Michael Nelson: 95 books
Child's Play
Sport in Kids' Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child’s Play presents a more nuanced...
by Stephen Salkever, Cary Nederman, Jeff Macy
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2000
Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities...
Searching for Justice After the Holocaust
Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The Nazis and their state-sponsored cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, returning survivors had to navigate a frequently unclear path to recover their property from governments and neighbors who had failed to protect them and who often had been complicit...
Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe
Bridging Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 2
Improving cultivation of particular grain legumes
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
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Urban God Talk
Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the way of religion and spirituality is false. From its beginning,...
Defining Memory
Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors...
Acknowledged Legislator
Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Acknowledged Legislator: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Martín Espada stands as the first-ever collection of essays on poet and activist Martín Espada. It is also, to date, the only published book-length, single-author study of Espada currently in existence. Relying on innovative, highly original...
Distributive Politics in Developing Countries
Almost Pork
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament...
Learning Together
The Law, Politics, Economics, Pedagogy, and Neuroscience of Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book makes a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary argument for investing in effective early childhood education programs, especially those that develop in children their proven natural capacity to construct knowledge by building meaningful relationships. Recent insights in the fields of law, policy,...
Fuzzy Social Choice Models
Explaining the Government Formation Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set...