Lexington Books: 3858 books
by Ardi Kia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This book invites readers on a journey through time, to explore the multifaceted history of Central Asia. Through transcontinental passages such as the Silk Road, the book provides links among the major civilizations of China, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean, which in turn influences the characteristics...
An Ethics of Improvisation
Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
An Ethics of Improvisation takes up the puzzles and lessons of improvised music in order to theorize the building blocks of a politically just society. The investigation of what politics can learn from the people who perform and listen to musical improvisation begins with an examination of current...
Language, Identity, and Choice
Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language, Identity and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society provides scholarly insight into how foreign language acquisition influences an individual’s understanding of identity within the African American family. Rooted in sociolinguistic, communication, and bilingual theoretical...
Writing against the Curriculum
Anti-Disciplinarity in the Writing and Cultural Studies Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Writing against the Curriculum responds to the growing popularity of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs in universities and colleges across the United States. Many of these schools employ both an "Introduction to Writing" course and a subsequent...
What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It
A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitment, and Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The unique mission of a public education is to reproduce a civic public. For the most part this will not happen in a vacuum and requires specific institutions, the most prominent of which are the public schools. Publicly supported schools have other functions as well. They socialize, train, produce...
Approaching the U.S. Constitution
Sacred Covenant or Plaything for Lawyers and Judges
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
By reminding readers that early Supreme Court justices refused to reduce the Constitution to a mere legal document, Approaching the U.S. Constitution provides a definitive response to Reading Law by Antonin Scalia and Bryan Garner. Turning to the vision of Alexander Hamilton found in Federalists No....
by George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
In this insightful book about constitutional law and slavery, George Anastaplo illuminates both how the history of race relations in the United States should be approached and how seemingly hopeless social and political challenges can be usefully considered through the lens of the U.S. Constitution....
Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability
The Threat of Financial and Energy Complexes in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Crisis Communication, Liberal Democracy, and Ecological Sustainability provides a detailed and empirical analysis of the institutions, governing logics, risk-management practices, and crisis communication strategies involved in the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the 2010 BP oil crisis, and the 2011...
by Mei-Yee Wong
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This book examines, from a sociological perspective, teacher-student power relations in classroom learning and teaching. The case study consists of four Hong Kong primary schools—and sixteen classrooms therein—that were selected as research sites to explore the concept of teacher-student power...
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
Logic-Based Therapy and Everyday Emotions
A Case-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In this latest book on the popular philosophical practice modality of Logic-Based Therapy, LBT inventor and practitioner, Elliot D. Cohen, develops both theory and practice of LBT within the context of accessible, engaging, and illustrative cases involving everyday emotions, such as anxiety, worry,...
Learning to be Chinese American
Community, Education, and Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Learning to Be Chinese American aims at exploring the complicated identity production process among Chinese immigrants in the United States in relation to the rapidly changing global and local contexts. Based on original ethnographic material collected in an upper-middle class Chinese American community,...
Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School
Social Recapitalization as a Response to Ethnic Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
One of the most controversial policies in Chinese minority education concerns the so-called inland ethnic minority schools or classes in Han inhabited areas in China. Since 2000, boarding Xinjiang Classes have been established in the eastern cities of China for high school students from the Xinjiang...
China's Mongols at University
Contesting Cultural Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Minority students in China often receive preferential treatment for access to universities. However, very little is known about minority student experiences and perceptions on campus after they are accorded what's called "meaningful access" to university.
The Mongols emerged as a...