Bøger af John Ruggiero

Thomas Greggs was born with what many people would consider a miraculous gift: he can heal with the touch of his hands. As a boy, he saved the life of his best friend's father... and learned that sometimes a blessing can seem more like a curse when he lost any chance of a normal life to the resulting media attention. Thomas' path takes him to the charismatic Rev. Billy Johnson, and together they start one of the biggest religious movements of the age. But will Thomas be able to make peace with his fate and find a place where he feels like he belongs, or will his isolation destroy him?

Based largely on Neville Chamberlain's own words and official government documents, this book describes how were it not for Chamberlain's powerful, dominating presence in the British government, World War II might have been avoided.

Nonparametric Estimation of Educational Production and Costs using Data Envelopment Analysis

A reexamination of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy, this study challenges prevailing images of Chamberlain as a tragic hero-a man of peace, naively impressed by the dictators, who did his best under difficult circumstances to prepare his country for war.

Frontiers in Major League Baseball applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- a nonparametric linear programming model -- to Major League Baseball. Topics include applications of DEA to the analysis of free agent salary arbitration, technology changes over time and the ranking of players.