Books published by Lexington Books

Science is highly dependent on the technologies needed to observe scientific objects. In How Scientific Instruments Speak, Bas de Boer develops a philosophical account of instruments in scientific practice, focusing on the cognitive neurosciences. He argues for an understanding of scientific instruments as mediating technology.

In Nuclear Weapons and the Environment, John Perry highlights the grave risks associated with the continued proliferation of nuclear weapons, pointing not just to the dangers to human life but to the severe environmental damage caused by nuclear device testing.

Phenomenology, Transversality, and World Philosophy explores the concept of world philosophy (Weltphilosophie) to take into account the reality of today's multicultural and globalizing world, as well as the constructive roles played by phenomenology and transversality.

The book is about the pedagogic rapport in the post-1980s U.S. when the professor-student relationship gained unprecedented attention. Using eleven American novels, Aristi Trendel examines the complexity, richness, and exceptional nature of the pedagogic encounter and calls for a new genre, the Master-Disciple novel.

Cultural Identity in Arabic Novels of Immigration: A Poetics of Return combines immigration and identity theories to re-examine the notion of migration in Arabic literature. The study discusses Arabic narratives from the 1100s to 2010, some of which have never been translated in English.

Peace activists empathically engaging with one another and working from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are trying to disrupt the dominant conflict narratives that make this conflict seem so intractable. Can their activism bring about a tipping point that can break the cycle of violence?

Sexual Deviance in Health and Aging explores how social and cultural perceptions of sexual deviance can shape and be shaped by health and aging. The authors analyze how people get labeled as sexually deviant because of growing older and other factors, and how this stigma impacts their health care and broader social experiences.

In this book, Chrysovalantis Kyriacou reconstructs the motif of the Byzantine warrior hero in Cypriot folk songs. Kyriacou uses this motif as a focus in examining Cyprus's memories of the pre-Christian past, Christian militarism, power struggles, and ethnoreligious encounters.

Communicating the Climate Crisis lays out fresh directions and strategies for creating a new story of hope through action-not as isolated and "guilty" consumers, but as social actors who use emotional resilience, climate conversations, justice, and faith to break the current social inertia and create a desired future.

In Nuclear Power and Human Rights in Japan: The Fallout of Fukushima, Emrah Akyuz examines the impact of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the environment and human rights.

World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law examines the relationship between these concepts based upon the author's professional experiences dealing with real world problems. It demonstrates the power of international law and human rights to make a positive difference for international peace and justice.

This book focuses on the logic of political survival in Turkish politics by analyzing the case of Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi-AKP).

Child Discipline in African American Families focuses on the disciplinary practices of African American mothers and fathers and the intentional and strategic ways African American parents respond to child misbehavior.

Steven P. Feldman argues that Chinese political culture, based on the core principle of small group loyalties, is inherently unstable, resulting in an ongoing tendency for leaders to concentrate power in order to accomplish their goals. He examines this trend in Xi Jinping's regime through the concept of pre-totalitarianism.

Ferment on the Fringes charts the trajectories of Francophone African narratives that reached the Anglo-American market, by analyzing the various institutional agents and agencies involved in the value-making process that accrues visibility to translated texts that eventually reach the Anglo-American book market.

The book revises the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution to make them fully consistent with the protection of individual rights and freedom. It shows what rights and freedom are, why they are crucial to human life, and how to protect them in the fundamental legal documents of a nation

The book is a discussion and comparison of violence against women in peace and war in various parts of the Middle East and North Africa. By reflecting the voices of women narrators, the author argues that women are building effective strategies, both at local and regional levels, to combat and eliminate violence.

This book explains how geopsychology is different from mainstream international relations theories, arguing that peace and stability in the troubled parts of the world warrants understanding the psychological dispositions of non-state actors and authoritarian regimes.

This book tackles the perennial debate about whether presidentialism is associated with democratic breakdown. We find evidence that presidentialism could contribute instabilities to a democratic system, though it does not directly follow that those instabilities will trigger a democratic breakdown.

Based on participant observation approach and first-hand interviews with key actors, this book examines how Bersih became a movement that aggregated the collective grievance of Malaysians and brought Malaysian sociopolitical activism to a new level.

Bonaventure's Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God provides an extensive analysis of Bonaventure's concept of beauty, the first to appear since Balthasar's Herrlichkeit, and the role it plays in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum.

This book considers the concept of linguistic creativity in relation to contact languages and language educational. The perspective proposed places semiotic creativity to the rank of first principle, by which languages are defined, function, and interact.

This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people within the critical discourse of the blackness of black. In addition to Saidiya Hartman's axial concept of the "afterlife of slavery," the book explores Frank Wilderson's "Afropessimism," Fred Moten's "generative blackness," and Calvin Warren's "black nihilism.

Growing up in Walltown, Italy presents an ethnographic account of the culture of early childhood education, as it is constructed in two municipal schools of an Italian town, explored through extensive participant observation and interviews of educators, teachers, school coordinators, mothers, and cooks and school staff.

In Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Siobhan Brooks illustrates that hate crimes and violence against Black and Latinx LGBT people are the product of institutions and ideologies that exist both outside and inside of Black and Latinx communities.

This study examines the discourse surrounding Josippon in religious polemics and in the construction of historical and mythical narratives during the Renaissance period.

This book is a guide for language researchers who are considering the adoption of a transdisciplinary and multidimensional approach to language research. It aims to provide a n overview of each of the most popular physiological methods today, along with their applications in research, and basic data collection procedures.