Hapkido: Korean Art of Self-Defense
Hapkido, “The Way of Coordination and Internal Power,” is one of the three major Korean martial arts. Founded in 1963 by Master Choi Young-Sul, it … Read more
Sociology of Sports
Prosocial Development: A Multidimensional Approach
Prosocial behavior-broadly defined as voluntary action intended to help or benefit another-has been associated with positive outcomes across the lifespan. Children with a more prosocial … Read more
Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines
Since its founding in the nineteenth century, social anthropology has been seen as the study of exotic peoples in faraway places. But today more and … Read more
Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, … Read more
How Pac-Man Eats
How the tools and concepts for making games are connected to what games can and do mean; with examples ranging from Papers, Please to Dys4ia. … Read more
Essential Sculling: An Introduction To Basic Strokes, Equipment, Boat Handling, Technique, And Power
Essential Sculling is an authoritative, concise, and thoroughly readable handbook that focuses on helping anyone become an accomplished sculler. Here Daniel J. Boyne, offers the … Read more
Remarks on the Relation between Education and Crime in a Letter to the Right Rev. William White
None This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. … Read more
Under New Public Management : Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work
The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public … Read more
Works and Days: A Translation and Commentary for the Social Sciences
This new, annotated translation of Hesiod’s “Works and Days” is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic … Read more
Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been … Read more
The politics of textiles: the Indian cotton-mill industry and the legacy of swadeshi, 1900-1985
None Textile manufacture, India’s oldest industry, has involved the rise and fall of some of the most powerful and rich businessmen in India, the pioneers … Read more