Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

A study of the nurse in Greek literature from Homer to Euripides. Depicted as a central figure of authority, the author focuses on the verbal manifestations of the nurse's authority - advice, approval, diasapproval, directions and orders.

This practical text on implementing character education provides school leaders with an effective road map, touring schools that have achieved success.

Rosa Aronson tells the stories of seven disadvantaged students, uncovering how very different at risk achievers have overcome the odds stacked against them. She also offers recommendations for change in today's educational system.

Original publication and copyright date: 2011.

Preservation Politics is a provocative look at the changing prospects for historic districts, and how local preservation commissions, volunteers, and staff can prevent and reverse decline by thinking and acting politically on behalf of the communities they serve.

This concise text provides a balanced introduction to international relations theory. An invaluable resource for teaching theory to undergraduates, it brings together a wide range of perspectives-including realism, liberalism, Marxism, social constructivism, feminism, and post-modernism-in a single comprehensive and easily readable text.

Offers a view on the ideas, themes, and people engaged in the three-way dialogue between Christianity, Buddhism and the natural sciences.

Charles Selengut's multidsciplinary approach to understanding the causes and effects of religious violence around the globe.

Until recently, domestic violence, as it has been referred to, was a problem to be dealt with inside the family. In this ground-breaking work, Hattery's unique approach provides a detailed theoretical discussion of race, class, and gender-effects on intimate partner violence and a thoughtful discussion of the interactions of these factors.

Cargan provides a brief history of marriage and family life and the changes occuring in them between 1950 and 2005. This book further evaluates the stereotypes that are applied to singles, noting changes that have occured in these beliefs.

Illustrates how the political economy of private domestic adoption intersects with the political economy of racism to generate quite different demands for infants and children of different races and how the private adoption arena responds to these demands.

Examines the external, societal, and governmental sources of change to US national-security policymaking that were begun by 9/11, memorialized by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (2004). This book chronicles the manifold changes and what caused them.

Described by Jeffrey Masson as 'the single best introduction to animal rights ever written, ' this new book by Tom Regan dispels the negative image of animal rights advocates perpetrated by the mass media, unmasks the fraudulent rhetoric of 'humane treatment' favored by animal exploiters, and explains why existing laws function to legitimize institutional cruelty