Lexington Books: 3858 books
by John Cirace
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
This book considers three relationships: law and economics; economics and game theory; and game theory and law. Economists teach lawyers that economic principles cut across and integrate seemingly different legal subjects such as contracts, torts, and property. Correspondingly, lawyers teach economists...
Flexible Work Arrangements
Embracing the Noise to Understand the Silence
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Organizations and U.S. workers across the life course indicate increased interest in flexible work arrangements. More organizations have flexibility on the books, but rates of utilization remain low, and both workers and organizations note operational challenges and concerns. Noticing the commonality...
Revolution in the Social Sciences
Beyond Control Freaks, Conformity, and Tunnel Vision
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Revolution in the Social Sciences centers on integrating knowledge from sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, political science and economics in order to confront increasing worldwide problems that threaten all of us. That integration of knowledge of human behavior is essential for understanding...
Flattering the Demos
Fiction and Democratic Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
This volume brings together reflections on the relationship between politics and storytelling, especially within the democratic context. Examples are drawn from the ancient and modern worlds, from classical Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to television, science fiction, and comic books, in order to...
The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature
Over the Fence
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children’s Literature: Over the Fence analyzes the ways in which myths about farmed animals’ lives are perpetuated in children’s materials. Specifically, this book investigates the use of five recurring thematic devices in about eighty books for young children...
F.C.S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism
The Rhetoric of a Philosophical Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The intellectual history of pragmatism traditionally posits that its origins are found in the works of C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. What if that story is only partially true? Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller, the foremost first generation British pragmatist, was one of the most vocal...
Reading as Democracy in Crisis
Interpretation, Theory, History
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. Chapters covering Plato and Derrida; G.W.F. Hegel; Karl Marx; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Robert Penn Warren; Louise Rosenblatt; Theodor Adorno,...
by Silvia Ammary
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The Influence of the European Culture on Hemingway’s Fiction is an essential companion to all those who study Hemingway. The studydeals with how Hemingway depicts Europe in his fiction, not necessarily from a biographical point of view, as most critical books have dealt with, but how he assimilates...
Utopian Movements and Ideas of the Great Depression
Dreamers, Believers, and Madmen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Utopian Movements and Ideas of the Great Depression explores several lesser known movements for change and reform in the Great Depression Era of the 1930s. It includes studies of a few communal societies, proposals for reform, and analyses of several books written in the 1930s that propose solutions...
Humor in the Gospels
A Sourcebook for the Study of Humor in the New Testament, 1863–2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Humor in the Gospels is the most comprehensive resource on Gospel humor to date. Terri Bednarz reviews and critiques a 150 years of biblical scholarship on the subject from little known journal articles and out-of-print books to the most well respected classical works of today. She covers a range...
by Linda Ethell
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Narrative Identity and Personal Responsibility is about why and how identifying ourselves by means of narrative makes it possible for us to be responsible, morally and otherwise. The book begins as an investigation into how it is that we can hold people responsible for who they are, despite the fact...
Atheists in American Politics
Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Today atheists, it seems, are everywhere. Nonbelievers write best-selling books and proudly defend their views in public; they have even hired a lobbyist. But, as political scientist Richard J. Meagher shows, atheist political activism is not a new phenomenon. From the "Freethought" movement of the...
Literature and Liberty
Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to be anthologized in books of literary theory and criticism and taught in humanities classrooms to the exclusion of other, competing economic paradigms. Marxism is collectivist, predictable, monolithic, impersonal, linear, reductive —...
The Earth Writes
The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post-3/11 Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
This book extensively analyzes the literary works of fiction that draw on the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011. This disaster inspired literally hundreds of fictional works in Japan from the time of the events through 2017. This response represents a unique and...