Lexington Books: 3858 books
by Dhurba Rizal
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
The book puts into plain words a changing dimension of politics in a traditional regime and offers an insight into the emerging transition to royal, semi-authoritarian democracy in Bhutan. Bhutan represents a political system which coalesces the rhetorical acquiescence of democracy with illiberal...
by Lionel Babicz, Wered Ben-Sade, Michal Daliot-Bul
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This book introduces a multilayered approach to the study of democracy, combining specific knowledge of Japan with theoretical insights from the literature on democratization. It examines different aspects of Japanese democracy—historical, institutional, and sociocultural—to provide a conscious...
by Ethan Alexander-Davey, Steven D. Ealy, Khalil M. Habib
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Recognized as one of the greatest novelists of all-time, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to inspire and instigate questions about religion, philosophy, and literature. However, there has been a neglect looking at his political thought: its philosophical and religious foundations, its role in nineteenth-century...
Subjectivity
Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism...
Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality
Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality: Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society is an examination of the social and cultural geography of Java. This book penetrates and surveys the Javanese world, and examines the traditions, customs, arts, urban habitation, polity, history, and...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala
Racism, Genocide, Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
In this engaged critique of the geopolitics of knowledge, Egla Martínez Salazar examines the genocide and other forms of state terror such as racialized feminicide and the attack on Maya childhood, which occurred in Guatemala of the 1980s and '90s with the full support of Western colonial powers....
Persons and Liberal Democracy
The Ethical and Political Thought of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Fundamentally, Persons and Liberal Democracy is an explication and defense of classical liberalism. It explains the relatively recent shift in the Church's political theory and, in the process, defends what could be deemed a non-statist form of welfare liberalism. After an introduction, the first...
Social Networking and Impression Management
Self-Presentation in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, provides original research on key issues in the field of identity management and social networking sites. The contributors to this volume draw on current research in the field and offer...
Contradictions of Employee Involvement in Organizational Change
The Transformation Efforts in NCJM, An Indian Industrial Cooperative
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
This monograph narrates the decade-long struggle of workers, unions, and management in transforming one of the largest ailing family-owned jute businesses in India, into a sustainable worker-owned and governed cooperative. It focuses on the variation in the three groups’ involvement in the transformation....
Does Collective Impact Work?
What Literacy Coalitions Tell Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
The book seeks to demonstrate the ways in which collective impact approaches have guided the development of literacy coalitions over time. Since community collaboration strategies developed to address social issues, coalitions have grown from small networking organizations to powerful forces for change....
History vs. Apologetics
The Holocaust, the Third Reich, and the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Set within the context of the political and ideological developments of the time, History vs. Apologetics examines the role played by the Catholic Church in the rise and consolidation of the Third Reich and in particular with regard to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Distanced in the beginning,...
The Economics and Politics of High-Speed Rail
Lessons from Experiences Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The technological revolution linked to high speed rail (HSR) has been accompanied by myths and claims about its contribution to society and the economy. Although HSR is unquestionably a technological advance that has become a symbol of modernity, this review and analysis of the international experiences...
The Ontology and Function of Money
The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The central thesis of the book is that in order to evaluate monetary policy, one should have a clear idea about the characteristics and functions of money as it evolved and in its current form. That is to say that without an understanding about how money evolved as a social institution, what it is...