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How Parents, Teachers and Community Can Help To Prevent Obesity in Children
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book is geared towards educators, teachers, administrators and parents of young children especially with health issues. The book will contribute to the literature in the field focusing on national and international concern about childhood obesity, highlighting the problems with …
View book details for Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americansboth slave and freefrom the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the …
View book details for Democracy and Its Enemies
The American Struggle for the Enlightenment
Lexington Books
America, it is often argued, emerged from the Enlightenment. It follows that the prevailing elements of politics in the United States are echoes of struggles among what is here referred to as the moderate Enlightenment, the conservative Enlightenment, and the …
Lexington Books
Reconceptualizing Disability in Education provides an essential critical exploration of problematic discourses, practices, and pedagogies that inform how disability is presently understood and responded to within the field of education. Luigi Iannacci interrogates and destabilizes ableist grand narratives that dominate …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This book looks at 55 years of independence, over eight decades of colonial rule, and earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the Congolese territory. This fourth edition highlights new developments and the increasing importance of the DRC in the Great …
View book details for Branding Latin America
Strategies, Aims, Resistance
Lexington Books
As public and private sectors become stakeholders, nation-states become corporations, interests become strategic objectives, and identities become brands, branding emerges as a key feature of the pervasiveness of market logic in todays world. Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance offers …
Lexington Books
Mobile Communication and Low-Skilled Migrants Acculturation to Cosmopolitan Singapore examines the role of mobile communication in the acculturation of South Asian labor migrants to Singapore, adopting a mobile phone appropriation model and following a pluralistic-typological approach. While presenting data from …
View book details for Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore Hon"
The Folk in the City
Lexington Books
Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging hon to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over …
View book details for Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan
Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies
Lexington Books
This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept …
View book details for Is College a Lousy Investment?
Negotiating the Hidden Costs of Higher Education
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Is College a Lousy Investment?: Negotiating the Hidden Cost of Higher Education discusses many of the economic misconceptions about earning a college degree. While it is widely believed that attending college guarantees wealth and success, students, concerned parents, and higher …
View book details for Everyday School Violence
An Educators Guide to Safer Schools
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The book aims to discuss the issue of small-scale school violence. While school shootings and safety are of the utmost concern among teachers, students, parents, and the public, many children suffer the effects of everyday violence that affect the learning …
View book details for Nabokov's Mimicry of Freud
Art as Science
Lexington Books
In Nabokovs Mimicry of Freud: Art as Science, Teckyoung Kwon examines the manner in which Nabokov invited his readers to engage in his ongoing battle against psychoanalysis. Kwon looks at Nabokovs use of literary devices that draw upon psychology and …
View book details for Representing the Rainbow in Young Adult Literature
LGBTQ+ Content since 1969
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Discussions of gender and sexuality have become part of mainstream conversations and are being reflected in the work of more and more writers of fiction, particularly in literature aimed at young adult audiences. But young readers, regardless of their sexual …
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The Managers Look at 2016
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In this book, a distinguished group of presidential campaign staff, journalists, and political observers take us inside the 2016 race for the Republican and Democratic nominations and general election, guiding us through each candidate's campaign from the time each candidate …
Lexington Books
Turkeys Kurdish question is a long-standing issue which gained special importance after the start of armed conflict between Kurdish insurgents and Turkish security forces. Despite multiple failed attempts to solve the Kurdish question, it remains the most significant issue in …
View book details for Rural Voices
Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place
Lexington Books
In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for …
Center for Strategic & International Studies
This report is the second in an annual series examining trends in what the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is buying, how DoD is buying it, and from whom DoD is buying. This years study looks in depth at issues …
View book details for Thriving in an All-Boys Club
Female Police and Their Fight for Equality
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
In 1845 women entered the career of policing, and ever since its been an evolving history for them. There are countless stories of women shaping this career, adding particular gifts and abilities to the profession. There are, also, countless stories …
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The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Context of Odysseus Second Cretan Lie
Lexington Books
The end of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean was a time of social, political, and economic upheaval conditions reflected, in many ways, in the world of Homers Odyssey. Jeffrey P. Emanuel examines the Odysseys Second Cretan Lie (xiv …
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Translations and Pronunciation
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Czech composer Leos Janaceks most famous opera, Jenufa is a harrowing tale of forbidden love, abandonment, hypocrisy, desperation, and tragic infanticide. As todays second most frequently performed Czech opera (following Dvoraks Rusalka), Jenufa holds a prominent place in international opera …
View book details for Balancing Life and Education While Being a Part of a Military Family
A Guide to Navigating Higher Education for the Military Spouse
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Military spouse education is an often overlooked topic. With the proliferation of service member programs and benefits, and the spotlight on them, it is not uncommon for spouses to neglect looking into their own educational opportunities and benefits. The hectic …
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A Global History of Boots on the Ground
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
This cogent global history traces the evolution of land warfare since the start of the Crimean War. Jeremy Black argues that although it has always been critical to the outcome of conflicts worldwide, land warfare has become undervalued in comparison …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the …
De Gruyter
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Human & Rousseau
Dit is Ierland aan die einde van die agtiende eeu: n Ierland onder die hiel van die Engelse heerser, sy volk onderdruk, magteloos, sonder regte. Die opstandsgevoel neem toe, ook onder invloed van die Franse Rewolusie en Napoleon se opkoms. …
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