Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Augustine's Apocalyptic Political Theology in the Evil Saeculum explores Augustine's political theology, emphasizing his apocalyptic vigilance against the demons of Rome who corrupted the social and political lives of Roman citizens.

This completely updated edition of Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States provides an extended look at the crimes covered and reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Vital Statistics of the United States: Births, Life Expectancy, Deaths, and Selected Health Data brings together a comprehensive collection of birth, mortality, health, and marriage and divorce data into a single volume. It provides a wealth of information compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics and other government agencies.

Since 1957, Chase's Calendar of Events lists everything worth knowing and celebrating for each day of the year: 12,500 holidays, national days, historical milestones, famous birthdays, festivals, sporting events and more. "One of the most impressive reference volumes in the world." -- Publishers Weekly

J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epics are imbued with a deep sense of the spiritual from which readers discern aspects of his beliefs about God, life, good, and evil. In this book, an international group of scholars explore and build on numerous theological ideas that percolate through Tolkien's works.

One with the Force provides an intimate portrait of 18 universal truths in Star Wars-principles that are true for all time, all places, and all people, based on religious and spiritual practices such as Christianity and Buddhism and various philosophies that manifest even in a galaxy far, far away.

Designed as a manual, Lang's Guide will help mediators incorporate the values and habits of reflective practice into their professional work in order to become resilient, resourceful and competent practitioners. The book presents practical, easy-to-understand descriptions of practitioner thinking and the application of theory and core beliefs.

This book provides a thorough exploration of a topic that is a cornerstone of the library profession: access. It looks closely at access in academic library special collections settings through the lens of what practitioners have to say via interviews and the literature.

VOLTAIRE: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO HIS LIFE AND WORKS offers an introduction to this unique 18th-century French author. The multifaceted Voltaire was a thinker, a rebel, a writer, an exile, and a campaigner who became a transnational celebrity in his day.

Information and Consciousness: An Exploration connects information and consciousness in ways that will open up potential inquiry into what information is, how it works, and its relationship to human consciousness.

A childhood book is much more than just a story--for the presidents, it may represent a turn in the course of history. What the Presidents Read catalogs presidents' early reading accompanied by commentary from eye-witness reporters, historians, journalists, curators, biographers, literary scholars, U.S. presidents and White House families.

The Economic Report of the President provides valuable information about the present state of the U.S. economy and its future course. For more than 70 years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how administrations have interpreted economic developments, motivated policies, and the results of those interventions.

The Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for 2025, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the year.

Agricultural Statistics is published each year to meet the diverse need for a reliable reference book on agricultural production. It covers an extensive list of issues related to agriculture including livestock, farm values, crop production, and foreign trade.

The United States Government Internet Directory serves as a guide to the changing landscape of government information online. The Directory is an indispensable guidebook for anyone who is looking for official U.S. government resources on the Web.

The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data continues the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor Statistics. This edition includes several new tables throughout the book examining the extensive role that COVID-19 has changed the laborforce since 2020.

Using many key philosophical concepts based on the work of Alain Badiou, this book outlines the relationship between an event and the emergence of a "truth", which serves as a helpful organizing principle from which to study the origins of Christianity.

Evolutionary History in Theological Perspective: Exploring the Scientific Story of the Cosmos argues, with a new theological interpretive lens, that Christian theological interpretations make more compelling sense of evolutionary history than naturalistic or spiritual ones.

A unique handbook for collegiate faculty, instructors, administrators, and graduate students in education to help professional and technical students discover meaning, purpose, and vocation through their scholarship. College students are looking for more than instrumental career knowledge and skills, they are looking for something to care about and build their lives around: a vocation. The book provides recommendations to enhance and amplify collegiate professional and technical instruction and curricula to support student discernment of vocation. Teaching to Inspire Vocation begins by making a case for teaching for vocation and provides a historical perspective on vocation in Western education. However, the core of the book focuses on the specific elements for an instructional framework on teaching for vocation.

Spiritually Transformative Psychotherapy offers fresh insights into counseling people with diverse spiritual and religious philosophies. Grounded in theory and research, this text focuses on building contemplative methods like meditation into practice and provides valuable applications to help clients work toward forgiveness, resolving spiritual conflicts between partners, and ultimately achieving spiritual and emotional wellbeing.

The first comprehensive and practical all-in-one curriculum resource to integrate social-emotional learning, citizenship, children's cognitive development, and science education standards into nature-based learning for future and current PK-5 teachers.