Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

From Bernard Boxill, professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and editor of Race and Racism, comes a tightly-argued, very illuminating book that will be essential reading for anyone interested in Black/Africana philosophy.

'An excellent commentary on and an insightful contribution to the current debate on constitutional interpretation.'-Walter F. Murphy, Princeton University

'. . . an extraordinarily accurate and insightful account of the Cuban missile crisis. I remember well the fear of which he writes so persuasively.'-Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson

'Between the Human and the Divine will introduce American readers to one of the most complex, troubled and troubling, luminous, path-breaking and neglected minds of our time. Dietz has taken an important step towards getting the measure of a thinker who measures our civilization.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICS

This book is about the unintended consequences that can occur when the "good news" process becomes heavily embedded in school life-a process that creates two different worlds in a school community that often prides itself on fostering unity and belonging.

Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience, and Just Plain Bunk teaches readers to think like scientists-to critically evaluate the truth of scientific claims. Filled with provocative real-life examples, from the effects of Bisphenol-A to examining some of the alleged causes of cancer, the book helps readers build their tools of scientific literacy.

Identity theft is a growing problem around the world, and criminals are not above stealing a child's identity. Child Identity Theft, presented in a question and answer format, will help parents and other guardians to prevent child identity theft from happening and to know what to do if it does.

T. Byram Karasu, M.D. reflects on loving, working, living, dying, and everything else-his philosophy of life expressed in microstyle.

How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture tells the story of America by examining American eating habits, and illustrates the many ways in which competing cultures, conquests and cuisines have helped form America's identity, and have helped define what it means to be American.

This book is a must-have for school leaders, aspiring school leaders, and those charged with preparing and supporting school leaders. It includes a wide range of information about and from superintendents, including chapters devoted to women and minority school leaders.

Make It Profitable is a down-home presentation of the best ideas and information from 80 professionals in various fields of the craft industry.

This volume examines women on American television in the 90s in an attempt to uncover the cultural obsession with tough, sexy heroines in mythical pasts, the "girl power" present, and utopic futures. Programmes covered include "Babylon 5", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and "Xena".

The essays collected here examine how the ideals of freedom and equality associated with the democratic revolutions of the West have survived the challenges of 20th century critiques.

This study shows that New Age spirituality first flourished in America more than a century ago during the Gilded Age, under the mantle of "New Thought". Catherine Tumber demonstrates that "gnostic feminism" has surfaced during periods of triumphant corporate consolidation.

In this text, Richard Grassby investigates the origins and evolution of the idea of capitalism to illustrate for readers the true nature, merits and the future of capitalism.

Thomas A. Spragens argues that we should recover the multiple and complex aspirations found within the tradition of democratic liberalism and integrate them into a more compelling public philosophy for our time - or what he calls civic liberalism.

This volume, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein's code theory, presents a clear account of the developments of this code theory and shows the close relation between its development and the empirical research to which the theory has given rise.

This text attempts a broad theoretical synthesis within the field of sociology and its closely allied sister discipline of anthropology. It draws together these disciplines' theoretical approaches into a synthesized theory called Darwinian conflict theory.

This title examines what is currently at stake culturally, politically, and educationally in contemporary global capitalist society. The book evaluates the message of Che Guevara and Paulo Freire for politics in general and education.

This volume investigates the idea of comic seriousness in Old Comedy. Attempting to set Old Comedy in its proper context, Riu explores the myth and ritual of Dionysus in the city state and relates the patterns found in those myths to the works of Aristophanes.

Even though China has created an administrative structure and regulatory programmes to curb pollution, environmental quality has continued to deteriorate. This study analyzes compliance with environmental programmes involving wastewater discharge standards, fees, and permits.

An intellectual history of the making of the worldview that came to define western Christian culture for two millennia. The author narrates the story of how early thinkers wrestled with philosophical and cultural questions in order to form a view that would make sense of their world.

An assessment of the intractable differences between Beijing and Taipei over the status of Taiwan, the rise and growing strength of an opposition party advocating Taiwan independence, and Beijing's threat to use military force to prevent independence.

A vision of what feminist theory can give contemporary women. It challenges existentialist and naturalist accounts of feminine sexuality, arguing that any attempt to affirm women's value and difference by either emphasizing her maternal role or repudiating the feminine only entraps women.