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View book details for Universities in Decline
From the Great Society to Today
UPA
Universities in Decline examines the declining role of universities in policy generation and analyzes the increasing political influence of Washington-based institutions. This provocative new book identifies such Washington think tanks and policy shops as AEI, CSIS, and the National War …
AltaMira Press
Small museums face the same challenges as large museums on a tighter budget and with fewer resources. Navigating these obstacles requires strong leadership and effective governance. The creation and use of planning documents and a clear mission and vision are …
Scarecrow Press
Every child is entranced by the magic of story, regardless of national boundaries. Many of the most memorable childhood stories have their origins in other countries. Exposing children to this multi-national body of literature introduces them to the great diversity …
View book details for Maintaining Strategic Relevance
Career and Technical Education Program Discontinuance in Community and Technical Colleges
UPA
The community and technical college mission requires offering relevant Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. Board policies are plentiful for creating new programs in alignment with workforce needs. However, few districts have robust policies in place to appropriately discontinue or …
View book details for Re-Vision
A New Look at the Relationship between Science and Religion
UPA
Re-Vision addresses four issues that lie at the crux of the relationship between science and religionthe origin of the cosmos and creation in Genesis; evolutionary theory and Gods action in the world; genes and human freedom; and whether intelligent design …
View book details for Moving Archives
The Experiences of Eleven Archivists
Scarecrow Press
Moving an archive, historical society, or rare book library may occur only once in the career of a professional curator, archivist or librarian. Not only is each situation unique, but collections are irreplaceable and priceless. Moving Archives is a timely …
Scarecrow Press
Although Lesotho is a small state never likely to be a major player in global affairs, its special interactions with South Africa make it a prototype for regional cooperation. Joint action by South Africa's and Botswana's military forces to end …
View book details for Supervision and Evaluation for Learning and Growth
Strategies for Teacher and School Leader Improvement
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with national school resource experts to write a comprehensive book on supervision and improvement of learning. Everything you need to know about supervision and student learning, professional development, coaching and evaluation, standards, and …
View book details for When Moses Meets Aaron
Staffing and Supervision in Large Congregations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
With the number of large congregations rising in the U.S., these congregations are increasingly dependent upon a greater number of staff to meet the needs of their diverse collection of members. As leaders of multi-staff teams, senior clergy must play …
Fortress Press
Conley calls into question the outdated historical methodologies in use in Christian social ethics and outlines the consequences stemming from them. By adopting the postmodern post-structuralist position of historian Elizabeth A. Clark, Conley calls ethicists to learn to read for …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
For more than a century, original music has been composed for the cinema. From the early days when live music accompanied silent films to the present in which a composer can draw upon a full orchestra or a lone synthesizer …
View book details for The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
University Press of Mississippi
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together Black and white writers in …
View book details for Searching for the New Black Man
Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies
University Press of Mississippi
Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African …
University Press of Mississippi
Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. In Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion …
View book details for Contesting Post-Racialism
Conflicted Churches in the United States and South Africa
University Press of Mississippi
Contributions by William Ackah, Allan Boesak, Ebony Joy Fitchue, Leah Gaskin Fitchue, Walter Earl Fluker, Forrest E. Harris Sr., Nico Koopman, AnneMarie Mingo, Reggie Nel, Chabo Freddy Pilusa, Anthony G. Reddie, Boitumelo Senokoane, Rothney S. Tshaka, Luci Vaden, Vuyani Vellem, …
View book details for A Vulgar Art
A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy
University Press of Mississippi
In A Vulgar Art, Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by …
View book details for Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma
Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement
University Press of Mississippi
As Mississippi's attorney general from 1956 to 1969, Joe T. Patterson led the legal defense for Jim Crow in the state. He was inaugurated for his first term two months before the launch of the Sovereignty Commissioncharged to protect the …
View book details for Axiogenesis
An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism
Lexington Books
Nicholas Rescher's book Axiogenesis: An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism is a detailed exposition of axiogenerts: the philosophical theory seeking to explain the world's facts on the basis of evaluative considerations. In classical antiquity, this theory was espoused by Plato (in …
View book details for The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
Asps amidst the Figs
Lexington Books
This revaluation of Shakespeares most seductive tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, allies itself with neither George Bernard Shaw and Philos Roman judgment of the lovers as strumpet and foolpremised on the idle sensuality and feckless self-regard ever evident in the regal …
View book details for The Associate University Librarian Handbook
A Resource Guide
Scarecrow Press
The associate university librarian is tasked with running the various services and workflows of academic research libraries, allowing the head university librarian to focus on the acquisition of resources through fundraising and external public relations. Although the positions of assistant …
View book details for Creating a Culture of Learning
Moving Towards Student-Centered Learning
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Creating a Culture of Learning is an internal strategic planning process facilitating movement toward district wide student-centered learning. The Best Practice subjects discussed during the planning process, and covered herein, are specifically selected to focus attention on their district and …
View book details for The Church and the Market
A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy
Lexington Books
The Church and the Market is a vigorous and lively defense of the market economy and a withering attack on all forms of state intervention. It covers labor unions, monopoly, money and banking, business cycles, interest, usury, and much more. …
View book details for The Kalamata Diary
Greece, War, and Emigration
Lexington Books
From October 28, 1940 until February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras provided a unique eye-witness account of life in Kalamata, Greece before, during, and after World War II through her meticulous diary entries. In The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War and Emigration, …
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Ideas, Immateralism, and Objective Presence
Lexington Books
Berkeley: Ideas, Immaterialism, and Objective Presence offers a novel interpretation of the arc of George Berkeley's philosophical thought, from his theory of vision through his immaterialism and finally to his proof of God's existence. Keota Fields unifies these themes to …
View book details for China's Peaceful Rise in a Global Context
A Domestic Aspect of China's Road Map to Democratization
Lexington Books
China's rise has become inevitable, but there is no agreement about whether China will rise peacefully or pose a threat to the United States. The author asserts that both theories of 'China threat' and 'peaceful rise' failed to address China's …
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