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View book details for Ethnomusicologizing
Essays on Music in the New Paradigms
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In Ethnomusicologizing: Essays on Music in the New Paradigms, composer and musicologist brings together a series of essays on music making in contemporary culture. More specifically, it focuses on the myriad ways we engage with musicas makers, as listeners, as …
View book details for Globalizing de Gaulle
International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, 19581969
Lexington Books
French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision_conceived out of national interest_of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his challenge …
View book details for Doctor, Your Patient Will See You Now
Gaining the Upper Hand in Your Medical Care
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The state of health care in this country is routinely discussed in the media, at the office, and around the kitchen table. Yet as consumers of medical care, Americans often blindly accept medical advice that may or may not be …
Center for Strategic & International Studies
This report focuses on the ways that a federated defense approach can strengthen strategic partnerships and deliver more innovative defense technologies at a lower costby better harnessing global supply chain networks to expand the military supplier base and increase the …
Lexington Books
In this collection of essays, edited by Jianwei Wang and Yufan Hao, the contributor's explore the driving factors that lie behind Macau's increased visibility, including: the rapid economic development and growth, the 'one country, two system' administration under which they …
Lexington Books
This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the …
View book details for Integrating Pedagogy and Technology
Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Integrating Teaching and Technology: A Matrix for Professional Faculty Development provides college faculty and administrators with the foundations for a new model for integrating the two most critical dimensions of teaching and learning, pedagogy and technology: the Integrated Readiness Matrix …
View book details for The Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacebuilding
Stories and Lessons
Lexington Books
This book brings together the remembrances of Ambassador John W. McDonald, a veteran diplomat whose life serves as a model to those people of vision and action who wish to make a difference in a world that is desperate for …
View book details for The Abyss
Bridging the Divide between Israel and the Arab World
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Eli Avidar looks into the abyss that divides Israel from its Arab neighbors, in order to understand the inherent flaws, prevailing misunderstandings, and tragic mistakes that characterize the relations and bloodletting, and how, if at all possible, to bridge the …
View book details for The New Motherhoods
Patterns of Early Child Care in Contemporary Culture
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The New Motherhoods: Patterns of Early Child Care in Contemporary Culture offers innovative perspectives in psychotherapy that accommodate emerging pathways to parenthood, changing roles of mothers, and evolving patterns of family structure. Moms come in all shapes and sizes, and …
View book details for Harry Hopkins
FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Millions admired him and believed the New Deal agencies he headed had rescued them from despair, but many of President …
Lexington Books
Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and deconstruction of metaphysics with the gestures of murderers. He considers himself a pure metaphysician, which is rather unique in …
View book details for Developing Quantitative Literacy Skills in History and the Social Sciences
A Web-Based Common Core Standards Approach
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
History and social sciences educators have been charged with ensuring that our students are quantitatively literate. Being able to integrate research data in the form of graphs, charts, and tables and deconstruct quantitative evidence to address questions and solve problems …
View book details for Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community
From the Civil War to Today
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Ethnic Diasporas and the Canada-United States Security Community focuses on three diasporas and their impact on North American security relations, the Irish and Germans, which were mainly in the US, and the Muslim diaspora, which is based in both countries. …
View book details for Divorce
The Ultimate Teen Guide
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
It has been estimated that at least half of the children in America come from families that have been affected by divorce. Of those children, more than half will see a parents second marriage dissolve as well. The impact of …
Lexington Books
This anthology brings together key articles translated into English for the first time from Italian debates concerning Antonio Gramsci's writings on language and translation as central to his entire social and political thought. It includes recent scholarship by Italian, German …
View book details for Writing after Retirement
Tips from Successful Retired Writers
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Unlike previous volumes which focus on how to earn a living while writing in very specific areas, this anthology accurately describes a wide range of different avenues an aspiring author can pursue, either for profit or for personal fulfillment. Speaking …
View book details for Wittgenstein at the Movies
Cinematic Investigations
Lexington Books
Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at …
View book details for Violence in Caribbean Literature
Stories of Stones and Blood
Lexington Books
Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood, this book looks at the scene of the throwing of a stone found in five novels, and uses it as a starting point to an examination of the turmoil of history …
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The Micro Politics of Special Education
R&L Education
Kids in the Middle: The Micro-Politics of Special Education takes the reader on a fascinating journey through special education in the past, present, and future. On this journey, the micro-politics of special education are seen through the eyes and experiences …
View book details for Persuading John Bull
Union and Confederate Propaganda in Britain, 186065
Lexington Books
This is the first scholarly analysis of The London American, the pro-Union propaganda journal published in London during the American Civil War, and the motives and troubles of its proprietor, John Adams Knight, a Northern American based in the British …
Lexington Books
Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist is the first book-length exposition of the ideas of the American anarchist and abolitionist who lived mostly in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1808 to 1887. Few people today are familiar with Spooner. theless, there are many interesting …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Elvis Presleys stature as the King of Rock and Roll will never be challenged. Between his first RCA hit single in 1956the number-one smash Heartbreak Hoteland his death in 1977, Elvis amassed more than 100 hits on the music charts. …
View book details for Peace and Conflict in Inter-Group Relations
The Role of Economic Inequality
Lexington Books
The book ventures into the explanation of intra-state communal conflict, more narrowly of the conflict between majority and minority communal groups, and develops arguments that highlight the causal impact of intergroup economic inequality. Its quest for empirical support has led …
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Ethics and Excellence in Science
Lexington Books
Creativity explores the moral dimensions of creativity in science in a systematic and comprehensive way. A work of applied philosophy, professional ethics, and philosophy of science, the book argues that scientific creativity often constitutes moral creativity_the production of new and …
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