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View book details for Cooperation and Excellence
A Premodern Case for Capitalism
Lexington Books
This book offers a distinctive moral defense of capitalism. Unlike most such defenses, this book avoids the summoning of concepts and ideas drawn from the modern philosophical tradition that arose out of the 17th18th century Enlightenment. It rejects the idea …
View book details for The Jarring Road to Democratic Inclusion
A Comparative Assessment of StateSociety Engagements in Israel and Turkey
Lexington Books
This edited volume brings together chapters that offer theoretically pertinent comparisons between various dimensions of Israeli and Turkish politics. Each chapter covers a different aspect of statesociety interactions in both countries from a comparative perspective, including the public role of …
View book details for Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia
Moving from the Periphery
Lexington Books
Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia: Moving from the Periphery provides fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Working out of diverse disciplinary traditions, the authors call on varied theoretical frameworks in …
View book details for Discourses on Violence and Punishment
Probing the Extremes
Lexington Books
This book brings together various discourses concerned with violence and punishment, paying special attention to the extreme variations of these phenomena. Starting from a narrow definition of violence as an infliction of physical harm, paired with a broad discussion of …
View book details for Experiencing Broadway Music
A Listener's Companion
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listeners Companion explores approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the earlytwentieth-century shift from European influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works of seamlessly integrated song and dance that became uniquely …
Center for Strategic & International Studies
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. Six decades later, space-faring nations face a much different space environment, one thats more diverse, disruptive, disordered, and dangerous. Todays space domain …
View book details for Before and After Violence
Developmental, Clinical, and Sociocultural Aspects
Lexington Books
From childhood onwards, humans use their environments responses to construct models or schemata to link feelings and impulses with actions and effects. If the environment during those formative years is unreliable, frustrating, or violating, the construction of those internal models …
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The American Association for State and Local History Guide
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide serves as a handbook for historic site managers, heritage professionals, and all manner of public historians who contend daily with the ground-level complexities of commemoration. Its fourteen short essays are …
View book details for Live Better While You Age
Tips and Tools for a Healthier, Longer Life
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Obviously, reasonable people want to enjoy robust lives, free from the ravages of aging and aging-related diseases. The question is how to secure that admirable goal. Numerous books address preserving health but none is comprehensive and approaches successful aging from …
View book details for Paths of Innovation in Warfare
From the Twelfth Century to the Present
Lexington Books
Innovation shapes wars, and twelve studies by former faculty members of West Points United States Military Academy examine specific cases of past and present military innovation. The complex, competitive, and dynamic environment that defines war drives combatants to seek solutions …
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Making Sense of Sibling Relationships in Adulthood
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sibling relationships are special in many ways, not least because often siblings are the family members who go through their whole lives together But those relationships can be fraught with strife or tension, bouts of happiness or strain and stress. …
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The Ultimate School Work Environment
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Many school decision-makers and educational practitioners talk about developing an ultimate school work environment, but few actually move beyond the talk. It is very common for individuals in positions of power to make statements about how great it is to …
View book details for The Radical Novel and the Classless Society
Utopian and Proletarian Novels in U.S. Fiction from Bellamy to Ellison
Lexington Books
The Radical Novel and the Classless Society analyzes utopian and proletarian novels as a single socialist tradition in U.S. literature. Utopian novels by such writers as Edward Bellamy, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Sutton E. Griggs and proletarian …
Lexington Books
Understanding Americas Gun Culture focuses on building understanding of some of the issues associated with US gun culture and the contemporary debate about the availability and use of guns. This edited volume is unique in that it draws on a …
Lexington Books
In the aftermath of the American Revolution, the friendship between Virginians Thomas Jefferson and James Madison became one of the most important political collaborations in American history. This study examines the origins and evolution of their partnership, placing it within …
View book details for China's Cyber Warfare
The Evolution of Strategic Doctrine
Lexington Books
The turn of the century was accompanied by two historically significant phenomena. One was the emergence of computer networks as a vital component of advanced militaries and interdependent global economic systems. The second concerned Chinas rise on the global stage …
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A Guidebook for Missional Change
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The need to merge churches is growing ever more crucial as congregations assess how to thrive in cultural diversity and ever-changing times. Every denomination faces the urgency to shift from maintenance to mission, and from survival to renewal. Church Mergers …
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The US music industry is an exciting, fast-paced, marketplace which brings together creative and business interests to connect artists with audiences. This book traces the history of the music industry from the Colonial era to the present day, identifying trends …
View book details for When Deadly Force Is Involved
A Look at the Legal Side of Stand Your Ground, Duty to Retreat and Other Questions of Self-Defense
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Self-defense, as a legal concept, is easy to describe but difficult to apply. Generally, a person who is without fault may use reasonable force or defensive force for the purpose of defending one's own life or the lives of others, …
View book details for Washington Irving and Islam
Critical Essays
Lexington Books
Washington Irving and Islam contributes to understanding the relationship between the United States and the Islamic world, valuable not only for studies of Washington Irving, American Literature, or Islam, but also for thinking through the role Islam and the Orient …
View book details for Drop That Chalk!
A Guide to Better Teaching at Universities and Colleges
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Drop that Chalk! A Guide to Better Teaching at Colleges and Universities is designed for those planning to teach or already teaching and hoping to improve instruction in colleges, universities, or other institutions of higher education. This book delineates the …
Lexington Books
Timaeus is not an independent work. Rather, it is the premier dialogue in an unfinished trilogy that also includes Critias, of which we have only a fragment, and Hermocrates, which is forecast in Critias but was presumably never written. There …
View book details for Bhopal's Ecological Gothic
Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny
Lexington Books
The book studies the cultural textsfiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reportsproduced around the worlds worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its …
View book details for Faith, Hope, Love, and Justice
The Theological Virtues Today
Lexington Books
Faith, hope, and love, traditionally called theological virtues, are central to Christianity. This book renews faith, hope, and love in the context of the many contemporary challenges in many unique ways. It is an ecumenical collection of papers, equally divided …
Lexington Books
In this book, Dean Kowalski argues that filmmakers can do philosophy when creating a fictional narrative film, and utilizes a careful and extensive analysis of Joss Whedons fictive creationsBuffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and The Cabin in the …
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