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The Making of Les Bleus

Sport in France, 1958-2010

by Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012

The Making of Les Bleus traces the Fifth Republic’s quest to create elite athletes in two global team sports, football and basketball, primarily at the youth level. While the objective of this mission was to improve performances at international competitions, such programs were quickly seized upon...
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The Guardians on Trial

The Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues from Euthyphro to Phaedo

by William H. F. Altman
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016

Based on a conception of Reading Order introduced and developed in his Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington; 2012) and *The Guardians in Action: Plato the Teacher and the Post-*Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus (Lexington; 2016), William H. F. Altman now completes his...
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Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America

Promise and Resistance

by María Gracia Andía, Daniel Bonilla, Margarita Corral
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012

This book is a follow-up volume to Same-Sex Marriage in the Americas: Policy Innovation for Same-Sex Relationships published by Lexington Books in 2010. It sheds light on regional, national, and individual-level factors that have led to major developments for same-sex relationship equality in Latin...
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Israel and the European Union

A Documentary History

by Sharon Pardo, Joel Peters
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012

Israel's relations with the European Union stretch back to the early days of the European Community and the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 1957. From that point onward, Israel and Europe have developed an increasingly strong network of political, economic, scientific, and cultural ties. These relations...
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The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

Republicanism, the Class Struggle, and the Virtuous Farmer

by Douglass G. Adair
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2000

The Intellectual Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy, available for the first time in this Lexington Books edition, is Douglass Adair's first major work of historical inquiry. Adair was a mentor to many of the nation's leading scholars and has long been admired for his original and profound observations...
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The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China

A Study in the Economics of Marginalization

by Andrew Martin Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013

Series: Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture, Lexington Books Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Since the central government of China started major campaigns for western development in the mid-1990s, the economies of the Tibetan areas in Western China have grown rapidly and...
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The Guardians in Action

Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus

by William H. F. Altman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016

If you’ve ever wondered why Plato staged Timaeus as a kind of sequel to Republic, or who its unnamed missing fourth might be; or why he joined Critias to Timaeus, and whether or not that strange dialogue is unfinished; or what we should make of the written critique of writing in Phaedrus, and of...
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by Jennifer Beidendorf, Mary Elizabeth Bezanson, Lauren Rose Camacci
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature is an edited volume with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric offering case studies that analyze a full array of genres in children’s literature from picture books to young adult novels. Collectively, this volume’s contributions...
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Landscape in American Guides and View Books

Visual History of Touring and Travel

by Herbert Gottfried
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012

Landscape in American Guides and View Books: Visual History of Touring and Travel is vested in the American relationship to landscape and the role guidebooks and view books played in touring and travel experiences, including immigration. Early in the history of the republic, the relationship to landscape...
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The Américas Award

Honoring Latino/a Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Americas

by Candace Doerr-Stevens, Patricia Enciso, Leanne M. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international...
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by Matthew Wranovix
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017

This book analyzes the acquisition and use of texts by the parish clergy in the diocese of Eichstätt between 1400 and 1520 to refute the amusing, but misleading, image of the lustful and ignorant cleric so popular in the satirical literature of the period. By the fifteenth-century, more widely available...
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Packaging Post/Coloniality

The Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World

by Richard Watts
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005

In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the 'paratext'—the covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, and prefaces or forewords...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011

This book allows philosophers, literary theorists, and education specialists to come together to offer a series of readings on works of children’s literature. Each of their readings is focused on pairing a particular, popular picture book or a chapter book with philosophical texts or themes. The...
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by Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Eva Lupold, Christiane E. Farnan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though series...
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