Thomas Carter: 34 books
by Hoffmann, Joseph Pike, D. S. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Ampleforth College; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Bath and Wells; A Sketch-Book by D. S. Andrews Bristol; A Sketch-Book by Dorothy E.G. Woollard Bruges; A Sketch-Book by Joseph Pike Cambridge; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Canterbury; A Sketch Book by Walter M. Keesey Cardiff; A Sketch-Book by Douglas...
In Foreign Fields
The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
This book examines the lives, decisions and challenges faced by transnational sport migrants - those professionals working in the sports industry who cross borders as part of their professional lives. *BR**BR*Despite a great deal of romance surrounding international celebrity athletes, the vast majority...
On Running and Becoming Human
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
How does the simple act of running make us human? As a form of enskilled movement that shapes how we perceive our surroundings, running enacts a mindful bodily engagement with the world, an engagement that generates our very minds through perceptual learning. Thomas F. Carter examines the interrelated...
The Courage to Change
Personal Conversations about Alcoholism
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1984
The classic New York Times bestseller: Real-life stories from prominent people talking about their experiences as alcoholics.
As an alcoholic himself, PBS host Dennis Wholey set out to collect the powerful stories of well-known people who have struggled with this disease. Included in this volume...
Where Credit is Due
Bringing Equity to Credit and Housing After the Market Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
While much recent attention has been focused on the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, little has been said about its radically-disparate impact. Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color;...
Southern Illinois University at 150 Years
Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major...
Fiction River: Time Streams
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writers’ imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring...
by David S.G. Carter, Thomas E. Glass, Shirley M. Hord
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Growing discontent with the performance of educational institutions is common in the USA today and little is being done to address the real problem - that of the need to reform and restructure the entire educational system. A key issue in this reform is the training and development of leaders in educational...
The Zuni Mountain Poets
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
The Zuni Mountains have over 360,000 acres of pristine wilderness. The volcanic area of the El Malpais National Monument is riddled with great, black lava flows, caves, and lava tubes. The El Morro National Monument has writings from ancient peoples flowing backward into time, early Spanish explorers,...
From Protest to Challenge, Vol. 2
A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964: Hope and Challenge, 1935-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This remarkable collection of material is as relevant today as when it was first published; graphically demonstrating the native African's struggle for peace, freedom, and equality in his native land during the 19th and 20th centuries.
From Protest to Challenge, Vol. 1
A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964: Protest and Hope, 1882-1934
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This remarkable collection of material is as relevant today as when it was first published; graphically demonstrating the native African's struggle for peace, freedom, and equality in his native land during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Reason in Law
Ninth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Over the nearly four decades it has been in print, Reason in Law has established itself as the place to start for understanding legal reasoning, a critical component of the rule of law. This ninth edition brings the book’s analyses and examples up to date, adding new cases while retaining old ones...
by Stephen Addiss, Minh Nguyen, Yuriko Saito
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is...
The Anthropology of Sport
Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil’s stadiums or China’s parks, on Cuba’s baseball diamonds or Fiji’s rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft,...