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View book details for Community Action against Racism in West Las Vegas
The F Street Wall and the Women Who Brought It Down
Lexington Books
This book chronicles Robert J. McKee's active participation in a successful protest action, led primarily by black females in the historically African American community of West Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2008-2013. The residents protested the closure of a main street …
View book details for The Educated Person
Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Liberal education has long been a fascination for scholars in a variety of disciplines and is closely associated with the idea of the educated person. Seen at one time as a matter for colleges and universities, over the years it …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The harpsichord was the standard keyboard instrument for three centuries before the invention of the piano. It enjoyed a revival in the second half of the twentieth century, but because of the interruption in its history as a more regularly …
View book details for The Urgency of Now
Equity and Excellence
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
With the student body evolving quickly, and the looming challenge of the completion agenda, community colleges are facing circumstances like never before in serving all students and propelling them to fulfilling their education aspirations. The Urgency of Now suggests a …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Africa and the Middle East focuses on international organizations in Africa. And the Middle East. This makes sense for political, cultural, and geographical reasons. North African countries, and many located in the Sahel …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Here is the story of the process by which competitive speech and debate evolved in the United States during the 20th Century. This authoritative history shows how forensics, as practiced in the United States, was an uneasy fusion of contradictory …
View book details for Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication
Theory and Roots
Lexington Books
Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This book contains chapter contributions written by scholars from around the world who engage in country- and region-specific case …
View book details for Risky Marriage
HIV and Intimate Relationships in Tanzania
Lexington Books
Given that women and girls carry the heaviest burdens of the African HIV pandemic, their lived experiences should be the starting point for any pedagogy of prevention. In light of this claim, Risky Marriage: HIV and Intimate Relationships in Tanzania …
View book details for Nikolay Myaskovsky
The Conscience of Russian Music
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Gregor Tassie describes Nikolay Myaskovsky as one of the great enigmas of 20th-century Russian music. Between the two world wars, the symphonies of Myaskovsky enjoyed great popularity and were performed by all major American and European orchestras; they were some …
Lexington Books
In this collection, continental and diasporan African women interrogate the concept sacred text and analyze ways oral and written religious texts intersect with violence against African-descended women and girls. While the sanctioned idea of a sacred text is written literature, …
Taylor and Francis
This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial and urban reality. It develops a novel understanding of the rationale behind the construction of large-scale architectural complexes that relate to …
View book details for Primer of Adlerian Psychology
The Analytic - Behavioural - Cognitive Psychology of Alfred Adler
Taylor and Francis
A Primer of Adlerian Psychology offers an accessible, yet very learned, introduction to Adlerian Psychology. Also known as Individual Psychology, the approach stresses the unity of the individual, the subjective choices he or she makes and the goals the individual …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Consumer Health Information Programs and Services: Best Practices presents examples of successful and long-standing library programs and services that provide health information to consumersthe general public, patients, and families or patients who seek information about health and diseases. This best …
View book details for Creating a Successful Leadership Style
Principles of Personal Strategic Planning
R&L Education
Creating a Successful Leadership Style gives practical applications supported by real experiences. It presents the actual situations a principal or assistant principal faces on a day-to-day basis and provides strategies to address them. These strategies derive from a leadership style …
View book details for Classical Indian Philosophy of Induction
The Nyaya Viewpoint
Lexington Books
Induction is a basic method of scientific and philosophical inquiry. The work seeks to show against the skeptical tide that the method is secure and reliable. The problem of induction has been a hotly debated issue in modern and contemporary …
View book details for Finding, Preparing, and Supporting School Leaders
Critical Issues, Useful Solutions
R&L Education
With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up _or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of preparing, encouraging, and retaining quality …
View book details for Confucianism in Contemporary Chinese Politics
An Actionable Account of Authoritarian Political Culture
Lexington Books
This book examines the ways in which Confucian political culture operates in contemporary Chinese politics and influences its development. The author argues that the authoritarian political culture performs functions similar to the democratic political culture, drawing on a wide range …
View book details for Theatre of the People
Donald Wolfits Shakespearean Productions 1937-1953
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Throughout World War II, audiences in the United Kingdom craved entertainment, even during the countrys darkest days. During this period, actor-manager Donald Wolfit and his theatre troupe toured Great Britain and Europeoften at great risk. After the war, Wolfit broadened …
View book details for The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment
Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought
Lexington Books
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. His philosophical novel, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, could be considered one of …
View book details for Empowering Excellence
Creating Positive, Invigorating Classrooms in a Common Core Environment
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Empowering Excellence inspires a revolution in teaching and assessment practices. These methods of teaching and grading represent a major step ahead in how teachers assess and interact with students. Empowering Excellence presents 12 significant shifts that encourage motivation, build confidence, …
View book details for Adaptation Studies and Learning
New Frontiers
Scarecrow Press
Adaptation Studies is a fast-emerging discipline which has expanded into other areas of media scholarship. With its roots in literature and film, this discipline can be applied to much broader uses, even as a process that governs every aspect of …
Lexington Books
Since the Chinese were officially plugged into the virtual community in 1994, the usage of the internet in the country has developed at an incredible rate. By the end of 2008, there were approximately 298 million netizens in China, a …
View book details for A Research Guide to the Ancient World
Print and Electronic Sources
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study of the ancient world is usually, although not …
View book details for The Political Battle of the Sexes
Exploring the Sources of Gender Gaps in Policy Preferences
Lexington Books
Sex remains one of the most salient demographic dividing points in American politics today. President Obama has women, particularly unmarried women, to thank for his re-election victory. The gender difference in voter support for the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates …
View book details for Ecofundamentalism
A Critique of Extreme Environmentalism
Lexington Books
Everyone has heard of environmentalism, but what is it? Is it ideology or religion? Like socialism, environmentalism is a political program, but even more diffuse. Environmentalists hold diverse opinions, from wanting to take care of nature in human interest to …
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