Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Hiking the Catskills provides everything hikers need to plan day hikes in the Catskill region of New York State: a five-county area west of the Hudson River that includes parts of Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Sullivan and Ulster counties. This guide selects 40 hikes from the best among the Catskills¿ famous peaks above 3,500 feet, as well as more moderate trails to backcountry waterfalls, easier trails to some of the areäs most spectacular viewpoints, and rail trails that provide access to fragrant woodlands and unusual geological wonders. This book provides a separate, full-color, detailed map for each hike¿making it different from books by the Appalachian and Adirondack Mountain Clubs¿and waypoint-by-waypoint directions to guide readers along trails with confidence. Color photos and descriptions of the history, natural wonders, and special features of each hike help readers choose the best hikes for their personal interests and skill levels. In a region largely abandoned by tourists and just now seeing renewed interest from visitors, Hiking the Catskills provides the guidance readers need to plan exciting trips into the mountains. This book leads them to the ridges, notches, and cloves that inspired a uniquely American landscape painting style, the vistas that drew thousands of vacationers here throughout the twentieth century, and the peaks that challenge the most rugged explorers. It¿s time to rediscover the Catskills, one of New York¿s most fascinating natural areas.

The starting point for eliminating the virus of white supremacy ideology from our culture must be in our educational system. This book is intended as a vaccine to help eliminate the damage and to prevent future generations from being infected.

This book offers theoretical and practical applications for teacher educators, preservice teachers and in-service teachers in culturally responsive pedagogy.

With relevant anecdotes and a fresh perspective, this book provides leaders a path to getting the best out of their leadership team.

This book is an excellent resource for aspiring leaders looking for promotion in the workplace.

Leadership through Mentoring shows how effectiveness, vision, and engagement can be grown through intentional, supportive guidance and wise counsel, leading to longer and more successful principal tenures and significant improvements in school performance.

This book provides a careful and compassionate analysis of the relationship between a young adult reader and a literary text from both psychological and sociological perspectives.

This book is a comprehensive yet concise text designed to promote the growth of early career educators.

This book surveys United States case law on the topics of free speech, academic freedom, the right to protest, and similar subjects so as to provide faculty members and administrators with a concise resource filled with practical and accurate information.

This book provides an in-depth discussion of the aspects of a whole-child learner paradigm including how educator and school-based influences interrelate with personal and interpersonal demonstrations of learning to create a holistic learning system

This book reminds new teachers of the idealistic and hopeful reasons they entered the profession and arms them with the practical skills and ideals to succeed.

From educational philosophy to classroom practices, this book exposes and analyzes tactical intersections between secular humanism and religious self-worship.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Know-It-All Version uses playful commentary interlaced with the lines of Shakespeare's original text to actively guide and support you as you read this play. It's a lively, engaging, often funny, and thoroughly enlightening way to read Shakespeare. Finally-you don't have to be an expert to know it all.

A Guide to Closing a Museum answers your questions about closing a museum. Even if you are just considering your options during difficult times and planning for your future, this book takes you through all the legal, ethical, and operational questions to start thinking about.

As most institutions contemplate an enterprise digital content strategy for a growing number of digitized surrogates and born-digital assets, libraries, archives, and museums understand that these expanding needs can only be met by more flexible approaches offered by a multicomponent digital asset management ecosystem (DAME).

This book explains how to teach social studies through themes of primary sources, music, food, visual media, community, literature, environment, and experiential learning.

Communication skills are a key to success in most areas of life, and they do not get nearly enough attention. Most people would benefit from sharpening these skills in some way, and The 200 Communication Commandments can help improve an individual's ability to communicate in both personal and professional settings.

The book is intended to serve as a valuable resource/strategy for assessing and evaluating learning during the pandemic but will continue to be of primary help to students and teachers after the pandemic reaches its end.

This book offers teachers productive approaches to treating textual interpretation not as an effort to reach a single right view or answer, but rather as a collaborative activity involving lively discussion of texts drawn from a variety of media.

Thinking with Maps takes readers on a journey through both traditional and modern mapping in order to learn how to conceive of mapping as fundamental to cognition and, thus, to what it means to be human. Each chapter considers an aspect of how we use maps. Examples from around the world show how learning can be made more relevant.

Regardless of age and experience, young adults must be mindful of their digital presence in the expanding digital world. This book provides a guide for librarians, educators, counselors, and administrators to guide secondary and higher education students in successfully practicing responsible citizenship and civics in the digital world.

Archives 101 is a guidebook for people who care for historical records, photographs, and collections but do not have the appropriate professional training. Lois Hamill provides practical, step-by-step guidance for managing all facets of archival collections, from acquisition, arrangement, and description to storage and security.

Through an exploration of both practice and theory, this book investigates the relationship between listening and the theatrical encounter in the context of Western theatre and performance.

Presents regulations governing banking procedures and activities of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Export-Import Bank, Office of Thrift Supervision, Farm Credit Administration, and the National Credit Union Administration.

This is a research-based perspective on the joys, opportunities, and challenges of being single in vocational ministry and what helps single ministry staff members thrive in their service.

Discover the best-kept secrets of expert campers, which are divulged in this book by Cliff Jacobson, a seasoned veteran of the sport. Once you learn the secrets of the experts, you can share these insider tips with your camping buddies. Dazzle your kids or scouts with the wealth of shortcuts disclosed in this surreptitious guide to comfort and security in the bush.

This book provides the theoretical and practical strategies necessary for a school leader to confront many crises that inevitably occur.

This book offers a thorough and engaging introduction to Universal Design and concrete examples of how these principles can be applied at libraries of all sizes, types, and budgets.