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View book details for Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain
The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 19451989
Lexington Books
The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a global Cold War are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and …
View book details for Recovering Christian Realism
Just War Theory as a Political Ethic
Lexington Books
In Recovering Christian Realism, H. David Baer interprets just war theory as political ethic concerned with the moral administration of power. He argues that contemporary just war theorists, by debating the finer points of individual criteria, have lost sight of …
View book details for Ethnic China
Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
Lexington Books
There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks self-immolations, Muslims suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as …
View book details for Common Core State Standards for Grade 6
Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Common Core State Standards for Grade 6: Language Arts Instructional Strategies and Activities is designed to help teachers address Common Core standards using research-based, effective instructional strategies in combination with ready-to-use activities. These strategies include identifying similarities and differences, writing …
View book details for Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette
Charleston, South Carolina, 17871797
Lexington Books
Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charlestons daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority. …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In todays hypercompetitive world, contact sports bring about fierce rivalries between fans, between players, and even between countries. From the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines in grid iron football, to the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All …
View book details for Vaudeville on the Diamond
Minor League Baseball in Todays Entertainment World
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Over the last couple of decades, minor league baseball games have shown substantial attendance figures, with more than forty-one million spectators in both 2010 and 2011. With all the high-tech, live-streaming, fast-paced entertainment available to consumers, what is it about …
View book details for Concubines in Court
Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This groundbreaking book analyzes marriage and family reform in twentieth-century China. Lisa Trans examination of changes in the perception of concubinage explores the subtle, yet very meaningful, shifts in the construction of monogamy in contemporary China. Equally important is her …
View book details for Writing against the Curriculum
Anti-Disciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom
Lexington Books
Writing against the Curriculum responds to the growing popularity of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs in universities and colleges across the United States. Many of these schools employ both an "Introduction to Writing" …
View book details for Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics
Lexington Books
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices …
View book details for Impact
How Assistant Principals Can Be High Performing Leaders
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Far too little attention has been paid to the role that assistant principals have in the development of high performing schools. Impact provides specific, practical, and replicable leadership strategies for todays assistant principal. Impact describes how to build meaningful principal/assistant …
View book details for Destiny's Consul
America's Greatest Presidents
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
What makes a great president? Certainly leadership, accomplishments, crisis management, political skill, character, and integrity are part of the equation, but the great presidents have something more. They not only govern well, but are part of something lasting; their presidencies …
View book details for Science Wars through the Stargate
Explorations of Science and Society in Stargate SG-1
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The story of an elite team of scientists and soldiers who travel to other worlds through an alien-built portal, Stargate SG-1 gave its viewers a weekly dose of spectacle and high adventure. Over its ten-season run (1997-2007), the series explored …
View book details for Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education
An International Perspective
Lexington Books
This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain …
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Classroom Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Let Them Write Series is a classroom-tested, teacher-friendly resource for Language Arts teachers of grades 4 through 8. The program is organized in nine sections, each presenting a buffet of from five to nine 1- or 2-week modules. Each …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
As more information is collected, shared, and mined, the need to understand and manage information privacy has become a necessity for information professionals. Governments across the globe have enacted information privacy laws. These laws continue to evolve and the information …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain was the dominant world power, its strength based in large part on its command of an Empire that, in the years immediately after World War I, encompassed almost one-quarter of …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Holocaust has been the focus of countless films in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and its treatment over the years has been the subject of considerable controversy. When finally permitted to portray the atrocities, filmmakers struggled with …
View book details for Leading School Change
Maximizing Resources for School Improvement
R&L Education
This CHOICE award winning author has teamed up with two national school change experts to write a comprehensive book on school change management. Everything you need to know on initiating and managing school change are covered: planning change, conditions for …
View book details for Suddenly Single After 50
The Girlfriends' Guide to Navigating Loss, Restoring Hope, and Rebuilding Your Life
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
A stressful, protracted divorce. A difficult, painful death of a beloved husband. And suddenly, after age 50, youre on your own again. Your children have moved out, your parents are aging fast or deceased, your friends lives continue onward, seemingly …
View book details for Jan Hus between Time and Eternity
Reconsidering a Medieval Heretic
Lexington Books
This study is a reconsideration of Jan Hus, a late medieval Bohemian priest who was burned at the stake six hundred years ago. His death sparked a social revolution. This book considers his role as a priest and reformer in …
View book details for Essentials of Money, Banking and Financial Institutions
With Applications to the Developing World
Lexington Books
The study of money, banking and financial markets is a required or very popular elective in most undergraduate and graduate programs in economics and finance in Africa. However, the textbooks used are those written primarily for the developed world such …
View book details for Finding Fogerty
Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival
Lexington Books
Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, edited by Thomas M. Kitts, begins to correct the scholarly neglect of John Fogerty, one of Americas great songwriters, one of the rock eras great vocalists, and one of …
View book details for Chicago
A Food Biography
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Chicago began as a frontier town on the edge of white settlement and as the product of removal of culturally rich and diverse indigenous populations. The town grew into a place of speculation with the planned building of the Illinois …
View book details for Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution
Science and Technology in Modern China
Lexington Books
China is emerging as a new superpower in science and technology, reflected in the success of its spacecraft and high-velocity Maglev trains. While many seek to understand the rise of China as a technologically-based power, the Cultural Revolution of the …
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