Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
by Starla Anderson, Maria Blevins, Teresa Blevins
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic....
Professional Development Schools and Social Justice
Schools and Universities Partnering to Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This bookextends the national discussion about the Professional Development School (PDS) movement of the past three decades. The volume highlights school/university partnerships’ focus on collaborative activities that endeavor to promote social justice in and across P-12 and university classrooms,...
Trains, Literature, and Culture
Reading and Writing the Rails
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Trains, Literature and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud’s psychology. Each of...
Reifying Women's Experiences with Invisible Illness
Illusions, Delusions, Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Reifying Women's Experiences with Invisible Illness: Illusions, Delusions, Reality provides a platform that recognizes that the experience of invisible illness is greatly influenced by context and personal circumstance. The contributors to this book include women who exude diversity as it relates...
The Man Who Knew God
Decoding Jeremiah
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
The Man Who Knew God unravels the complexities of the book of Jeremiah and argues that this prophet is the key figure in shaping Western civilization. Mordecai Schreiber posits that Jeremiah is not only the one who eradicated paganism amongst the Hebrew people, but he can also be considered the founder...
Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking
Europe, Latin America, North America, and Global
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial...
Violence in Caribbean Literature
Stories of Stones and Blood
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Violence in Caribbean Literature: Stories of Stones and Blood, this book looks at the scene of the throwing of a stone found in five novels, and uses it as a starting point to an examination of the turmoil of history in the Caribbean, the colonial education imposed on Caribbean populations, the gendered...
The Preaching of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
The Gospel Meets the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
The greatness of America's most influential preachers of the twentieth century came from their significant contributions to both religious and secular society. Some names, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Billy Graham, are universally recognized and typically thought of first by people today. Assorted...
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal
Social Engineering in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, “organic” Gemeinschaft [community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating “sensible” citizens,...
Intellectuals and Apparatchiks
Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2006
This book traces the origins and activities of an alliance of conservative Communist Party authorities and Russian nationalists during the late Soviet era. Specifically, it examines how and to what extent hitherto orthodox Communists sought political allies in the Russian nationalist movement in order...
The Forgotten Prophet
Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition, by Andre E. Johnson, is a study of the prophetic rhetoric of African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop Henry McNeal Turner. By locating Turner within the African American prophetic tradition, Johnson examines...
Deep Down Things
Essays on Catholic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Deep Down Things: Essays on Catholic Culture explores common threads that characterize Catholicism. The contributors look successively at: Catholic culture and everyday life of the parish and of work, at Catholic culture and the imaginative life of poets and fiction writers, and at Catholic culture...
Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture
States of Matrimony in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
During the first decade of this millennium Germany’s largest ethnic minority—Turkish Germans—began to enjoy a new cultural prominence in German literature, film, television and theater. While controversies around forced marriage and “honor” killings have driven popular interest in the situation...
Contingency, Time, and Possibility
An Essay on Aristotle and Duns Scotus
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
If we are to distinguish mere non-being from that which is not, yet may be, from that which was not, yet could have been, or from that which will not be, yet could become, we are committed in some way to grant being to possibilities. The possible is not actual; yet it is not nothing. What then could...