In Win or Else, Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capitalism. In the early 1920s, the Soviet press denounced football as a bourgeois sport that was injurious to both mind and body. Within that same decade, however, it blew up, becoming the most popular spectator sport in the USSR and growing into a fiercely competitive business with complex regional and national bureaucracies, a strong international presence, and a conviction that victory on the field was also a victory of Soviet supremacy. Writing as both historian and fan, Holmes focuses his study on the provincial Kirov team Dinamo from 1979 to 1985, when the club played at both its worst and its best. Spurred by a dismal 1979 season, the team's administrators and regional authorities had two options: obey Moscow's edict to reduce expenditures on professional sports or seek out new—and often illicit—funding sources to fill out a team of champions. Drawing on rich archival materials as well as newspapers and interviews with former players, Win or Else reveals the foundations of Soviet sports culture—and the hazards that teams faced both in victory and in loss.

"Novel from the Victorian British author George Manville Fenn. Most of his work consists of adventure stories for young readers, featuring Explorers, Smugglers, young Adventurers and Seamen. His adult novels offer critical social commentary on Victorian England, especially reconsidering economic questions." --

How to Really Win or Lose a Guy in Ten Days is an adventurous and playful look into the world of first dates, awkward come-ons, and unrequited love. In her debut book, professional psychotherapist and distinguished dating blogger, Christie Schroeder, tests the lighthearted hypothesis that love can be won - or lost - all within the first ten dates. Though her journey is anything but ordinary, her sometimes funny, often terrible dating experiences are sure to entertain readers and inspire hope that true love is possible.

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The credence framework is widely used for working with probabilities in science, social science, and policy. Anna Mahtani argues that credences are not about objects in themselves, but rather about objects under a designator, and that this insight has far-reaching implications for our understanding of rationality, decision theory, and economics.

SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.

Offers an inside look at the 1996 Dallas Cowboys, recounting the jockeying for attention and other behind-the-scenes wrangling among coaches and players.