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View book details for Nietzsche and Sociology
Prophet of Affirmation
Lexington Books
Nietzsche and Sociology: Prophet of Affirmation is about Friedrich Nietzsches sociological reading of modern industrial society. Nietzsche is often identified as a philosopher but his uniquely sociological theories and ideas have been disregarded and unacknowledged in the social sciences. This …
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Disrupting Racist Frameworks in Early Childhood Education
Technology segregation is an ongoing practice within early childhood programs in the United States. This research, which includes two qualitative studies in the Northeast, reveals that school segregation and technology segregation are one in the same. Utilizing critical race theory, …
View book details for Technofeminist Storiographies
Women, Information Technology, and Cultural Representation
Lexington Books
Technofeminist Storiographies: Women, Information Technology, and Cultural Representation analyzes both historical and contemporary accounts of womens lived experiences of technology, from Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr to women working across the tech industry today, and juxtaposes them with larger cultural …
View book details for Graphic Design
A Practical Guide for Librarians
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Librarians have always been responsible for creating graphic designs but in the digital age the need for visual communication skills has multiplied significantly. The quantity of graphic design tasks has increased, so has the demand and expectation of the quality …
View book details for Video Games and American Culture
How Ideology Influences Virtual Worlds
Digital media are immersive technologies reflecting behaviors, attitudes, and values. The engrossing, entertaining virtual worlds video games provide are important sites for 21st century research. This book moves beyond assertions that video games cause violence by analyzing the culture that …
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A Path to Success to Teaching English to Middle School Students and Beyond
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This text offers practical insights for English teachers, especially novice educators, to incorporate into their classroom lessons. Roseboro guides readers through the metacognitive process that we grow to understand in our beginning years as essential parts of curriculum development. Her …
View book details for Making Government Work
The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management
In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the wayandhow to avoid them. As performance management has evolved, it …
View book details for A Baseline of Development
Higher Education and Technology
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book is a result of research into ten technologies currently under development that will directly affect community colleges and universities, most within the next 5-20 years and a few within the next 20-30 years. The research conducted on each …
View book details for Literacy Moments
Creating Daily Teachable Moments with Beginning Readers
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In the course of any given day in an early-elementary classroom, a variety of situations present themselves through which a thoughtful teacher could develop teachable moments. This book provides teachers with the tools to consider those teachable opportunities as literacy …
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Immigrant Experiences in the North American Landscape
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book presents the experiences of immigrant children and their families in the US. We use the lens of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings, …
View book details for Religious Rhetoric
Dividing a Nation or Building Community
Lexington Books
Religious Rhetoric: Dividing a Nation or Building Community examines religious rhetoric and its creation of both division and unity from a variety of perspectives and issues. Religion, in a variety of forms, is central to our understanding of who we …
The Carthaginian Empire: 550 202 BCE argues for a new history of the Phoenician polity. In contrast to previous studies of the Carthaginian Empire that privileged evidence from Greco-Roman sources, Nathan Pilkington bases his study on evidence preserved in the …
View book details for Transcultural Feminist Philosophy
Rethinking Difference and Solidarity through Chinese American Encounters
The question of differencehow to accommodate the complexity and diversity of womens experiencesremains a central point of reference in debates among feminist thinkers. In Transcultural Feminist Philosophy: Rethinking Difference and Solidarity Through Chinese-American Encounters, Yuanfang Dai addresses influential approaches to …
Lexington Books
Contrary to previous studies of Tillie Olsens writing, Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature analyzes the impact of one of the most important philosophies of the last century, dialectical materialism, on the form and content of Olsens …
View book details for Human Rights in Translation
Intercultural Pathways
Lexington Books
This volume reflects on what happens when the idea and practice of universal human rights cross the cultural borders between different communities of knowledge. Although such rights are usually presumed to be founded on certain globally shared beliefs, the norms …
View book details for Afternoon Tea
A History
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Afternoon Tea: A History explores the development of the afternoon tea meal, diving deeper than the popular tale of the Duchess of Bedfords afternoon gatherings to find the meals that inspired those early afternoon teas. Julia Skinner carefully separates the …
View book details for The Walls of Babylon
An Alternative Reading of the Revelation to John
The Walls of Babylon is a radically revisionist reading of the Revelation to John, offering startling insights into the historical roots of Gnosticism, the social dynamics of early Christianity, and the shattering impact of apocalyptic eschatology. Based on a careful …
View book details for Navigating Turbulent Waters
Greek Politics in the Era of Eleftherios Venizelos
This work examines Greek political life and Eleftherios Venizelos from 1910 to 1936. To better understand the Greek political scene and Venizelos meteoric rise and ungraceful fall and to provide the necessary context, this book also considers politics on the …
View book details for Intelligence in the Digital Age
How the Search for Something Larger May Be Imperiled
Intelligence in the Digital Age examines how our current Internet age and peoples use of digital technologies may be affecting their mental capacities and emotive lives in ways in which it will become increasingly difficult for those people to explore …
View book details for Stop Politically Driven Education
Subverting the System to Build a New School Model
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
On these pages is a call to action for teachers who have been shackled by the self-serving motives of agenda driven politicians. Here we present a new innovative process designed to prepare children to be productive members of their community. …
View book details for An Ethnography of Gun Violence Prevention Activists
We are Thinking People
Lexington Books
This work builds on established literature that is centered on how the activists see themselves, their groups, and the national movement promoting gun violence prevention. This study focuses on two contemporary social organizations that are working on the state level, …
View book details for The Rediscovery of America
Essays by Harry V. Jaffa on the New Birth of Politics
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Harry V. Jaffa (1918-2015), one of the profoundest political thinkers of his time, is known most prominently for his pathbreaking work on Abraham Lincoln. Jaffa, who taught for 50 years at the Claremont Colleges and was a Distinguished Fellow of …
View book details for Native American Mystery Writing
Indigenous Investigations
Lexington Books
Though mystery, crime, and detective fiction are some of the most popular genres in the world, little scholarship currently exists regarding Native American writers and how they add new dimensions to this widely read literary form. Rather, the majority of …
View book details for Spielend Lernen im Flow
Die motivationale Wirkung von Serious Games im Schulunterricht
Anna Hoblitz untersucht die Nutzung und Wirkung von Serious Games als interaktives Lernmedium. Im Mittelpunkt der Uberlegungen steht neben der neuen Form des Wissenstransfers besonders die Motivationskraft von digitalen Spielen. Die Hoffnung, Lernen besser, also einfacher oder effizienter, zu gestalten, …
View book details for Spatial Resistance
Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism
Lexington Books
Spatial Resistance: Literary and Digital Challenges to Neoliberalism utilizes various literary and digital artifacts to show the potential and possibility of changing the ways we consider the spaces we inhabit. As many spaces become increasingly privatized and policed, it is …
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