Lexington Books: 3858 books
Unequal Motherhoods and the Adoption of Asian Children
Birth, Foster, and Adoptive Mothers
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This book explores a deeply personal aspect of globalization: the adoption of Asian children by white Americans. It is based on dozens of interviews with adoptive mothers and adoption social workers, nearly two hundred letters and essays written by Korean birth mothers who put their children up for...
Prisoners on Criminology
Convict Life Stories and Crime Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
William S. Tregea, a long-time prison teacher, makes prisoners’ stories come alive with eighty prisoner essays integrated in informational chapters tracing shifts in criminality, the U.S. prison build up, and festering inner cities. The chapters review criminological theories through case studies...
News, Public Affairs, and the Public Sphere in a Digital Nation
Rise of the Audience
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Missing from the ongoing conversation about the titanic forces reshaping national journalism is the meaning of daily professional journalism in communities where the majority of Americans live. Edgar Simpson spent a year intimately engaged with all the news streams available in two Midwest counties—one...
by Andrew J. Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right to determine the meaning of their shared group identity, and that such a right is especially important for historically oppressed groups. The author specifies this right by way...
by Zaijun Yuan
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
In its propaganda, the Chinese Communist Party does not deny the value of “democracy”, but it insists that democracy in China can be only “socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics”. The most essential nature of such “democracy” is that it is under the single-party system and it...
Organization Theory and Transnational Social Movements
Organizational Life and Internal Dynamics of Power Exercise within the Alternative Globalization Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Placing it within the theoretical perspectives and debates in Organizational Theory (OT), this book explores the organizational design and internal functioning of a rather emblematic and widely acclaimed transnational social organization: the alternative globalization movement (previously anti-globalization...
Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms
Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This book proffers a new theory of the radical possibilities of contemporary postcolonial feminist writings from Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and the Caribbean, against what can be described as “actually-existing colonialisms.” These writers include prominent and other less-known postcolonial...
History as Prelude
Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world—intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic—creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time—the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors...
The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement
A Biocultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these...
by Richard W. Leeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama, by Richard Leeman, provides an in-depth analysis of President Barack Obama’s speeches and writings to explain the power of the 44th president's speaking.This book argues that, from his earliest writings through his latest presidential speeches, Obama has...
New Perspectives on the Irish Abroad
The Silent People?
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The relationship between Ireland and the diversity of its diasporas has always been complex and multi-layered, but it is not until recently that this reality has really been acknowledged in the public sphere and indeed, amongst the scholarly community generally. This reality is partly a consequence...
Neighborhoods and Crime
The Dimensions of Effective Community Control
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2002
This book is an excellent resource in examining the influence that community control can have on crime.
Alcohol and Violence
The Nature of the Relationship and the Promise of Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This book interrogates new contexts of the alcohol and violence relationship: victimization and injury, Mexican-American youth, elementary school children, advertising, and cross national comparisons. Environmental prevention strategies are deployed towards harm reduction in the alcohol and violence...