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Come get the scoop on who will be this year’s top picks for your fantasy baseball team. Three experts will discuss player performance projections and break down all the stats you need to know before the season begins. This will be a sure hit for fantasy baseball fans of all stripes, and will leave ... (mer)you with the all the info needed to put together an all-star fantasy team. Mark Shapiro, general manager for the Cleveland Indians, states, “Baseball Prospectus continues to raise the bar for innovative baseball analysis every year.” Steven Goldman is the creator of the long-running "Pinstriped Bible" column and companion "Pinstriped Blog" at yesnetwork.com, the "You Could Look It Up" column for baseballprospectus.com, and is a baseball columnist for the New York Sun. Jay Jaffe is the founder of the Futility Infielder website, one of the oldest baseball blogs. In addition to covering the annual Hall of Fame ballot for BaseballProspectus.com, he writes the weekly "Prospectus Hitlist" and the "Prospectus Hit and Run" columns during the season. Marc Normandin is a communications major at Merrimack College. This is his second year at Baseball Prospectus.com, as well as his second contributing to the annual. Sponsored by the NU Libraries and the NU Bookstore.

Beth Helms, winner of the 2003 Iowa Short Fiction Award, presents this work. Helms draws from her childhood experiences living abroad in the Middle East to write this compelling story of a mother and daughter living in Ankara, Turkey as the wife and child of an American diplomat. Restless within their ... (mer)closed community of Westerners and rich Turks, the two decide to venture outside the safety of their isolated community. Sponsored by the NU Libraries, the NU International Student & Scholar Institute, and the NU Bookstore.

Cynthia Baron, Associate Director of Northeastern’s Digital Media and Multimedia Studies program, reveals an interesting relationship between art and science as she describes how new technologies have assisted in the creation of altered images used for advertising, political propaganda, and even scientific ... (mer)fraud. In this work, Baron provides real historical examples and case studies of those who have used Photoshop to doctor photos for their own benefit and demonstrates the techniques used to deconstruct a photograph to detect fraud. This will be a fascinating discussion for anyone who enjoys shows like CSI, or wants to learn more about advancements in modern technology. Sponsored by the NU Libraries and the NU Bookstore.

This anthology provides a history of the struggle for human rights in the United States and describes how the US has either promoted or discouraged human rights worldwide. This work also offers insight into the current political climate and describes how human rights activism is transforming domestic ... (mer)social justice work today. The panel will be moderated by Northeastern Law professor Martha Davis and will discuss both the anthology and its broader social implications. Sponsored by the NU Libraries and the NU Bookstore.