Lexington Books

This volume explores of the history of figures, issues, and debates in Continental philosophy to re-frame our understanding of how modern and recent philosophy has unfolded, especially through the...

Reading the Bible Amid the Environmental Crisis challenges traditional interpretations by intertwining biblical texts with trauma theory, affect theory, ethics, and animal studies. Sébastien Doane...

Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for...

With the tomboy figure currently operating in a liminal space between extinction and resurgence, Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Identity, and Representation is an unabashed celebration of her...

The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been...

This book offers various cases of literary recycling" that set the term free from the derogatory vision that associates it with repetition and creative exhaustion. It studies recycling as a...

Refiguring the Sacred offers perspectives on Ricoeur's life-long reflections about religion. This collection includes two essays by Ricoeur and new interpretations of some of his most significant...

Reframing India in World History breaks the stereotypical portrayal of India based on misconstrued historical theories. Prevalent constructions of Indian history are tinged with colonial historical...

This book uses the author's participatory research with refugees, producing a portrait of fear, desperation, courage, and optimism. Refugee voices lead us through tortuous journeys, which provide...

In Refugee Pathways to Peace: Escaping the Chaos of War, Janet Mancini Billson provides perspectives of Vietnamese, Syrian, Congolese, Liberian, and Ukrainian refugees, and the resettlement agencies...

Refugees, Forced Migrants, and Human Tragedies: An Interdisciplinary Critical Perspective focuses on a sustained analysis of the nature of forced displacement with an emphasis on the attendant human...

Each of the essays in this collection considers what lies beyond the limiting discourses of childhood innocence. Instead of focusing on how children "grow up," as has been the focus of developmental...

Reimagining Democracy: Communication Activism, Social Justice, and Prefiguration in Participatory Budgeting presents findings from a multi-year, community-based, critical ethnography of two...

Panamanian Suite narrates the complex relationship between Panama and the United States by following the development of music in each nation. As an important port of Caribbean migration in the...

Religion in the Post-Yugoslav Context brings together a diverse group of scholars, each of them specializing in the role of religion in one of the Yugoslav successor states. In addition to providing...

Ultimate reality is often characterized in terms of a variety of what are thought to be incompatible concepts, like God, Dao, Brahman, etc. This book examines the plausibility of a genuine religious...

In this book, the contributors examine how various religious traditions engage with transhumanism and its vision for the future.Author: Arvin M Gouw, Brian Patrick Green, Ted PetersPublisher:...

Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with...

Representation of the Banlieusard in Literature, Cinema, and Performances: Francephobia explores the complex identity of the banlieusard within French society through literature, film and pop...

Comfort's reading of select French literary works about the Great War enhances our understanding of the way that conflict affected non-combatants, West African troops, and wounded veterans. Informed...

This book examines representations of reproductive decisions in cultural texts. Close analyses of Teatro Luna, Jane the Virgin, Vida, Quinceañera and Favianna Rodriguez's artwork serve as case...

This book provides unique insights into some of challenges researchers and authorities face with obtaining reliable data on levels of crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean.Author:...

This book offers advice to academics on building resilience and resistance to forces that undermine well-being by drawing on ancient wisdom traditions, indigenous cultures, Jungian psychology, and...

Both reason and religion have been acknowledged by scholars to have had a profound impacton the foundation and formation of the American regime. But the significance, pervasiveness, and depth of that...

This book takes a new look at the history of individual rights, focusing on how philosophers have written that history. Eleanor Curran argues that the turn to jurisprudence, after the philosophical...

When study abroad is impossible, technology has the potential to engage students by creating community outside of the classroom. This book highlights digital tools with activities that make language...

This volume explores music education locally and globally, and critically investigates where music education has come from, where it is, and where it may be going in the future, as well as what this...

Using works by Hubert Harrison, George S. Schuyler, and Wallace Thurman as illustrations of blackness and literature in the early twentieth century, the author investigates how these works reflect...

This book grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters and explores how we remember natural disasters by analyzing how we try to prevent them.Author: Jeremy R...

This book explores rhetorics produced about and by the women involved in the World War II era Women Airforce Service Pilots program. The author utilizes feminist and classical rhetorical concepts to...