Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry
Economic and Managerial Implications in the Age of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry: Economic and Managerial Implications in the Age of New Media examines the role that new media technologies are having on the traditional media industry from a media management perspective. Consumer behaviors and consumer expectations are being shaped by new...
Israel and Its Arab Minority, 1948–2008
Dialogue, Protest, Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Using a balanced approach, this study provides a comprehensive picture of the Arab sector over six decades. It examines what, when, and why the Arab minority in Israel chooses to either negotiate with the government or turn to protest or violence in order to change the status quo. This book offers...
Emotional State Theory
Friendship and Fear in Israeli Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This book develops “emotional state theory” as a new contribution to international relations theory (IR). The text addresses the State of Israel vis-à-vis the rest of the world. The rationale for this research perspective stems from the trajectory of Israeli state-building since its foundation...
The Dissolution of the Financial State
A Marxian Examination of the Political Economy of Money Since the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This book argues that post-Keynesian theories of endogenous money can be combined with Marxian analysis in order to give insight into the changing power relations between the state, finance sector and real economy since WW2. A key theme is that financial power, derived from the control of money-issue...
Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities
Transformations in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering their Identities reveals the powerful potential of inter-group dialogues to transform identities and mutually negating relations. Using meetings with Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arabian students who attend the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as case studies,...
Waiving Our Rights
The Personal Data Collection Complex and Its Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The United States is not a police state, but Congress is subject to special interests lobbying in pursuit of abusive commercial practices that leave a lot to be desired for transparency and accountability. It is illegal to data-mine personal files held by government agencies, schools and universities,...
Neoliberal Reform in Machu Picchu
Protecting a Community, Heritage Site, and Tourism Destination in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
As Latin America completes its second decade of neoliberal reforms, Pellegrino A. Luciano takes readers on an ethnographic journey back to a moment of monumental social and economic change in Peru. In Neoliberal Reform in Machu Picchu, Luciano describes the privatization struggles and challenges of...
The Dragon's Hidden Wings
How China Rises with its Soft Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
The Dragon''s Hidden Wings is the first comprehensive study on China''s use of soft power. Sheng Ding provides the reader with an insightful empirical study that details China''s economic and political rise on the global scene over the course of the last three decades. This book not only endeavors...
Identity and Schooling among the Naxi
Becoming Chinese with Naxi Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Identity and Schooling among the Naxi examines the identity construction of Naxi students in Lijiang No.1 Senior Secondary School in China, focusing on the changing roles of school, community, and family in the identity construction of the students. Through participant observation, interviews, and...
The Culture of Leadership in Contemporary China
Conflict, Values, and Perspectives for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The resurgence of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism in the context of Chinese leadership values has emerged as a foundation for a new generation of leaders. The once-in-a-decade transition of China’s leadership witnessed the ascendency of a consensus-oriented fifth generation of leaders supporting...
Koreans in North America
Their Experiences in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
This is the only anthology that covers several different topics related to Koreans’ experiences in the U.S. and Canada. The topics covered are Koreans’ immigration and settlement patterns, changes in Korean immigrants’ business patterns, Korean immigrant churches’ social functions, differences...
by Joel Fetzer, J Christopher Soper
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Responding to the “Asian values” debate over the compatibility of Confucianism and liberal democracy, Confucianism, Democratization, and Human Rights in Taiwan, by Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper, offers a rigorous, systematic investigation of the contributions of Confucian thought to...
The Politics of Affective Relations
East Asia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated, reproduced, and utilized throughout history. Sparked by a strong dissatisfaction with the state over many...
by Jonathan Unger, Unn Målfrid H. Rolandsen, Christian Göbel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signalled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization,...