Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

As Richard vibrantly describes the contributions of the individuals, he details the historical context in which each lived, showing how these men influenced their world and ours.

Using the field of genetics as a case study, this text follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era.

This text utilizes a three stage approach to classroom behavioour management to assist teachers to avoid behaviour problems, manage those that cannot be avoided and resolve those that cannot be managed.

The sprawling nominating process is the critical first step every four years in the election of the president. This work shows how the nominating process works, how that compares to other countries, and how it might be changed to give a more meaningful voice to a much larger number of voters.

This work analyzes changes in the structure of the coffee commodity chain over the period since World War II. It follows the typical consumer American dollar spent on coffee in the developed world and shows how this dollar is divided up among the coffee growers, processors, and states.

In The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl M. Cannon shows how the single phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is one of remarkable historical power.

Through research and interviews Castle examines the causes and consequences of Poland's collapse as a communist state and explores how today's leaders confront some of the legacies of transition.

The book offers a way to explore the culture of politics and the politics of culture confronted by all native peoples.

Globalization and terrorism are both fraught concepts; people use them loosely without regard for exactitude and often to further political ends.

Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment.

Combines a wide variety of anti-federalist documents with insightful commentary to provide a representative work on this important political group. David J. Siemers's presents these selected works with clear explanations, showing the chronological development of the ratification fight.

An examination of the figure of Briseis, Achilles' concubine in the "Iliad", as an example of the traditional artistry enabled by the oral poetic system. It argues that Briseis' role in the "Iliad" is enormously compressed, both in relation to the "Iliad" and the tradition of the epic cycle.

In Vergil's Empire, Eve Adler offers an exciting new interpretation of the political thought of Vergil's Aeneid. Adler argues that in this epic poem, Vergil presents the theoretical foundations of a new political order, one that resolves the conflict between scientific enlightenment and ancestral religion that permeated the ancient world.

What is freedom? In this study, Thomas Dumm challenges the conventions that have governed discussions and debates concerning modern freedom by bringing the work of Michel Foucault into dialogue with contemporary liberal thought.

Charles Taylor's work as an intellectual historian, epistemologist and normative political theorist has made him a leading figure in contemporary social philosophy. This book examines the problem of political fragmentation through an analysis of Taylor's thought and politics.

A biography of the man Thomas Jefferson once described as the helmsman of the American Revolution. In his study, historian John K. Alexander uses narrative history to argue that Samuel Adams was both America's first professional politician and its first modern politician.

Does human population growth threaten the environment, or does it guarantee we will safeguard it? Is economic growth the key ecological problem, or is it the solution? This text shows that these debates are governed by the political ideology of the expert advancing a particular argument.

Using data from in-depth interviews, this book brings to light the existence of Middle Easterners in America and shows the human complexity of their lives. This work gives special attention to how members of this ethnic group cope with, resist and combat discrimination.

The focus of this book is the moving stories of more than 20 women journalists who reported from New York, Washington and Pittsburgh during and following the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon.

This work tackles fundamental questions about personal, political and national identities and their linkage to processes of political and social change. It focuses on the role of stories, both as a means of creating personal identity and as explanations of political tensions and realities.

Examines immigration statutes and policies and the societal reactions to immigrants in seven industrialized nations.

This study examines the everyday politics of a rice farming village in central Luzon. Contending that the faction and patron-client relationships emphasized by conventional studies are but one part of Philippine political life, Kerkvliet offers a portrait of political relationships among villagers.

This work explores the Huk rebellion, a peasant revolt in the Philippines. Drawing on a wide array of documents and in-depth interviews with peasants and rebel leaders, the author provides definitive answers to the causes of the rebellion, the goals of the rebels and the process of resistance.

This ethnography focuses on the romantic experiences of women from adolescence to maturity in a rural village in North Bali. It delves into the intensity of passion that exists below the harmonious veneer of traditional patterns of courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity.

A cross-cultural study of opium in 19th-century China. It explores early Western observations of opium smoking, the formation of arguments for and against the legalization of opium, the portrayals of opium smoking in Chinese poetry and prose, and scenes of opium-smoking interactions in China.

This analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers or listeners of new media by policymakers, corporations, programmers and the disabled themselves.

An analysis of the significant narrative forms and discursive strategies used in representing transnational space in contemporary China. This includes looking at how stay-at-homes fantasize about faraway or unknown places, and how those in the diaspora remember experiences of familiar places.

Cvijeto Job witnessed his country's history as a committed partisan in World War II, a member of the Yugoslav Communist Party and a career ambassador. This book combines analysis and memoir to offer the perspective of an informed insider who lived through Yugoslavia's demise.

A look at the history of Western "civilization", and the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. David Nibert argues that throughout history the exploitation of other animals has gone hand-in-hand with the oppression of women, people of colour, and other oppressed groups.

Are the arts good for us? This work questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an instrumental American heritage of beliefs about the arts.