Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Combining knowledge from mindfulness and neurobiology with practical clinical experience, this book offers mindfulness exercises that everyone enjoys, no matter how difficult it is for them to focus.

The Enterprising Musician's Legal Toolkit takes musicians from business ideation through actual development and ultimately protection of content and the brand with annotated contracts and other legal content. It expands upon the author's previous book, The Enterprising Musician's Guide to Performer Contracts.

FORWARD FAST examines the extraordinary changes that have taken place inside the classroom as a result of an explosion of personal and instructional technology. It also explores ways for educators and parents to create inspirational and meaningful learning opportunities for their children in this exciting new world.

The book describes theoretical models of the mind, and how they apply to the two cases, exploring how to make diagnostic distinctions early enough to plan treatment more coherently, and to avoid unexpected negative reactions. It facilitates discussion between theoretical "camps" and offers ways of deepening the clinical understanding of patients.

This book suggests that traditional teacher education programs must deeply reflect on solidifying the place, power, and necessity of its purpose.

Library Technology Planning for Today and Tomorrow is a practical LITA guide that helps librarians achieve success in selecting, implementing and managing new technologies. This step-by-step manual walks readers through each step of creating and carrying out a plan that is customized to meet the needs of their community.

Leading from the Trenches assists principals in building their own capacity to become true instructional leaders in their school. Filled with advice and insights, it will transform a principal from school manager to instructional leader. Principals will also learn how to focus on being a leader while building the leadership capacity of everyone.

This book sets the record straight about the greater influence of Dilthey than Husserl in Heidegger's initial formulation of his conception of phenomenology.

This book will discuss what we have collectively done well, what we have done poorly, what we have yet to try and how we get to the point where terrorism does not dominate public discourse and cause disproportionate fear around the world.

The goal of this book is to supplement and enrich your existing tools with others you can quickly implement when working with these students during their most challenging states.

This deeply informed book provides the only sustained political history of independent Kyrgyzstan, explaining events in the context of its society and the broader international order. Eugene Huskey draws on his unique access to political figures to carefully weave the changes in Kyrgyzstan into his own firsthand account of life in the country.

This book provides readers with interpretation guides and practical ideas for making use of Asian international children's literature in the classroom. Part I discusses how to authentically read children's literature from India, Thailand, China and Japan. Part II consists of annotated bibliographies of international children's literature from Asia.

In addition to high quality instructional strategies and evidence-based practices, this book looks at technology efforts, professional development initiatives, innovative instructional strategies, home-school partnerships, collaboration, administrative practices, and teacher leadership roles that all enhance teacher performance and engagement.

Stronger Writing Skills for Teens offers middle and high school teachers strategies, techniques, and materials for teaching adolescent writing. It focuses on quality writing instruction and presents the modes of writing as defined by Common Core State Standards, with strategies, tips, and suggestions for teaching each mode.

The purpose of this book is to equip online educators with tools, techniques, and tips to conduct a successful online learning experience, encompassing preparation, design, and facilitation of effective outcomes that benefit learners and educators. It is structured to guide and support the online educator from design and development to delivery.

How do we as educators allow students to creatively express themselves, support them academically, and prepare them for a professional world built on written and verbal communication? This text will alleviate the concerns of those who are worried about the disintegration of the English language and help them find strategies to support learners.

This book is written for senior faculty and administrators at resource-strapped institutions who are not trained in Higher Education Administration who are concerned with mentoring. It is written in accessible, nontechnical language but references the more scholarly and statistically based journals and books for those who wish to dig deeper.

Teaching with Compassion offers practical tools and strategies designed to help educators foster a culture of care and compassion. It draws on real life examples and exercises to demonstrate the power and potential of teaching from the heart. Written for both experienced and novice educators alike, this book is sure to provide ongoing inspiration.

The book provides relevant theoretical and empirical research findings to address the challenges teachers face when interpreting and teaching with international children's literature from Asia. Strategies are provided relating to how teachers can be more culturally conscious of their own biases and develop culturally appropriate interpretations.

Using gender as its analytic lens, this deeply knowledgeable text illuminates the places where the Big History of China's past two centuries intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people. Based on formidable scholarship, Gail Hershatter's beautifully written book will be essential reading for all students of China's modern history.

James W. Messerschmidt's Masculinities and Crime quickly became a classic text for social scientists examining the relationship between masculinities and crime. The book is completely revised and unique in its focus on Messerschmidt's most important research and theorizing accomplished over the last twenty-five years.

This book uses international relations theory to offer different explanations for the politics of global health governance.

This books helps teachers and principals engage more in the policy and funding side of educational politics.

Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom offers practical techniques and research-based suggestions where all students, regardless of their abilities, are actively engaged in a vigorous, scaffolded, differentiated classroom taught by a compassionate, equitable teacher.

Combating Hatred provides several practical case studies of teachers, administrators, and school board members who have successfully combated intolerance, prejudice, and hatred in their schools.

This CHOICE award winning author has teamed up with a national school human resource expert to write a comprehensive book on managing human resources and collective bargaining. Everything you need to know is covered: human resources, recruiting, strategic planning, mentoring, benefits and compensation, terminating employees, unions and more.

This book explores the perspectives of IEP meeting participants who work with students who are CLD. Interviews with teachers; a disability rights attorney; a transition services specialist; a guidance counselor, and others examine the crucial areas of cross-cultural interactions. Their experiences yield practical suggestions for improvement.

This book offers a framework called "Open Way Learning," that applies the open source way, which emerged from software developers, to educational systems. It emphasizes the need for more collaboration and freely exchanged ideas then outlines steps leaders can take to make their schools more responsive in a rapidly changing society.