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View book details for Exploring Everyday Life
Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The numerous tasks and routines that shape our daily existence can seem mundane, even invisibleand yet they play an extremely powerful role in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring Everyday Life casts light on these so-called trivialities, serving as both a …
View book details for Saints and Scamps
Ethics in Academia
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Saints and Scamps has been widely acclaimed as one of the best academic ethics books in print. In its 25th anniversary edition, Steven M. Cahn has updated and expanded upon his critical look at the duties and responsibilities of college …
View book details for Ethics by Committee
A Textbook on Consultation, Organization, and Education for Hospital Ethics Committees
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Ethics by Committee was developed for the tens of thousands of people across the United States serve on hospital and other healthcare ethics committees (HECs). Experts in bioethics, clinical consultation, health law, and social psychology from across the country have …
View book details for All by Myself
Essays on the Single-Artist Rock Album
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Thriving within a narrow niche in rock music is the recording on which one artist composes, plays, sings and often produces each track. As a showcase of individual effort and talent, the single-artist rock album has been adopted by artists …
R&L Education
In Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform, Rotberg brings together examples of current education reforms in sixteen countries, written by 'insiders'. This book goes beyond myths and stereotypes and describes the difficult trade-offs countries make as they attempt …
View book details for Beyond the Bedtime Story
Promoting Reading Development during the Middle School Years
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Beyond the Bedtime Story: Understanding and Promoting Reading Development During the Middle School Years was written for educators, parents, and all who care about promoting the reading development of middle school students. The book fills a much-needed void in scholarly …
View book details for New and Better Schools
The Supply Side of School Choice
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In the past decade, the number of students enrolled in private school choice programs has grown ten-fold. But granting students access to public financing for their private education has not led to the vibrant marketplace of school options many of …
View book details for The Commerce of Peoples
Sadomasochism and African American Literature
Lexington Books
Representations and coverage of S&M have become quite common nowadays, whether we see them in the fashion industry, commercials, the news, on television, film, the internet, and so on. But in the population at large and in the academic community, …
View book details for Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Resource Governance
Lexington Books
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The …
View book details for Inside the Jesuits
How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church and the World
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, has captured our attention by stepping away from the papal throne, unafraid to give impromptu interviews, decentralize church governance, or explore new horizons for the greater good of the people of God. His actions …
View book details for Transmitting Inequality
Wealth and the American Family
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
While the United States is the world's richest nation, the distribution of private property and wealth among Americans is often comprised of alarmingly disparate portions. With a rapidly aging and increasingly diverse population, the interdependence between generations, institutions, and social …
View book details for Assessment for Excellence
The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The second edition of Assessment for Excellence arrives as higher education enters a new era of the accountability movement. In the face of mandates such as results-based funding and outcomes-based accreditation, institutions and assessment specialists are feeling increasingly pressured to …
View book details for The Geopolitical Power Shift in the Indo-Pacific Region
America, Australia, China, and Triangular Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century
Lexington Books
As the twenty-first century progresses, the Indo-Pacific theater is experiencing an unprecedented transformation involving economic development, military build-ups, political reforms, social changes, and technological advancements. The region now reflects a multitude of geopolitical challenges, factors, and complicated realities. Although America …
View book details for Yin-Yang
American Perspectives on Living in China
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
China has become one of the largest study and teach-abroad, travel, and business destinations in the world. Yet few books offer a diversity of perspectives and locales for Westerners considering the leap. This unique collection of letters offers a rarely …
Lexington Books
Psychoanalysis is a historical discourse of suffering and healing under conditions of modernity rather than a metaphysical discourse of universal truth, and must be so due to the ontological indeterminacy of psychic life. Demonstrating this proceeds through the substantiation of …
View book details for Us against Them
The Political Culture of Talk Radio
Lexington Books
Us against Them: The Political Culture of Talk Radio examines the phenomenon of talk radio and the role that it plays in the American political process as well as popular culture. Among the central questions addressed is a basic one …
View book details for Real War vs. Reel War
Veterans, Hollywood, and WWII
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
World War II has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands, of films produced in the United States alone. From training camp scenes in See Here, Private Hargrove to images of brutal combat in Saving Private Ryan, filmmakers have …
View book details for Agency of the Enslaved
Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World
Lexington Books
In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World, D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered the culture of freedom in the former colonies of Western Europe in the Americas. Dunkley argues the …
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Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Man
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In Jubal Early: Robert E. Lees Bad Old Man, a new critical biography of Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, Civil War historian B.F. Cooling III takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating, idiosyncratic characters in the …
Lexington Books
The main purpose of this book is to explicate the problematic relationship between the heterogeneity of what is experienced as beautiful and the homogeneity of the conceptualization of that experience, or attempt at such a conceptualization in the era of …
View book details for Educational Entrepreneurship
Promoting Public-Private Partnerships for the 21st Century
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
School superintendents, business managers, central office leaders, elected officials, industry leaders, educators, and aspiring practitioners in the field of education will find this book a useful resource in understanding innovative ways to stretch limited school resources or to improve the …
View book details for The Commercial Church
Black Churches and the New Religious Marketplace in America
Lexington Books
In this new book on the rise of commercial black 'mega churches,' Mary Hinton examines the rich legacy of the historic black church from the dual perspectives of theology and religious education. She explores the new religious models emerging from …
View book details for The Musical Theater of Stephen Schwartz
From Godspell to Wicked and Beyond
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
As the composer/lyricist for Godspell, Pippin, Wicked, and other musicals, Stephen Schwartz has enjoyed one of the mostsignificant careers in American musical theater for more than four decades. Schwartz has also achieved success on the big screen, contributing to such …
View book details for Stepping Out of the Brain Drain
Applying Catholic Social Teaching in a New Era of Migration
Lexington Books
Stepping Out of the Brain Drain is an important contribution to the intensifying debate about highly skilled migration from developing to developed countries. Addressing the issue from the perspective of Catholic social thought, the authors demonstrate that both the economic …
View book details for The Great Perhaps
God as a Question
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
God created man in his own image; but did man perhaps return the compliment? The question of God's existence has been a pivotal issue for every civilization. Those with faith in God want assurance that their belief is justified, and …
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