Lexington Books: 3858 books
Dignity, Justice, and the Nazi Data Debate
On Violating the Violated Anew
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In this work, Carol V.A. Quinn (re)constructs the survivors’ arguments in the debate concerning the ethics of using Nazi medical data, showing what it would mean to take their claims seriously. She begins with a historical case and presents arguments that help make sense of the following claims:...
by Sidney Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness examines Congress, the Presidency, the public, and public policy, demonstrating the important impact of the public's selfishness, morality, compassion, and religious beliefs on the American political system. The influence of public opinion on our...
Latinos and the Voting Rights Act
The Search for Racial Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This volume explores the role race and racism played in the Texas redistricting process and the creation and passage of the state’s Voter Identification Law in 2011. The author puts forth research techniques designed to uncover racism and racist intentions even in the face of denials by the public...
De-signing Design
Cartographies of Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, and Hélène Frichot, bring together diverse approaches to design theory, practice,...
Fractured Parties
How Recent Elections Have Exposed Weaknesses in American Political Parties
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
America is so ethnically, geographically, socially, and spiritually diverse that a book on party strength in any other country would be less complex. The American state of democracy, however, is a pastiche of culture, economics, and community.
Fractured Parties is a walk through America’s...
Space Is Power
The Seven Rules of Territory
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
From Russia’s annexation of Crimea to China’s ‘nine-dash line’ in the South China Sea, it is clear that territory is as important in international politics now as it has ever been. Yet too few contemporary foreign policy makers, journalists, and scholars are able to speak coherently about...
by Rita J. Simon, Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
This book focuses on military conscription in 22 countries that represent the world's regions. The purpose is to shed light on the history, politics, and main events that led to the choice of conscription or professional military forces in the countries under study. While we acknowledge that practical...
Kazakhstan in the Making
Legitimacy, Symbols, and Social Changes
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Kazakhstan is one of the best-known success stories of Central Asia, perhaps even of the entire Eurasian space. It boasts a fast growing economy—at least until the 2014 crisis—a strategic location between Russia, China, and the rest of Central Asia, and a regime with far-reaching branding strategies....
Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America
A Janus-Faced Paradigm?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America presents a nuanced and evidence-based discussion of both the acceptance and co-optation of the transitional justice framework and its potential abuses in the context of the struggle to keep the memory of the past alive and hold perpetrators...
by Ali M. Nizamuddin
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Throughout world history, what human beings ate was determined by what local producers cultivated, and what they planted was determined by seasonal cycles. After the harvest, farmers reclaimed the seeds so that they could replant them the following season. Today, however, these age-old practices that...
How Video Games Impact Players
The Pitfalls and Benefits of a Gaming Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
How Video Games Impact Players provides a balanced and nuanced look at the complex role that video games play in society through an analysis of the positive and negative effects of game rules, feedback, and self-presentation. Rogers examines the positive aspects of video games like their use in education,...
by David W. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2003
In this provocative study, David W. Hall argues that Calvinism had a greater influence on America's founders than contemporary scholars, and perhaps even the founders themselves, have understood. Calvinism's insistence that human rulers tend to err played a significant role in the founders' prescription...
Religion and the State
Europe and North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state...
Building Trust
Doing Research to Understand Ethnic Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
This book studies five ethnic communities_South Asian Americans, African Americans, Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Somoan Americans_to understand how their members feel about being studied by researchers. American society has always had tension between and among ethnic groups, and yet...