Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Reaching Reluctant Young Readers features 150 middle-grade books. Each title has the potential to hook the reluctant reader and lure them to read the entire book. To specifically encourage reluctant children to read, there is first a pitch to get their attention followed by a short reading passage to "set the hook."

Cultural Heritage Tourism: Five Steps for Success and Sutainability helps managers and community leaders attract visitors to cultural heritage sites, attractions, or destinations through a proven five-step process. Complete with case studies, best practices, and sample documents, this book covers every step, from inception to evaluation.

This guide for patients facing serious illnesses for which the path to wellness is unclear explains some of the influences that may prompt physicians to recommend futile treatments and describes specific ways of obtaining information to get a clear idea of all available options.

An invaluable resource for students and professionals as well as parents, this text offers a composite case study of one child's development following years of abuse and neglect. Blending theory and research into a powerful narrative, Hughes offers effective strategies for facilitating attachment in children who have experienced serious trauma.

Engaging and informative, Evaluating Media Bias provides an academically informed but broadly accessible overview of the major concepts and controversies involving media bias. Schiffer explores the contours of the partisan-bias controversy before pivoting to real biases: the patterns, constraints, and shortcomings plaguing American political news.

The book advocates for a complete removal of VAMs in high-stakes decisions. It sets forth numerous recommendations for administrators and policymakers to enable them to effectively deal with the complications created by VAMs.

With a full introduction and textual commentary, this volume introduces William H. Ferris's The African Abroad, a treatise on racial idealism, Black ethnology, and the evolution of Blacks from Negro to Negrosaxon, presenting the first evidence of a Black American idealist and evolutionary thinker in philosophy.

This book offers an innovative interdisciplinary perspective in the study of Roberto Saviano as a media/literary phenomenon. It includes a thorough analysis of Saviano's public personality and production with accurate references to key semiotic and cultural studies notions such as body, agency, audience, empowerment.

This book is for those who want to improve, whether you are a superintendent, assistant superintendent, CEO, principal, teacher, parent or leader. Each section will provide routines to implement and adapt to your preferences as you proceed along your journey to becoming a more efficient and effective leader.

An important goal of teachers is to get all students, especially those in the upper elementary and middle grades who struggle with academic work, engaged in reading. This book examines current research on instructional principles and actions related to engaged reading.

Supervising Knowledge Work describes the salient features of a re-imagined supervision process called Knowledge Work Supervision that is designed to transform entire school systems.

Thinking and Learning through Literature shares ways of using high quality literature to cultivate children's awareness; their intelligence; and their understanding of themselves, other people, and the past and present world.

Geography as Inquiry invites teachers and learners to explore geography in exciting ways, across key concepts, connected to history and the social sciences, reestablishing its place in the social studies and history curriculum.

This powerful book explores new global human rights duties through four case studies: mass incarceration in the United States, LGBT rights in Africa, women's rights in Saudi Arabia, and environmental rights in China. William F. Felice presents a "human rights threshold" to identify unacceptable levels of human suffering that require urgent action.

Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south.

This book will teach you how to couple proactive grant strategies with a consistent and reinforced plan that will guide your coachees through the proposal development process.

This book will highlight certain attributes that a teacher and administrator, must possess to be successful in education today. These qualities have been embedded into the current evaluation systems being implemented across the country.

This book looks at practical ways educators can implement the use of technology in their English and Language Arts classroom for English Language Learners.

The book covers school shootings, physical violence, bullying and cyber-bullying, suicide, sexual harassment and violence, teen dating violence, gang violence, intruder violence and violence against teachers and staff.

The book provides very concrete and simplified descriptions of how effective teacher practices were identified, observed, recorded, and analyzed.

This book documents and reveals new information about the anthrax attacks of 2001. Decker provides first-hand perspective detailing the new science, microbial forensics, and parts of the investigation unknown to the public.