Lexington Books: 3858 books
Mosh the Polls
Youth Voters, Popular Culture, and Democratic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
This timely, highly readable edited collection undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of the innovative ways in which both the political process and the entertainment industry appeal to voters under the age of 30 and how the intended audience receives these endeavors. Along the way, contributors...
The New Minorities of Europe
Social Cohesion in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
The New Minorities of Europe: Social Cohesion in the European Unionargues that while the EU currently faces economic issues, it is pressed with larger questions and potential problems due to the backlash against those who move freely inside the union. It uses the intra-EU migrants, particularly the...
Gender and Development in Nigeria
One Hundred Years of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
In this edited volume, Nigerian scholars from a variety of disciplines examine the relationship between gender and Nigeria’s pathways of development in the last 100 years of its nationhood. This analysis is set against the background of unequal power dynamics between women and men, and specifically...
by Vishwanie Maharaj
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
Each year, thirteen million anglers enjoy the sport of saltwater angling in the United States, generating an estimated $30 billion in sales and supporting nearly 350,000 jobs. Recreational saltwater fishing, however, can significantly impact species of concern-species overfished or experiencing overfishing....
Broadcast Pharmaceutical Advertising in the United States
Primetime Pill Pushers
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
How often do we stop to recognize what pharmaceutical advertisements are telling us? Broadcast Pharmaceutical Advertising in the United States: Prime Time Pill Pushers engages with this question to include how pharmaceutical companies are shaping the meaning of drug interventions for individuals and...
Indian Diaspora in the United States
Brain Drain or Gain?
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
Indian Diaspora in the United States takes a new perspective on the topic of brain drain, departing from the traditional literature to include discussions on brain gain and brain circulation using Indian migration to the United States as a case study. Sahay acknowledges that host country policies...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2006
Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy is the most comprehensive book of its kind, offering an updated examination of Canada's international role some 15 years after the dismantling of the Berlin Wall ushered in a new era in world politics. Tackling recent developments in Canadian foreign policy, the...
Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Human Security
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This anthology of scholarly essays on climate change, sustainable development, and human security presents a comprehensive analysis of severe global warming and its potential to impact all aspects of human life and security. It has been observed that climate change will most drastically impact poor...
Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact
Health Effects and Environmental Justice Struggles Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
In the post World War II period, modern societies have developed numerous heterogeneous synthetic organic compounds released into the environment and human habitats either deliberately or by industrial accidents. The threats posed by these contaminants and other hazardous wastes to human health and...
Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication
Theory and Roots
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This book contains chapter contributions written by scholars from around the world who engage in country- and region-specific case studies...
by Jean-Etienne Joullié, Robert Spillane
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book proposes a review of important Western philosophies and their significance for managers, management academics, and management consultants. Management theories taught in management schools that managers and consultants are supposed to apply are built upon different perspectives of the world,...
The Vietnam War Debate
Hans J. Morgenthau and the Attempt to Halt the Drift into Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
This book tells the story of how America's national leadership failed the nation and produced the greatest foreign policy disaster in American history to that time. It is foremost, however, the story of a great man who tried to halt his nation's drift into what became an American tragedy. It is also...
by Gökçe Bayındır Goularas, Leonidas Karakatsanis, Natalya Ketenci
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Greek–Turkish relations, despite some détente periods in their shared history, have been generally characterized by hostility and antagonism. But a significant breakthrough in Greek–Turkish relations was achieved in 1999, although certain signs of rapprochement were already present in the pre-1999...
Market New Products Successfully
Using Simulated Test Market Technology
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
Innovation remains an arduous and painful process for many companies, doing untold damage to brands, profitability, and careers. Some have used line extensions to mitigate risk, but all too often they have ended up extending the core brand into oblivion. Others have used test markets to help gauge...