Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
Chinese Foreign Relations
Power and Policy since the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Displaying new assertiveness and prominence, China under President Xi Jinping is rightly considered an emerging superpower backed by growing economic and impressive military strength. But this is only part of the story of China’s rise. As Robert G. Sutter shows in this meticulous and balanced assessment,...
Education Myths
What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
How can we fix America's floundering public schools? Conventional wisdom says that schools and teachers need a lot more money, that poor and immigrant children can't do as well as most American kids, that high-stakes tests just produce teaching to the test, and that vouchers do little to help students...
by Stephen J. McNamee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Meritocracy Myth challenges the widely held American belief in meritocracy—that people get out of the system what they put into it based on individual merit. The book examines talent, attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and evaluates the effect of nonmerit factors such as...
Financing Community Colleges
Where We Are, Where We're Going
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Grounded in an economic perspective, Financing Community Colleges: Where We Are, Where We're Going helps college leaders make sense of the challenges they face in securing and managing the resources needed to carry out the community college mission. Finance has perpetually been an Achilles heel for...
America's Failing Experiment
How We the People Have Become the Problem
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Written in a provocative, jargon-free style ideal for stimulating classroom discussion, America’s Failing Experiment directly challenges would-be reformers who believe the solution to our current political paralysis is more democracy. Kirby Goidel finds that the fault for our contemporary political...
The Wandering Mind
Understanding Dissociation from Daydreams to Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Have you ever had a daydream? If so, you’ve had a dissociative experience. The same is true if you’ve had an out-of-body moment or thought you were somewhere else as you drifted off to sleep. These are seemingly harmless and temporary dissociations. But further down the spectrum of such experiences,...
by Uwe Jens Rudolf
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
Malta, has been visited and influenced over the centuries by many different peoples and cultures. The site of the oldest free-standing, man-made structures known to exist, Malta has been occupied by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Arabs, Normans, the Knights of St. John, Swabians, Angevins, French, and...
The Millennial Mindset
Unraveling Fact from Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
We’ve all heard that Millennials are smarter than everyone else, unique in every way possible, that they have probably been millionaires since age seven, and that they are poised to take over the world. We’ve also heard that they are lazy, unmotivated, entitled, and condescending know-it-alls....
Presidential Transitions
It's Not Just the Position, It's the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution. Hundreds of presidential transitions take place annually, and when they are not amicable and carefully orchestrated, they can scar both the institution and the president. Sanaghan, Goldstein, and Gaval estimate that more than...
Leadership and School Boards
Guarding the Trust in an Era of Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
School boards shape society through systems of education. They choose who leads the system and how educators are selected to lead classrooms. They approve the allocation of millions of dollars every year. As leaders, the school board determines how their community defines the values, resources, and...
Searching for Higher Education Leadership
Advice for Candidates and Search Committees
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Dowdall's book offers sample documents for candidates as well as for the search committees, and includes a substantive bibliography. From her vantage point outside the institution, Dowdall is able to provide a unique point of view and insightful comments on the complex and often daunting process of...
Running Against the Wind
A Handbook for Presidents and Chancellors
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Leading an institution of higher education requires an understanding of the responsibilities of the position, the diversity of its constituencies, and the complexity of the environment. This volume describes the structure and function of campus leadership and the interests of constituent groups as...
Taking Parenting Public
The Case for a New Social Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment—both personal and public—into the work of raising children and argues that we are all 'stockholders' in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia...
How to be a "HIP" College Campus
Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Through the voices of dozens of seasoned college faculty and junior and senior students, this book shares insights and practical examples on how a college campus can be “HIP”—utilizing high-impact educational practices widely and effectively. The book’s strength is numerous hands-on examples...