Lexington Books: 3858 books
by Aaron N. Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765–1800 reveals the largely forgotten importance of state sovereignty to American constitutionalism. Contrary to modern popular perceptions and works by other academics, the Founding Fathers did not establish...
Natural Disasters and Risk Communication
Implications of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Megaquake
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Natural Disasters and Risk Communication: Implications of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Megaquake asks and addresses how we communicate about natural disasters and what effect our communication has on natural disaster education, understanding, assessment of risk, preparation, and recovery. The chapters...
Intellectuals and the Communist Idea
The Search for a New Way in Czech Lands from 1890 to 1938
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Intellectuals and the Communist Idea describes how the Communist ideology penetrated into Czech culture and politics from the dawn of the twentieth century into the late 1930s, just before the outbreak of WW II in Europe. Based mainly upon the research of contemporary primary sources, the analysis...
Stalin's Legacy in Romania
The Hungarian Autonomous Region, 1952–1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This study explores the little-known history of the Hungarian Autonomous Region (HAR), a Soviet-style territorial autonomy that was granted in Romania on Stalin’s personal advice to the Hungarian Székely community in the summer of 1952. Since 1945, a complex mechanism of ethnic balance and power-sharing...
by Metta Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, Metta Spencer recounts the political and military changes that have occurred in Russia up to mid-2010. Using hundreds of interviews she conducted with officials, dissidents, and liberal intellectuals, she describes the various groups, forces, and individuals...
Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia
Dimensions, Dynamics, and Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
More than two decades after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Central Asian republics—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—continue to reexamine and debate whom and what they represent.
Nationalism and Identity Construction in Central Asia explores the complex...
The Bioethics of Enhancement
Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central...
Melancholy and the Otherness of God
A Study in the Genealogy, Hermeneutics, and Therapeutics of Depression
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being,...
Merchants and Ministers
A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Two of the most influential forces in American history are business and religion. Merchants and Ministers weaves the two together in a history of the relationship between businesspeople and Christian clergy. From fur traders and missionaries who explored the interior of the continent to Gilded-Age...
Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq
A Feminist Reformulation of Just War Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq offers a feminist critique and reconstruction of just war theory. It points out gender biases in the just war tradition and suggests alternative jus ad bellum and jus in bello standards that emphasize women, political marginality, and empathy. Laura Sjoberg applies...
The Places We Share
Migration, Subjectivity, and Global Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
While some people study globalization, others live their lives as global experiments. This book brings together people who do both. The authors or subjects of these studies are of diverse national, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. What they have in common is a connection to Morocco. It is from this...
by Buffy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Mentoring At-Risk Students through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education reveals how the institutional culture and social networks of universities influence the academic success of underrepresented students. This book is based on a qualitative study that integrates a sociological and higher education...
by Dana H. Allin, Timo Behr, David P. Calleo
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The essays in this volume examine selected national, regional European, and international policies of Charles de Gaulle, giving consideration to their significance in his own time, and today. Not everything de Gaulle did withstands the test of time. Nor, obviously, was everything beyond criticism...
Water Resource Conflicts and International Security
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Water Resource Conflicts and International Security: A Global Perspective is an edited collection by Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi which analyzes the increasing global demand for water in economic and social development, and the dire need to efficiently manage this vital natural resource, particularly in water-scarce...