Michael Jackson: 74 books

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Michael Jackson tells the story of his life, in his words. In this intimate and often moving personal account of Michael Jackson’s public and private life, he recalls a childhood that was both harsh and joyful but always formidable. Michael and his brothers...

(Ukulele). 21 Jackson hits arranged brilliantly for ukulele: Bad * Beat It * Ben * Billie Jean * Black or White * Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough * Man in the Mirror * Rock with You * Smooth Criminal * Thriller * Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' * The Way You Make Me Feel * and more.

Michael Jackson’s Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking...

An ice-bound New England pond utterly still, though racked with sub-glacial groans serves as an image of a mind overwhelmed one moment by troubling memories, the next by the peace that passes all understanding. In his new collection, Michael Jackson explores the impact on a poets consciousness of...

Splash, by Andrew Michael Jackson, WSI and Andrea Siegel, PhD.: What makes this book different from other swimming books? We believe that the most important thing to do is to help your child overcome fear of the water. We emphasize safety. Everything's been tested. Our method is straightforward...

Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples’ lives and that of turning inward to one’s self. Grounding his discussion in the subtle shifts between being acted...

Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted.   In How Lifeworlds Work, Jackson draws on years of ethnographic fieldwork in...

Internationally-acclaimed anthropologist and poet Michael Jackson travels his natal New Zealand, reflecting on the idea of origins. Visiting old haunts and old friends, he ponders the hold our histories have over us, and the enduring power of our first experiences in life. Jackson reflects on the...

Journeys through the Congo, Sierra Leone and Outback Australia in an inventive memoir by a Commonwealth Poetry Prize-winning ethnographer. The Accidental Anthropologist is a fascinating, impeccably written memoir, or more accurately, a series of fragments. Compelling and absorbing as well as intense...

Following Queen Elizabeth II's historic Diamond Jubilee in 2012, there is renewed interest in the institution of the Crown in Canada and the roles of the queen, governor general, and lieutenant governor. Author D. Michael Jackson traces the story of the monarchy and the Crown and shows how they are...

 “Bipolar gone mad” represents negative or detrimental aspects that you cannot even imagine. The fact that I am still alive and now healthy is the reason why I awoke in my sleep on December 18, 2013. Something in my spirit directed me to write this testimony and story. I have no background...

Prepare to eat someone's lunch. Why would anyone start a negotiation worried about whether the other person wins? This is because "Win-Win" is a fallacy. You will be a better negotiator if you learn how to win at negotiating. This book is about winning at negotiations. If you have a problem...

In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic...

The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men – a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston –...