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Engaging Your Young Child in Active Reading
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Parents and early childhood teachers know that reading aloud to children is important, but the specific things that adults do while reading with children that make reading a powerful way to improve childrens language, vocabulary, and early literacy skills can …
View book details for The War of the Zionist Giants
David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann
Lexington Books
Two major forces in the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948 were David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann. While each giant led very different lives, their paths crossed, or often clashed, as they became major influencers on the …
Lexington Books
James Ellroy is an acclaimed yet controversial popular novelist. Since the publication of his first novel Browns Requiem in 1981, Ellroys eccentric Demon Dog persona and his highly stylized, often pornographically violent crime novels have continued to polarize both public …
Lexington Books
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers, this collection uncovers …
Measurement and Meaning takes stock of the most important projects in the conceptual grounding of measurement, from early representational theories through the axiomatic approach to operationalism. Ferenc Csatari thoroughly analyzes the relevant philosophical issues and identifies the controversial points in …
View book details for Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of American Power
An American for All Time
Lexington Books
Theodore Roosevelt is an American icon, his face carved in granite alongside those of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln on Mt. Rushmore. He is the only American awarded both the Medal of Honor and Nobel Peace Prize. As president, he pushed …
View book details for Literary Depictions of Dangerous Reading
Textual Dangers
Lexington Books
Literary Depictions of Dangerous Reading explores how selected American and European literary texts, from the classic to the contemporary, represent reading as a dangerous endeavor. It investigates how the texts being read or the conditions of reading may produce danger …
View book details for Women Leaving Prison
Justice-Seeking Spiritual Support for Female Returning Citizens
Lexington Books
Women Leaving Prison examines the oft-ignored experiences of female returning citizens, our returning sisters, who face numerous individual and systemic barriers as they return to life beyond bars. In the age of mass incarceration, with 700,000 inmates leaving prison each …
View book details for Gratitude for the Wild
Christian Ethics in the Wilderness
Lexington Books
Since the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, a hotly contested debate over the value of wilderness reveals cultural anxieties about an American society that has spurned limits. Gratitude for the Wild explores how the wild known in wilderness …
View book details for Responsible Corporate Governance
Towards Sustainable and Effective Governance Structures
This book discusses the tasks and functions of corporate governance in the light of current challenges and the dynamics that arise from a broader approach to company management and the integration of corporate governance with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and …
View book details for Aging in the Global South
Challenges and Opportunities
Lexington Books
This book is a collection of work on aging and development from authors from the global south. Aging is steadily evolving as a public health and social crisis for which countries of the global south are ill-prepared. The forces of …
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In The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter, Amanda Nell Edgar and Andre E. Johnson examine the surprisingly complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline …
View book details for The People v. Ferlinghetti
The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg's Howl
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Lawrence Ferlinghettis name does not appear in any First Amendment treatise or casebook. And yet when the best-selling poet and proprietor of City Lights Books was indicted under California law for publishing and selling Allen Ginsbergs poem, Howl, Ferglinghetti buttressed …
View book details for Viscoelastic Interfaces Driven in Disordered Media
Applications to Friction
This book offers an in-depth study of two well-known models of avalanche dynamics, modified minimally by the inclusion of relaxation. Many complex systems respond to continuous inputs of energy by accumulation of stress over time, interrupted by sudden energy releases …
View book details for Culture, Community, and Educational Success
Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack
Lexington Books
Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDstie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through …
View book details for Media Imperialism
Continuity and Change
Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change advances applied theoretical research on 21st century media imperialism. The volume includes established and emerging researchers in international communications who examine the geopolitical, economic, technological and cultural dimensions of 21st century media imperialism. The volume …
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Going to a Good College in an Era of Inequality
Amplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of todays small liberal arts colleges through an extended examination of a recent cohort of students attending them. It demonstrates how these colleges sometimes succeed and sometimes fail in equalizing the experience of …
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The second edition of Making Mandated Addiction Treatment Work integrates cutting edge research with evidence-based addiction treatments to create a unified and effective treatment model for mental health professionals and those in training. Because the largest and fastest growing segment …
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Reawakening Honor in the Modern Military
Lexington Books
Pursuing the Honorable argues that our modern understanding of honor, as seen through example of todays military training, is deficient. To remedy this, the book returns to an understanding of the honorable good, especially manifested for philosophers like Aristotle and …
View book details for Property and the Pursuit of Happiness
Locke, the Declaration of Independence, Madison, and the Challenge of the Administrative State
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In this book, Edward Erler brings a lifetime of study of political philosophy, the American founding, and the US constitution to the central role of property in American constitutional thought. Erler argues that the Founders considered the natural right to …
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Confronting the Mommy Wars, Raising Children, and Working for Social Change
Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work examines the institution of motherhood and the arenas in which mothering occurs. MichelleNapierski-Prancl explores shared and divergent experiences, perspectives, lives, and challenges …
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Educational Strategies to Enhance Student Engagement
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Captivating Classrooms explores the specific role that student engagement plays in education, it argues that there are myriad factors that undergird meaningful student learning and participationsuch as motivation, exciting teaching strategies, reinventing literacy instruction, and authentic assessment. This book is …
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Originating from a small group of Bible students who met under Charles Taze Russells leadership and grew into an international Society, to which the second leader Joseph Franklin Rutherford and gave the name Jehovahs Witnesses. Two World Wars shaped Watch …
View book details for Equity, From the Boardroom to the Classroom
Transforming Districts into Professional Learning Organizations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Equity, from the Boardroom to the Classroom discusses the need for districts to become Professional Learning Organizations (PLOs) which links the boards role to Professional Learning Communities. In order to promote equity, it is vital that school boards build a …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Japan is a mix of the old and the new, traditional and modern, and old fashion and innovative. It has traveled the road to a modern destination without totally losing sight of its traditions and values. Although some in Japan …
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