Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
Protecting Your Internet Identity
Are You Naked Online?
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
People research everything online – shopping, school, jobs, travel – and other people. Your online persona is your new front door. It is likely the first thing that new friends and colleagues learn about you. In the years since this book was first published, the Internet profile and reputation...
Learning to Lead
A Handbook for Postsecondary Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
Leadership is an activity that not only manifests itself in formal positions, but also bubbles up in various places within an organization. Perhaps given the importance of leadership to any endeavor, the literature on this topic has burgeoned. Yet among these titles, Learning to Lead stands out as...
Minding the Dream
The Process and Practice of the American Community College
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as well as the scholar.
New employees, current leaders, graduate students, legislators, and boards of trustees need...
Community College Student Success
From Boardrooms to Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Since the 1980s, the language used around market-based government has muddied its meaning and polarized its proponents and critics, making the topic politicized and controversial. Competition, Choice, and Incentives in Government Programs hopes to reframe competing views of market-based government...
Church Mergers
A Guidebook for Missional Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Church Mergers offers churches of all sizes and traditions practical advice on how to merge successfully. Authors Thomas G. Bandy and Page M. Brooks draw on decades of experience to illustrate why and how missional mergers are possible.
Church Mergers guides congregational leaders and regional planners...
Privacy in the Age of Big Data
Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Digital devices have made our busy lives a little easier and they do great things for us, too – we get just-in-time coupons, directions, and connection with loved ones while stuck on an airplane runway. Yet, these devices, though we love them, can invade our privacy in ways we are not even aware...
Facing Cyber Threats Head On
Protecting Yourself and Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
News breaks all the time that hackers have attacked another company. Media outlets regularly cover cyber events. The President issues executive orders, and Congress explores cyber legislation. With all these events happening, business leaders must ask: what does this mean for my business and me?
Facing...
Boxing
A Concise History of the Sweet Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back as the third millennium BC, and Greek and Roman sculptors depicted the athletic ideals of the ancient era in the form of boxers. In the present...
The Life and Career of David Beckham
Football Legend, Cultural Icon
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
David Beckham is an English soccer player whose popularity extends beyond the field and into international celebrity. He has played for some of the best clubs in the world, including Manchester United, Real Madrid, and AC Milan, and is known worldwide for his free kick expertise and spectacular long-range...
Big Media, Big Money
Cultural Texts and Political Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Big Media, Big Money is a lively and scathing critique of the contemporary communications industry, examining how media ownership and the profit-making motive affect the messages we receive in alarming ways. Through close readings of recent news events and critical examination of corporate influence,...
Debating the Origins of the Cold War
American and Russian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
Debating the Origins of the Cold War examines the coming of the Cold War through Americans' and Russians' contrasting perspectives and actions. In two engaging essays, the authors demonstrate that a huge gap existed between the democratic, capitalist, and global vision of the post-World War II peace...
What Government Does
How Political Executives Manage
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
To understand the challenges of political leadership and how top executives
succeed in accomplishing an Administration’s objectives, business-in-government
experts Paul R. Lawrence and Mark A. Abramson present the findings
of a four-year study of top political appointees in the Obama Administration.
The...
Against Mechanism
Protecting Economics from Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1992
'...the history of economic theory at its best.'-EASTERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL