Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Comprehensive directory to the top rail-trails throughout Illinois. The top trails are given a full profile, with detailed descriptions of the trails and things to see and do along the way.

Across the Line recounts the experiences of the pioneering African-American basketball players at 18 schools in the Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences, the South's most prominent, historically white intercollegiate leagues.

Veteran sports writer Robert W. Cohen examines the careers of the 50 men who made the greatest impact on the Cleveland Browns, one of the National Football League's oldest and most iconic franchises.

Combining career stats, common sense, and a host of intangibles, veteran sportswriter Roger Gordon imagines an embarrassment of riches and sets the all-time All-Star Cleveland Browns lineup for the ages.

Climatenomics explains how climate change is no longer just an environmental or social issue; it's now an economic issue. Climatenomics is rattling the foundation of our economy at its very core, and this economic earthquake just might be the thing that saves our planet.

SS-168ΓÇöthe USS Nautilus--was the flagship of Submarine Division 12 operating out of Pearl Harbor throughout World War II. It was commissioned July 1, 1930, before international naval treaties limited future submarine size, and thus was among the largest submarines in the U.S. fleet. Over a football field in length and displacing 4,000 tons submerged, the boat was able to carry a large crew, ample cargo, two dozen torpedoes, cruiser-sized six-inch caliber guns, and cruise as far as 25,000 miles. She could dive to three hundred feet ΓÇô though her crew was known to take her deeper. Throughout 1942-45 the Nautilus engaged the enemy in fourteen different patrols, from the Battle of Midway to the liberation of the Philippines, earning fourteen battle stars. Her skipper, William H. Brockman, Jr., received not one but three Navy Crosses for heroism, the first for fighting through 42 depth charges at Midway. Nautilus did everything a submarine can do and was involved in most of the major actions of the Pacific theater. In Last Man Down, historical events documented in deck logs and patrol reports are told through the voices of the men who lived them.

Cold Spell is a collection of stories--warm, humorous, and at times cautionary--about living in Maine. Here are stories about the seasons, the critters, the neighbors, the land itself,

In 1950, facing artistic and legal persecution by Senator Joe McCarthy because of her listing on Louis Budenz¿s list of 400 concealed communists, single mother Hannah Weinstein fled to Europe. There, she built a television studio and established her own production company, Sapphire Films, then surreptitiously hired scores of such blacklisted writers as Waldo Salt, Ian McClellan, Adrian Scott, and Ring Lardner Jr., and ¿Trojan-horsed¿ more than three hundred half-hours of programming back to the United States, making a fortune in the process. Before she became one of the more powerful independent production forces in 1950s British television, Hannah Weinstein had a distinguished career as a journalist, publicist, and left-wing political activist. She worked for the New York Herald Tribune from 1927, then began a career in politics when she joined Fiorello H. La Guardiäs New York mayoral campaign in 1937. She also organized the press side of the presidential campaigns of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later (in 1948) of Henry Wallace where she established her own production company, Sapphire Films. With the exception of a French producer, no other woman on the continent was creating television content at this time, and Weinstein was the only one who was head of her own studio. Using declassified FBI and CIA files, interviews, and the personal papers of blacklisted writers and other sources, Red Sapphire will show that for the better part of a decade, Weinstein was a leader in the left¿s battle with the right to shape popular culture during the Cold War . . . a battle that she eventually won.

With a generous portion of wry Yankee wit, this new collection from Tim Cotton will leave you laughing, crying, or maybe both at once.

In this anthology, former Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair has collected the work of Maine poets that were featured in his popular column, "Take Heart." Featuring a poem each week, the columns ran in thirty newspapers across the state and reached more than a quarter of a million readers. These are poems about longing and pleasure and death and love, poems about natural world, poems that will inspire tears and laughter and help you carry on--poems from the heart, all penned by Maine writers, whose astonishing vision this book celebrates.

A completely new, full-color book from Tom Rosenbauer and the Orvis Company on how to find trout in all types of water.

Movies don¿t exist in a vacuum. Each MGM movie is a tiny piece of a large, colorful (although often black & white) quilt, with threads tying it into all of the rest of that studio¿s product, going forward, yes, but also backwards, and horizontally and three dimensionally across its entire landscape. Not necessarily a ¿best of¿ compilation, this book discusses the films that for one reason or another (and not all of them good ones) changed the trajectory of MGM and the film industry in general, from the revolutionary use of ¿Cineramä in 1962¿s How the West Was Won to Director Alfred Hitchcock¿s near extortion of the profits from the 1959 hit thriller North by Northwest. And there aere the studio¿s on-screen self-shoutouts to its own past, or stars, in films like Party Girl (1958), the That¿s Entertainment series, Garbo Talks (1984) Rain Man (1955) and De-Lovely (2004), or the studio¿s acquisition of other successful franchises such as James Bond. But fear not, what we consider MGM¿s classic films all get their due here, often with a touch of irony or fascinating anecdote. Singin in the Rain (1952), for example, was in its day neither a financial blockbuster nor crtitically acclaimed but rather an excuse the studio to reuse some old songs which the studio already owned. TheWizard of Oz (1939) cost almost as much to make as Gone With the Wind (also 1939) took ten years to recoup its costs. But still, the MGM mystique endures. Like the popular Netflix series ¿The Movies that Made Us,¿ this is a fascinating look behind the scenes of the greatest¿and at times notorious¿films ever made.

