Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Combining career stats, common sense, and a host of intangibles, veteran sportswriter Chris Tomasson imagines an embarrassment of riches and sets the all-time All-Star Minnesota Vikings lineup for the ages.

Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike? Best Hikes Las Vegas details the very best trail adventures within an hour's drive of the greater Las Vegas area. Each featured hike includes detailed hike specs, a brief hike description, trailhead location, directional cues, and a detailed map.

Bad Guys in American History recounts the events related to our country's most compelling outlaws, from colonial times to the 1930s. Complete with photographs of the outlaws and their haunts, this book investigates some of American history's most infamous acts and informs readers where they happened and how to visit those sites today. Both a history book and a travel guide, Bad Guys in American History shines a revealing light on the dark side of America's past.

This pioneering volume, for the first time, explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and his relationship to philosophy.

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book combines philosophy, hybrid theory, and architectural theory with case studies, explicitly linking the traditions together to investigate the eco-aesthetics of the urban environment.

This text explores critical perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and environmentalism to deepen our understanding of genocide and genocidal violence.

This book introduces selected key learning theories or models that widen and deepen ministry students' engagement and supervisor-mentors' mentoring. Its target audience, accordingly, is both students and supervisor-mentors.

Deliberative Democracy in the EU: Promoting Participation to Impede Populism examines practices for increasing effective participation in democracy today.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Trump's foreign policy, including detailed case studies of policy toward key countries. Mel Gurtov makes a vigorous argument, centered on human-interest priorities, for rejecting a foreign policy that turns its back on the major issues of our times.

This book reveals the power of critical thinking to make sense of overwhelming and often subjective media by detecting ideology, slant, and spin at work. Building off the Paul and Elder framework for critical thinking, Elder focuses on the internal logic of the news as well as societal influences on the media.

This workbook contains a series of professional exercises for students who want to use their training in anthropology to develop a career in anthropology and other fields.

Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology is a core text for criminology and criminal justice research methods courses. It strives to offer a general foundation of knowledge that transcends particular topics or subject areas, allowing students to apply research methods and concepts to a multitude of scenarios.

This powerful and empowering text offers a way forward for alleviating human suffering, presenting a realistic roadmap for practical solutions to mass poverty. Arguing for a "global new deal," the authors provide a viable direction for structural reform to protect those left behind by the world economy.

Using a hypothetical language game as a premise and working through the theory of decryption of power, the book decrypts the pillars of the philosophy of being, mainly Heideggers construction of the "ready to hand," proposing a novel theory of being as difference that is impregnated in politics.

Presents a collection of tales from everyday people who have faced terrible odds, accidents, extreme weather, wild animals, or severe injury - each describing how they made the right decisions, or had the luck, to survive.

A collection of over 700 projects with illustrations which show readers how to build a porch, make a telescope, fix a camera, dig a swimming pool and more.

A collection of stories, from both the author and other owners of rescued and adopted dogs that show how man's best friend can provide love and friendship during the best and the worst of times.

Revolutionary techniques for dog training that work!

Thorough research and expert guidance on natural dog and puppy care and training, from the cutting-edge monthly magazine.

Notable female gamblers are few in number, but their legacy left an indelible mark on the history of the Old West. The Lady Was a Gambler is a tribute to those women and how they played the game.

This guide takes readers well beyond the basic skills of map and compass, moving readers to a level of complete understanding of navigation in the outdoors--regardless of terrain or time of day, whether traveling over rock or ice, through desert or jungle, on a river or at sea.

Each cruising boat is a unique blend of equipment, gear and methods assembled for the safety and comfort of the crew. This book offers a collection of small refinements and improvements that owners of production boats can make to ease living aboard and for more efficient operation at sea.

The highly acclaimed reference on equine medical treatment and preventive care.

Hilarious and practical information about the art of backpacking from two NOLS instructors.

Spielberg, Brin, Dell, Seinfeld-phenomenally successful . . . and Jewish. Why have Jews risen to the top of the business and professional world in numbers staggeringly out of proportion to their percentage of the American population? Steven Silbiger has the answer. Based on the author''s synthesis of wide reading and research, The Jewish Phenomenon sets forth seven principles that form the bedrock of Jewish financial success. With startling statistics, a wealth of anecdotes, and the fascinating details behind some of America''s biggest business success stories, Silbiger convincingly shows how these seven keys have helped the Jews historically and how they continue to ensure Jewish success today. More important, the author makes clear that these principles are equally at the disposal of Jews and non-Jews alike. The amazing success of the Jews simply proves that they work. The Jewish Phenomenon pays tribute not merely to the success of a people but to the commonsense wisdom and enduring values that can enrich us all.

A handy guidebook that includes eighty ornamental and useful knots with easy-to-follow; with step-by-step illustrations.

An eloquent, wise, and witty account of how one man's six-month, end-to-end hike of the Appalachian Trail led him back home.

From planning and survival tips to youth hostels, restaurants, camping, language, and renting homes, this guide makes it possible to take the kids to Europe safely and, perhaps more importantly, sanely.

Overwhelmed presents a step-by-step approach to turning overwhelming transitions into challenging experiences. By systemically sizing up transitions and one's resources for dealing with them, people can learn how to build on their strengths, cut their losses, and even grow in the process.