Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book helps infant and toddler caregivers recognize the importance of a high-quality infant and toddler learning environment and learn how they can support children while they acquire essential skills for future success.

The Lesser Jihads examines conflict through the lens of Islamist terrorist groups. Bringing together in one volume different conflicts where terrorist groups are active worldwide, this text introduces the world and thinking of Jihadists while highlighting a number of seldom reported cases.

Now in a significant new edition, this landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.

This book challenges the utility of traditional command-and-control models that are no longer capable of supporting school leaders and describes how an effective educational leader in the Information Age applies dispositional thinking in order to be adaptive, self-aware and responsive to others.

Teacherland aims to improve our education system by humanizing the teaching profession. Moving beyond oversimplified depictions of teachers as saints or slouches, heroes or zeros, it reframes the debate about what it means to teach and learn and shows-for real-what life is like behind the curtains of one of America's most important occupations.

Wiki Works in the History and Humanities Classroom shows how teachers and students-working together as learning partners-can use interactive wiki technologies to transform the teaching of history and humanities topics through web-based research and inquiry-based learning.

Administrators, teachers, and parents who are dedicated to the best interests, social development, and academic success of their children can accomplish great things by using a wide variety of creatively humorous approaches.

This book is for teachers or parents interested in expanding students' knowledge of science in a fun yet challenging way. The multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and open-ended questions offer information, encourage critical thinking, and provide an opportunity for readers to test their knowledge and learn something new.

This book presents a variety of strategies that can be employed in changing existing high schools rather than creating new schools.

Archival Arrangement and Description: Analog to Digital includes historical background, touches on accessioning, standards, technical appraisal for digital formats, incorporates the OAIS preservation model with processing of digital formats, offers a step-by-step workflow and helpful appendices. It concludes with a future possibility and challenge.

A valuable resource for mental health professionals and those in training, the second edition of Making Mandated Addiction Treatment Work integrates cutting edge research with evidence-based addiction treatments to create a unified and effective treatment model for a diverse array of clients.

This biography of English goldsmith Thomas Violet uses his dramatic life to explore banking, spying, the English Civil War, economic theories, the silver trade, and anti-Semitism in early modern England. By putting a human face on political, social, and economic change, the book provides a vivid view of the seventeenth century's seismic changes.

Perfect as a brief core or supplementary text for undergraduate courses in statistics and research methods, Statistics for the Terrified is also an ideal refresher for students who have already taken a statistics course. Its informal and highly engaging narrative includes self-help strategies, numerous concrete examples, and a great deal of humor.

This comprehensive and informed text offers a clear and pragmatic introduction to the workings of the global economy. Vonnegut explains economic concepts and illustrates them with cogent case studies. He enlightens readers on the people, behaviors, and institutions behind international trade and investment flows in today's globalized economies.

In this book, Steve Davidson offers an innovative approach to psychotherapy and to personal development that builds upon operations theory and the idea that by methodically building operational competence, by identifying needs and wants, and then taking necessary action, we have a better opportunity to find happiness and personal fulfillment.

This book is a concise, useful guide to developing effective and memorable museum exhibits for small to medium-sized museums. It covers the complete process of exhibit development, from concept through curation, design, fabrication and installation to evaluation with a focus on proven, practical, and cost-effective techniques and ideas.

In an updated companion title to the 9th edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits, Lawrence Cahill draws from nearly forty years of experience in over twenty-five countries to address important EHS audit issues that audit program managers and auditors must deal with routinely and when special circumstances arise.

Inside the Star Wars Empire is the very funny and insightful tell-all about the two decades author Bill Kimberlin spent as a department director at LucasFilm Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), the special effects studio founded by the legendary filmmaker George Lucas.

Growing Leaders Within: A Process toward Teacher Leadership will aid school administrators in the task of growing and empowering teacher leaders. It is through this transformation that teacher leaders help school administrators to create a laser focus on student success.

This guide for instructors of Shakespeare examines six of his most familiar tragedies, with the goal of inspiring students who are largely unfamiliar with them. Proceeding scene by scene through each play, Cahn focuses on character, language, and theme to help students appreciate that these works' issues and implications remain universal.

This guide for instructors of Shakespeare examines seven of his most familiar plays, with the goal of inspiring students who are largely unfamiliar with them. Proceeding scene by scene through each work, Cahn focuses on character, language, and theme to help students appreciate that these plays' issues and implications remain universal.

Raising Your Kids to Succeed: What Every Parent Should Know describes what parents can do to be effective and help their children succeed, both in school and in life.

This book is a practical tool to aid both the novice and experienced administrator grow their leadership skillset. The fieldguide is replete with scenarios of actual K12 school incidents (including solutions and rationales) to guide the leader through analysis and reflection.

This book includes everything you want to know about the core competencies of songwriting, elements of music, and lyrics.

Psychology Graduate School: A User's Manual is an enjoyable description of what being a graduate student in clinical, counseling, or school psychology programs is really like. Rather than a mere how-to, punctuated by quotes and stories from real-life graduate students, this book describes the nitty-gritty of the graduate student experience.

The third edition of Infancy is a comprehensive and accessible core text for courses in infant development and early childhood development. Gross's sensitive and engaging teaching voice seamlessly weaves together research and theory with current issues of diversity and culture.

This comprehensive text provides a balanced survey of the Cold War in a genuinely global framework. Tracing the Cold War from its roots in East-West tensions before World War II, the authors conclude with its ongoing legacy. Written in an engaging style, this book will bring the Cold War era to life for readers who didn't experience it directly.

Because in a giant city, sometimes the smallest things get overlooked. Meet the tiniest standouts in the Big Apple, from the littlest dinosaur to the smallest basketball court.

This book presents 29 rules on personal mastery. Each rule contains a number of tools, which aim to pave the access road to your own ego and your preferred reality constructs; in a journey of continual improvement towards becoming who you could be.