Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Then, Now and Why Now, identifies many educational issues evident during the past six decades and which present some controversies for educators.

This is not another book about school reform. It's about how people can plan for it, afford it, deliver it; and be contributors in the building of great schools.

Outcry Response informs and educates our educators about trauma-informed tools to promote compassion and confidence in addressing their responsibilities as mandated reporters of sexual abuse.

Tinkering with Tales connects engaging STEM lessons with classic fairy tales. Each chapter refers to an easily accessible story and provides a structured 5E STEM lesson. Activities provide students with rich, hands-on experiences while utilizing affordable consumables and recyclable household items.

This book will inspire readers to create meaning in their organizations, increasing employee engagement and fulfillment.

This book uses both existing research and anecdotal classroom observations to examine the effects whiteness studies is having on America's schools.

Sea of Troubles shows teachers how literature and informational texts can work together to enhance each other and, by extension, enhance students' abilities to critically think and respond to the sea of troubles that pervades society.

In a sequence of vividly-detailed portraits, Maleka Donaldson reveals how veteran, public-school Kindergarten teachers respond to children's mistakes during day-to-day classroom instruction.

The book contains self-care strategies to practice and even ideas to implement with students.

This book helps teachers and other professionals working with students to reflect, improve, and implement inclusive practices.

This book includes cases and interviews with thought leaders who candidly share experiences and realizations about ensuring student success.

This text is not so much a formulaic "how to" text, but rather one that looks at the teaching profession as a way of thinking, as a way of being.

This book centers on developing curriculum to support students as they use young adult literature to generate action plans to solve community issues.

As a practical and empowering resource for congregational leaders, this comprehensive guide to Christian financial responsibility addresses church fundraising, stewardship campaigns, budgets, financing capital needs, endowments, and innovative approaches to economic sustainability.

Policing Black Bodies walks readers through critical issues facing African Americans in the criminal justice system-from police brutality to exoneration and re-entry. Synthesizing the latest research with their own data, Hattery and Smith review the history of policing African Americans, explore current issues, and offer recommendations for change.

This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the politics of the Bond books and films. Class, gender, violence, sex, race-all are themes that Black scrutinizes through ongoing shifts in characterization and plot. His informed analysis provides a fascinating history of the enduring and evolving appeal of James Bond.

Muslim American Hyphenations presents critical perspectives on the diverse compositions of hyphenated Muslim American identities in literary, artistic, and performative texts. Scholars analyze the intersections of faith and culture in the expressive modes used by Muslim Americans to contest the domains of secularity, nation, race, gender, and class.

Since its founding, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies.

This book aims to bring to life a picture of a bygone era, a time when 'the cane was king', simulating an age which the only film, theatre, literature and imagination can recreate. In this way, I wish to educate further the student, collector, historian and researcher in how the cane played such an important role in fashion.

What Do We Know about War? brings together leading scholars within international relations to review the current theory and research on peace and war-what is known, the quality of the evidence, and future research strategies.

The first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam.Filling a substantial void in our understanding of the history of airpower in Vietnam, this book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam. Brian Laslie traces the complete history of these air wars from the beginning of American involvement until final withdrawal. Detailing the competing roles and actions of the air elements of the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force, the author considers the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war. He also looks at the air war from the perspective of the North Vietnamese Air Force. Most important for understanding the US defeat, Laslie illustrates the perils of a nation building a one-dimensional fighting force capable of supporting only one type of war.

Celebrating Chicago's best restaurants and eateries with recipes and photograph, The New Chicago Chef's Table profiles signature "at home" recipes from over 50 legendary dining establishments. A keepsake cookbook for tourists and locals alike, the book is a celebration of Chicago's farm-to-table way of life.

A practical guide to facilitating philosophical conversations with groups (especially in schools) based on philosophical and pedagogical principles derived from the ancient Greek philosophers but supported my modern-day research and pedagogical practices.

This book is both a planning and action guide to assist institutions and their leaders to return to be the essential, responsive, and thriving change-agents that our society desperately needs them to be.

A practical guide to facilitating philosophical conversations with groups based on philosophical and pedagogical principles derived from the ancient Greek philosophers but supported my modern-day research and pedagogical practices.

An engaging introduction to the experiences of multi-ethnic believers and a path by which to increase engagement and service to these diverse communities, this book is an inspiring call to action for all church leaders to harness the power of the third culture faithful in their midsts.

Taking inspiration from the Spanish word for retirement-jubilacion- veteran minister Bruce Epperly challenges and empowers clergy to see retirement as a celebration of new possibilities and not an inexorable diminishment towards irrelevance