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View book details for Challenge Thinking and Deepen Understanding
The Instructional Approach for Implementing the Common Core Standards, Grades 3-12
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
With new standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, this professional text will address strategies to utilize in order to address the Common Core State Standards with reading closely to deepen understanding of informational text. This professional …
View book details for Behind the Curtain
Tackling the Myths and Mistakes of School Management
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Superintendents hold a significant position in school systems. In serving the school board, community, staff and students simultaneously, a superintendents role is dynamic and multifaceted. In realizing that the stability of a school system is set by the guidance of …
View book details for Spiritual Discovery
A Method for Discernment in Small Groups and Congregations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Spiritual Discovery is a practical guide for groups desiring a prayerful approach to decision-making. The discernment method developed by authors Catherine C. Tran and Sandra Hughes Boyd begins with the prayer modela process for guiding prayer in small groups created …
View book details for Absent Mother God of the West
A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism
Lexington Books
This book about the missing Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism chronicles a personal as well as an academic quest of an Indian woman who grew up with Kali and myriad other goddesses. It is born out of a women's …
View book details for The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Beginning with the legacy of Roger Williams, who in 1633 founded the first colony not restricted to people of one faith, The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Every four years, the FIFA World Cup captures the global imagination like no other sporting spectacle. With a cumulative television audience of several billion people tuning in to the 2014 World Cup, and an estimated 700 million watching the finalsincluding …
View book details for The Making of Les Bleus
Sport in France, 1958-2010
Lexington Books
The Making of Les Bleus traces the Fifth Republics quest to create elite athletes in two global team sports, football and basketball, primarily at the youth level. While the objective of this mission was to improve performances at international competitions, …
View book details for Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Riding the Rails
Lexington Books
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and …
View book details for French Anti-Americanism (1930-1948)
Critical Moments in a Complex History
Lexington Books
French Anti-Americanism offers a historical exploration of the central role of anti-Americanism in French thought, and the often compromised position of France's intelligentsia during World War II. It was in the years preceding World War II, with its complex fears …
View book details for Nuclear Scholars Initiative
A Collection of Papers from the 2014 Nuclear Scholars Initiative
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Addressing an increasingly complex array of nuclear weapons challenges in the future will require talented young people with the necessary technical and policy expertise to contribute to sound decisionmaking on nuclear issues over time. To that end, the CSIS Project …
View book details for Evangelicalism and Masculinity
Faith and Gender in El Salvador
Lexington Books
The explosion of the Evangelical movement in Latin America beginning in the last half of the 20th century has changed the face of a continent. Many men have redefined themselves through a religious conversion to Evangelicalism, which challenges notions of …
View book details for The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible
How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, …
View book details for Rewriting the Return to Africa
Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers
Lexington Books
Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Conde, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Negritude …
View book details for The Pastoral Search Journey
A Guide to Finding Your Next Pastor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Most churches have sought out a new pastor many times, yet search committees often feel as though they are inventing the process from scratch. In The Pastoral Search Journey, John Vonhof provides detailed guidance for search committees to ensure a …
View book details for Seeking Balance
The Story of a Principal's Second Semester
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Seeking Balance: The Story of a Principals Second Semester continues the story of fictional Principal Joe Gentrys first year on the job. Like its predecessor, Reality Calling: The Story of a Principals First Semester, this book is crafted from authentic …
View book details for Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South
The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 19001940
Lexington Books
Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although plantations figure prominently in histories …
View book details for Managing Digital Audiovisual Resources
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The demand from library users for audiovisual materials and remote access combined with the unceasing deterioration and inaccessibility of many audiovisual formats requires libraries to adapt their collections to meet current and future demands. While this changing landscape of digitization …
View book details for Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan
A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory Approach
Lexington Books
Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan utilizes the theoretical model of complex adaptive systems and introduces the concept of function-based spatiality to investigate the roles of the urban environments of Tokyo and Osaka in the development …
View book details for Transforming Borders
Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy
Lexington Books
Transforming Borders: Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy contributes to transformative pedagogies scholarship by adding the voices of Chicana feminist pedagogies, epistemologies, and ontologies. C. Alejandra Elenes develops her conceptualizations of border/transformative pedagogies by linking the relationship between cultural practices, knowledge, …
View book details for Toward Better Governance in China
An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform
Lexington Books
Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of the breakthrough points of the much anticipated …
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The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Declaration of Independence has been the subject of competing interpretations since its adoption by the Continental Congress on the Fourth of July 1776, and for nearly two and a half centuries the political ideas expressed in its preamble have …
View book details for The Teacher Tune-Up
A Workbook and Discussion Guide for How to Become a Firm, Fair, Fascinating Facilitator
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The opportunity for teachers to take control of their professional growth is at hand! This workbook was written by a current classroom teacher who knows the difference between useful, engaging professional development and insulting, interminable inservices. It contains twenty intriguing, …
Lexington Books
The book is a contribution to the fields of pragmatism, intercultural philosophy, and social and political ethics. The argument in the book runs along two lines: firstly, four pragmatist philosophers (William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger) …
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A Guide for Small Museums and Historic Sites
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Heres a one-stop marketing guide just for small museums and historic sites. In an age when many local historical associations and museums take money from their marketing budget because resources are tight, which can start a vicious cycle of reduced …
View book details for Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx
On Totalitarianism and the Tradition of Western Political Thought
Lexington Books
Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx: On Totalitarianism and the Tradition of Western Political Thought is the first book to examine Hannah Arendts unpublished writings on Marx in their totality and as the unified project Arendt originally intended. In 1952, after …
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