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Takes a close-up look at the history of baseball's home run and the players who have transformed the sport, examining the relationship among home runs, players, and fans and analyzing the significance of the long ball in the game. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Sorrows of Satan was one of the first modern bestsellers and was influential in establishing some of the major trends in twentieth-century bestselling fiction. The setting is London, 1895, and the Devil is on the loose. He is searching for someone morally strong enough to resist temptation, but there seems little chance he will succeed...read more

Product Description: In 1984 Cesar Milstein and Georges Kohler were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of "hybridoma technology", a method leading to the production of unlimited quantities of biological reagents of "exquisite specificity" known as monoclonal antibodies...read more

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