Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book will help public school educators understand that turnaround efforts are based on sound leadership principles - nothing more, nothing less. It also provides school leaders with the critical skills to turn around failing schools and, more importantly, prevent their schools from failing in the first place.

Summering on a Maine island, thirteen-year-old Ab joins her friend Bean in investigating the odd noises in her boarding house and solving the mystery of a missing treasure and stolen paintings.

The Hidden Principalship is a straightforward, practical handbook for principals in the job or for professors to use as a guide for principal instructional programming.

A Positive View of LGBTQ starts a new conversation about the strengths and benefits of LGBTQ identities. This book highlights positive aspects of LGBTQ identities, showing how LGBTQ people develop internal and external resources for thriving and flourishing.

Many dog owners want to know how to connect with their pets better, how to provide better care, and how to troubleshoot behavioral issues. In this straightforward treatment, Lisa Tenzin-Dolma looks at the ways in which we connect with dogs, and how we can deepen our understanding and strengthen the bonds with our companions.

Healthy Children, Healthy Minds: Helping Children Succeed NOW for a Brighter Future is an excellent resource for educators, parents, and anyone who is interested in and committed to fostering healthy patterns of behavior, thinking, and lifestyle choices in children.

This is a comprehensive text intended for the medical sociology course that is taught in sociology and allied health departments.

This book focuses on three successful approaches for using the school as a catalyst for community development and revitalization, particularly in rural areas. The strategies also work well in suburban and urban areas. Succesful case studies are also included.

This book tells you how to love your separated man without losing your mind.

This analysis of the jurisprudence of Justice Antonin Scalia argues that his impact has been neither what conservatives hoped nor what liberals feared. The authors examine Scalia's political and judicial philosophy, outlining areas of the law that he influenced.

In this book, 19 prominent representatives of each side in the basic division among Strauss's followers explore his contribution to political philosophy and Jewish thought.

Because of economic, environmental and political abuses, we are not using our land and natural resources in the most ecologically enlightened ways. This book outlines a new national policy for land use and provides a new legal, political and ethical justification for the proposed policies.

This study examines how the political anti-slavery challenge to the North informed American literature of the 1850s. As the works of Stowe, Whittier, Willis, and Whitman reveal, the political discourse and literature were branches of the same project: to expose compromise with slavery as a threat to each individual Northerner and to the people as an actor in history.

The journal entries of the dauntless Mr. Peter Paul Sherman lend unique insights to the treacherous world of Reconstruction-era river-boating. This humorous epistolary novel brings history to life as it transports the reader to the time of majestic steamers and cunning river pirates.

Hanging Out and Hanging on: From the Projects to the Campus chronicles the progress of students from Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut, who are enrolled in the Dual College Enrollment Program (DCEP) at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Serious depression afflicts over two million teenagers each year in the United States alone, and it can often be difficult for teens to recognize, cope with, and get help for their depression. This book helps teens and young adults learn how to deal with this often debilitating affliction.

In Right-Wing Resurgence, author Daryl Johnson offers a detailed account of the growth of right wing extremism and militias in the United States and the increasing threat they pose. He presents a comprehensive account of a growing security concern at a time when this threat is only beginning to be realized, and is still largely ignored by many.

A comprehensive, introductory text that emphasizes the major techniques, methods, and data sources of contemporary population studies. Written by a sociologist and a demographer, the book's principal aim is to improve students' skills primarily as consumers and secondarily as producers of demographic information.

Ken, Nels and Joe reveal the quality management principles and collaborative leadership skills that led to amazing results for them, while detailing the practices necessary for educators to achieve the same outcomes in their schools.

Teaching Math, Science, and Technology in Schools Today: Guidelines for Engaging Both Eager and Reluctant Learners offers unique, engaging, and thought-provoking ideas. It surveys today's most important trends and dilemmas while explaining how collaboration and critical thinking can be translated into fresh classroom practices.