Robert Elias

how baseball sold U.S. foreign policy and promoted the American way abroad

The empire strikes out

A murder allows Debs Kafka to pursue a dream she had thought passed her by, taking her deep into the bowels of San Francisco, into the dysfunctional institutions of academia, professional sports, and the Catholic Church.

A Debs Kafka Mystery

The Deadly Tools of Ignorance

Peter Dreier

This book tells the fascinating stories of the baseball rebels who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America’s political and social protest movements throughout history—including battles over labor, anti-trust, corporate power, immigration, and America’s wars and military interventions worldwide.

Baseball Battles Over Workers' Rights and American Empire

Major League Rebels

This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves.Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows how programs differ when compensation is viewed essentially as welfare and when it is viewed as a right. The study uses extensive interviews with officials and with violent crime victims.The study indicates victim compensation programs largely fail to achieve their stated goals of improving attitudes toward the criminal-justice system and the government. The programs produce poor attitudes toward government and criminal justice.

Victims of the System

Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the mercy of broader forces shaping our society and the globe? The Empire Strikes Out gives us the sweeping story of how baseball and America are intertwined in the export of “the American way.” From the Civil War to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, we see baseball’s role in developing the American empire, first at home and then beyond our shores. And from Albert Spalding and baseball’s first World Tour to Bud Selig and the World Baseball Classic, we witness the globalization of America’s national pastime and baseball’s role in spreading the American dream. Besides describing baseball’s frequent and often surprising connections to America’s presence around the world, Elias assesses the effects of this relationship both on our foreign policies and on the sport itself and asks whether baseball can play a positive role or rather only reinforce America’s dominance around the globe. Like Franklin Foer in How Soccer Explains the World, Elias is driven by compelling stories, unusual events, and unique individuals. His seamless integration of original research and compelling analysis makes this a baseball book that’s about more than just sports.

How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

The Empire Strikes Out

Robert Elias M. D.

Trick Yourself into Losing Weight is for people who have learned that diets don't work. If you're not there yet don't buy it. If you are, this will give the information and techniques to painlessly lose weight and keep it off. Patience is required but the results will be lasting. You will be taught how to make small changes in your eating habits and exercise that will make lasting and significant changes to your waistline. Your weight loss plan will be composed of foods that you normally eat including the occasional feast. No packs of diet foods to buy. No craving for foods that you are deprived of, unlike most of the diet fads in vogue today. Trick Yourself will show you the science and psychology involved in weight loss. With understanding will come greater motivation to make those changes necessary to lose weight.

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