Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Richard White explores how moral virtues affect and support social movements such as pacifism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, and animal rights. White's philosophical treatment of virtue ethics is extended through historical and cross-cultural analysis to help the reader understand and acquire moral wisdom.

A methodology for crisis negotiation for use by those in the fields of law enforcement and criminology.

Provides the perspective of a practitioner as to how and why the unintended consequences of well- intentioned people have hindered, rather than helped, to reform and improve our schools. This book presents a roadmap and recommendations for steps that need to be taken to reform school reform.

Law schools serve as gateway institutions into one of the most politically powerful social fields: the profession of law. Reproducing Racism is an examination of white privilege and power in two elite United States law schools. Moore examines how racial structures, racialized everyday practices, and racial discourses actually function in law schools.

The Hows and Whys of Alternative Education offers the essential information on the history of alternative education, school choice, alternative schools, charter schools, magnet schools, homeschooling, private schools, vouchers, distance learning, teacher/student/parent attraction, and the future of educational choice.

Of all the places and events in this nation's history, Gettysburg may well be the name best known to Americans. This book offers an overview of the entire battle, its drama, and its meaning. It ranges from Lee's decision to take his successful Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania to the withdrawal of the battle-battered Confederate army.

Suggests that popular culture is vital to how adolescents make sense of the world and educators should tap into it as a tool for imparting critical thinking skills in students. This work critically examines and interprets concepts of popular culture, allowing readers to re-examine the fundamental aspects of popular culture as a societal force.

In this book, Robert Hess promotes teacher leadership as the critical component to achieving breakthrough results in school improvement.

Covering important social work issues aimed at students, this work includes paired articles which talk to each other. Each pair of readings features an introduction with a list of Points to Ponder which introduces students to the issues they'll encounter as they read, and ends with a conclusion entitled The Continuing Debate.

The Operator's Manual for the New Administration explains how government works and how to make it work to advance policy goals and objectives. Bringing decades of experience in government administration, the authors have identified eight key tools-leadership, performance, people, money, contracting, technology, innovation, and collaboration-that executives must utilize in order to be successful.

In Understanding the Whole Student the authors contend that good education is, and must be, multicultural in order to gain a deeper perspective on issues under analysis in the classroom through the sharing and negotiating of many different cultural perspectives.

Offering a systematic discussion of key themes such as right, justice, law, equality, and autonomy, this work presages our contemporary world of economic globalization and international law. It is also a translation of a work in political philosophy.

Technology as a Catalyst for School Communities presents case studies that illustrate how administrators and teachers can work together to find solutions to the best ways to integrate technology in the classroom.

Provides research in a reader-friendly way to help teachers and administrators better understand the at-risk student. This book also includes numerous brain-compatible instructional strategies and classroom management techniques, all intended to teach, support, and guide at-risk teenage students.

This book is intended to be a discussion point for how to develop a healthy relationship between personal experience and academic learning-which in light of our current results driven, testing culture, is the real benefit of the book.

Creative Ways to Teach the Mysteries of History, Volume 2 will make the teaching and learning of history a powerful and enjoyable experience in the classroom. All too often students say that history is the most boring subject they have at school. This volume will change the image of history for students and offer teachers an opportunity to go beyond the regular textbook.

Prominent political analyst and historian, Allan J. Lichtman, presents thirteen historical factors, or 'keys,' that have successfully predicted the outcome of presidential elections from 1860 to 2004.