring the grace and hope of every human life, and our boundless capacity for love.‘So delicate and lovely that it has the power to exalt the reader’ The New York TimesTom Guthrie is struggling to bring up his two young sons alone and, in the same town, school girl Victoria Roubideaux is pregnant and homeless.Brothers Harold and Raymond McPheron – gentle, solitary, gruff and unpolished – agree to take Victoria in, unaware that their lives will change forever.A novel of haunting beauty from one of America''s greatest writers, published 25 years ago this year, Plainsong is an essential read from the Picador Collection, a curated list of era-defining modern classics.

Making National Heroes is an ethnography of the making of national heroes in the commemoration of the Second World War in contemporary China. Foregrounding the lived experience of men and women who participate in commemorative activities, it theorises how masculinity and nationalism entangle in recollecting war memories. Taking the feminist line of inquiry, this anthropological study develops an approach to capture the centrality of making exemplars in the realisation of hegemonic masculinities. It adds a gender perspective to studies on exemplarist moral theory and theorises exemplary men’s cross-cultural significance in defining masculinities. Researchers in the fields of critical masculinity studies, anthropology, feminist methodology, China studies, and memory studies will be interested in this book.

“A blistering plot and crisp writing makeThe Night Swiman unputdownable read.” –Sarah Pekkanen, bestselling author ofThe Wife Between UsInThe Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the “gripping and unforgettable” (Harlan Coben)The Escape Room,a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town’s dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before.Ever since her true-crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall has become a household name―and the last hope for people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help.The new season of Rachel's podcast has brought her to a small town being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. A local golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping the bel

How’d you like to be eleven years old, four and a half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history? (118 and counting…!) He’s Nate Wright, sixth-grade Renaissance man, prone to accidental antics. Equipped with only a #2 pencil and the unshakable belief that he’s #1, Big Nate fights a daily battle against overzealous teachers, undercooked cafeteria food, and all-around conventionality.Big Nate is in a class by himself! But things don’t always go your way just because you’re awesome. Nate barely survives his dad’s toxic oatmeal before rushing off to school—minus his lunch. He body slams the no-nonsense principal. He accidentally insults his least favorite teacher, the horrifying Mrs. Godfrey (aka Godzilla). And school has barely started!Nate Wright knows he’s meant for big things. REALLY big things. After all, he’s a self-described genius. Trouble always seems to find him, but Nate keeps his cool no matter what. He knows he’s destined for greatness. A fortu

In this powerful novel about the cost of greatness, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback when the world considers her past her prime―from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising.Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A former champion himself, Javier has trained her since the age of two.But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning player named Nicki Chan.At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to re

This hilarious, illustrated middle-grade sequel, combining the humor of Diary of a Wimpy Kid with the action of The Last Kids on Earth, follows a hapless warlock-in-training as he struggles to live up to his great and terrible destiny. Remember Wick? Son of the Dark Lord, heir to the throne of black and broken glass, and next in line to be the leader of the Grim World? Well, after a major spell gone wrong, he finds himself kicked out of his own castle and shipped off as an exchange student. As if Middle Ages School wasn't hard enough already! Follow Wick through the pages of his journal as he comes up with a genius plan to defeat his foes, achieve greatness . . . and maybe even make a new friend in the process.

Over almost a century, the NFL has provided fans with hundreds of unique personalities, countless unforgettable moments and some of the greatest feats of sporting brilliance ever seen. From its humble beginnings in the Midwest to the global phenomenon it has become today, the league has evolved and changed almost beyond recognition. But the exploits of the footballing heroes of years past continue to stand the test of time. Here we've collected stories on dozens of the league's most celebrated players. With Future Publishing's extraordinary content, expert commentary and lavish photography, you'll explore and rediscover the attributes that made these players, coaches and teams iconic, as well as the moments that propelled them to greatness. From early innovators like Don Hutson and Jim Brown, to modern giants such as Tom Brady, there's something for every NFL fan here.

From award-winning picture book makers Alexis Deacon and Viviane Schwarz comes an enlightening new story about courage and making a difference. From award-winning picture book makers Alexis Deacon and Viviane Schwarz comes an enlightening new story about courage and making a difference. For budding philosophers of all ages, this is the uplifting story of Henry Finch the loveable little bird who strives for greatness, gets it all a bit wrong, then makes it right again in a very surprising way – truly becoming great.Henry Finch is a total inspiration. This is an inspirational book. It is also very funny.I Am Henry Finch is a book for everyone – from the very young to the very old. It is for dreamers, philosophers, artists, the foolish and the enlightened. And anyone with a big bright idea.Vegetarians will love it too. A profound picture book experience told with simplicity and style.

