Books published by Lexington Books

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 Russian intelligence operations targeting American-Russian academics and promoting Russian state interests in the ongoing war against Ukraine.

This book examines Taylor Swift's art, her public image, and Swiftie fan communities.

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of "emergent metalepsis" that describes the uncanny moments where fictive texts anticipate material events. Christopher Carter situates this rhetoric within debates about the Anthropocene, highlighting the irony whereby our most trenchant self-analyses become mass commodities.

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 Russian propaganda and Serbian nationalism.

This book investigates the complex art of television drama screenwriting, bridging a crucial gap between theory and practice by exploring both the structure and character developments models of the genre.

Deep Perception draws on analytic, continental, and Eastern philosophy to argue that direct perceptions of the being or essential character of a person, thing, or situation are possible. These perceptions are also enactments of our own being. Jeremy Barris explores their nature, logic, and practice.

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 because of its uniqueness and unrepeatability, but also because of its finitude. Death bestows value on life.

This book presents a speculative analysis of G.W. Leibniz's theory of relations through the lens of his theory of folds. Jeff Lambert argues that Leibniz's approach to folds and relations are connected through a common operation of inclusion that ultimately produces a unique form of "intimacy" for related subjects.

Paul Ricoeur and Environmental Philosophy expands the scope of Ricoeur's hermeneutics to issues of environmental philosophy and discusses the ways in which Ricoeur's hermeneutics has the potential to restructure the discourse and dialogue surrounding environmental issues.

Questions surrounding the nature of artistic communication are often approached from one angle, such as linguistics, art theory, evolutionary biology, or philosophy. Art as Communication takes a new approach, one that combines disciplines and centers its account on the theory of communication known as the sender-receiver model.

Through a varied selection of novels, films, rap and stand-up comedy, Emma Chebinou exposes the necessity in examining negative stigmas created by the institutional discourse and by space and gives a broader interpretation of the banlieue.

This book explores the relationship between romantic love and personal identity by examining work in both areas by philosophers in the continental and analytic traditions. Foster finds a promising connection between love and identity in the Sartrean influenced notion of embodied love.

This book examines the collective action of the courageous family members of the disappeared amidst Mexico's ongoing humanitarian crisis.

This book critiques how wolves and other animals thought unlikeable are negatively portrayed and become targets of violence in materials directed toward young consumers. The author counters these portrayals by discussing materials that articulate harmonious animal-human interrelationships.

This book is a timely examination of contemporary US political culture and communication and the specific forces, factors, and dynamics that have contributed to the increasing democratic dysfunction and violence. The four key vectors in the 4P theoretical model are (1) post-truth; (2) polarization; (3) [social media] platform; and (4) populism.

This book explores the proposal found in a Libellus written and given to Pope Leo X by two Camaldolese hermits who argued church reform must begin with a crusade to eliminate Islam.

Ahi¿s¿ in the Indic Traditions: Explorations and Reflections, edited by Jeffery D. Long and Steven J. Rosen, examines the diversity of nonviolent (ahimsa-oriented) doctrines originating in the Indic world, both in terms of interpersonal relationships and how they apply to the rest of creation, including animals.

Russia's actions in Syria and Ukraine during 2014 and 2022 reveal more continuity than change, and more evolution than revolution, in warfare. These actions mostly reflect what the Kremlin perceives as changes in strategic and technological contexts, which impacts who fights wars and how wars are fought.

This book narrates the decolonial feminist journey of a racialized settler woman toward reflective, transformative reconciliation in Canada.

This collection explores diverse protest cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, delving into motivations, tactics, and responses to protests. It sheds light on post-colonial regimes' brutality and highlighting movements striving for societal change.

This volume contributes to a better understanding of the religious life in Central Asia as well as political and social issues in the region, with a focus on Islamic culture, traditions, and pre-Islamic beliefs.

This book provides deeper insights into sustainable energy development, technology, and investment in climate-oriented solutions; climate-aligned investment strategies present opportunities and challenges simultaneously.

This book examines European comic-books about bikers, unearthing a rich tapestry of creative ingenuity and ambiguous humor. Through narrative analysis, the author argues that these comics offer insight into motorcycle subcultures, while also shedding light on cultural issues like gender, identity, consumption habits, and the environment.

This book investigates how ideas on sacred sound and the practice of kirtan are transforming the American religious soundscape. The author approaches kirtan as a type of 'technology of the self,' which allows people to transform their lives in search for happiness, wisdom, and other types of perfection.

This book explains the social embeddedness of handloom weaving technologies in Begampur region and shows how some of the prime sources of disjuncture and juxtapositions have been making an impact on the lives of handloom weavers of this region.

This book analyses dilemmas arising from the engagement of international organizations in the still-unresolved Georgian-Abkhazian and Moldovan-Transnistrian conflicts. The lessons drawn from these earlier conflicts are compared with the conflict in Eastern Ukraine since 2014.

Sex, Desire, and Taboo in South Asia investigates how religion, ability culture, patriarchy, and taboos impact sex and desire in South Asia. Through analysis of theories of sexuality alongside erotic literature, the book underscores the need for intersectional approaches when discussing taboos around the world.

This book focuses on the strong state tradition as well as plural society that developed in Turkey. Indicating how an unitarian ideological public sphere has evolved into a pluralistic and civil public domain, it enriches the literature on modernization, democracy, civil society, public space and social movements.

This book examines Turkish-Qatari relations from the nineteenth century to the present. The authors argue that conducive structural dynamics and ambitious geopolitical goals facilitated critical foreign policy convergences between Ankara and Doha, eventually developing into a strategic partnership between the two countries.

This is a multidisciplinary study that reads the early modern literary and historical representations of the Muslim woman against both the European politics towards Islam and the domestic constructions of gender and social hierarchies in England.