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View book details for Curriculum at Your Core
Meaningful Teaching in the Age of Standards
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Curriculum at Your Core is a practical guide to designing curriculum that meets standards, serves personal and institutional values, and intentionally leads to successful student learning. Identifying which understandings, knowledge, and skills are most important for students to learn is …
View book details for Genocide and the Geographical Imagination
Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and Chinas Great Leap Forward famine under Mao. James A. Tyner's powerful analysis of …
View book details for Healthy Disclosure
Solving Communication Quandaries in Congregations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Knowledge is power, and the way knowledge is shared in a congregation can build up or break down community. When congregational leaders are sensitive to the ways that information should be shared, the congregation can become safe and strong. Unfortunately, …
View book details for Democracy and Leadership
On Pragmatism and Virtue
Lexington Books
Democracy and Leadership: On Pragmatism and Virtue presents a theory of leadership drawing on insights from Platos Republic, while abandoning his authoritarianism in favor of John Deweys democratic thought. The book continues the democratic turn for the study of leadership …
View book details for Africa in Europe
Interdependencies, Relocations, and Globalization
Lexington Books
Africa in Europe, in two volumes, meticulously documents Europe's African presence from antiquity to the present. It incorporates findings from areas of study as diverse as physical anthropology, linguistics, social history, social theory, international relations, migrational studies, and globalization. In …
View book details for Unique Challenges in Urban Schools
The Involvement of African American Parents
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This study explores the various ways in which parental involvement can help to increase student academic success. More specifically, this analysis is based on the notions that: 1) parent involvement in inner city schools present unique challenges that are different …
View book details for Opening the Field of Practical Theology
An Introduction
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Opening the Field of Practical Theology introduces students to practical theology through an examination of fifteen different approachesranging from feminist to liberationist, Roman Catholic to evangelical, Asian American to Latino/a. After an introduction to the field of practical theology and …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
For fans of professional football who thought they had read everything about the history of the game, Mark L. Ford breaks new ground with this account of the NFL preseason. Described as test labs by Ford, the preseason games are …
View book details for Perspectives on Western Sahara
Myths, Nationalisms, and Geopolitics
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The ongoing conflict in Western Sahara is one of the more intractable legacies of European colonization in North Africa. Following the withdrawal of Spain, this territorial dispute escalated in 1975 into a war of independence between the Sahrawi people of …
View book details for The 2012 Presidential Election
Forecasts, Outcomes, and Consequences
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Though many analyses of the 2012 presidential election have emerged, none can match this collection's depth, diversity, or ability to critically and soundly argue where American politics will go from this point forward. This volume includes some of the most …
View book details for Warren Zevon
Desperado of Los Angeles
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Warren Zevon was one of the most original songwriters to emerge from the prolific 1970s Los Angeles music scene. Beyond his most familiar songthe rollicking 1978 hit Werewolves of LondonZevons smart, often satirical songbook is rich with cinematic, literary, and …
Lexington Books
In this timely, informative edited volume, major Iranian scholars and civic actors address some of the most pressing questions about Iranian civil society and the process of democratization in Iran. They describe the role of Iranian civil society in the …
View book details for Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives
History and Prospects
Lexington Books
The growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Asia-Pacific region greatly surpasses the world average. When the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is better realized, then the worlds largest free trade zone will be firmly established. It seems that …
View book details for Mass Moralizing
Marketing and Moral Storytelling
Lexington Books
Mass Moralizing: Marketing and Moral Storytelling examines the narratives of todays brand marketing, which largely focuses on creating an emotional attachment to a brand rather than directly promoting a products qualities or features. Phil Hopkins explores these narratives influence on …
View book details for Museum Branding
How to Create and Maintain Image, Loyalty, and Support
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In today's busy world, museums compete for visitors not only with other museums, but also with a worthy selection of cultural institutions from performing arts to libraries. Add to these magnets a slew of enticing leisure activities, from theme parks …
Lexington Books
Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics …
View book details for Nations in Transit 2013
Democratization from Central Europe to Eurasia
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Since 1995, Freedom Houses Nations in Transit series has monitored the status of democratic change from Central Europe to Eurasia, pinpointing the regions greatest reform opportunities and challenges for the benefit of policymakers, researchers, journalists, and democracy advocates alike. Covering …
Lexington Books
The 1973 Yom Kippur War did not only have external implications on Israel, but also some dramatic internal implications, particularly with regards to the civil-military relations as well as the fields of psychology and political sociology. To this day, the …
View book details for From Bakunin to Lacan
Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power
Lexington Books
In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the most pressing political problem we face today is the proliferation and intensification of power. Saul Newman targets the tendency of radical political theories and movements …
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The Uses of Indianness in the 21st Century
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in popular culture, the news media, and political debate and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and …
View book details for Education and Technology
Critical Perspectives, Possible Futures
Lexington Books
There are numerous publications about education and technology. What is missing is a balanced appraisal of the values and cognitive skills technology promotes and those it devalues. This is important for education because the way we teach influences how children …
Lexington Books
The term Anthropocene, the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Communication Law in America is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow overview of the complicated ways in which U.S. law determines who may say what to (and about) whom. It covers the usual content libel, invasion of privacy, copyright and trademark, access to …
View book details for Political Poetry as Discourse
Rereading John Greenleaf Whittier, Ebenezer Elliott, and Hiphopology
Lexington Books
Political Poetry as Discourse examines the works of the political poets John Greenleaf Whittier and Ebenezer Elliott, drawing comparisons to contemporary hip hoppers who take their words from local newspapers and other discursive sources that they read, hear, and observe. …
View book details for Pierre Bourdieu
The Last Musketeer of the French Revolution
Lexington Books
Pierre Bourdieu: The Last Musketeer of the French Revolution argues that Bourdieu appointed himself as the representative of the French people and acted as its National Assembly. In that capacity, he set himself to work with the charter of the …
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