Glenn Nelson

This Exciting New Series from Sports Illustrated for Kids Books Is the Gold Standard for Information on Sports Sports Illustrated for Kids Books is a new series exclusively available from The Rosen Publishing Group. Reading these books is the next best thing to being at the big game Developed and written in partnership with Sports Illustrated for Kids, the leading youth sports magazine, this series has something for everyone: biographies, sports history, and player profiles of the top athletes in all major sports. Each title goes behind-the-scenes to look at the people, the stories, the statistics, and the emotional ups-and-downs of the sports world. All titles in this library-bound series feature full-color photos, additional resources, glossary, and index. Any library wishing to reach its readers with high interest material will hit a home run with Sports Illustrated for Kids Books. Get the locker-room scoop on the new generation of basketball superstars. Follow the meteoric rise of 23-year-old Los Angeles Laker guard Kobe Bryant and learn how Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett has changed the way his position is played. Discover the challenges each player faces and strives to overcome on the road to NBA superstardom.

Currently, the research community lacks the capacity to provide accurate, up-to-date information about conditions and trends in rural areas. Bringing together some of the best known rural development researchers, this volume begins to build an information base that can serve as a foundation for rural development policy. It deals with four components of development—education, entrepreneurship, physical infrastructure, and social infrastructure. The opening chapters address two aspects of each component—the use of the component to achieve rural development and measuring the impact of its use. The volume then applies specific analytic methods of measuring impact to each component.The opening chapters address two aspects of each component—the concept of using that component to achieve rural development and the concept of measuring its impact. The volume then examines analytic methods of measuring impact. Following an overview of analytic methods, chapters apply a different analytic technique to each of the components. The techniques considered include econometric models, computable general equilibrium models, input-output analysis, and the case-study method.