David Vincent

Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity. Drawing on a wide array of literary and historical sources, David Vincent explores how people have conducted themselves in the absence of company over the last three centuries. He argues that the ambivalent nature of solitude became a prominent concern in the modern era. For intellectuals in the romantic age, solitude gave respite to citizens living in ever more complex modern societies. But while the search for solitude was seen as a symptom of modern life, it was also viewed as a dangerous pathology: a perceived renunciation of the world, which could lead to psychological disorder and anti-social behaviour. Vincent explores the successive attempts of religious authorities and political institutions to manage solitude, taking readers from the monastery to the prisoner’s cell, and explains how western society’s increasing secularism, urbanization and prosperity led to the development of new solitary pastimes at the same time as it made traditional forms of solitary communion, with God and with a pristine nature, impossible. At the dawn of the digital age, solitude has taken on new meanings, as physical isolation and intense sociability have become possible as never before. With the advent of a so-called loneliness epidemic, a proper historical understanding of the natural human desire to disengage from the world is more important than ever. The first full-length account of its subject, A History of Solitude will appeal to a wide general readership.

A History of Solitude

Numbers connect everything, and everything is connected by numbers! When Laster first started out on this journey back in 1997, he had no idea that many years later, he would still be very much involved in lottery-writing blogs and posting numbers and helping people understand how the lottery process works. Operating on the idea that many people still do not understand how it works, he wrote this book. This book encourages readers to understand that something is worthwhile only if they invest their time and money. That things last longer this way. When numbers are drawn, they either go up or down on numbers that have already been drawn. This book helps you determine which numbers are going up or down. Drawing from Laster's experience and his best efforts with all the many variables and numbers that he had to deal with, his goal is to help you achieve your dreams-and at times, to win lots of money.

Rundown Systems

Mr. Lottery's Best Picks

Amélie Noack

"Group Analytic Therapists at Work is an accessible introduction to the experience of being in group analytic psychotherapy from a wide range of perspectives. Written by members of the Group Analytic Network London, the chapters explore the history of group analysis and span key areas, including the political and the social, diversity and difference, gender and norms, and isolation and the social sphere. Group Analytic Therapists at Work contains discussion of themes such as group work with differing age ranges and life stages, cultural considerations, normativity, inclusion and exclusion, isolation and online work. Each chapter provides insight from a leading group analyst into what happens in groups, what group analysts think about while running their groups and, fundamentally, what group analysis is about. This book will be of great interest to psychotherapists in practice and in training, group therapists and group analysts and other professionals, as well as anyone else seeking to increase their understanding of group work"--

Everyday Group Analysis

Group Analytic Therapists at Work

It could be . . . it is . . . outta here!

The Definitive History of Baseball's Ultimate Weapon

Home Run

Professor of Social History David Vincent

Omar Wassan

There's a War Going On!! Since the beginning of time there has existed a wall. A wall located in the deep dark regions of another dimension. On this wall, written in some sort of strange hieroglyphics, exist a plan. A plan for conquering and replacing the beings of a neighboring dimension, ours. For centuries, each and everyday, they use their immense psychic talents to view each and every other dimensions. That was until they came upon the third dimension, ours, fell in love and promised to one day make it theirs. Through religious dedication, they slowly begin infiltrating our dimension, our world; first the Corporations, then Media and eventually, one by one, our minds and souls. It would be over for America and the world, if it were not for a small group of saviors, who discover that the Earth is a giant Television production, written, performed and produced by a group of elite men who even unknown to themselves are being manipulated and controlled by this unknown alien force who have hijacked the original script, rewritten it and are now poised to be the only ones to benefit by it. Enter our four heroes, Indigo, the number one rock star in America, who finds himself teamed with the strangest odd couple eve, Side, who has been cursed to being stuck to the side of the wall and her best friend, Spin, a break dancer, who has forever been cursed to being on his head caught in an eternal spin, both simply for knowing the truth and daring to warn the rest of us. They, along with Tom, a homeless man and former Politician must warn America and the rest of the world of this new script, a new play, rewritten for and by them for the purpose of, and in the end, only them. Yes, Life's a Movie and unfortunately you're all in it.

Lifes a Movie And Youre IN IT

L.A.M.A.Y.I.I.

The home run is indeed baseball's ultimate weapon. It can change a game in a heartbeat, making a tight game into a blowout or a seemingly easy win into a nail-biter. Homers are majestic, powerful, and awe inspiring. And sluggers are the sport's biggest stars, from the days of Babe Ruth through Barry Bonds. David Vincent, called "The Sultan of Swat Stats" by ESPN, delves into the long history of the home run with great detail and color. He starts when the rules of the game were highly unstable and sometimes the definition of a home run could change in a park from year to year; follows through the "Deadball Era," when the home run was rare; explores the explosion Babe Ruth brought to baseball in the 1920s; discusses how both world wars affected homer statistics; looks at great home run races such as Maris versus Mantle in 1961; assesses the effects of the juiced ball, juiced players, thin air, and smaller ballparks; and so much more. If there is something to know about home run history, look to David Vincent for the answer-Major League Baseball does. With Home Run: The Definitive History of Baseball's Ultimate Weapon, now you can know it too. A 1990s Nike commercial proclaimed that "chicks dig the long ball." In this thorough and colorful look at baseball's ultimate weapon, David Vincent shows you why.

The Lockheed Hudson achieved fame as Australiaâ€™s main modern warplane in the early part of the Pacific War, bearing the brunt of the fight against the Japanese. Respected aviation author David Vincent became interested in the history of RAAF Hudsons in

The RAAF Hudson Story: 

Lyle Spatz

David W. Smith

Examines the history of All-Star baseball, providing play-by-plays, rosters, and box scores of each game; and discusses how All-Star games have been influenced by racial integration, expansion teams, and the designated hitter.

