Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

An ideal handbook for beginning designers and students of advertising design/layout and desktop publishing. Robyn Blakeman dissects the creative process one piece at a time, giving a step-by-step guide to the use and design of advertising in both magazines and newspapers.

Here is a collection of case studies intended as a primary or companion text for administrator candidates or current administrators. It is designed to provide dilemmas for the student to think about, discuss, and solve. The topics within this text correlate to the national standards in Educational Leadership.

Are you wondering how to nurture a better relationship with the parents of your students? This book provides teachers with comprehensive methods to bridge the gap between school and home in order to enhance the development of their students.

Offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of US military intervention in the Caribbean.

When Marcia and David Pirie abandoned their careers and sailed off in their home-built ketch Moongazer, They embarked on a journey that took them around the world, and became a way of life for nine years. Travellers on a Trade Wind covers the highlights of the journey.

This collaboration by a sociologist and film critic offers a critique of almost a century's worth of American film, from 1915 to 2001. It studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies - by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another colour.

The Communist Labor University introduced uneducated farmers and peasants to basic agricultural science and farming techniques until 1980. The author explores the inner workings of this Chinese institution and the direct personal involvment in its affairs by the nation's key communist leaders.

This expanded and revised edition contains chapters tackling such contemporary beasts as Popperian rules, narrative research, and various forms of constructivism.

Caught betwixt the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space or borderland between past and present, East and West. Balancing the memory of colonial experience with an emergent nation-making dream, this innovative book asks if a meaningful future can be envisioned.

A collection of the translated letters of the 17th-century correspondent and friend of Descartes, Princess Elisabeth. Her questions provoked Descartes to think about ethics and the passions. The volume contains a running commentary on the historical, biographical and intellectual context.

Analyzes what is arguably the most important event in the history of the Vietnam conflict. The author situates this book in the context of American foreign policy and the state of the war up to 1968 while carefully considering the impact of the media on American public opinion.

This volume develops a general theory of social evolution and uses it to explain important evolutionary transformations in human history. It includes a discussion of the biological constraints acting on humans that have helped to push social evolution along similar lines all over the world.

Providing an introduction to moral theory that explains and critically examines the theories of such classic moral philosophers as Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Bentham, Mill and Ross, this book acquaints students with the work of contemporary moral philosophers.

Since September , Arab and American journalists have been trading barbs, accusing each other of bias and a lack of objectivity.

Clear, concise, and accessible, this text is an informative and powerful reflection on the meaning of the Eucharist in the 21st century.

This volume examines the most basic foundations of value and morality, demonstrating the shortcomings of major traditional views and proposing that morality is grounded in the objective requirements of human life.

Designed for students of all ages, this resource guide provides an engaging and succinct introduction to twelve recognized masterpieces of Catholic literature, from Augustine's 4th century conversion narrative to the recent poetry of Denise Levertov.

This text argues that Aristotle's "Politics" has languished in the shadow cast by Plato's "Republic" and seeks to reinvigorate the scholarship on what it considers a masterpiece of modern and educational theory. It contends that "Politics" holds an important place in Aristotle's philosophy.

This work presents a collection of essays highlighting not only the vibrant tradition of the 20th century Eastern Orthodox thought, but also the necessity of its inclusion in the theological canon constructed mainly by Western Christian thinkers.

This accessible and stirring book invites us to walk with those who serve and those who are served in confronting the daily reality of poverty. The work highlights six exemplary projects funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).

This text examines the causes, prosecution and legacy of World War I, from the perspective of American involvement. It illuminates American influence on the war, looking at battles and diplomatic moves, and the war's impact at home, covering the changing state of American politics, and society.

Explores concepts of body and space to better understand the daily lives and struggles of women with chronic illness. The authors show how such women restructure their physical and social environments through the strategies they choose to accommodate disabling illnesses.

This study presents a different approach to the question of power and influence after the Cold War. Inspired by the debate over German hegemony and drawing on fieldwork, it develops two cases of German relations with East-Central Europe to test competing arguments.

An analysis of technology, and how it develops and changes, both spatially and temporally. Drawing on a detailed case study of the Green Revolution in Indian agriculture, Parayil argues that technological change is contingent upon the social-historical process of knowledge change.

One of Ralph Waldo Emerson's principle contributions to philosophy is the theory of self-reliance, a view of democratic individuality. George Kateb provides a reading of Emerson that is friendly to the interests of Nietzsche and to later Nietzscheans such as Weber, Heidegger, Arendt and Foucault.