Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Attempts to challenge conventional wisdom that education consists of small, incremental changes. Using case studies of personal transformations, or metamorphoses, this book examines Malcolm X, Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, Victor of Aveyron and others to demonstrate how education is a fundamental determinant of the human condition.

Presents a history that traces the 300-year saga of the pirates and warlords who poured out of Scandinavia between the eighth and eleventh centuries, terrorizing, conquering, and settling vast stretches of Europe. This work provides an account of this early medieval period that became known as the Viking Age.

Serving as a study of Chinese-language films, this title emphasizes the transnational nature of contemporary Chinese cinema. It provides readings of most of the important films of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and explores the interactions and transactions among these films and between Chinese cinema and Hollywood.

A single-volume survey of magic, this book traces the history of magic and superstition in Europe, starting from antiquity onwards. Focusing mainly on the medieval and early modern era, it also explores the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome, and the spread of magical systems, particularly modern witchcraft or Wicca from Europe to the US.

Examines key Jewish texts on leadership and applies these concepts to various issues associated with leading and managing organizations. Discussing authority, charisma, uses and abuses of power, and shared power, this book offers an understanding of classical models of Jewish leadership and translates these models into issues and questions.

For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the US financed his tyranny. This book traces the tragic history of the so-called Diem experiment from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers in 1963.

This book is based on the notion that an adequate response to globalization challenges requires a holistic approach to several different dimensions - immigration, technology, economy, and environment - as well as effective collaboration and coordination among the central domains of education: curriculum, teaching, and teacher education.

In this book, Vicki Snider describes six teaching myths that prevent reform in education, examines the beliefs that guide teaching practices, and she uses current research on teaching reading to illustrate the faulty premises that underlie the myths and their harmful effects on children and adolescents.

This is the story of the Conflict Early Warning Systems (CEWS) project of the International Social Science Research Council. It relates the history of the project, presents its approach to anticipating violent conflict, and shows how it may be extended to other social science research arenas.

In this text, Stanley Aronowitz argues for the decline of "the job" as the backbone of American society. New economic and global technological changes have enabled an emerging culture of cynicism between workers and their employers that threatens social stability and well-being.

In Russia and Armed Persuasion, Stephen J. Cimbala argues that Russia's war planners and political leaders must make painful adjustments in their thinking about the relationship between military art and policy.

This text discusses the position of women in American Education. The authors offer examples of how assumptions of privilege, specifically the workings of unacknowledged whiteness, shape classroom discourse. It also goes beyond the classroom to look at the context of American higher education.

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Many studies of Asia-Pacific security are marked by pessimism and a belief in the virtues of a balance of power. "Pacific Asia?" points to a number of positive developments - in regional relationships, the absence of an arms race, and an emerging consensus on nonmilitary paths to national security.

This text highlights "mundane" practices that increasingly influence our schools, homes, and communities. The author examines the justice system and the everyday life of the postmodern to show how the lines between these spheres of social life are blurred by the use of surveillance technologies.

Reflects on the central mystery of faith: how new life springs from death. Invites readers to contemplate the central mysteries of Christ's incarnation, passion, death, and new life.

This text looks at sociology as a social act in arguing for a public sociology that can more fully embrace and address crucial public issues. It describes how social science reproduces the existing social world, and shows how it could be crafted differently.

A collection of 15 essays which discuss the nature and limits of moral reasoning. It argues that moral philosophy can subvert received opinion and replace it with something better. Issues such as euthanasia, the rights of animals, privacy and affirmative action are discussed.

Hikes varying from half-hour strolls to full-day adventures, this guidebook is for everyone, including families.

Blending theory and case studies, this book looks at community-building in rural America, and how civic-minded people come together through a variety of ways, such as hosting and attending festivals, addressing conflict, planning the community, and maintaining heritage museums.

This work aims to reach out to the growing number of missionaries, pastors, Bible translators and teachers, mission and theological educators and students dealing with communicating the gospel. It covers God's message, and how spreading it has changed through the generations.

In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors.

In defending just war against Christian pacifism by arguing that decisions regarding war must be governed by "political prudence", the author joins a line of theological reasoning that traces its antecedents to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas.