Lexington Books: 3858 books
America's 'War on Terrorism'
New Dimensions in U.S. Government and National Security
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
How has 9/11 and George W. Bush's self-declared 'war' on terror changed American government and US foreign policy? This is the central question addressed in the nine original essays in this book. Following an introduction by the editors, in which they survey issues and debates raised by America's...
Leaving Christendom for Good
Church-World Dialogue in a Secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Leaving Christendom for Good argues that the solution to some of the most troubling tensions in the life of the Catholic Church since Vatican II can be found in the council’s document Gaudium et spes. This text’s view of the church’s mission and social relationships as dialogical has the capacity...
Transforming Higher Education
Economy, Democracy, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming'...
Organ Donation in Japan
A Medical Anthropological Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Organ Donation in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study by Maria-Keiko Yasuoka reveals insight into Japan as the country with the most severe organ shortages and the lowest numbers of organ donations among medically advanced countries. The history of organ transplantation in Japan is a unique and...
Globalizing de Gaulle
International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, 1958–1969
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision_conceived out of national interest_of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his...
Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia
Mutual Representations in Academic Projects
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests...
The Legacy of the Cold War
Perspectives on Security, Cooperation, and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to explicate its legacy. But instead of relying on preconceived formulas to project past developments, taking...
Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain
The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in Europe. The Soviet Union established...
Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity
Cross-National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs...
Dancing Bodies of Devotion
Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam examines how Bharata Natyam, a traditionally Hindu storytelling dance form, moves across religious boundaries through both incorporating choreography on Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, and Jain themes and the pluralistic identities of participants....
Political Conversion
Personal Transformation as Strategic Public Communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Stories of religious conversion have been told for millennia. Yet many prominent figures such as Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and Rick Perry have also used stories of their change from one political worldview to another as a communication strategy aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the public....
by Jason Waller
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book concerns the nature of time and ordinary cases of persistence in Spinoza. The author argues for three major interpretive claims. First, that Spinoza is committed to an eternalist theory of time whereby all things (whether they seem to be past, present, or future) are equally real. Second,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The explosive growth of Pentecostalism has radically transformed Latin America’s religious landscape within the last half century or so. In a region where Catholicism reigned hegemonic for centuries, the expansion of Pentecostalism has now resulted in a situation of religious pluralism and competition,...
Is the Good Book Good Enough?
Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal development in America in the past quarter century. And while their voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They continue to be caricatured as anti-intellectual...