Abraham Lincoln had a lifelong fascination with science and technology, a fascination that would help institutionalize science, win the Civil War, and propel the nation into the modern age. Readers will learn through Lincoln: The Fire of Genius how science and technology gradually infiltrated Lincoln¿s remarkable life and influenced his growing desire to improve the condition of all men. The book traces this progression from a simple farm boy to a president who changed the world. Counter to conventional wisdom, subsistence farming provides a considerable education in agronomic science, forest ecology, hydrology, and even a little civil engineering. Continuing through a lifetime of self-study, curiosity, and hard work, Lincoln became the only President with a patent, advocated for technological advancement as a legislator in Illinois and in Washington, and became the ¿go-tö western lawyer on technology, and patent cases during his legal career. During the Civil War, Lincoln drew upon his commitment to science and personally encouraged inventors while taking dramatic steps to institutionalize science via the Smithsonian Institution, create the National Academy of Sciences, and initiate the Department of Agriculture. Lincoln¿s insistence on high-tech weaponry, balloon surveillance, strategic use of telegraphy, and railroad deployment positioned the North to achieve Union victory.

On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York. A Broadway regular by the 1920s, Dumont found lasting fame once she started appearing with the Marx Brothers. Tall and regal in bearing, her character provided the perfect foil to the wisecracking Groucho Marx in a series of films including A Night at theOpera and Duck Soup. Her character's seemingly obliviousness to insult led to the widespread belief, encouraged by Groucho himself, that Dumont was a humorless person who never got the joke. a belief she contradicted in a 1942 interview. "I'm not a stooge," she said. "I'm a straight lady. There's an art to playing straight. You must build up your man but never top him and never steal the laughs from him. Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, "The Fifth Marx Brother" d focuses on the Dumont and her role in the production of the comedy teams' most successful films. Several books have been written about the Marx Brothers as a comedy family and about their individual lives, but there haven't been any books written about Margaret Dumont. This book will appeal to motion picture enthusiasts, Marx Brothers' fans, and film historians.

The poems in A Fixed White Light enter the lives of six of these courageous and mostly forgotten women, giving readers the opportunity to experience their heroism as well as their trials in a time when they were often met with skepticism and discrimination.

Disaster at Mount Desert Ferry tells not only the complete story of the people and the events of the worst disaster in Maine history, but of a time and way of life long gone by and nearly forgotten.

The Epidemic tells the story of how a vain and reckless businessman became responsible for a typhoid epidemic in 1903 that devastated Cornell University and the surrounding town of Ithaca, New York. Eighty-two people died, including twenty-nine Cornell students. Protected by influential friends, William T. Morris faced no retribution for this outrage. His legacy was a corporation¿first known as Associated Gas & Electric Co. and later as General Public Utilities Corp.¿that bedeviled America for a century. The Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 was its most notorious historical event, but hardly its only offense against the public interest.The Ithaca epidemic came at a time when engineers knew how to prevent typhoid outbreaks but physicians could not yet cure the disease. Both professions were helpless when it came to stopping a corporate executive who placed profit over the public health. Government was a concerned but helpless bystander. In this emotionally gripping book, David DeKok, a former award-winning investigative reporter and the author of widely praised books on the mine fire that devastated Centralia, Pennsylvania, brings this tragedy home by taking us into the lives of many of those most deeply affected.For modern-day readers acutely aware of the risk of a devastating global pandemic and of the dangers of unrestrained corporate power, The Epidemic provides a riveting look back at a heretofore little-known, frightening episode in Americäs past that seems all too familiar.Written in the tradition of The Devil in the White City, it is an utterly compelling, thoroughly researched work of narrative history with an edge.

After reading this book more women will gain the confidence necessary to apply for executive positions and feel safe to openly discuss discrepancies when they occur.

This book moves beyond dry case studies to provide readers with a window into the ways principals seek to navigate challenging, unpredictable, and authentic school leadership dilemmas.

We present, in this book, a model and process called The Collective Mindset which embraces collaboration, communication, reflection, and future-thought.

This book looks at Wonder Woman's creation, mysterious identity, and deep roots in the feminist movement, as well as the cultural and psychological impact she has had on five generations of fans from the Baby Boomers through to today.

The Archaeology of Childhood traces the history of childhood studies in archaeology and makes a case for the importance of studying children in the past. The book summarizes current research and offers overarching ideas to help archaeologists study children using the archaeological record.

An infectious and inspirational tale of one man's love of business and of the outdoors, and how he combined the two to build the Orvis empire.

This book focuses on the intersections between Catholic schools and public education reforms.

The Trust Imperative provides school leaders with practical strategies to foster a culture of trust throughout the school, identifying examples that can transform the work of the school leader. Applying theory to practice, readers will renew or revise their thinking about their own leadership practices and create a trust-filled organization.

Administrators, teacher leaders, and those who support school reform with justice in mind will find both practical guidance and inspiration.

This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance.

A series of over 40 essays written by well-known leaders in the museum sector and related fields contribute to our understanding of the word "museum" in the United States and internationally. Members of the International Council of Museums provide overviews of topics

The vast array of options for online teaching can seem intimidating and endless. Take a look at the pros and cons of different options available for teaching online, tips and tricks for engaging various audiences and strategies for hybrid learning. Learn how the biggest rookie can become an online teaching professional.