Böcker utgivna av Rowman & Littlefield

A beautifully written natural history of the more than seventy tree species that grow in New England. Includes detailed illustrations and range maps.

Rural School Leadership: Lesson's from Alaska provides practical school improvement strategies for leaders in rural schools.

Teaching and Teacher Education: Developing Teacher Competencies for Interdisciplinary Instruction introduces interdisciplinary education to teachers and teacher educators.

Sports Journalism introduces students to sports reporting careers and to the writing style sports writers and media relations professionals use. The book stresses the importance of basic writing fundamentals and high ethical standards, essential values for sports journalists. Introductory chapters acquaint readers with issues and challenges in an industry in transition: changing technology, multimedia capability, citizen journalists and bloggers, shrinking news holes, and the deadline-dictated lifestyle of sports journalists. Skills chapters elaborate on news values and the conventions of journalism as they apply to sports writing. From leads to nut grafs, inverted pyramid to Model T, simple sentences to headlines, interviewing to using quotations, Sports Journalism focuses on the basics. The book expands the writer's experience into building relationships with sources and media contacts, using numbers and statistics, practicing AP style, and abiding by legal and ethical standards. An easily accessible format uses checklists, illustrations, and anecdotes to show story organization, news release format, news conference protocol, and media guide content. Chapters include suggested exercises and activities.

This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover all within a 2-hour drive.

Teaching and Teacher Education: Developing Teacher Competencies for Interdisciplinary Instruction introduces interdisciplinary education to teachers and teacher educators.

The USA and The World provides students with vital information on these countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.

The Middle East and South Asia 2020-2022 provides students with vital information on the Middle East and South Asia countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.

This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present.

From 1874 until 1915, the "Storm Warriors" of the Fletchers Neck Life Saving Service and the citizens of the Village of Biddeford Pool shared a common history. Gleaned from local newspapers, stations logbooks, official records of the Life Saving Service, and the papers and memories of involved families, these are tales of men at odds with the fury of nature.

This first of it's kind volume explores the changes in Maine's coast over the centuries, focusing on how geology, glaciation, and climate change have all affected sea levels. Readers will discover the geologic history of the famously rocky coast and the learn about serious issues to be confronted as climate change and human decisions alter the landscape.

A compelling memoir about Kim Heacox's more than thirty-year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska

Judy Garland: The Voice of MGM will be the definitive book about Garland's legendary career at MGM, pulling back the curtain to reveal the truths about that career while also presenting previously unknown details and facts that are sure to delight her fans as well as fans of classic film.

"Considered Sarah Orne Jewett's best work, The Country of the Pointed Firs tells the story of a Boston writer who comes to the Maine seacoast town of Dunnett Landing to finish her book. Instead of finding peace to write, however, she is drawn into a community shaped by long Maine winters, rock, and cold saltwater. This quiet tale of small-town American life captures the inspiration of honest friendships, family, and community. Also includes four short stories that Jewett wrote as sequels to Country of the Pointed Firs"--

The unlikely friendship between professor Brant Healey and Louis, an unlettered, superstitious woodsman, is at the heart of A Place in Mind. These two men love fishing and hunting, the rural Maine landscape, whiskey from tin cups, and the stories that emerge around campfires by cold rivers.