Lexington Books: 3858 books
by Ty Matejowsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Few contemporary societies remain beyond the global reach of today’s fast food industry. In both profound and subtle ways, this style of cuisine and the corporate brands that promote it have effectively transformed the appetites, health profiles, and consumer sensibilities of millions the world...
Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors
Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Economic Life of Mexican Beach Vendors*: Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas* is based on interviews with 82 men and 84 women who vend their wares on beaches in three Mexican tourist centers. Assuming that some people may actively choose self-employment in the informal or semi-informal economy,...
Global Capitalist Crisis and the Second Great Depression
Egalitarian Systemic Models for Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this comprehensive work, Armando Navarro delivers a timely analysis of the global capitalist crisis that has arisen in the United States. Navarro offers a wide-ranging political historical analysis of events the led up to the present co-called “Second Great Depression.” Starting with the end...
India's Working Women and Career Discourses
Society, Socialization, and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This book examines Indian women's perception of their work and family lives at the intersection of postmodernity and tradition through the lenses of society, socialization, and agency. In face-to-face interviews with seventy-seven women across socio-economic statuses, occupations, generations, castes,...
Solidarity Forever?
Race, Gender, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) remains one of the best examples of a labor union that traces its origins to radical anti-racist principles. Today, very few mainstream unions remain that were founded on militant, radical, and “anti-racist” principles. The ILWU remains the...
Professional Ethics
A Trust-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
It is widely recognized that professionals such as doctors, nurses, engineers, and teachers have duties that go far beyond those of ordinary citizens, but there is much disagreement as to why they have such duties. In Professional Ethics: A Trust-Based Approach, Terrence Kelly argues that such duties...
The Freedom of Peaceful Action
On the Origin of Individual Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The Freedom of Peaceful Action is the first installment of the trilogy The Nature of Liberty, which makes an ethical philosophic case for individual liberty and the free market against calls for greater government regulation and control. The trilogy makes a purely secular and nonreligious ethical...
Build a Better Vision Statement
Extending Research with Practical Advice
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Build a Better Vision Statement summarizes scientific research, along with advice from thirty entrepreneurs and CEOs of well-known and award winning companies, on how to write, communicate, and implement an effective vision statement. This book contains dozens of company vision statements along with...
Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens
Counterstories and Counterspaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This timely, readable text offers an authoritative and balanced analysis of how racially driven policies in America impact post release education as a leading pathway to social reintegration. Compelling research findings from an assemblage of college faculty, seasoned administrators, and criminal...
by José Alaniz, David Brooks, Megan E. Cannella
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of -...
Globalization in Africa
Perspectives on Development, Security, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
This book presents critical perspectives on the impacts of globalization in Africa with particular reference to the crisis of development and governance, the crisis of peace and security, and the environmental crisis. It explores both global and local factors that exacerbate these crises, and seeks...
Balanced Trade
Ending the Unbearable Costs of America’s Trade Deficits
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
How should a principled nation which believes in the benefits of mutually beneficial trade respond to the predations of mercantilist trading partners and imbalanced trade? Many argue that the response should be to do little or nothing. Balanced Trade argues that achieving the full benefits of international...
by Benedikt Koehler
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism shows that globalized trade and capitalism originated in trade practices of pre-Islamic Arabs, which were copied by European trade partners in the Middle Ages in European markets. Promotion of free trade across the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages created the condition for capitalism to emerge in Europe.
Embedded Racism
Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Despite domestic constitutional provisions and international treaty promises, Japan has no law against racial discrimination. Consequently, businesses around Japan display “Japanese Only” signs, denying entry to all 'foreigners' on sight. Employers and landlords routinely refuse jobs and apartments...