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View book details for A Year in Food and Beer
Recipes and Beer Pairings for Every Season
AltaMira Press
Beer and food pairing can be as much an art form as wine and food pairing. With the explosion in craft beers and interest in seasonal cuisine, A Year in Food and Beer perfectly fills a niche. It instructs readers …
Scarecrow Press
Given the rivalries and suspicions prevailing in the Middle East, it is not surprising that most of these states are very concerned about espionage and infiltration. With the additional threat of terrorism, nuclear weapons, a large U.S. military presence, and …
Government Institutes
Military and intelligence leaders agree that the next major war is not likely to be fought on the battleground but in cyber space. Richard Stiennon argues the era of cyber warfare has already begun. Recent cyber attacks on United States …
View book details for Armageddon Postponed
A Different View of Nuclear Weapons
Hamilton Books
In the closing days of World War II, scientists working for the U.S. government invented nuclear explosives by splitting the atoms of heavy metals. Germany had already surrendered, but the United States and its allies remained at war with Japan. …
Scarecrow Press
Horror and slasher films are often dismissed for their apparent lack of sophistication and dearth of redeemable values. However, despite criticism from film snobs who turn up their noses and moralists who look down upon the genre, slasher films are …
View book details for Speaking and Writing for English Language Learners
Collaborative Teaching for Greater Success with K-6
R&L Education
This bookprovides an overview designed to help educators collaborate more effectively in the areas of content area literacy for the sake of their K-6 ELL students. The book weaves the practical and theoretical aspects of collaboration and suggests ways for …
View book details for Educational Records
A Practical Guide for Legal Compliance
R&L Education
Since the passage of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) regulating of the maintenance and dissemination of educational records, educators have struggled to meet federal compliance requirements while operating in the daily realities of public schools. …
View book details for They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill
The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction
Scarecrow Press
Teen readers have always been fascinated by monsters, but lately it seems like every other young adult (YA) book is about vampires, zombies, or werewolves. These works are controversial, since they look at aspects of life and human nature that …
Scarecrow Press
Ernst Krenek has been described as a one-man history of twentieth-century music. His vast compositional output encompasses many of its extremes and expresses many of its contradictions. Few have attempted, however, to contextualize Kreneks compositional output because our understanding of …
View book details for Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines
American Songs of War And Love, 1898-1946, A Resource Guide
Scarecrow Press
In this innovative resource guide, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions relating in some way to the Philippines during the American colonial era in the country from 1898 to …
View book details for The Politics of Authentic Engagement
Tools for Engaging Stakeholders in Ensuring Student Success
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Politics of Authentic Engagement provides practical approaches for leaders in a variety of roles to address the changing landscape of schooling, build dynamic relationships in support of schools, help parents/families support their childrens achievement, and create a culture of …
View book details for Nigeria's Democratic Experience in the Fourth Republic since 1999
Policies and Politics
UPA
This book addresses various issues that have arisen in the practice of democracy in Nigeria since 1999, focusing on the Obasanjo years (1999-2007). Nigerias return to democratic rule has been marked by developments such as the implementation of reforms to …
Lexington Books
Written by one of America's foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of the doctrine of 'original intent.' According to legal scholars such as Judge Robert Bork, Lino Gralia, …
View book details for Resistance to Change
A Guide to Harnessing Its Positive Power
R&L Education
Resistance is at the heart of the change process, yet it is often overlooked or perceived as a negative force. This book explores resistance as a natural, positive, and necessary component of change. Twenty discrete resistance factors_likely to be found …
View book details for Breaking the Adolescent Parent Cycle
Valuing Fatherhood and Motherhood
UPA
This book addresses the dilemma created by the discrepancy between our efforts to prevent adolescent pregnancy and our support of adolescent parenthood, which the author argues is America's greatest unrecognized public health crisis. It is the most preventable cause of …
View book details for The New Orleans Sniper
A Phenomenological Case Study of Constituting the Other
UPA
On January 7, 1973, shots were fired from Howard Johnson's Motel in New Orleans, LA. Six were killed, ten wounded. After the first sniper was killed, the search continued for others. A thorough police investigation, however, concluded that there had …
View book details for America's First Chaplain
The Life and Times of the Reverend Jacob Duche
Lehigh University Press
Americas First Chaplain is a biography of the life of Philadelphias Jacob Duche, the Anglican minister who offered the most famous prayer and wrote one of the most infamous letters of the American Revolution. For the prayer to open the …
View book details for Islam in Africa South of the Sahara
Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform
Scarecrow Press
Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform draws together contributions from scholars that focus on changes taking place in the practice of the religion and their effects on the political terrain and civil …
View book details for Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher
Achieving Success through a Culture of Inquiry
R&L Education
Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry. It is written …
View book details for Civic Work, Civic Lessons
Two Generations Reflect on Public Service
UPA
Civic Work, Civic Lessons explains how and why people of all ages, and particularly young people, should engage in public service as a vocation or avocation. Its authors are 57 years apart in age, but united in their passion for …
Scarecrow Press
For nearly four decades the conflict in Ireland has embittered relations between the communities living there and spoiled relations between the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain. For three decades it escalated, punctuated by periodic bloody clashes followed by somewhat …
View book details for Theatre in Dublin, 17451820
A Calendar of Performances
Lehigh University Press
Theatre in Dublin,17451820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublins many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridans becoming the manager at …
View book details for Out of the Shadows
Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir
Scarecrow Press
Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a definable trend by 1960. Over the years, a group of films from …
View book details for Shakespeare and the Cleopatra/Caesar Intertext
Sequel, Conflation, Remake
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Is William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra a sequel to the earlier Julius Caesar? If this question raises issues of authorship and reception, it also interrogates the construction of dramatic sequels: how does a playtext ultimately become the follow-up of another …
View book details for The Commercial Society
Foundations and Challenges in a Global Age
Lexington Books
Once relatively confined to parts of Europe and North America, commercial societies are now found in many other cultures and continents. Yet despite the international spread and growth of commercial order, the moral, economic, and legal foundations of commercial society …
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