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The Moral Reckoning
Lexington Books
Iraq: The Moral Reckoning applies classic just war theory to the U.S. decision to go to war in 2003. That theory, which evolved over several millennia, is a simple, profound tool for evaluating the rightness and wisdom of starting a …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This volume will contain selected proceedings from the 2013 Symposium on Music Teacher Education, sponsored by NAfMEs Society for Music Teacher Education and hosted at University of North Carolina. After an introduction written by SMTE Chair, Doug Orzolek, the initial …
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European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey
Lexington Books
For over half a century, European Union has been a promising endeavor of cooperative institutionalism. It has shown that even nation states with a long history of conflict are capable of collaborating with one another to serve their own interests. …
View book details for A New Approach to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Best Practices for Security, Nonproliferation, and Sustainable Nuclear Energy
Center for Strategic & International Studies
The Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Center for Strategic and International Studies joined to launch the New Approaches to the Fuel Cycle project. This project sought to build consensus on common goals, address practical challenges, and engage a spectrum of …
View book details for From Starship Captains to Galactic Rebels
Leaders in Science Fiction Television
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Real-world leaders hold the fates of companies, armies, and nations in their hands, but the leaders portrayed in science fiction play for larger stakes. Their decisions determine the survival of species, planets, or reality itself. They tend, therefore, to be …
Lexington Books
Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. …
View book details for Bonded to the Abuser
How Victims Make Sense of Childhood Abuse
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Tens of thousands of children are removed from home each year due to some form of child maltreatment, usually physical neglect, physical abuse, or sexual abuse, although sometimes for emotional abuse as well. An additional significant number of children are …
View book details for Fixing Truancy Now
Inviting Students Back to Class
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Truancy is a complex issue that continues to plague schools, and many blame truancy problems on students, parents, and socioeconomic factors. However, truancy is more than juvenile delinquents skipping school to have fun or be with friends. In Fixing Truancy …
View book details for Geek Rock
An Exploration of Music and Subculture
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture examines the relationship between geek culture and popular music, tracing a history from the late 1960s to the present day. The term geek rock refers to forms of popular music that celebrate …
View book details for New Energy, New Geopolitics
Background Report 2: Geopolitical and National Security Impacts
Center for Strategic & International Studies
The second background report in the New Energy, New Geopolitics series, this report evaluates the geopolitical and national security impacts of the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States. It examines …
View book details for William Blake's Religious Vision
There's a Methodism in His Madness
Lexington Books
In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing …
View book details for Balancing Liberty and Security
An Ethical Study of U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, 2001-2009
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This work examines the philosophical foundations of information ethics and their potential for application to contemporary problems in U.S. foreign intelligence surveillance. Questions concerning the limits of government intrusion on protected Fourth Amendment rights are examined against the backdrop of …
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A Practical Guide for Librarians
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
As more users expect to use their mobile devices, librarians will want and need to develop the necessary skills to reach this growing user base. Mobile Devices: A Practical Guide for Librarians will aid libraries and librarians as they go …
Center for Strategic & International Studies
As part of the global Governing Uranium Project headed by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzed U.S. experiences with the security of its front-end uranium industry. This report examines current …
View book details for Latino K-12 Schools
Redesigned for Student Success
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book is a comprehensive guide for educators and policy makers who are ready to create schools for Latinos (particularly Mexican Americans), such that students will be successful in learning and achieving in K-12 grades and college and help to …
View book details for Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan
Lexington Books
Lincicome offers a new perspective on Japanese educational debates and policy reforms that have taken place under the guise of internationalization since the mid-1980s. By contextualizing these developments within a historical framework spanning the entire twentieth century, he challenges the …
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Sites of Political Communication
Lexington Books
This book rhetorically and historically examines the contextual and experiential dimensions of a wide range of public placesfrom memorials to stadiumsthat are rife with political implications. Fourteen public places ranging from the national to local, from 9/11 memorials to a …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This introduction to social change covers the momentous and relatively recent changes that have occurred in the human condition, examining not only the major causes and conditions underlying our current situation, but also the main choices and options we face …
View book details for Teaching That Works
Effective Practice Combined with Theory and Research
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Teaching that Works: Effective Practice Combined with Theory and Research is a practical, teacher friendly examination of the ways that a comprehensive approach to all of the aspects of teaching, working together, can achieve results greater than the sum of …
View book details for Beatific Enjoyment in Medieval Scholastic Debates
The Complex Legacy of Saint Augustine and Peter Lombard
Lexington Books
Beatific Enjoyment in Medieval Scholastic Debates examines the religious concept of enjoyment as discussed by scholastic theologians in the Latin Middle Ages. Severin Kitanov argues that central to the concept of beatific enjoyment (fruitio beatifica) is the distinction between the …
View book details for Celestial Women
Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This volume completes Keith McMahons acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperors plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, …
View book details for Voluntary Environmental Programs
A Policy Perspective
Lexington Books
Protecting the environment is often not the primary objective of businesses. As the world has become more environmentally aware, the necessity of environmental regulations becomes apparent. Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective examines different approaches to environmental protection in business. …
View book details for The Effects of Globalization in Latin America, Africa, and Asia
A Global South Perspective
Lexington Books
In TheEffects of Globalization in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, Kema Irogbeargues the forces of globalization, which include the IMF/World Bank, WTO, and Western media technology, are subordinated to the interests of multinational corporations under the tutelage of a lone …
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Race, Identity and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Lexington Books
This book draws on the South African experience to develop a theory of race trouble with the central observation that transformation in South Africa has reshaped patterns and practices of encounter and exchange between historically defined race groups. Race continues …
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Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s
Lexington Books
In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and '70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock musicians appeared to embody the mythical qualities …
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