The bestselling annual baseball preview from the smartest analysts in the business The essential guide to the 2013 baseball season is on deck now & whether youre a fan or fantasy player--or both--you wont be properly informed without it. Baseball Prospectus 2013 brings together an elite group of analysts to provide the definitive look at the upcoming season in critical essays & commentary on the thirty teams their managers & more than sixty players & prospects from each team. Contains critical essays on each of the thirty teams & player comments for some sixty players for each of those teams Projects each players stats for the coming season using the groundbreaking PECOTA projection system which has been called perhaps the games most accurate projection model" (Sports Illustrated ) From Baseball Prospectus Americas leading provider of statistical analysis for baseball Now in its eighteenth edition this New York Times bestselling insiders guide remains hands down the most authoritative & entertaining book of its kind." ...

Sixty years ago over 100 aerodromes in east & north-eastern England were occupied by the men & machines of RAF Bomber Comm&. The tenure of the majority of the bases was brief
- some six years
- but during that time more than 55 000 men lost their lives while flying from them to attack targets on the Continent. Split into seven operational groups the airfields of Bomber Command formed the cornerstone of Britain's efforts to carry on the war against Germany in the years before the landings in Normandy. Thereafter they played their part in the battle against the V-weapons with one of the last raids of the war being carried out against Hitler's personal mountain retreat. Each airfield has been explored & photographed in the then & now" style of Roger Freeman's previous books for After the Battle on the US Eighth & Ninth Air Forces. The physical development construction & operational history of every airfield is described in detail & all are illustrated with wartime & present-day aerial photographs."

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With its lively creative approach this is a unique & highly memorable one-stop guide to the building blocks of mathematics. Meet bubbly Zero who can dissolve you to nothing; all-action Units who just love to measure; greedy-guts Multiply a big guy who hoards numbers together; & mysterious Pi who goes on & on & on...to infinity! It

Includes:: tonnes of practical advice to help every child unravel the rules & regulations of mathematics.

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Meet Polygon & Plane Reflection & Rotation Odd Number & his buddy Even Number & the three amigos Sine Cosine & Tangent. Discover the secrets of their world & how they like to throw their numbers about. Algebra & Geometry" is a compelling guide to the community of characters who make mathematics interesting." ...

Discover the secrets of the human body & learn about its complex organization & the amazing ways in which its parts interact & combine to keep us moving thinking breathing & growing. Human Body" is a compelling guide to a community of characters who make up everything inside us." ...

Discover the secrets of geology from intricate fossilized plants & animals through to a great variety of minerals & crystals; unlock the mysteries of the ground beneath our feet from how rocks are formed to how meteorites crash to Earth. Rocks & Minerals" is a compelling guide to a community of characters who come together to create the foundations of our planet." ...

Discover the secrets of technology & learn about the gadgets gizmos supermachines & techie marvels that have revolutionized the world around us. Technology is a compelling & up-to-the-minute guide to the big-bytes whizz-kids powerhouse motors entertainment buddies & other characters who drive our inventive highly-engineered computer-driven world. ...

Designed to make learning chemistry much easier & a whole lot more fun these elements show you the periodic table as you have never seen it before. Every element in this engaging little book is a specially created character with its own unique personality. ...

An essential text for the AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting (Basic Accounting 1). This text contains practice examinations with answers helping the student to prepare for the exam. This revised edition has been updated to include a brand new practice assessment. ...

An essential text for the AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting (Basic Accounting 2). This text contains practice examinations with answers helping the student to prepare for the exam. This revised edition has been updated to include a brand new practice assessment. ...