Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This concise updated edition offers a clear and comprehensive comparison of national, international, and human security. Laura Neack frames key concepts and policies, paired with timely new case studies, arguing that security remains elusive due to a centuries-old ethic insisting that states are the only viable international actors.

Future-Proofing the News: Preserving the First Draft of History examines the history and technology of news reporting in the U.S. and focuses on the decisions that aided or hindered future access. Changing formats of news delivery, business enterprises, and laws have had profound impacts on the ability to find and learn from records of the past.

Duane Tudahl pulls back the curtain on the details of Prince's rise from cult favorite to unrivaled stardom with the creation and popularization of the Purple Rain album. Firsthand accounts from Prince's friends and colleagues provide unprecedented views of the musical genius's creative process and secretive studio sessions.

This book is designed for those who want a better grasp of the nature and existential threat of today's information wars. It uses a conceptual approach to explain the relevant concepts as well as the structural challenges and responsibilities with which policy makers struggle and practitioners must work.

This book concerns itself with the daily dilemmas of the elementary school principal and understanding the practical application of school leadership while improving the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (2015) competency. In order to improve PSEL (2015) competency, each case study is aligned to multiple standards.

This book is designed to be a professional development tool for both preservice and practicing teachers. It provides descriptions, explanations, and examples of a variety of research-based teaching strategies that will enhance your ability to teach effectively.

Visionary leaders are those educators who are able to imagine a different future for their schools, teachers and students. Whether they are working to keep students engaged, ensure learning objectives are met, or develop new community partnerships, they must work collaboratively with students, faculty, and families to make this vision a reality.

A critical examination of the complex role of writing in court-involved young adults' lives, the purpose of this book is to provide an in-depth look at how writing might possibly be the best opportunity to give students a voice to express themselves; an opportunity to recognize their strengths; and chance to give them hope.

The scope of the book focuses on research-based strategies and instructional methodologies for implementing video analysis of authentic teaching in teacher education. The structure includes a preface, introduction, table of contents, four chapters, and an author/subject index.

This case study book represents current areas of interest in Educational Psychology embedded within current challenges teachers face in today's middle and high school classrooms.

A brutal siege. A forgotten heroine. A war-torn romance. And a historian determined to uncover the truth.

The Enterprising Musician's Guide to Performer Contracts is a plain-language guide to the two most commonly used contracts in the music industry: presenters' engagement (gig) contracts and artist-management contracts. It dissects these contracts to inform and protect a musician's rights and help them get the most out of their performance careers.

Failure to Adjust presents an especially timely analysis of the trade policies of the Obama administration, and discusses how America can reassert itself as the leader in setting rules for international economic competition that would spread the benefits of global trade and investment more broadly.

In introducing basic concepts of cultural anthropology, Bodley challenges students to consider "big questions" about the nature of cultural systems, to explore relationships between growth, scale, and power, and to critically assess how commercialization, development, humanitarian concerns, and environmental issues are affecting our global future.

This unique book reveals the kinds of teaching that engages girls intellectually, fosters their creativity, and bolsters their confidence.

An Instructor's Guide to Teaching Military Students is a resource for online and on-ground educators in private and public learning institutions around the world.

This book focuses on four areas necessary to be an impactful teacher of mathematics: Planning, Pedagogy, Assessment, and Relationships. For each of the ideas presented, a brief introduction will be shared and then two different perspectives will be detailed: a Not like This, the traditional way, and a Teach Like This, my recommended approach.

The Relevance of Leadership Standards explores the links and importance between educational leadership and student learning. In each chapter, we go in depth exploring Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL), which provide a framework of the knowledge and skills needed for school leaders to be prepared for the challenges.

Real and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students.

Practical Incident Management for Schools will help prepare every school leader for their important role in keeping students safe in their school, teaching the exact same system that fire chiefs have used to command emergencies for more than three decades, but with customized information to meet your specific needs as a school leader.

The Drive to Learn helps American parents learn from how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean parents think about and carry out child-rearing and how it translates into education.

Library Makerspaces: The Complete Guide is a road map for libraries of any size, with any budget, seeking to redesign or repurpose space or develop maker style programming. This book covers developing makerspaces, writing grant proposals, and helping staff and administrators learn about the technologies and processes involved.

Using examples, tips, suggestions for resources, samples, and anecdotes from a wide variety of library practitioners and settings, The Library Staff Development Handbook shows how to create an environment that nurtures individuals while encouraging staff opportunities in order to generate optimal institutional performance.

This book explores how societal changes, the number of children with autism, and the increasingly politically aggressive positions of advocacy groups will influence the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Optimal Language Learning describes the effective, idiosyncratic approaches of five highly gifted language learners and discerns patterns among their stories of success.

Learning Begins, written by a teacher for teachers, translates current brain research into practical classroom strategies.

This book focuses on learning and pedagogy around inquiry using technology as a cognitive tool. Specific inferences and applications of learning through an inquiry approach are explored and illustrations are drawn from educational settings.

Growing a Growth Mindset provides teachers with an innovative approach to teaching children the positive psychology constructs that underlie self-belief, goal motivation, and happiness.

This important book provides a comprehensive synthesis of the geography of race and ethnicity. David Kaplan explores the complicated terrain of ethnicity through an expansive global perspective. He encapsulates the central debates, explains key concepts, and provides compelling examples of the crucial role ethnicity plays in everyday geographies.

Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational public history textbook for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies.