Lexington Books: 3858 books
Yokohama and the Silk Trade
How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This study provides a broad political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the economic role of Japan’s eastern interior region and that of the port of Yokohama. It argues that the economic development in this period laid the foundations...
Dealing with a Juggernaut
Analyzing Poland's Policy toward Russia, 1989-2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Dealing with a Juggernaut: Analyzing Poland's Policy towards Russia, 1989D2009, by Joanna A. Gorska, is the first substantial study of Poland's foreign policy interaction with its more powerful eastern neighbor, Russia. This study is essential to understanding the prospects for order and peace in...
Population, Migration, and Socioeconomic Outcomes among Island and Mainland Puerto Ricans
La Crisis Boricua
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
At the landmark centennial anniversary of the 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act, which granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, the island confronts an unfolding humanitarian crisis initially triggered by an acute economic crisis surging since 2006. Analyzing large datasets such as the American Community Survey...
Immortal Passage
Philosophical Speculations on Posthuman Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Immortal Passage: Philosophical Speculations on Posthuman Evolution is Asher Seidel's speculative account of posthuman evolution. Seidel begins with the transitional period in which humans begin to live for significantly extended periods, then moves to the closer future in which, having transitioned,...
Thinking about Technology
How the Technological Mind Misreads Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The world we make reflects the way reality is perceived, and today the world is perceived primarily in technological terms. So argues Gil Germain in Thinking About Technology: How the Technological Mind Misreads Reality. Given the connection between perception and action, or thinking and doing, Germain...
Africans in Global Migration
Searching for Promised Lands
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
A common thread in this book is the depiction of the African diasporas, not only as a cultural epiphenomena (or interlocking communities), but also as a process characterized by identity transformations, lived experiences and realities, including the capturing of the historical trends that are acted...
The Development of Economic Thought
An Overview
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book provides an overview or an introduction to the development of economic thought from the time of the early Greek and Roman writers to the mid-20th century. It provides a basic, no frills account of how economic ideas which were first cited by the early philosophers were later refined by the...
New Frontiers in China's Foreign Relations
Zhongguo Waijiao de Xin Bianjiang
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
This book stands as a rebuke to any who would attempt to forward simplistic interpretations of China's rise. In place of parsimonious arguments, or an endorsement of any singular set of images (whether pacific or confrontational), it repeatedly calls attention to the remarkable complexity of China's...
Changing Security Policies in Postwar Japan
The Political Biography of Japanese Defense Minister Sakata Michita
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book is the English translation of a recent biography of Sakata Michita, one of Japan’s leading, yet unassuming, politicians in the postwar era, who was even considered a serious contender for the premiership. While he did not become prime minister himself, he did serve as Justice Minister,...
by Emily Chamlee-Wright, Brian P. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
In all of the contemporary economics textbooks that have been written there is typically at least one chapter that addresses 'market failure.' Markets Don't Fail! is a response to what author Brian Simpson sees as a fundamental error in the thinking of some economists. The chapter titles of this book...
Mexico-U.S. Migration Management
A Binational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
The need to understand the migration between the United States and Mexico is greater today than at any time in its century long history. Its volume and complexity are greater than most observers might have imagined even a decade ago; and it operates in a context charged with serious human, political,...
Puerto Rico
Independence, Industrial Policy, and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Puerto Rico is experiencing its deepest economic crisis since the first half of the twentieth century. The unique political and economic relationship between the US and Puerto Rico arguably plays a fundamental role in this crisis. With these in mind and given the imposition of the Financial Oversight...
Global Economics
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2018
Global Economics looks beyond the mere interaction of national economies as is implied by the term 'international economics.' It examines the integration of national economies into the emerging global economy. In keeping with the subtitle A Holistic Approach, the book considers the roles of technology,...
Debating Security in Turkey
Challenges and Changes in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Debating Security in Turkey: Challenges and Changes in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ebru Canan-Sokullu, gives a detailed account of the strategic security agenda facing Turkey in an era of uncertainty and swift transformation in global politics, and regional and local dynamics. The contributors...