Eric J : 310 books
by Eric Bain-Selbo, Robin Hardin, Brad Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around...
The U.S.-China Military Scorecard
Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power, 1996–2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
A RAND study analyzed Chinese and U.S. military capabilities in two scenarios (Taiwan and the Spratly Islands) from 1996 to 2017, finding that trends in most, but not all, areas run strongly against the United States. While U.S. aggregate power remains greater than China’s, distance and geography...
International Relations Theory and Ecological Thought
Towards a Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Ecological crises have never been higher on the international political agenda. However, ecological thought and international relations theory have developed as separate disciplines. This ground-breaking study looks at the relationship between ecological thought and international relations theory...
Rethinking Risk Assessment
The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for...
Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior
Growing Power and Alarm
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book offers an empirical comparison of Chinese and Indian international strategic behavior. It is the first study of its kind, filling an important gap in the literature on rising Indian and Chinese power and American interests in Asia. The book creates a framework for the systematic and objective...
Communication and Conflict Transformation through Local, Regional, and Global Engagement
Through Local, Regional, and Global Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Central to a transformational approach to conflict is the idea that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns, and social and discursive structures—and must be addressed as such. This implies the need for systemic change at generative levels, in order to create genuine...
Living Racism
Through the Barrel of the Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Living Racism is based on the premise that race and racism are well-entrenched elements of US society. The contributors of this volume argue that race and racism are more than mere concepts; instead, they see and treat these as part of the fabric that constitutes and organizes everyday life. Consequently,...
The Roots of Football Hooliganism (RLE Sports Studies)
An Historical and Sociological Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This systematic historical and sociological study of the phenomenon of football hooliganism examines the history of crowd disorderliness at association football matches in Britain and assesses both popular and academic explanations of the problem. The authors’ study starts in the 1880s, when professional...
Football on Trial
Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by J. Donald Boudreau, Eric Cassell, Abraham Fuks
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The renewal of medical curricula generally arises from emerging pedagogies (e.g. problem-based learning), new technologies (e.g. high fidelity simulation), or prevailing sociocultural forces (e.g. complexity of health care delivery and team-based care). Approximately 15 years ago, a team of physicians...
by Eric Friginal, Joseph J. Lee, Brittany Polat
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom. Using contemporary theories as a guide and employing cutting-edge corpus analysis tools and methods, the authors analyse a variety of learner speech to offer many new insights...
William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life
The Cries of the Wounded
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find...
A Woman's Guide to Regaining Bladder Control
Everything You Need to Know for the Diagnosis and Cure of Incontinence
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2004
Respected urologists, reassure women that incontinence can be controlled or cured and they can live without fear of having an accident in public.
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...