Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

A successfully managed project is a carefully planned and organized effort. A critical and essential skill for any art service manager is project management-the ability to organize resources--labor, budgets, materials-- and handle constraints so that a project's goals are successfully accomplished.

The conventional means of pursuing an arts career is evolving at a rapid pace, and a paradigm shift is required for artists to re-invent how they will shape their own careers. To do so, one must have the tools and a vision for what is possible. This book discusses how artists can adapt and find success in a changing economy.

Masculinity in the Making: Managing the Transition to Manhood supports all those who work to improve the lives of young men and the future that awaits them.

The book centers on the power of applied listening and the importance of meaning.

This book will help you push the boundaries of what it means to actively engage your pool of candidates as well as what it means to use hiring as a tool to develop your current team.

Learn to Lead, Lead to Learn, examines eight personal attributes that shape a leader's ability to be transformed by learning, as well as, eight complimentary organizational attributes that when integrated well enhance organizational learning, adaptation, and innovation.

This book brings readers into K-12 public school classrooms through case studies of four teachers.

Learn how to get results in math teaching and learning by working smarter not harder! A framework for math teaching that integrates the Common Core standards of mathematical practice as a natural part of teaching is provided. This researched based framework that address the process of teaching has been tested and refined by hundreds of teachers.

This is a thorough, understandable, and comprehensive guide to educational research.

The framework of this book is conceived to help teachers develop students' ability to evaluate, analyze, synthesize and interpret. The proposed activities seek to incite reflection and creativity in students, and can be used as a model for teachers in designing future lessons on other films.

This book is an interdisciplinary guide for middle grades (4th through 8th grade, though it can be adapted to lower and higher levels of learning), in social studies, language arts, mathematics and art production.

Marketing the Arts introduces students, young professionals, and even seasoned veterans to new and refined marketing approaches-by drawing on marketing theory as it is used by huge multi-nationals, exploring such theories in the context of creative ventures generally, and the fine and performing arts specifically.

The purpose of this book is to provide readers with an overview of basic group dynamics and techniques that are effective in Higher Education and Student Affairs settings.

Volume 2: Risk, Threats, and the New Normal explains the new political and technological developments that created new domestic national security threats against the nation and the people of the United States.

The book is intended to help new and veteran band directors develop an orchestra in their school.

This book provides teachers who have one or more gifted/accelerated or those who are "keenly interested" students in their class ways in which they can differentiate reading instruction that is equitable.

This book discusses the role the principal must play as an instructional leader in order to maximize the potential of the teachers and students on a campus.

This book offers readers innovative learning techniques that can easily be adapted in the home or classroom to facilitate the brain changing concept.

This book chronicles what an economic impact study is, is not, what the results mean, and why they are important.

This book is designed to help leaders better understand and effectively harness these forces in maximizing creative outcomes and overall success.

A comprehensive introduction to water ethics, this book explores the common thread between debates in the allocation of water resources, the human right to water and the commodification and privatisation of water services, and fills the gap for alternatives to the predominantly consequentialist approach to dealing with these issues.

This book provides a solid grounding in the scientific and political issues of climate change, which allows students to explore the important moral issues raised by climate change, and consider what our values are in climate policy.

With its conceptual innovations and case studies, Whistleblowers clarifies the much-discussed but under-studied phenomena of leaking and whistleblowing, with a particular focus on the collaborative networks that make the extraction and publication of secrets possible.

This book serves as a comprehensive guide for educators looking to make informed decisions and navigate digital spaces with their students. The author sets the stage for educators who may not be familiar with the digital world that their students live in, including the complexities of online identities, digital communities and social media.

This book offers a rich collection of voices from diverse settings and illustrates ways in which lectio divina as a contemplative practice can transform teaching and learning. Drawing on holistic education and embodied learning, lectio divina empowers teachers and roots students in their own meaning making.

This new edition includes key political developments over the last few years and continues to look at the diverse and hyperpluralistic nature of the state itself, particularly its people and the groups to which they belong.The authors continue to explain California politics through the dual lenses of diversity and hyperpluralism.

This book exhibits a collection of proposals for how school curriculum may be conceived, designed, and realized.

Leaders impact the workplace via organizational climate. This is primarily done through the relationships created, leader to employee. In Leadership Intelligence - Navigating through Confidence and Humility the authors make the case for creating this ultimate climate. Specific empirical evidence to this end is shared in this the second edition.

This book compares and discusses a range of responses to managing global issues. The three channels that global issues flow through (public sector responses, private sector responses, and mixed public-private sectors) are explored in detail for undergraduate students, with lessons learned from the responses presented to enhance theory and practice.