John William Ruggiero

Frontiers in Major League Baseball: Nonparametric Analysis of Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis (Sports Economics, Management and Policy)

This book focuses on the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to Major League Baseball (MLB). DEA is a nonparametric linear programming model that is used across academic disciplines. In sports economics, authors have applied the technique primarily to assess team and/or managerial effici...

Nonparametric Estimation of Educational Production and Costs using Data Envelopment Analysis (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

This book provides a complete analysis of educational production and costs using the nonparametric technique known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book focuses on estimation of technical, allocative and scale efficiency in the public sector characterized by the influence of exogenous socio-e...

Hitler's Enabler: Neville Chamberlain and the Origins of the Second World War

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.• Describes how Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appea...

Faith or Fate

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 ...

Isolated Matters

Pacifica, California is a coastal town mere miles from the commotion of San Francisco, yet enclosed by mountain ridges and a picturesque fog that appears daily at the most opportune moments. It is a place where people go to enjoy the beauty of isolation. This is the story of one of its residents, MJ...

Neville Chamberlain and British Rearmament: Pride, Prejudice, and Politics