Product Description: Book by Carter, Craig, Wigge, Larry, Barnidge, Tom, Smith, Ron, Waters, Richard

Includes baseball history, a who's who, and statistics about every division and team, as well as a directory of managers, owners, and team members

Product Description: This text is the biography of Alkan, the 19th-century pianist and composer.

Alkan: lonely 19th century genius, virtuoso pianist and also composer of some of the most difficult and disturbingly powerful piano music. This edition, in two parts, deals first with the man, and second with his music.

Product Description: The works of 19th-century composer, Alkan, are assessed in this comprehensive text.

Presents questions and answers, trivia, and visual games about the world of sports.

Product Description: The Arms Industry is an area that is of huge concern to many people around the world. The economics of this hugely important industry are a vital strand that needs to be understood. This volume brings together contributors from all over the globe, such as Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley, and focuses on the important issues surrounding the Arms Trade such as:*the determinants of US military expenditure*alliance formation and expansion*new challenges to export controlsThis well-rounded, comprehensive book will be of huge interest to students and academics involved in the economics of defence, as well as more general studies of the defence industry...read more

Product Description: Atlanta is a unique southern city known for its vast diversity and fast-paced lifestyle. Rarely is it associated with a rich beer and brewing culture, but not for a lack of one. From Atlanta's first brewery in the 1850s to the city's Saloon Row and the parched days of local and national Prohibition, the earliest days of Atlanta's beer history are laced with scandal and excitement...read more

Explores fifty-two former and current major league ballparks, examining their physical layouts, places in baseball history, and communities.

Collects events as remembered by players, coaches, team officials, umpires, and broadcasters from new, previously unpublished interviews and from material taken from articles previously published in 'Sporting News.'

Product Description: They are the jewels of baseball past, the heart and soul of a national pastime that is sustained and rejuvenated by its memories. Relive the moments that shocked, exhilarated, rattled and mesmerized legions of fans in a fascinating book created by "The Sporting News,' a proud part of baseball's rich heritage since 1886...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive and thoroughly enjoyable reference features hundreds of tin toy cars from toy makers around the world. Included are toys from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States...read more

Product Description: The Rio Grande Valley is a storied land, both in history and nature. The Spanish arrived here in the sixteenth century. The first battle of the Mexican War and the last of the Civil War were fought here. This is where the Texas Rangers and border bandits roamed and cattle ranching first developed...read more

Product Description: Last in a series of five volumes about British aircraft, this book provides a complete record of aircraft construction in Northern England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The aim of the series is to record British aircraft manufacture in nearly all of its manifestations, in the form of a regional survey of the United Kingdom...read more

Product Description: Second in a series of five volumes about British aircraft, this book provides a complete record of aircraft construction in South West and Central Southern England. The aim of the series is to record British aircraft manufacture in nearly all of its manifestations, in the form of a regional survey of the United Kingdom...read more

Offers a game-by-game description of each of the record seventy home runs (view table of contents)

Presents a homer-by-homer review of the St. Louis Cardinal slugger's single-season home run record.

Product Description: The Cessna 172 is unquestionably the world's most successful light aircraft. More than 43,000 have been built since 1956, and the type is in service all over the world. For many, it defines the experience of cross-country flying with family and friends...read more