Lexington Books: 3858 books
The Path of American Public Policy
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Among all the worlds’ democracies, the American system of government is perhaps the most self-conscious about preventing majority tyranny. The American constitutional system is predicated on an inherent ideational and institutional tension dating back to the foundation of the nation in the eighteenth...
DIY Utopia
Cultural Imagination and the Remaking of the Possible
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
At first glance, contemporary popular culture, filled with bleak images of the future, seems to have given up on the possibility of positive collective change. Below the surface, however, alternative culture is rife with artist-led projects, activist movements, and subcultural communities of interest...
by Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Robert F. Jefferson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks explores the intersecting characteristics of civil rights struggle and political activism that was...
by David Lane, Stefan Schmalz, Richard T. Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Since the end of the World War II, nation states have formed regions to give them some protection from the processes of globalization and internationalization. Against this background, the contributors consider the position of China in the processes of regional competitive interdependency. This book...
Intermedialities
Philosophy, Arts, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research called 'intermedialities.' The concept of intermedialities stresses the necessity of situating philosophical and...
Pathways of Human Development
Explorations of Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Pathways of Human Development uses theoretical perspectives from developmental, social, and behavioral sciences to examine the many ways that individuals, families, and communities intersect and interface. Focusing on the impact of change on human development, including its antecedents, processes,...
by Dennis Arjo
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book is a detailed examination of parental authority: what justifies and what are the proper limits of a parent’s authority over her children? Dennis Arjo focuses on and criticizes attempts to answer these and related questions in the context of liberal philosophy of education. He also offers...
by James C. Howell, Mark W. Lipsey, John J. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This handbook promotes a comprehensive strategy founded on evidence-based programming for juvenile justice systems to adopt or enhance their current system. The comprehensive strategy is supported strongly by the broad research base that is now available. This strategy recognizes, first, that a relatively...
Inside the College Gates
How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
To date, scholars in higher education have examined the ways in which students' experiences in the classroom and the human capital they attain impact social class inequalities. In this book, Jenny Stuber argues that the experiential core of college life-the social and extra-curricular worlds of higher...
Same-Sex Marriage, Context, and Lesbian Identity
Wedded but Not Always a Wife
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book demonstrates that everyday interactions and struggles over the right words to use are at the heart of the experience of those in same-sex marriages. At a time when same-sex marriage is on the cusp of becoming legal across the United States, the authors demonstrate through in-depth interviews...
Gendered Identities
Criticizing Patriarchy in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
This study is an effort to reveal how patriarchy is embedded in different societal and state structures, including the economy, juvenile penal justice system, popular culture, economic sphere, ethnic minorities, and social movements in Turkey. All the articles share the common ground that the political...
Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election
Her Political and Social Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse is anedited collection that demonstrates the ways in which Clinton has used political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to leadership in her many roles as First Lady, Senator from New York, and Secretary...
A Mindful Teaching Community
Possibilities for Teacher Professional Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
A Mindful Teaching Community: Possibilities for Teacher Professional Learningdescribes a grassroots professional learning journey wherein a group of practicing classroom teachers researches their teaching practices and the role of mindfulness in their learning. Using a mix of methods, this book illustrates...
by Stephanie Greene, Joanna Henryks, David Livert
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Food and Everyday Life provides a qualitative, interpretive, and interdisciplinary examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Edited by Thomas M. Conroy, the book offers a number of complementary approaches and topics around the parameters of the “ordinary, everyday”...