The Complete History of Baseball's All-Star Game

The Midsummer Classic

'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres. After 1825 the overly inquisitive figure of Paul Pry appeared everywhere - in songs, stories, and newspapers, and on everything from buttons and Staffordshire pottery to pubs, ships, and stagecoaches - and 'Paul-Prying' rapidly entered the language. 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' is an innovative kind of social history, using rich archival research to trace this cultural artefact through every aspect of its consumer context, and using its meanings to interrogate the largely hidden history of privacy in a period of major transformations in the role of the home, mass communication (particularly the new letter post, which delivered private messages through a public service), and the state. In vivid and entertaining detail, including many illustrations, David Vincent presents the most thorough account yet attempted of a recreational event in an era which saw a decisive shift in consumer markets. His study casts fresh light on the perennial tensions between curiosity and intrusion that were captured in Paul Pry and his catchphrase. Giving a new account of the communications revolution of the period, it re-evaluates the role of the state and the market in creating a new regime of privacy. And its critique of the concept and practice of surveillance looks forward to twenty-first-century concerns about the invasion of privacy through new technologies.

Privacy and Its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain

I Hope I Don't Intrude

A comprehensive study of the closure of communication in modern British history, right up to 1998, this book seeks to understand why secrets have been kept, and how the systems of control have been constructed and challenged over the past 160 years.

Britain, 1832-1998

The Culture of Secrecy

Hannah Barker

An unusually complete collection of over 300 broadsides from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, produced in the heated political climate of the early 18c.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Broadsides

Language, Print, and Electoral Politics, 1790-1832

Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the revelations of Edward Snowden. Deploying a range of vivid primary material, he discusses the management of private information in the context of housing, outdoor spaces, religious observance, reading, diaries and autobiographies, correspondence, neighbours, gossip, surveillance, the public sphere and the state. Key developments, such as the nineteenth-century celebration of the enclosed and intimate middle-class household, are placed in the context of long-term development. The book surveys and challenges the main currents in the extensive secondary literature on the subject. It seeks to strike a new balance between the built environment and world beyond the threshold, between written and face-to-face communication, between anonymity and familiarity in towns and cities, between religion and secular meditation, between the state and the private sphere and, above all, between intimacy and individualism. Ranging from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first, this book shows that the history of privacy has been an arena of contested choices, and not simply a progression towards a settled ideal. Privacy: A Short History will be of interest to students and scholars of history, and all those interested in this topical subject.

A Short History

Privacy

Joel Mciver

I Am Morbid tells the astounding story of David Vincent, former bassist and singer with Morbid Angel, and now outlaw-country performer and leader of the I Am Morbid supergroup. Written with the bestselling author Joel McIver, it’s an autobiography that transcends the heavy metal category by its very nature. Much more than a mere memoir, I Am Morbid is an instruction manual for life at the sharp end—a gathering of wisdom distilled into ten acute lessons for anyone interested in furthering their fortunes in life. Morbid Angel redefined the term pioneers. A band of heavy-metal-loving kids from all over America who broke through a host of music industry prejudices and went on to scale huge commercial heights, they introduced a whole new form of extreme music to the world. Formed in 1984, and breaking into the limelight in 1989 with their devastating first album, Altars Of Madness, the Florida death-metal legends became the first band of their genre to sign to a major label, from which point they came to dominate the worldwide metal scene for two decades and beyond. David left Morbid Angel in 1996, and again, following a reunion, in 2015. For the first time, I Am Morbid explores the reasons behind his departure, and the transformation of his life, career, and music in the years since. This is a classic but never predictable tale of a man who has fought convention every step of the way—and won.

Ten Lessons Learned From Extreme Metal, Outlaw Country, And The Power Of Self-Determination

I Am Morbid

L. Robert Davids

Mike Cook

First published in 1979, GREAT HITTING PITCHERS was one of SABR's early publications. Including the contributions of several members of the Society and edited by SABR's founder, Bob Davids, the book compiled together records and anecdotes about pitchers excelling in the batters box. Now updated for 2012, GREAT HITTING PITCHERS has been updated so that all tables include 1979-2012 data, and previous stats have been corrected to reflect the most recent updates in the record books. Joining the original chapters on pitchers hitting grand slams, pitchers' hitting performances in World Series play, and how the pitchers of no-hitters performed at bat in those games, an all-new chapter by Mike Cook explores the top hitting pitchers since 1979, including Mike Hampton, Micah Owings, and CC Sabathia. Hitting by Pitchers Since 1900 Top Game Batting Performances Two or More Home Runs in a Game Hurlers Hitting Grand Slams Best Season Hitting Records Career Batting Records Pitchers as Pinch-Hitters Basestealing by Pitchers Advent of the Designated Hitter Rule Batting by Pitchers in the World Series Batting by Pitchers in All-Star Games No-Hit Hurlers at Bat Pitcher-Batter Briefs Great Hitting Pitchers, 1

2012 Edition

Great Hitting Pitchers

While this is a work of fiction, it is based on actual events that took place during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte. Therefore, some of the characters in this book are based on historical figures that took part in these events. Other characters are entirely fictitious and are not meant to resemble anyone known or unknown to the author.

Waterloo

Bob McConnell

Offers a history of the home run, includes all-time home run records, lists home run totals by hitter and by pitcher, and provides individual statistics for home run hitters

The Who, What, and where of Every Home Run Hit Since 1876

SABR Presents the Home Run Encyclopedia

Angus McInnes

John Briggs

Christopher Harrison

Mr John Briggs

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.

David Vincent

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