"In Play, Marc Malmdorf Andersen argues that playing is not just for kids and the young at heart; rather, it is a scientific process. Through tinkering with one hare-brained idea after another, we become better, more creative adults. Malmdorf Andersen charts the evolution of play and evaluates research in developmental psychology and biology that shows how play helps us develop trust and intimacy, solve problems, and explore the world around us. "--Back cover.
These books present unique insights on a wide range of topics and concepts--everything from love, trust, and play to corruption, welfare, and sleep--that entertain and enlighten readers with exciting discoveries and new perspectives.
"Creativity was once seen as the mark of mad geniuses, troubled souls, and avant-garde eccentrics, Today, however, we expect to find the trait thriving in and around us. In Creativity, Jan L²hmann Stephensen provides a historical and contemporary view of creativity and explains why it is not always the answer to every problem. From van Gogh to Springsteen, L²hmann Stephensen explores the creative process of artists to craft a new theory of creativity, one rooted in collectivism and fluidity."--Back cover
These books present unique insights on a wide range of topics and concepts--everything from love, trust, and play, to corruption, welfare, and sleep--that entertain and enlighten readers with exciting discoveries and new perspectives.
"In Happiness, researcher Christian Bj²rnskov argues that the basic factors that constitute happiness are mostly universal across cultures. By evaluating studies and theories on happiness that test how family, genetics, religion, wealth, work, and trust factor into our happiness as well as how often we smile or compare ourselves to others, Bj²rnskov outlines why our most important source of happiness may be the people around us."--Back cover.
No woman will read the book without experiencing at least one big wake-up call about how to live a happier, healthier life.
The book encourages parents to modify their own behavior, teaching them to shift their focus away from battling with their kids and to use their energy to help their children develop winning habits and attitudes for life.
The book includes detailed information on developing budgets, "beforeand "afterversions of proposals, and descriptions of common pitfalls that everyone can avoid.
This anthology of primary materials--the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century-- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women."
The Games Presidents Play provides a new way to view the American presidency. Looking at the athletic strengths, feats, and shortcomings of our presidents, John Sayle Watterson explores not only their health, physical attributes, personalities, and sports IQs, but also the increasing trend of Americans in the past century to equate sporting achievements with courage, manliness, and political competence.From the opening pitch of the baseball season to presenting awards to Olympic champions, our sports culture asks the president to play an increasingly active role. Sports, Watterson argues, open a window into the presidency, shedding light on presidential behavior and offering new perspectives on the office and the sporting men--and women--who have and will occupy it.John Sayle Watterson is an adjunct assistant professor of history at James Madison University. He is the author of College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, also published by Johns Hopkins."Sports historian Watterson suggests that presidents' athletic endeavors reveal a lot about their actions in office . . . An enjoyable study of politics and culture."--Publishers Weekly"A wry and perceptive work."--Booklist"With a presidential campaign on the horizon, Watterson introduces an intriguing way of evaluating presidential fitness for office--and opportunities for sports fans to try out for the job of pundit."--Richmond Times-Dispatch"[Watterson] documents the link between sports and the Presidency well and even credits Theodore Roosevelt with 'the twentieth-century sporting presidency.'"--ESPN, ESPN.com"It is the closest thing to the definitive work on the subject yet produced, and likely will remain so for quite some time."--Journal of American Culture
Mendolsohn, a time line of key environmental events, a bibliography of groundbreaking works, and an index organized by specialization, this biographical encyclopedia is a handy and complete guide to the major people involved in the modern American environmental movement.
The thoroughly updated and enlarged edition of Flotilla is the result of impressive research on a forgotten chapter in the development of the young nation's naval and maritime tradition.
The Constitution of the United States says little about the president's specific duties other than the enforcement of the laws of the land. Combining brilliant scholarship with a lively style, this book reveals how deep-seated forces, inherent in American society and affecting the presidency for over two centuries, have transformed the office created by the framers of the Constitution into the complex, powerful, and responsible institution it is today.The administrations of the "strong" presidents have added to the powers and duties of the office as we know them. In addition, social and political forces such as the growth of political parties, economic and geographic expansion, and the changing nature of the national government have all had their influence on the presidency. Binkley traces the history of these processes and illustrates them with vivid examples of how they worked for a number of presidents, including Washington, Jackson, Polk, Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Eisenhower.Every chapter of the book brings a fresh and authoritative approach to an office and an institution that is the subject of searching debates today.
The Nanticoke makes clear the urgency of preserving this vital but fragile ecosystem.
Mary Elizabeth Garrett was one of the most influential philanthropists and women activists of the Gilded Age. With Mary's legacy all but forgotten, Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive detail the life and times of this remarkable woman, through the turbulent years of the Civil War to the early twentieth century. At once a captivating biography of Garrett and an epic account of the rise of commerce, railroading, and women's rights, Sander's work reexamines the great social and political movements of the age.As the youngest child and only daughter of the B&O Railroad mogul John Work Garrett, Mary was bright and capable, well suited to become her father's heir apparent. But social convention prohibited her from following in his footsteps, a source of great frustration for the brilliant and strong-willed woman. Mary turned her attention instead to promoting women's rights, using her status and massive wealth to advance her uncompromising vision for women's place in the expanding United States. She contributed the endowment to establish the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with two unprecedented conditions: that women be admitted on the same terms as men and that the school be graduate level, thereby forcing revolutionary policy changes at the male-run institution. Believing that advanced education was the key to women's betterment, she helped found and sustain the prestigious girls' preparatory school in Baltimore, the Bryn Mawr School. Her philanthropic gifts to Bryn Mawr College helped transform the modest Quaker school into a renowned women's college. Mary was also a great supporter of women's suffrage, working tirelessly to gain equal rights for women.Suffragist, friend of charitable causes, and champion of women's education, Mary Elizabeth Garrett both improved the status of women and ushered in modern standards of American medicine and philanthropy. Sander's thoughtful and informed study of this pioneering philanthropist is the first to recognize Garrett and her monumental contributions to equality in America."Highly recommended."--Midwest Book Review"Sander's book offers a well-researched and warm portrait of a female maverick who redefined the meaning of the term daddy's girl."--Baltimore Sun"Garrett's biography is long overdue, and Kathleen Waters Sander does a splendid job."--American Historical Review"A well-written, judicious, and engrossing examination of one of the major women philanthropists in the United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era."--Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"An important, richly detailed biography of a formidable nineteenth-century woman who worked in a man's world to help women attain education, suffrage, and equality."--Journal of American History
Eddie Rickenbacker epitomized the American spirit in the twentieth century. Daring, skilled, and rugged--moving fast and defying death--he drove race cars in the early days of the automobile, then flew canvas-over-wooden-frame aeroplanes in the Great War, downing twenty-six enemy flyers and emerging at war's end as the nation's ace of aces. Failing as an automobile maker after the war, Rickenbacker returned to aviation, joining Eastern Airlines in 1934, only to depart under pressure in 1963, despite building the company into a major carrier."[Lewis] has compiled the definitive biography of Eddie Rickenbacker, an often forgotten American hero and entrepreneur. Exhaustively researched and well written, Lewis's study chronicles the life and achievements of Rickenbacker from his humble beginnings as the son of Swiss immigrants through his rise to heroic military veteran and founding father of American auto racing and airline travel."--H-War, H-Net Reviews"Lewis has given us an unabashedly individual and heroic story from the heart of our era's passion for motorized speed."--Technology and Culture"Mr. Lewis' research, 15 years of it, is meticulous, showing the beauty of how fact-based reality can top fiction for excitement, irony and tragedy. Mr. Lewis has painted a balanced, complete picture of an extremely complex man. It's obvious the author has a love for his subject, but this is not hagiography: All aspects of Rickenbacker's personality are laid on the table."--Washington Times"This well-written and well-researched biography tells the life story of one of America's greatest, most widely-recognized, and controversial airmen."--Skyways"A riveting read--certainly the best telling of the Rickenbacker story we are ever likely to have."--Airways"Lewis's intent is to replace Rickenbacker's self-promoting, ghost-written autobiographies with a reliable scholarly life."--Journal of American HistoryUntil his death in September 2007, W. David Lewis was a Distinguished University Professor at Auburn University.
Shaw, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia; Frances K. Stage, New York University; Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Teachers College, Columbia University; Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Arizona State University; Kelly Ward, Washington State University; Lisa Wolf-Wendel, University of Kansas
Mellow offers a new way to comprehend the meaning and significance of American partisanship for our time and for the future.
The battle for black equality in the United States draws heavily from the stories of Free State women and men. C. Fraser Smith's lively account includes the grand themes and the state's major players in the movement--Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Sondheim, Theodore R. McKeldin, and Parren J. Mitchell, among others--and also tells the story of the struggle via several of Maryland's important but relatively unknown men and women--such as Lillie May Jackson, John Prentiss Poe, William L. "Little Willie" Adams, and Gloria Richardson--who prepared Jim Crow's grave and waited for the nation to deliver the body."While the book elaborates on Maryland's role in the beginning and end of the Jim Crow era, the most compelling aspect of the book is the stories Smith gleaned from dozens of interviews with Marylanders, black and white, who lived with segregation and fought to end its practices."--Baltimore Sun"Hand it to your students . . . and make sure their parents read it, too. It's a road map of America's long political struggle from slavery to a black man running for president."--Michael Olesker, Baltimore Examiner"By its very nature a moving but difficult and painful read. Painful or not, it is a book that helps one see present-day Maryland with a greater depth of understanding, and is certainly worth whatever discomfort it creates."--Baltimore City Paper
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The book includes expanded ideas and resources for socializing, travel, sports and recreation.
With a healthy balance of time-proven wisdom and up-to-date medical information, the book offers parents proven strategies for deciding which day-care situation is best, along with practical tips for; establishing bedtime routines; getting along with others; negotiating the logistics of child care--sick days, payment, vacations, and more; enticing picky eaters to eat; keeping toddlers occupied during travel; selecting first aid essentials--what to keep on hand; helping children cope with problems and frustrationsCharmingly illustrated by award-winning children's book illustrator Susanna Natti, this invaluable resource will guide and reassure all parents.
This book will interest scholars of Latin American politics, democratization studies, market reform, and comparative politics and international relations.
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