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View book details for Enemy Brothers
Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Since the 1920s, Socialist and Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere have engaged in episodes of both rivalry and cooperation, with each seeking to dominate the European Left. Enemy Brothers analyzes how this relationship has developed over the past century, …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Historical Dictionary of the Dirty Wars coversthe period 19541990 in South America, when authoritarian regimes waged war on subversion, both real and imagined. The term dirty war (guerra sucia), though originally associated with the military dictatorship in Argentina from …
View book details for Designing and Implementing the Curriculum
A Compendium of Criteria for Best Teaching Practices
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book presents the most important topics relevant to designing the school curriculum. These topics include learning theory, assessment and evaluation of learning, unit planning and lesson planning. A review of the most important information regarding each topic and an …
View book details for Naval Warfare
A Global History since 1860
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The modern age of naval warfare began with the combination of steam power, iron warships, and modern artillery, which launched an intense period of international competition. Tracing naval warfare from the 1860s into the future, noted historian Jeremy Black provides …
View book details for Exhibit Makeovers
A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Since its publication in 2008, Exhibit Makeovers has been a useful do-it-yourself handbook for museum staff and volunteers. Exhibit Makeovers is a workbook that provides grounding in interpretive principles, how-to-advice, step-by-step guidance, and moral support for in-house exhibit planning and …
View book details for The Holocaust, Rebirth, and the Nakba
Memory and Contemporary IsraeliArab Relations
Lexington Books
Yair Auron's important, innovative and instructive book relates critically to the narratives created by Israeli society regarding the events of 1948: the establishment of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. Auron proposes a humanistic approach of dialogue to …
View book details for Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic
Advancing New Perspectives
Lexington Books
Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic: Advancing New Perspectives marks 50 years of writing and cultural production on the phenomenon of camp since Susan Sontags 1964 cornerstone essay Notes on Camp. It provides cutting-edge theory and understanding on ways to read …
View book details for Turning Point
A New Comprehensive Strategy for Countering Violent Extremism
Center for Strategic & International Studies
The CSIS Commission on Countering Violent Extremism, cochaired by Tony Blair and Leon Panetta, was formed to develop a comprehensive and actionable blueprint to combat the growing appeal of violent extremism in the United States and abroad. Specifically, the Commission …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The overall purpose of the book is to present (1) the best science on creativity and innovation in the most practical way possible and (2) a new way of teaching called the Nonsense Method, which relies on humans incredible ability …
View book details for Urbanization and Party Survival in China
People vs. Power
Lexington Books
While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process. Such conditions such as overcrowding, …
View book details for Sticky Situations
Case Studies for Early Childhood Program Management
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Being the director of an early childhood education program not only includes knowing about child development and developmentally appropriate curriculum, but it also requires a director to supervise staff, manage the facility, create budgets, and implement policies to manage a …
View book details for Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries
Building Community through Collaboration
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries: Building Community Through Collaboration, Peggy Keeran and Carrie Forbes bring together a variety of ways academic libraries are engaging with their communities through outreach, with creativity and the spirit of collaboration as major …
View book details for Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights
The Rhetorical/Legal Dynamics of With All Deliberate Speed
Lexington Books
Focusing on the NAACPs twentieth-century attempt to overturn the separate but equal doctrine through school desegregation cases, Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights analyzes the rhetorical/legal dynamics inherent in the struggle to determine African American citizenship …
View book details for Writing From the Margins
Exploring the Writing Practices of Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The book is a critical examination of the complex role of writing in court-involved young adults lives. The purpose of this book is to provide an in-depth look at how writing might possibly be the best opportunity to give students …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
At a time of profound transformations in international relations, the second edition of Historical Dictionary of the United Nations maps out the continuing and deepening role and relevance of the United Nations in the maintenance of peace and the promotion …
Center for Strategic & International Studies
The United States must be prepared to operate in a range of complex environments to meet a range of security challenges and threats, such as humanitarian emergencies, terrorism and violent extremism, great power aggression, health security crises, and international criminal …
View book details for Serving the New Majority Student
Working from Within to Transform the Institution
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Much of higher education was originally designed to meet the needs of full time 18-22 year-old students who enter directly from high school. However, the New Majority of our students are older, likely to swirl among institutions, and have significant …
View book details for Political Conversion
Personal Transformation as Strategic Public Communication
Lexington Books
Stories of religious conversion have been told for millennia. Yet many prominent figures such as Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and Rick Perry have also used stories of their change from one political worldview to another as a communication strategy aimed …
View book details for The Conflict Between Secular and Religious Narratives in the United States
Wittgenstein, Social Construction, and Communication
Lexington Books
Social Construction, Communication, and Christianity uses the theory of social construction and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to examine the current divide between religious and secular narratives in the United States. Sumser analyzes how Americans apply religious and secular reasoning …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In occupied France, the Nazis pursued aggressive, tightly orchestrated measures designed to monopolize the French market and foster agitation against Americans, Jews, Communists, and others. The documentary film was one instrument of propaganda employed by the Nazi occupiers, as well …
View book details for Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call
Activist Voice for Social Justice
Lexington Books
This book on publisher and editor Lucile H. Bluford examines her journalistic writings on social, economic, and political issues; her strong opinionated views on African Americans and women; and whether there were consistent themes, biases, and assumptions in her stories …
View book details for Sustainability and the City
Urban Poetics and Politics
Lexington Books
Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics contributes to third-generation discourse on sustainable development by considering, through a humanistic lens, theories and practices of sustainability in a wide range of urban cultures. It demonstrates cities inextricability from discussions on …
View book details for Rethinking Japan
The Politics of Contested Nationalism
Lexington Books
The authors argue that with the election of the Abe Government in December 2012, Japanese politics has entered a radically new phase they describe as the 2012 Political System. The system began with the return to power of the Liberal …
View book details for Gifts from the Heart
Skills for Speaking, Listening, and Bonding
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Gifts from the Heart is a friendly, concise, and easy-to-read book that helps students learn, practice, and improve ten fundamental communication skills needed for any long-term relationship. Each skill is presented as a gift for students to give to others, …
View book details for The British and the Greek Resistance, 19361944
Spies, Saboteurs, and Partisans
Lexington Books
Between 1941 and 1944, the Germans and the Italians imposed a brutal occupation of Greece. This, as well as the outbreak of famine, drove many Greeks to join a variety of resistance movements in the mountains. The British government anticipated …
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