This study analyzes reasons for the successful of the Oakland Athletics in Major League Baseball as described in the bestseller, Moneyball. Benchmarking analysis is conducted to quantify the extent of Oakland's achievement. The use of player performance analysis to develop a knowledge-based "David" strategy is investigated. The difficulties of applying the Moneyball approach in more complex invasion team sports are discussed. A hierarchical structural model of an invasion game is proposed as a conceptual framework and its application illustrated using data from English Premiership soccer. The technological, conceptual, and cultural barriers to the transferability of the Moneyball approach to other sports are assessed.
Elizabeth Kostova used some unconventional ingredients from her own life - a childhood spent listening to Dracula tales, a love of Balkan folk music and a passion for libraries - to produce a debut novel that earned her a breathtaking $2 million advance. Despite its quirky origins, publisher Little, Brown and Co. is hoping "The Historian" will grab readers' imaginations in much the same way as Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," another historical adventure-mystery that has sold more than 17 million copies around the world and been translated into 44 languages.
When Mary Kruse first read "The Da Vinci Code," she felt the way she did decades earlier when she learned as a freshman at Mount Mary College that ancient Babylonian texts contained a flood story similar to that of Noah in Genesis. I thought, What the heck!' " said Kruse, 52, a Catholic from Wauwatosa. "I remember being shaken then, too. It made me think, How true is my Bible?'
Most American history textbooks mention Barton and his bestseller as risible evidence of Americans' giddy enthusiasm for business in the 1920s, when, as Calvin Coolidge famously observed, "the business of America is business." [...] in The Man Nobody Knows, Barton was seeking less to bless the pursuit of mammon than to boost his notion of liberal Protestantism, as historian Richard M. Fried points out in this brief, fair-minded, and well-researched biography.
Like other crises in the past, the recent global financial crisis was one where real estate played a central, complicit role. It brought the United States and the rest of the world to almost a `depression deeper than the Great Depression', as narrated by Andrew Ross Sorkin in his bestseller Too Big To Fail. Both the US and world economy was saved only because they managed to act boldly in a coordinated manner by pumping billions in stimulus money into the world economy.
NEW YORK - Michael Jackson's death has led to skyrocketing sales of his music and videos, with major retailers selling out of products that have regained immense popularity overnight. Bill Carr, Amazon.com Inc.'s vice president for music and video, said Friday that once the world learned that the pop icon had died Thursday, the Web site sold out within minutes all CDs by Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5 .
The book became a bestseller and allowed Stevens to land a dream job as an executive at EMI Records in London.
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