Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
Understanding Gifted Adolescents
Accepting the Exceptional
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Understanding Gifted Adolescents: Accepting the Exceptional addresses the basis of exclusive education for gifted adolescents from the theoretical perspective of social identity. Using the lens of social identity theory and adolescent development related to giftedness, this book builds the case for...
The Green Thread
Dialogues with the Vegetal World
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking...
by Georgia Aitaki, Maria Akritidou, Yiorgos Anagnostou
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the contradictions between on the one hand a glorious, world-famous yet distant past and, on the other, a traumatic contemporary...
Ecotheology in the Humanities
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies. Chapters include topics on creation care and Sabbath, sacramental approaches to earth care, classical and medieval cosmologies, ecotheodicy,...
Sex Trafficking
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced...
Seeing through the Screen
Interpreting American Political Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Although films affect and reflect the way Americans look at politics, they have received far less attention than television or newspapers. This is changing, particularly on college campuses, where courses on politics and film are growing in popularity. This book consists of short essays on approximately...
Afrofuturism 2.0
The Rise of Astro-Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began...
by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in order to identify nascent religious ideologies in various Neolithic Cultures and early Chinese historical...
Unlikely Friends
Bridging Ties and Diverse Friendships
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
There are those individuals who have established deep, lasting relationships with others from very different backgrounds of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Research indicates that such friendships are a relatively rare phenomenon. While many study the reasons for this pattern, the research...
War and German Memory
Excavating the Significance of the Second World War in German Cultural Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Germans often claim that 'we have learned the lessons of our history.' But what, precisely, are the lessons they have drawn from their Nazi-era past? What experiences from that time continue to hold significant meaning for Germans today, and how have those experiences shaped postwar German cultural...
The History of Futurism
The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This volume seeks to present a more complete picture of the movement by exploring the history of the movement,...
Transformative Change
An Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This foundational Peace and Conflict Studies text is formatted to fit inside a 14 week college/university term. The chapters are designed to provide a succinct overview of research, theory, and practice that can be supplemented with material chosen by the professor. The book introduces students to...
Fractured Fandoms
Contentious Communication in Fan Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Being a fan helps people to discover their identities, find friends, develop a sense of belonging, express themselves creatively, and act as powerful creators and participants in a capitalistic system. At times, however, being a fan becomes problematic, especially when clashes with other fans occur...
Wolves, Courts, and Public Policy
The Children of the Night Return to the Northern Rocky Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
This book examines the reintroduction and recovery of the wolf in the Northern Rocky Mountains. The wolf was driven to brink of extinction through conscious government policy. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 provided the means for wolf’s return, which began in the Carter administration and continues...