「作者帶來深入且專業的運動分析和報導……既有娛樂性又發人深省，勢必吸引廣大讀者的歡迎。」――Booklist「運動能啟迪人心、傳遞教育和提升大眾的精神……本書值得運動愛好者一讀。」――Kirkus Reviews戈森是世界知名的心靈導師狄帕克．喬布拉之子。從小，父親就教他各種祈禱和冥想的方法，但戈森反而癡迷於在波士頓花園廣場看著大鳥博德打球、在芬威球場守著紅襪拿下世界冠軍的那一天。根據這些人生經歷，他大膽地提出：運動是當代的信仰。練球就像修行、去看球就像朝聖、歡呼就像祈禱、明星球員宛如眾神、而決賽就像聖戰一樣。在本書中，讀者可以看到傳奇四分衛湯姆．布雷迪的自律精神、史蒂芬．柯瑞投三分球時體會到的心流、雷霸龍．詹姆士沉著還有小飛俠科比的掙扎。此外，還有各項運動如滑雪、長跑、體操和格鬥選手其令人難忘的拚戰時刻。作者製作過無數知名的紀錄片，包括《王者之路》（Greatness Code）、《傳奇四分衛》（Man in the Arena: Tom Brady）等。本書是他身為老球迷的回憶錄，也是他近身觀察球星多年的第一手筆記。也因此，本書就像一場朝聖之旅，讀者可以從中看到他們為了追求榮耀和自我價值所付出的努力，以及走過的人生歷程。

The first comprehensive English-language monograph on Keiichi Tanaami’s kaleidoscopic oeuvre, which merges Japanese postwar culture and American-style comics with a genre-defining artistic output.Artist, illustrator, graphic designer, filmmaker, and art director, Keiichi Tanaami is best known for his psychedelic creations that reach to the farthest corners of the mind. Since the 1960s, he has been composing works on paper, magazine covers, and phantasmagoric large-scale paintings as a response to his traumatic experience of living through the United States’ atomic attack on Japan during World War II. He’s since made a mark on the world, exhibiting across the globe. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yokohama Museum of Art, M+, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, among others.Tanaami’s work is marked by an unexpectedly harmonic blend of eroticism, surrealism, psychedelia, and American comic art, combined with pointe

由凱迪克獎獲獎插畫家暖心刻劃，爵士女伶妮娜•西蒙的生平故事，出生於北卡的一個小鎮，妮娜展開她在音樂這條道路上的尋夢之旅，她的歌聲不但代表她對音樂的熱情，更是為那時代充斥著種族歧視與平權議題的社會發聲。This illuminating and defining picture book biography illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Christian Robinson, tells the story of little Eunice who grew up to become the acclaimed singer Nina Simone and her bold, defiant, and exultant legacy.Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in small town North Carolina, Nina Simone was a musical child. She sang before she talked and learned to play piano at a very young age. With the support of her family and community, she received music lessons that introduced her to classical composers like Bach who remained with her and influenced her music throughout her life. She loved the way his music began softly and then tumbled to thunder, like her mother’s preaching, and in much the same way as her career. During her first performances under the name of Nina Simone her voice was rich and sweet but as the Civil Rights Movement gained steam, Nina’s voice soon became a t

《How to Think Like a Fish》是《River Monsters》主持人 Jeremy Wade 畢生釣魚心得結晶，教你像魚一樣思考，解鎖水下世界的秘密！想釣到大魚，卻總是空手而歸？Jeremy Wade 帶你走進魚腦！從亞馬遜巨鱗到印度聖魚，他用親身近失誤變勝利的精彩案例，教你觀察水流光影、研究魚的覓食本能、培養耐心與直覺，甚至「讓腦袋警覺空白」進入忘我狀態。本書不只釣魚指南，更是人生哲學──解讀環境、擁抱試錯、持續學習，適用所有挑戰不確定性的場景。無論是釣魚迷還是人生玩家，這本都讓你收穫滿滿！The defining part of this story, I think—the part that made the real difference—is the time I spent looking into the water, letting my mind drift, as I tried to think like a fish…What brings the big fish is an artful blend of drawing on experience and keeping an open, active mind. The secret ingredient is as simple as that.--from Chapter 6Jeremy Wade, the star of Animal Planet’s River Monsters, with nearly forty years of angling exploration behind him, shares a meditation on the art of angling—part science, part art, and part elusive something else. Thoughtful and funny, brimming with wisdom and, above all, adventure, How to Think Like a Fish is filled with reflections that anyone who has ever fished will identify with, for ultim

改編自暢銷小說的漫畫版《Fangirl》，講述一位女孩如何在成長中找到自己的位置。Cath 是超人氣奇幻小說的同人作家，寫作是她的避風港。但大學生活讓她面對許多新挑戰：陌生的室友、嚴格的教授、還有讓人心動的新夥伴。當熟悉的一切開始改變，她是否準備好迎接自己的新生活？這是一部關於創作、家人與自我認同的溫柔故事。The manga adaptation of the beloved novel by #1 Bestselling author Rainbow Rowell!"A deliciously warm-hearted nerd power ballad destined for greatness."- New York Journal of Books Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath just can't let go.Now that they're in college, Cath must decide if she's ready to start living her own life. But does she even want to if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?Cath doesn't need friends IRL. She has her twin sister, Wren, and she's a popular fanfic writer in the Simon Snow community with thousands of fans online.But now that she's in college, Cath is completely outside of her comfort zone. There are suddenly all these new people in her life. She's got a surly roommate with a charming boy

Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell tales from the challenging yet defining growing-up years of Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Marie Curie, and 12 other brilliant scientists.Every great scientist started out as a kid. Before their experiments, inventions, and discoveries that changed the world, the world's most celebrated scientists had regular-kid problems just like you.*Stephen Hawking hated school, and preferred to spend his free time building model airplanes, inventing board games, and even building his own computer.*Jane Goodall got in trouble for bringing worms and snails into her house.*And Neil deGrasse Tyson had to start a dog-walking business to save up money to buy a telescope.Readers ages 8 to 12 years old will learn all the stories of a diverse and inclusive group—also including Temple Grandin, Nikola Tesla, Ada Lovelace, Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, Rosalind Franklin, Sally Ride, Rachel Carson, George Washington Carver, and V

許多學者認為，現代社會已脫離神祕與魔法的信仰，但歷史學者傑森・約瑟夫森・史東指出，這種說法並不正確。透過對哲學、人類學、社會學、精神分析與宗教研究等學科起源的梳理，他揭示：在所謂「去魅」發生的同時，歐洲社會實際上正經歷一場神秘學與靈性復興。這本書不僅重構人文科學與神秘思想的關聯，也顛覆我們對「現代化」與「理性時代」的既定認知，適合關注思想史、宗教與文化研究的讀者深入探討。A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted?Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and

Weights and measures form an essential part of our ingrained view of the world. It is just about impossible to function effectively without some internalized system of measurement. In this volume, I o

靜心書寫除了身心靈可被釋放療癒外，更可讓你我重新找回往前、向上的力量，透過本書抄寫還能在書寫過程中與淺移默化中自然而然增進英文實力！本書嚴選100多篇中外文學家、科學家、哲學家…等名言佳句，除了可以擴大人生視野，還可同時運用在社交生活與自帶亮點的英文寫作！而且，有根有據的名言佳句也不用怕學到不標準、不自然的英文讓每天寫一點變成原子習慣進化人生，贏得更幸福的未來！無論是學生的寒、暑假作為無壓力的自我練習教學者可以與學生、父母可以與孩子孩子共勉，在性格與英文力上面同時並進！或是一般學習者在睡前十分鐘利用抄寫本書作為一天結束前的自我沉澱本書都是既療癒又有效率的勵志英文學習書全書附QR碼線上音檔，還能利用朗讀與聽寫加強口說與聽力。★從抄寫勵志的名言佳句中，獲得改變人生的力量 從抄寫中獲得生活能量，提升英文語感、增加語言記憶力，找回心中的純真。本書精選 100 多則古今中外名人的佳句、著作，讓我們從這些歷代菁英的智慧中提升英文閱讀理解和寫作技巧，學習歷史人物、文學巨擘、社會領袖使用的語彙詞藻，練習英文語感和手寫字。“Your greatness is measured by your horizons.”你有多偉大，取決於你的視野有多寬廣。― Michelangelo米開朗基羅 為了增加自己的視野，每天閱讀抄寫一則名言佳句、詩詞，讓你對這位歷史人物更加認識，也能從這些名言語句中體悟到這個人物說出這句話、寫出這些語句當下的心境，進而將這些體悟內化成自己的點滴精華。★有根據的名言佳句不用怕學到不標準又不自然的英文“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”人們至少每天應該聽幾首歌，讀一首好詩，看一幅好圖，如果還能做到的話，講幾個有明智的詞語。―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe約翰‧沃夫岡‧馮‧歌德 就如同歌德這句話所表達的意思，人們要每天接觸音樂、文學、藝術，讓你循序漸進地陶冶品行氣質，再進步到說出有智慧的話語。這時候學習素材就很重要了。為了學好英文，必須用最有效率的方式學習最標準、最道地，連母語人

Rethinking the African-American experience—now and in the future. If the name Randal Pinkett sounds familiar, it may be because Pinkett was the first African-American winner on The Apprentice. When h

Greatness is as hard to quantify or explain as it is to achieve…probably not a coincidence. Optimum Drive deconstructs greatness in a way that allows the reader to holistically understand what greatne

Stephen R. Covey believed there were only two ways to live life: a life of primary greatness or a life of secondary greatness. Through his books and speaking, he taught that the intrinsic rewards of p

“Countdown to Greatness” “(C2G)” is designed to ignite and re-ignite an individual’s awareness of their potential. The book reminds us that all individuals have greatness

“Countdown to Greatness” “(C2G)” is designed to ignite and re-ignite an individual’s awareness of their potential. The book reminds us that all individuals have greatness

Stephen R. Covey believed there were only two ways to live life: a life of primary greatness or a life of secondary greatness. Through his books and speaking, he taught that the intrinsic rewards of p