Focusing on the intersection of baseball and data analysis, this book introduces sabermetrics to fans and provides R programming skills for data exploration. It aims to motivate students to engage with large baseball datasets, enhancing their research capabilities. By learning R in the context of baseball, readers will gain practical insights that encourage independent exploration and analysis in the realm of sports statistics.
How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the EnlightenmentIn a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle of violence, starting a kind of religious war in the village and its surrounding region. Contradicting our current understanding, this war erupted at the height of the Age of Enlightenment, famous for its religious toleration. Cunegonde’s Kidnapping tells in vivid detail the story of this hitherto unknown conflict. Drawing characters, scenes, and dialogue straight from a body of exceptional primary sources, it is the first microhistorical study of religious conflict and toleration in early modern Europe. In it, award-winning historian Benjamin J. Kaplan explores the dilemmas of interfaith marriage and the special character of religious life in a borderland, where religious dissenters enjoy unique freedoms. He also challenges assumptions about the impact of Enlightenment thought and suggests that, on a popular level, some parts of eighteenth-century Europe may not have witnessed a “rise of toleration.”
As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute
dilemma: can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are
irreconcilable? This title responds to this question by taking us back to
early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less
pressing than it is today.
Most people won't expect you to believe what we're going to tell you in this book. Even if you do, they won't expect you to understand.There have been autobiographical books on rock stars, rich college students, wealthy businessmen and reality television stars. Why not an average group of middle class friends who grew up in a small town?The Ruthless Reality recounts the outlandish and often incredible exploits of what happens when three ordinary guys are left to their own vices, let alone devices. From childhood into adulthood, Harry, Baldwin and Barry share their experiences with sex, drugs and... hell, what else is there in life?
