Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Beginning with a discussion of how the Internet and digital technologies may be affecting people's attention spans, working memories, and capacities for deep thought and reading at a level that becomes addictive, the book then moves to discussions which concern how this development might impede the search for a larger, metaphysical intelligence.

Steps to Success: What Successful Principals Do Every Day is purposefully written for practicing and aspiring public and private school administrators who desire - on a daily basis - to gain relevant skills, specialized knowledge, and overall expertise associated with being a successful school principal.

This book addresses three broad topics: the structure of a response-to-intervention framework, the fundamental premises and components of the framework, and practical considerations pertaining to its implementation.

Philosophical Inquiry introduces teachers to a philosophical approach to collaborative inquiry-based teaching and learning.

The World Cup as World History uses football's premier event to analyze modern sports and world history. Bowman traces the history of a tournament that has become a global phenomenon that generates intense political, economic, and cultural interest and profound discussions about racial, ethnic, and gender identity in the contemporary era.

This teaching manual supplies lessons designed for elementary students (grades 1 - 5) that establish a foundation for skill-building in recognizing, deconstructing, evaluating, and choosing for themselves whether to accept a tangible product or intangible message. Students will learn to become active, rather than passive, receivers of messaging.

This gives Montessori teachers the knowledge, skills, and confidence to get their children independently reading, writing, playing, researching, and composing music.

Conservation organizations capture people's hearts and minds to encourage them to care about and act for the future of the global environment. This guide provides practical information for how, with limited resources, conservation staff can gather data that improves the effectiveness of their programs and activities.

The first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842, this book challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China. Written in clear, lively prose, it will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history and early modern China.

This is first new urban politics text in several decades. The book uses the most recent research and other sources to explore how political institutions, participation and representation, and policy making have affected - and will continue to influence - the development, condition, and governance of urban America.

This book carefully engages philosophical arguments for and against open borders, bringing together major approaches to open borders across disciplines and establishing the feasibility of open borders against the charge of utopianism.

In this book, Barrett and Greene will present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way-and how to avoid them.

Digital Humanities For Librarians is a one-stop resource for librarians and LIS students working in this growing area of academic librarianship. The broad overview is followed by a series of intensely practical chapters answering questions with step-by-step approaches to both the digital and the human elements of Digital Humanities librarianship.

This book is about what teachers need to know before they teach history to students of color.

This book proposes a new way of categorizing curricula in the holistic educational traditional.

This book guides K-12 instructors to apply the Rigor Cube, a three-dimensional scheme involving Depth of Knowledge and Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, to plan and deliver standards-based lessons.

Join Dr. Esposito, the principal of a school with a reputation for eating administrators alive, on her journey to becoming a great educational leader and influencer. Dr. Esposito uses foundational leadership books to create a leadership philosophy centered around servant leadership to students while creating 360-degree leaders within the school.

This tackles the fallacies of marking and grading students' work and provides teachers with specific examples of how they might provide evaluative feedback to students that enables and promotes their subsequent growth on learning tasks.

Across Black Spaces gathers a diverse array of essays and interviews by American philosopher George Yancy. Within this multidisciplinary framework are a series of public intellectual essays that drew international media acclaim for their spotlight on vicious racial tensions in American academia and society at large.

Through case studies and examples of past and present development of energy sources, the story is told of the global energy industry. Energy, Economics, and Ethics wrestles with many of the difficult questions at the heart of the emerging global energy transition.

Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture-now in its sixth edition-draws on both academic and applied perspectives to offer a lively critique of contemporary advertising and its effects on American society.

Essential Fly Fishing is a full-color handbook presenting the fundamentals of this great sport quickly and effectively. It's filled with proven techniques aimed at the beginning fly fisher.

A scintillating new collection from one of America's premier travel writers, comprising more than twenty essays by former fishing guide and best-selling novelist Randy Wayne White.

The scope of this book is limited to the critical aspects of an effective documentation system.

This book helps the reader find that correct balance of authority across the governance groups by empowering all groups within a common framework and understanding.

This book works to inspire teachers to stay in the profession.

Confronting Today's Issues is devoted to innovative but still practical, field-tested advice that current and prospective educational leaders.

This book will give an overview of the essential characteristics of effective professional learning.

This book explores the role educators must play in helping define and pursue an ambitious set of goals for our students.

This is written for K-12 educational leaders to help them develop and use their entrepreneurial skills to cultivate partnerships with businesses, community organizations etc.