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The String Instrument Owner's Handbook

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015

In The String Instrument Owner’s Guide, Michael Pagliaro surveys the complete “ownership life cycle” of bowed string instruments. A touchstone work for uninitiated and advanced players, The String Instrument Owner’s...

Looking Through Philosophy in Black: Memoirs (Global Critical Caribbean Thought)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018

This autobiography is a series of interrelated true-life events and decisions taken by a black philosopher that highlight the human drama unfolding in the inferno of the South African apartheid system. Mabogo More details what it means to be a black philosopher in an anti-black apartheid academic world. More’s life story...

Uproar: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

If “these are the times that test men’s souls,” never more than for the leader’s ability to think clearly, to be present calmly, and to challenge effectively. It’s a time when leaders cannot be as anxious as those they serve; otherwise, the system is leaderless. Anxiety flows down like water from a leaky...

The Laughing Guide to a Better Life: Using Humor and Science to Improve Yourself, Your Relationships, and Your Surroundings

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

The motto of this book is smarter through laughter. If you can laugh about it, you can probably change it. The authors use a heavy dose of humor (the laughing side), and a healthy measure of science (the learning side) to help you improve yourself, your relationships, and your surroundings. The book introduces the “I CAN...

Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste,...

Media Ethics: Issues and Cases

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018

Media Ethics, Ninth Edition is a diverse, classroom tested compilation of 60 diverse cases that will help students prepare for the ethical situations they will confront in their media careers. Ninety percent of the cases are based on actual events, and authors from many institutions and...

Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

More than any other sport, boxing has a history of being easy to rig. There are only two athletes and one or both may be induced to accept a bribe; if not the fighters, then the judges or referee might be swayed. In such inviting circumstances, the mob moved into boxing in the 1930s and profited by corrupting a sport ripe for...

Tame Your Anxiety: Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Anxiety is natural. Calm is learned.

If you didn’t learn yesterday, you can learn today.

It’s not easy, of course. Once your natural alarm system is triggered, it’s hard to find the off switch. Indeed, you don’t have an off switch until you build one....

Studying Foreign Policy Comparatively: Cases and Analysis (New Millennium Books in International Studies)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018

What is foreign policy? What do we know about why states pursue certain foreign policies and not others? What factors go into the shaping of foreign policy? Studying Foreign Policy Comparatively, Fourth Edition (formerly titled The New...

The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis (New Politics of Autonomy)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

Through the concepts of the ‘coloniality of asylum’ and ‘solidarity as method’, this book links the question of the state to the one of civil society; in so doing, it questions the idea of ‘autonomous politics’, showing how both refugee mobility and solidarity are intimately marked by the...

Women in Ming China (Asian Voices)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Bret Hinsch explores in detail the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education,...

Naked Screenwriting

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021

LEW: What is a screenwriter? Somewhere between the pulsating pentameters of a poet and the humdrum hindsight of a historian, there lives a curious and wondrous creature known as a screenwriter. Working screenwriters can be found at Vegas, the racetrack, the tennis courts, their favorite bars; nonworking screenwriters, same or at...

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