Lexington Books

Offering an exploration and analysis of the notoriously difficult BA construction, this book uses the Interface Hypothesis and the Processing Instruction approach to demystify and elucidate the...

In The Intersectional Other, Alex Riveraboldly argues for the individual and collective power of queer BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) who have historically existed in the racial and...

Critical pedagogy supports educators interested in innovating and productively disrupting classroom expectations and norms. Grounded in a mix of theory and classroom practice, chapters showcase ways...

Griots in Africa are considered among the first spoken word poets, as they used these oral traditions to preserve their society's cultural artifacts and traditions. These African oratory institutions...

This book is a study of Soviet and Russian intelligence operations against the centers for Soviet studies in North American academia. Special attention is paid to the historical roots of contemporary...

This collection explores the core concepts of Ignacio Ellacuría's liberating philosophy; his critique of ideologies and continuity with critical theory; his philosophical anthropology and humanism;...

Assuming a historico-political-science approach, the author argues that Orbánism can be understood not from Viktor Orbán himself but an analysis of the longer processes of Hungarian political...

This book invites readers on an exploratory journey through the intricate tapestry of China's history, culture, political climate, and social dynamics. At the heart of this exploration is the...

Martin Wihoda brings into focus the circumstances that prompted the nations around the eastern edge of the Holy Roman Empire to adopt the patterns of conduct of the Latin West. His book has thus...

This book provides an in-depth look at the early history of museums in Nigeria through the letters of Kenneth C. Murray, Bernard E.B. Fagg, and Edward H. Duckworth, uncovering the early efforts to...

A multi-level analysis of Pakistani human bombs reveals that suicide terrorism is caused by multiple factors with perceived effectiveness, vengeance, poverty, and religious fundamentalism playing a...

The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat, its spread throughout the Muslim empire, and its emergence as a symbol of power and...

This book analyzes information published by the news website Sputnik Srbija during the first year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to explore contemporary Serbian media and the connection between...

The Meaning of Death: A Philosophical Investigation analyzes death and dying, the biotechnical quest for immortality, the afterlife, and the rational of self-chosen death. Life is valuable not only...

The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a...

Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s underwent a profound and often violent process of social change. From the Cuban Revolution to the massive guerrilla movements in Argentina, Uruguay, Peru,...

In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.Author:...

This work explores the foundational nature of mobility for human beings and their societies. The author puts forward a parsimonious but comprehensive model based on Extended Evolutionary Synthesis...

In this book, Nadia Salem expands the standardized mythic quest of the hero's journey for storytellers to include the heroine's journey. By arguing that the former reflects coming of age while the...

This book elucidates the ways post-cinema engages with potential futures, arguing that the morph is the crucial figure to understand both how the future is constrained and how hope for the future...

The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga analyzes the contributions of the Mother (n?e Mirra Alfassa, 1878-1973) to the Integral Yoga that she and Sri Aurobindo (n?...

This book evaluates discourses on "Africa Rising" through various case studies, measures Africa's complex and uneven development over time, looks at how Africans utilize indigenous socio-political...

This book tells the wonderous story of human cultural evolution-how the natural forces of biological evolution gave way to the co-evolution of genes and a nurturing culture that gave rise to the...

This book explores the history of church camps and retreat centers to show how environmental stewardship became the dominant paradigm for Protestant environmentalism, why that is a flawed and...

Concentrating on economic incentives, climate extremes, and fear of violence factors, this book presents a complete picture of what happens to migrants from the time they leave to the time they...

Stepping Up to the Cold War Challenge: The Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan describes the events that led to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC), an American Christian...

This book explores the role of the ubiquitous nurse character found in over one hundred operas and provides insight into opera nurses' unique musical and dramatic journey from servant to sister, and...

This book traces the current Korean dynamism, economic and cultural, through Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China. Suk-Jung Han argues that it influenced the formation of the South...

Working with archival recordings, the authors trace the history of Missouri English and demonstrate how the voices of Missourians born over a century ago provide a unique window on the development of...

In The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts, Barbara Tepa Lupack explores the rampant racial and gender stereotyping in early cinema and demonstrates how that...