Lexington Books: 3858 books
North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society
Issues and Challenges in Resettlement, Adjustment, and the Learning Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Ongoing ideological or political conflicts in the modern world have led to appalling human rights violations against North Korean defectors who attempt to escape from their repressive country and seek freedom. Although some North Korean defectors have survived the life-threatening escape journey and...
Tanzanian Women in Their Own Words
Stories of Disability and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Tanzanian Women in Their Own Words is a compilation of oral histories by Tanzanian women living with disabilities or chronic illnesses. Beginning with their earliest childhood memories, the narrators weave their life stories through adulthood, telling of the hardships and support systems in their...
by Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Molefi Kete Asante, Daryl B. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work projects the ideas of several writers with the confidence that Africology, the Afrocentric study of...
by Adam Barkman, Alissa Burger, Antonio Sanna
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
This book offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of James Cameron, whose films include successful productions such as the first two Terminator films (1984-91), Aliens (1986), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009), but also lesser known films such as Piranha 2: The Spawning (1981),...
by Michael P. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The focus of this work is a reconstruction of the life and career of an Ulster-Scot fur trader, George Galphin (pronounced Golfin), who immigrated to South Carolina in the colonial period. The thesis of this work is that his life and career helped to shape the history of the backcountry of Georgia...
American Protestants and the Debate over the Vietnam War
Evil was Loose in the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
As American soldiers fought overseas in Vietnam, American churchmen debated the legitimacy and impact of the war at home. While the justness of the war was the primary issue, they also argued over conscientious objection, the legitimacy of protests, the weapons of war, and other related topics. Divided...
Brahman and Dao
Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The present geopolitical rise of India and China evokes much interest in the comparative study of these two ancient Asian cultures. There are various studies comparing Western and Indian philosophies and religions, and there are similar works comparing Chinese and Western philosophy and religion....
China Reinterpreted
Staging the Other in Muromachi Noh Theater
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
China Reinterpreted is the first comprehensive study on the representation of Chinese figures and motifs in Muromachi Japanese noh theater. Given that China had a strong influence on Japanese culture from the sixth to the early seventeenth centuries, research on Japanese reception of Chinese culture...
by Taner Akçam, Cengiz Aktar, Madawi Al-Rasheed
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East addresses the domestic and international politics that have created conditions for contemporary religious cleansing in the Middle East. It provides a platform for a host of distinguished scholars, journalists, human rights activists, and political...
by Randall S. Geller
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This study examines the attitudes and policies on all sides of the majority/minority divide in Israel during the state’s formative decade, and how the social, political, and strategic decisions made vis-à-vis the non-Jewish populations then continue to impact this unique Middle Eastern state today....
Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege
The View from the Country Club
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Exclusive social clubs are traditionally an important site for the consolidation of upper-class power. Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege shows that while the particulars of admission have changed, these clubs remain socially significant incubators. Having interviewed typically inaccessible...
The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television
Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture sheds light on how imaginary works of fiction, film, and television reflect, refract, and respond to the recessionary times specific to the twenty-first century, a sustained period of economic crisis that has earned...
Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God
Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
This volume, with contributions from scholars in political science, literature, and philosophy, examines the mutual influence of reason and religion at the time of the American Founding—especially in the writings and speeches of critical figures in that period, such as Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin,...
by Barbara L. Solow
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The Economic Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade shows how the West Indian slave/sugar/plantation complex, organized on capitalist principles of private property and profit-seeking, joined the western hemisphere to the international trading system encompassing Europe, Africa, North America, and...