Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
Managing the Big Picture in Colleges and Universities
From Tactics to Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
This book is intended to serve as a road map for strategy creation and execution for leaders and decision makers who, by choice or by necessity, are looking to use strategy to optimize the development of their institutions. It is the first book of its kind to focus exclusively on strategy as it applies...
Decide to Lead
Building Capacity and Leveraging Change through Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Decide to Lead explores decision-making and all its complexity. Decision-making is, and has always been at the heart and soul of leadership activity. Leaders are responsible and held accountable for the decisions that are made within the organization, whether they personally make them or not. Enhanced...
College Student Retention
Formula for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.
In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue...
by Grace Budrys, PhD, Professor Emerita
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Our Unsystematic Health Care System presents readers with a comprehensive overview of the U.S. health care delivery system. Significantly revised and updated, the fourth edition explores the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," as it unfolds—including both challenges and successes....
by Regina Luttrell, Jamie Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
A Practical Guide to Ethics in Public Relations is designed for courses in contemporary studies of public relations and communications. This text highlights the delicate balance required to navigate the values and demands implicit to the field of public relations and those that underlie society as...
Education Game Changers
Leadership and the Consequence of Policy Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Education Game Changers describes policy paradoxes challenging the sustainability of educational provision as we know it and the imperatives they present for educational leadership, business, and governance. This book critiques the paradoxical education policy context while exploring alternative futures...
The Ethics of Business
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In a field dominated by books that focus exclusively on the perspective of business in large corporations or that assume that business has a moral deficiency in need of reform, Al Gini and Alexei Marcoux offers students and business people alike a concise guide to
what everyone ought to do when doing...
Defying the Odds
The 2016 Elections and American Politics, Post 2018 Election Update
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Now updated to include the 2018 midterms and previewing the coming 2020 election cycle, Defying the Odds provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. With its keen insights...
Presidential Leadership
Politics and Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
With a focus on presidential leadership, the authors address the capacity of chief executives to fulfill their tasks, exercise their powers, and utilize their organizational structures to affect the output of government. The authors examine all aspects of the presidency in rich detail, including the...
Trumped
The 2016 Election That Broke All the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In 2016, Donald Trump broke almost all the rules of politics to win the Republican nomination and, even more improbably, to edge out heavily favored Hillary Clinton in one of the great upsets in presidential campaign history. In Trumped: The 2016 Election That Broke All the Rules, Larry Sabato, Kyle...
Tangled Titans
The United States and China
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs—that between the United States and China. How the relationship evolves will have a defining impact on the future of world politics, the Asian region, and the citizens of many...
Hard Choices
Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention. Operations designed to alleviate suffering and achieve peace sometimes produce damaging results. The United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, military and civilian agencies alike find...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
As the world's most dynamic region, Asia embodies explosive economic growth, diverse political systems, vibrant societies, modernizing militaries, cutting-edge technologies, rich cultural traditions amid globalization, and strategic competition among major powers. As a result, international relations...
The United States and Northeast Asia
Debates, Issues, and New Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Since World War II, the United States has played a crucial role in shaping Northeast Asian politics and economics. However, as this authoritative book shows, the Cold War's demise, September 11, and America's major strategic realignments have unleashed seismic changes in the region. China's rise,...