Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This extended, real-world case study provides an authentic, unvarnished account of a fully-human principal knee deep in what is appropriately called the toughest job in education.

N3xt Practices identifies technology-based initiatives, such as Interactive White Boards, Data Centers, and 1-to-1 Computing, and reviews actual implementations and case studies - both successful and unsuccessful - to provide a structure to plan and implement educational technology initiatives practical for schools and districts of all sizes.

In Rehearsing: Critical Connections for the Instrumental Music Conductor, Colson supplies the missing link for conductors looking for advice that allows them to complete their training for reaching complete competency as a conductor.

In this book, historian Emily West offers the first comprehensive overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by placing their stories within the broader context of slavery in this country from the colonial era through to the end of the Civil War.

Randall Wilson traces the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America's public land system. The result is a fresh, compelling, and comprehensive account of the most pressing policy and management challenges facing national parks, forests, rangelands, and wildlife refuges today.

This book will take you into the classrooms of great literacy teachers from around the United States who have designed successful vocabulary instruction for their grades K-6 classrooms

Chesnut's keen insight into political, economic, and social developments makes her an excellent source to understand the Southern homefront during the Civil War.

Using casual language and a straightforward approach, Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas provides students with an easy-to-read and effective guide for developing their writing skills.

Travel On and On: Interdisciplinary Lessons on the Music of World Cultures incorporates traditional and newly composed materials, as well as other content area resources, on the music of our global community. It is intended for use in general music classroom and each lesson has an interdisciplinary approach to teaching music.

Scleroderma, which affects as many as 400,000 Americans, starts off like skin cancer, but is far more deadly. This edition provides information about the best therapy for this disease, including the second clinical trial of the only therapy to report reversal and remission of this deadly disease.

The book uses both contemporary and classic film and literature to illustrate 33 fundamental concepts in introductory economics. Films include: Jaws, Legally Blonde, Casablanca, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, and The Da Vinci Code.

This ambitious and accessible history of the nation's highest court contains information important for every American to know.

Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquisition can be both socially based (and thus apparently context-relative) and still able to determine objective facts about the world. In this book, Richmond Campbell attempts to dispel some of these paradoxes.

A study of representation and the "politics of place" through a pedagogy of narrative-forming inquiry and a critical reflection on identity. It seeks to propose a multicultural revision of knowledge that displaces the binarisms of insider/outsider rather than shifting the margin to the centre.

This is collection of essays on the theory and practice of critical studies in communication, media, and journalism. It is grounded in a critical theory of the media that addresses the potential of liberating individuals by challenging their roles in the hegemonic relationship of media and society.

Here is an update of the previous edition, more relevant for the new millennium. The classic resources in management and team building are people, money, facilities and time. Increasingly, though, the fifth resourceenergyis becoming more crucial.

This text offers a comprehensive overview of the formation and administration of the empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at mid-century, to its denouement on the eve of World War I.

A collection of papers organized around three central themes in Hanks's work: indexicality and referential practices; discourse genres and textuality; and the historical embeddedness of language. Together, they represent the main elements of a synthetic approach to language in context.

In this path-breaking study, Fr. Alexander Webster convincingly demonstrates that a distinctive pacifist trajectory, characterized by the moral virtues of non-violence, nonresistance, voluntary kenotic suffering, and universal forgiveness, has endured through two millennia of Eastern Orthodox history in unbroken continuity with the ancient Church.

The geography of contemporary U.S. political economy has roots that run deep into our past. Earle traces their growth to the seventeenth-century origins of liberalism, republicanism, and financial crises.