Books published by Lexington Books

In the era of big data, knowledge about machine learning and artificial intelligence is becoming crucial for communication researchers navigating the landscape of digital media. This book provides foundational knowledge and techniques to empower researchers to leverage ML and AI at the intersection of communication and data science.

This volume is a collection of ten articles on the Russian Radicals by an international team of scholars. The chapters provide a fresh look at some well-known radicals like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, and Pisarev, as well as examinations of lesser-known figures.

This book is an investigation of the role of myth and creation of social identity in martial arts, looking at historical contexts and important movements in East Asia and the West, from ancient times to the present day.

Through an in-depth analysis of transport infrastructure and governance, this book lays out the likely trajectory of Eurasian supply chains following the invasion of Ukraine. Uniquely, the author brings Ukraine's future role as a logistics platform into the broader discussion of Eurasian trade integration.

This book examines the effects of ecotourism on Indigenous peoples chronicling the costs and benefits of ecotourism from a comparative and anthropological perspective.

This book addresses the lack of research on harassment by offering a thorough linguistic analysis of the social phenomenon. By applying interactional pragmatics, the author sheds light on the key elements of harassment, which includes hostile and unethical communication, malicious intentions, power imbalance, and harm caused to the victim.

Drawing on the rich, qualitative-interview-based data from Japanese firms and dual-career workers, the author discusses Tenkin, cultural and gendered corporate transfers, workers' agency, and argues the need to incorporate the concept of care in career management.

This book explores the need to interrogate and subvert the embodied discursive practices of whiteness in the reiteration of norms through the construct of accompaniment, both within black spaces and across the color line, with a critical awareness that values collective experience of shared vulnerability in everyday life.

Drawing on data from France, Germany, and China, this book explores how the interaction between time and autonomy has reshaped work and examines the impacts of these trends in different socio-economic contexts.

This book emerges from conversations between scholars interested in discussing all the pains, crises, and difficulties on the path to establishing themselves in academia, and encourages the practice of ethical human relations between linguists and each other, and with their students.

The irreconcilable claims of Compact Theory and Nationalist Theory underlay countless constitutional debates, including recognition of a federal common law. The push for federal common law jurisdiction and the assertion that American nationhood preceded the states come together in the thoughts of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story.

Through careful analysis of court transcripts and modern scholarship on the 1913 Human Leopard cases in Sierra Leone, this book uncovers a complex web of judicial overreach, colonial ambitions, indigenous belief systems, European paranoia, animals whose habitat was being encroached upon, and socio-political turmoil.

This book is about the legendary fight and resistance of Ukraine against Russia's invasion in 2014-24. The book tells of the situation in Ukrainian cities and villages during the war and the fate of objects of cultural and educational heritage, which are under the intensive fire of the Russian invaders.

Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization: Up, Up and ...Abroad examines the link between American political culture and superhero narratives as well as the genre's global reach and transformations in various national and cultural contexts.

This is a book about how rock music has served as inspiration for many important Colombian literary works since its inception in the 1960s.

This book explores gender debates on African social media platforms and the political, social, and cultural discourses surrounding them. It examines topics such as gender-based violence, gender in political and economic spaces, gender activism, challenges in the African LGBTQIA+ community, and gender harassment.

This book explores rock and pop music lyrics of the last seventy years to elucidate a broad spectrum of themes about the collective human experience.

This book documents research based on real classroom examples of how educators could design and combine practices from culturally responsive teaching and self-regulated learning pedagogies to support all learners' motivation and engagement in multicultural classrooms.

In Intersectional Identities of Christian Women in the United States: Faith, Race, and Feminism, Amanda Hernandez argues that white supremacy influences the perception of feminism and faith as contradictory. In this sociological study, the author uses a variety of methods to explore this important topic.

The Dialectic of Herbert Marcuse offers a re-evaluation of Herbert Marcuse's Critical Theory and argues for its continued relevance in the twenty-first century.

The global economic edifice built after World War II, was a source of unprecedented prosperity, and could not have functioned without open and predictable international trade and the peaceful international relations that are its foundation. The rules that enable trade are outdated and under attack. Social divisions and great power rivalry have eroded the political support for open trade. The consequence is fragmentation of world trade, its separation into blocks that advance domestic producers or most favored nations nearby. These blocs are themselves often pulled by competing agendas. The prospects are for vastly reduced economic efficiency and - most ominously - heightened geopolitical tensions.The questions about why this is happening, how economic fragmentation will evolve, and how to respond to it, are today uppermost in the minds of policymakers and businesses across the world. These are the questions that Uri Dadush seeks to answer in Geopolitics, Trade Blocks, and the Fragmentation of World Commerce. The world economy is already mired in profound trade uncertainty, which is likely to persist. Since it cannot be dispelled, the uncertainty must be better managed.

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 illustrate how the women closest to the program communicated to supporters and detractors of their labor in military aviation.

Using a multi-disciplinary approach to the Amazigh art of weaving, the author argues that women's ancestral rug designs inspired the Amazigh alphabet Tifinagh. In doing so, the book sheds new light on the active role women played in the process of codifying the Amazigh language.

This book traces the development of reconciliation in Mozambique from the signing of the General Peace Agreement (GPA) in 1992 to the present day. Based on an original operationalized conceptualization of reconciliation, the author challenges the understanding that the country was once reconciled and argues for a new Mozambican solution.

This book explores the linguistic and biological relationship between the Aleuts of coastal southwest Alaska and the Utians of coastal central California. Both groups speak languages diverging in the Middle Holocene Period from a common parent language. During this period, the Utians migrated by watercraft to the San Francisco Bay.

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 might be produced. The author draws on Deleuzian and Whiteheadian insights to argue for a new model of digital cinema.

This book examines how modern society arrived at such a destructive environmental and social stage, suggesting that three great crises have converged: climate change, capitalism as a logic system, and questions of consumer society and social identity.

This book addresses the mythical language that, whether recognized or not, infuses formulations of Christian doctrine, arguing that unwarranted expectations that such language expresses historical, ontological, or scientific truth obfuscates the true power of myth to mediate an engagement with mystery to an extent that other genres cannot.

This book demonstrates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance.

In The Habits of Race and Faith in a Religiously Diverse World, Mara Brecht argues that by understanding the entanglements of whiteness and Christian theology, Christians will be better prepared to encounter religious others responsibly and to develop adequate theologies for addressing religious diversity.