Lexington Books: 3858 books
Women's Social and Legal Issues in African Current Affairs
Lifting the Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This volume explores the difficulties that beset African women and inhibit them from excelling in many walks of life in the twenty-first century. Asymmetrical relations in society position women in subjugated and marginalized roles. This is caused by customary practices that have left women in vulnerable...
by Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, Adebayo Fayoyin, Ravindra Kumar Vemula
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries analyzes the ways in which health services, public health administration, and healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication...
State Criminality
The Crime of All Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
State crimes are historically and contemporarily ubiquitous and result in more injury and death than traditional street crimes such as robbery, theft, and assault. Consider that genocide during the 20th century in Germany, Rwanda, Darfur, Albania, Turkey, Ukraine, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and...
The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife
Power, Pragmatism, and Pleasure in Women’s Infidelity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Using a sample collected from Ashley Madison, this book is the result of a yearlong inquiry into women’s extramarital experiences. Ultimately, these women reject the binary proposition of marriage that assumes that either we work on our marriages and remain monogamous within them, or we break up...
The Kyoto School's Takeover of Hegel
Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
The Kyoto School's Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit is Peter Suares' in-depth analysis of the Kyoto School's integration of Western philosophical idealism with Japanese religious traditions. Suares traces the School's attempts to develop a doctrine...
by Steve Odin
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The present volume endeavors to make a contribution to contemporary Whitehead studies by clarifying his axiological process metaphysics, including his theory of values, concept of aesthetic experience, and doctrine of beauty, along with his philosophy of art, literature and poetry. Moreover, it establishes...
Deep Pantheism
Toward a New Transcendentalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book is a study in a new form of religious naturalism called “Deep Pantheism,” which has roots in American Transcendentalism, but also in phenomenology and Asian thought. It argues that the great divide within nature is that between nature naturing and nature natured, the former term defined...
by Agnes Heller
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
A Theory of Feelings examines the problem of human feelings, widely understood, from phenomenological, analytic, and historical perspectives. It begins with an analysis of drives and affects, and pursues the nature of 'feeling' itself, in all of its variability, through a close study of the distinctive...
Charles H. Houston
An Interdisciplinary Study of Civil Rights Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
This study seeks to examine the life and work of Charles Hamilton Houston and the scope of this project will focus on the implementation and organization of the proposed plan in three ways: philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of this legal scholar activist. When...
Community Action against Racism in West Las Vegas
The F Street Wall and the Women Who Brought It Down
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This book chronicles Robert J. McKee's active participation in a successful protest action, led primarily by black females in the historically African American community of West Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2008-2013. The residents protested the closure of a main street (F Street) in their community for...
The Deconstitutionalization of America
The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule, Roger M. Barrus and his coauthors embark on a discussion of American democracy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The present paradox democracy finds itself in can be summed up as 'the best of times...
Coalition Building in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement
Privileged Morality, Race Realities
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
While a great deal of research has been done about many aspects of the death penalty, very little attention has been paid to the movement organized against it. Coalition Building in the Anti-Death Penalty Movement fills that gap with an empirical examination of the external and internal factors that...
Justice Stephen Field's Cooperative Constitution of Liberty
Liberty in Full
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This bookexamines liberty’s Constitutional meaning through the jurisprudence of Justice Stephen Field, one of the late-Nineteenth Century’s most influential Supreme Court Justices. A Lincoln appointee who served on the Court from 1863-1897, Field articulated a view of Constitutional liberty that...
John Paul Stevens
Defender of Rights in Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book examines the judicial opinions and criminal justice policy impact of Justice John Paul Stevens, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most prolific opinion author during his 35-year career on the nation’s highest court. Although Justice Stevens, a Republican appointee of President Gerald Ford, had...