Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Explores the lives of twelve influential American reformers placed in the historical context of the Gilded Age, Populist, and Progressive eras. From Ida B Wells to Louis Brandeis, Jane Adams to Charles Macune, this book examines the ideas and approaches that characterized this dynamic period in American history.

Explores the relations between global wealth and poverty, American and European elites and Third World indigenous societies and the role schools play in the destruction of cultures. This book examines how the dark underside of capitalism, called neoliberalism, is using schools to destroy an American generation.

Examines America's history of immigration pressures, policy debates, and choices. Assessing the past, present, and future of immigration, this book shows that the failure to control the influx of foreigners is leads America towards security risks, population growth, imported workers competition with American labour, and social fragmentation.

Explores the decade through the controversies between radicals, liberals, and conservatives. This book focuses on four main areas of contention social welfare; civil rights; foreign relations; and social order. It also examines the emergence of the New Left and the modern conservative movement.

Poverty and Power asserts that American poverty is a structural problem resulting from failings in our social system, rather than individual failings of the poor. The second edition has been revised throughout with new statistical information, analysis of the recent recession, the Obama presidency, increasing political polarization, and more.

Designed for upper-level senior and graduate criminological theory courses, this text examines the ideas and assumptions underlying each major theoretical perspective in criminology. This book provides students with an overview of criminological theory that enables evaluative comparisons among different theorists.

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account of the most critical political period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam--the Kennedy/Diem era--remains as fresh and stimulating today as when it was first published in 1965. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal provides crucial background information that was unavailable when the book was written.

Resistant Learners: Reach Me Before You Teach Me focuses on those students whose behavior limits their learning and challenges their teachers while perhaps interrupting the learning cycle of their peers. Each chapter explains the theoretical and research background for each topic.

Hallman provides information that can be useful to young people who want to build skills for social interaction.

Passing the Leadership Test: Strategies for Success on the Leadership Licensure Exam is a study guide for the School Leaders Licensure Examination (SLLA).

This book should be read by anyone concerned about the future of education in the U.S. It was written for students, parents, educators, administrators, and policy makers because it will require effort from all these individuals to create meaningful change in the education system.