Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Veteran teacher Julie Landsman leads the reader through a day of teaching and reflection about her work with high school students who are from a variety of cultures. She speaks honestly about issues of race, poverty, institutional responsibility, and white privilege by engagin...

The idea that you can "catch" cancer is radical, and yet several renowned scientists have shown that it is possible to do just that. Through interviews and an exploration of the science behind new discoveries, Claudia Cornwall reveals the breakthroughs that set us on a course of better understanding how cancer develops and how we might prevent it.

At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 key events-some known and some forgotten-that shaped colonial and revolutionary America, from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention.

A unique resource for both academics and practitioners, School District Budgeting provides a comprehensive look at the resource allocation process, from developing planning guidelines to reporting the results of financial operations. An all-inclusive guide, the book provides theoretical and practical treatments of the entire budget process.

Today's school principal is charged with the responsibility for creating a learning organization which emphasizes success for all students. An important component leading to these successful school experiences is decision-making based on standards that are grounded in research and best-practice.

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In this concise biography, Parsons masterfully chronicles the dramatic and prolific career of one of America's most absorbing figures.

A collection of thirty folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Pennsylvania ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world.

This text explores the possibility of symbolic public spaces in the context of Chinese cinema. Focusing especially on women, children and the dispossessed, it looks at the way public space is constructed and occupied, both in the Chinese cultrual sphere and in the world of international audiences.

This examination of American labour policy demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labour conditions in the 1900's, the US continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions.

This text examines the scientific premises and theoretical bases and the religious, ethical, and political consequences of Hobbes' theory of volition. In this study, the author reveals Hobbes' philosophical and theological assumptions in order to resolve social and ethical dilemmas.

This text provides a history of the first 108 members of the US Supreme Court. It addresses the questions of why individual justices were nominated to the highest court and how their nominations were received by legislators of the day.

This work explores the power , processes, and circumstances that brought about the new gender relations in the African Methodist Church. Its account of the church and its many changes shows that unless women hold church positions, they are overlooked as pro-active agents of organizational power.

A philosophical exploration of the nature, scope, and significance of ecofeminist theory and practice. This book presents the key issues, concepts, and arguments which motivate and sustain ecofeminism from a western philosophical perspective.

These essays examine a crucial premise of traditional readings of Plato's dialogues: that Plato's own philosophical dialogues can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and other leading characters. The text argues that no character should be read as Plato's mouthpiece.

An examination of the strategies used by outsiders to usurp Hawaiian lands and undermine indigenous Hawaiian culture. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, it investigates Captain Cook's journals, Hollywood films and commercialized hula, to show how they displace native culture.

This text argues that academic administration is different for administration or managing in business because of the special character of institutions of higher learning. The author claims that academic administration is a calling that assists institutions to carry out their mission.

In Active Duty, a distinguished group of contributors examines the role of the American civil service under the Constitution.

Drawing on a broad variety of literary and philosophical sources, the author offers students and scholars strikingly original ways to think about technology, gender identity, culture, the environment and politics.

Addressing primarily practical issues such as how to motivate students, construct particular courses and give educational exams, these essays also touch on theoretical issues such as whether moral edification is a proper goal of teaching ethics.

This study of subjectivity and intersubjectivity develops an account of conceptions of the subject in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. It examines the relationship between the theories of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, language and love in the work of philosophers and psychoanalyists.

In this collection of nine essays, Will demonstrates that a social account of human knowledge is consistent with, and ultimately requires, realism.

This work illustrates the constitutional jurisprudence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's most notable appointees to the United States Supreme Court. Drawing upon memoirs, writings, opinions and personal papers, the text examines the social/political theories of the three justices.

This work explains and defends St. Augustine's moral philosophy and examines his view of good and evil in modern life. It analyses St Augustine's views on the character of consciousness, knowledge, virtue, happiness and the attainability of a rational humane society.