| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910790363703321 |
|
|
Titolo |
Mathematics and sports / / edited by Joseph A. Gallian [[electronic resource]] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Washington : , : Mathematical Association of America, , 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, ; v. 43 |
Dolciani mathematical expositions ; ; no. 43 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
; I. Baseball. Sabermetrics : the past, the present, and the future / Jim Albert -- Surprising streaks and playoff parity : probability problems in a sports context / Rick Cleary -- Did humidifying the baseball decrease the number of homers at Coors Field? / Howard Penn -- Streaking : finding the probability for a batting streak / Stanley Rothman and Quoc Le -- ; II. Basketball. Bracketology : how can math help? / Tim Chartier [and others] -- Down 4 with a minute to go / G. Edgar Parker -- Jump shot mathematics / Howard Penn -- ; III. Football. How deep is your playbook? / Tricia Muldoon Brown and Eric B. Kahn -- A look at overtime in the NFL / Chris Jones -- Extending the Colley method to generate predictive football rankings / R. Drew Pasteur -- When perfect isn't good enough : retrodictive rankings in college football / R. Drew Pasteur -- ; IV. Golf. The science of the drive / Douglas N. Arnold -- Is Tiger Woods a winner? / Scott M. Berry -- G.H. Hardy's golfing adventure / Roland Minton -- Tigermetrics / Roland Minton -- ; V. NASCAR. Can mathematics make a difference? Exploring tire troubles in NASCAR / Cheryll E. Crowe -- ; VI. Scheduling. Scheduling a tournament / Dalibor Froncek -- ; VII. Soccer -- Bending a soccer ball with math / Tim Chartier -- ; VIII. Tennis. Teaching mathematics and statistics using tennis / Reza Noubary -- Percentage play in tennis / G. Edgar Parker -- ; IX. Track and field. The effects of wind and altitude in the 400m sprint with various IAAF track geometries / Vanessa Alday and Michael Frantz -- Mathematical ranking of the Division III track and |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
field conferences / Chris Fisette -- What is the speed limit for men's 100 meter dash / Reza Noubary -- May the best team win : determining the winner of a cross country race / Stephen Szydlik -- Biomechanics of running and walking / Anthony Tongen and Roshna E. Wunderlich. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
This book is an eclectic compendium of the essays solicited for the 2010 Mathematics Awareness Month web page on the theme of Mathematics and Sports. In keeping with the goal of promoting mathematics awareness to a broad audience, all of the articles are accessible to college level mathematics students and many are accessible to the general public. The book is divided into sections by the kind of sports. The section on football includes an article that evaluates a method for reducing the advantage of the winner of a coin flip in an NFL overtime game; the section on track and field examines the ultimate limit on how fast a human can run 100 meters; the section on baseball includes an article on the likelihood of streaks; the section on golf has an article that describes the double-pendulum model of a golf swing, and an article on modeling Tiger Wood's career. The articles provide source material for classroom use and student projects. Many students will find mathematical ideas motivated by examples taken from sports more interesting than the examples selected from traditional sources. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910957435403321 |
|
|
Autore |
Shaheen Aaron |
|
|
Titolo |
Androgynous democracy : modern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic / / Aaron Shaheen |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
9786613098481 |
9781283098489 |
1283098482 |
9781572337114 |
1572337117 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (193 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Modernism (Literature) - United States |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Sex in literature |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
"The social dusk of that mysterious democracy": race, sexology, and the modern woman in Henry James's postbellum America -- Commercial androgyny: reformulating the modern liberal subject in Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Reactionary and radical androgyny: two southerners assess the depression-era body politic -- Race, gender, and democratic space in W.E.B. Du Bois and Marita Bonner -- Epilogue: androgyny, fascism, and beyond. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Androgynous Democracy examines how the notions of gender equality propounded by transcendentalists and other nineteenth-century writers were further developed and complicated by the rise of literary modernism. Aaron Shaheen specifically investigates the ways in which intellectual discussions of androgyny, once detached from earlier gonadal-based models, were used by various American authors to |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
formulate their own paradigms of democratic national cohesion. Indeed, Henry James, Frank Norris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Crowe Ransom, Grace Lumpkin, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marita B |
|
|
|
|
|
|
3. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910968352903321 |
|
|
Autore |
Sitkin Alan |
|
|
Titolo |
ABSOLUTE ESSENTIALS OF GREEN BUSINESS |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
[S.l.], : ROUTLEDGE, 2019 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-5231-4406-8 |
0-429-20386-1 |
0-429-51226-0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (127 pages) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Absolute essentials of business & economics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Business enterprises - Environmental aspects |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction to green business -- 2 Resource depletion -- 3 Pollution management -- 4 Environmental economics and policies -- 5 Going green: managing the process -- 6 Green operations -- 7 Green marketing -- 8 Green growth sectors -- 9 Clean energy ventures -- Index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
This short textbook provides a core understanding of the intersection between business and the natural environment. The sector's rapid expansion means that many university programmes are focusing to a greater extent nowadays on the career opportunities generated by the ecological imperative - a curriculum increasingly referred to as "green business". Climate breakdown is a devastating issue facing contemporary society. With six out of the ten largest multinationals listed in the 2018 Fortune Global 500 being active in the energy sector, it is no surprise that more and more business schools are offering modules addressing the management of natural resources. The business world has made some progress incorporating green principles |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
into their strategies and operations, but progress needs to accelerate in line with global agreements to prevent catastrophic ecological and environmental problems. Absolute Essentials of Green Business stands out because of its singular focus on a subset of this wider curricular area. By covering both the macro (framework) and micro (business strategy) aspects of the topic, the book's structure is in line with the way modules of this nature are taught in universities today. Students of business and environmental studies will benefit from reading this concise textbook in order to develop their understanding of a fundamental element of the social science curriculum. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |