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Niger, Fifth Edition p. 40
Uganda, Second Edition p. 40 Cuba, Third Edition p. 41
The United States p. 41 Laos, Fourth Edition p. 43
Modern Greece, Second Edition p. 47
The Holocaust, Third Edition p. 50 Brazil p. 52 Palestine, Second Edition p. 53
Modern Coups d’état p. 53
Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition p. 88
French Literature, Second Edition p. 92
Sherlock Holmes p. 95
Russian Music, Second Edition p. 108
Husserl’s Philosophy, Second Edition p. 123
Heidegger’s Philosophy, Third Edition p. 124
Kierkegaard’s Philosophy, Second Edition p. 125
The UNESCO, Second Edition p. 152
United States Political Parties, Third Edition p. 161 Daoism p. 192
The Green Movement, Third Edition p. 204
Homosexuality, Second Edition p. 226
The International Politics of Superheroes p. 156
Seeing White, Second Edition p. 224
A History of Advertising
The First 300,000 Years
By Jef I Richards Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 •
Hardback
eBook
pages
This full color book offers a sweeping history of advertising. It places developments in the advertising and marketing industries within a framework of major cultural events to help readers understand the conditions under which advertising developed. Timelines of historical and advertising industry events begin each chronological section.
Advertising & Promotion
Organizational Culture and Performance
The Practice of Sustaining Higher Performance in Business Merger & Acquisition
By Henrietta Okoro Hamilton BooksDecember 2022 • 216 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7328 0 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3297 7
$23.50 / £17.99
The scope of the book is multi-disciplinary in business curricula and research discourse. It provides a valuable business curricula resource in courses such as organizational behavior, leadership decision-making, knowledge management, business information systems, business management, marketing, social sciences, and other business-related courses.
Banks & Banking
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2020-2030
Edited by Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Government Reprints
May 2022 • 1320 pages
Hardback 978 1 6367 1048 8 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 6367 0495 5 • $40.00 / £31.00
As the federal government’s premier career guide, the Occupational Outlook Handbook, has been used by millions of people since the 1940s. This edition reflects the latest employment projections that were released in September 2021 and developed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Careers / Job Hunting
Decolonizing Colonial Development Models in Africa
A New Postcolonial Critique
Edited by Fidelis Allen and Luke Amadi
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 344 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0124 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1252 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book confronts colonial development models to decolonize the methodologies and epistemologies of development in Africa and advocate for Afrocentric alternatives. Using postcolonial, post-developmental, and post-structural theories, the authors advocate for a new direction of development that incorporates indigenous-Afrocentric alternatives.
Development / General
Holy Hype
A Guide to Religious Fervor in the Advertising of Goods and the Good News
By Susan H. Sarapin and Pamela L. Morris Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 258 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2934 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9357 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book discusses the advertising technique of using religious symbols, themes, and rhetoric in the promotion of secular consumer goods and services and, inversely, the use of nonreligious themes in the promotion of religious goods, institutions, and services.
Advertising & Promotion
Contemporary Criminal Justice Careers
A Comprehensive Guide
By Matthew J. Sheridan and Thomas J. Lalka Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6810 3 • $95 / £73
Paperback 978 1 5381 8127 7 • $35 / £27
eBook 978 1 5381 6811 0 • $29 / £21.99
Picking up where Exploring and Understanding Careers in Criminal Justice left off, this book provides an updated guide for the novice and professional alike, full of essential information from entrance into the profession, through career development, occupational refocus, professional options, to retirement preparation.
Careers / Interviewing
Breakthrough
The Promise of Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development
Edited by Homi Kharas; John W. McArthur and Izumi Ohno
Brookings Institution Press
January 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers series
eBook 978 0 8157 3966 1 • $35.99 / £28.00
Paperback 978 0 8157 9654 4 • $45.99 / £35.00
Development / Economic Development
The Ballantines
Building Community Issue by Issue
By John Peel Hamilton BooksDecember 2022 • 360 pages
Hardback 978 0 7618 7377 8
Paperback 978 0 7618 3761 1 • $24.99 / £22.99
eBook 978 0 7618 7383 9 • $23.50 / £21.99
How did an Ivy League-educated lawyer and his wife from a prominent newspaper family end up in a small Colorado town as publishers of a newspaper that quickly gained national attention? Arthur and Morley Ballantine impacted not only their adopted home, but also the state and the nation.
Business
Patterns of Economic Change by State and Area
2022
Income, Employment, and Gross Domestic Product, Ninth Edition
Edited by Hannah Anderson KrogBernan Press
September 2022 • 512 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1084 6 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0853 3 • $123.50 / £95.00
Patterns of Economic Change by State and Area: Income, Employment, & Gross Domestic Product presents data on personal income, employment, and gross domestic product for the United States as a whole, the seven regions, each state, and over 350 metropolitan statistical areas.
Economic History
Communist Planning versus Rationality
Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China
Edited by János Matyas KovácsLexington Books
April 2022 • 424 pages • Part of the Revisiting
Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political
Thought in Historical Perspective series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3177 0 • $125 / £96
eBook 978 1 7936 1787 7 • $50 / £38
This volume examines failed attempts at modernizing the communist economy by means of optimal planning. It traces the rise and fall of the concept in Eastern Europe and China, explaining why the mission of optimization was doomed to fail and why it may nevertheless be relaunched today.
Economics / General
From Jobs to Careers
Apparel Exports and Career Paths for Women in Developing Countries
Edited by The World Bank
The World Bank
June 2022 • 116 pages
Paperback 978 1 4648 1803 5 • $43.95 / £34.00
The Report shifts the paradigm of how we think of women?s participation in the labor force by demonstrating the importance of the distinction between jobs and careers and analyzing how an apparel-led export strategy contributes to the transition.
Economics / General
The Essentials of Islamic Banking, Finance, and Capital Markets, 2nd Edition
By John Oluseyi KuforijiLexington Books
September 2022 • 352 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0103 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1047 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
An Economic Theory of Home Schooling
By Brian Baugus Lexington Books
February 2022 • 150 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3174 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1756 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Brian Baugus examines home schooling as an education enterprise, arguing that successful home school families have the same characteristics and motivations as entrepreneurs.
Economics / General
This multidisciplinary book covers Islamic economic, financial, legal, and socio-political systems, insurance (takaful), and commercial jurisprudence. It examines the dichotomies and similarities between Islamic and conventional financial systems and suggests future roles and governance of Islamic financial institutions.
Economics / General
Energy Economics Science, Policy, and Economic Applications
By Thomas R. Sadler
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 378 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8660 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 6580 0 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8659 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
Energy Economics: Science, Policy, and Economic Applications explains various energy systems from an economics perspective. Specifically, the author uses the tools of economics to analyze the development of modern energy systems, the world’s reliance on fossil fuels, and the components of a transition to cleaner energy resources.
Economics / General
Geography and the Wealth of Nations
By Sherif KhalifaLexington Books
March 2022 • 294 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0052 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0538 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Geography and the Wealth of Nations, Sherif Khalifa argues that geography influences the factors that determine economic performance, such as the quality of institutions, the adopted cultural values, the systems of governance, the likelihood of conflict, the historical experiences, and the integration into the global economy.
Economics / General
Restoring Sustainable Macroeconomic Policies in the United States
By Barry W. Poulson and John MerrifieldLexington Books
September 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1660 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6614 4 • $45.00 / £35.0
By looking at the macroeconomic frameworks and experiences of countries such as Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, Restoring Sustainable Macroeconomic Policies in the U.S. presents a way for the United States to normalize fiscal and monetary policy in order to achieve sustainable debt in the post-COVID-19 era.
Economics / Macroeconomics
Economics and the Public Good
The End of Desire in Aristotle’s Politics and Ethics
By John Antonio Pascarella Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 402 pages • Part of the Economy, Polity, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7866 0843 7 • $125 / £96
eBook 978 1 7866 8444 4 • $45 / £35
Careful interpretation of Aristotle’s political philosophy shows the necessity for politics and economics to be understood as working towards a goal unachievable by either agent on its own. This interpretation compel readers to contemplate how all human pursuits begin with desire and a choice about the good.
Economics / Theory
The Annotated Works of Henry George
The Science of Political Economy, Volume 5
Edited by Francis K. Peddle and William S. PeirceWith Alexandra W. Lough
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
February 2022 • 578 pages • Part of the Annotated Works of Henry George series
Hardback 978 1 6839 3338 0 • $155.00 / £119.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3397 7 • $60.00 / £46.00
Volume V of The Annotated Works of Henry George presents the unabridged and posthumously published text of The Science of Political Economy (1898). George’s original text is comprehensively supplemented by annotations which explain his many references to other political economists and writers both well known and obscure.
Economics / Theory
Superabundance
The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
By Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley - Foreword by George Gilder Cato Institute
August 2022 • 580 pages
Hardback 978 1 9522 2339 6 • $34.95 / £24.99
This controversial and counterintuitive new book examines why population growth and freedom to innovate make Earth’s resources more, not less, abundant.
Free Enterprise & Capitalism
A Guide to Federal Contracting Principles and Practices, Second Edition
By Dan Lindner Bernan Press
August 2022 • 660 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1052 5 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0532 2 • $109.00 / £84.00
Market Process and Market Order
From Human Action, But Not of Human Design
Edited by Rosolino Candela; Kristen R. Collins and Christopher J. Coyne
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 300 pages • Part of the Economy, Polity, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1501 3 • $110 / £85
eBook 978 1 6669 5020 0 • $45 / £35
This interdisciplinary volume explores and engages the key thinkers and ideas of the Austrian School of political economy to better understand aspects of the market process and its implications for everything from disaster recovery and political development to morality and monetary policy.
Economics / Theory
The Representational Theory of Capital Property Rights and the Reification of Capital
By Leonidas Zelmanovitz
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 264 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0502 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 5009 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0501 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book surveys the history of the idea of capital and offers a tool to its understanding. It uses philosophy, social ontology, legal theory, and economic reasoning, particularly macroeconomic concepts from financial theory, to create an integrated concept of capital. Such concept is then applied to wealth creation and individuals’ wellbeing.
Economics / Theory
Work and the Well-Being of Poor Families with Children
When Work is Not Enough
By Andrea L. Ziegert and Dennis H. SullivanLexington Books
September 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 5677 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6781 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book evaluates the effectiveness of multiple policy proposals— including those of the Biden Administration—in reducing poverty among families with children. The authors argue that no single policy is sufficient in itself; successful programs rely on some combination of increased work effort, higher wages, and government benefits.
General
Shifting Paradigms
Growth, Finance, Jobs, and Inequality in the Digital Economy
Edited by Zia Qureshi and Cheonsik Woo
Brookings Institution Press
January 2022 • 297 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3900 5 • $34.99 / £27.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9012 2 • $27.99 / £21.99
A Guide to Federal Contracting, 2nd Edition, provides a succinct yet thorough treatment of federal contracting requirements and regulations--demystifying the volumes of regulations and policies of the federal government.
Government & Business
Government
Business
Agricultural Statistics 2021
Edited by U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Government Reprints
November 2022 • 472 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1096 9 • $49.00 / £38.00
Agricultural Statistics is published each year to meet the diverse need for a reliable reference book on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns.
Industries / Agribusiness
Authenticity
Understanding Misinformation Through the Study of Heritage Tourism
By William Aspray and James W. CortadaRowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7235 3 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2360 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book identifies ways in which the conceptual approaches to heritage tourism studies can be applied by information scholars to gain new insights into the study of misinformation.
Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
The Digital Financial Revolution in China
Edited by David Dollar and Yiping Huang Brookings Institution Press
May 2022 • 280 pages
eBook 978 0 8157 3956 2 • $31.99 / £25.00
International / Economics
Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2022 Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data, 25th Edition
Edited by Mary Meghan Ryan
Bernan Press
August 2022 • 480 pages • Part of the U.S. DataBook Series series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1060 0 • $204.00 / £158.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0617 7 • $193.50 / £150.00
The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data continues the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor Statistics. This edition includes several new tables throughout the book examining the extensive role that COVID-19 had on the labor market throughout 2020.
Labor
The Value Flywheel Effect Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud
By David Anderson - With Mark McCann and Michael O’Reilly - Foreword by Adrian Cockcroft and Simon WardleyIT Revolution Press
November 2022 • 320 pages
Paperback 978 1 9505 0857 0 • $24.99 / £19.99
eBook 978 1 9505 8587 7 • $14.99 / £11.95
In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to drive business results.
Industries / Computers & Information Technology
Public Debt Sustainability
International Perspectives
Edited by Barry W. Poulson; John Merrifield and Steve H. Hanke
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 388 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0256 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2570 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the issue of debt sustainability from an international perspective, with reference to European countries, emerging nations, and the United States.
International / Economics
Towards Market Economies
The IMF and the Economic Transition in Russia and Other Former Soviet Countries
By John Odling-Smee
Hamilton Books
September 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7362 4 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3631 1 • $23.50 / £17.99
The book is a personal account of the changes in the economies, politics and societies of former Soviet Union countries, and the role of the IMF in helping them make the transition from planned to market economies. From 1992 to 2003, the author was in charge of the IMF’s work on the fifteen countries that emerged from the former Soviet Union.
International / Economics
ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States 2022
The National Data Book
By Bernan Press and ProQuestBernan Press
February 2022 • 1024 pages
Hardback 978 1 6367 1002 0 • $225.00 / £173.00
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best known statistical reference. As a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the country, it is a snapshot of America and its people. It includes over 1,400 tables from hundreds of sources.
General
Fundamentals of Fire Protection for the Safety Professional, Third Edition
By Don Philpott Bernan PressAugust 2022 • 420 pages
Paperback 978 1 6414 3475 1 • $99.00 / £76.00
eBook 978 1 6414 4768 8 • $94.00 / £72.00
Fundamentals of Fire Protection for the Safety Professional takes an in-depth look at fire hazards in the workplace and provides practical fire safety principles that can be applied in any work environment. Readers learn how to develop a comprehensive fire program management plan.
Industrial Health & Safety
Occupational Safety and Health for the Young Professional
By Elliot Laratonda Bernan PressAugust 2022 • 332 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1054 9 • $79.00 / £61.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0556 6 • $75.00 / £58.00
Occupational Safety and Health for the Young Professional provides a compelling and comprehensive—yet easy-to-read—guide for students and aspiring professionals looking to work in the field of occupational safety and health (S&H). Each chapter will present information on key S&H ideas, principles, and regulations in an engaging manner.
Industrial Health & Safety
Investments Unlimited
A Novel About DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, and Thriving in the Digital Age
By Helen Beal; Bill Bensing; Jason Cox; Michael Edenzon and John Willis IT Revolution Press
September
Paperback
In the vein of business tales The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, Investments Unlimited brings to life how organizations can rethink the issue of audit, compliance, and security to deliver business value faster, easier, and safer. Management
Basic Condition Reporting A Handbook, 5th Edition
By Southeastern Registrars Association; Deborah Rose Van Horn; Corinne Midgett and Heather Culligan
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5059 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0603 3 • $44.00 / £34.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5061 0 • $41.50 / £32.00
This easy-to-use guide offers a standard vocabulary for conducting condition reports. It has been updated throughout and includes four new chapters, including one on digital condition reporting.
Museum Administration & Museology
Management of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) in Industry
Edited by International Atomic Energy Agency International Atomic Energy Agency
July 2022 • 90 pages
Paperback 978 9 2012 0922 1 • $40.00 / £31.00
This proceedings publication arises from the IAEA conference, NORM 2020, convened to address the issue of elevated natural radionuclide activity concentrations in wastes and residues from a wide range of industrial activities that are not part of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Power Resources / General
Unwinding Madness
What Went Wrong with College Sports?and How to Fix It
By Gerald Gurney; Donna A. Lopiano and Andrew ZimbalistBrookings Institution Press
February 2022 • 320 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3439 0 • $27.99 / £21.99
Business Aspects
Markets against Modernity
Ecological Irrationality, Public and Private
By Ryan H. Murphy Lexington Books
October 2022 • 230 pages • Part of the Capitalist
Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9120 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1188 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
978 1 4985 9119 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Economist Ryan Murphy explains divergences between popular and informed opinion on the value of the institutions of the modern world, including globalized markets, science, and pluralism. Marketing / General
Beyond the Bake Sale Fundraising for Local History Organizations
By Jamie Simek AASLHFebruary 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the American Association for State and Local History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4877 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8785 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4879 2 • $42.50 / £33.00
Beyond the Bake Sale: Fundraising for Local History Organizations meets organizations where they are, cutting through all of the assumptions and mumbo-jumbo, taking professional fundraising strategies and scaling them to an accessible level.
Museum Administration & Museology
Beyond the Numbers
Budgeting for Museum Professionals
By Kristine Zickuhr
American Alliance Of Museums
April 2022 • 142 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5638 4 • $99.00 / £76.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6391 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5640 7 • $42.50 / £33.00
The book is particularly suited for staff members in small or medium-sized museums who are interested in understanding and developing basic budgets. It would also serve as a helpful resource for individuals advancing into leadership positions which require stronger administrative skills.
Museum Administration & Museology
Change Is Required
Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Museum
Edited by Avi Y. Decter; Marsha L. Semmel and Ken Yellis
AASLH
September 2022 • 308 pages • Part of the American Association for State and Local History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6165 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1661 1 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6167 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
Change Is Required will empower museum professionals, institutional leaders, funders and supporters to address the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic, economic dislocation, and social protest and stimulate new thinking about the future directions of museums in America.
Museum Administration & Museology
Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens, Second Edition
By Timothy C. Hohn Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 414 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5177 8 • $175.00 / £135.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1785 5 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5179 2 • $80.50 / £62.00
This important, one-of-a-kind handbook has now been expanded and updated to include critical information on national and international guidelines and rules for collecting, exchanging, and preserving endangered species and preserving biological diversity General
Effective Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Practices for Museums
From the Inside Out
By Cecile ShellmanAmerican Alliance Of Museums
February 2022 • 130 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5599 8 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6001 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5601 8 • $32.00 / £25.00
This book draws from the author’s nearly three-decade career of being “the only one in the room”. Cecile Shellman builds a process for individualizing, identifying, and prioritizing DEAI challenges; acknowledges key universal challenges in goal-setting and goal achieving; and shares resources and tools for making and charting progress.
Museum Administration & Museology
Bringing Teachers to the History Museum
A Guide to Facilitating Teacher Professional Development
Edited by Lora Cooper; Linnea Grim and Gary Sandling American Alliance Of Museums
July 2022 • 158 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4545 6 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5463 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4547 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
This theoretical and practical exploration of how museums can effectively support teacher thinking and practices demonstrates best practices for teacher professional development at sites and museums based on research and evaluation, and offers practical tips for starting or strengthening teacher programs.
Museum Administration & Museology
Creating Great Visitor Experiences
A Guide for Museum Professionals
By Colleen HigginbothamAmerican Alliance Of Museums
August 2022 • 140 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5021 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0221 1 • $44.00 / £34.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5023 8 • $41.50 / £32.00
Creating Great Visitor Experiences: A Guide for Museum Professionals will help museums define their service, hire and train a dynamic frontline team, and spread a culture of service throughout their institution.
Museum Administration & Museology
Democracy’s Medici
The Federal Reserve and the Art of Collecting
By Mary Anne Goley Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 262 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7121 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 5371 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4538 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
Democracy’s Medici: The Federal Reserve and the Art of Collecting is a profile of the central bank seen from the perspective of the author’s unorthodox art-historical career as founding director of the Fine Arts Program of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC.
Museum Administration & Museology
Endowment Essentials for Museums
By Rebekah BeaulieuAASLH
July 2022 • 142 pages • Part of the American Association for State and Local History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2809 1 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8107 7 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2811 4 • $33.00 / £25.00
With easily accessible language and case studies of real museums to illuminate major points, Endowment Essentials for Museums provides guidance on the establishment and oversight of endowments
Museum Administration & Museology
Family Spaces in Art Museums
Creating Curiosity, Wonder, and Play
By Julia Forbes and Marianna Adams - With Jeanine AnceletAmerican Alliance Of Museums
March 2022 • 112 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4884 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8853 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4886 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Here is will be a practical guide based on deep research that helps art museum educators understand the role and value of spaces designed for families and helps them to create dedicated spaces for intergenerational play and learning.
Museum Administration & Museology
Inventorying Cultural Heritage Collections
A Guide for Museums and Historical Societies
By Sandra Vanderwarf and Bethany Romanowski Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 0725 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6499 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0726 3 • $42.50 / £33.00
This is the first book to walk collections practitioners through this foundational collections stewardship function. Rooted in best practice theories, the book is based on the premise that collections preservation, security, and access are anchored in a sound inventory practice. Museum Administration & Museology
Museum Accessibility by Design A Systemic Approach to Organizational Change
By Maria Chiara CiaccheriAmerican Alliance Of Museums
July 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5602 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6032 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5604 9 • $42.50 / £33.00
Museum Accessibility by Design: A Systemic Approach to Organizational Change addresses the design of museum accessibility strategy, offering cases, tools and resources to facilitate its critical deployment and guide its evolution in museums through training activities.
Museum Administration & Museology
Museum Education for Today’s Audiences Meeting Expectations with New Models
Edited by Jason L. Porter and Mary Kay Cunningham
American Alliance Of Museums
February 2022 • 314 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4859 4 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8600 0 • $49.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4861 7 • $46.50 / £36.00
This book will help museum educators meet visitors’ changing expectations, train and prepare responsive educators, and develop models for the future
Museum Administration & Museology
From Small Wins to Sweeping Change
Working Together to Foster Equity, Inclusion, and Antiracism in Museums
Edited by Priya Frank and Theresa Sotto
American Alliance Of Museums
July 2022 • 268 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6358 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3597 7 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6360 3 • $39.00 / £30.00
Combining practice and guidance, challenges and successes, this book provides a range of frameworks and tools to develop and implement successful DEAI committees and their initiatives. This timely book offers concrete tips and models for mitigating bias, confronting racism, and advocating for organizational change at any cultural institution.
Museum Administration & Museology
Manual of Museum Exhibitions, Third Edition
Edited by Maria Piacente
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 480 pages • Part of the Lord Cultural Resources series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5280 5 • $175.00 / £135.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2812 2 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5282 9 • $81.50 / £63.00
Drawing on years of experience, Maria Piacente details the exhibition process in a straightforward way that can be easily adapted by institutions of any size. She and her contributing authors explore the exhibition development process in greater detail, providing the technical and practical methodologies museum professionals need today.
Museum Administration & Museology
Museum Administration Law and Practice, Second Edition
By Walter G. Lehmann Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 720 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6635 2 • $145.00 / £112.00
A comprehensive but concise introduction to the legal and ethical issues facing museums, Museum Administration: Law and Practice, Second Edition is also intended to be a resource for museum professionals and lawyers alike.
Museum Administration & Museology
Museum Metamorphosis Cultivating Change Through Cultural Citizenship
By nico wheadon
American Alliance Of Museums
February 2022 • 260 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3042 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0438 8 • $41.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3044 5 • $39.00 / £30.00
This book uses curated roundtables, case studies and interviews with cultural innovators and changemakers in contemporary art who offer tools to dismantle institutional hierarchies and reshape museums into more vital and relevant forms.
Museum Administration & Museology
Museums A History
By John E. Simmons Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 326 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7151 6 • $32.00 / £25.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4422 3628 8 • $104.00 / £80.00
eBook 978 1 4422 6363 5 • $30.00 / £22.99
This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure troves, from the Alexandrian Temple of the Muses to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities, and onto the diverse array of modern institutions worldwide.
Museum Administration & Museology
Storytelling in Museums
Edited by Adina Langer
American Alliance Of Museums
July 2022 • 312 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5693 3 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6940 0 • $49.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5695 7 • $46.50 / £36.00
This book demonstrates how museums can use personal stories to make visitors feel welcome while inspiring them to engage with new ideas. It also explores the responsibilities of museum practitioners toward the storytellers included in their narratives and how those responsibilities shift over time and manifest in different contexts.
Museum Administration & Museology
The Preparator’s Handbook
A Practical Guide for Preparing and Installing Collection Objects
By Andrew Saluti Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 3921 9 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9226 6 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3923 3 • $35.00 / £27.00
The Preparator’s Handbook is an invaluable resource for emerging museum professionals or anyone working in galleries and collections with little-to-no previous preparatory experience or training. It explores, explains, and demonstrates object preparation and installation techniques.
Museum Administration & Museology
What Is a Museum?
Perspectives from National and International Museum Leaders
By The United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums - Edited by Kate Quinn and Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6779 3 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7809 9 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6781 6 • $30.00 / £22.99
A series of over 40 essays written by well-known leaders in the museum sector and related fields contribute to our understanding of the word “museum” in the United States and internationally. Members of the International Council of Museums provide overviews of topics Museum Administration & Museology
Rebranding
A Guide for Historic Houses, Museums, Sites, and Organizations
By Jane Mitchell Eliasof AASLHMarch 2022 • 184 pages • Part of the American Association for State and Local History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4889 1 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8907 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4891 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
If you’re part of the leadership team of a historic house museum or historical society, you might consider rebranding -- either renaming your organization or developing a new look – to make your organization more appealing to a younger, more diverse audience. Here’s a guide to doing that.
Museum Administration & Museology
The Effective Museum
Rethinking Museum Practices to Increase Impact
By John W. Jacobsen Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 198 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6434 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4358 8 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6436 5 • $39.50 / £30.00
The aim of The Effective Museum: Big Ideas to Increase Impact is to provide every museum professional with practical ways to be more effective at achieving their intentional purposes. The short, pragmatic book provides museum professionals and students internationally with new perspectives on how to organize and run museums more effectively.
Museum Administration & Museology
Transforming Inclusion in Museums
The Power of Collaborative Inquiry
By Porchia Moore; Rose Paquet and Aletheia WittmanAmerican Alliance Of Museums
August 2022 • 116 pages • Part of the American Alliance of Museums series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6189 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1906 6 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6191 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
What should inclusion mean for museum staff and leaders as they envision new ways of being a museum in an emergent future? Museum workers and lovers can use this book as a tool for engaging with inclusion anew, and as a terrain for collaborative inquiry and world-building that can help us imagine and realize new potential for museums in the future.
Museum Administration & Museology
Writing for Museums
Communicating and Connecting with All Your Audiences, Second Edition
By Margot Wallace
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6624 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6253 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6626 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Whether written by administrators, staffers, freelancers, or interns, words are delivered by people in your museums with the knowledge, to be interpreted by strangers. This new edition features seven new chapters and a focus on inclusivity and accessibility.
Museum Administration & Museology
Managing Arts Organizations
By David Andrew Snider Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 382 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6063 3 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0640 0 • $49.00 / £38.00
In this book, David Andrew Snider provides a playbook for anyone interested in navigating the arts and arts management in this new era. Through clear lessons, relevant case studies, and a series of fun, interactive activities, the author shares core principles of arts management and how to adapt and innovate in these extraordinary times.
Nonprofit Organizations & Charities / Management & Leadership
Sooner Safer Happier
Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
By Jonathan Smart - With Zsolt Berend; Myles Ogilvie and Simon Rohrer IT Revolution PressOctober 2022 • 400 pages
Paperback 978 1 9505 0841 9 • $26.00 / £19.99
Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals patterns and antipatterns to show how business leaders from every industry can help their organizations deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. #BVSSH
Organizational Development
Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2023
By Executive Office of the President
U.S. Government Reprints
July 2022 • 156 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1094 5 • $30.00 / £22.99
Remote Team Interactions Workbook
Using Team Topologies Patterns for Remote Working
By Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais IT Revolution PressApril 2022 • 80 pages
Paperback 978 1 9505 0861 7 • $14.99 / £12.99
eBook 978 1 9505 8624 4 • $12.99 / £9.95
In this workbook, the authors of the widely successful Team Topologies provide a road-map for organizing effective and happy team-first remote workplaces.
Organizational Behavior
Analytical Perspectives
Budget of the United States Government Fiscal Year 2023
By Executive Office of the President
U.S. Government Reprints
July 2022 • 328 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1095 2 • $56.00 / £43.00
Contains analyses that are designed to highlight specified subject areas or provide other significant presentations of budget data that place the budget in perspective.
Public Finance
North American Industry Classification System, 2022
Edited by Executive Office of the President and Office of Management and Budget U.S. Government Reprints
June 2022 • 958 pages
Hardback 978 1 6367 1100 3 • $72.00 / £55.00
The Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President’s budget proposals for 2023, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the year.
Public Finance
The Who, What, and Where of America
Understanding the American Community Survey, Tenth Edition
Edited by Shana Hertz Hattis
Bernan Press
November 2022 • 536 pages • Part of the County and City Extra series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1078 5 • $150.00 / £115.00 eBook 978 1 6367 0792 2 • $142.50 / £110.00
The Who, What, and Where of America: Understanding the American Community Survey pulls details from the American Community Survey (ACS) which provides a portrait of America at a certain point in time. This book covers each U.S. state, county, metropolitan area, and city with a population of 20,000 or more.
Reference
Published every five years, NAICS is an indispensable volume of official industry codes used by businesses, libraries, and other establishments and individuals to complete tax returns, grant requests, and fill out other forms and to improve analyses and comparisons of different industries.
Reference
Business Statistics of the United States 2021 Patterns of Economic Change, 26th Edition
Edited by Susan Ockert
Bernan Press
February 2022 • 490 pages • Part of the U.S. DataBook series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1003 7 • $194.00 / £150.00 eBook 978 1 6367 0044 4 • $184.00 / £142.00
Business Statistics of the United States is a comprehensive and practical collection of data from as early as 1913 that reflects the nation’s economic performance. The 2021 edition examines the dramatic effect that COVID-19 had on the U.S. and world economies.
Statistics
Making Work Visible
Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow, Second Edition
By Dominica DeGrandis IT Revolution PressMarch 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 9505 0849 5 • $26.00 / £19.99
eBook 978 1 9505 8501 1 • $14.99 / £11.95
In this updated edition, IT time management expert Dominica DeGrandis reveals the real crime of the century?time theft, one of the most costly factors impacting enterprises in their day-to-day operations. Time Management
Diverse Students, Diverse Outcomes
Portal Schools for Access to Diverse Teaching and Learning
By Frank S. Kelly Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6470 0 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4717 7 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6472 4 • $33.00 / £25.00
The intent of Diverse Students, Diverse Outcomes is not merely to reiterate how to tweak the same things teachers and students have been doing for years but to engage them in exploring what school could be like in the future. Schools must restructure their facilities and teachers must draw upon a range of resources to help diverse students succeed. Administration / Facility Management
Coping with Tensions
A Catalyst for Transformative Change for Teachers and Administrators
By Chelsea Faase; Sheila Kohl and Jason Lau Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 150 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6077 1 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 0788 8 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6079 5 • $33.00 / £25.00
Coping with Tensions examines the different pressures administrators and teachers face, and how viewing these tensions negatively or positively can affect an educator achieving his or her full potential. This book includes vignettes from active practitioners and explores relationships, communication, educator self-efficacy, and educator advocacy.
Administration / General
Navigating the Workplace
What School Executives Should Know about Labor Relations
By Richard D. Tomko
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6254 6 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2553 3 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6256 0 • $28.50 / £21.99
The chapters in this text are designed to provide administrators and leaders with background and strategy to help assist them in designing their own “play” calls when dealing with employees, unions, and labor leadership.
Administration / General
A Radical Enterprise
Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations
By Matt K. Parker IT Revolution PressFebruary 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 9505 0800 6 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 9505 8020 0 • $14.99 / £11.95
The fastest growing and most competitive organizations in the world have no bureaucracies, no bosses, and no bullshit. In this groundbreaking book, technology thought leader and organizational architect Matt K. Parker breaks down the counterintuitive principles and practices that radically collaborative organizations thrive on. Workplace Culture
Adjusting the Sails
Weathering the Storms of Administrative Leadership
By Donya Ball Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJune 2022 • 130 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6702 2 • $65.00 / £50.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7039 9 • $27.00 / £20.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6704 6 • $25.00 / £18.99
A survival guide for top educational leadership and administrators.
Administration / General
Knowing Your Schools
Controversial Issues That Further Special Interest Groups
By Jim Dueck Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6033 7 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 0344 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6035 1 • $32.50 / £25.00
This book identifies numerous conflicts within the field of education and provides the perspectives and information which stakeholders within the enterprise sweep aside or cover-up.
Administration / General
The Ethical Educator
Pointers and Pitfalls for School Administrators
By Sheldon H. Berman; David B. Rubin and Joyce A. BarnesRowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6553 0 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5547 7 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6555 4 • $32.00 / £25.00
Describes 100 real-life ethical dilemmas faced by school administrators
Administration / General
Higher Education on the Brink
Reimagining Strategic Enrollment Management in Colleges and Universities
By Alicia B. Harvey-Smith
American Association of Community Colleges
February 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5662 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6637 7 • $50.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 4758 5664 4 • $47.50 / £37.00
Higher Education on the Brink provides advice on how to structure strategic planning initiatives, including alternative revenue streams, to serve the modern learner. When colleges plan strategically and think differently, they better serve students, support the institution’s sustainability, and create an environment in which teams will thrive.
Administration / Higher
The Ethical University
Transforming Higher Education
Edited by Wanda Teays and Alison Dundes Renteln
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5438 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4397 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5440 3 • $29.00 / £21.99
Universities and colleges have become hotbeds of scandal. For these institutions to reclaim their respected status, the ethical foundations of higher education must be examined and rebuilt. This book gathers faculty and administrators from some of the most respected schools to examines the current situation and pave the way for change.
Administration / Higher
Leading for Transformational Change Case Studies to Show Effective Decision-Making
By Wafa Hozien AASA Post CopubDecember 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 4249 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2500 0 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 4251 7 • $33.50 / £26.99
This is the best book for aspiring school superintendents to improve their analysis of their potential day-to-day decisions.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
Learning Opportunities for Principals
Methods for Meeting the Needs of Today’s Administrators
Edited by Lee A. WestberryRowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6559 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5608 8
eBook 978 1 4758 6561
$30.00 / £22.99
$28.50 / £21.99
Each chapter is designed to provide insight into the learning needed for principals and how that can best be achieved.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
Leading the Community College Pathways Through an Exponentially Digital Age
By Darrel W. Staat
American Association of Community Colleges
March 2022 • 142 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6529 5 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5301 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6531 8 • $33.00 / £25.00
Leading the Community College: Pathways Through an Exponentially Digital Age provides information about ten twenty-first century technologies, their probable impact on community colleges, and guidance to community college presidents as to how to successfully deal with the technologies as they move from the linear stage to the exponential stage.
Administration / Higher
Equity, Equality, and Empathy
What Principals Can Do for the Well-Being of the Learning Community
By Richard D. Sorenson Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6606 3 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6070 0 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6608 7 • $27.50 / £20.99
Equity, Equality, and Empathy is written for principals to gain expertise upon the successful incorporation of seven actions related to the advancement of equity, equality, and empathy by means of developing a well-being program which nurtures a positive campus climate and culture through research-based social and emotional learning processes.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
Leading Social-Emotional Learning in Districts and Schools A Handbook for Superintendents and Other District Leaders
By Daniel A. Domenech; Mort Sherman and John L. BrownAASA Post Copub
May 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6512 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5134 4 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6514 1 • $38.50 / £30.00
This handbook is designed for superintendents and other district leaders who are responsible for implementing social-emotional learning in their districts.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
New Explorations for Instructional Leaders How Principals Can Promote Teaching and Learning Effectively
By Haim Shaked - Series edited by Jeffrey Glanz Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the Bridging Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 4758 6873 9 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 8746 6 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6875 3 • $33.00 / £26.99
What supports the application of instructional leadership? What hinders it? When is it incompletely applied? Although some researchers have explored such questions, the available knowledge on the application of instructional leadership is meager. New Explorations for Instructional Leaders provides up-to-date answers to these important questions.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
Perspectives and Reflections for the Superintendent
What Can Be Learned from Experience?
By Samuel A. DePaul AASA Post CopubAugust 2022 • 124 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6274 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2751 1 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6276 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
Perspectives and Reflections for the Superintendent emphasizes the importance of acquiring a strong foundation in education before specializing in school administration. The superintendent’s effective leadership and communications are paramount, as are positive school board relations and collaboration with staff, parents, and community members.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
Support for Principals
Firsthand Experiences in Planning Programs and Activities
Edited by Lee A. Westberry
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6562 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5639 9 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6564 6 • $30.00 / £22.99
Support for Principals is a compilation of supporting professional development for principals.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
The Principalship
A Learning-Centered Approach
By Frederick C. Lunenburg and Beverly J. Irby
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 760 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 2394 2 • $125.00 / £96.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3959 9 • $49.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2396 6 • $46.50 / £36.00
The Principalship: A Learning-Centered Approach is a one-of-a kind textbook written especially for principals to help them understand current theories of teaching and learning and best leadership practices as well as practical application of these theories.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
What’s a Parent to Do?
How to Give Your Child the Best Education
By Lawrence Baines
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 154 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6678 0 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6797 7 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6680 3 • $33.50 / £26.00
This book translates educational research, from Piaget to the latest neuroscience article, into actionable strategies for parents.
Aims & Objectives
Service in the Trenches
School Principals Share True Stories of Servant Leadership
By Rocky Wallace - With Eve Proffitt and Stephanie M. Sullivan
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 154 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6699 5 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7008 8 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6701 5 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book shows the selflessness that true school leaders display daily.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
The Principal’s Hot Seat
Observing Real-World Dilemmas, 2nd Edition
By Nicholas J. Pace; Shavonna L. Holman and Cailen M. O’Shea
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5984 3 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 9850 0 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 5986 7 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book moves beyond dry case studies to provide readers with a window into the ways principals seek to navigate challenging, unpredictable, and authentic school leadership dilemmas.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
The Virtual Principal
The Many Facets of the Demanding Role
By Lee A. Westberry; Tara Hornor and Mona Lise Dickson
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6346 8 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3475 5 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6348 2 • $28.50 / £21.99
The Virtual Principal provides an accurate account of the challenges faced in schools during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Administration / School Superintendents & Principals
Music Education on the Verge Stories of Pandemic Teaching and Transformative Change
Edited by Judy Lewis and Andrea Maas - Foreword by Randall Everett Allsup
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 258 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5413 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4144 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Music Education on the Verge is a collection of narratives by music teacher-educators describing how they responded to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter offers examples of innovative music pedagogy that can be adapted and applied by music educators and music teacher educators with their students.
Arts in Education
The Influence of Dramatic Arts on Literacies for Black Girls in Middle School
By Portia M. York Lexington BooksDecember 2022 • 130 pages • Part of the Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0759 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7605 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Influence of Dramatic Arts on Literacies for Black Girls in Middle School demonstrates the impact that practicing drama strategies has on foundational, digital, and identity literacies for middle school Black girls.
Arts in Education
Youth Violence Prevention
The Pathway Back through Inclusion and Connection
By John Van Dreal; Courtenay McCarthy and Coleen Van DrealRowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6265 2 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2669 9 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6267 6 • $33.50 / £26.00
This is a book about behavioral threat assessment that focuses on prevention and early intervention.
Behavioral Management
The Next Education Workforce
How Team-Based Staffing Models Can Support Equity and Improve Learning Outcomes
By Carole G. Basile; Brent W. Maddin and R. Lennon AudrainAASA Post Copub
December 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6725 1 • $88.00 / £68.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7268 8 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6727 5 • $37.00 / £28.00
The Next Education Workforce argues that the one-teacher, oneclassroom model is outdated and suggests that schools should create teams of educators with distributed expertise who can deliver deeper and personalized learning experiences to all students. Steps to achieve this include offering actions to help facilitate sustainable systems change.
Collaborative & Team Teaching
Emergent Trends in Comparative Education
The Dialectic of the Global and the Local
Edited by Lauren Ila Misiaszek; Robert F. Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torres
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4557 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5586 6 • $48.00 / £37.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4559 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book addresses the changes and multiple new topics that intervene in education vis à vis processes of globalization and social transformation. It complements and expands the scope of the 5th edition of Comparative Education.
Comparative
Creating Positive Elementary Classrooms
Preventing Behavior Challenges to Promote Learning
By Stephen W. Smith and Mitchell L. Yell Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Special Education Law, Policy, and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5563 9 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5646 6 • $30.00 / £22.99
A comprehensive, practical, evidence-based guide to preventing and responding to challenging behavior, creating a caring, positive classroom environment, and to effective teaching practices that fosters learning and self-regulation for all students.
Behavioral Management
Teaching Reading in Spanish
A Linguistically Authentic Framework for Emerging Multilinguals
By Rocio del Castillo-Perez and Julia Stearns Cloat Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • 181 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6467 0 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4687 7 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6469 4 • $33.00 / £25.00
Teaching Reading in Spanish is an essential teacher instructional guide to developmental biliteracy. It provides a comprehensive reading framework for teachers who teach reading in K-12 dual language and bilingual programs. Its approach to Spanish reading instruction is based on linguistically-authentic pedagogy, not on English-language practices.
Bilingual Education
Comparative Education
The Dialectic of the Global and the Local, Fifth Edition
Edited by Carlos Alberto Torres; Robert F. Arnove and Lauren Ila Misiaszek Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 602 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4554 8 • $125.00 / £96.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5555 5 • $58.00 / £45.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4556 2 • $55.00 / £42.00
The new 5th edition offers a state-of-the art, comprehensive, rigorous framework for taking into the dynamic interactions of local, national, regional, and transnational interactions shaping education systems around the world. Our theoretical and methodological strategy established a standard textbook for introducing the field of comparative education from various theoretical and methodological perspectives.
Comparative
Toward a Holistic Intelligence Life on the Other Side of the Digital Barrier
By Lyn Lesch Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 148 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6373 4 • $74.00 / £57.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3741 1 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6375 8 • $30.00 / £22.99
Beginning with an examination of how our current digital age is negatively affecting our cognitive lives and overall intelligence, Toward a Holistic Intelligence then explores how an intelligence based on direct insight, one which germinates from our sensorial and emotive lives, might provide a possible solution.
Computers & Technology
Unlocking the Possibilities
Insider Secrets to College, Career, and Beyond
By Thomas M. Evans Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6621 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6223 3 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6623 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Terrified of failing #adulting? A wise, kind uncle started the conversation with, “This is the way it really works...” Unlocking the Possibilities is that conversation. From launching your adult life to finding a life partner (and acing college in between), you can focus on a clear path to achieve what you want.
Counseling / Career Development
Managing Yourself and Others During Crises
Key Leadership Visions, Approaches, and Dispositions to Survive and Thrive
Edited by Walter S. Polka; John E. McKenna and Monica J. VanHusen
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6503 5 • $88.00 / £68.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5042 2 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6505 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
Recent times have shown us that leadership in a crisis is what makes the difference between success and failure. Managing Yourself and Others During Crises provides key concepts and methods that leaders must employ to not only survive but thrive in times of crisis.
Counseling / Crisis Management
Sustainable School Improvement
Fueling the Journey with Collective Efficacy and Systems Thinking
By Patricia Wright Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6286 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2874 4 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6288 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
This book challenges the current culture of constant change while providing a framework, the tools and the right conversations to support educators and school leaders in improving student outcomes.
Curricula
Decisions
Consequences for Life, Society, and History
By George A. GoensRowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 112 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6367 3 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3680 0 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6369 7 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book discusses the challenges educators face in understanding communication and decisions and their affects on the economy, society, democracy, and the meaning of life.
Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Leading through Chaos
Ten Strategies for School Leaders during Crises
By Lisa LealiRowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 142 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6705 3 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7060 0 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6707 7 • $28.50 / £21.99
Leading through Chaos supports a new leader struggling to understand how to identify and manage chaos while moving a school or district to a new and more focused reality.
Counseling / Crisis Management
Struggling with Substance Use
Supporting Students’ Social Emotional Learning
By Deborah LynchRowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6609 4 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6100 0 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6611 7 • $27.50 / £21.99
This book presents evidence on the magnitude of the problem of student substance abuse and provides education professionals with information on the causes as well as the risk and protective factors that must be understood to address the issue. Topics examined include childhood trauma, co-occurring disorders, and peer pressure.
Counseling / General
Critical Thinking
Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life, Fourth Edition
By Richard Paul and Linda ElderThe Foundation for Critical Thinking
February 2022 • 642 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 3874 8 • $85.00 / £65.00
This introductory critical thinking text provides an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical. Furthering lifelong application of critical thinking skills, the fourth edition features new discussions of argumentation, critical thinking in the professional world, the internet, and media bias.
Decision-Making & Problem Solving
From Conflict to Collaboration
A School Leader’s Guide to Unleashing Conflict’s Problem-Solving Power
By Robert Feirsen and Seth Weitzman AASA Post CopubApril 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6172 3 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 1730 0 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6174 7 • $28.50 / £21.99
The book is a “how-to” guide identifying leadership characteristics and practical strategies that demonstrate how leaders can constructively channel a school’s inevitable conflicts and instill a school culture that promotes group problem solving while honoring diverse voices.
Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Liberating the Mind
Overcoming Sociocentric Thought and Egocentric Tendencies
By Linda Elder - Foreword by Gerald NosichThe Foundation for Critical Thinking
October 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7414 2 • $20.00 / £14.99
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 7628 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3763 5 • $19.00 / £14.99
Critical thinking leader Linda Elder reveals sociocentric and egocentric thinking as foundational obstacles to thinking. Dissecting the very core of how humans learn, think, and choose to act, Liberating the Mind shows us how to free ourselves from dysfunctional patterns and achieve truly rational thought.
Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Beyond the Classroom Walls
Imagining the Future of Education, from Community Schools to Communiversities
By Bertram C. Bruce Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6711 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7121 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6713 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
Provides a coherent account of how schooling can and should relate to learning beyond the classroom walls.
Distance, Open & Online Education
Scholarly Snapshots
The Importance of Child Play as a Human Right
Edited by Vivien L. GeneserRowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 4318 7 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3194 4 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 4320 0 • $23.50 / £17.99
Within this book, you will read content from familiar theorists and, hopefully, discover new ways of thinking about play.
Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
America Challenged
The New Politics of Race, Education, and Culture
By Rosalie Pedalino Porter
Hamilton Books
July 2022 • 144 pages
Hardback 978 0 7618 7378 5 • $70.00 / £54.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3792 2 • $28.50 / £21.99
The Practical Decision Maker
A Handbook for Decision Making and Problem Solving, 2nd Edition
By Thomas R. Harvey; Sharon M. Corkrum; Shari L. Fox; David C. Gustafson and Deanna K. Keuilian
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 156 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 6318 5 • $70.00 / £54.00
eBook 978 1 4758 3192 2 • $66.50 / £51.00
The Practical Decision Maker identifies six steps essential to strong decision-making. Mind-set, problem definition, solution criteria, possible solutions, solution choice, and implementation are depicted along with concrete examples of each. 53 structuring devices are included to help readers move through each step of the decision-making process.
Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Anti-racist Pedagogy in the Early Childhood Classroom
By Miriam Tager Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3838 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8397 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Anti-racist Pedagogy in the Early Childhood Classroom conveys important information on how to effectively utilize Anti-Racist Pedagogy in early childhood classrooms. The book informs the higher education teacher on how to prepare pre-service teachers for addressing issues of race and racism in their classrooms.
Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
A Failed System
Pandemic-Related Solutions to a 200-Year-Old Education Crisis
By Eldon “Cap” Lee
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 146 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 6598 1 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 5998 8 • $27.50 / £20.99
A Failed System is designed to bring the current system of education out of the dark ages by way of a new structure that puts students on an even playing field. The solutions offered entail a new system and philosophy of education along with a curriculum that takes students beyond the classroom onto their pathway to success.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
American Catholic Schools in the Twentieth Century Encounters with Public Education Policies, Practices, and Reforms
By Ann Marie Ryan
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6660 5 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6612 2 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6662 9 • $28.50 / £21.99
What are the real goals behind the push for rapid social change in race, education, and culture in America today? History is being rewritten, norms upended, and public discussion silenced. America Challenged stresses the need to counter the forces that seek to transform America into something far different, and darker, than our founders envisioned.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
This book focuses on the intersections between Catholic schools and public education reforms.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
Antiracist Teacher Education
Counternarratives and Storytelling, Volume 2
Edited by Gilda Martínez-Alba; Luis Javier Penton Herrera and Afra Ahmed Hersi
Association of Teacher Educators
September 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6571 4 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5721 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6573 8 • $33.50 / £26.00
In this edited book sponsored by the ATE Diversity Committee, we invited teacher educators to provide their stories from the field of education, related to antiracist instruction in teacher education.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
Possibilities of the Impossible
Obstacles of Educational Reform, Nets, Trenches, Sinkholes and Cisterns
By Portia S. Bonner AASA Post CopubJune 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6421 2 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4229 9 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6423 6 • $33.50 / £26.00
Four metaphors are used to describe the realities of how the educational system affects students.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
The Better Elementary School Hand-Tailored Education for All Kids
By Joel Macht
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6645 2 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6469 9 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6647 6 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book provides a pupil-centered, teacher-friendly approach where each youngster from his or her own starting point can advance up a school’s curriculum ladder as far and as fast as the pupil’s skills allow.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
The Great Equalizer
Six Strategies to Make Public Education Work in America
By Mark D. Benigni; Barbara A. Haeffner and Lois B. Lehman AASA Post CopubApril 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6409 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4106 6 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6411 3 • $33.50 / £26.00
The Great Equalizer: Six Strategies to Make Public Education Work in America shares six strategies to ensure that American public education remains the Great Equalizer by addressing how to solve growing inequalities and increasing student needs. Chapter takeaways and discussion questions offer a glimpse into the reality of leading public education.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
Education Restated Getting Policy Right on Accountability, Teacher Pay, and School Choice
By Elliot RegensteinRowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 304 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6588 2 • $88.00 / £68.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5899 9 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6590 5 • $37.00 / £28.00
Education Restated proposes shifts in how we address three areas in education policy: accountability, teacher hiring, and parent choice. In each of these areas policy has been anchored around the wrong core values. By focusing on the right core values, state governments can create promising conditions for education improvement at the local level.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
Raising a Cautionary Flag Educational Malpractice and the Professional Teacher
By Todd A. DeMitchell; Richard Fossey and Terri A. DeMitchell
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6675 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6766 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6677 3 • $36.50 / £28.00
The authors explore the judicial reticence to recognize educational malpractice as a viable tort of negligence.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
The Fractured Schoolhouse
Reexamining Education for a Free, Equal, and Harmonious Society
By Neal P. McCluskey
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6424 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4250 0 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6426 7 • $38.00 / £30.99
American public schooling was intended to shape and unify democratic citizens, but by its nature it forces divisive conflict. And democracy is not the goal of American government; liberty is. The Fractured Schoolhouse posits that freedom in education is not only consistent with liberty but is better suited to produce unity than public schooling.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
The Self-Organizing School Designing for Quality and Productivity in Learning and Teaching, 2nd edition
By Alan Bain
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6271 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2720 0 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6273 7 • $35.00 / £27.00
A practical account of the current state-of-the art in school reform and improvement.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
Woke Is Not Enough
School Reform for Leaders with Justice in Mind
By T. Elijah Hawkes Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJune 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6329 1 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3307 7 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6331 4 • $33.50 / £26.00
Administrators, teacher leaders, and those who support school reform with justice in mind will find both practical guidance and inspiration.
Educational Policy & Reform / General
My Favorite Failure
How Setbacks Can Lead to Learning and Growth
By Ronald A. Beghetto and Laura McBain Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 118 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5656 9 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6576 6 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 5658 3 • $23.50 / £17.99
The stories we included in this book help to highlight the nuances, colors, and textures of failure.
Educational Psychology
Starting with Whitehead Raising Children to Thrive in Treacherous Times
By Lynn Sargent De Jonghe Hamilton BooksAugust 2022 • 294 pages
Hardback 978 0 7618 7336 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3372 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Following A.N. Whitehead’s rhythm of education, the author provides a guide for parents and educators on raising children to thrive in times of tempestuous change. Each chapter presents exemplary educational events rich in context, and then draws on seminal research to ground her recommendations in a robust theoretical foundation.
Educational Psychology
The Velocity of Information Human Thinking During Chaotic Times
By David P. Perrodin Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6544 8 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5455 5 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6546 2 • $33.00 / £25.00
This book will appeal to a general adult audience interested in contemporary scholarly work about human behavior, chaos, and history.
Educational Psychology
Conversations and the Human Experience
A Self-Instructional Program to Improve How We Talk to Each Other
By Selma Wassermann Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 112 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6753 4 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7541 1 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6755 8 • $23.50 / £17.99
Learning to respond with respect and understanding to others is the primary objective of this book.
Educational Psychology
Reframing Mental Health in Schools
Using Case Stories to Promote Global Dialogue
By Erin Keith and Kimberly Maich Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 148 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5287 5 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2882 2 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 5289 9 • $28.50 / £21.99
The book includes first-hand stories and experiences collaborating with school teams as they work with, support and program for students from around the globe displaying a wide variety of mental health concerns
Educational Psychology
The Learning Equation
The Education Process and Effective Schools, Teachers, and Students
By Daniel Wentland Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 118 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6358 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3598 8 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6360 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Learning Equation: The Education Process and Effective Schools, Teachers, and Students develops a “learning equation” that captures various learning situations based upon the effectiveness of the school environment and the degree to which students want to learn. The learning equation highlights how student achievement can be finally improved.
Educational Psychology
Elementary Science Methods
An Assets-Based Approach to Teaching, Learning, and Advocacy, Grades K–6
By Lauren Madden Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 216 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 2711 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7124 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2713 1 • $42.00 / £32.00
This book is designed to meet the needs of future elementary teachers preparing to teach science using an assets-based approach to science teaching and tools for advocating for scientific teaching and learning with respect to the NGSS.
Elementary
Assessment Tools and Systems
Meaningful Feedback Approaches to Promote
Critical and Creative Thinking
By Barbara J. Smith Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6768 8 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7695 5 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6770 1 • $33.50 / £26.00
This book was written to acknowledge the key role quality assessment can play in engaging all school community members in critical and creative thinking.
Evaluation & Assessment
Critical Pedagogical Narratives of Long-Term Incarcerated Juveniles
Humanizing the Dehumanized
By Gregory BarrazaLexington Books
November 2022 • 142 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1294 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2951 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Critical Pedagogical Narratives of Long-Term Incarcerated Juveniles: Humanizing the Dehumanized uses short fictive narratives and poetry of currently and formerly incarcerated juveniles. It gives an in-depth look at influences that affect their trajectory on the School to Prison Pipeline, and how their experiences interrelate with their educational experience.
General
American Higher Education in a Global Context Historical Perspectives
By Cristina González
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0007 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0088 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book describes the current state of universities on each continent, providing a comprehensive analysis of the numerous factors that have affected higher education systems around the world.
Higher
Centers of Excellence
Niche Methods to Improve Higher Education in the 21st Century
Edited by Darrel W. Staat
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 154 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6657 5 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6582 2 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6659 9 • $27.50 / £20.99
Centers of Excellence helps higher education institutions understand the value of Centers of Excellence and the methods required to initiate one. This book also informs students how these centers can provide assistance to their future employment as well as explains how higher education can work with the business community in their employee search.
Higher
COVID-19 and the Classroom How Schools Navigated the Great Disruption
Edited by David T. Marshall
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 306 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5143 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1440 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
COVID-19 and the Classroom presents social science research exploring how schools navigated the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 through the 2020-21 school year. This book also serves as a history book, documenting what this period was like for those involved in the enterprise of educating children.
Experimental Methods
Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19
Bosnia in Comparative Perspective
By Philip Aka and Sencer Yeralan
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 130 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1729 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7307 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19 argues for the application of humor in tertiary institutions unfazed by the pandemic infections of COVID-19. The book is an innovative and less contentious contribution to the debates on educational reforms in postwar Bosnia.
General
Anti-intellectualism to Anti-rationalism to Posttruth Era
The Challenges for Higher Education
By Robert J. Thompson Jr.Lexington Books
February 2022 • 336 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5332 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3338 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The post-truth world threatens our collective commitment to rationality but must not become the norm. Synthesis of the scholarship on antiintellectualism and personal attributes informs educational practices to promote development of student’s rational mind-set and rationalist identity necessary to combat anti-rationalism and the post-truth world.
Higher
Comprehensive Fundraising Campaigns
New Directions for Colleges and Universities
By Michael J. WorthRowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 162 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6212 6 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2133 3 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6214 0 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book provides a review of comprehensive campaigns in higher education and their role in institutional strategy and growth.
Higher
Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities
By Iris van der Tuin and Nanna Verhoeff Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4773 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7740 0 • $32.95 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4775 7 • $31.00 / £23.99
Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities is the first book to outline and define the specific and evolving field of the creative humanities and provides the field’s nascent bibliography.
Criticism & Theory
Disaster Pedagogy for Higher Education
Research, Criticism, and Reflection
Edited by Victor Malo-Juvera and Nicholas C. Laudadio Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5939 3 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 9409 9 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 4758 5941 6 • $30.00 / £22.99
Disaster Pedagogy for Higher Education serves as an all-purpose, contextually grounded, and multi-modal introduction to teaching in higher education during times of crisis and disaster.
Higher
Investigating the Design and Implementation of Operational Safety Plans for Crisis at Higher Education Institutions
By Antonio Passaro, Jr.Lexington Books
December 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0352 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3539 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
With the rising occurrence of human caused, natural, and technological crises, Investigating the Design and Implementation of Operational Safety Plans for Crisis at Higher Education Institutions offers guiding principles and implementation factors for creating more effective operational safety plans at higher education institutions.
Higher
Narratives of South Asian and South Asian American Social Justice Educators
Edited by Anita Rao Mysore - Foreword by Christine Sleeter - Contributions by Nina Asher; Anita Chikkatur
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 152 pages • Part of the Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0973 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9746 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Narratives of South Asian and South Asian American Social Justice Educators carries the voices of faculty in higher education. The authors offer usable strategies to educators and administrators, with the objective of creating a socially just society.
Higher
Developmental Education Preparation
How Faculty Preparation in Higher Education Can Lead to Student Success
By Ajai Cribbs Simmons Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 100 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6627 8 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6285 5 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6629 2 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book will provide support for faculty across the country and help enhance their readiness for teaching developmental and corequisite mathematics courses.
Higher
Instructor Social Presence
An Essential Tool for Online Student Engagement and Persistence in Higher Education
By Catheryn ReardonLexington Books
July 2022 • 128 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3282 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2838 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The social presence of the instructor plays a critical role in online student engagement and persistence in higher education. In Instructor Social Presence, strategies for online instructors are provided and innovative technologies are explored as the author challenges where the future of online education is headed.
Higher
Knowledge Mobility is the New Internationalization
Guiding Educational Globalization One Educator at a Time
By Ted Purinton and Jennifer Skaggs Lexington BooksSeptember 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0889 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8909 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a guide for the cross-border professionalization of educational occupations through the interaction of international development, higher education internationalization, and educational professionalism. It argues for a globally-connected faculty of education to ensure sustainable educational development.
Higher
Overcoming Disaster What Colleges Learned from Catastrophe to Recovery
By Katherine B. Persson Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6441 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4427 7 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6443 4 • $35.00 / £27.00
This provides a resource to help leaders at many levels in an organization understand what can help and hinder their disaster recovery, whether natural or man-made caused.
Higher
The Constitution on Campus
A Guide to Liberty and Equality in Public Higher Education
By William E. Thro and Charles J. Russo Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5680 4 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6811 1 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 5682 8 • $24.00 / £17.99
Each of the book’s chapters discusses the basic constitutional principles and how they apply in the context of public higher education.
Higher
The Little Guide to Getting Your Journal Article
Published Simple Steps to Success
By John Bond Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 120 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 6853 1 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 8548 8 • $23.50 / £17.99
The Little Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published is a practical step-by-step guide for the novice or uncertain author on how to get published.
Higher
The Roadmap to Investing in Yourself
The Real Costs of a College Education, 2nd Edition
By Tara Jabbaar-Gyambrah and Seneca Vaught Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 156 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6612 4 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6131 1 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6614 8 • $27.50 / £20.99
The Roadmap to Investing in Yourself, Second Edition addresses concerns posed by students, parents, and advisors about the college experience, focusing on undergraduates. This book debunks many of the popular misconceptions about the costs of college, decisions in what to major in, and socioeconomic disparities of the higher education landscape.
Higher
Liberation Pedagogy
Elijah Muhammad and the Art of Soul Crafting
By Abul PitreRowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 120 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6541 7 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5424 4 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6543 1 • $27.50 / £20.99
Liberation Pedagogy places the work of Elijah Muhammad in an educational context. Drawing from concepts in critical educational theory it introduces to readers the contributions that Elijah Muhammad made to the education of oppressed people. This book offers a liberation pedagogy that educators can use to inspire students.
History
The Dismantling of Moral Education
How Higher Education Reduced the Human Identity
By Perry L. Glanzer Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 230 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6494 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4953 3 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6496 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
America’s moral educators have continually splintered our humanity throughout higher education’s history. Unable to agree upon a common ethical understanding of our humanity, educators turned to shards of our identity to help students find their moral bearings. The Dismantling of Moral Education explains why and how we arrived at this situation.
Higher
The Organized Academic How to Transform Your Academic Life
By Elizabeth A. Wells Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • 110 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6798 5 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7992 2 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6800 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book offers realistic day-to-day techniques that promise to transform your academic life.
Higher
Your College Years
Secrets of the Universe to Make Them the Best
By Catherine DePino Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 104 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 6338 3 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 3390 0 • $23.50 / £17.99
Your College Years deals with topics that help students know how to handle situations they’ll encounter during their college years.
Higher
The Buying and Selling of American Education Reimagining a System of Schools for All Children
By Susan Tave Zelman and Margaret Erlandson Sorensen
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 280 pages • Part of the New
Frontiers in Education series
Hardback 978 1 6070 9640 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
Paperback 978 1 6070 6412 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 6070 9642 9 • $36.50 / £28.99
Traces the history of American education as a foundation to examining persistent weaknesses in education today.
History
The Nexus of Teaching and Demographics
Context and Connections From Colonial Times to Today
By Boyd L. Bradbury - Foreword by Charles L. Howell Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 136 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1093 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 0911 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1092 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book provides an overview of the evolution of education in the United States within the context of teacher preparation and demographics. The author argues that the key to equitable education for all, including marginalized and underserved populations, is the nexus of teaching and demographics.
History
Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America
Little Platoons
By Eric WearneLexington Books
August 2022 • 164 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0635 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6334 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0634 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the idea of hybrid home schools, where students attend a formal school setting for part of the week and are homeschooled the rest of the week, arguing that there are clear examples of how school choice can work for the middle class and improve civil society by challenging the existing definitions of schooling.
Home Schooling
Civic Engagement of Asian American Student Leaders
By Glenda L. Wui and Cameron S. White Lexington BooksNovember 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0355 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3560 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Civic Engagement of Asian American Student Leaders tells the stories of Asian American student leaders that counter the model minority depiction. Their challenging racialized experiences inspire civic engagement, which empower them to assert their ethnic identity, imbibe leadership qualities, commit to long-term civic work, and subvert stereotypes.
Inclusive Education
Leadership for Inclusive Schools Cases from Principals for Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs
By Steven Ray Sider and Kimberly Maich Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 334 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5275 2 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2769 9 • $37.00 / £28.00 eBook 978 1 4758 5277
$35.00 / £27.00
This book provides case studies and resources to help school principals develop skills and knowledge in leading inclusive schools for students with special education needs.
Inclusive Education
East and Southeast Asia 2022–2023, 54th Edition
By James E. HoareSeptember 2022 • 368 pages • World Today (Stryker)
Paperback 978 1 5381 6588 1 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6589 8 • $23.50 / £17.99
East and Southeast Asia 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
History
African American Fathers’ Involvement in their Children’s Education
By Tasha L. Alston
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 160 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3260 9
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 2586 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3259 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores to how involved African American fathers are in their children’s schooling. The author purposefully and unapologetically focuses on the contributions African American fathers make in their children’s educational and personal lives, highlighting their unique parenting styles.
Inclusive Education
Inclusive Instruction for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Pulling Back the Curtain
Edited by John William McKenna and Reesha Adamson
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9644 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 6428 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9643 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is essential reading for stakeholders invested in inclusive instruction for students with emotional disturbance (ED). Research and policy-based recommendations are provided, as are resources for school-based practitioners and parents/guardians alike.
Inclusive Education
Mentoring While White
Culturally Responsive Practices for Sustaining the Lives of Black College Students
Edited by Bettie Ray Butler; Abiola Farinde-Wu and Melissa Winchell
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 306 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2991 3 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9920 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mentoring While White provides a provocative and illuminating account of the mentoring experiences of Black college and university students based on their racialized and marginalized identities. The editors bring together a diverse group of scholars to present compelling arguments pointing to what white faculty should do to reimagine mentoring.
Inclusive Education
Race Talk in White Schools
Re-Centering Teachers of Color
By Mara Simon and Laura Azzarito Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 160 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9878 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8767 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9877 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book presents counterstories from female teachers of color in predominantly white schools, illuminating the teachers’ agency in resisting discourses of whiteness embedded in education. This collective narrative shows teachers of color using a marginalized position to become empowered through culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies.
Inclusive Education
Special Education Law Annual Review 2021
By David F. Bateman; Mitchell L. Yell and Kevin P. Brady
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Special Education Law, Policy, and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 5381 7282 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2834 4 • $24.00 / £17.99
eBook 978 1 5381 7284 1 • $22.50 / £16.99
This practical, current text provides a comprehensive look at the most recent policies and procedure updates, guidelines, and changes in special education law, including topics covered by the US Court of Appeals and policy letters issued by the US Department of Education in 2021.
Inclusive Education
The Inclusive World of Today’s Classrooms
Integrating Multi-Age Teaching, Technology, and International Perspectives, 2nd Edition
By Barbara CozzaRowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6687 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6889 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6689 6 • $35.00 / £27.99
The book is intended to assist educators at all levels of school organizations and give policymakers and parents information on an effective way to encourage learners to achieve on high levels.
Inclusive Education
Transgender Educators
Understanding Marginalization through an Intersectional Lens
By Michele DowLexington Books
March 2022 • 156 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1411 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4094 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1410 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is a call to action for justice for a marginalized community: transgender educators. The author argues that despite the increased visibility and pockets of acceptance of transgender people in general, transgender educators face job loss, loss of family members, poverty, and isolation by their school communities.
Inclusive Education
Shatter the System
Equity Leadership and Social Justice Advocacy in Education
By Candice Dowd Maxwell Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJune 2022 • 124 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6449 6 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4502 2 • $28.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6451 9 • $26.50 / £19.99
Shatter the System highlights the pervasiveness of race, gender, identity, and socioeconomics in schools.
Inclusive Education
Student-Centered Classrooms
Research-Driven and Inclusive Strategies for Classroom Management
Edited by Joanna Alcruz and Maggie Blair
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 4764 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7659 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 4766 6 • $35.00 / £27.00
Student-Centered Classrooms presents holistic dimensions of classroom management where teachers are facilitators of learning who aim to foster and support students rather than manage classrooms.
Inclusive Education
The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy
Still Woke
Edited by Gary L. Lemons and Cheryl R. Rodriguez
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2549 4 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 5500 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy explores diverse perspectives on the liberating power of Black feminist and womanist pedagogical practices. The contributors boldly tell groundbreaking stories of their teaching experiences and their evolving relationships to Black feminist and womanist theory and criticism.
Inclusive Education
A Companion Guide to Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership Theory to Practice
Edited by Rene O. Guillaume; Noelle Witherspoon Arnold and Dr. Azadeh F. Osanloo
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5157 1 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 1588 8 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 5159 5 • $28.50 / £21.99
The Companion Guide activities will help illuminate salient theoretical concepts related to urban education and leadership.
Leadership
Battles in the Trenches
How Leaders in Academia can Learn from Elite Athletes and Coaches
By Perry R. Rettig - With Darryl Sims Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 132 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6500 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5011 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6502 8 • $33.50 / £26.00
This book examines lessons educational administrators (higher education and K-12) can learn about leadership, motivation, and organization from elite college, professional, and Olympic athletes and coaches.
Leadership
Connecting the Dots of Accreditation
Leadership, Coherence, and Continuous Improvement
By Barry R. Groves and Marilyn S. George Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 120 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6221 8 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2225 5 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6223 2 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book provides a practical, succinct guide for educators on “how” the core elements of the accreditation process can unite a school in its transformative, continuous improvement journey.
Leadership
Establishing a Leadership Mindset
A Guide to Using the Power of the Human Brain to Motivate Learning
By Tony Holland American Association of Community Colleges
February 2022 • 250 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6364 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3659 9 • $55.00 / £42.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6366 6 • $52.00 / £40.00
Establishing a Leadership Mindset provides a more natural approach to obtaining buy-in for constant growth by harnessing the power of strategies proven by cognitive science and brain physiology. By fostering greater purpose and passion in the intentional efforts of educators, the goal is to achieve leadership throughout the team or organization.
Leadership
Identifying Small Habits
Left Unchecked by School Leaders Small Faults Can Become Major Cracks
By Larry DakeRowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 172 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6400 7 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4014 4 • $25.00 / £18.99 eBook 978 1 4758 6402 1 • $23.50 / £17.99
The aspiring leader, early career leader, and the veteran leader will all benefit from reflecting upon these small habits and their own leadership practices.
Leadership
Combating Hatred for the Soul of America
Watershed Moments for Transformational Educators, 3rd Edition
By Terrance L. Furin Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 182 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6506 6 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5073 3 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6508 0 • $30.00 / £22.99
This book provides a description of educators and their strategies that enabled them to become transformational educational leaders by combating hatred.
Leadership
Elijah Muhammad and Supreme Literacy
Lessons in Supreme Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding
By Lydia Magras Muhammad Hamilton BooksMarch 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Elijah Muhammad Studies: Interdisciplinary, Educational, and Islamic Studies series
Hardback 978 0 7618 7247 4 • $70.00 / £54.00
eBook 978 0 7618 2481 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book the major objective is to explore how Elijah Muhammad framed the term literacy as contrasted with its generally known definitions and applications. The text frames a construct for understanding why Elijah Muhammad considered the science of literacy essential to the success of the Blackman and woman in America specifically, and people in general.
Leadership
From Problem to Possibility Action and Research for Leading Up to Continuous Improvement
By Mary Ann Jacobs and Remigia Kushner
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5974 4 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 9751 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 5976 8 • $33.50 / £26.00
The purpose of this book is to persuade leaders that action research is leadership.
Leadership
International Models of Changemaker Education Programs, Methods, and Design Edited by Viviana Alexandrowicz and Paul M. Rogers Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 294 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6146 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 1471 1 • $37.00 / £28.00 eBook 978 1 4758 6148 8 • $35.00 / £27.00
Changemaker Education is a collection of practitioner-based case studies that highlight the why, what, and how of empowering educational experiences.
Leadership
Managing Today’s Schools
New Skills for School Leaders in the 21st Century
Edited by Jeffrey Glanz Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 154 pages • Part of the Bridging
Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 4758 6248 5 • $82.00 / £63.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2492 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6250 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
Managing schools today is more complicated than ever. Managing Today’s Schools gathers a diverse group of contributors who offer perspectives on managerially operating a school while also focusing on the interconnectedness between management and leadership. Each chapter includes case study-type scenarios with thought-provoking questions.
Leadership
Pathways to Leadership
A Leader’s Journey to Success
By Louis J. Pepe Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5433 6 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4343 3 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 5435 0 • $33.50 / £26.00
Pathways to Leadership delivers strong advice, valuable guidance, and successful strategies to equip any leader to become better at leading teams and managing organizations.
Leadership
Redefining Instructional Leadership
The Skills and Energy Required of an Instructional Leader
By John R. Jones and Misty Henry Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 130 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6131 0 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 1327 7 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6133 4 • $28.50 / £21.99
Redefining Instructional Leadership: The Skills and Energy Required of an Instructional Leader focuses on instructional improvement and how school leaders must function as instructional leaders in order to help teachers improve their overall performance in teaching—because better teacher performance leads to greater student achievement.
Leadership
Take a Stand
Successful Traits of Female Leaders
By Kelly Murray SpiveyRowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 110 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6388 8 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3895 5 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6390 1 • $23.50 / £17.99
After reading this book more women will gain the confidence necessary to apply for executive positions and feel safe to openly discuss discrepancies when they occur.
Leadership
Navigating the Labyrinth Teacher Empowerment Through Instructional Leadership
By Shirley Ann Smith
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 120 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6497 7 • $65.00 / £50.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4984 4 • $27.50 / £20.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6499 1 • $26.00 / £19.99
By using methods in Navigating the Labyrinth, educators can disregard fads and establish a metacognitive process for how they recognize what beliefs they have about how students learn, how they approach research so that it drives instructional decisions, and how they design and deliver instruction that ensures student learning at the highest level.
Leadership
Prioritizing Health and Well-Being Self-Care as a Leadership Strategy for School Leaders
By Brian K. Creasman AASA Post Copub
September 2022 • 188 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6736 7 • $86.00 / £66.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7374 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6738 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
The superintendency requires an elevated level of stamina due to the complexities superintendents face each day. Though both personal and professional perspectives, Prioritizing Health and Well-Being places emphasis on the career of superintendents in terms of prioritizing health and well-being to remain effective in their leadership journey.
Leadership
Succession Planning
A Framework and Guidelines for School Leaders
By Christopher M. Parfitt Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6092 4 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 0931 1 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6094 8 • $28.50 / £21.99
A framework and practical guidelines for creating, implementing, and evaluating succession plans for any educational organization.
Leadership
Teacher Leadership Reimagined A Social Network Approach
By Deborah Shea Lexington Books
March 2022 • 128 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1075 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0737 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1074 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Through social network analysis, this study was able to locate teacher influencers in schools and then describe the transformational qualities that made them influential. The Model of Transformational Teacher Influence suggests the shifts that teachers can consider in their collaborative relationships to enhance their potential for influence.
Leadership
The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education
Edited by Donald J. Peurach; Jennifer Lin Russell; Lora Cohen-Vogel and William Penuel Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 618 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5234 8 • $129.00 / £99.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2355 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5236 2 • $42.50 / £33.00
The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education is a pathbreaking effort to build a field of research committed to producing the practical knowledge needed to advance educational access, quality, and equity.
Leadership
The Teacher Leader Toolkit A Collection of High-Performance Strategies
By Matthew J. Jennings Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 110 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6394 9 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3956 6 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6396 3 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book is intended to provide teacher leaders with a repertoire of high-quality “tools” they can immediately and effectively use to complete their job responsibilities.
Leadership
Unfinished Learning Parents, Schools, and The COVID School Closures
By Kristen J. Amundson Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6672 8 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 6735 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6674 2 • $34.00 / £26.00
Unfinished Learning explores what happened to families and to children during the pandemic school closures of 2020 and 2021.
Leadership
Urban Voices, Racial Justice, and Community Leadership
African American CEOs of Urban Community Colleges Speak Out
Edited by Curtis L. Ivery and Christine Johnson
McPhail - Foreword by Cornel West American Association of Community Colleges
August 2022 • 126 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6748 0 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7497 7 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6750 3 • $23.50 / £17.99
Present, emerging, and future leaders of community colleges will grow professionally and as individuals as they learn from the strong voices of African Americans courageously leading their own colleges toward an equity-driven post-COVID-19 future.
Leadership
The Heart of School Leadership
What Education Leaders Need to Create a Thriving School Community
By Mary Louise Stahl Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 100 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6855 5 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 8562 2 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6857 9 • $23.50 / £17.99
The Heart of School Leadership focuses on 50 areas that school leaders need to think about in order to nurture a cohesive school community.
Leadership
The Trust Imperative
Practical Approaches to Effective School Leadership
By Andrew Dolloff AASA Post CopubMay 2022 • 172 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6218 8 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2195 5 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6220 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Trust Imperative provides school leaders with practical strategies to foster a culture of trust throughout the school, identifying examples that can transform the work of the school leader. Applying theory to practice, readers will renew or revise their thinking about their own leadership practices and create a trust-filled organization.
Leadership
Untangling Leadership Aligning Mind and Heart to Advance Higher Education
By Chris Heasley and Robert Palestini Ed.D Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6143 3 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 1440 0 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6145 7 • $33.50 / £26.99
This book prepares school administrators to be keenly aware of the organization structure and culture of the institution.
Leadership
Democratic Education as Inclusion
By Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 154 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5236 2 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2379 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Democratic Education as Inclusion explores how recognizing diversity allows us to engage with different perspectives and acknowledge other ways of being in the world. With greater diversity comes the opportunity to cross over into different life-worlds, and the greater the chance of ridding ourselves of our prejudices and misinformed fears.
Multicultural Education
Engaging Diverse Learners
Enhanced Approaches to Classroom Management
Edited by Joanna Alcruz and Maggie Blair
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 4767 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7680 0 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 4773 4 • $35.00 / £27.00
Engaging Diverse Learners presents innovative approaches to classroom management by changing the classroom paradigm from a teachercentered “managed” environment to a student-centered “empowering” classroom.
Multicultural Education
More Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors
A Period of Growth in African American Young Adult
Literature (2001 to 2021)
Edited by Steven T. Bickmore and Shanetia P. Clark PhD
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 142 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 4358 3 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3590 0 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 4360 6 • $33.50 / £26.00
This work celebrates and critically examines the work of eleven acclaimed African American authors who began publishing Young Adult Literature in earnest since 2000.
Multicultural Education
The Meaning of Multiraciality
A Racially Queer Exploration of Multiracial College Students’ Identity Production
By Aurora ChangLexington Books
May 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1727 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7286 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Meaning of Multiraciality explores the agentic ways in which Multiracial college students come to understand the complexity of their racialized identity production, revealing an otherwise invisible student population and broadening critical discourses around education and race.
Multicultural Education
Turning the Page
A Guide to Securing Multicultural Literature for Schools
By Rachel Slaughter Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6415 1 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4168 8 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6417 5 • $28.50 / £21.99
Turning the Page: A Guide to Securing Multicultural Literature for Schools enables educators to examine their feelings about multiculturalism in order to generate a list of multicultural books appropriate for their school. This book is a companion text to Turning the Page: The Ultimate Guide for Teachers to Multicultural Literature. Multicultural Education
From Character to Color
The Impact of Critical Race Theory on American Education
By Ernest J. Zarra III Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6412 0 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4137 7 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6414 4 • $33.50 / £26.00
From Character to Color was written to explore Critical Race Theory from logical, moral, and educational standpoints, as these relate to history, people and racial groups.
Multicultural Education
The Ivory Tower
Perspectives of Women of Color in Higher Education
Edited by Kimetta R. Hairston and Tawannah G. Allen Ed.DRowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 230 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6823 4 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 8241 1 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6825 8 • $28.50 / £21.99
Women of color in the academe often face the double-jeopardy of race and gender bias. The Ivory Tower features firsthand accounts of BIPOC women in academia in order to promote the recruitment, retention, and success of women of color in higher education institutions. Topics include socio-emotional preservation, mentorship, and authentic identity.
Multicultural Education
The Promise of Whiteness
Its Past and Its Future
By Martha R. Bireda Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 110 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6355 0 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3567 7 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6357 4 • $23.50 / £17.99
What is race-based hierarchy? The Promise of Whiteness focuses on the impact of the promise of “whiteness” upon American society in the past and future by examining its creation and evolution. Particular attention is given to the psychological needs met—and the fears, anxieties, and dissonance created by—the social construction of “whiteness”.
Multicultural Education
Witnessing Whiteness
The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action, Third Edition
By Shelly Tochluk Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 340 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6311 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3123 3
eBook 978 1 4758 6313 0
$32.00 / £25.00
$30.00 / £22.99
This new edition explains why developing an anti-racist white identity is an important part of cultivating an effective antiracist practice and is a necessary part of subverting the weaponizing of white identity cultivated by the far right.
Multicultural Education
Dartmouth and the World
Religion and Political Economy circa 1769
Edited by Henry C. Clark
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
March 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 6839 3317 5 • $65.00 / £50.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3182 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
What are the best ways of thinking about the founding of Dartmouth College in 1769—in the context of the religious, political, and economic history of Britain, colonial America, and even the world? In Dartmouth and the World, a distinguished panel of scholars approaches the issue in a rich variety of ways.
Organizations & Institutions
Academic Ethics Today
Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life
Edited by Steven M. Cahn - Foreword by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 360 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6050 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0510 0 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6052 7 • $37.00 / £28.00
New essays from an all-star cast of thinkers address ethical issues in higher education today. Topics include free speech, tenure, adjunct faculty, historical injustices, admission policies, faculty and admin responsibilities, student life, privacy, course technology, curricula, unions, philanthropy, sports, and the aims of liberal education.
Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Ethics for School Leaders
The Human Condition and Organizational Dynamics
By Dan Mahoney Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 276 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6742 8 • $88.00 / £68.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7435 5 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6744 2 • $37.00 / £28.00
Ethics for School Leaders: The Human Condition and Organizational Dynamics focuses on the ethically complex situations school leaders face and how they balance a complex array of organizational demands, interpersonal dynamics, and ethical concerns to achieve the greater good for their students and for everyone else in the school environment.
Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
It Starts in the Classroom Character Education for a Better Tomorrow
By Edward F. DeRoche and Serena Pariser Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6491 5 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4922 2 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6493 9 • $27.50 / £20.99
How Public Schools Really Work
An Insider’s Guide for Parents and Practitioners
By Parry GrahamRowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 188 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6714 5 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7152 2 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6716 9 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book is a collection of insider information to help parents navigate the system.
Parent Participation
Communist Study
Education for the Commons, 2nd Edition
By Derek R. Ford - Foreword by Tyson E. LewisAfterword by Ailish Hopper Lexington Books
January 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0100 9 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1016 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Traversing the fields of pedagogy, philosophy, and political theory, this book develops a marxist theory of education that will be useful for academics and activists alike. The second edition includes two additional chapters as well as a new preface and revisions throughout. Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Identity Excellence
A Theory of Moral Expertise for Higher Education
By Perry L. Glanzer Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6547 9 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5486 6 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6549 3 • $33.00 / £25.00
While pursuing agreement in a pluralistic society, American higher education has reduced the human identities necessary for the moral formation it inherently provides. Consequently, it fails to supply moral expertise for living the good life. Identity Excellence addresses this problem by proposing an interdisciplinary theory of identity excellence.
Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Media Dictatorship
How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech
By Cedrick Ngalande Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022
Hardback
156 pages
$80.00 / £62.00
$35.00 / £27.00
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in the Classroom
chapters focusing on different aspects
a selection of pertinent
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Media Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech examines how the increasing power of the media is dangerous to democracy and modern civilization. Educators and administrators have a responsibility to develop a generation of students who value freedom of speech and can defend and sustain both democracy and civilization.
Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Philosophy of Education
Thinking and Learning Through History and Practice
By John Ryder Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 286 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6661 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6628 8 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6663 5 • $39.50 / £30.00
Ryder’s engaging text welcomes students and practicing teachers into the intellectual framework of current education systems and pedagogy. Not assuming prior knowledge of philosophy, the book outlines general principles, acknowledges outlying factors, and presents a systematic and socially conscious approach to the practice of teaching.
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The Ethics Bowl Way
Answering Questions, Questioning Answers, and Creating Ethical Communities
Edited by Roberta Israeloff and Karen Mizell - Series
edited by Thomas Wartenberg
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Big Ideas for Young Thinkers series
Hardback 978 1 4758 6161 7 • $65.00 / £50.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 1624 4 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6163 1 • $28.50 / £21.99
Ethics Bowl espouses a new way to engage in discussions about complex ethical issues.
Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Virtue in an Age of Identity Politics A Stoic Approach to Social Justice
By Jonathan D. Church Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6314 7 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3154 4 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6316 1 • $33.00 / £25.00
Virtue in an Age of Identity Politics examines current social justice activism through the lens of Stoic philosophy.
While developing a critique of Critical Social Justice, it also explains how Stoicism overlaps with Critical Social Justice in the interest of healing social divisions and promoting honest and nuanced conversations about justice.
Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Grassroots Coaching
Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles
Effectively
By Peter J. McGahey and Peter S. Pierro Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 130 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6476 2 • $88.00 / £68.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4779 9 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6478 6 • $37.00 / £28.00
Grassroots Coaching: Using Sports Psychology and Coaching Principles
Effectively explores coaching by focusing on the key tasks of the coach, while providing immediately applicable behaviors and concepts. The responsibilities and privileges of coaching are introduced along with the appropriate accompanying sport psychology and coaching principles.
Physical Education
Soft Skills for Kids
In Schools, at Home, and Online, 2nd Edition
By Nancy Armstrong Melser
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 142 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6488 5 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4892 2 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6490 8 • $23.50 / £17.99
Soft skills help prepare kids for school and the workplace. They are a series of strategies that help children learn competencies such as manners, respect, and organization. This book focuses on fourteen soft skills that all kids need, as well as how teachers and parents can work together to help children both at home and in educational settings.
Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
The Mindful Classroom Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice
By Tru Leverette
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 184 pages • Part of the Mindfulness in Education series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3540 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5419 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Engaging deliberative pedagogy, identity politics, and social justice, The Mindful Classroom offers mindfulness and movement practices to help facilitators guide difficult conversations. Useful in face-to-face and online classes as well as community-engaged environments, this book guides constructive conversations toward positive social change.
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Buying In Big-Time Women’s College Basketball and the Future of College Sports
By Aaron L. Miller
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 396 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6642 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6437 7 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6644 4 • $37.50 / £29.00
Buying In juxtaposes women’s college sports with the historical transformations that set the stage for contemporary big-time college sports. Miller draws on positive psychology to create a framework he calls “positive anthropology.” He uses this lens to highlight athlete exploitation, pay-for-play, and other issues that affect college sports teams.
Sociology of Sports
Journey to Success Navigating the Treacherous Slopes of Working with a Variety of People
By Steven A. DiStefano Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 104 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6550 9 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5516 6 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6552 3 • $23.50 / £17.99
Navigating some of the more treacherous trails of educational leadership can be a daunting task. However, effective educational leaders who strive to move their entire community into the future often find success through a series of important actions and mindsets. Journey to Success relays these by using messages from episodes of The Twilight Zone.
Professional Development
Leaning into the Future Building Beyond the Post–COVID-19 New Normal
By Vincent F. Cotter Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6403 8 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4045 5 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6405 2 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book converts change theory into proven practice
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Strained and Drained Tools for Overworked Teachers
By Connie Hamilton and Dorothy VanderJagt Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 166 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6370 3 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3710 0 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6372 7 • $37.00 / £28.00
Strained and Drained recognizes the escalating pressures that teachers face in education and helps them understand the importance of nourishing their own growth and prioritizing self-care while facing the demands of teaching. Tips are provided for teachers to maintain healthy levels of physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual wellness.
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Teachers Who Thrive Navigating the Self-Efficacy Career Journey
By David Grambow Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 198 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6080 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 0818 8 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6082 5 • $33.50 / £26.00
This book serves as a travel guide for teachers to grow their self-efficacy and thrive.
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The Maximizer Mindset Work Less, Achieve More, Spread Joy
By Katie Alaniz and David Hao Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 108 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6361 1 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3628 8 •
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Practice What You Preach Teacher Accountability and Personal Values
By Nicole Philp Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6774 9 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7756 6 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6776 3 • $28.50 / £21.99
Practice What You Preach: Teacher Accountability and Personal Values helps teachers determine what values are of most importance to preach in the classroom as well as provides practical strategies for putting those values into practice.
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Teach in the Positive Circle Creating Opportunities for Growth and Reflection
By Julie West Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6574 5 • $64.00 / £49.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5752 2 • $27.00 / £20.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6576 9 • $25.50 / £19.99
Schools are on a mission to keep talented teachers from leaving the field of education and to reach this goal they must invest in educators. Teach in the Positive Circle supports administrators and teachers with examples on how to be successful through positivity, relationships, reflection, and resiliency in order to secure a more promising career.
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The Collective Mindset
A Roadmap for Continuous Innovation and Mindful Change
By Richard Bernato; Anthony Annunziato and Al PisanoRowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6352 9 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3536 6 • $28.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6354 3 • $26.50 / £19.99
We present, in this book, a model and process called The Collective Mindset which embraces collaboration, communication, reflection, and future-thought.
Professional Development
Transforming Professionals into Experts
A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to MidCareer Teacher Development
By Matthew J. Jennings Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 110 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6340 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3413 3 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6342 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Purpose and planning form the core of the Maximizer Mindset, designed to empower individuals within a myriad of contexts to work less, achieve more, and spread joy throughout
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day of their lives.
Transforming Professionals into Experts: A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to Mid-Career Teacher Development provides a systematic, comprehensive program for advancing the professional skills of teachers that have already mastered foundational teaching skills.
Professional Development
Understanding the Dynamics of Teacher Agency, Resilience, and Identity in the Neoliberal Age
Edited by Gang Zhu
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1429 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4306 6 • $45.00 / £30.99
Understanding the Dynamics of Teacher Agency, Resilience, and Identity in the Neoliberal Age foregrounds how the neoliberal educational reforms contribute to the (trans)formation of teacher agency, resilience, and identity through various theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.
Professional Development
Projections of Education Statistics to 2029, Forty-Eighth Edition
Edited by Education Department
U.S. Government Reprints
December 2022 • 152 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1090 7 • $55.00 / £42.00
This publication provides projections for key education statistics. It includes statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and expenditures of degree-granting institutions.
Reference
The Condition of Education 2021
Edited by Education Department U.S. Government Reprints
December 2022 • 346 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1093 8 • $52.00 / £40.00
The Condition of Education 2021 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 42 indicators on the status and condition of education.
Reference
Employment, Hours, and Earnings 2022 States and Areas, Seventeenth Edition
Edited by Mary Meghan Ryan Bernan Press
October 2022 • 612 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1070 9 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0716 6 • $128.00 / £98.00
Employment, Hours, and Earnings is a consolidated wealth of employment information, providing monthly and annual data on hours worked and earnings made by industry across America. It provides figures and summary information spanning years several years.
Reference
The Almanac of American Education 2022, Fourteenth Edition
Edited by Hannah Anderson Krog Bernan Press
July 2022 • 554 pages • Part of the U.S. DataBook series
Paperback 978 1 6367 1066 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0679 9 • $99.50 / £77.00
This updated edition of The Almanac of American Education is compiled from official U.S. government sources and contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs that provide compelling insights into the state of education in America today.
Reference
Researcher Coach
A Personal Guide to the Research Journey
By Ximena P. Suarez-Sousa and Boyd L. Bradbury Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6183 9 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 1846 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6185 3 • $32.00 / £25.00
The book provides sufficient theoretical and practical support so that readers gain a sense of self-direction and autonomy as they navigate their own research journeys.
Research
Towards Anti-Racist Educational Research Radical Moments and Movements
Edited by Delane A. Bender-Slack and Francis Godwyll
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0013 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0149
• $45.00 / £35.00
Towards Anti-Racist Educational Research explores how educational research can be an integral part of creating an anti-racist world, from radical moments to radical movements. The authors, coming from a diverse background, combine their voices, interests, hopes, purposes, and intellectual work in order to add to the current movement for equity.
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The Survivability of Catholic Schools Vigor, Anemia, and a Diffident Flock
By Michael P. Caruso S.J.Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 120 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6792 3 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7930 0 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6794 7 • $23.50 / £18.99
This book guides readers through the hard-won legacy of Catholic schools in the United States to become the largest private school system in the country.
Schools / Types / Religious
Evidence-Based Practices for Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Edited by Laura C. Chezan; Katie Wolfe and Erik Drasgow
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 468 pages • Part of the Special Education Law, Policy, and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4925 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9263 3 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4927 0 • $37.00 / £28.00
A user-friendly resource for educators and other practitioners working with learners with autism spectrum disorder to assist them with the identification, selection, implementation, and evaluation of evidencebased practices. The authors highlight aspects related to training, ethical decision-making, ongoing assessment, data-based decision making, and collaboration with families and other professionals.
Special Education / Developmental & Intellectual Disabilities
Service Animals in Schools
Legal, Educational, Administrative, and Strategic Handling Aspects
By Anne O. Papalia; Kathy B. Ewoldt and David F. BatemanRowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Special Education Law, Policy, and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5820 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8210 0 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5822 7 • $30.00 / £22.99
Provides practical guidance for educators, rehabilitation counselors, school counselors and nurses, parent advocates, and other professionals and stakeholders in creating legal and welcoming policies, procedures, and practices for service and emotional support animals in schools and related settings.
Special Education / General
Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders
A New Approach for Using Student, Staff, and Community Data, 3rd Edition
By Susan Rovezzi Carroll and David J. CarrollRowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6320 8 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3215 5 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6322 2 • $33.50 / £26.00
This book is a practical handbook for school leaders who want to use data to help understand their students, their staff and their communities, day to day.
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Happy, Healthy Teens
Why Focusing on Relationships Works
By Kari O’Driscoll Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 120 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6379 6 • $75.00 / £58.00
A Call to Action Identification and Intervention for Twice and Thrice Exceptional Students
By Blanche E. Sosland
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6427 4 • $84.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4281 1 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6429 8 • $35.00 / £27.00
Educators, school administrators, counselors, and parents must have the necessary knowledge and understanding about twice exceptional students in order to be able to identify them and to provide meaningful academic and psycho-social interventions. A Call to Action provides tools to challenge these students’ gifts and remediate their disabilities.
Special Education / General
Understanding the Boundary between Disability Studies and Special Education through Consilience, Self-Study, and Radical Love
Edited by David I. Hernández-Saca; Holly Pearson and Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 386 pages • Part of the Critical Issues in Disabilities and Education series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2913 5 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9142 2 • $45.00 / £30.99
In this book, the authors explore what constitutes boundary work at the intersection of traditional special education and critical disability studies in education. Readers will consider how their personal, professional, and programmatic actions can lead to freedom from the hegemony of traditional special education and White and Ability supremacy.
Special Education / General
Forgotten Conscripts Understanding the Needs of Military-Connected Adolescents
By Jennie L. Hanna Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 116 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6095 5 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 0962 2 • $23.00 / £17.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6097 9 • $21.50 / £16.99
Forgotten Conscripts looks deeper into the perceptions, beliefs, and experiences of military-connected adolescents to better inform teaching and learning among members of this culture so they might no longer be forgotten.
Student Life & Student Affairs
Pedagogy of the Heart The Psychological and Political Memoirs of a Master Teacher
By Martin Kokol Hamilton Books
March 2022 • 150 pages
$30.00 / £22.99 eBook 978 1 4758 6381 9
Paperback 978 1 4758 3802 2
$28.50 / £21.99
Happy, Healthy Teens uses what we know about adolescent brain and social development to offer concrete, actionable ideas to parents and educators as they seek to support and guide teens through the challenges of the middle and high school years.
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Paperback 978 0 7618 7316 7 • $19.99 / £14.99 eBook 978 0 7618 3174 4 • $19.00 / £14.99
This work is offered at a most critical time in American K-12 education, where we are facing a generation connected to technology like no other before them, begging educators to consider reconceptualizing the focus of their work. The author invites the reader to ponder a very different look at his work.
Teacher & Student Mentoring
Teaching What Matters
Activating Happiness, Kindness, and Altruism
By Steve A. Banno Jr. Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6089
Paperback 978 1 4758
eBook 978 1 4758 6091
$75.00 / £58.00
$32.00 / £25.00
$30.00 / £22.99
Teaching What Matters is a comprehensive guidebook distilling that course with emerging research in the science of happiness and altruism.
Teacher & Student Mentoring
Rethinking Teacher Education
A Bold Alternative to Pre-Service Programs
By Selma Wassermann Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 118 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6335 2 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3369 9 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6337 6 • $33.00 / £25.00
The book offers concrete and specific suggestions for improving teacher education programs.
Teacher Training & Certification
Understanding and Improving how K-12 Multilinguals are Taught Supporting Multilinguals
By Maryann HassoLexington Books
November 2022 • 132 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0445 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4468 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
Understanding and Improving how K-12 Multilinguals are Taught helps dual-language teachers resolve assessment issues in K12 classrooms due to language barriers, cultural misunderstandings, and underlying familial issues. The book provides educators with necessary tools and strategies to create evaluations to help multilingual learners succeed.
Teacher Training & Certification
Fire in the Classroom Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and the Craft of Teaching
By Ray Smilor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6765 7 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7664 4 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6767 1 • $27.50 / £20.99
Fire in the Classroom focuses on innovative ways teachers can enhance the creativity of their courses to make the learning process for themselves and their students more engaging and productive. It shows teachers how to help students take advantage of opportunities and create value in their discipline by thinking and acting more entrepreneurially. Teaching / Methods & Strategies
Betraying Teachers, Betraying Students
Higher Education’s Malpractice in Teacher
Preparation, 2nd Edition
By Rich Waters Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6850 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 8517 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6852 4 • $36.50 / £28.00
The point of this book is to re-conceive schools as the primary places of teacher learning because, for better or worse, research tells us that is where teachers actually learn to teach.
Teacher Training & Certification
Student Teaching
Past, Present, and Future
By Leah Wasburn-Moses and Philo C. Wasburn Lexington Books
May 2022 • 120 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0234 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2329 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0233 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Student teaching is widely considered to be the single most powerful learning experience in teacher preparation. The authors present a history of student teaching, theory, practice and policy; review the research literature, past and present; and present practical guidelines for reform that align with evidence.
Teacher Training & Certification
With Grit and a Big Heart A Beginners Guide to Teaching
By Theodore G. Zervas
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 148 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6585 1 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5868 8 • $28.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6587 5 • $26.50 / £19.99
This book is about the teaching profession and what it takes to become a successful teacher Teacher Training & Certification
The Power to Learn The Benefits and the Promise of Personalized Instruction, 3rd Edition
By John M. Jenkins and James W. Keefe Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 188 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6814 2 • $88.00 / £68.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 8159 9 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6816 6 • $37.00 / £28.00
The Power to Learn presents how to execute the development of personalized instruction in a school setting in order to help all students succeed. This edition differs from previous ones with added topics that include ideas for leadership, staffing, and non-punitive approaches to discipline. Extra emphasis is given to authentic forms of assessment. Teaching / Methods & Strategies
Targeting the Nation’s Youth
The Bold Assault by Woke Politicians, Teachers Unions, and Other Predators
By Bruce J. Gevirtzman Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 6303 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 3048 8 • $33.50 / £26.00
This text goes into depth on how the new woke books, ideologies, workshops, and seminars have charged—sometimes covertly—into the schools.
Teaching / Subjects / General
Enduring Questions
Using Jewish Children’s Literature in Classrooms
By David Bloome; Evelyn B. Freeman; Rosemary Horowitz and Laurie Katz Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6535 6 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5363 3 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6537 0 • $33.50 / £26.00
This book introduces preschool and elementary teachers to a broad range of high-quality children’s literature books and stories and provides them with background information so that they can use Jewish children’s literature thoughtfully with their students.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities
3-Minute Tips for Teachers
A Toolbox of Ideas for Teachers to Use the Entire School Year
By Heather Garcia and Michelle Lindsey Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022
Hardback
pages
A Career in the Arts
The Complex Learning and Career Needs of Creative Professionals
By Gary A. Berg Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6236 2 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2379 9 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6238 6 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book contemplates what young artists and performers should know when considering an education and career in the arts, and how practical financial needs and self-expression are effectively balanced by artists.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities
Queer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum, 2nd Edition
Edited by Paula Greathouse and Henry “Cody” Miller Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6186 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 1877 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6188 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
This text offers secondary ELA educators guided instructional approaches for including queer-themed young adult (YA) literature in the English language arts classroom.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities
Adaptable Teaching 30 Practical Strategies for All School Contexts
By Jonathan Ryan Davis and Maureen Connolly Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 162 pages • Part of the Building Your Teaching Toolbox series
Hardback 978 1 4758 4972 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 9738 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
1 4758 4974 5 • $35.00 / £27.00
This book is filled with quick tips to
school year. It is
for the
teacher.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Antiracist Teacher Education Theory and Practice, Volume 1
Edited by Gilda Martínez-Alba; Luis Javier Penton Herrera and Afra Ahmed Hersi Association of Teacher Educators
September 2022
This book is designed for all K-12 educators and teacher preparation faculty. Each of the strategies presented includes perspectives from teachers at two different grade levels representing a range of suburban and urban teachers.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Creating Positive Classroom Climate 30 Practical Strategies for All School Contexts
By Maureen Connolly and Jonathan Ryan Davis Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 4975 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 9769 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 4977 6 • $35.00 / £27.00
This book provides a theoretical background of
in teacher education, as well as evidence-based information to support the practices discussed.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
In this book, you will learn how practicing teachers in diverse school and classroom contexts have implemented successful strategies to create and maintain a positive classroom climate that enables ALL students to thrive.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Empowering Students Through Questioning
A Guide for Understanding the Skills in Lesson
Design and Instruction
By Mario C. BarbiereRowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 132 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6446 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4472 2 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6448 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Empowering Students Through Questioning examines the art of question construction so teachers can plan more effective lessons and achieve greater student engagement. Addressed is the purpose of questioning, pitfalls in developing questions, types of questions to use for assessments, and activities to use to determine question effectiveness.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
K-12 Teacher Inquiry and Reflections
A Pathway to Enduring Transformation
Edited by Marjori Krebs and Cheryl A. Torrez Lexington Books
March 2022 • 324 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5038 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0399 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
K-12 Teacher Inquiry and Reflections describes a graduate program for PK-12 teachers who have engaged in systematically studying their own classrooms. The teachers explain their action research projects and the enduring impact the MA with a focus on Reflective Practice (MARP) has had on their teaching.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Optimizing Learning
Thinking Skills, Technology, Teaming
By Joan Caulfield; Siabhan May-Washington and Wayne Jennings
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5704 7 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7054 4 • $28.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 5706 1 • $26.50 / £19.99
This book offers practical ideas and solutions to help every teacher develop lessons using teaming strategies.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Simply Notetaking and Speedwriting
Learn How to Take Notes Simply and Effectively
By Kristine Setting Clark
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 118 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5087 1 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 0888 8 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 5089 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
Simply Notetaking and Speedwriting will teach the student how to record notes in various formats and how to utilize notetaking when studying or reviewing for an exam.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Imperfect Heroes
Teaching in Challenging Times to Motivate Student
Achievement By Andrew Barkley
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6206 5 • $60.00 / £46.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2072 2 • $28.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6208 9 • $26.50 / £19.99
This book is a reflective meditation on everyday teaching, sharing the joys and pain of an educator’s journey.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Mindful Teaching Practices for Black Male
Achievement
A Student-Focused Guide for Educators
By Theodore S. Ransaw
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6733 6 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7343 3 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6735 0 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book helps teachers think through strategies for building relationships, making connections, and creating ‘aha’ moments with Black males.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Self-Taught
Moving from a Seat-Time Model to a MasteryLearning Model
By Chris Edwards
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6817 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 8180 0 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6819 7 • $33.50 / £26.99
This is a comprehensive plan for education reform as school face teacher and staff shortages.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
The Human Dimension in Education Essential Learning Theories and Their Impact on Teaching and Learning
By Andrew P. Johnson
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 250 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5272 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2738 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 5274 5 • $35.50 / £27.00
This book describes essential theories and concepts related to human development, the human being, teaching, and learning.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
The Myth of Education in America
Students Should be Taught How to Think, Not What to Think
By Richard Hammes Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 130 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6777 0 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7787 7 • $30.00 / £22.99
This book provides a practical and implementable foundation for critical thinking as a broad-based solution to solving the education crisis.
Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Liminal Spaces of Writing in Adolescent and Adult Education
Edited by Mellinee Lesley; Rene Saldana; Julie Smit and Jin Kyeong Jung
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0400 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4017 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Liminal Spaces of Writing in Adolescent and Adult Education sheds new light on persistent issues plaguing student writing. Through a compilation of approaches centered around the convergence of structure and agency in practicing writing, the book offers invaluable insights into cultivating agentic student writing for literacy researchers.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts
The Feedback Process Engaging Students with Meaningful Comments About their Writing
By Karen A. Wink Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6455 7 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4564 4 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6457 1 • $33.00 / £25.00
Drawing from classroom research, this book offers teaching methods for commenting on students’ drafts—both in written and auditory formats.
This book includes writing assignments, rubrics, surveys, and sample student papers with commentary from English and other humanities courses as well as models for writing and audio-taping comments.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts
Young Adult Literature and Spirituality How to Unlock Deeper Understanding with Class Discussion
By William Boerman-Cornell; Deborah Vriend Van Duinen; Kristine Alatheia Mensonides Gritter and Xu Bian
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6209 6 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2102 2 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6211 9 • $33.50 / £26.99
This book offers revolutionary approaches to in-class discussions about young adult literature.
Religion / General
Why and How Sudoku in Schools
A Low-Tech Tool to Train Brain Gain
By Jerry Martin Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 92 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 6577 6 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 5783 3 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book explains why sudoku is a potentially powerful training tool to impact the cognitive skills of children.
Sudoku
Technological Resources for Second Language Pronunciation Learning and Teaching Research-based Approaches
Edited by Shannon McCrocklin
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 366 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0229 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2303 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book introduces research on a wide variety of technologies that can support second language pronunciation learning. While working to introduce practitioners to numerous technologies available, it also dives into the research-basis for their use, providing new studies and data featuring for language-learning contexts.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts
Writing and Growing Transforming High School Students into Writers
By Timothy Horan Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5022 2 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 0239 9 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 5024 6 • $33.50 / £26.00
This book contains twenty original writing projects created specifically for high school students.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts
Developing Mathematical Literacy through Adolescent Literature
Edited by Paula Greathouse and Holly Anthony Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the Adolescent Literature as a Completement to the Content Area series
Hardback 978 1 4758 6152 5 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 1532 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6154 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
Students are offered opportunities to explore multiple mathematical topics such as probabilities, statistics, linear equations, integers, and sequencing, as well as algebra, pre-calculus and calculus concepts through literature. As students develop mathematical literacy, they will also explore literary elements such as characterization, setting, and conflict.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Mathematics
The Personality of Math
A Key to Learning and Teaching Math
By Paul A. Wagner and Frank Fair Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6297 3 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 2980 0 • $28.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6299 7 • $26.50 / £19.99
This book shows that engaging with the personality of math is an essential key to learning and teaching math.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Mathematics
Collaborative Explorations of Character
Experience
Reading Actively in Middle Grade Language Arts
By Don K. Philpot
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 5999 7 • $88.00 / £68.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 0009 9 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6001 6 • $37.00 / £28.00
Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience focuses on the experiences of fictional young people in eight middle grade novels. The experiences of these individuals are examined in chapters 1-8, and instructional options are presented in chapter 9 for collaborative explorations of character experience in middle grade language arts classrooms.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics
Reading Motivation
A Guide to Understanding and Supporting Children’s Willingness to Read
By Joy Dangora EricksonRowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6349 9 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 3505 5 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6351 2 • $27.50 / £21.99
Reading Motivation supports pre-service and in-service educators in conducting systematic case studies of children’s motivation to read in specific contexts. Readers are guided step-by-step through the process of conducting a case study of reading motivation from which they may better support their students’ developing motivation to read.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics
Science as Active Inquiry
A Teacher’s Guide to the Development of Effective Science Teaching, 3rd Edition
By Selma Wassermann and J. W. George Ivany
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 318 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6485 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4861 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6487 8 • $36.50 / £28.00
A practical guidebook to enable teachers to address their concerns about teaching science as active inquiry, in addition to providing them with the tools and techniques for developing a science program that models how real scientists work.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology
A Workbook for Reading Argumentative Texts
Analytic Tools to Improve Understanding
By James E. Scheuermann Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 154 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6473 1 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4748 8 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6475 5 • $28.50 / £21.99
This Workbook teaches the tools essential to analyzing and understanding the meaning of nonfiction texts that assert arguments.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics
Empowering Young Readers
Dialogic Reading with Integrated Vocabulary
Enrichment
By Dina Moore and Cheryl C. Durwin Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 128 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6438 0 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4397 7 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6440 3 • $27.50 / £20.99
Anyone who reads with young children will benefit from this book designed to provide a fun, evidence-based approach to shared reading. Empowering Young Readers offers a straightforward approach for creating meaningful dialogues while reading as well as practical recommendations for getting the most out of your cherished reading experiences.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics
The Littlest Learners
Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten
By Dawn R. Roginski
December 2022 • 160 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 3277 8 • $25.00 / £18.99
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4758 3276 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 4758 3278 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book will help parents to incorporate literacy into their daily routine.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics
Civics Education in Contentious Times
Working with Teachers to Create Locally-Specific Curricula in a Post-Truth World
By William Toledo Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 164 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1165 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 1635 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1164 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book presents research on creating and teaching civics curriculum in contentious times. The author provides detailed accounts of this research and proposes conceptual frameworks for the processes of teaching and learning civic perspective-taking, a key civic process.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science
Mindful Social Studies
Frameworks for Social Emotional Learning and Critically Engaged Citizens
Edited by Natalie Keefer and Tori K. Flint Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 332 pages • Part of the Mindfulness in Education series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0799 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8008 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mindful Social Studies situates the field of social studies education as uniquely poised to integrate anti-racist, equity, and asset-based pedagogies with contemplative, mindfulness-based strategies. Chapters explore ways of cultivating critical mindfulness and SEL to meet the needs of diverse students, families, educators, and communities.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science
Transgressing Teacher Education Strategies for Equity, Opportunity and Social Justice in Urban Teacher Preparation and Practice
By Alice E. GinsbergRowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6523 3 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 5240 0 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6525 7 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book is a series of original strategies that teacher educators, teacher candidates and practicing teachers can use to think critically about issues of equity, diversity, opportunity, and social justice in urban education.
Urban
Historical Dictionary of Niger, Fifth Edition
By Rahmane Idrissa
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers February 2022 • 642 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Africa series
Paperback 978 1
Previously
$50.00
in hardback
£38.00
Historical Dictionary of Niger, Fifth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Africa / Central
Historical Dictionary of Uganda, Second Edition
By Joseph Kasule
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July
Dictionaries
The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education
Developing Compassion, Understanding, and Advocacy
Edited by Gloria T. Alter and William R. Fernekes
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the Global Teacher Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6192 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1937 7 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6194 4 • $37.00 / £28.00
This book combines theory, practice, and purpose. Readers will encounter the work of leading scholars in human rights education to see how HRE is understood, taught, lived, and practiced in the Global North and Global South.
Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science
Parents and School Violence
Answers that Reveal Essential Steps for Improving Schools
By Gerard GiordanoRowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 156 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 6170 9 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 1716 6 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book explores advice about controlling school violence. Violence & Harassment
Historical Dictionary of Uganda, Second Edition, covers the history of Uganda using a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section covers many entries on politics, economy, foreign affairs, religion, society, culture, and important personalities.
Africa / General
Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963
By Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 176 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4924 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9256 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that African film audiences in colonial Kenya were not passive recipients of British cultural programs created to “teach” and “civilize” them. Rather, they rejected mediocre films and actively participated in the cinema discourse that brought about changes in cinema production.
Africa / Central
Khoikhoi, Microhistory, and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope
By Russel ViljoenLexington Books
December 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0058 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0590 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The genre of microhistory has given Indigenous Khoikhoi individuals of modest status a voice and a place in South African historiography. This book examines the lived and everyday-life experiences of Khoikhoi characters in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial South Africa.
Africa / General
Africa 2022–2023, 56th Edition
By Francis Wiafe-AmoakoAugust 2022 • 390 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6592 8 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6593 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
Africa 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Africa / General
Long-Distance Nationalism in the Global City
A Cultural History of the Malian Diaspora in Lagos
By Bennett Eason Cross Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 228 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1502 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5039 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author uses the Malian diaspora in Lagos, Nigeria to examine the persistence of nationalism in an age of globalization. In this case study, the bilateral struggle for loyalty between origin and host societies is complicated by a common faith and the presence of a transnational movement of reformist Islam.
Africa / West
Historical Dictionary of the United States
By Kenneth J. Panton Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 782 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2419 2 • $350.00 / £269.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4208 8 • $332.50 / £258.00
Historical Dictionary of the United States contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Soviet Policy in Xinjiang Stalin and the National Movement in Eastern Turkistan
By Jamil Hasanli
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the The Harvard Cold War Studies Book series
Paperback 978 1 7936 4128 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1267 7 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4127 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
Using recently declassified Soviet documents, Jamil Hasanli examines Soviet involvement in the anti-China rebellion in East Turkistan during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Asia / Central Asia
Liberia under Samuel Doe, 1980–1985
The Politics of Personal Rule
By Yekutiel GershoniLexington Books
March 2022 • 398 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1787 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7880 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book explores Samuel K. Doe’s evolution of power in Liberia and the economic crises and political turmoil that ensued. Through primary sources and interviews with diplomats, politicians, and activists, Gershoni carefully details the timeline of Doe’s rise to power and the lasting effects of his dictatorial legacy.
Africa / West
Historical Dictionary of Cuba, Third Edition
By Antoni Kapcia Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 724 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 4422 6454 0 • $265.00 / £204.00
eBook 978 1 4422 4557 7 • $251.50 / £196.00
Historical Dictionary of Cuba contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has several hundred cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Death and Rebirth in Late Antiquity
Edited by Lee M. Jefferson
Fortress Academic August 2022 • 360 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0159 5 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1601 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
Memorialized in art, sculpture, epigraphy, and of course texts, the theme of death and rebirth became a central focus of the Christian religion as it developed in late antiquity. This book provides a deep examination of the theme of death and rebirth from various points of view to see how deeply ensconced it was in religious piety.
Subjects & Themes / Religious
An Anthropological Inquiry into Confucianism
Ritual, Emotion, and Rational Principle
By Guo WuLexington Books
March 2022 • 166 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5431 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4328 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
An Anthropological Inquiry into Confucianism provides a new lens to revisit Confucianism. Drawing upon anthropological theories, perspectives, and empirical studies, Guo Wu argues that Confucianism is distinctive and valuable in its balancing of the three titular ideas: emotion, ritual, and rational principle in theory and in real-life.
Asia / China
An Object of Seduction Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Transpacific Trade, 1500–1700
By Xiaolin Duan Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 230 pages • Part of the Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1490 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4919 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
An Object of Seduction explores the early modern trans-Pacific export of Chinese silk to New Spain. It argues that the increasing demand for silk contributed to the parallel development of silk fashion and sericulture in China and New Spain, and also created conflicts on imperial regulations about foreign trade and hierarchical systems.
Asia / China
China in Revolution
History Lessons
By Joseph W. Esherick Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 446 pages • Part of the Asia/Pacific/
Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6276 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2774 4 • $47.00 / £36.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6278 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines key events in modern Chinese history to question the notion of historical inevitability and stresses the role of contingent circumstances. The constant change and diversity of Chinese society contrasts the persistence of a unitary autocratic state and suggest a key lesson in history is that China will continue to surprise us.
Asia / China
More Than the Great Wall
The Northern Frontier and Ming National Security, 1368–1644
By John W. Dardess Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 572 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5902 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 5105 5 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3511 2 • $47.50 / £37.00
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how Ming China’s emperors, officials, and commanders in the field thought, argued, and made decisions as they worked to defend their country. John W. Dardess immerses readers in their day-to-day world as he explores the question of how leaders kept their country safe for 276 years.
Asia / China
The Healthy Socialist Life in Maoist China, 1949–1980
By Renée Krusche Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 282 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5455 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4564 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
China and the Uyghurs A Concise Introduction
By Morris Rossabi
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 182 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6297 2 • $84.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2989 9 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6299 6 • $27.50 / £20.99
This balanced history of Xinjiang and its Uyghur inhabitants traces the development of this ethnic group from imperial China to the present and its fraught relationship with the Chinese state. Morris Rossabi focuses especially on CCP policies, both progressive and repressive, toward the Uyghurs since 1949.
Asia / China
Grassroots Activism of Ancient China Mohism and Nonviolence
By Hung-yok IpLexington Books
February 2022 • 294 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2234 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2358 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Mohism as a movement in early China. To analyze how the Mohists pursued power, the author analyzes nonviolence as a goal and strategy of the Mohist movement, the Mohists’ creation of strategic knowledge, and their quest for a personhood that made their activism possible.
Asia / China
Subjectivity and Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction
Hu Feng and Lu Ling
By Xiaoping Wang Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 6619 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6209 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a reexamination of the debates between Hu Feng, Lu Ling, and other Chinese left-wing theorists from a cultural-political perspective. The author argues that individualism should be understood within changing historical contexts and that subjectivity should be treated as class-based and derived from collective community.
Asia / China
This Suffering Is My Joy The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China
By D. E. Mungello Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 186 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7397 8 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
1 5381 0290 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5030 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book examines Mao-era health practices that were implemented to foster individual health and national production goals in socialist China. It highlights continuous state efforts towards a national healthy body and setbacks in the form of diseases of civilization.
Asia / China
Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, Mungello illuminates the century between the imperial expulsion of missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in the 1800s. This time of persecution offered an opportunity for the Chinese, rather than Europeans, to control their own church.
Asia
China
Women in Qing China
By Bret Hinsch Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 222 pages • Part of the Asian Voices series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6639 0 • $94.00 / £72.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6406 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6641 3 • $32.50 / £25.00
This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). It explores the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, religious roles, and ethics.
Asia / China
Women in Tang China
By Bret Hinsch Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Asian Voices series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5903 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4894 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3490 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
Surveying the history of women in China during the sixth through tenth centuries, this important study is the first book on the subject in English. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight into female life in the medieval era, ranging from political power, wealth, and work to family, religious roles, and emotion.
Asia / China
Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition
By Martin Stuart-Fox; Simon Creak and Martin Rathie Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 744 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2027 9 • $300.00 / £231.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0286
$285.00
£219.00
Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Asia / General
Indian Ocean Imaginings
People, Time, and Space
Edited by Joshua Esler and Mark Fielding
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 290 pages
Women in Song and Yuan China
By Bret Hinsch
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Asian Voices series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7116 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4916 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4492 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
This deeply researched book provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368). Bret Hinsch explores the most important aspects of female life in this era?political power, family, work, inheritance, religious roles, and emotions?and considers why the status of women declined during this period.
Asia / China
Beyond Versailles
The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia
Edited by Tosh Minohara and Evan Dawley Lexington Books
May 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5448 0 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4466 6 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5447 3 • $40.50 / £31.00
This edited collection examines the fundamental role East Asians played in reshaping the world order during the interwar period. The contributors argue that Japan, China, Korea, and Mongolia sought to redefine the concept of sovereignty to advance their own interests after the Treaty of Versailles was signed.
Asia / General
Heart Like a Fakir
General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company
By Chris Mason Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • 382 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6956 8 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9575 5 • $41.00 / £32.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6958 2 • $39.00 / £30.00
This book explores the last years of the British East India Company using the life of General Sir James Abbott—explorer, guerilla, district officer, and possible inspiration for Mr. Kurtz in Heart of Darkness—as a thread to reexamine the social and sexual relationships between Britons and Indians and chronicle the collapse of their social contract.
Asia / India & South Asia
Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian Classical Period
The Obligations of Power
By Neal LeavittLexington Books
Hardback 978 1 6669
5 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2172
$45.00 / £35.00
This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. This collection examines both the continuity and change of the region, as well as its unity and diversity.
Asia / India & South Asia
October 2022 • 190 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1567 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 5686 6 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book examines the ethical standard of the obligations of power articulated by philosophers Rabindrinath Tagore and Amartya Sen. The author argues that Tagore and Sen focused on the need to diminish all states’ capacity for violence, regardless of regime type.
Asia / India & South Asia
The Hindu Monastery in South India Social, Religious, and Artistic Traditions
By Nalini RaoLexington Books
May 2022 • 252 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2239 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2372 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2238 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This study analyzes the role of asceticism, icons, and the guru in South India. Tracing the development of Hindu monastic orders, the author analyzes the growth of these institutions from educational establishments to centers of traditional socio-religious authority, centering her argument on the phenomenon of guru whole-body relics.
Asia / India & South Asia
A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness
Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan
By Yuko KawaiLexington Books
May 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the New Studies in
Modern Japan series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9902 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 9009 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9901 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective. By analyzing a variety of communication during the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the author examines how Japaneseness is constructed in relation to discursive Others.
Asia / Japan
Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century Continuity and Change
Edited by Lam Peng Er and Purnendra Jain
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 400 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8797 6 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 7952 2 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8796 9 • $40.50 / £31.00
This volume examines Japan’s new foreign policy frontiers in South Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. The contributors analyze Japan’s ongoing relationships with the United States and the ASEAN states as China’s influence expands.
Asia / Japan
Mito and the Politics of Reform in Early Modern Japan
By Michael Alan Thornton
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the New Studies in Modern Japan series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4189 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1908 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book takes the perspective of Mito Domain, one of three branches of Japan’s ruling Tokugawa shogunate, to explore the dynamic history of political reform in early modern Japan. This book, while grounded in Mito, examines the role that this domain and its people played in the birth of the modern Japanese nation-state in the nineteenth century.
Asia / Japan
The Life of the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
Transmitting the Dharma in Exile
By Meng Wang Lexington BooksDecember 2022 • 330 pages • Part of the Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1345 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3460 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the life of the sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.
Asia / India & South Asia
Gentleman Samurai and Internationalist
The Life and Trials of Ambassador Sato Naotake, 1882–1971
By Greg GublerLexington Books
August 2022 • 470 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3278 4 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 2760 0 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3277 7 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book examines Sato Naotake’s remarkable and long career at the crossroads of Imperial Japan, emphasizing his role in maintaining the Neutrality Pact with the Soviet Union and in promoting the United Nations.
Asia / Japan
Journalism and the Russo-Japanese War
The End of the Golden Age of Combat Correspondence
By Michael S. Sweeney and Natascha Toft RoelsgaardLexington Books
March 2022 • 260 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1792 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7927 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1791 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines Japan’s victory over Russia in 1904–05 and how it overhauled press–military relations, ending sixty years of battlefield freedom for correspondents. The authors argue that Japan controlled access and allowed only a narrowly constrained view of the war to circulate, thus creating the template for all modern wars.
Asia / Japan
The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan
By Toshio Watanabe - Translated by Robert D. EldridgeLexington Books
March 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0853 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8541 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the policies and personalities behind Japan’s administration of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945. The author examines various important figures that contributed to the development of modern Taiwan, such as Kodama Gentaro, Goto Shinpei, Hatta Yoichi, and others.
Asia / Japan
The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948–1973
Managing a Free World
By Naoko KodaLexington Books
May 2022 • 274 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8343 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3411 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8342 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
The author argues that interactions between the movement and US Cold Warriors had a profound and lasting impact on Japanese society and Japan–US relations.
Asia / Japan
The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia
A Lead from Display-ness
By Francis Chia-Hui Lin Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1403 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4049 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia’s spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. The author examines “display-ness” as a theoretical common divisor and argues that Asia’s architectural and urban spectacle is as meaningful and significant as an indicator of Asia’s postcolonial condition.
History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Yearbook of Transnational History (2022), Volume 5
Edited by Thomas Adam - Assisted by Austin E. Loignon - Contributions by Bradley J. Borougerdi; Volker Depkat; J. Laurence Hare; Susanne Lachenicht; Berthold Unfried and Ky Woltering Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
May 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 6839 3351 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3526 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. The six chapters of this volume explore topics and themes from early modern times to the fall of Communism.
Essays
English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era
The Muscovy Company, 1603–1649
By Maria Salomon ArelLexington Books
March 2022 • 362 pages • Part of the Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World series
Paperback 978 1 4985 5025 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0239 9 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5024 6 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book explores English trade to Russia in the first half of the seventeenth century. Meticulously reconstructing commercial activities, personnel, and day-to-day business strategies of the Muscovy Company, it reveals the workings of a growing branch of early modern overseas trade linking Russia to intersecting markets across the globe.
Europe / Eastern
The Contested State
Transnational Battles for Control of the Philippines
Since 1898, Second Edition
By Amy Blitz Lexington BooksNovember 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2222 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2233 3 • $45.00 / £30.99
This study examines rising authoritarianism today in historical, transnational context, using the Philippines as a case study. Tracing the battle for control of the Philippines back to the Spanish era, the book offers insights into the broader transnational issues threatening democracy today.
Asia / Southeast Asia
Canada 2022–2023, 37th Edition
By Paul T Babie; Charles J. Russo and James Kent DonlevyOctober 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the World
Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6590 4 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6591 1 • $23.50 / £17.99
This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present. Canada / General
The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle? Sovietization and Americanization in a Communist Country
By Zsuzsanna Varga - Translated by Frank T Zsigó Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Harvard Cold War Studies Book series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3437 5 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4351 1 • $132.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3436 8 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book examines the success of the Hungarian agricultural miracle, a hybrid agricultural system created by transfer processes of Sovietization and Americanization.
Europe / Austria & Hungary
Montažstroj’s Emancipatory Performance Politics Never Mind the Score
By Leo Rafolt
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 314 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2117 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1182 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book deals with the broader theoretical and philosophical context of performance art in former Yugoslavia. It focuses on the politically engaged performance activity of the Montažstroj group, putting it in the context of terrorism, globalism, radical democratic regimes, and identity politics.
Europe / Eastern
Hitler’s Refugees and the French Response, 1933–1938
By Julius Fein
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 322 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2230 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2280 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2229 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book examines the ways in which the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Quai d’Orsay) responded to the large number of German citizens who sought refuge in France between 1933 and 1938.
Europe / France
Festival, Culture, and Identity in Lübeck Nordic Days, 1920–1960
By Erika L. BriesacherLexington Books
December 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 8501 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5026 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this study Erika L. Briesacher argues that festivals in Lübeck, Germany spanning 1920 to 1960 demonstrate interlocking economic, social, and cultural factors that contribute to local, national, and international identity formation.
Europe / General
The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe
Edited by Mark Kramer; Aryo Makko and Peter Ruggenthaler
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 644 pages • Part of the Harvard Cold War Studies Book series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3194 7 • $54.99 / £42.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1923 3 • $155.00 / £119.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3193 0 • $52.00 / £40.00
Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War. The contributors demonstrate the importance of the Soviet Union to the neutral states of Europe during the Cold War and vice versa.
Europe / General
Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2022–2023, 21st Edition
By Wayne C. Thompson
July 2022 • 626 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6584 3 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6585 0 • $23.50 / £17.99
A Concise History of Modern Europe Liberty, Equality, Solidarity, Fifth Edition
By David S. Mason Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 268 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6157 9 • $99.00 / £76.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1586 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6159 3 • $32.00 / £25.00
Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that shaped modern Europe, this text provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present day focusing on the causes and consequences of revolution, the origins and development of human rights and democracy, and issues of European identity and integration.
Europe / General
Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729
Missionizing through the Arts
Edited by Kateřina Horníčková and Michal ŠroněkContributions by Ondřej Jakubec; Martin Deutsch; Martin Mádl; Katrin Sterba and Štěpán Vácha
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 430 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0586 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5878 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
This collection examines how the Society of Jesus used art and architecture in its missionary efforts in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. The contributors demonstrate how the Jesuit Order cultivated the subjects and functions of art to promote concepts of Catholic piety.
Europe / General
Unmaking Détente Yugoslavia, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1968–1980
By Milorad Lazic
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 304 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4921 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9225 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines the global history of the Cold War in the 1970s through the perspective of Yugoslavia’s activism in the Global South and its relations with the United States and the Soviet Union.
Europe / General
Western Europe 2022–2023, 40th Edition
By Wayne C. ThompsonAugust 2022 • 470 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6576 8 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6577 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on these countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Europe / General
Western Europe 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Europe / General
Athanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis and Greek
Irredentism
A Life in the Shadows
By John Athanasios MazisLexington Books
February 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3444 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4450 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines the life of Athanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis (1878–1945), a Greek military officer and undercover agent in the Ottoman Empire. In particular, the author examines his role in Greek irredentism, his ideology, and his other connections to Ion Dragoumis.
Europe / Greece
Italian Rebels
Mazzini, Gramsci, and Giuliano
By Raymond Angelo BelliottiFairleigh Dickinson University Press
December 2022 • 292 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Hardback 978 1 6839 3369 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3700 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
Belliotti analyzes the role of positive duties in moral theory, the efficacy of theocratic republicanism, strategies for political revolutions, the implications of an enduring Sicilian ethos, and the profits and perils of the individual-community continuum, while distinctively interpreting the lives and ideologies of Mazzini, Gramsci, and Giuliano. Europe / Italy
The Vatican and Permanent Neutrality
Edited by Marshall J. Breger and Herbert R. Reginbogin
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 322 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4216 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2172 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Vatican diplomacy from the fall of the Papal States in 1870 to the present day. The contributors focus on the concept of permanent neutrality and trace the Vatican’s political transformation into a modern international institution in conjunction with its use of neutrality as a tool of diplomacy and statecraft.
Europe / Italy
Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages From Muhammad to Dante
By Michael FrassettoLexington Books
March 2022 • 314 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7758 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7564 4 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7757 1 • $40.50 / £31.00
This study examines relations between Muslims and Christians during the Middle Ages. The author argues that the relationship between the two faiths was essential to the creation of the cultural and religious traditions that defined each faith.
Europe / Medieval
Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece, Second Edition
By Dimitris Keridis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 328 pages • Part of the Historical
Dictionaries of Europe series
Hardback 978 1 4422 6470 0 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 4422 4717 7 • $142.50 / £110.00
Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Europe / Greece
Italian Women in Basilicata
Staying Behind but Moving Forward during the Age of Mass Emigration, 1876–1914
By Victoria Calabrese
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0778 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7799 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the women who remained behind in the southern Italian region of Basilicata during the age of mass migration. While thousands of married men left, their wives remained in Italy, taking on a new role and challenging stereotypes.
Europe / Italy
A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition, Second Edition
By Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 332 pages • Part of the Critical Issues in World and International History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5293 5 • $114.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2942 2 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5295 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
Examining the dynamic interplay between competing medieval notions of Christian observance, this book traces the escalating confrontations between piety, reform, dissent, and Church authority. It explores how diverse culture and regional settings influence major disputes over scripture, sacraments, and spiritual hierarchies of the Medieval world.
Europe / Medieval
Common Culture and the Ideology of Difference in Medieval and Contemporary Poland
By Teresa Pac
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 346 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2691 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6929 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines shared culture in medieval and contemporary Poland. The author argues that shared culture produced by ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse societies—rather than elitist values or institutional, ethnic, and religious differences—was foundational to societal survival in medieval Polish cities.
Europe / Medieval
Medieval Fare
Food and Culture in Medieval Iberia
By Martha M. DaasLexington Books
October 2022 • 182 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 8959 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9604 4 • $45.00 / £30.99
This study examines food in the Middle Ages. The author analyzes its preparation, consumption, and cultural significance and how food provides insight in to the cultural, religious, and social complexities of medieval Iberia.
Europe / Medieval
Joseph Stalin
A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
By David R. Marples and Alla Hurska Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 314 pages • Part of the
Significant Figures in World History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3360 6 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3613 3 • $109.00 / £84.00
Joseph Stalin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works captures his life, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of his life, a dictionary section lists entries on Stalin’s associates from the period of the Russian Empire in the late 19th century to the leader’s death in 1953, and beyond.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Sino–Russian Policies in the Center and Periphery
A Comparative Analysis
By Samra Sarfraz Khan
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 282 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1057 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0582 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study provides a comparative analysis of Chinese and Russian policies in their respective inner peripheries. The author also examines Sino–Russian partnerships in the region.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in Russia
Between the Cosmos and the Earth
By Baasanjav Terbish
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 310 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0568 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5694 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Russia is defined by its past legacies, including Soviet state ideology and the intellectual movements of Russian cosmism and Eurasianism. This book recounts the histories of these legacies and the ongoing search for a unifying state-controlled narrative in contemporary Russia, drawing on the evolution of ideas across time and space.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
In the Labyrinth of the KGB Ukraine’s Intelligentsia in the 1960s–1970s
By Olga Bertelsen
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 370 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0892 5 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8932 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book focuses on the writers who lived through the processes of de-Stalinization and re-Stalinization during the 1960s and 1970s in Soviet Ukraine. The author argues that the KGB unintentionally facilitated the transnational and intercultural links among the Kharkiv multiethnic community of writers.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Russia in the Early Modern World
The Continuity of Change
By Donald OstrowskiLexington Books
January 2022 • 574 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3420 7 • $155.00 / £119.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4214 4 • $60.00 / £46.00
This study examines the continuity of Russian policies during the early modern period in the midst of constant change. The author analyzes how Russian rulers from Ivan III to Catherine II—along with their hub advisors—managed to sustain a balance between the two in seeking solutions to problems the country faced.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Stalin’s Millennials Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism
By Tinatin Japaridze
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4186 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1878 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Stalin’s increasing popularity in his native Georgia and in Putin’s Russia. Through extensive field research, political commentary, and autobiographical elements from the perspective of the post-Soviet millennial generation, the author analyzes how Stalin’s image is manipulated and exploited for political gain.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
The Carpathians, the Hutsuls, and Ukraine An Environmental History
By Anthony J. Amato
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 484 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0837 6 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 8352 2 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0836 9 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book examines ecology and culture in the Carpathian Mountains, with a focus on Ukraine’s Galician Hutsul region from 1848 to 1939.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
The Cinema of Soviet Kazakhstan 1925–1991
An Uneasy Legacy
By Peter RollbergLexington Books
May 2022 • 466 pages • Part of the Contemporary
Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures series
Paperback 978 1 7936 4176 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1748 8 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4175 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fullyfledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century
A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History
By Alexander D. Nakhimovsky
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 252 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7505 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5034 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7504 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through their letters and stories. It constitutes an oral history of peasants’ tragic Soviet past, and argues that for all their variability, local peasant dialects maintained an underlying unity throughout the century.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
The Stalin Cult in East Germany and the Making of the Postwar Soviet Empire, 1945–1961
By Alexey Tikhomirov - Translated by Jacqueline Friedlander
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 384 pages • Part of the Harvard Cold War Studies Book series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1189 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1909 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
This study examines the Stalin cult in East Germany as both a representative and a unique case study of Sovietization in Eastern Europe. The author investigates the emergence and functioning of the postwar Soviet empire from the end of World War II to the building of the Berlin Wall.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Henry VIII
A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
By Clayton DreesRowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 286 pages • Part of the Significant Figures in World History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2283 9 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2846 6 • $109.00 / £84.00
Henry VIII: A Reference Guide to His Life and Work captures his eventful life, his works, and his legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and the dictionary section lists entries on all the locales, events and personalities associated with King Henry.
Royalty
The Hidden History of New Women in Serbian Culture
Toward a New History of Literature
By Svetlana Tomić
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 304 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3198 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1992 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines a group of educated women appearing in the nineteenth century and their contribution to Serbian literature and society. Tomic analyzes the literary values of their works and contrasts them with official evaluations, presenting their different social engagements and showing that there is abundant evidence challenging the canon.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
The Pilsen Revolt of 1953 Kindred by Currency
By Jakub Šlouf - Translated by Lucie Mikolajková
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 324 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4645 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6460 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the Pilsen revolt in Czechoslovakia in 1953, a confluence of several individual, mutually incompatible protests, through which different parts of society reacted to the currency reform using different cultural traditions. The author analyzes how each protest brought their own alternative authorities into public space.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Russia and Eurasia 2022–2023, 52nd Edition
By Navruz Nekbakhtshoev
September 2022 • 360 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6582 9 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6583 6 • $23.50 / £18.99
Russia and Eurasia 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on these countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Marx and Engels on Bonapartism
Selected Journalism, 1851–59
Edited by Spencer A. Leonard Lexington Books
December 2022 • 460 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2804 4 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8051 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
This volume is the first to compile the journalistic works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dealing with what they termed Bonapartism. The topics examined include the emergence of a new unionist capitalist politics in Britain, post-1848 Chartism, the East India Company, European nationalisms, and the Taiping Rebellion in China.
Europe / Western
Beyond Truman
Robert H. Ferrell and Crafting the Past
By Douglas A. DixonLexington Books
May 2022 • 184 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2783 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7810 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2782 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This study examines the successes, struggles, and personal life of the nationally recognized historian Robert H. Ferrell. His life history provides insight into postmodernism, the New Left, and the art of historical writing.
Historiography
Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust, Third Edition
By Jack R. Fischel Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 452 pages • Part of the Historical
Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6947 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 0155 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3016 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, issues, and events that led to the murder of six-million Jews, and millions of other groups by Nazi Germany.
Holocaust
Communist Poland A Jewish Woman’s Experience
By Sara Nomberg-Przytyk - Edited by Holli Levitsky and Justyna Włodarczyk - Translated by Paula Parsky
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Lexington
Studies in Jewish Literature series
Hardback 978 1 4985 7750 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7519 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This annotated edition of Holocaust survivor Sara Nomberg-Przytyk’s postwar memoir follows her life as an investigative journalist during the emergence and deterioration of the communist state in Poland. Once a devoted communist herself, Nomberg-Przytyk recounts how antisemitism and government corruption shattered her illusions.
Jewish
Soviet Influence on Cuban Culture, 1961–1987 When the Soviets Came to Stay
By Isabel Story Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Lexington
Studies on Cuba series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8013 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0113 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8012 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the ways in which the Cuban-Soviet relationship was expressed in the cultural sphere between 1961 and 1987. It specifically focuses on the theater and the visual arts to analyze the ways in which the culture became a means of asserting the Cuban Revolution’s independence.
Latin America / Central America
German Jews and Migration to the United States, 1933–1945
Edited by Andrea A. Sinn and Andreas Heusler
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 304 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4600 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6019 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection of mostly unpublished first-person accounts documents the flight and exile of German Jews from Nazi Germany to the USA. The thematic and biographical introductions by the editors, clear geographic framework, and well-defined time frame make this volume helpful to those new to the subject.
Holocaust
A Jewish Journey
Surviving and Thriving in Poland, Israel, and the United States
By Sam Ron - With Caren Schnur NeileHamilton Books
December 2022 • 206 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7358 7 • $24.99 / £14.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3594 4 • $23.50 / £14.99
Never forget. This stirring memoir of Polish Holocaust survivor Samuel Ron is structured as a Q&A with students, in order to reflect the decades he has spent educating groups about his survival from four Nazi concentration camps, and his many contributions to the founding of the modern State of Israel.
Jewish
Ernestine L. Rose To Change a Nation
By Joyce B. Lazarus Hamilton Books
July 2022 • 168 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7342 6 • $19.99 / £14.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3433 3 • $19.00 / £14.99
Ernestine L. Rose: To Change a Nation relates the life of Ernestine L. Rose (1810-1892), a fearless human rights activist who fought for racial equality, women’s rights and religious freedom. As America continues to struggle to live up to its democratic principles, Ernestine Rose’s words are more relevant than ever.
Jewish
Contemporary Latin American Revolutions, Second Edition
By Marc Becker Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 374 pages • Part of the Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6372 6 • $94.00 / £72.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3733 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6374 0 • $32.50 / £25.00
This clear text extends our understanding of revolutions with critical narrative analysis of key case studies. Becker analyzes revolutions through the lens of participants and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions, and the outcomes of the political changes.
Latin America / General
Discourses on American Musical Theatre between São Paulo and New York
Theatrical Flows at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
By Bernardo Fonseca Machado - Translated by Philip Badiz and David RodgersLexington Books
February 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3817 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8182 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Discourses on American Musical Theater between São Paulo and New York: Theatrical Flows at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, Bernardo Fonseca Machado examines cultural exchange between musical theater production in the US and Brazil.
Latin America / General
Latin American Studies and the Cold War
Edited by Ronald H. Chilcote
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 280 pages • Part of the Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4158 8 • $94.00 / £72.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1595 5 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4160 1 • $37.00 / £28.00
This timely text traces the impact of the Cold War on the transformation of the field of Latin American studies. Drawing on unpublished documents, it highlights how new academics challenged the mainstream consensus and opened the field to progressive theoretical currents. This book provides an essential foundation for new directions in the field.
Latin America / General
Latin America 2022–2023, 55th Edition
By William H. BeezleySeptember 2022 • 472 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6586 7 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBookt 978 1 5381 6587 4 • $23.50 / £18.99
Latin America 2020-2022 provides students with vital information on Latin America through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Yearbooks & Annuals
Latin American History through its Art and Literature, Second Edition
By Jack Child UPA
September 2022 • 284 pages
eBook 978 0 7618 5283 4 • $42.50 / £33.00
Latin American History at the Movies
Edited by Donald F. Stevens
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 346 pages • Part of the Latin American Silhouettes series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5245 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2461 1 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5247 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
Combining history with discussion of cinema, this book examines how film has portrayed five hundred years of Latin America history. An introduction on the visual presentation of the past sets the stage for essays that explore sixteen of the best feature films on Latin America from the perspective of historians.
Latin America / General
Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America
By James D. Henderson; Linda R. Henderson and Suzanne M. LitrelRowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5299 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3000 0 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5301 7 • $30.00 / £22.99
Spanning the years from 1464 to independence, this book introduces readers to the history of early Latin America through the experiences of ten notable women of the region. Each biographical chapter includes an overview of the era, providing a fresh perspective on Latin American history.
Latin America / General
World Today 2022–2023
By Multiple AuthorsOctober 2022 • 3342 pages • Part of the World Today series
Multiple-item product 978 1 5381 6575 1 • $200.00 / £154.00
Latin America / General
This book explores 2,000 years of Latin American history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer. The interdisciplinary approach to Latin America focuses on the way the region has related to the United States.
General
The Rebel Scribe
Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America
By Christopher Neal Hamilton BooksJanuary 2022 • 390 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7310 5 • $32.99 / £25.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3112 2 • $31.00 / £23.99
American journalist Carleton Beals’s combative reporting of U.S. intervention in Latin America from Mexico to Cuba in the 20th century won him millions of readers. The Rebel Scribe tells his story in a way that sheds new light on Western Hemisphere history while also showing how probing journalism drives change.
Latin America / Mexico
Historical Dictionary of Brazil
By Robert M. Levine Scarecrow PressOctober 2022 • 309 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of the Americas series
Hardback 978 0 8108 1178 2 • $35.00 / £27.00
Latin America / South America
The History of the Tajik Civil War, 1992–1997
By Parviz Mullojonov
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 464 pages • Part of the
Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1286 1 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2878 8 • $50.00 / £38.99
Tajik civil war is defined as a mulit-aspect and multi-level armed conflict, which often takes place after the collapse of empires or during transition from one social order to another. It is also an example of incomplete peace when the end of open violence fails to resolve the conflict-generating factors that brought the country to the civil war.
Middle East / General
Historical Dictionary of Palestine, Second Edition
By Ilan Pappe and Johnny Mansour Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 542 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East series
Hardback 978 1 5381 1985 3 • $225.00 / £173.00
eBook 978 1 5381
Historical Dictionary of Palestine, Second Edition contains a
an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced
as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
Middle East / Israel & Palestine
The Sandžak of Novi Pazar Millets, Nations, Empires
By Aleksander Zdravkovski
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4180 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1816 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 A Short History with Documents
By Robert J. Antony
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6152 4 • $79.00 / £61.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1531 1 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6154 8 • $27.50 / £20.99
This book exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, when it was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. By providing a large selection of primary sources, this book allows previously silenced pirates, victims, and officials to tell their stories in their own words.
Maritime History & Piracy
The Middle East and South Asia 2022–2023, 55th Edition
By Ilan PappeSeptember 2022 • 316 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6580 5 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6581 2 • $23.50 / £18.99
The Middle East and South Asia 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on the Middle East and South Asia countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
Middle East / General
Sultanahmet, Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula Musealization and Urban Conservation
By Pınar AykaçLexington Books
January 2022 • 266 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4168 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1694 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how the museum concept has expanded beyond the boundaries of a single building into the historic city itself through the process of musealization. By discussing the Sultanahmet district on Istanbul’s historic peninsula, the author provides insight into this important global phenomenon.
Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Permanent Neutrality
A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice
Edited by Herbert R. Reginbogin and Pascal Lottaz
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 250 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1030 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0287 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1029 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the current ethnic and religious landscape in the western Balkans. The author argues that the molding of nations and religious groups was a very slow and incremental process that was shaped by Ottoman policies, conflict, and geopolitical meddling in this culturally diverse part of Europe.
Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
This collection examines state neutrality in the contemporary international system. The contributors analyze permanent neutrality as a policy not only for small states, but as an option for the management of the security architectures of Europe and Asia—one which, this volume argues, has the potential to decrease global security dilemmas.
Military / General
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Strategies for a World War
By Jeremy Black Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6369 6 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3702 2 • $32.00 / £25.00
This innovative book analyzes the strategic dimensions of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, critiquing Napoleon’s broader strategic weaknesses. The first history to look holistically at the strategies of the leading belligerents from a global perspective, it is an essential read for military professionals, students, and history buffs.
Military / Napoleonic Wars
Vietnam’s Prodigal Heroes
American Deserters, International Protest, European Exile, and Amnesty
By Paul Benedikt GlatzLexington Books
September 2022 • 412 pages • Part of the War and Society in Modern American History series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1672 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6708 8 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1671 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book examines young American war refusers and transnational activism during the Vietnam War.
Military / Vietnam War
Women at the Hague
The International Peace Congress of 1915
By Jane Addams; Emily G. Balch and Alice Hamilton - Introduction by Mary Jo Deegan Humanities PressHistorical Dictionary of Modern Coups d’état
By John J. Chin; Joseph Wright and David B. Carter Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 1512 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest series
Multiple-item product, shrinkwrapped
978 1 5381 2067 5 • $500.00 / £385.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0682 2 • $475.00 / £365.00
Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d’état contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,400 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, and researchers.
Military / Other
Moral Injury and a First World War Chaplain
The Life of G. A. Studdert Kennedy
By Dayne Edward NixLexington Books
January 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0865 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8664 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines Chaplain G. A. Studdert Kennedy, a British chaplain during World War I. The author analyzes Kennedy’s poetry, prose, and postwar activities and the impact of moral injury on a combat veteran through the lens of contemporary psychological research.
Military / World War I
American Isolationists
Pro-Japan Anti-interventionists and the FBI on the Eve of the Pacific War, 1939–1941
By Roger B. Jeans Rowman & Littlefield Publishersof the Classics in Women’s Studies series
May 2022 • 140 pages
August 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7117 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Military / World War I
Paperback 978 1 5381
1 5381
$29.99
£22.99 eBook
This book is the first-hand report by the three leaders of the American delegation—Nobel Peace Prize winners, Jane Addams and Emily G. Balch, as well as Alice Hamilton—of their mission for peace. This edition is enhanced by an introduction by University of Nebraska scholar Mary Jo Deegan.
The Nazi Religion and the Rise of the French Christian Resistance
By Kathleen Burton Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7140 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1417 7 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7142 4 • $34.00
Few people know that Nazism included a religious component, yet Positive Christianity is directly cited in the Nazi Platform. But what was Positive Christianity? This book details the religion, its critiques, and the Christian resistance in France. It concludes by listing what work still needs to be done to understand and debunk the Nazi religion.
Military / World War II
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 3087 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
In this first full study of pro-Japan isolationists in the United States, Roger Jeans provides a detailed history of the Committee on Pacific Relations. Drawing on previously untapped sources— personal letters of committee members and the dossiers the FBI compiled on them—he paints a rich picture of this little-known and often-ostracized group.
Military / World War II
Marx and Engels on Imperialism
Selected Journalism, 1856–62
Edited by Spencer A. Leonard Lexington Books
December 2022 • 370 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 5923 2 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9249 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
This volume is the first to compile the journalistic works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dealing with imperialism. Here Marx and Engels examine capitalist state policymaking, mass democracy, the Second Opium War, the suppression of the 1857 Indian Revolt, the rise of credit agencies, the global significance of the US Civil War, and more.
Modern / 19th Century
Global Social Democracy
Willy Brandt and the Socialist International in Latin America
By Bernd Rother Lexington BooksJune 2022 • 414 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1138 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1398 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the history of the Socialist International during the presidency of former German Chancellor Willy Brandt, from 1976 to 1992. The author uses archives from Latin America and Europe to avoid a Eurocentric view.
Modern / 20th Century
Socialism as a Secular Creed
A Modern Global History
By Andrei Znamenski Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 494 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5732 0 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7306 6 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5731 3 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book provides a historical overview of socialism as a modern political religion. Taking a global history approach, the author explores the varieties of the socialist experience, including Marxism, anarchism, Soviet communism, German national socialism, Maoism, Israeli kibbutzim, Tanzanian ujamaa, and the cultural woke left in the West.
Modern / 20th Century
Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe A Neostructuralist Approach
By Bailey Stone
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 320 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6387 0 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 1374 4 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3138 1 • $37.00 / £28.00
Reconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this book offers an important approach to the theoretical and comparative study of revolutions. Stone proposes an innovative “neostructuralist” synthesis of competing structuralist and postmodernist theory that marks a critical advance in our understanding of revolution.
Revolutionary
African Abolitionist T. J. Alexander on the Ohio and Indiana Underground Railroads
By Paula D. Royster and Gregory M. GeorgeLexington Books
December 2022 • 216 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5347 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3482 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Salvation and Catastrophe
The Greek-Turkish War, 1919–1922
Edited by Konstantinos Travlos
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 438 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8509 5 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5071 1 • $132.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8508 8 • $44.50 / £34.00
Between 1919 and 1923, the last aftershock of the First World War was fought between Greece and the nascent Turkish nation. On its centenary, the contributions in this volume analyze the onset, conduct, and aftermath of this last of the wars of the Great War.
Modern / 20th Century
The Cold War Endgame
Geopolitics, Arms Control, and a Planned Revolution, 1984–1991
By Ralph L. DietlLexington Books
September 2022 • 392 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5581 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5820 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the planned disaggregation of the global structures of the Cold War. In the final years of a decades-long era of bipolarity, the United States and the Soviet Union comanaged a continental transformation that erased Europe’s Iron Curtain.
Modern / General
Adin Ballou’s Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England Practical Christianity
By Bryce Hal TaylorLexington Books
December 2022 • 280 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 8971 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9727 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines Adin Ballou and his spiritual quest in New England from 1820 to 1880. The author argues that denominational histories, however important, do not explain what a nineteenth-century Christian became. This book looks at how Ballou exemplifies this paradox.
United States / 19th Century
African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction
By Ashley TowleLexington Books
November 2022 • 222 pages • Part of the New Studies in Southern History series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0571 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5724 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Thornton J. Alexander, who was a station manager and conductor on the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Indiana. The authors examine how his formative years into adulthood was spent in bondage until he was emancipated in 1816, and how he then purchased land in Ohio and Indiana to facilitate his clandestine emancipation work.
United States / 19th Century
In this study the author examines how, in the Civil War-era South, newly freed African Americans used their experiences with death from war, disease, and racial violence to advance their own understanding of the meaning of freedom and to stake claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government.
United States / 19th Century
Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown
The American Register and Other Writings, 18071810, Volume 6
Edited by Jared Gardner and Elizabeth HewittSeries edited by Mark L. Kamrath and Philip Barnard Bucknell University Press
August 2022 • 704 pages • Part of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown series
Hardback 978 1 6114 8454 0 • $170.00 / £131.00
eBook 978 1 6114 4557 7 • $65.00 / £50.00
The sixth volume of the Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents for the first time writing from the final years of Brown’s life, including from his magisterial periodical project, the American Register, in which Brown narrates a contemporary history of the United States and Europe during the Napoleonic Wars.
United States / 19th Century
Setting Slavery’s Limits
Physical Confrontations in Antebellum Virginia, 1801–1860
By Christopher H. Bouton
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 212 pages • Part of the New Studies
in Southern History series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7947 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9452 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7946 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This study examines how slaves in antebellum Virginia, through physical confrontations with whites, fought to reassert some measure of control over their day-today lives. The author analyzes how while this violence came at a high cost, it also ensured the preservation of their humanity and set limits on their enslavement.
United States / 19th Century
Washington Gladden’s Church
The Minister Who Made Modern American Protestantism
By David MislinRowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 226 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5963 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4422 8920 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4422 6893 7 • $34.00 / £26.00
David Mislin focuses on eight defining elements of Gladden’s religious thought and explores the crucial moments in his life that shaped his ministry. He weaves together critical analysis of Gladden’s ideas with engaging anecdotes that offer insights into the ordinary life and work of a nineteenth-century pastor and the activities of his churches.
United States / 19th Century
Party Politics in the Age of Roosevelt
The Making of Modern America
By Michael P. Riccards and Cheryl A. FlaggLexington Books
April 2022 • 394 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3345 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3460 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
Harriet Tubman A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works
By Kate Clifford Larson Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Significant Figures in World History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 1356 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3578 8 • $99.50 / £77.00
Harriet Tubman: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works captures her life, her works, and legacy. It features a chronology, an introduction offers a brief account of her life, a dictionary section includes entries on people, places, and events related to her. A comprehensive bibliography offers a list of works about her life.
Women
The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm and the Creation of Japanese America
By Daniel A. Métraux - Foreword by Amy S. MillerAfterword by Melissa Lobach
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 158 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8540 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 5385 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8539 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This study examines the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Colony Farm, founded in California by refugees of the 1868 Boshin War as the first Japanese settlement in the United States. The author analyzes how the farm played a critical role in expanding agriculture in the state and how it paved the way for tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants.
United States / 19th Century
Belle Baranceanu Life, Art, and the New Deal Renaissance
By Jennifer HernandezLexington Books
November 2022 • 348 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1212 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2113 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this first biography of artist Belle Baranceanu, Jennifer Peoples Hernandez tells the riveting story of a woman who overcame insurmountable odds to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and one of California’s foremost Modern artists.
United States / 20th Century
Radio and the Great Debate over US Involvement in World War II
By Mark S. ByrnesLexington Books
December 2022 • 398 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9855 2 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8569 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines Franklin D. Roosevelt and his development since being a young politician in Albany, how he created the modern welfare state, and how he made the presidency the focal point of American national government.
United States / 20th Century
The debate over US involvement in World War II was a turning point in the history of both US foreign policy and radio. In this book the author argues that the debate’s historical significance cannot be fully appreciated unless these stories are understood in relation rather than in isolation.
United States / 20th Century
The Life and Times of Sergeant José M. López
Mexican by Birth, American by Valor
By Manuel F. MedranoLexington Books
December 2022 • 132 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1783 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7840 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study provides a biography of Jose M. Lopez, who earned the US Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. The author examines how he returned to segregation and discrimination in the United States and how court decisions, civil rights legislation, and veterans’ organizations became part of the postwar US political agenda.
United States / 20th Century
US Public Opinion since the 1930s
Galluping through History
By Richard SeltzerLexington Books
January 2022 • 266 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5350 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3512 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines American public opinion since the 1930s. The author analyzes data from Gallup and other sources and looks at such issues as US politics, international events, race, sex, gender, economics, the environment, and more.
United States / 20th Century
American Furniture Designers 1900-2020
By Oscar P. Fitzgerald
April 2022 • 294 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 3562 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3563 1 • $104.50 / £81.00
The book will serve as the essential reference for collectors of modern furniture, curators of museum collections and house museums with 20th century furniture, and for the hundreds of dealers, gallery owners, auctioneers, and appraisers who specialize in 20th and 21st century design.
Americana
The Making of American Whiteness The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
By Carmen Thompson Lexington BooksNovember 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2321 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3223 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Making of American Whiteness shows that White supremacy was the guiding principle in the settlement of Virginia, the first colony that made up the United States of America, and for the organization of its civil society.
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War The Struggle for Recognition
By Volodymyr V. KravchenkoLexington Books
December 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0907 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9083 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines Ukrainian historical writing in the United States and Canada during the Cold War. The author describes the development of Ukrainian historical studies as an open yet sometimes difficult dialogue between Ukrainian ethnic and academic communities and between Ukrainian scholars and the Western academic mainstream.
United States / 20th Century
Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and the Cold War at the United Nations, 1947–1960
By Sean BrennanLexington Books
December 2022 • 302 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1330 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3316 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a history of the early period of the Cold War through the framework of the United States’ first two ambassadors to the United Nations, Warren Austin and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and their tumultuous experiences from the late 1940s to the early 1960s
United States / 20th Century
The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau
A Translation of Eveline Hasler’s Novel
Edited and translated by Waltraud Maierhofer - Original author Eveline Hasler - Translated by Jenniefer Vanderbeek - Introduction by Waltraud Maierhofer
Lehigh University Press
May 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 6114 6338 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6114 3392 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In her research on witchcraft trials, Swiss writer Eveline Hasler discovered children who were accused of witchcraft and punished by death. With this thought-provoking novel, The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau, provides a moving memorial for them, translated from the original German by Waltraud Maierhofer and Jennifer Vanderbeek. Historical / Colonial America & Revolution
The Missed Revolution at the Origins of United States
By Alessandro Maurini
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1291 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2920 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This study examines the US Declaration of Independence as a political manifesto of the Enlightenment and the right to revolution. The author argues that there was a missed opportunity concerning the “rights of man” during the early constitutional debates.
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
First Along the River
A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement, Fifth Edition
By Benjamin Kline Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 288 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5932 3 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9330 0 • $29.95 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 5934 7 • $28.50 / £21.99
First Along the River provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book highlights the impact of government, industry, and population on the American landscape.
United States / General
The Blessings of Liberty
A Concise History of the Constitution of the United States, Fourth Edition
By Michael Les Benedict Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 660 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6554 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5553 3 • $70.00 / £54.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6556 0 • $66.00 / £51.00
This concise, accessible text by historian Michael Benedict provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. The fourth edition is updated to include the 2016 election, the Trump administration, the 2020 election, and the first activities of the Biden administration.
United States / General
The Religion-Supported State Piety and Politics in Early National New England
By Nathan S. Rives
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 292 pages • Part of the Religion in American History series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5524 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5257 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Between 1776 and 1850, the people, politicians, and clergy of New England transformed the relationship between church and state. This book examines how church and state collided over disestablishment, Sunday laws, and antislavery and built the foundation of what the author describes as a religion-supported state.
United States / General
Escaping Slavery
A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America
By Antonio T. BlyLexington Books
February 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3270 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2715 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a documentary history of Native Americans in British North America. This study of indigenous peoples captures the lives of numerous individuals who refused to sacrifice their humanity in the face of the violent, changing landscapes of early America.
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America
Strong Women, Resilient Nations
Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer; Donna L. Akers and Amanda K. Wixon
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0702 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7032 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book highlights indigenous American women throughout modern American history, countering past stereotypes by offering twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women who excelled in education, health, medicine, and the arts.
United States / General
The Many Worlds of American Communism
By Joshua MorrisLexington Books
September 2022 • 528 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3195 4 • $145.00 / £112.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1961 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the multifaceted dimensions that make up the American communist movement from its early years in the 1920s to its peak in the years leading up to World War II. The author’s approach differentiates between the political-, social-, and labor-oriented motivations taken by the movement’s participants.
United States / General
The USA and The World 2022–2023, 17th Edition
By David M. KeithlyAugust 2022 • 296 pages • Part of the World Today series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6578 2 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6579 9 • $23.50 / £17.99
The USA and The World 2020–2022 provides students with vital information on these countries through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends.
United States / General
Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
By Sarah L. SwedbergLexington Books
August 2022 • 276 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7388 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3863 3 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7387 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance in the tumultuous era of the American Revolution.
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Smallpox in Washington’s Army Disease, War, and Society during the Revolutionary War
By Ann M. Becker Lexington BooksNovember 2022 • 302 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3069 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0704 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
During the Revolutionary War smallpox created havoc within both the British and American armies and the colonial civilian population. Washington’s implementation of isolation policies and troop innoculations removed the threat of epidemic smallpox and ultimately protected American soldiers and civilians from the dangers of this feared disease.
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Urban Biodiversity
The Natural History of the New Jersey Meadowlands
By Erik Kiviat and Kristi MacDonald - Contributions by Robert E. SchmidtLexington Books
August 2022 • 460 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9991 7 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9924 4 • $50.00 / £38.00
Kiviat and MacDonald delve into the considerable biodiversity of an ecologically battered urban-industrial region, addressing wild species from lichens to mammals. The results will help decision makers foster wildlife and plants that can cope with urban conditions and will aid in reducing loss of biodiversity in urbanizing areas.
Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies
Portland’s Good Life
Sustainability and Hope in an American City
By R. Bruce Stephenson
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 276 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1459 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 4575 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1458 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Portland’s Good Life, R. Bruce Stephenson discusses how Portland’s investment in sustainability helped stave off climate change and COVID-19. Stephenson tells the timeless story of the city’s private citizens who, devoted to the public good and grounded in the good life, built a city that honors their humanity.
Sustainability & Green Design
US and Azerbaijani Oil in the Nineteenth Century
The Two Titans
By Marius S. Vassiliou and Mir-Yusif Mir-Babayev
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2952 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9531 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
The Heart of Central New York Stories of Historic Homer, NY
By Martin A. Sweeney
Hamilton Books
July 2022 • 424 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7332 7 • $32.99 / £25.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3334 4 • $31.00 / £23.99
In this book Martin A. Sweeney makes the past come alive through this collection of articles from his column in The Homer News. Through his writing, Sweeney offers readers a glimpse of the excitement he brought to his classrooms by bringing to life the people, events, manners, and mores of the past in a community that is the heart of Central New York State. United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic
Wisteria House
Life in a New England Home, 1839–2000
By Susan J. Montgomery Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6185 2 • $75.00 / £58.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1869 9 • $71.00 / £55.00
Wisteria House: Life in a New England Home, 1839–2000 tells the story of the lives lived in a particular house in a particular town at a particular time based on the buildings, furnishings, clothing, personal effects, photographs, correspondence, and financial papers of two upper-middle class families.
United States / State & Local / New England
James McDowell of Virginia
The Perils of an Antebellum Southern Reformer
By Charles A. BodieLexington Books
December 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the New Studies in Southern History series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2735 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7368 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This biography examines the antebellum career of James McDowell, a Democratic officeholder from western Virginia who often opposed the status quo. The author examines how, through skillful oratory and rational discourse, he sought and achieved progressive change.
United States / State & Local / South
Aesthetic Ecology of Communication Ethics Existential Rootedness
By Özüm Üçok-Sayrak
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
March 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies series
Paperback 978 1 6839 3226 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 6839 2246 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3225 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the history of oil in the United States and Azerbaijan during the nineteenth century, when the two economies were the overwhelmingly dominant global producers.
World
This book introduces the framework of aesthetic ecology to communication studies as well as the study of communication ethics underlining the importance of the interplay between our sensuous and interpretive engagements in/with the world.
Communication Studies
Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics
Activist Nation Rising
Edited by Joshua D. Atkinson and Linda Kenix
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 230 pages • Part of the Lexington
Studies in Political Communication series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8436 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 4340 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8435 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This volume examines the rising role that alternative media play in contemporary mainstream political communication. The book focuses on three primary sites where such media have established growing influence in recent years: political parties, mainstream political news, and participatory media that allow for engagement.
Communication Studies
Communicating in the Anthropocene
Intimate Relations
By C. Vail Fletcher and Alexa M. DareLexington Books
August 2022 • 430 pages • Part of the
Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2930 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9289 9 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2929 6 • $44.50 / £34.00
In Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations, the contributors analyze how to live in connection with other beings in the face of crisis and to engage the concept of the Anthropocene from within.
Communication Studies
Communicating with Our Families Technology as Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation
Edited by Maryl R McGinley; Jill K. Burk and Joel S. Ward Lexington Books
July 2022 • 276 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0061 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0620 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Communicating with Our Families explores the impact of communication technologies on family communication. The scholarship in this collection recognizes the peril and opportunity new communication technologies offer, while responding to questions about the impact of technologies on our families.
Communication Studies
Communication and Identity in the Classroom Intersectional Perspectives of Critical Pedagogy
Edited by Daniel S. Strasser
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 218 pages • Part of the Critical Communication Pedagogy series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1807 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 8054 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1806 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book utilizes autoethnography and personal narratives stemming from a critical pedagogy perspective to highlight pivotal points in teaching and mentoring. The contributors use their intersectional identities to better understand, challenge, and engage students and institutions as they foster pedagogical spaces of radical love and learning.
Communication Studies
Bicycling, Motorcycling, Rhetoric, and Space
By Hunter H. Fine
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2846 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8471 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Bicycling, Motorcycling, Rhetoric, and Space draws from cultural studies, rhetorical theory, and political philosophy to examine bicycling and motorcycling as serious forms of communication and thought.
Communication Studies
Communicating the Climate Crisis New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead
By Julia B. Corbett
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 230 pages • Part of the
Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3804 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 8021 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3803 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book 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.
Communication Studies
Communicating With, About, and Through SelfHarm Scarred Discourse
Edited by Warren J. Bareiss
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Lexington
Studies in Health Communication series
Paperback 978 1 4985 6307 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 3055 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6306 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book addresses different contexts of communication pertaining to non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). An international group of clinicians and communication specialists describe, analyze, and explain how NSSI is communicated about, what NSSI is communicating, and how can we do a better job in communicating with others about NSSI.
Communication Studies
Communication Theory and Application in PostSocialist Contexts
Edited by Maureen C. Minielli; Marta N. Lukacovic; Sergei A. Samoilenko and Michael R. Finch - With Deborrah Uecker
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 302 pages • Part of the Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4123 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1243 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Contexts serves as a resource for anyone on the quest of diversifying and globalizing communication studies. It captures significant communication tendencies in several post-socialist countries and situates these tendencies within communication theory and application in a wide array of areas.
Communication Studies
Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution
Public Health, Economics, Design, and Transformation
By Melanie J. La Rosa Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3922 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9233 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution profiles people in eight locations across the U.S. leading unique clean energy projects. This book provides unique insight into transitioning to solar, wind, and other types of clean, renewable power and the transformation of America’s energy system.
Communication Studies
Developing Women Leaders in the Academy through Enhanced Communication Strategies
Edited by Jayne Cubbage
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 258 pages • Part of the
Communicating Gender series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9533 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5315 5 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9532 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book uses shared experiences of women in academia to enrich the existing body of work on women and academic leadership with a focus on enhanced communication strategies. The focused and sustained leadership development discussed in this book can greatly benefit both experienced and inexperienced women in academia.
Communication Studies
Disparagement Humor in Social Life Competition vs. Subjugation
By Nathan Miczo
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0112 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1139 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book critiques the superiority theory of disparagement humor, rooted in Hobbes’s definition of laughter. Nathan Miczo offers the agon (Greek for contest) as a metaphor to demonstrate how withinand between-group dynamics shape the creation and reception of disparagement humor.
Communication Studies
Embodied Activisms
Performative Expressions of Political and Social Action
Edited by Victoria A. Newsom and Lara Martin Lengel
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1652 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6531 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Embodied Activisms explores activists’ use of their bodies to resist hegemonic power and promote justice. This book spans historical perspectives, current contexts including police accountability activism and Black Lives Matter, and the most recent scholarship to interrogate activist engagement from the Americas to the Mediterranean.
Communication Studies
Debate as Global Pedagogy Rwanda Rising
By Ben Voth
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 276 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2939 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9371 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2938 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Debate as Global Pedagogy, Voth illustrates how Rwanda’s debate instruction and several other international examples of deliberative and argumentation practices demonstrate the power of debate to address the problem and ongoing risk of genocide. Debate and argumentation instruction observably improve the social outcome of discursive complexity.
Communication Studies
Discordant Pandemic Narratives in the U.S.
Edited by Shing-Ling S. Chen and Nicole Allaire
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5533 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5349 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a careful examination of the discordant narratives that embodied the chaos, tensions, and conflicts in the U.S. pandemic responses. The ultimate goal of this volume is to help groups and individuals understand just what went wrong in the U.S. pandemic responses.
Communication Studies
Electing Madam Vice President When Women Run Women Win
By Nichola D. Gutgold - Foreword by Loretta T. Avent - Afterword by Susan Wild
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Communicating Gender series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2221 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2198 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2220 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Electing Madam Vice President presents the presidential bids of the six women who ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020 and the historic, groundbreaking vice-presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris.
Communication Studies
Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing
Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History
By Michelle Medeiros Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Latin American Gender and Sexualities series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7977 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 9759 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7976 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book combines Latin American literature, cultural and gender studies, and history of science to consider the literary perspective of the discourse of natural history in women’s travel narratives, shedding a new light on the implications of women’s contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual currents.
Communication Studies
Grappling with Representation in the WWE
Exploring Issues of Diversity and Inclusion in World Wrestling Entertainment
By Lowery A. Woodall IIILexington Books
October 2022 • 290 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0877 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8789 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book explores the myriad ways that the WWE and Vince McMahon have shaped the opinions of their audience around issues of diversity and inclusion. The author critically analyzes what viewers are being taught by the messages that McMahon and the WWE craft about issues like race, gender, and sexuality.
Communication Studies
Higher Education Implications for Teaching and Learning during COVID-19
Edited by Michael G. StrawserLexington Books
March 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the Generational
Differences in Higher Education and the Workplace: Leading and Teaching Millennials and Generation Z series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4978 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9799 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume provides different perspectives regarding the impact of COVID-19 on students collectively and college teaching and learning.
Topics include COVID-19 implications on student wellness and stress management, online learning, graduate teach assistants, emerging, technology, faculty-student relationships, student learning, and more.
Communication Studies
Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South
Edited by Tshepang Bright Molale; Abiodun Salawu; Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Mohammad Sahid Ullah
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 312 pages • Part of the Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1201 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2029 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book brings together voices from the margins, within the context of indigenous languages and development communication, from underrepresented regions in terms of academic enterprise. The cases presented here serve as a starting point for multiple debates and seek to present a first glimpse of discussions within the disciplines.
Communication Studies
Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse
By Sara ShabanLexington Books
January 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback
eBook
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Health Communication and Sport Connections, Applications, and Opportunities
Edited by Jimmy Sanderson and Melinda R. WeathersLexington Books
June 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4975 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9768 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection brings together a collaboration of sport and health scholars and practitioners to evaluate current topics in sport and health communication with the aim to provide a holistic resource for scholars interested working at the intersection of these fields.
Communication Studies
Hyperlocal Organizing Collaborating for Recovery Over Time
By Jack L. HarrisLexington Books
October 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2723 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7245 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book shows how place-based organizing and community action can solve complex problems like long-term recovery after disaster.
Jack L. Harris proposes a framework for expanding interorganizational collaborations with communities after disaster through changes in government disaster policy and institutional messages.
Communication Studies
Integrated Marketing Communications in Risk and Crisis Contexts A Culture-Centered Approach
By Robert S. Littlefield; Deanna D. Sellnow and Timothy L. Sellnow
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the Integrated Marketing Communication series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1879 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 8771 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1878 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book introduces risk and crisis within the context of IMC, the culture centered approach to communicating with multiple publics, and applies the IDEA Model for effective message construction. Case studies illustrate cultural approaches, along with an ethical framework for communication.
Communication Studies
Jewish-American Identity and Critical Intercultural Communication Never Forget, Tikkun Olam, and Kindness to Strangers
By Miriam Shoshana SobreLexington Books
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Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse explores how U.S. news and social media discourse hierarchies overshadow transnational feminist politics and reinforce femonationalist narratives, thereby unpacking how protesters’ voices on the ground are obscured in favor of elite sources who reaffirm U.S Islamophobia.
Communication Studies
November 2022 • 374 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0518 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5191 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book explores Jewish US American identity beyond the white and educated “model minority” stereotype. Jewish life and Judaism are explored across personal, socio-cultural, and political-global implications, arguing for more inclusive approaches to relationships among race, ethnicity, culture, and religion in theory, teaching, and practice.
Communication Studies
Leadership Practices in Speech and Debate
Coaches
Applying Full-Range Leadership Behaviors to Coaching Intercollegiate Forensics
By Barry J. ReganLexington Books
June 2022 • 114 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0460 4 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4611 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Intercollegiate forensics is in the midst of an alarming decline in financial support and participation. The author argues that intercollegiate forensics coaches must employ leadership strategies based on the Full-Range Leadership Model (FRLM) to stabilize and grow intercollegiate forensics teams in the present and future.
Communication Studies
Mass Communication in the Modern Arab World
Ongoing Agents of Change following the Arab Spring
Edited by Naila Nabil Hamdy and Philip Auter Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 332 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4003 1 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0048 8 • $65.00 / £50.00
This book introduces, explains, and explores communication in the modern Arab world. Focusing on contemporary times and the lasting effects of the Arab Spring, the book reveals how the unceasing growth of media and communication technologies have acted as agents of change and provides evidence of mass communication’s potential to transform societies and cultures.
Communication Studies
Mediations between Nature and Culture
By Aaron K. Kerr
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4030 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0314 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the mediatory competence of human communication. By analyzing and enacting rhetorical strategies, the author invites the reader to logical discussion and political discourse.
Communication Studies
News Media and the Indigenous Fight for Federal Recognition
By Cristina Azocar
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 172 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4039 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0406 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture
Romancing the Other
Edited by María Ramos-García and Laura Vivanco
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 176 pages • Part of the Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8940 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 9383 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8939 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Communication Studies
Federal recognition enables tribes to govern themselves and make decisions for their citizens that have the power to retain their cultures. This book examines how news coverage has prioritized gaming over sovereignty and interfered in tribes’ ability to be federally recognized.
Communication Studies
Media Relations and the Modern First Lady
From Jacqueline Kennedy to Melania Trump
Edited by Lisa M. Burns Lexington Books
March 2022 • 346 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Political Communication series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1126 0 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1246 6 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1125 3 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book examines the media relations strategies first ladies and their teams have used throughout history to manage press and public interest in their private lives, to promote causes close to their hearts, and to shape their public image. These essays also highlight the important role media relations plays in political communication.
Communication Studies
News Coverage of Global Disasters Journalism’s Power to Aid Healing and Recovery
By Michael McCluskeyLexington Books
May 2022 • 226 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2536 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 5342 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2535 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes news from eight natural disasters, demonstrating how news potentially aided readers. Ten news themes that promote healing, hope and recovery were found across the local and international news sources, providing some evidence of a common journalistic culture.
Communication Studies
Nonverbal Communication in Political Debates
By John S. Seiter and Harry Weger Jr.Lexington Books
May 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Political Communication series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8524 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5224 4 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8523 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book presents a framework for understanding the role of nonverbal behavior in political debates, including an examination of candidates’ attempts to undermine opponents while presenting themselves as likeable. Theory and historical examples underline the importance of nonverbal elements in political contests.
Communication Studies
One Size Does Not Fit All
Undressing the Performance of Bodies in Popular Culture
Edited by Sarah S. LeBlanc and K. Megan Hopper
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 348 pages • Part of the Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4696 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6972 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores how popular culture texts represent and focus on the body and how this focus exacerbates the potential for these representations to serve as a crucial social influence on audiences. Contributors examine a diverse set of bodies across the media spectrum and open the door for further research in this area.
Communication Studies
Persevering during the Pandemic
Stories of Resilience, Creativity, and Connection
Edited by Deborah A. Macey; Michelle NapierskiPrancl and David Staton
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 278 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Communication and Storytelling series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0115 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1160 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection highlights how people connected with friends and family, students and colleagues, leaders and communities, in their quest to persevere during the pandemic.
Communication Studies
Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet
You Must Be Born Again
By Wallis C. Baxter IIILexington Books
May 2022 • 154 pages • Part of the Rhetoric, Race, and Religion series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4120 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1212 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet the author presents Phillis Wheatley as a preacher and theologian committed to transforming her world through her poetry. The result is a prophetic message of hope for the oppressed and corrective instruction for the institutional power structures.
Communication Studies
Political Rhetoric, Social Media, and American Presidential Campaigns Candidates’ Use of New Media
By Janet JohnsonLexington Books
August 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Political Communication series
Paperback 978 1 4985 4085 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0834 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 4084 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores how social media influenced presidential campaign rhetoric. Janet Johnson discusses media use in American presidential campaigns as well as social media campaigns for Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump.
Communication Studies
Online Community Therapy
The Support Network
By Will Henderson and Mary Jackson Pitts
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 166 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3102 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1039 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book explores how online therapy communities offer an accessible space that is not confined by economic abilities, geographical barriers, or familial restraints. Scholars of communication, sociology, and psychology will find this book of particular interest.
Communication Studies
Personal and Administrative Perspectives from the Communication Discipline during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Edited by Jim A. Kuypers
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 202 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4363 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3643 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic and responses to the pandemic have impacted human communication and the communication discipline as a whole. Contributors represent a diverse range of sub-disciplines within the communication field.
Communication Studies
Political Problems and Personalities in Contemporary Maryland
By Theodore F. Sheckels and Carl T. HydenLexington Books
December 2022 • 316 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Political Communication series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2897 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8983 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a rhetorical analysis of contemporary politics and political communication in the state of Maryland. Rather than focusing on election politics, the authors examine state and local political communication more comprehensively, following shifting trends in political communication research.
Communication Studies
President Trump and the News Media Moral Foundations, Framing, and the Nature of Press Bias in America
By Jim A. Kuypers
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Political Communication series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2606 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6042 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2605 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
In President Trump and the News Media Kuypers analyzes policy addresses by President Trump, comparing them with reporting through lenses of framing analysis and Moral Foundations Theory. Differences point to widespread journalistic bias. The effect of this bias on reportorial practices and the functioning of the American Republic is addressed.
Communication Studies
Public Communication in the Time of COVID-19
Perspectives from the Communication Discipline on the Pandemic
Edited by Jim A. Kuypers
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 260 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4366 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3674 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection focuses on how public communication practices and the communication discipline were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. By discussing a wide range of issues from nine disciplinary positions, ultimately, they are able to reveal key insights about the relationship between the pandemic and public human communication.
Communication Studies
Reimagining Black Masculinities
Race, Gender, and Public Space
Edited by Mark C. Hopson and Mika’il PetinLexington Books
May 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the
Communicating Gender series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0705 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7034 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0704 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the ways in which Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, calling on theory and praxis for social change.
Communication Studies
Silence, Civility, and Sanity Hope for Humanity in a Digital Age
By Stephanie Bennett Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3988 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9899 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Silence, Civility, and Sanity focuses on the importance of silence to temper speech and embrace the art of listening in order to foster a more positive dialogue and civil society in a divided nation.
Communication Studies
Speech Freedom on Campus Past, Present, and Future
Edited by Joseph Russomanno
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 308 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2362 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3607 7 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2361 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
In this book, ten First Amendment scholars analyze various aspects and issues related to speech freedom on campus.
Communication Studies
Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World
On the Phone
By Deborah Eicher-Catt
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 288 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0529 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 5276 6 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0528 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is a response to the growing concern by social critics that we are becoming a de-voiced society through our preferences for hypertextual, image-based forms of electronic connectivity. It interrogates the relational losses we suffer when we forget the value of the enchanting voice within immediate ear-to-ear relations.
Communication Studies
Self-Determination in Mediation
The Art and Science of Mirrors and Lights
By Dan Simon and Tara West Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the ACR
Practitioner’s Guide series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5385 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3864 4 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5387 1 • $33.00 / £25.00
Simon and West provide a research-based exploration of what is often understood as the core principle of mediation, self-determination. Through stories and examples of how people in conflict and their mediators struggle to find a way through, this essential guide gives readers a seat in the mediation room.
Communication Studies
Social Justice and the Modern Athlete Exploring the Role of Athlete Activism in Social Change
Edited by Mia Long Anderson
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 314 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0457 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4581 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Social Justice and the Modern Athlete: Exploring the Role of Athlete Activism in Social Change is an edited volume that illuminates the power athletes have to influence and rectify social injustices. It highlights athlete activism in the areas of politics, gender equity, nonviolent protest, mental health, and the online sphere.
Communication Studies
Stigma and Social Support on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
By Laura Blount Carper
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5518 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5196 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the experiences of stigmatization from individuals who are currently, or have been, enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Positive social support is discussed to improve and cope with the feelings of stigma.
Communication Studies
The Art of Communication
Improving Your Fundamental Communication Skills, Fourth Edition
By Randy Fujishin Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 276 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6446 4 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4471 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6448 8 • $32.00 / £25.00
The fourth edition of this dynamic skills-based introduction to personal communication includes new content on virtual communication scenarios, inclusive language, conflict resolution, and leadership development. Concise, affordable, and incredibly friendly in tone, this book makes communication natural and fun.
Communication Studies
The Climate Girl Effect
Fridays, Flint, and Fire
By Carolyn M. Cunningham and Heather M. CrandallLexington Books
September 2022 • 196 pages • Part of the
Communicating Gender series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3955 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9561 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Carolyn M. Cunningham and Heather M. Crandall analyze the rise of climate activist girls who manage to advance the climate movement using social media, ingenuity, and an intersectional approach. United and focused, they confront the challenges of global systems and cultures that maintain power through all kinds of oppression.
Communication Studies
The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton
Edited by Luke Winslow; Nancy J. Legge and Jacob Justice Lexington Books
September 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1444 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4450 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton explores how the musical confronts conventional conceptions of American history, racial equity, and political power. Scholars of theatre studies, media studies, and communication studies will find this book particularly useful.
Communication Studies
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Media Management and Business
Edited by L. Meghan Mahoney and Tang Tang Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 480 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Handbook series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7411 1 • $49.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 5305 5 • $147.00 / £113.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1531 2 • $46.50 / £36.00
This authoritative handbook connects research and industry practice in a one-stop reference for media students and professionals. Addressing the latest technologies and business practices, the handbook offers strategic guidance for solving media management issues in a convergent environment.
Communication Studies
The Battle for Birth Control
Exploring the Lasting Consequences of the Movement’s Early Rhetoric
By Jessica L. FurgersonLexington Books
March 2022 • 358 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4324 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3254 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Battle for Birth Control dissects the rhetorical tactics utilized by the movement in its formative years to execute a strategy of political accommodation and traces the reverberations of these tactics in contemporary American discourses surrounding contraception specifically and reproductive politics more generally.
Communication Studies
The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture
Dating Apps, Hookup Scripts, and Sexual Outcomes
By Aditi Paul Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3360 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3613 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Current Collegiate Hookup Culture demonstrates how hookups differ based on how students meet their partners and identifies the emerging shifts in hook-up gender dynamics.
Communication Studies
The Rhetoric of the Opioid Crisis
By Rachel Sussman Kaplan Lexington BooksJuly 2022 • 162 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4054 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0550 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Rachel Sussman Kaplan investigates the rhetorical forces that are driving the opioid crisis in America.
Communication Studies
Third Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades Modern Challenges to the Two-Party System in Presidential Elections
By Melissa M. Smith Lexington Books
February 2022 • 248 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Political Communication series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2072 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0736 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Third Parties, Outsiders, and Renegades analyzes 10 third-party, outsider, or renegade presidential candidates and explores each one’s impact on the political process. The future viability of outsider candidates is discussed in light of current political polarization and the legacy of Donald J. Trump, the first elected outsider president.
Communication Studies
Transnational Korean Television
Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences
By Hyejung JuLexington Books
March 2022 • 146 pages • Part of the Transnational Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies series
Paperback 978 1 4985 6519 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5172 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6518 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Korean TV dramas and non-drama programs have diversified transnational TV flows around the world. This book provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas’ transnational influences, peculiar production features, distribution, and consumption to enrich the contextual understanding of Korean TV’s transcultural mobility.
Communication Studies
Unquestioned Ease
Confronting Automaticity in Everyday Communication
By Xiaowei Shi and Steve MortensonLexington Books
October 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3796 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7970 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, the authors describe and challenge the pervasive and often unconscious “ease” in our everyday communication. By both raising critical awareness of “ease” and introducing cognitive, emotional and communicative resources, the authors provide readers with strategies to engage in effective communication about difficult subjects.
Communication Studies
Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice
Yemonja Awakening
Edited by LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey; Sheila Smith McKoy and Eric M. Bridges
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 152 pages • Part of the The Black Atlantic Cultural series
Paperback 978 1 7936 4095 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0932 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4094 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the range of original and syncretic practices that reclaim the African feminine divine and captures the presence and essential characteristics of African spiritual practice and epistemologies in literature, film, contemporary public conversations, and contemporary cultural practices.
General
Global Media Perceptions of the United States
The Trump Effect
Edited by Yahya R. Kamalipour - Foreword by Cees J. HamelinkRowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 326 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7413 5 • $46.00 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 2417 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4243 1 • $43.50 / £33.00
A timely portrait of international perceptions and media coverage of the United States, this collection reveals the global effects of the tumultuous environments and controversial views of Donald Trump’s presidency. Over thirty scholars, including Noam Chomsky, present research on 20 countries.
Journalism
Understanding and Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism
Implications for Education and Work
By Victoria Showunmi and Carol TomlinLexington Books
March 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century series
Hardback 978 1 4985 6709 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7107 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sophisticated Racism: Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Everyday Racism explores the experience of Sophisticated Racism and its impact on Black women and their identities. The authors recommend strategies for successfully navigating the residual effects of racism.
Communication Studies
Women of the Wild
Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories
Edited by Victoria M. McDermott; Jennifer M. Gee and Amy R. May
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 334 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2940 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9418 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Women of the Wild: Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSMLs) provides an interdisciplinary approach through the lens of communication to explore the gender disparities impacting women working at FSMLs.
Communication Studies
Foreign Aid and Journalism in the Global South A Mouthpiece for Truth
By Jairo Lugo-OcandoLexington Books
August 2022 • 214 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8337 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3350 0 • $111.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8336 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the way foreign aid has shaped journalism in the Global South and argues that it played a central role in defining the core values of news reporting in these countries, which in turn had their own ways of communicating news. These attempts were met with resistance, which at the end created the South’s own journalism grammars.
Journalism
Solutions Journalism News at the Intersection of Hope, Leadership, and Expertise
By Bill Dodd Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 190 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1873 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 8719 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1872 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
As audiences increasingly avoid negative news, journalists are being called upon to tell optimistic stories about the future. This book explores emerging solutions reporting practices while arguing for a journalism based on hope psychology and a pluralist conception of leadership and expertise.
Journalism
Selecting and Implementing Technologies in Libraries
A Primer
By Tod Colegrove Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 146 pages • Part of the LITA
Guides series
Hardback 978 1 5381 1504 6 • $125.00 / £96.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5053 3 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1506 0 • $39.50 / £30.00
This book will address a functional gap in the literature, establishing a framework by which practitioners can more effectively – and successfully – select, implement, and eventually migrate away from key technological services of the library.
Library & Information Science / Administration & Management
Beyond Books
Adult Library Programs for a New Era
By Jenn Carson
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 3974 5 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9752 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3976 9 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book will enable librarians to prepare effective programs that already have proven results, decreasing stress, prep time, and the feeling of being overwhelmed that can result from trying to come up with new ideas on a deadline.
Library & Information Science / General
Combating Online Health Misinformation
A Professional’s Guide to Helping the Public
Edited by Alla Keselman; Catherine Arnott Smith and Amanda J. Wilson Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Academic Libraries and Collaborative Research Services
Edited by Carrie Forbes
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5368 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3697 7 • $55.00 / £42.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5370 3 • $52.00 / £40.00
Here’s what you need to know to establish your library’s place in the new collaborative research arena by adapting existing library services and practices as well as adding new support services.
Library & Information Science / General
Collection Management in the Cloud
A Guide for Using Cloud Computing Technologies in Libraries
By Kayla Kipps and Allison Kaiser Jones Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 180 pages • Part of the LITA Guides series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5188 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1891 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5190 7 • $43.00 / £33.00
This guide will examine the benefits of using these powerful cloudbased and low-cost or free applications for documentation, data and project management, communication, data storage, and data visualization for technical services staff operations in acquisitions and electronic collection management.
Library & Information Science / General
E. J. Josey Transformational Leader of the Modern Library Profession
By Renate L. Chancellor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September
the Medical Library Association Books series
Hardback
August 2022 • 166 pages • Part of the Association for Library and Information Science Education series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5891 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 1764 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
The book, written from the e-Health
unique in its nuanced approach to
It draws on psychology and information science to explain human susceptibility to misinformation and discusses ways to engage with the public deeply and meaningfully, fostering trust and raising health and information literacy. Library & Information Science / General
Eye-Popping, Show-Stopping Libraries Trends and Insights from the AIA/ALA Library Building Awards
By Anders C. Dahlgren and Charles Forrest Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 144 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 2838 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8398 8 • $90.00 / £69.00
This full-color, beautifully illustrated book presents AIA /ALA awardwinning libraries as an exploration of the evolution of library service and design. It examines these libraries through big themes to explore how service trends and design trends have evolved. The book features extensive documentations through photographs and plans.
Library & Information Science / General
eBook 978 1 5381 2177 1 • $32.00 / £25.00
This book examines the life and career of librarian, educator and activist E.J Josey. During Josey’s professional life, which spanned fifty-five years, he worked as a librarian (1953-1966), an administrator of library services (1966-1986), and as a professor of library science (1986-1995).
Library & Information Science / General
Finding Your Seat at the Table Roles for Librarians on Institutional Regulatory Boards and Committees
Edited by Susan M. Harnett and Laureen P. Cantwell Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 276 pages • Part of the Medical Library Association Books series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4455 8 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4565 5 • $80.50 / £62.00
This book delineates effective roles for librarians on Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) and provides guidance for librarians on how to serve on them.
Library & Information Science / General
Ideology and Libraries
California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945–1952
By Michael K. Buckland - With Masaya TakayamaRowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 184 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7120 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 3148 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4315 5 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book examines US-influenced initiatives to improve library services during the Allied Occupation of post-surrender Japan and looks at history of funding libraries abroad as a tool of cultural diplomacy.
Library & Information Science / General
Information Services Today
An Introduction, Third Edition
Edited by Sandra Hirsh Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 672 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5669 8 • $145.00 / £112.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6704 4 • $65.00 / £50.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5671 1 • $61.50 / £47.00
This book demonstrates the ever-changing landscape of information services today and the need to re-evaluate curriculum, competency training, professional development, and lifelong learning in order to stay abreast of current trends and issues, and more significantly, remain competent to address the changing user needs of the information community.
Library & Information Science / General
Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library
Edited by Melissa Edmiston Johnson; Thomas C. Weeks and Jennifer Putnam Davis Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 322 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5940 8 • $125.00 / £96.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9415 5 • $55.00 / £42.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5942 2 • $52.00 / £40.00
This book explores how pop culture is used in academic libraries for collections, instruction, and programming. It also describes the foundational basis for implementing pop culture and discusses how it promotes conversations between librarians and the students, making not only the information relatable, but the library staff, as well.
Library & Information Science / General
Online Instruction
A Practical Guide for Librarians
By Emily Mroczek Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 158 pages • Part of the Practical
Guides for Librarians series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5767 1 • $65.00 / £50.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7688 8 • $61.50 / £47.00
The vast array of options for online teaching can seem intimidating and endless. Take a look at the pros and cons of different options available for teaching online, tips and tricks for engaging various audiences and strategies for hybrid learning. Learn how the biggest rookie can become an online teaching professional.
Library & Information Science / General
Information Issues for Older Americans
Edited by William Aspray
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 304 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5019 1 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0207 7 • $81.00 / £62.00
Information Issues for Older Americans brings together leading faculty from the leading Information Schools to examine information needs, behavior, and policy related to older Americans.
Library & Information Science / General
Innovation and Experiential Learning in Academic Libraries
Meeting the Needs of Today’s Students
Edited by Sarah Nagle and Elias Tzoc Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 222 pages • Part of the Innovations in Information Literacy series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5184 6 • $75.00 / £58.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1853 3 • $71.00 / £55.00
Innovation and Experiential Learning in Academic Libraries: Meeting the Needs of 21st Century Students addresses the multitude of ways that academic librarians are collaborating with faculty and helping students develop these enduring skills by developing and integrating active and experiential learning approaches into teaching activities.
Library & Information Science / General
Library Services to Homeschoolers
A Guide
By Christina Giovannelli CaputoRowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 142 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4681 1 • $65.00 / £50.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6828 8 • $31.00 / £23.99
eBook 978 1 5381 4683 5 • $29.50 / £22.99
Library Services to Homeschoolers will help librarians understand how important the library is to the homeschool population, how to create programs that will fit the homeschooler’s needs, and how to advocate for homeschoolers’ needs in the library.
Library & Information Science / General
Piecing Together Systematic Reviews and Other Evidence Syntheses
Edited by Margaret J. Foster and Sarah T. Jewell Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 344 pages • Part of the Medical
Library Association Books series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5017 7 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0184 4 • $80.50 / £62.00
The book is for training librarians new to systematic reviews, for those developing a new systematic review service, for those wanting to establish protocols for a current service, and as a reference for those conducting reviews or running a service.
Library & Information Science / General
Pioneers in Librarianship
Sixty Notable Leaders Who Shaped the Field
By Christian A. Nappo Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 404 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4875 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8761 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
Pioneers of Librarianship profiles sixty notable librarians who made significant contributions to the field. The achievements of the librarians profiled here are important because they shaped the field. Many of their theories, ideas, and contributions are still being utilized in libraries today.
Library & Information Science / General
The Black Librarian in America
Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening
Edited by Shauntee Burns-Simpson; Nichelle M. Hayes; Ana Ndumu and Shaundra WalkerForeword by Carla D. Hayden
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 300 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5266 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2676 6 • $47.00 / £36.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5268 3 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book will contribute to the discourse on ways of increasing antiracism, empowerment, and representation in the LIS field and beyond. It continues in the civil rights legacy of African American librarian pioneers including Dr. E.J. Josey, Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones, Dr. Carla Hayden, and Dr. Eliza Atkins Gleason.
Library & Information Science / General
The Library as Playground
How Games and Play are Reshaping Public Culture
By Dale Leorke and Danielle Wyatt Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6431 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4327 7 • $85.50 / £66.00
This book examines the expanding impact of games and play on public libraries as manifested in their spaces, programs, design, and support for gamemaking communities. It reveals how the rise of play in public libraries is connected to a broader digital culture.
Library & Information Science / General
Using Digital Information Services in the Library Workplace
An Introduction for Support Staff
By Marie Keen ShawRowman & Littlefield Publishers
March
Support Staff Handbooks series
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
Reference and Information Sources and Services for Children and Young Adults
By Lesley S.J. Farmer
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 228 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6318 4 • $98.00 / £75.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3191 1 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6320 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
Here’s a book on today’s reference sources and services written just for children’s and young adult librarians. It includes core reference collections bibliographies targeted to elementary-age children, to middle schoolers, and to teens. Each chapter also includes sidebar exercise and thought experiments, as well as prompts for next action steps.
Library & Information Science / General
The Library as Forum in the Social Media Age
By John M. Budd
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 202 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6835 6 • $80.00 / £62.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8370 0 • $76.00 / £58.00
Libraries may be the last location where civil, serious political discussion can take place. This book details precisely how that vision can be achieved.
Library & Information Science / General
The Post-Pandemic Library Handbook
By Julie Todaro Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022
Hardback
Paperback
eBook
200 pages
Here’s your library’s guide for reopening, reengineering and redesigning library facilities, resources, services and staff for the post-pandemic era. Library & Information Science / General
Virtual Services in the Health Sciences
Littlefield
the Library
Virtual Storytimes
A Practical Guide for Librarians
By Rebecca Ogle Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the Practical
Guides for Librarians series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5850 0 • $65.00 / £50.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8517 7 • $61.50 / £47.00
This is the first book to provide practical guidance for library staff on virtual storytime planning and production. It includes case studies, tips, and resources.
Library & Information Science / General
Working Remotely
A Practical Guide for Librarians
By Molly Virello Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Practical
Guides for Librarians series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5611 7 • $65.00 / £50.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6124 4 • $61.50 / £47.00
This practical how-to guide that will helps librarians who work remotely set up a home office space; choose a routine; and adapt, plan, create, implement, manage, & evaluate their services order to unleash their library’s potential to engage and wow their patrons and communities.
Library & Information Science / General
Theodore Roosevelt and His Library at Sagamore Hill
By Mark I. WestMay 2022 • 188 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5935 4 • $75.00 / £58.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5936 1 • $70.00 / £54.00
Theodore Roosevelt and His Library at Sagamore Hill explores Roosevelt’s passion for reading, the role that reading books played in his political career, and an overview of the history of his personal library complete with photographs of the library as it still exists at Sagamore Hill.
Library & Information Science / General
Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language
The Sphinx’s Legacy
By Marcel DanesiLexington Books
September 2022 • 174 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1819 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8205 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
Virtual Technical Services
A Handbook
By Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 166 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5262 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2638 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5264 5 • $42.50 / £33.00
No matter what the future brings for academic libraries, technical services librarians need to be ready to face the unexpected. Virtual Technical Services guides librarians through the steps of creating a contingency plan for disasters seen and unseen
Library & Information Science / General
The Dictionary of the Book
A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others, 2nd Edition
By Sidney E. BergerNovember 2022 • 880 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5132 7 • $129.00 / £99.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5133 4 • $122.50 / £95.00
This edition adds more than 100 new entries and many new illustrations; corrects and brings up to date the entries of the work of others; and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality thanks to worldwide medical and economic concerns.
Library & Information Science / General
Academic Discourse Socialization
Case Study on Multilingual Learners
By Yutaka Fujieda
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3964 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9653 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Yutaka Fujieda illustrates how multilingual learners extend substantial efforts to tackle academic discourses and navigate their academic identities. This book provides profound insights into the processes and practices of academic literacy socialization in various learning contexts.
Linguistics / General
Noticing Oral Corrective Feedback in the Second Language Classroom
Background and Evidence
By Eva KartchavaLexington Books
September 2022 • 216 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 3679 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 6776 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 3678 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book contributes to the debate surrounding the origin of language by demonstrating that riddles and myths can be examined as evidence of the emergence of conceptual metaphors, a prerequisite for the development of a complete language.
Linguistics / General
Noticing Oral Corrective Feedback in the Second Language Classroom: Background and Evidence provides a comprehensive overview of research into the role of noticing of form, details several original studies on the phenomenon, and outlines language teaching plans and strategies to augment noticing of errors in the language classroom.
Linguistics / General
The Evolution of Human Consciousness and Linguistic Behavior
A Synthetic Approach to the Anthropology and Archaeology of Language Origins
By Karen A. Haworth and Terry J. Prewitt Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 172 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7119 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 2882 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4289 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
In this book the authors draw together work from cognitive science, linguistics, Paleolithic anthropology, art history, and semiotics, the authors offer commentary on their own process of discovery and bases for communicating the key ideas across disciplinary boundaries.
Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Expressing Silence
Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese
By Natsuko TsujimuraLexington Books
March 2022 • 172 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 6924 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9255 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book demonstrates how silence is conceptualized and represented in Japanese language and culture. A cluster of sounds in nature and onomatopoeic vocabulary enable verbal portrayals of silence consistent with a cultural pattern of practices that value sensate and affective reactions.
Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology
Words and Meaning in Metasemantics
Grounds for an Interactive Theory
By Juan José Colomina-AlmiñanaLexington Books
September 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0946 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9472 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiñana argues that language meaning determination requires close attention to the constant interaction between speech communities, speaker’s intentions, and the audience’s uptakes.
Linguistics / Pragmatics
African Multilingualisms
Rural Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
Edited by Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Jeff Good
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8897 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8959 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8896 6 • $40.50 / £31.00
African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality
Montagovian Morphology for Bound Morphemes
By Kazuhiko Fukushima
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 258 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 8810 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8119 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Bracketing Paradox and Direct Compositionality resolves bracketing paradoxes in Japanese through semantically reinforced morphology proper and without complex syntactic supposition or manipulation. Direct Compositionality and lexicalism are maintained in the domain of morpho-semantic interface thanks to Montagovian apparatus.
Linguistics / Morphology
Discursive Change in Hong Kong
Sociopolitical Dynamics, Metaphor, and One Country, Two Systems
By Jennifer EagletonLexington Books
March 2022 • 404 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3084 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0858 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
Discursive Change in Hong Kong is a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of socio-political and discursive change in Hong Kong since 1997. It provides a stimulating, politically well informed, and comprehensive “insider” account of media and official discourse on democracy and political change as part of “One Country, Two Systems.”
Linguistics / Pragmatics
The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball Semantics, Style, and Terminology
By John M. Chaston and Robert N. SmeadLexington Books
December 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9122 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 1232 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This entertaining and informative work uses data driven analysis to guide and enhance the study of linguistic and stylistic differences in written game summaries. Timely and illustrative, The Spanish Lexicon of Baseball: Semantics, Style, and Terminology will appeal to fans of the game as well as students of lexicon.
Linguistics / Semantics
Amazonian Quichua Language and Life Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador
By Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. SwansonLexington Books
September 2022 • 278 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1621 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 6197 7 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1620 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book introduces a first year of guided instruction for teaching Amazonian Quichua language and life. It covers two varieties of Quichua spoken in Ecuador, Pastaza, and Upper Napo in twenty lessons that include practice exercises, grammatical explanations, and cultural highlights with links to audiovisual stories, songs, and conversations.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Bridging the Humor Barrier
Humor Competency Training in English Language
Teaching
Edited by John Rucynski Jr. and Caleb Prichard
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 308 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9202 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 2000 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9201 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
Humor competence in the target language is an overlooked tool for English language learners to communicate confidently and proficiently in English. In this innovative edited collection, language teachers and researchers from around the globe share their latest research on helping learners to overcome the humor barrier.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Education and Language in the Philippines
By Lorraine Pe Symaco and Francisco P. DumanigLexington Books
February 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0295 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2961 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book critically discusses the development of education and language policies in the Philippines. It highlights the economic, social, and political factors that impact the education and language policies in the country, including identity formation and the roles played by ethnic languages, the national language, and English.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Gentrification and Bilingual Education
A Texas TWBE School across Seven Years
Edited by Deborah K. Palmer and Suzanne GarcíaMateus - Foreword by Claudia Cervantes-SoonEpilogue by Claudia Kramer-Santamaria
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5302 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3031 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume paints a vivid portrait of a bilingual school over seven years as it implemented a two-way-dual-language program and rapidly gentrified. Contributors—former teachers, parents, and researchers at the school—argue that to avoid marginalizing racialized bilingual families, schools must engage in dialogue toward critical consciousness.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Language Creativity
A Semiotic Perspective
By Simone Casini - Foreword by Marcel DanesiAfterword by Frank Nuessel
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3428 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4269 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3427 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
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.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Complaining as a Sociocultural Activity
Examining How and Why in Korean Interaction
By Kyung-Eun Yoon
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 170 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0472 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 4705 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0471 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the role of complaining in conversation and online interaction in Korean, analyzing linguistic characteristics for complaining, organizational features of complaining including the responses, and socio-cultural norms and identities constructed in the course of complaining.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Exploring Multilingual Hawai’i Language Use and Language Ideologies in a Diverse Society
By Scott SaftLexington Books
March 2022 • 272 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 6120 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 1181 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6119 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Through an approach informed by language ecology and linguistic ethnography, this book examines Hawai?i as a complex multilingual society. Focusing on situated language usage as well as underlying ideological beliefs, the book offers analyses of Hawaiian, Pidgin, Japanese, the languages of Micronesia, and the phenomenon of language mixing.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Intensification in English and Spanish Communication
By Nydia Flores-FerránLexington Books
June 2022 • 176 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3961 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9622 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Intensification in English and Spanish Communication provides a broad account of how speakers and writers escalate their communication with the purpose of persuading their hearers and interlocutors. The author provides examples of the linguistic elements, features, strategies, and devices used by native speakers to amplify their communication.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Telling Animals Animacies in Dene Narratives
By Jasmine Spencer
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 202 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1973 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9747 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book takes as its premise the teaching of many Elders that stories are alive and combines literary, linguistic, anthropological, and philosophical approaches in a deictic framework to engage with the animating power of “narrative revitalization” through “animal grammar” in northern and southern Dene/Athabaskan stories.
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
The Political Interview
Broadcast Talk in the Interactional Combat Zone
By Ian Hutchby
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4009 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0109 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the increasingly combative arena of live televised political interviewing in the twenty-first century. It draws into question not just the evasion and slipperiness of politicians but also the ethics and neutrality of journalists in a broadcast environment where “interview” can readily morph into “argument.”
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia
Novel Encounters with Waste
By Tom BowersLexington Books
May 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2297 6 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2983 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Examining spaces where leisure activities are offered on sites of industrial waste, this book argues that such heterotopic spaces may foster a remaking of public environmental responsibility and ecological care that is not based on a utopian vision of environmental purity but an attempt to exist responsibly in the continued presence of waste.
Rhetoric
Inviting Understanding
A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric
Edited by Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 414 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7412 8 • $46.00 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 1039 9 • $153.00 / £119.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3104 6 • $43.50 / £33.00
This authoritative collection provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of invitational rhetoric, developed twenty-five years ago by the volume editors. The book provides a wide range of resources on community organizing, social justice activism, social media, decision making, communication and composition pedagogy, and interview protocols.
Rhetoric
Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem
By Mike DuncanFortress Academic
May 2022
Democratic Disunity
Rhetorical Tribalism in 2020
By Colleen Elizabeth KelleyLexington Books
January 2022 • 236 pages • Part of the Lexington
Studies in Political Communication series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3985 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9868 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Democratic Disunity: Rhetorical Tribalism in 2020 maintains that while attention has focused on the tribal bifurcation of the GOP, the Democratic Party is similarly divided. Rhetorical strategies anchored in dialogue may diminish the effect of political partisanship, including its toxic variations between and within American political parties.
Rhetoric
Fringe Rhetorics
Conspiracy Theories and the Paranormal
By Karen Schroeder Sorensen
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 116 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4948 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9492 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Fringe Rhetorics explores the rhetorical construction of conspiracy theories and paranormal accounts. This book describes a method of analysis for fringe rhetorics and provides examples for applying this method to investigate these arguments’ persuasive power.
Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Governance under Trump Proclamations from the Bullshit Pulpit
By Bernd Kaussler; Lars J. Kristiansen and Jeffrey Delbert
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 386 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9485 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4837 7 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9484 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book analyzes the rhetoric of Donald Trump to argue that Trump embraces conflicting populist and Republican values, and as a result has relied on populist and polarizing rhetoric, along with fabricated crises, to reconcile these combating ideals and uphold his image of an “antistatus quo politician.”
Rhetoric
Rhetoric of Masculinity
Male Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/ Conflict
Edited by Donnalyn Pompper
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 340 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2688 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6899 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem tackles the question of literary relationship between the New Testament synoptic gospels by way of rhetorical theory and criticism. Mark, Matthew, and Luke are portrayed as competing rhetorical narratives about the life of Jesus, with the Farrier-Goulder hypothesis the best working solution.
Rhetoric
Rhetoric of Masculinity lends depth and global nuance to discourse associated with the masculinity concept as it bears on males’ self-image, role in society, media representations of them, and the gender role stress/conflict they experience when they fail to measure up to social standards associated with what it means to be manly.
Rhetoric
Rhetorics of Nepantla, Memory, and the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers Archival Impulses
By Diana Isabel Martínez
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9840 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8415 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book illustrates how Gloria Anzaldúa’s archives contain objects that, when placed together by the rhetor, perform the embodied ways of knowing of which she writes. This book provides an account of how to discuss interactions between objects found within and across archives work in theoretically and experientially meaningful ways.
Rhetoric
Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice
A Critical Confluence
Edited by Casey R. Schmitt; Theresa R. Castor and Christopher S. Thomas
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 378 pages • Part of the Environmental Communication and Nature series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0523 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5214 4 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0522 1 • $40.50 / £31.00
This collection applies critical communication methods and perspectives to examine how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice. Case examples consider oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony, and other rhetorical appeals.
Rhetoric
The Rhetoric of the “Corrupt Bargain” in the 1824 Election
Clay, Jackson, and Democratic Strategy
By Amos KieweLexington Books
October 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2531 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5326 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book interweaves rhetoric, history, and politics to tell the story of the 1824 presidential election and the political drama that engulfed Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.
Rhetoric
The COVID-19 Impact on Higher Education Stakeholders and Institutional Services
Edited by Michael G. Strawser
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Generational
Differences in Higher Education and the Workplace: Leading and Teaching Millennials and Generation Z series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4315 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3162 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume provides different perspectives regarding the impact of COVID-19 on higher education. Topics include COVID-19 implications on faculty development, communication, student services, and more. Study & Teaching
Index and Finding Aids, Revised as of January 1, 2021: Part 1
Index and Finding Aids, Revised as of January 1, 2021: Part 2
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Title 05 Administrative Personnel 700-1199, Revised as of January 1, 2021 January 2022
Title 06 Domestic Security, Revised as of January 1, 2021 January 2022
Title 07 Agriculture 1000-1199, Revised as of January 1, 2021 March
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Title 18 Conservation of Power and Water Resources 1-399, Revised as of April 1, 2021: Part 1 May 2022
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Title 20 Employee Benefits 657-End, Revised as of April 1, 2021
Title 21 Food and Drugs 1-99, Revised as of April 1, 2021
Title 21 Food and Drugs 100-169, Revised as of April 1, 2021
Title 21 Food and Drugs 1300-End, Revised as of April 1, 2021
March 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1831 6 • $54.00 / £42.00
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Title 21 Food and Drugs 200-299, Revised as of April 1, 2020
Title 21 Food and Drugs 300-499, Revised as of April 1, 2021
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Title 21 Food and Drugs 600-799, Revised as of April 1, 2021
Title 21 Food and Drugs 800-1299, Revised as of April 1, 2021
March 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1836 1 • $39.00 / £30.00
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Title 22 Foreign Relations 300-End, Revised as of April 1, 2021 March 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1843 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
Title 23 Highways, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1844 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
Title 24 Housing and Urban Development 0-199, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1845 3 • $66.00 / £51.00
Title 24 Housing and Urban Development 1700-End, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1849 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
Title 24 Housing and Urban Development 200-499, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1846 0 • $56.00 / £43.00
Title 24 Housing and Urban Development 500-699, Revised as of April 1, 2020 March 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1847 7 • $54.00 / £42.00
Title 24 Housing and Urban Development 700-1699, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1848 4 • $69.00 / £53.00
Title 25 Indians 1-299, Revised as of April 1, 2021 July 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1850 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
Title 25 Indians 300-End, Revised as of April 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1851 4 • $44.00 / £34.00
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.0-1.60, Revised as of April 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1852 1 • $55.00 / £42.00
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.1001-1.1400, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1864 4 • $67.00 / £52.00
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.140-1.169, Revised as of April 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1854 5 • $50.00 / £38.00
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.1401-1.1550, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1865 1 • $64.00 / £49.00
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.1551-End, Revised as of April 1, 2021 March 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1866 8 • $56.00 / £43.00
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.170-1.300, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1855 2 • $66.00 / £51.00
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Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.401-1.409, Revised as of April 1, 2021
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Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.441-1.500, Revised as of April 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1859 0
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.501-1.640, Revised as of April 1, 2021 March 2022
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.61-1.139, Revised as of April 1, 2021 May 2022
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.641-1.850, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April 2022
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.851-1.907, Revised as of April 1, 2021
Title 26 Internal Revenue 1.908-1.1000, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April
Title 26 Internal Revenue 2-29, Revised as of April 1, 2021
Title 26 Internal Revenue 30-39, Revised as of April 1, 2021 March
Title 26 Internal Revenue 300-499, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April
Title 26 Internal Revenue 40-49, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April
Title 26 Internal Revenue 50-299, Revised as of April 1, 2021 April
Title 26 Internal Revenue 500-599, Revised as of April 1, 2021 March
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Paperback 978 1 6367 1853 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
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$14.00 / £10.99
Title 26 Internal Revenue 600-End, Revised as of April 1, 2021
April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1873 6 • $20.00 / £14.99
Title 27 Alcohol Tobacco Products and Firearms 1-39, Revised as of April 1, 2021 March 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1874 3 • $66.00 / £51.00
Title 27 Alcohol Tobacco Products and Firearms 40-399, Revised as of April 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1875 0 • $66.00 / £51.00
Title 27 Alcohol Tobacco Products and Firearms 400-End, Revised as of April 1, 2021 March 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1876 7 • $22.00 / £16.99
Title 28 Judicial Administration 0-42, Revised as of July 1, 2021: Part 1 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1877 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
Title 28 Judicial Administration 0-42, Revised as of July 1, 2021: Part 2 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1750 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
Title 28 Judicial Administration 43-End, Revised as of July 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1878 1 • $68.00 / £52.00
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Title 29 Labor/OSHA 100-499, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1880 4 • $27.00 / £20.99
Title 29 Labor/OSHA 1900-1910.999, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1883 5 • $67.00 / £52.00
Title 29 Labor/OSHA 1910.1000-End, Revised as of July 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1884 2 • $49.00 / £38.00
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Title 29 Labor/OSHA 1926, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1886 6 • $56.00 / £43.00
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Title 29 Labor/OSHA 500-899, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1881 1 • $64.00 / £49.00
Title 29 Labor/OSHA 900-1899, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1882 8 • $41.00 / £32.00
Title 30 Mineral Resources 1-199, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1888 0 • $63.00 / £48.00
Title 30 Mineral Resources 200-699, Revised as of July 1, 2021 June 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1889 7 • $56.00 / £43.00
Title 30 Mineral Resources 700-End, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1890 3 • $64.00 / £49.00
Title 31 Money and Finance 0-199, Revised as of July 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1891 0 • $46.00 / £35.00
Title 31 Money and Finance 200-499, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1892 7 • $52.00 / £40.00
Title 31 Money and Finance 500-End, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1893 4 • $68.00 / £52.00
Title 32 National Defense 1-190, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1894 1 • $67.00 / £52.00
Title 32 National Defense 191-399, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1895 8 • $69.00 / £53.00
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Title 32 National Defense 630-699, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1897 2 • $42.00 / £32.00
Title 32 National Defense 700-799, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1898 9 • $52.00 / £40.00
Title 32 National Defense 800-End, Revised as of July 1, 2021 April 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1899 6 • $53.00 / £41.00
Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 1-124, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1900 9 • $63.00 / £48.00
Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 125-199, Revised as of July 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1901 6 • $64.00 / £49.00
Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters 200-End, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022
Paperback 978 1 6367 1902 3 • $63.00 / £48.00
Title 34 Education 1-299, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1903 0 • $56.00 / £43.00
Title 34 Education 300-399, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1904 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Title 34 Education 400-679, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022
Title 34 Education 680-End & 35 (Reserved), Revised
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Parks, Forests, and Public Property 200-299, Revised as of July 1, 2021
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Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, Revised
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Title 39 Postal Service, Revised as of July 1, 2020 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1913 9 • $47.00 / £36.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 1-49, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1914 6 • $66.00 / £51.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 100-135, Revised as of July 1, 2021 June 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1937 5 • $51.00 / £39.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 1000-1059, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1949 8 • $67.00 / £52.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 1060-END, Revised as of July 1, 2021 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1950 4 • $67.00 / £52.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 136-149, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1938 2 • $67.00 / £52.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 150-189, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1939 9 • $56.00 / £43.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 190-259, Revised as of July 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1940 5 • $44.00 / £34.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 260-265, Revised as of July 1, 2021 June 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1941 2 • $56.00 / £43.00
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Title 40 Protection of the Environment 300-399, Revised as of July 1, 2021 June 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1943 6 • $47.00 / £36.00
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Title 40 Protection of the Environment 425-699, Revised as of July 1, 2021 June 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1945 0 • $64.00 / £49.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 50-51, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1915 3 • $51.00 / £39.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 52.01-52.1018, Revised as of July 1, 2021: Part 1 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1916 0 • $32.00 / £25.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 52.01-52.1018, Revised as of July 1, 2021: Part 2 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1107 2 • $32.00 / £25.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 52.1019-52.2019, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1917 7 • $65.00 / £50.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 52.2020-End of Part 52, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1918 4 • $54.00 / £42.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 53-59, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1919 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 60 (Appendices), Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1920 7 • $63.00 / £48.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 60.1-60.499, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1921 4 • $64.00 / £49.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 60.500-END, Revised as of July 1, 2021 June 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1922 1 • $64.00 / £49.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 61-62, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1923 8 • $51.00 / £39.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 63.1-63.599, Revised as of July 1, 2021 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1924 5 • $64.00 / £49.00
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 63.1200-63.1439, Revised as of July 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1926 9 • $56.00 / £43.00
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Title 40 Protection of the Environment 63.1440-63.6175, Revised as of July 1, 2021: Part 2, Volume 4 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1752 4 • $18.50 / £13.99
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 63.600-63.1199, Revised as of July 1, 2021 September 2022
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 63.6580-63.8830, Revised as of July 1, 2021 September 2022
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 63.8980-End, Revised as of July 1, 2021, Volume 6 June 2022
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 64-71, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 700-722, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 72-79, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 723-789, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 790-999, Revised as of July 1, 2021 June 2022
Title 40 Protection of the Environment 80, Revised as of July 1, 2021 May 2022
Paperback 978 1 6367 1925 2 • $53.00 / £41.00
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Title 40 Protection of the Environment 81, Revised as of July 1, 2021 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1933 7 • $56.00 / £43.00
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Title 40 Protection of the Environment 96-99, Revised as of July 1, 2020: Part 2 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1045 7 • $33.00 / £25.00
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Title 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 1-100, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1951 1 • $28.00 / £21.99
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Title 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 102-200, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1953 5 • $62.00 / £48.00
Title 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 201-End, Revised as of July 1, 2021 July 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1954 2 • $28.00 / £21.99
Title 42 Public Health 1-399, Revised as of October 1, 2021 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1955 9 • $67.00 / £52.00
Title 42 Public Health 400-413, Revised as of October 1, 2021 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1956 6 • $66.00 / £51.00
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Title 42 Public Health 430-481, Revised as of October 1, 2021 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1958 0 • $64.00 / £49.00
Title 42 Public Health 482-End, Revised as of October 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1959 7 • $67.00 / £52.00
Title 43 Public Lands: Interior 1-999, Revised as of October 1, 2021 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1960 3 • $62.00 / £48.00
Title 43 Public Lands: Interior 1000-End, Revised as of October 1, 2021 Part 1 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1961 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
Title 43 Public Lands: Interior 1000-End, Revised as of October 1, 2021 Part 2 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1962 7 • $34.00 / £26.00
Title 44 (Emergency Management and Assistance) Federal Emergency Management Agency, Revised as of October 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1963 4 • $56.00 / £43.00
Title 45 Public Welfare 1-139, Revised as of October 1, 2021 August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1964 1 • $65.00 / £50.00
Title 45 Public Welfare 1200-End, Revised as of October 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1968 9 • $67.00 / £52.00
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Title 45 Public Welfare 500-1199, Revised as of October 1, 2021
Title 46 Shipping 1-40, Revised as of October 1, 2021
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Title 46 Shipping 200-499, Revised as of October 1, 2021
Title 46 Shipping 41-69, Revised as of October 1, 2021
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Telecommunications 0-19, Revised as of October 1, 2020
August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1967 2 • $62.00 / £48.00
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August 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1976 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
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Title 47 Telecommunications 80-End, Revised as of October 1, 2021
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Title 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System Chapter 1 (1-51), Revised as of October 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1983 2 • $70.00 / £54.00
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Title 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 228-599, Revised as of October 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1744 9 • $43.00 / £33.00
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Title 50 Wildlife and Fisheries 660-End, Revised as of October 1, 2021 September 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1746 3 • $69.00 / £53.00
Stolen Motherhood
Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era
By Anne Maree PayneLexington Books
August 2022 • 208 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1864 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 8627 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1863 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the experiences of Aboriginal mothers of Stolen Generations children, providing new insights into our understanding of this era. It reflects critically on human rights processes based on truth-telling, raising important issues about who gets to speak at such processes and whose voices are heard and validated.
Child Advocacy
A Principled Constitution? Four Skeptical Views
By Steven D. Smith; Larry Alexander; James Allan and Maimon SchwarzschildLexington Books
September 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1147 3 • $85.00 / £65.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1480 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, four authors reflect on whether the US Constitution embodies certain “principles.” They conclude that it does not, at least not directly, and that it’s a good thing that it and other constitutions do not.
Constitutional
The Biblical Roots of American Constitutionalism
From “I Am the Lord” to “We the People”
By Joseph LivniLexington Books
August 2022 • 170 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3723 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7215 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3722 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
The book synthesizes the evolution of covenantal life from its inception in the Period of the Judges to American constitutionalism, from “I am the Lord” to … “We the People.”
Constitutional
The Naked Australian Constitution Interpretations, Inadequacies, and Implications
By Ian Killey - Foreword by Matt HarveyLexington Books
July 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0886 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8879 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the flaws in the origin, design, application, and operation of the Australian Constitution, including, but not limited to its racial basis, the misleading nature of the text, and the subjective, judicial interpretation of the High Court.
Constitutional
American Public Opinion and the Modern Supreme Court, 1930-2020
A Representative Institution
By Thomas R. MarshallLexington Books
April 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2330 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3317 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Comparing over 500 Supreme Court decisions with timely nationwide poll questions, Thomas R. Marshall shows that most Supreme Court decisions agree with poll majorities or pluralities across time and across issues and often represent Americans’ views to the same degree as federal policymakers.
Courts
Organizing for Sex Workers’ Rights in Montréal Resistance and Advocacy
By Francine Tremblay Lexington Books
September 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9391 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3892 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9390 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores how a group of ostracized female-identified sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the health and well-being of women working in the sex industry.
Criminal LAW / General
Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice
Edited by Ed Johnston and Sophie Marsh
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 302 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3733 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7345 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Contemporary Issues in Global Criminal Justice provides a holistic analysis of modern criminal justice issues, encompassing the pre-trial, investigative, and post-conviction stages of criminal justice in legal settings across the world.
Criminal Procedure
Self-Representation
Law, Ethics, And Policy
By Jona GoldschmidtLexington Books
January 2022 • 458 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1664 7 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6654 4 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book explores the legal, ethical, and policy issues arising from self-representation in America’s courts and acts as a useful guide for lawyers, judges, and for self-represented litigants themselves who face the complexity of litigation alone.
Courts
Changing Times
Transforming Culture and Behaviors for Law Enforcement
Edited by Frank Mielke and Charles Kocher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 250 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6455 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 7612 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2762 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
Many times, the police are the first to respond to an individual in crisis. We’ve made strides shifting the response from an attitude of control to one of compassion. This book serves as a reliable and accessible reference for those intent on bringing change to the vital effort of diversion.
Criminal Procedure
The Legal Status and Perspectives of Ethnic Minorities in European States
The Nationality Gambit
By Magdalena Butrymowicz Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4603 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6040 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Legal Status and Perspectives of Ethnic Minorities in European States explores the new definition of the nation-state in the context of an internally conflicted European society through a concept of ethnic law as the right of ethnic minorities, creating their legal and ethnic identity. Customary
Stoneover
The Observed Lessons and Unanswered Questions of Cannabis Legalization
Edited by Nikolay Anguelov and Jeffrey MoyerLexington Books
January 2022 • 230 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5152 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1532 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Combining examples of the interplay of the benefits and costs of decriminalization implementation with an honest discussion of the possible negative aspects of recreational legalization and whom it most harms, this book offers policy makers information for future policy designs with a goal to decrease negative externalities and social inequity.
Drugs & the Law
Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture
A Global Perspective
Edited by Peter Robson and Ferdinando Spina
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
September 2022 • 368 pages • Part of the Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Hardback 978 1 6839 3354 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3557 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture offers a transnational investigation of vigilantism and its context across a range of eleven different jurisdictions. Focusing on vigilante justice in popular culture, this unique collection enriches the debate by adding the opportunity for comparison which has been lacking in scholarly literature.
Entertainment
Juris Zoology
A Dissection of Animals as Legal Objects
By Geordie DucklerLexington Books
March 2022 • 280 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5572 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5738 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
At the intersection of law and biology, Juris Zoology provides a comprehensive and realistic framework to objectively assess the role and significance of animals in American civil and criminal law.
Environmental
Environmental Aspects of Real Estate and Commercial Transactions
By Kevin R. Murray
American Bar Association
May 2022 • 835 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5799 8 • $219.95 / £169.00
Black Interdictions
Haitian Refugees and Antiblack Racism on the High Seas
By Philip KretsedemasLexington Books
March 2022 • 358 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3072 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0735 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Black Interdictions exposes the antiblack racism that was latent in the US government’s Haitian refugee policies of the 1980s and the 1990s, setting the tone for the criminalization of migrants and refugees in the new millennium.
Emigration & Immigration
Garbage Gumbo
The Strange Case of the Belle Landfill
By John W. Sutherlin
Hamilton Books
September 2022 • 270 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7350 1 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3518 8 • $23.50 / £17.99
Garbage Gumbo is an account of what can go wrong when incompetence, corruption, and greed replace environmental protection. This is another example of what makes Louisiana politics so intriguing to some and disappointing to others.
Environmental
Massachusetts Environmental Law Handbook, Fourth Edition
By Theda BraddockBernan Press
September 2022 • 196 pages • Part of the State Environmental Law Handbooks series
Paperback 978 1 6414 3427 0 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 6414 4287 7 • $119.50 / £92.00
This thoroughly revised edition of the Massachusetts Environmental Law Handbook provides a comprehensive reference work that the reader can rely on for up-to-date information on Massachusetts’ environmental law. It incorporates both a theoretical and practical approach to ensure that the reader obtains the most definitive information available.
Environmental
A Case for Environmental Justice
By Edwin EtieyiboHamilton Books
December 2022 • 160 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7381 5 • $32.99 / £25.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3822 2 • $31.00 / £23.99
Now completely updated, this comprehensive guide examines the issues, problems and pitfalls involved in the intersection of real estate, business, and environmental law. A unique and practical resource, this book covers the full range of environmental issues that arise when real estate is acquired, sold, developed, operated, financed, or the subject of a work out.
Environmental
The book examines issues in environmental justice, as part of the broader discourse on environmental ethics. Its focuses on issues relating to consumption, environmental problems, global warming and climate change. It examines solutions to some of these problems from some perspectives including from African and Native American philosophies.
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
The Ethical Legitimization of Criminal Law
By Krzysztof Szczucki Lexington Books
May 2022 • 310 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0805 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8060 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book focuses on one fundamental thesis: when creating the norms of criminal law, the legislator should strive for their compatibility with the principle of human dignity while taking into account the ethical legitimacy of criminal law.
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Crimmigration Law, 2nd Edition
By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezAmerican Bar Association
May 2022 • 304 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5945 9 • $139.95 / £108.00
How to Play the Game
What Every Sports Attorney Needs to Know, 3rd Edition
By Darren Heitner American Bar AssociationMay 2022 • 238 pages
Paperback 978 1 6390 5039 0 • $89.95 / £69.00
How to Play the Game provides a basic understanding of the legal issues surrounding sports. It is the go-to source for anyone interested in getting into the field of sports law.
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Exploring Norms and Family Laws across the Globe
Edited by Melissa L. Breger
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 408 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1835 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8368 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
Crimmigration Law is a must-read for law students and practitioners seeking an introduction to the complex legal doctrine and practice challenges at the merger of immigration and criminal law.
Family LAW / Children
Gender Justice and the Law
Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity
Edited by Elaine Wood - Introduction by Elaine Wood Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
September 2022 • 308 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities series
Paperback 978 1 6839 3241 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6839 2390 0 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3240 6 • $40.50 / £31.00
Shaped by politics and policy, Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that contribute to understanding how theoretical practices of intersectionality relate to structures of inequality and relations formed as a result of their interaction.
Gender & the Law
The Anxious Lawyer
An 8-Week Guide to a Happier, Saner Law Practice
Using Meditation
By Jeena Cho and Karen Gifford American Bar AssociationAugust 2022 • 350 pages
Paperback 978 1 6390
5 • $24.95 / £18.95
This book provides a straightforward 8-week introductory program on meditation and mindfulness, created by lawyers for lawyers. The program draws on examples from Cho and Gifford’s professional and personal lives to create an accessible and enjoyable entry into practices that can reduce anxiety, improve focus and clarity, and enrich the quality of life.
General
By utilizing socio-legal principles as the theoretical underpinnings to each chapter, the contributors offer novel perspectives on how diverse societies across the globe shape family law and ways in which norms within family law may be changed over time.
Family LAW / General
Animal Ethics and Animal Law
Edited by Andrew Linzey and Clair Linzey Lexington Books
November 2022 • 330 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2414 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4152 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Animal law is a growing discipline, as is animal ethics. In this wideranging book, scholars from around the world address the intersections between the two. A project of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, this collection focuses on pressing moral issues and how law can protect animals from cruelty and abuse.
General
Essential Supreme Court Decisions
Summaries of Leading Cases in U.S. Constitutional Law, Eighteenth Edition
By John R. Vile Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 662 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6475 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4761 1 • $39.95 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6477 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
The only reference guide to Supreme Court cases organized both topically and chronologically within chapters so that readers understand how cases fit into a historical context. Updated through the end of the 2021 Supreme Court session.
Government / Federal
Protecting Trade Secrets Before, During, and After Trial, 2nd Edition
By Chris Graham American Bar Association
May 2022 • 339 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5887 2 • $139.95 / £108.00
Sections 409A and 457 Answers to 300 Frequently Asked Questions, 4th Edition
By Brian Berglund and Louis Ray Richey
American Bar Association
May 2022 • 351 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5974 9 • $159.95 / £123.00
This updated edition is an essential resource for any trial lawyer or inhouse counsel. With over 35 years of experience as a litigator, Chris Scott Graham provides practical advice to help clients and litigation teams establish protocols for identifying trade secrets, evaluating risk, and effectively strategizing when confronting the prospect of trade secret litigation.
Health
Fandom and the Law A Guide to Fan Fiction, Art, Film & Cosplay
By Marc H Greenberg American Bar Association
May 2022 • 263 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5885 8 • $59.95 / £46.00
This expanded Fourth Edition contains 50 more questions and answers, including a new section addressing all the special-issue questions raised by significant financial hardship situations for executives and employers. It also contains all the case authority and other IRS guidance released since the previous (2017) edition, including IRS Notice 2020-50(§6).
Intellectual Property / Copyright
Democratic Government and Constitutional Jurisdiction
By Clèmerson Merlin Clève and Bruno Lorenzetto Lexington Books
January 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4891 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8921 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Books, movies, TV shows, and comic books often inspire a passionate response in fans, often in the form of fan fiction, fan art, film, and cosplay. Useful for lawyers and scholars as well as content creators, this unique book covers the intersection of fan-created content and intellectual property law, examining potential copyright and trademark infringement, right-ofpublicity violations, fair use, and related legal issues.
Intellectual Property / General
Francisco de Vitoria and the Evolution of International Law Justifying Injustice
By Amaya Amell
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 142 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1336 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3349 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1335 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is a reconstruction of the philosophical and legal theories of Fray Francisco de Vitoria, one of the primary founders of international law, and how these served to introduce the theory of an international community in which all nations take part, regardless of religious beliefs.
International
Pakistan and Human Rights
Edited by Satvinder Juss
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 308 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4606 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6071 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
With the focus on constructing a free, just, and compassionate society, this book provides a panoramic view of the most prominent discussions in constitutional law, democracy, and institutions of our time.
International
Jewish Foreign Trade Officials on Trial In Gheorghiu-Dej’s Romania 1960-1964
By Veronica Rozenberg - Foreword by Arthur House
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 310 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5284 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2850 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book describes a series of six staged economic trials conducted by the Romanian state against Jewish key officials between 1960-1964. Rozenberg places these trials in the context of the Romanian State’s overall treatment of Jews and the strengthening of Gheorghiu-Dej’s policy of national communism.
International
The End of Corruption and Impunity
By Stuart S. YehLexington Books
January 2022 • 386 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5509 7 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5103 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
All too often the law in Pakistan interacts with the country’s sociocultural and religious norms. This together with the War on Terror, has led to the increased use of the death penalty, enforced disappearances, the use of Special Criminal Courts, ‘honor crimes’ and minority rights violations in a way that jeopardizes human rights.
International
The End of Corruption and Impunity argues that it is feasible to limit the corruption that plagues developing regions of the world by implementing an international treaty designed to combat dysfunctional criminal justice systems and restore human rights.
International
The Rule of Law in Retreat
Challenges to Justice in the United Nations World
Edited by Sławomir Redo - Foreword by Diego
García-Sayán - Afterword by Pedro R. David
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 402 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1156 5 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1572 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
The international rule of law is in retreat amid populism, climate change, and migration shifts which may soon shift the global balance of power, prompting international crisis. This global fate is preventable only by the improvement of the global rule of law, education, and public awareness of international diplomacy and security issues.
International
WTO Dispute Settlement Decisions
Decisions Reported: 5 September 2011 -15
September 2011, Volume 116
Edited by Mark Nguyen Bernan Press
November 2022 • 400 pages • Part of Bernan’s Annotated Reporter series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1005 1 • $195.00 / £150.00
This book presents dispute settlement decisions of the World Trade Organization by using extensive annotations, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive summaries of case histories. The extensive index in each volume enables access to particular titles. Legal precedents and conclusions are detailed in the large annotations and conclusion sections.
International
Decision Making and Controversies in State Supreme Courts
By Salmon A. Shomade Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 172 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 4301 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2999 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 4300 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines state Supreme Court decision making during controversies involving religion, race, and gender skirmishes. It analyzes predominant factors influencing state Supreme Court decision making during controversies involving justices serving in these courts and confronting these crises.
Judicial Power
The Threats of Algorithms and AI to Civil Rights, Legal Remedies, and American Jurisprudence
One Nation Under Algorithms
By Alfred R. Cowger Jr.Lexington Books
August 2022 • 276 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2293 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2914 4 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2292 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book argues that while algorithms and artificial intelligence offer many benefits to society, those benefits may be at the cost of civil rights and legal remedies in the legal system.
Jurisprudence
WTO Dispute Settlement Decisions
Decisions
Reported: 15 August 2011–2 September 2011, Volume 115
Edited by Mark Nguyen Bernan Press
April 2022 • 384 pages • Part of Bernan’s Annotated Reporter series
Hardback 978 1 6414 3448 5 • $205.00 / £158.00
This book presents dispute settlement decisions of the World Trade Organization by using extensive annotations, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive summaries of case histories. The extensive index in each volume enables access to particular titles. Legal precedents and conclusions are detailed in the large annotations and conclusion sections.
International
WTO Dispute Settlement Decisions
Decisions Reported: 16 September 2011 to 18
November 2011 , Volume 117
Edited by Mark Nguyen Bernan Press
December 2022 • 400 pages • Part of Bernan’s Annotated Reporter series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1089 1 • $195.00 / £150.00
This title presents dispute settlement decisions of the World Trade Organization by using extensive annotations, in-depth analysis, and comprehensive summaries of case histories. The extensive index in each volume enables access to particular titles. Legal precedents and conclusions are detailed in the large annotations and conclusion sections.
International
Pragmatism, Logic, and Law
By Frederic KelloggLexington Books
August 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the American Philosophy Series series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1699 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6975 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1698 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Pragmatism, Logic and Law traces legal pragmatism as a distinct logical theory originated in late 19th century America, covering various issues, cases, personalities, and relevant intellectual movements within and outside law. It addresses pragmatism’s relation to legal liberalism, natural law, critical legal studies (CLS), and neopragmatism.
Jurisprudence
The Fine Art of Trial Advocacy
A Young Lawyer’s Resource for Success
By Paul Mark SandlerAmerican Bar Association
May 2022 • 605 pages
Paperback 978 1 6390 5006 2 • $99.95 / £77.00
This book introduces young lawyers to the art of trial advocacy. The author provides a historical context and shares engaging stories of exemplary trial lawyers throughout history. He then walks the reader through the role and qualities of the trial lawyer and presents an in-depth primer on rhetoric and persuasion. Each stage of the trial is considered in depth with examples from real cases.
Law Office Management
The Lawyer’s Guide to Working Smarter with Knowledge Tools, 2nd Edition
By Marc Lauritsen
American Bar Association
May 2022 • 211 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5834 6 • $79.95 / £62.00
“In this newly updated edition of Marc Lauritsen’s seminal book, you will find the Who, Why, What, How and When you need to do just as the title promises: work smarter, with practical and accessible tools…. Grab this magic wand and see how it can help you transform your practice.”— Cat Moon, Director of Innovation Design, Vanderbilt Law School and Director of the PoLI Institute
Law Office Management
The Flourishing Lawyer
A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Performance and Well-Being
By Heidi K. BrownAmerican Bar Association
July 2022 • 420 pages
Paperback 978 1 6390 5094 9 • $34.95 / £27.00
This book offers an empathetic guide for members of the legal profession to cultivate their personal and professional well-being, identify and develop their individual strengths, and define success on their own terms. Drawing from lessons and research from the fields of psychology, health care, sports, and medicine, this book is an affirming guide to becoming a better contributor to the profession while living a flourishing life.
Legal Profession
Federalism, Preemption, and the Nationalization of American Wildlife Management
The Dynamic Balance Between State and Federal Authority
By Lowell Baier - Foreword by Stephen Gardbaum Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 342 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6490 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4914 4 • $85.50 / £66.00
An environmental law expert reveals how over centuries the federal government slowly pre-empted the states’ authority over managing their resident wildlife. In doing so, he explains the precedents that led to the current state of wildlife management, and how a constructive environment can be fostered at all levels of government to improve our nation’s wildlife.
Natural Resources
The Walled Garden Law and Privacy in Modern Society
By Lawrence M. Friedman and Joanna L. Grossman
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 368 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6229 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2309 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Legal Exhibitionist
Morris Ernst, Jewish Identity, and the Modern Celebrity Lawyer
By Joel Silverman Fairleigh Dickinson University PressApril 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Hardback 978 1 6839 3335 9 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6839 3366 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Legal Exhibitionist explores Morris Ernst’s use of “exhibitionism” to transform himself from insecure youth into America’s most popular lawyer. Though Ernst later abandoned his progressive values to defend the FBI and a Dominican dictator and is today largely unknown, his story presaged the phenomenon of the modern celebrity attorney.
Lawyers & Judges
The Desk Reference Companion to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
By David A Zetoony
American Bar Association
May 2022 • 387 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5976 3 • $109.95 / £85.00
This reference guide collects over 500 of the most common questions concerning the CCPA and the CPRA and provides straightforward and easy to understand answers in one place. The questions are organized in a logical progression to cover the history of the statutes, general privacyrelated concepts, compliance-program related issues, and the impact of the statutes on specific industries.
Mental Health
Personal Identity in the Modern World A Society of Strangers
By Lawrence M. Friedman Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 198 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6684 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6857 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In a society of strangers, there develops what can be called crimes of mobility -- forms of criminality rare in traditional societies: bigamy, the confidence game, and blackmail, for example. What they have in common is a kind of fraudulent role-playing, which the new society makes possible.
Privacy
The Photography Law Handbook, 2nd Edition
By Steven M Richman American Bar Association
May 2022 • 399 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5941 1 • $89.95 / £69.00
This book examines our basic understandings of privacy as they are challenged by modern technology, changing social mores, and evolving legal understandings that both reflect and reinforce underlying changes in society.
Privacy
Covering the core areas of intellectual property, tort, and criminal law, this revised edition provides invaluable information for lawyers, photographers, and content creators. Topics include copyright, privacy and defamation, trespass, and social media, as well as state-of-the-art discussions about the evolution of drone photography.
Privacy
Suicide and its Impact on the Criminal Justice System
By Elizabeth Kelley and Francesca M Flood American Bar Association
May 2022 • pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5986 2 • $69.95 / £54.00
Whether you are a defendant, family member, criminal defense attorney, prosecutor, judge, law enforcement officer, academic, or mental health professional, this book provides much-needed information about a pervasive phenomenon––suicide in the criminal justice system.
Real Estate
Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS, 8th Edition
Editor-in-chief Christine S Speidel and Patrick W Thomas American Bar Association
August 2022 • 2250 pages
Multiple-item product 978 1 6410 5718 9 • $309.00 / £238.00
Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS is a comprehensive collection of everything a tax professional should know when dealing with the IRS.
Taxation
Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World
Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation
Edited by Chima J. Korieh and Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 318 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5269 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2706 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how Chinua Achebe presented the Igbo-African world in his writing by analyzing his engagement with critical issues like historical representation, gender, and indigenous political institutions. Contributors study how his work draws from African historical reality and identity while challenging Western epistemological hegemony.
African
Literary Connections Between South Africa and the Lusophone World
Edited by Anita De Melo; Ludmylla Lima and John T. Maddox IV
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 172 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1642 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6430 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World examines the connections between the literatures and cultures of South Africa and Portuguesespeaking nations of Africa, Portugal, and Brazil.
African
The Power of Legal Project Management A Practical Handbook, 2nd Edition
By Susan Raridon Lambreth and David A Rueff
American Bar Association
May 2022 • 336 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5990 9 • $199.95 / £154.00
This comprehensive reference guide provides lawyers with a complete and comprehensive review and discussion of legal project management, including the business case, the definitions and application, ethical considerations and the issues and constraints in implementation. This simple, easy-to-use framework can be applied from start to finish in any firm or practice area.
Sports
Legal Writing
A Judge’s Perspective on the Science and Rhetoric of the Written Word
By Robert E BacharachAmerican Bar Association
October 2022 • 184 pages
Paperback 978 1 6410 5659 5 • $89.95 / £69.00
“A magnificent book on writing. Drawing on the lessons from psycholinguistics and rhetoric, Judge Bacharach has written a remarkably practical book on how to write effectively. Judge Bacharach illustrates his points with very specific suggestions and countless examples from briefs from top lawyers and opinions of judges. I learned so much from this wonderful book.”—Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley School of Law Trial Practice
Contested Borders
Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb
By William J. Spurlin Rowman & Littlefield InternationalJune 2022 • 262 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics series
Hardback 978 1 7866 0081 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0837 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghreb. It examines new representations of same-sex desire emerging in new francophone life writing, memoir, and literature from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.
African
New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers
Edited by LaToya Jefferson-James
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 342 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0670 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6716 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers spans the contemporary era into the AfroFuture. It begins with Ann Petry, who has been forcibly mashed into masculinized critical paradigms, and ends by introducing audiences to Black speculative and Science Fiction writers.
American / African American
Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition
By Wenying Xu Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 512 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5731 2 • $225.00 / £173.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7329 9 • $213.50 / £165.00
Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms, and authors.
American / Asian American
Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel
By Joseph M. Ortiz Lexington BooksMay 2022 • 374 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3564 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5655 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel is the first biography of Gordon Merrick, the ubiquitous and controversial novelist who inaugurated the tradition of gay romance. The book is a fascinating account of a neglected major figure in gay literary history.
American / General
Lynching in American Literature and Journalism
Edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0907 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9081 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Lynching in American Literature and Journalism is a collection of historical and critical discussions of lynching in America that reflects the shameful, unmoral policies of lynching. Through twelve essays, the book explores writing about lynching as an American tragedy.
American / General
Playful Wisdom
Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead
By Robert Leigh Davis
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 252 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2630 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 6288 8 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2629 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines play and religion in American literature, exploring a unique kind of modern piety that arises not based on fixed doctrines or ecclesiastical structures, but on a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constantly adapts to new perspectives and revises fixed assumptions in the light of new experiences.
American / General
Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives
By Stella Setka
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 174 pages • Part of the Reading
Trauma and Memory series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8385 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback
978 1 4985 3831 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8384 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Empathy and the Phantasmic in Ethnic American Trauma Narratives examines a burgeoning genre of ethnic American literature and film called phantasmic trauma narratives, which use culturally specific modes of the supernatural to connect readers to historical traumas in ways that encourage empathic responses.
American / General
Lost Loss in American Elegiac Poetry
Tracing Inaccessible Grief from Stevens to Post-9/11
By Toshiaki KomuraLexington Books
May 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Reading
Trauma and Memory series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1264 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 2625 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1263 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines unconventional elegies of losses that are “lost” on us, discussing what it means to “lose” loss and what happens when dispossessory experiences go unacknowledged or become inaccessible.
American / General
Microdystopias
Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment
Edited by Asbjørn Grønstad and Lene M. Johannessen
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2942 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9430 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In contrast to classic dystopia’s manifestations of world-shattering and -changing events, Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment introduces and develops the idea of microdystopia as the emerging genre for our times of imperceptibly shrinking horizons of possibilities in relation to film, series, and literature.
American / General
Robert Frost’s Visionary Gift
Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply
By William F. ZakLexington Books
January 2022 • 422 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3829 8 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8304 4 • $50.00 / £38.00
A revaluation of Frost’s major lyrics, Robert Frost’s Visionary Gift: Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply makes a case for Frost as America’s preeminent philosophical poet. William F. Zak provides groundbreaking analysis to well over one hundred of Frost’s lyrics.
American / General
Roth’s Wars
A Career in Conflict
By James D. BloomLexington Books
July 2022 • 188 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1384 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3859 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Roth’s Wars is an inquiry into how Roth cast himself throughout his fiction as a war writer, a teller of soldier stories, in relation to Roth’s and his narrators’ subsidiary performances as sportswriters, crime reporters, polemicists, pundits, and movie fans.
American / General
Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing
By Judit Ágnes Kádár
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 228 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0790 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7911 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing explores the anxiety, frustrations and ignorance challenging the celebratory public discourse on mixed race and the way Southwestern writing facilitates the reformulations of identity as a self-conscious holder of cultural assets beyond the binaries of Indigenous and Euro-American ancestry.
American / Regional
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan
Freedom in the Trenches
By Li-Chun HsiaoLexington Books
August 2022 • 190 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 6909 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9101 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches characterizes Taiwan’s postwar modernist literature as Cold War modernism par excellence that was born out of a constellation of Cold War circumstances, amounting to a perfect storm for its emergence.
Asian / General
Indian Feminist Ecocriticism
Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Nicole Anae
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Ecocritical
Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0871 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8725 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
The South Side of Paradise
Edited by Kirk Curnutt and Sara A. Kosiba
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 340 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0916 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9173 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
At the height of their fame, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald dramatized their relationship as a charming romance of regionalism, a Northern man’s pursuit of a Southern belle. This collection of thirteen essays reveals that tensions between sectionalism and nationalism run much deeper in their work than previously appreciated.
American / General
The History of Modern Korean Fiction (1890-1945)
The Topography of Literary Systems and Form
By Young Min Kim - Translated by Rachel Min Park
- Introduction by Theodore Jun Yoo - Afterword by Jooyeon Rhee
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 322 pages • Part of the Critical Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3191 6 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 1893 3 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3190 9 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book traces the emergence of modern Korean literature and its trajectory towards the turn of the twentieth century. In examining the entanglements of literary style, form, and contemporaneous institutions, Young Min Kim illuminates an oft-overlooked period in modern Korean literary history.
Asian / General
American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India Critical Perspectives
Edited by Sharada Chigurupati and Nageswara Rao KondaLexington Books
November 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0625 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6264 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India critically investigates multiple perspectives demonstrated by American poets, dramatists, and fiction writers. It discusses universal themes of racism, class, gender, and identity crisis and demonstrates how American letters influence the Indian intellectual scene and how it is interpreted in turn.
Asian / Indic
Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature
Edited by Mina Qiao
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 202 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4612 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6132 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Indian Feminist Ecocriticism surveys literature through an ecofeminist lens by Indian scholars, which places contemporary literary analysis through a sampling of its diverse languages and in the context of millennia-old mythic traditions of India, exploring intersectionality, queerness, and surveillance as they apply to feminist ecocriticism.
Asian / Indic
Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature examines selected contemporary Japanese writers and their use of fantastical spaces. Such spaces grant access to phenomena occluded from everyday life, including the geographically peripheral, the culturally marginalized, the psychologically liminal, and the physically intangible.
Asian / Japanese
Theorizing Post-Disaster Literature in Japan
Revisiting the Literary and Cultural Landscape after the Triple Disasters
By Saeko Kimura - Translated by Rachel DiNitto and Doug Slaymaker Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the New Studies in Modern Japan series
Hardback 978 1 7936 0536 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5375 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
This seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the triple disasters—the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Asian / Japanese
Mediation and Children’s Reading
Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Edited by Anne Marie Hagen
Lehigh University Press
March 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Studies in Text & Print Culture series
Hardback 978 1 6114 6326 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6114 3279 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Striving to develop interdisciplinary dialogue, the essays in this work explore children’s and young adult reading through the theoretical lens of “mediation.” They interrogate how values and assumptions about the effects of reading underpin reading practices, facilitation of reading and the study of reading, literature and print culture. Books & Reading
Latin American Detectives against Power Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction
By Fabricio ToccoLexington Books
April 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5164 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1655 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines Latin American detective fiction and how the genre produces a socio-political critique of individualism and the state.
Caribbean & Latin American
School Gun Violence in YA Literature Representing Environments, Motives, and Impacts
By Laura A. BrownLexington Books
June 2022 • 146 pages • Part of the Children and Youth in Popular Culture series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2207 5 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2082 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory and Peter Langman’s categorical descriptions of school shooters, this book analyzes several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence and the perpetrators while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers.
Children’s & Young Adult Literature
Women’s Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire
By Satoko Kakihara
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1160 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1611 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Women’s Performative Writing and Identity
Construction in the Japanese Empire analyzes how texts from Japan and its former colonies and territories represent the changing institutions of education, marriage, family, and labor under imperialism, arguing that women writers constructed their sense of self through their fiction and nonfiction works.
Asian / Japanese
Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing and Early American Literature
Edited by LaToya Jefferson-James
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0667 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6686 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies, and introduces Black women writers of the Caribbean to some American audiences.
Caribbean & Latin American
Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction
Negotiating the Nature/Culture Divide
By Jennifer Harrison Lexington Books
March 2022 • 146 pages • Part of the Children and Youth in Popular Culture series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7337 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 3351 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7336 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issues in select novels.
Children’s & Young Adult Literature
Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison Fragmented Identities
By Alshaymaa Mohamed Ahmed
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2162 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1632 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison: Fragmented Identities places comparative literature in a postcolonial context in order to widen its traditional scope and thereby pay greater attention to the relationship between indigenous and hegemonic cultures.
Comparative Literature
Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction
Edited by Debayan Deb Barman - Foreword by Phil Fitzsimmons
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4957 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9584 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The essays explore varied aspects of detective fiction, offering new avenues of critical thought from a Postcolonial perspective.
Comparative Literature
Fashion Narrative and Translation
Is Vanity Fair?
By Rosanna MasiolaLexington Books
December 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4729 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7306 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Fashion Narrative and Translation explores fashion in narrative and translation featuring a corpus of descriptions in comparative literature. The book is divided into themes introducing crucial issues in fashion discourse and translation studies, including cinematic adaptation ‘from page to screen’ and costume design.
Comparative Literature
Hierarchy and Mutuality in Paradise Lost, MobyDick and The Brothers Karamazov
By Lawrence L. Langer Lexington Books
September 2022 • 310 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1876 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8779 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a study of the conflicts between the quest for power and the bonding of human friendship and love in Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov, with a focus on the role of the vengeful spirits of Satan, Captain Ahab and Ivan Karamazov.
Comparative Literature
Metaphysical Shadows
The Persistence of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell in Contemporary Poetry
By Sean H. McDowell
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3543 3 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5440 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Metaphysical Shadows examines how the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell still speaks to working poets today. In the poems of Seamus Heaney, Alfred Corn, Anne Cluysenaar, Kimberly Johnson, Maureen Boyle, Jericho Brown, and others, these earlier poets continue to cast shadows in powerfully revealing ways.
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Culture and the Literary Matter, Metaphor, Memory
By Avishek Parui
Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1599 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 7866 6005 5 • $39.95 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1601 2 • $37.50 / £29.00
A study of how cultural codes are constructed, consumed and conveyed in works of fiction and non-fiction.
Comparative Literature
Global Identities in Transit
The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures
Edited by Bouchra Benlemlih and Lahoussine HamdouneLexington Books
March 2022 • 332 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2432 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4338 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Global Identities in Transit: The Ethics and Politics of Representation in World Literatures and Cultures explores ways in which the impact of (post)colonial and global conditions on individual and group identities is reflected in different cultures and represented in world literary texts.
Comparative Literature
Brokering Culture in Britain’s Empire and the Historical Novel
By Matthew C. SalyerLexington Books
May 2022 • 298 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 6292 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 2904 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6291 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Brokering Culture radically recontextualizes conventional views of the relationship between the British Empire and the emergence of the nineteenth-century historical novel. The book focuses on how literary translations of eighteenth-century experiences of empire established the genre as a site of critique for nationalism and historical progress.
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns Reconciling Tradition in the Modern Age
By Christopher ButynskyiFairleigh Dickinson University Press
March 2022 • 206 pages
Paperback 978 1 6839 3229 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 6839 2277 7 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6839 3228 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns examines a small group of twentieth-century traditionalists in their quest to reconcile and translate conservative traditional ideas within a progressive modern scientific context. The method of reconciliation derives from their continued value of myth, religion, liberal education, and ancient texts.
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism
Ornamental Community
By Michael E. RobinsonLexington Books
August 2022 • 244 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0795 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 7935 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0794 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores and theorizes Romantic bookishness, arguing that “bookish” names a queer practice and discourse at the margins of Romantic authorship and reading. Ornamental communities focused on books played an antithetical role to the twinned, spiritualizing ideologies of sexuality and authorship in Romanticism and its Victorian reception. European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Historical Dictionary of French Literature, Second Edition
By John Flower Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022
the Historical
Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts series
Hardback
eBook
Historical Dictionary of French Literature, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on individual writers and key texts, significant movements, groups, associations, and periodicals, European / French
Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works
Edited by Lisa Connell and Delphine GrasLexington Books
October 2022 • 230 pages • Part of the After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1099 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1008 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works brings together a range of perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic and across the Pacific to explore the unique ways in which Gisèle Pineau’s works redefine the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity.
European / French
The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France
Simone Weil and her Contemporaries Face the Debacle
By Christine Ann EvansLexington Books
July 2022
Hardback
Ethnic Minority Women’s Writing in France
Publishing Practices and Identity Formation, 1998–2005
By Claire MouflardLexington Books
August 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8731 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 7297 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8730 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines autobiographies, autofictions, and manifestoes written by ethnic minority women writers in early twenty-first century France. In their publications, select authors denounce the ethnic hierarchies created and propagated by French institutions, and contend with the neocolonial marketing practices of key metropolitan publishers.
European / French
Performing the Pied-Noir Family
Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen
By Aoife Connolly Lexington Books
August 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France series
Paperback 978 1 4985 3737 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback
978 1 4985 7353 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 3736 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs following their mass migration to France in 1962.
European / French
Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture Archiving Postcolonial Minorities
By Mona El KhouryLexington Books
August 2022 • 356 pages • Part of the After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1771 2 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 7699 9 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1770 5 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book examines the colonial legacies and transnational identities of four minorities, orphans of Algeria: European settlers, Jews, mixedrace individuals, and Harkis. It argues that works of literature build an archive allowing the articulation of hidden histories and pays homage to the missing Algerian father, outcast of hegemonic narratives.
European / French
Writing the Black Decade Conflict and Criticism in Francophone Algerian Literature
By Joseph Ford
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 178 pages • Part of the After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8188 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 1868 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8187 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
on assessments of the fall of France in June 1940 and its impact on France’s historical narrative, placing Simone Weil’s writing of 1938 to 1943 within this continuum.
The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France
European / French
This book analyses the work of writers, journalists, and academic critics producing work during and since the end of the Algerian Civil War, arguing that literature—and ideas we have about it—can restrain our understanding of the world at a time of conflict and further entrench the polarized discourses that lead to the conflict in the first place.
European / French
The Author in Criticism
Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom
By Elio Attilio BaldiFairleigh Dickinson University Press
March 2022 • 316 pages • Part of the The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Paperback 978 1 6839 3193 5 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 6839 1911 1 • $95.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3192 8 • $40.50 / £31.00
The Author in Criticism offers a comparative analysis of the reception and circulation of Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Italy, proposing new views that arise from the analysis of the different phases and faces that characterize Calvino’s transnational authorial profile.
European / Italian
Creating Your Own Space
The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature
By María Davis
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 84 pages • Part of the Innovation
and Activism in American Women’s Writing series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1537 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 5350 0 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1536 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
Creating Your Own Space explores the reasons for the use of the house as a metaphor by analyzing two literary works and a particular metaphor, such as the house as a prison or the house as a place of economic freedom.
Feminist
Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood Identity, Belonging, and Displacement in a Global Context
Edited by Maria D. LombardLexington Books
February 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0205 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2068 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood takes a critical look at the representations and lived experiences of migrant, refugee, and otherwise displaced mothers. This volume explores literature, film, and original ethnographic research about migrant motherhood through theoretical lenses including postcolonial theory, feminism, and critical refugee studies.
Feminist
The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King
Murder, Sickness, and Plots
By Rebecca FrostLexington Books
March 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4621 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936
The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines the function of death in over thirty of King’s works to parse out the ways the Master of Horror plays with the idea of death and approaches it from multiple angles.
Horror & Supernatural
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture How We Hate to Love Them
By Kate Christine Moore KoppyLexington Books
August 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1279 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback
978 1 7936 2779 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1278 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of the American secular scripture by analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a particular tale type and as wholly new fairy-tale pastiches.
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837–1871
By Nicole C. DittmerLexington Books
November 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the
Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0079 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0804 4 • $45.00 / £30.99
Offering an ecofeminist approach to the interdisciplinary readings of the early-to-mid Victorian Gothic of both canonical narratives and ephemeral penny bloods and dreadfuls, Dittmer identifies assumed “monstrous” women as monistic mind-body figurations, who reject social confines and reclaim nature.
Feminist
Radical Hope in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon
The Moon and Meteor
By Phillip Grayson Lexington BooksSeptember 2022 • 142 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1168 8 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1695 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
Radical Hope in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon provides a careful consideration of the author’s career, examining how literature mimics the structure of consciousness, and how the novels of Thomas Pynchon use this to confront readers with the ethical demands of the world and the others within it.
General
Becoming the Pearl-Poet Perceptions, Connections, Receptions
Edited by Jane Beal
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 310 pages • Part of the Studies in Medieval Literature series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4675 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6767 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
From Becoming the Pearl-Poet, students and scholars alike can learn about the Pearl-poet and the five poems attributed to him, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and St Erkenwald, exploring key ideas that will inform a deeper understanding and appreciation of this medieval English writer’s work.
Medieval
Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature
Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson
Edited by Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson
Lehigh University Press
February 2022 • 250 pages
Hardback 978 1 6114 6332 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6114 3330 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Dedicated to the scholarship of Elizabeth Robertson, Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature is a collection of essays that explore how gender in medieval English literature intersects with philosophy, poetry, history, and religion.
Medieval
The Secret in Medieval Literature
Alternative Worlds in the Middle Ages
By Albrecht ClassenLexington Books
November 2022 • 324 pages • Part of the Studies
in Medieval Literature series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1786 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7871 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence.
Medieval poets had a clear sense of the alternative dimension (the secret) and allowed it to enter quite frequently into their texts.
Medieval
American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education
By Clemens Spahr
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4954 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9553 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
American Romanticism, Education, and Social Reform argues that American Transcendentalism was an attempt to institutionalize and popularize Romantic literary practice. The Transcendentalists tried to make Romantic education “the generating idea of society itself,” so selfreliance needed to become a cultural practice available to everyone.
Modern / 19th Century
Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction Gender, Nation, Politics
By Jack J. B. Hutchens
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 154 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0505 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 5030 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0504 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes the subversive power of twentieth-century Polish fiction, showing that it helped to undermine nationalist and homophobic ideologies that are still at play in Poland today. The author argues that the transgressive reading of Polish literature can challenge the many binaries that conservative, heteronormative ideology depends upon.
Modern / 20th Century
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 47 Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Edited by Reinhold F. Glei and Maik Goth - With Christoph Schülke Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 152 pages • Part of the Medievalia et Humanistica series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5790 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7916 6 • $85.50 / £66.00
Volume 47 showcases a variety of transnational and translingual perspectives, analyzing the works of humanist authors from across Europe, and how language can affect the interpretation of the literature. It expands beyond the Eurocentric appraisal of medieval works and takes into consideration a broader response.
Medieval
The Construction of Marginalities and Narrative Imaginary in Mohamed Zafzaf’s Texts
The Postcolony in Secrets and Intimacies
By Lhoussain SimourLexington Books
July 2022 • 166 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4597 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5982 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
With a postcolonially-inflected concern, this book attempts to approach in an interdisciplinary manner a set of narratives that have not been previously explored in western academia. It offers a discussion about the aesthetic, discursive, and cultural implications of Zafzaf ‘s works that rethink canonical formations of literary texts in Morocco.
Middle Eastern
Airpower in Literature Interrogating the Clean War, 1915–2015
By Kimberly K. Dougherty
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5308 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3093 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Airpower in Literature offers fresh insight into the first century of airpower by placing literature of five major wars in conversation with the clean war discourse. The literature pushes back, showing both aviators and bombed societies, exposing the air war to an audience that may never otherwise see it.
Modern / 20th Century
Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them Turning the Table
By Jennifer D. Ryan-BryantLexington Books
February 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1415 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4162 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Turning the Table offers a new resource to Hughes and Plath scholars studying the poets’ archival materials and compositional processes. The book traces the theory of the ars poetica that each poet advanced while exploring the dialogues that emerged between Plath’s Ariel and Hughes’s Crow and Birthday Letters collections.
Modern / 20th Century
Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium
By Mark Doyle
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9869 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 8675 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9868 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
This book explores how Tolkien’s utopian and dystopian themes inspire and remain relevant to modern readers. It examines how Tolkien’s malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of modern society.
Modern / 20th Century
Shifting Perspectives of Postcolonialism in Twenty-First-Century Anglophone-Arab Fiction
By Majed Alenezi
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0961 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9623 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Shifting Perspectives of Postcolonialism in Twenty-First-Century Anglophone-Arab Fiction dislodges postcolonial theory and discourse from its infinite obligation to colonial legacies by turning to the representation of internal concerns in the Arab world and at the same time exposing the rifts and blind spots in postcolonial theory.
Modern / 21st Century
The Suburbs
New Literary Perspectives
Edited by Marie Bouchet; Nathalie Cochoy; Isabelle Keller-Privat and Mathilde Rogez
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
February 2022 • 302 pages
Hardback 978 1 6839 3302 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3038 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those “places that thrive on disregard.”
By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this liminal space also ushers in, albeit fleetingly, humane urbanity, or urban humanity.
Modern / General
Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes
By Neil McCawRowman &
March
Paperback
Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium
British Literature
By Mara E. ReismanLexington Books
November 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4846 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8471 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book offers a critical analysis of morally complex social, political, and cultural issues in novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Patrick McGrath, Graham Swift, Andrea Levy, and Jeanette Winterson. It examines how the work illuminates intricacies of human experience, encourages political engagement, fosters communication, and facilitates social change.
Modern / 21st Century
Posthuman Worlds
Roberto Bolaño’s Narrative and Virtual Reality
By Adolfo CacheiroLexington Books
March 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4987 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9881 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes
and
Detective
Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolaño’s Narrative and Virtual Reality is a literary, psychoanalytic, and philosophical investigation of the representation of subjectivity and reality in the context of the relationship of Europe to the Americas as represented in Roberto Bolaño’s narrative.
Modern / General
True Lies and Short Takes Assorted Life Writing Essays
By Eugene L. Stelzig
Hamilton Books
December 2022 • 216 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7326 6 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3273 3 • $23.50 / £17.99
These essays focus on different periods of the author’s life and hybrid identity: his Austrian childhood, his teenage years in France, his coming to the U.S. as a young adult and attending college, studying in England, and then settling in the U.S. into an academic career.
Personal Memoirs
Our Osage Hills Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century
By Michael Snyder and John Joseph MathewsEdited by Michael Snyder - Foreword by Russ Tall Chief and Harvey Payne Lehigh University PressMarch 2022 • 344 pages
Paperback 978 1 6114 6303 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 6114 3019 9 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 6114 6302 6 • $40.50 / £31.00
Interweaving lost articles by the Osage author, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews with insightful commentaries and essays by his biographer, Michael Snyder, Our Osage Hills tells a fascinating story of the Whazhazhe people in the Great Depression period and beyond.
Native American
Ecotheology and Love
The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin
By Bahar DavaryLexington Books
June 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4276 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2776 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Ecotheology and Love examines ecotheology and ecopoetics in the work of Sohrab Sepehri, a twentieth-century Rumi and a pillar of the religion of love, and American novelist James Baldwin. Davary shows how these artists’ deep understanding of spiritual traditions of the world give their work immediacy for our time.
Middle Eastern
Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric
Disquietude, Rumination, Interruption, Inspiration, Constellation
By Irene Ramalho-SantosLexington Books
January 2022 • 190 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0313 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3140 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric studies Pessoa’s poetic theory and practice, emphasizing Livro do desassossego and the heteronymic drama, and discovers new approaches to reading and appreciating the lyric. A number of Pessoan concepts are examined in relation to different poets, yielding unprecedented results in comparative studies of poetry.
Poetry
Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Their Similars
By Robert MuellerLexington Books
January 2022 • 252 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4480 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4817 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Their Similars explores the work of prominent poets including Aristotle’s epistemology enabling a depiction of sonnets and their similars and how temporality is key, by way of Augustine, to a comparative procedure that explores the closing features in sonnet-writing and in poems by American poets.
Poetry
Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku Merging Traditions
By Ce RosenowLexington Books
August 2022 • 104 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5317 8 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3185 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Expressivity in Modern Poetry
By Donald Wellman
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
March 2022 • 320 pages
Paperback 978 1 6839 3120 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 6839 1188 8 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3119 5 • $40.50 / £31.00
Expressivity in Modern Poetry examines the radical address to reality in twentieth-century modernism. This legacy is foundational for contemporary poetry. New constructions of subjectivity and a turn toward language now characterize both poetic composition and critical theory.
Poetry
Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines
Edited by Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 334 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4720 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7214 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the relationships of haiku with other arts, such as essay, painting, and music, as well as the backgrounds of haiku, such as literary movements, philosophies, and religions that underlie haiku composition.
Poetry
Homer The Odyssey A Prose Translation
Translated by Charles Underwood
Hamilton Books
December 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7368 6 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3693 3 • $23.50 / £17.99
This is a complete translation into contemporary English of the ancient Greek epic by Homer. The translation by Charles Underwood is presented in prose to emphasize the distinctive narrative qualities that illustrate Homer’s mastery of stirring language and evocative storytelling.
Epic
Longfellow’s Imaginative Engagement
The Works of His Late Career
By Jeffrey HotzFairleigh Dickinson University Press
March 2022 • 600 pages
Hardback 978 1 6114 7775 7 • $165.00 / £127.00
eBook 978 1 6114 7764 4 • $60.00 / £46.00
Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. The author argues that Moore’s engagement with haiku and his prolific publication history solidify haiku as an established form in African American poetry.
Poetry
Longfellow’s Imaginative Engagement is a literary biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from 1861 until 1882. Using archival materials from Harvard’s Houghton Library and Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, the book presents Longfellow’s final two decades as a vibrant artistic period.
Poetry
The Heroines of Henry Longfellow
Domestic, Defiant, Divine
By Timothy E.G. BartelLexington Books
August 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1306 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3071 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Heroines of Henry Longfellow: Domestic, Defiant, Divine explores the major heroines of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He argues that these oft-overlooked characters have great significance for ongoing discussions within feminism and theology concerning domesticity, political defiance, and the human quest for union with the divine.
Poetry
Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land
By Shudong ChenLexington Books
April 2022 • 346 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0762 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7636 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land argues a prosodically explainable literary case regarding how a hidden phenomenon of verbal transformation serendipitously turns the conspicuous message of despair into the message of hope hidden in the text of The Waste Land.
Poetry
Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia Biography for the Masses
Edited by Ludmilla A. Trigos and Carol Ueland
March 2022 • 352 pages • Part of the Crosscurrents: Russia’s Literature in Context series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1829 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8306 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the Russian biography series, The Lives of Remarkable People, and its role in Russian culture. The contributors examine the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narratives, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of censorship.
Russian & Former Soviet Union
Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy Walking in Other Worlds
Edited by Ingrid E. Castro
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 290 pages • Part of the Children and Youth in Popular Culture series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9431 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 4295 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9430 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds draws on childhood studies scholarship to contextualize children’s agentic entanglements with fantasy. Fantasy offers children opportunities for greater peer connectivity, identity exploration, holistic citizenry, and creative empowerment.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Trauma in 20th Century Multicultural American
Poetry
Unmuted Verse
By Jamie D. BarkerLexington Books
March 2022 • 178 pages • Part of the Reading
Trauma and Memory series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9271 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 2697 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9270 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This study expands upon literary trauma theory through a reader response approach and examines African American, Native American, and Japanese American poetry from the twentieth century. Special attention is given to the idea of ambivalence in poetry as well as the idea of building community.
Poetry
Dostoevsky as Suicidologist
Self-Destruction and the Creative Process
By Amy D. Ronner Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 356 pages • Part of the
Crosscurrents: Russia’s Literature in Context series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0783 6 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 7812 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0782 9 • $40.50 / £31.00
Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of self-homicide prefigured theories of prominent suicidologists, shaped both his philosophy and craft as a writer, and forged a ligature between artistry and the pluripresent impulse to self-annihilate.
Russian & Former Soviet Union
Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy
Edited by Slav N. Gratchev and Howard MancingIntroduction by Irina Evdokimova
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 308 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9794 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 7920 0 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9793 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This unique book examines the heritage and enduring relevance of Viktor Shklovsky’s work from a wide range of international perspectives. The essays articulate Shklovsky’s impact through various lenses including literature, literary theory, film, art theory, and philosophy from the early-1920s to the mid-1970s.
Russian & Former Soviet Union
Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction
Narrating the Future
Edited by Tereza Dědinová; Weronika Łaszkiewicz and Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 276 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3665 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 6638 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3664 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Images of the Anthropocene in Speculative Fiction examines how the Anthropocene and its challenges are addressed by contemporary writers in a variety of genres broadly defined as speculative fiction. The book demonstrates that speculative fiction, can alter the readers’ perception of their duties and responsibilities towards their communities.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Lab Lit
Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science
Edited by Olga Pilkington and Ace G. Pilkington
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 274 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 6600 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback
978 1 4985 5981 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6599 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book introduces and explores a new genre, lab lit. Essays both discuss lab lit novels using a variety of analytical approaches as well as provide a theoretical framework to explore the social and literary backgrounds of the genre.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Science Fiction
Toward a World Literature
By George Slusser - Edited by Gary WestfahlForeword by N. Katherine Hayles - Afterword by Gregory Benford
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 366 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0535 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5366 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this work, renowned scholar George Slusser analyzes science fiction’s history by focusing on important thinkers, overlooked by other critics, who made key contributions to the development of science fiction as a global literature.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies
Edited by Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 286 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1387 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3880 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies brings to attention the post-theoretical discussions on the changing perceptions in literary and cultural studies. In four sections the volume presents essays that trace the engagement of post-theory with post-postmodernism, posthumanism, ethics, and politics.
Semiotics & Theory
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference
By Dennis Taylor Lexington Books
July 2022 • 494 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0208 2 • $145.00 / £112.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2099 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
Science Fiction and Anticipation
Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel
Edited by Bernard Montoneri
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1813 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8144 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Science Fiction and Anticipation focuses on American and European influential works of science fiction published between the 18th and 20th century. The book explores how writers presented in this book envisioned the future of their country, and it discusses issues such as ethics, censorship, racism, sexism, and slavery.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor
By Kate Sheckler
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0487 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4888 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor, Kate Sheckler presents an alternative approach to understanding metaphor, altering our conception of the form and its effects. She identifies the delineation and effect created in the moment consent is offered.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Performing Shakespearean Appropriations
Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet
Edited by Darlena Ciraulo; Matthew Kozusko and Robert Sawyer
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
June 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the Shakespeare and the Stage series
Hardback 978 1 6839 3360 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6839 3618 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection of essays brings together innovative scholarship on Shakespeare’s afterlives in tribute to Christy Desmet. Contributors explore the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across a range of performance topics, from book history to the novel to television, cinema, and digital media.
Shakespeare
Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal
From Italy to Shakespeare
By Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
March 2022 • 254 pages
Paperback 978 1 6839 3307 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 6839 3052 2 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6839 3306 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the Elizabethan Reformation. Shakespeare creatively engaged Catholic, Protestant, and secular points of view, and suggested new and interesting syntheses in play after play, thus providing models for today’s ecumenical dialogues.
Shakespeare
Like previous works by the authors, Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal uses original digital research to analyze Thomas North’s previously unpublished journal, arguing that its descriptions, especially of northern Italy, provided a template for Shakespeare’s Henry VIII and The Winter’s Tale.
Shakespeare
D.H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions
A Lacanian Perspective
By Ben StoltzfusLexington Books
June 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0367 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3683 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
D.H. Lawrence’s Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective shows how Lawrence and Lacan can change beliefs and practices, oppose the Anthropocene, and restore cosmic balance. Stoltzfus brings literature and psychoanalysis together in readings that are both aesthetic and epistemological.
Short Stories
Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture
Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination
Edited by Danette DiMarco and Timothy Ruppert
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Ecocritical
Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0181 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1825 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture challenges species centrism through essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and methodologies.
Subjects & Themes / Nature
Ecopoetics of Reenchantment
Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth
By Bénédicte MeillonLexington Books
November 2022 • 388 pages • Part of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1042 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0438 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book establishes how ecopoetics can provide insight into the poetic echoes of the living earth that are diffracted in environmental fiction, encouraging a reenchantment that adheres to postmodern science, while braiding various onto-epistemological threads. It reentangles the very material texture of language within the biosemiotic world.
Subjects & Themes / Nature
Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
By David S. HerrstromFairleigh Dickinson University Press
October 2022 • 438 pages
Hardback 978 1 6839 3363 2 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3649 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
Violence, Trauma, and Memory
Responses to War in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Edited by Alexandra Onuf and Nicholas Ealy
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Reading Trauma and Memory series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1456 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4573 3 • $45.00 / £30.99
This volume examines late medieval and early modern warfare in France, the Hispanic World, and the Dutch Republic through the lens of trauma and memory studies. The essays, focusing on history, literature, and visual culture, demonstrate how people living with wartime violence processed and remembered the trauma of war.
Subjects & Themes / Historical Events
Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition
Writing to Save the World
Edited by Joseph R. Lease
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
Paperback 978 1 4985 2884 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 8825 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2883 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This volume addresses the pressing need to continue the work of bringing sustainability into the college classroom. It provides accounts from a variety of instructors experiences with and best practices for incorporating climate change issues into writing-intensive courses.
Subjects & Themes / Nature
Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises
Edited by Matthias Stephan and Sune Borkfelt Lexington Books
May 2022 • 284 pages • Part of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0376 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3775 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward.
Subjects & Themes / Nature
Literature as a Lens for Climate Change
Using Narratives to Prepare the Next Generation
Edited by Rebecca L. Young - Foreword by Alexa Weik von Mossner - Afterword by Suzanne Keen
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9411 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 4127 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This scholarly work focuses on encounters with light, telling the story of “seduction” from the Middle Ages through our times, as revealed in works of literature and art, including architecture and film. Rather than the historical investigation of light’s “essential” nature, its subject is our relationship with light.
Subjects & Themes / Nature
This collection offers practical approaches to using literature as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and reflections to urge educators at all levels to prepare students for the challenges of a climate-changed world.
Global Warming & Climate Change
Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide
By Qianqian ChengLexington Books
October 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the
Environment and Society series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0247 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2488 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book offers a coherent synthesis of Loren Eiseley’s works, showing how the naturalist and poet fosters readers’ ecological consciousness by arguing against artificial divisions between humans and the environment.
Subjects & Themes / Nature
The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities
Edited by Mark Terry and Michael HewsonLexington Books
October 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the
Environment and Society series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1342 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3439 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book provides the latest scholarship on the various methods and approaches being used by environmental humanists to incorporate geomedia into their research and analyses, examining how these new methodologies impact the production of knowledge in this field of study and promoting the impact of First Nation people perspectives.
Subjects & Themes / Nature
Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales
Fables for Ecocriticism
By Keita HatookaLexington Books
August 2022 • 166 pages • Part of the Ecocritical
Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5587 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5882 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through examining case studies of animal representation in Thomas Pynchon’s works, Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings and conducts conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers.
Subjects & Themes / Nature
The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship
Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture
By Nahum N. WelangLexington Books
November 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669
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Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality
By Steven Petersheim
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8119 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback
978 1 4985 1172 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8118 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines how Hawthorne’s notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthorne’s four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined.
Subjects & Themes / Nature
The Saving Grace of America’s Green Jeremiad
By John Gatta
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2405 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4062 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book freshly explores the ways in which green versions of an ancient, darkly admonishing yet graced tradition of Jeremiad prophecy have figured throughout various historical periods and genres of American writing, all the way to the climate fiction of our own day.
Essays
Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women
Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture
Edited by Cynthia Cravens
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2060 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0613 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women, contributors argue for critical attention to the ways in which writers have been portrayed through various genres, modalities, and historical periods, and the significant impact these portrayals have had on the popular imagination.
Subjects & Themes / Women
The Pathology of Desire in Daphne du Maurier’s Short Stories
By Setara PrachaLexington Books
December 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0717 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7186 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
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In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship, the author examines how three popular black female authors (Roxane Gay, Beyoncé and Issa Rae) simultaneously complement and complicate hegemonic notions of race, identity and gender in contemporary American culture.
Women Authors
The book addresses critical omissions in du Maurier studies by carefully examining her less well-known shorter fiction. The analysis covers nine stories chosen to illustrate how du Maurier employs the diseased, disabled, and maimed human form as a recurrent symbol for social, political, and domestic misalignment.
Women Authors
Writing Ambition
Literary Engagements between Women in France
By Katharine Ann JensenLexington Books
December 2022 • 202 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1879 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8809 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Focusing on the psychological aspects of the literary engagements between women in France, Katharine Ann Jensen combines close readings of their works with attention to historical and biographical contexts to consider how and why one or both women in the pair express contradictions or anxiety about writing ambition.
Women Authors
Boundaries of Care
Community Health Workers in the United States
By Ryan I. Logan Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the
Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2946 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9470 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Boundaries of Care, Ryan I. Logan introduces readers to the lived experience of community health workers and how, through outreach and advocacy, these workers intimately shape and improve the wellbeing of their communities.
Caregiving
Psychological Care for Cancer Patients New Perspectives on Training Health Professionals
By Domenico Arturo Nesci - Foreword by Nancy McWilliams Ph.DLexington Books
October 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4399 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4008 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Psychological Care for Cancer Patients: New Perspectives on Training Health Professionals is an innovative work in psychosocial oncology which examines the role of creative expression in the psychological treatment of cancer patients.
Clinical Psychology
Women & Psychosis
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Marie Brown and Marilyn Charles
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 232 pages • Part of the
Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9193 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 1911 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9192 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Women & Psychosis is an edited collection that examines the intersection of two marginalized identities, those of women and those deemed “psychotic”. Told from a multitude of perspectives, Women & Psychosis brings multidisciplinary thought to the subject, from psychiatrists and clinicians to first-person perspectives of the women themselves.
Clinical Psychology
Identity, Calling, and Workplace Spirituality Meaning Making and Developing Career Fit
By Thomas V. Frederick and Scott E. Dunbar
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 150 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4870 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8716 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Frederick and Dunbar integrate theological scholarship on the construct of work and calling with organizational psychology research on workplace spirituality and career fit, offering new theological insights into aspects of vocation, work, and human nature.
Applied Psychology
Family Constellations
A Breakthrough in Psychotherapy and Human Sciences
By Damian Janus - Translated by Barbara Gąstoł Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 308 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2742 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7438 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Family Constellations: A Breakthrough in Psychotherapy and Human Sciences, Damian Janus examines family constellation theory in comparison with other therapeutic approaches. Janus argues that the findings derived from family constellations offer new understandings for the fields of psychotherapy, psychology, anthropology, and religious studies.
Clinical Psychology
The Wounded Attorney How Psychological Disorders Impact Attorneys
By Catherine Young and Wendy Packman
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2646 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6479 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In The Wounded Attorney, authors Young and Packman explore how mental health issues appear in the legal profession by examining attorney disbarment records and arguing for a therapeutic approach to attorney discipline that destigmatizes mental health issues.
Clinical Psychology
The Inner World of Unaware Phenomena Pathways to Brain, Behavior, and Implicit Memory
By Bruce J. Diamond; Amy E. Learmonth and Katherine Makarec
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 5547 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5487 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
The authors argue that there is a world within us filled with memories, perceptions, tastes, preferences, biases, and beliefs that have been encoded and are expressed on an unaware, largely non-conscious level but, nevertheless, alter the quality, substance and trajectory of our lives.
Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Clash of Cultures
A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad
By Vincenzo Sanguineti - Foreword by Donatella MarazzitiLexington Books
August 2022 • 146 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 4407 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 4053 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4406 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad, Vincenzo Sanguineti examines the psychological complexities of Homer through the Iliad.
Developmental / Lifespan Development
The Moral Psychology of Envy
Edited by Sara Protasi
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 258 pages • Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6006 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0077 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book explores the role of envy in society and its nature as a social emotion that is deeply concerned with both the self and others. It examines envy’s morally problematic aspects but also its aspirations, its effects, and its manifestations in a variety of contexts both personal and political.
Emotions
Available to Be Poisoned Toxicity as a Form of Life
By Dipali Mathur Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1981 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9820 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the broader question of what it means to “live with” toxicity as a condition of life, particularly for disadvantaged communities in India. Mathur argues that the geographically uneven exposure to toxicity is a deliberate strategy of global neoliberalism to ensure that power is concentrated in the hands of the few.
Environmental Conservation & Protection
God and Psychology
How the Early Religious Development of Famous Psychologists Influenced their Work
By Stephen E. Parker
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 230 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1915 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9165 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book demonstrates how the early religious development of several famous psychologists impacted their lives and work. It shows how this often-overlooked influence is present in both explicit and indirect ways in the thoughts and actions of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Erik Erikson, B.F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers.
General
The Moral Psychology of Boredom
Edited by Andreas Elpidorou
Rowman & Littlefield International
January 2022 • 332 pages • Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1538 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7866 5398 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Whether we like it or not, boredom is a major part of human life. It permeates and affects our personal, social, practical, and moral existence. In this volume, world-renowned researchers come together to explore a neglected but crucially important aspect of boredom: it’s relationship to morality.
Emotions
The Moral Psychology of Love
Edited by Arina Pismenny and Berit Brogaard
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 324 pages • Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5100 6 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1013 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book will explore the moral dimensions of love from the standpoint of political philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
Emotions
Ontologies and Natures
Knowledge about Health in Visual Culture
By Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0949 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9500 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book explores how images register the relation between societies and theirs and others’ health epistemic ecosystems. The author focuses on presumably trivial objects, such as vlogs, a toy, or a facial cream, to show how nature is presumed and represented as part of the care and cure of the body.
Environmental Health
Inclusion in Higher Education Research Initiatives on Campus
Edited by Amanda Macht Jantzer and Kyhl
Lyndgaard
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2566 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 5649 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2565 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This edited collection presents an inquiry-based approach to inclusion in higher education that embraces scholarly inquiry, collaborative efforts, and data-driven interventions to inform transformative institutional change. The contributors analyze inclusion initiatives and recommend tailored solutions for the needs of underrepresented students.
General
Institutional Harassment
Divorce, Abuse, and the Legal System
By Miguel Clemente-Díaz - Translated by Daniel Migueláñez MunillaLexington Books
August 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0253 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2549 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a psychological approach to several forms of harassment often experienced in divorce cases in the justice system, including intimate partner aggression, sexual abuse of children, the unscientific parental alienation syndrome, and the weaponization of the legal system from aggressors seeking revenge.
General
The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology
By Courtney M. Block
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 366 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5545 5 • $149.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5462 2 • $55.00 / £42.00
This work provides an encyclopedic overview of the field of parapsychology, including prominent researchers, seminal studies, topics, figures, and more. It also includes a chapter on the intersection of parapsychology and pop culture to highlight the many, nuanced ways that the psychical is intertwined into our culture.
General
The Silent Feminine
Essays on Jouissance, the Letter, and the Arts
Edited by Araceli Colín Cabrera - Translated by Victoria Grace; Helen Harper; Flavia Livacic Rojas; Maricruz Ocampo Guerrero; Natalia Rivas Colín and Mariana Sandoval Gamboa
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 194 pages • Part of the Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5320 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3215 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Contributors to this edited collection use a psychoanalytic lens to examine the historical and political silencing of women as portrayed through Latin American art and literature.
General
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Before, During, and After the Holocaust
Edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld and Daniel P. Sulmasy - With Astrid Ley
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 358 pages • Part of the Revolutionary Bioethics series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0951 9 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 9496 6 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0950 2
Racism and Gay Men of Color Living and Coping with Discrimination
By Dr. Sulaimon Giwa - Foreword by C. Winter Han Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies series
Hardback 978 1 4985 8251 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2520 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
A thoughtful, compassionate look at how racism in Canadian GLBT communities affects gay men of color. Giwa highlights the strategies utilized by these resilient men in order to lead strong, effective lives. Racism and Gay Men of Color is required reading for scholars, students, and activists.
General
The Intersectional Other Reimagining Power in the Margins
By Alex Rivera Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3504 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5051 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
In The Intersectional Other, Alex Rivera boldly argues for the individual and collective power of queer BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) who have historically existed in the racial and sexual margins in America. Through interviews and insightful commentary, Rivera reimagines the margins as capable of power, transformation, and change.
General
Making Meaning of Loss Change and Challenge Across the Lifespan
By Richard L. Hayes Lexington BooksDecember 2022 • 174 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2450 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4510 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Making Meaning of Loss: Change and Challenge Across the Life explores how meaning making is transformed over a lifetime, how caregivers can help others meet the challenge in making meaning of loss, and how our experience with loss directs our encounters with loss in the future.
Grief & Loss
Getting Real about Sex Addiction A Psychodynamic Approach to Treatment
By Graeme Daniels and Joseph P. Farley Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 310 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5804 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8050 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5806 7 • $42.00 / £32.00
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This book provides a history of Nazi medical euthanasia programs, demonstrating that arguments in their favor were widely embraced by Western medicine before the Third Reich. Contributors find significant continuities between history and current physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and urge caution about their legalization or implementation.
History
This groundbreaking, engaging clinical resource for psychotherapists, sex therapists, and related clinicians is replete with rich and empathetic case material and offers a practical, powerful argument for using psychodynamic approaches when working with sex addicts and their partners to achieve long-lasting relational results.
Human Sexuality
Sexual and Reproductive Justice
From the Margins to the Centre
Edited by Tracy Morison and Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace MavusoLexington Books
March 2022 • 304 pages • Part of the Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4420 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4213 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sexual and Reproductive Justice: From the Margins to the Centre offers new insights and perspectives to discussions on sexual and reproductive justice.
Human Sexuality
Milan Kundera’s Fiction
A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals
By Karen von KunesLexington Books
March 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 1082 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 0806 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 1081 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Karen von Kunes traces Milan Kundera’s creative ideas to a 1950 police report filed in Stalinist era Czechoslovakia. Demonstrating how this incident influenced Kundera’s literary trajectory and ultimately contributed to his acclaim as a writer, von Kunes interprets his work in a new way.
Personality
Counseling in a Gender-Expansive World Resources to Support Therapeutic Practice
By Douglas Knutson; Chloë Goldbach and Julie M. Koch
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 2941 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9425 5 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2943 2 • $33.00 / £25.00
Psychotherapy / Counseling
Experiential Unity Theory and Model Treating Trauma in Therapy, Second Edition
By Alyson Quinn Lexington Books
April 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4864 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8655 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Learning Compassion
Conflict Resolution through Education and Therapy
By Jacquelyn Ane Rinaldi and Clifford Mayes Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 130 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6918 7 • $70.00 / £54.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 9194 4 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 4758 6920 0 • $28.50 / £22.99
Learning Compassion marshals depth psychology and Buddhism, primarily, as a means of promoting less aggressive, more productive approaches to tension in human affairs.
Mindfulness & Meditation
Heal Trauma
How to Feel It, Unlock Patterns, and Release It
By Alyson Quinn Hamilton BooksDecember 2022 • 298 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7346 4 • $24.99 / £18.95
Heal Trauma: How to Feel it, Unlock Patterns and Release it, is a life companion for healing past trauma. The book guides the reader to understand and release challenging feelings, build resilience, identify helpful and unhelpful patterns and release embodied emotion that can impact our growth for decades.
Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The Psychotherapy of Personality Disorders
Emergent Systems Theory as an Integrative Framework
By Lisa J. CohenLexington Books
May 2022 • 298 pages • Part of the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Assessment in the Twenty-first Century series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1010 2 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0119 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Lisa J. Cohen introduces an integrative model of divergent treatments for personality pathology. Implications for assessment, diagnosis and treatment are discussed and illustrated with case examples.
Psychotherapy / General
Sigmund Freud A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
By Alistair Ross Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 326 pages • Part of the Significant Figures in World History series
Hardback 978 1 5381 1352 3 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3530 0 • $118.50 / £92.00
The second edition of Experiential Unity Theory and Model: Treating Trauma in Therapy addresses the current concerns dominating the field of group therapy and individual counseling and promotes a healing milieu whereby clients can address the core of their problems and heal fully.
Sigmund Freud: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Work captures his eventful life, his works, and his legacy. The volume features a chronology, an introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and the dictionary section lists entries on Freud, his family, friends (and foes), colleagues, and the evolution of psychoanalysis.
Reference
Vital Statistics of the United States 2022
Births, Life Expectancy, Death, and Selected Health Data, Tenth Edition
Edited by Shana Hertz Hattis
Bernan Press
July 2022 • 388 pages • Part of the U.S. DataBook series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1058 7 • $147.00 / £113.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0594 4 • $139.50 / £108.00
Vital Statistics of the United States: Births, Life Expectancy, Deaths, and Selected Health Data brings together a comprehensive collection of birth, mortality, health, and marriage and divorce data into a single volume. It provides a wealth of information compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics and other government agencies.
Reference
Overworked and Undervalued Black Women and Success in America
Edited by Rosalyn D. Davis and Sharon L. Bowman
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0774 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7759 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This essay collection describes multiple experiences of what it means to Black, female, and successful in a country that only values one of those identities regularly. A diverse group of Black women explore what it has taken - and cost - each of them to achieve success
Social Psychology
Psychosocial Analysis of the Pandemic and Its Aftermath
Hoping for a Magical Undoing
By Bruno Boccara Hamilton BooksDecember 2022 • 136 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7356 3 • $19.99 / £14.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3570 0 • $19.00 / £14.99
Boccara analyzes the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on the large group unconscious defenses that were mobilized against the anxieties that the pandemic created. He argues that humanity will only be able to successfully manage future systemic crises if public policies and country dialogue take into account the underlying psychosocial dynamics.
Social Psychology
The Psychology of Modern Dating Websites, Apps, and Relationships
By Shawn Blue Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 122 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9605 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 6039 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9604 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
In The Psychology of Modern Dating: Websites, Apps, and Relationships, Shawn Blue highlights the effects of online dating platforms on romantic relationship development. Blue illustrates the significance of self-theory and the roles of user motivation, age, gender, and sexual orientation in the creation of online profiles and dating interactions.
Social Psychology
Identity Orchestration
Black Lives, Balance, and the Psychology of Self Stories
Edited by David Wall Rice - Foreword by Edmund W. Gordon - Afterword by Biko Harris Rice
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 320 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4402 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4039 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Identity Orchestration demonstrates the particular importance of identity balance in behavioral health.
Social Psychology
Psychology and Pop Culture
An Empirical Adventure
By Keith W. Beard; April Fugett and Britani Black Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 148 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2470 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 4680 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2469 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the psychological aspects of pop culture preferences, personality, and behavior from across sixteen research studies.
Social Psychology
The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors Implications for Understanding Disability
Edited by Michael L. Wehmeyer and Dana S. Dunn
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3465 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4665 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Personal factors are an element of social-ecological models of disability but have not been well defined or described. The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors examines personal factors from the field of positive psychology to begin to identify and build strengths-based approaches to promoting the full participation, dignity, and well-being of disabled people.
Social Psychology
Statistics for the Terrified, Seventh Edition
By John H. Kranzler and Christopher J. Anthony Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4486 2 • $96.00 / £74.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4879 9 • $48.00 / £37.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4488 6 • $45.50 / £35.00
Fear of heights, fear of public speaking, fear of flying—virtually everyone is afraid of something. Statistics for the Terrified (7th ed.) is a userfriendly introduction to elementary statistics, intended primarily for the reluctant, math-anxious, math-avoidant person.
Statistics
Motor Disorders, Fourth Edition
Edited by David S. Younger Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 1080 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4722 1 • $150.00 / £115.00
A new, up-to-date edition of the top-selling concise motor disorders textbook that covers the multidisciplinary nature of today’s research into prevention, diagnosis and treatment to prevent disability, from genetics to neurophysiology to environment, including information on COVID-19.
Surgery / Neurosurgery
Forensic Musicology and the Blurred Lines of Federal Copyright History
By Katherine M. Leo Lexington BooksMay 2022 • 202 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1942 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 9402 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1941 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the role of forensic musicologists in music copyright infringement claims. It analyzes the contested nature of the legal space in relation to the sometimes contradictory opinions of expert witnesses and non-expert judges and juries.
Business Aspects
The Working Musician’s Handbook for Professional Success
How to Establish Your Value in the Real World
By Kris Hawkins Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 236 pages • Part of the Music Pro Guides series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6198 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1999 9 • $29.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6200 2 • $27.50 / £20.99
Emmy-winning music producer, studio/session guitarist, and awardwinning educator, Kris Hawkins explains some of the most basic and highly misunderstood concepts about what it takes to be a professional musician. This handbook is your navigator and will help you develop a workable and effective strategy to start your career off on the right foot.
Business Aspects
Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy
Edited by David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollumLexington Books
May 2022 • 372 pages • Part of the The Lexington
Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings
Hardback 978 1 7936 4291 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2929 9
Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music in international relations. Inspired by decolonization, this book describes policies
legal frameworks that impact music’s role in cultural diplomacy worldwide.
Anomaly
A Scientific Exploration of the UFO Phenomenon
By Daniel Coumbe Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7213 1 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2148 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7215 5 • $32.00 / £25.00
Anomaly: A Scientific Exploration of the UFO Phenomenon reveals new results derived from radar, optical sensors, and scientific instruments, rather than speculating on unreliable eyewitness testimony. This scientific approach provides the reader with clear and reliable answers, something that is desperately needed in the murky field of UFOs.
UFOs & Extraterrestrials
The Best Jobs in the Music Industry
Straight Talk from Successful Music Pros, Second Edition
By Michael Redman Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 366 pages • Part of the Music Pro Guides series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3770 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1273 3 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3771 0 • $33.00 / £25.00
Michael Redman takes readers on a tour of different music careers— from performer to label executive to recording engineer and producer, plus more—and boils down the essentials of each job. This second edition includes updates and even more interviews with top pros, giving a look at how these jobs have changed and the long-term impacts of COVID-19.
Business Aspects
Artie Shaw
A Musical Biography and Discography
By Vladimir Simosko - Foreword by Artie ShawMay 2022 • 328 pages • Studies in Jazz
Paperback 978 1 5381 6820 2 • $52.00 / £40.00
eBook 978 0 8108 7270 7 • $49.00 / £38.00
Artie Shaw, the world famous clarinet-playing bandleader who became popular during the Swing Era, was immersed as a performer for 30 years. This musical biography, incorporate reviews and interview quotes, is a detailed account of Shaw’s musical career and recorded output. The discography lists all known recordings and preferred issues of them.
Discography & Buyer’s Guides
Choral Treatises and Singing Societies in the Romantic Age
By David Friddle - Foreword by Amanda Quist
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 438 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1111 4 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1121 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
David Friddle explores choral methods and community choral ensembles that originated in the nineteenth century. Using more than one hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs, he documents the expansion of choral singing beginning in the early 1800s.
Sing Romantic Music Romantically
Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices
By David Friddle - Foreword by Nick StrimpleLexington Books
June 2022 • 448 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1117 6 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1183 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book offers a long-overdue examination of choral performance practices in the 1800s, including expressive devices, pronunciation, instruments, and choral/orchestral placement. More than one-hundred musical examples, illustrations, tables, and photographs and contemporaneous sources detail how choral music was sung in this time period.
Genres & Styles / Choral
The Viennese Waltz
Decadence and the Decline of Austria’s Unconscious
By Danielle Hood Lexington BooksJune 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5392 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3932 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artifice—covering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the time—to the link between the three classes, between man and nature, and between Viennese and “Other.”
Genres & Styles / Classical
Heavy Metal Music in Latin America
Perspectives from the Distorted South
Edited by Nelson Varas-Díaz; Daniel Nevárez Araújo and Eliut Rivera-Segarra
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 360 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0753 9 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 7515 5 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0752 2 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book brings together researchers from twelve countries in Latin America to reflect on the social dimensions of metal music in Latin America. An extreme musical genre for an extreme region, the contributors explore how issues like colonialism, dictatorships, violence, ethnic extermination and political persecution have shaped heavy metal music.
Genres & Styles / Heavy Metal
The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina
An Angel with Black Wings
By Daniel J. NappoLexington Books
August 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1579 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 5770 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1578 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is an exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the Spanish singersongwriter Joaquín Sabina. Using lyrics from Sabina’s discography, Daniel J. Nappo analyzes his use of rhetorical and poetic devices, his ability as a narrator, and compares his work to that of Bob Dylan.
Genres & Styles / Latin
The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Autographs, Context, Discourse
By Stephen TownLexington Books
March 2022 • 338 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0602 0 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 7936 6006 6 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0601 3 • $40.50 / £31.00
The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams’’ choral-orchestral works.
Genres & Styles / Choral
Code Musicology
From Hardwired to Software
By Denis Crowdy Lexington BooksJune 2022 • 150 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Music and Society series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0919 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9203 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Code Musicology opens a conduit between musicology and software studies. It extends an ethnomusicology of technoculture from the world of hardware and the hardwired to software, code, and algorithms and directs attention to IT industries and software-centered transnational commerce as a result of sectorial transformation.
Genres & Styles / Electronic
The Performance of Authenticity
The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography
By Teófilo Espada-Brignoni
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2438 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4390 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book the author analyzes the autobiographies of Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins by integrating social, psychological, and literary theories. He argues that the autobiographies of New Orleans jazz musicians construct a sense of self and the collective grounded in ideas about authenticity.
Genres & Styles / Jazz
Opera as Art Philosophical Sketches
By Paul ThomLexington Books
October 2022 • 218 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1423 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4245 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Paul Thom argues that opera is a set of practices framed by the concepts of work, interpretation, performance, and art. His argument is that operatic works have the potential to be art, but so do operatic productions, independently of their value as interpretations of the works they stage.
Genres & Styles / Opera
Always Different, Always the Same
Critical Essays on The Fall
Edited by Eoin Devereux and Martin J. PowerForeword by Gavin Friday
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Popular
Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6535 5 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5362 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Fall were one of the most influential bands to emerge in the British post-punk scene. Drawing upon a wide range of academic disciplines, including ethnomusicology, sociology, literary theory, linguistics, journalism, cultural studies, and film and media studies, this book investigates The Fall’s significant contribution to music.
Genres & Styles / Punk
Rock Concert Performance from ABBA to ZZ Top
By Peter Smith - With Laura SmithLexington Books
January 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the For the
Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1856 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8573 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents an analysis of 100 rock concert performances and answers the question “What makes a truly great rock performance?”
Peter Smith delves into his own recollections of experiencing rock performances and covers themes of icons, persona, energy, fandom, venues, communities, politics, art-rock, authenticity, and maturity.
Genres & Styles / Rock
The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!
By Matthew Smith-Lahrman Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 294 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7175 2 • $22.00 / £16.99
Previously published as hardback 978 0 8108 4120 0 • $118.00 / £91.00 eBook 978 0 8108 8413 7 • $20.50 / £15.99
Matthew Smith-Lahrman sheds light on the words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat Puppets, a pioneering rock ’n’ roll band of the last four decades. A lyricist whom Rolling Stone writer Kurt Loder once rated alongside Bob Dylan, Kirkwood remains an important, yet overlooked songwriter.
Genres & Styles / Rock
Historical Dictionary of Russian Music, Second Edition
By Daniel Jaffé Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary
Hardback
Hip-Hop en Français
An Exploration of Hip-Hop Culture in the
Francophone World
Edited by Alain-Philippe Durand - Foreword by Marcyliena Morgan
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 260 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7118 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published as hardback
978 1 5381 6326 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1633 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
This edited volume presents an overview of the emergence and development of hip-hop culture in France, French Caribbean, Canada, and Francophone Africa from its origins until today. Contributors discuss the artists’ interactions with media arts, social media, literature, race, political landscapes, as well as hip-hop based education.
Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop
Rock Music Icons
Musical and Cultural Impacts
Edited by Robert McParland - Foreword by Thomas M. KittsLexington Books
August 2022 • 236 pages • Part of the For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1531 0 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 5327 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The music, image, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons, giving the reader an inside look into the creativity of some of the most prominent rock stars of our time.
Genres & Styles / Rock
The Rock Music Imagination
By Robert McParland Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 218 pages • Part of the For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8854 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 8522 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8853 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs of popular rock bands, the sixties counterculture, science fiction, the rock music novel, and rock’s attention to human rights in the global community.
Genres & Styles / Rock
Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South
Edited by Christopher L. BallengeeLexington Books
October 2022 • 200 pages • Part of the Extreme
Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0295 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2969 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
Historical Dictionary of Russian Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive
The dictionary section
Russia’s major performing
specific genres such as ballet, film music,
History & Criticism
music.
Through close readings of documentary film soundscapes, the essays in Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South provide new perspectives on the sonic dimension of nonfiction film outside the European-American mainstream.
History & Criticism
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
An “Integrated Effort”
By Beth FowlerLexington Books
April 2022 • 374 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1385 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3868 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book uses archival research and analyses of musical performances and original oral histories to explore the uncertain legacies of the civil rights movement and early rock and roll music in a supposedly post-civil rights era.
History & Criticism
The Art of Ancient Music
By David Walter LeinweberLexington Books
May 2022 • 194 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2521 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5199 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2520 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Art of Ancient Music discusses music’s role in the long story of human creativity. While emphasizing broad human themes, the text has a special focus on the early traditions of Western music.
History & Criticism
Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet Analysis, Aesthetics, and Experience of a 20thCentury Masterpiece
By Ray Fields
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7227 8 • $80.00 / £62.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2285 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Written in 1985, the year before Feldman’s death, this single movement 80-minute composition is heralded by many to be the composer’s crowning achievement. The book is a complete analysis of the work, including the aural experience, and includes interviews with notable Feldman performers: David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet and Aki Takahashi.
Individual Composer & Musician
Reflections on the Music of Ennio Morricone Fame and Legacy
By Franco SciannameoLexington Books
May 2022 • 200 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 6902 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985
eBook 978 1 4985
Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century Church, Stage, and Concert Hall
Edited by Eftychia Papanikolaou and Markus RatheyLexington Books
June 2022 • 438 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0604 2 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6059 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
The book explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music of the long nineteenth century. It investigates manifestations of religion in music not primarily intended for liturgical performance and assesses compositions that originated in a liturgical context but then migrated in their performance into a non-liturgical sphere.
History & Criticism
Bruno Maderna
His Life and Music
By Rossana Dalmonte and Mario Baroni
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 344 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7229 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2308 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Bruno Maderna, one of the most influential composers in the 20th century and a formidable conductor, was the oldest of a notable group of Italian composers who began their careers shortly before the Second World War. Many details of this biography are based on his correspondences and reports of his engagements across the world.
Individual Composer & Musician
Rautavaara’s Journey in Music
By Barbara Blanchard Hong
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 292 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7233 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2346 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Einojuhani Rautavaara, one of the most prolific composers of modern times, has been called Finland’s most notable musical export after Sibelius. This biography discusses his life and works, showing his various style changes throughout his lifetime; it includes detailed information of stylistic analysis, libretto, provenance, and, often, reception.
Individual Composer & Musician
Sergei Rachmaninoff Cross Rhythms of the Soul
By Valeria Z. NollanLexington Books
November 2022 • 426 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1759 8 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7604 4 • $50.00 / £38.99
$95.00 / £73.00
$38.00 / £29.00
By analyzing Ennio Morricone’s formative years as a music practitioner and his transition into composing for the screen, Franco Sciannameo studies the best of Morricone’s popular compositions and concert works as he explores Morricone’s legacy, its nature, and its eventual impact on posterity.
Individual Composer & Musician
This book presents new information about Rachmaninoff accessed from unique sources previously unavailable in English. From the extraordinary women who inspired him, to his humanitarian work, to his religion, Nollan interweaves Rachmaninoff’s personal struggles and triumphs into his concert career.
Individual Composer & Musician
Villa-Lobos and Modernism
The Apotheosis of Cannibal Music
By Ricardo AverbachLexington Books
September 2022 • 440 pages
Paperback 978 1 6669 1137 4
Previously published as hardback 978 1 6669 1350 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1136 7 • $50.00 / £38.00
Ricardo Averbach places Heitor Villa-Lobos as the top exponent of Cultural Cannibalism in music, an aesthetic movement that has been neglected due to traditional Eurocentric views of Modernism. VillaLobos and Modernism shows how much our present aesthetics owes to the Modernist ideas introduced by the Brazilian composer.
Individual Composer & Musician
Experiencing Music Composition in Grades K–2
By Michele Kaschub and Janice P. Smith
National Association for Music Education (NAfME)
October 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6789 3 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 7909 9 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6791 6 • $33.50 / £26.00
Experiencing Music Composition Grades K–2 features pedagogical strategies and practical advice for teachers coupled with 15 engaging lessons tailored to meet the needs and interests of very young musicians.
Instruction & Study / Composition
More than Music Lessons
A Studio Teacher’s Guide to Parents, Practicing, Projects, and Character
By Merlin B. Thompson Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 228 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6403 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4044 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6405 1 • $32.00 / £25.00
More than Music Lessons invites contemporary music studio teachers to link their teaching with notions of humanity and presents a timely vision of bringing student-centered teaching to life in the applied studio. It provides a myriad of practical tips and strategies, exploring the themes of parents, practicing, projects, and character.
Instruction & Study / General
Music Theory for the Self-Taught Musician
Level 2
By Will Metz BackbeatJuly 2022 •
Paperback
Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music
By Michele Kaschub and Janice P. SmithNational Association for Music Education (NAfME)
September 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 4758 6461 8 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4758 4625 5 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 4758 6463 2 • $33.50 / £26.00
Experiencing Music Composition in Middle School General Music features pedagogical strategies and practical advice for teachers coupled with 15 engaging lessons tailored to meet the needs and interests of middle school musicians.
Instruction & Study / Appreciation
The Reel World
Scoring for Pictures, Television, and Video Games, Third Edition
By Jeff Rona - Foreword by Peter Golub Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 426 pages • Part of the Music Pro Guides series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3775 8 • $135.00 / £104.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0498 8 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3776 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This fully updated and complete guide takes you inside the world of creating music for film, television, and—unique to this edition—video games. It addresses a wide range of topics including musical aesthetics, cutting-edge technology and techniques, and current business aspects. Also included are interviews with leading industry professionals.
Instruction & Study / Composition
Music Theory for the Self-Taught Musician Level 1
By Will Metz BackbeatJuly 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 4930 5611 8 • $27.95 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 4930 6125 5 • $26.50 / £19.99
This book describes and explains music theory to musicians and aspiring musicians who did not receive much or any formal music education and don’t necessarily know how to read music. It presents a clear, step-by-step exploration of all the tools needed to understand modern music, without the hassle of learning how to read music.
Instruction & Study / Theory
Revolutions in Music Education Historical and Social Explorations
by Andrew Sutherland; Jane Southcott and Leon de Bruin - Foreword by Howard Goodall
Books
pages
$34.95 / £27.00
$33.00 / £25.00
Jazz Singing
A Guide to Pedagogy and Performance
By Tish Oney Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 318 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 2844 2 • $99.00 / £76.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8459 9 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2846 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Tish Oney merges the worlds of jazz and classical singing in a comprehensive guide for those teaching and singing jazz. Legendary jazz singers’ approaches are discussed providing unique insights. The book presents strategies to enhance improvisation and artistry and emphasizes mindful coordination of all aspects for authentic, healthy jazz singing.
Instruction & Study / Voice
Practical Vocal Acoustics
Pedagogic Applications for Teachers and Singers
By Kenneth Bozeman Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the National
Association of Teachers of Singing Books series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7464 7 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4654 4 • $28.00 / £18.99
Kenneth Bozeman distills the most important vocal acoustics principles and insights for contemporary teachers and singers. With concise and easy-to-understand language, the book takes these complex concepts and imparts practical tips and strategies that anyone can use in their teaching and singing.
Instruction & Study / Voice
So You Want to Sing (Bundle Revised)
Edited by Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022
Multiple-item product 978 1 5381 7353 4 • $420.00 / £323.00
Instruction & Study / Voice
The Essentials of CoreSinging
Joyful Approach to Singing and Voice Pedagogy
By Meribeth
by
Perfect Italian Diction for Singers
An Authoritative Guide
By Timothy Cheek and Anna Toccafondi - Foreword by Lawrence Brownlee and Thomas Hampson
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 232 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6340 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3412 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6342 9 • $42.50 / £33.00
Perfect Italian Diction for Singers is an authoritative resource for the aspiring and professional singer, vocal coach, and conductor. Cheek and Toccafondi build on traditional approaches while introducing successful innovative techniques, providing many musical examples and exercises. Also included are audio and video samples from native speakers.
Instruction & Study / Voice
Queering Vocal Pedagogy
A Handbook for Teaching Trans and Genderqueer Singers and Fostering Gender-Affirming Spaces
By William Sauerland Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 306 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6666 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6673 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6668 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
This book presents a new vision of gender-affirming vocal music education by exploring the experiences and training of trans and genderqueer singers. It presents practical and theoretical knowledge for teachers, choral directors, and educators, addressing topics such as teaching strategies, inclusive language, impacts of gender identity, and more.
Instruction & Study / Voice
So You Want to Sing Musical Theatre
A Guide for Performers, Updated and Expanded Edition
By Amanda Flynn Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJune 2022 • 446 pages • Part of the So You Want to Sing series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5631 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6322 2 • $40.00 / £31.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5633 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Broadway vocal coach, voice teacher, and researcher Amanda Flynn provides the skills singers need to successfully sing musical theatre repertoire. The book is updated and expanded for musical theatre performance in the current era, covering a broader array of topics and
& Study / Voice
the original edition.
Duruflé’s Music Considered
By Ronald Ebrecht
Books
The Cello, How it Works
A Practical Guide to Cello Ownership
By Michael J. PagliaroNational Association for Music Education (NAfME)
December 2022
Paperback 978 1 4758 6912 5
eBook 978 1 4758 9132 2
Musical Instruments / Strings
The Violin, How it Works
A Practical Guide to Violin Ownership
By Michael J. PagliaroNational Association for Music Education (NAfME)
July 2022 • 104 pages
Paperback 978 1 4758 6812 8 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 4758 8135 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book provides violin students with a comprehensive overview of the instrument from its origin to its use and all other facts not covered in traditional violin method books.
Musical Instruments / Strings
Authenticity in the Music of Video Games
By Stephanie Lind
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2712 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7131 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
L
ind explores gamers’ relationship to the concept of authenticity, from historical realism to the structuring of expectations and its resulting impact on emotional engagement. The result is a complex web of interactions between sound and the visuals, story, and mechanics of the game.
Philosophy & Social Aspects
The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination
By David J. Kendall Lexington Books
November 2022 • 282 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5035 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0368 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book describes various Western musical ecologies of the cosmos developed from the ancient world to the present, ecologies that seek to define the creation and preservation of the universe through musical principles. The author explores centuries of musical treatises, hymns, and Western fiction.
Philosophy & Social Aspects
Logic Pro 101
Music Production Fundamentals
By Ryan Rey and Harry Gold - With Frank D. Cook and Eric KuehnlRowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 372 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381
eBook 978 1 5381 8173
Part of the 101 Series
$40.00 / £31.00
$38.00 / £29.00
Logic Pro 101 is a comprehensive guide to using a Logic Pro system for musicians and music creators. This book covers everything you need to know to complete a project in Apple’s professional-level digital audio workstation; takes you through the fundamentals of music production; and includes exercises, projects, and downloadable media examples.
Recording & Reproduction
Rock and Roll, Social Protest, and Authenticity Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Explorations
By Kurt Torell
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 190 pages • Part of the For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5563 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5646 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book investigates the relation of rock and roll to social protest music and authenticity. It examines the nature and commercial origins of rock and roll, why rock and roll was frequently considered subversive, and the nature and significance of authenticity to rock and roll as social protest music.
Philosophy & Social Aspects
Getting Great Sounds
The Microphone Book, Third Edition
By Tom Lubin
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 334 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7301 5 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3022 2 • $39.50 / £30.00
Getting Great Sounds imparts microphone tips and tricks of the pros to any sound engineer or home studio enthusiast. It explains all aspects of all kinds of microphones: how they work and how to use them. Today, there are over 150 companies making microphones—this third edition introduces some of these companies and helps users navigate them.
Recording & Reproduction
Daniels’ Orchestral Music, Sixth Edition
By David Daniels; David W. Oertel and David A. RahbeeRowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 1464 pages • Part of the Music
Finders series
Hardback 978 1 4422 7520 1 • $155.00 / £119.00
eBook 978 1 4422 5218 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
Daniels’ Orchestral Music is the gold standard reference for conductors, music programmers, librarians, and any other music professional researching an orchestral program. This sixth edition, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the original work, includes over 14,000 entries with a vast number of new listings and updates.
Reference
The Malay Nobat
A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty
By Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 262 pages • Part of the The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings
Hardback 978 1 6669 0088 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0897 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
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 sovereignty, ultimately showing how existing nobat ensembles in Malaysia and Brunei are the last living musical legacy of the Muslim world.
Religious / Muslim
Voice for Performance Training the Actor’s Voice, Third Edition
By Linda Gates
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6378 8 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 3795 5 • $28.50 / £21.99
This book is a valuable resource for the student and professional actor alike, teaching the reader how to train their most essential feature—their voice. This new edition contains many updates based on advances in science, media, and technology. It also features a brand new companion website with video and audio demonstrations of the exercises.
Acting & Auditioning
Authorship and Aesthetics in the Cinematography of Gregg Toland
By Philip Cowan Lexington Books
October 2022 • 356 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3895 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8960 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Philip Cowan introduces new approaches to analyzing the art of cinematography and new methodologi`es for attributing authorship to moving images. Cowan’s revisionist examination of the work of Gregg Toland emphasizes the expressive potential of contemporary cinematographers’ contribution to visual storytelling.
Film / Direction & Production
Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations
The Films of Gurinder Chadha
Edited by Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1285 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2869 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Building a Performance
An Actor’s Guide to Rehearsal
By John Basil and Dennis Schebetta Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6130 2 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1319 9 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6132 6 • $28.50 / £21.99
Building a Performance provides a clear step-by-step system for actors through all stages of the rehearsal process. It enables actors to make more dynamic choices, craft complex characters with rich behavior, and find engaging and powerful levels of performance.
Acting & Auditioning
Your Breath In Art
By Beatrice Manley
Applause
May 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 4930 6516 5 • $19.95 / £14.99
This edited volume is a collection of scholarly research on filmmaker Gurinder Chadha’s work representing Indian culture in foreign lands. Contributors discuss the implications of such admixtures on acculturation processes, diasporic formations, and specific cultural experiences.
Film / Direction & Production
In her wry, entertaining, and astute style, master of her craft Beatrice Manley dispenses wide-ranging insights and nuanced wisdom accumulated from a lifetime on the stage.
Acting & Auditioning
Bloody Women
Women Directors of Horror
Edited by Victoria McCollum and Aislinn Clarke Lehigh University Press
April 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the Critical Conversations in Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 6114 6307 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6114 3088 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror is the first book-length exploration of female creators at the cutting edge of contemporary horror, turning out some of its most inspired and twisted offerings.
Film / Direction & Production
Conflict and Survival in Contemporary Western European Film
Edited by John Alexander Williams and Alexandra Hagen
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5898 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8999 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This edited collection explores how contemporary western European film can reflect on and contribute to discourses of conflict and survival in the new century.
Film / General
Race, War, and the Cinematic Myth of America Dust That Never Settles
By Eric TrenkampLexington Books
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4750 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7511 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how Hollywood has promoted the myth of the American White male savior and the way in which this myth has negatively affected people of color throughout U.S. history.
Film / Genres / Action & Adventure
Migration, Mobility, and Sojourning in Crosscultural Films Interculturing Cinema
By Ishani Mukherjee and Maggie Griffith Williams
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8770 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 4985 7686 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8769 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book uses an intercultural communication lens to analyze six cross-cultural films and their depictions of migration, mobility, and the resulting intercultural communications. It argues that the results of these complex and stressful moments of conflict include personal growth, oppression, familial or social separation, and loss of identity.
Film / Genres / General
Animals in Narrative Film and Television Strange and Familiar Creatures
Edited by Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0481 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4826 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines the way these representations intersect with culture, race, gender, class, disability, and health issues. Contributors analyze the narrative functions of familiar animals as well as fantastic and hybrid creatures.
Film / History & Criticism
David Fincher’s Zodiac
Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation
Edited by Matthew Sorrento and David RyanForeword by Christopher Sharrett
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
February 2022 • 274 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Hardback 978 1 6839 3326 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3274 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
David Fincher’s Zodiac, the first book-length study of the critically acclaimed 2007 release, offers various critical approaches to the film ranging from early influences, studies in genre and narrative, and media analysis including cinema history, game theory, musicology, and extensions in television studies.
Film / History & Criticism
German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon
Dark Eyes of London
By Nicholas G. SchlegelLexington Books
January 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7072 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 0732 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the significance of the thirty-two Krimi films produced by Rialto Film from 1959 to 1972, canonizing their role in the era of German popular cinema during Krimi’s rise to popularity and inevitable decline and evolution.
Film / Genres / General
The 1980s British Conspiracy Thriller
Terror Struck by Shadows
By Paul Lynch
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1315 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3163 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The British conspiracy cycle of the 1980s emerged in response to an increasingly Orwellian secret state in Great Britain. This book draws on original interviews with novelists, film-makers, and intelligence community insiders along with original case studies to explore one of the most politically charged periods in film and television history.
Film / Genres / General
Cinema, Black Suffering, and Theodicy Modern God
By Shayne Lee
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0421 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4222 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes how films depict God when black characters experience suffering and tragedy to elucidate how cinema often portrays a God that is considered supportive, yet who does little to mitigate suffering. This sparks theodical contemplation on the role of divinity in protecting people from the consequences of human depravity.
Film / History & Criticism
Lope de Vega on Spanish Screens, 1935–2020
The Shadow of the Phoenix
By Philip Allen
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 258 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1177 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1787 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Philip Allen examines the presence of Lope de Vega’s adapted work on Spanish screens since the mid-twentieth century. In his analysis, Allen revisits and problematizes stereotypes present in popular and academic culture surrounding the author’s life and works, which have at times been co-opted as propaganda.
Film / History & Criticism
Stigmatized on Screen
How Hollywood Portrays Nonstandard Dialects
By Lindsey ClouseLexington Books
June 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4741 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7429 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the 500 top-grossing films of the last 20 years to show how speakers of traditionally stigmatized dialects are represented, underrepresented, misrepresented, and mocked. Ultimately, the author demonstrates how Hollywood reinforces long-standing negative beliefs about the languages of marginalized communities.
Film / History & Criticism
The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film
Edited by Erica Joan Dymond and Salvador Jiménez Murguía
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 456 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5390 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3918 8 • $118.50 / £92.00
The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film explores both the best of LGBTQIA+ cinematic depictions and the most problematic. Mainstream and art house/indie films from the last fifty years are unpacked and carefully examined by a diverse collection of talented writers from across the globe.
Film / Reference
Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema of Life From Homework to Like Someone in Love
By Julian Rice Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 292 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7124 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 5381 7000 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3701 7 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book focuses on revolutionary filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s opposition to war, his eclectic spirituality, and the symbolic texture of his cinema which is more attuned to poetic than philosophical interpretation. It covers the most-up-to-date films, with a focus on thematic continuity within and between individual films.
Individual Director
Reality TV’s Real Men of the Recession White Masculinity in Crisis and the Rise of Trumpism
By Shannon O’Sullivan
Lexington Books
November 2022
Hardback
204 pages
The Films of Walter Hill Another Time, Another Place
By Brian Brems
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1528 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5297 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is an academic study of the work of an important American director working primarily in the action genre. The book explores the ways in which Hill’s filmography reveals his point of view and intensifies classical approaches to storytelling.
Film / History & Criticism
A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola
By Naaman Wood and Christopher BoothLexington Books
August 2022 • 302 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3679 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6805 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume offers eight interdisciplinary readings to the films of Sofia Coppola, analyzing her oeuvre with a focus on her treatment of masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love.
Individual Director
A History of Television News Parody in America Nothing but the Truthiness
By Curt HerseyLexington Books
August 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3778 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7796 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides the first history of the television news parody genre, analyzing how these shows have functioned as critiques of television news, politics, culture, and American society, while entertaining and informing audiences. Each chapter features a case study and discussion of the genre during a particular decade.
Television / Genres / Comedy
The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals
By Dan Dietz Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 662 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6893 6
eBook 978 1 5381
$185.00 / £142.00
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$175.50 / £137.00
In the 2000s, reality programs showcasing white, working-class men performing hazardous occupations in wilderness settings proliferated on U.S. cable networks. Shannon O’Sullivan argues that this genre represents a reactionary veneration of white, rural, working-class men as “real Americans” amid the Great Recession and current events.
Television / Genres / Reality, Game Shows & Talk Shows
This book examines in detail every Broadway musical which opened during the 1900s. It includes cast and credits, plot, critical reviews, London productions, recordings, published scripts, and film versions. The book also features extensive commentary for 300 musicals which opened during the decade.
Theater / Broadway & Musical Revue
Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds
Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now
Edited by Laury Magnus and Walter W. Cannon
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
September 2022 • 306 pages • Part of the Shakespeare and the Stage series
Paperback 978 1 6839 3202 4 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 6839 2000 0 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3201 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds examines special listening situations like overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides; it explores complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, nonEnglish languages, and non-verbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, ending with a discussion with ASC Actors.
Theater / History & Criticism
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education
The Play of the In-Between
By Catherine HomanLexington Books
April 2022 • 218 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9446 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4448 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9445 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between provides an account of poetic education as an alternative to aesthetic education. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics and philosophy of play, Homan argues that rather than the cultivation of taste, education is the cultivation of formation and a learning to listen.
Aesthetics
Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious
The Vital Depths of Experience
By Bethany HenningLexington Books
March 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the American Philosophy Series series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2021 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0224 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Bethany Henning argues that within the naturalistic strains of American philosophy, there is an implicit theory of the unconscious that finds its fullest expression within the work of John Dewey. Although the unconscious contributes to all experience, it plays a principal role in experiences that are emphatically aesthetic.
Aesthetics
On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality
A Collection of Pragmaticist Inquires into the Epistemology of Artistic Creation and Evaluation of Artworks
By Dan Nesher Hamilton BooksMay 2022 • 370 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7295 5 • $44.99 / £35.00
eBook 978 0 7618 2962 2 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book is a collection of pragmatist inquiries into the epistemology of artistic creation and evaluation of artworks. It offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and artworks are beautiful when proven aesthetic true representations of reality.
Criticism & Theory
The Incorporeal Corpse
Performing Disability in the Liminal Stage
By Jason B. Dorwart
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4507 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5081 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
Disabled characters have been written with an assumption that they would be played by nondisabled actors. In this book, Jason B. Dorwart argues that a recent influx of disabled actors into the profession is changing the way that we reconcile the reality of disability with the fictional framing of performance.
Theater / History & Criticism
Beyond Words
Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable
By Timothy ClevelandLexington Books
August 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1484 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4858 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and unconceived. Such literary works do philosophy, showing us something that a theoretical— scientific or philosophical—discourse cannot literally say.
Aesthetics
Heidegger and Music
Edited by Casey Rentmeester and Jeff R. Warren Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5413 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4144 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from many countries throughout the world, utilizes Heidegger’s philosophy to shed light on the place of music in different contexts and fields of practice.
Aesthetics
Second Nature Comic Performance and Philosophy
Edited by Josephine Gray and Lisa Trahair Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1509 1 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 7866 5107 7 • $38.00 / £30.99
Examining Henri Bergson’s work, philosophy, and the body, this volume explores the history and philosophy of comedy, film, psychoanalysis and the comic performance of the future, creating a theoretical and practicebased framework for the field.
Aesthetics
Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind
A Constructive Engagement
By Matthew MacKenzie Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 196 pages • Part of the Critical Inquiries in Comparative Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6012 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0138 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book deepens and extends the dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and 4E philosophy of mind and phenomenology. It engages with core issues in the philosophy of mind, broadly construed in and through the dialogue between Buddhism and enactivism.
Buddhist
Spectrality and Survivance
Living the Anthropocene
By Marija Grech Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1415 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 7866 4162 2 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1417 9 • $33.00 / £25.00
This monograph interrogates one of the key paradigms used in contemporary discussions of the Anthropocene—the idea that in the present geological epoch the human species inscribes itself onto the planet, and that those marks might be all we leave behind.
Critical Thinking
Justice and Harmony Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation
By Joshua Mason Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 292 pages • Part of the Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5497 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4984 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Justice and harmony typically stand as opposing ideals of liberal and communitarian philosophies. Joshua Mason argues that engaging their Chinese counterparts, zhengyi and hexie, through cross-cultural hermeneutics reveals a pattern of interrelated concerns that can overcome this binary opposition and reconcile these global values.
Eastern
Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies
Edited by Natasha Lushetich; Iain Campbell and Dominic Smith
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 342 pages • Part of the Media Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 5381 7157 8 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1592 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book theorises technology and its host of social, material, and epistemic transformation techniques, tools, and methods as indeterminate through sixteen methodologically diverse contributions from media philosophy, art and architectural theory, mathematics, computer science, and anthropology scholars.
Epistemology
The Poverty of Philosophy
Readings in Non and Other Philosophies or Arts of Immanence
By Philip BeitchmanHamilton Books
December 2022 • 414 pages
Hardback 978 0 7618 7384 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3853 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
The Poverty of Philosophy: Readings in Non and Other Philosophies and Arts of Imminence includes an 8,000 word overture, “Poverty of Philosophy” introducing non-philosophy and its progenitor, François Laruelle.
Comparative Philosophy
Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture
Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo
By Graham MayedaLexington Books
August 2022 • 298 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7210 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 2088 8 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7209 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
What is culture? What can we learn from art, architecture, and fashion about how people relate? Can cultures embody ethical and moral ideals? These are just some of the questions addressed in this book on the cultural philosophy of three preeminent Japanese philosophers of the early twentieth century, Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo.
Eastern
The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming NeoConfucianism in Korea
The Chonon (Testament) by Chong Chedu (Hagok)
Translated with commentary by Edward Y. J. Chung
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 410 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1471 1 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4698 8 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1470 4 • $44.50 / £34.00
The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea, a pioneering study of Chong Chedu (Hagok, 1649–1736) and Korean Yangming Neo-Confucianism, includes an annotated translation of the Chonon, Hagok’s most important work on self-cultivation, and a comprehensive introduction to his life, scholarship, and thought.
Eastern
Epistemic Paternalism
Conceptions, Justifications and Implications
Edited by Guy Axtell and Amiel Bernal Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 332 pages • Part of the Collective
Studies in Knowledge and Society series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7123 3 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 5732 2 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1574 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
This volume considers forms of information manipulation and restriction in contemporary society, paying special attention to contemporary paternalistic practices in big data and scientific research, as the way in which the flow of information or knowledge might be curtailed by the manipulations of a small body of experts or algorithms.
Epistemology
Exposing the Roots of Constructivism
Nominalism and the Ontology of Knowledge
By R. Scott SmithLexington Books
November 2022 • 202 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1246 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2470 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Though nominalism is a major presupposition in academia and western society, R. Scott Smith shows that nominalism undermines all knowledge whatsoever. In light of the many clear examples of knowledge that we do have, nominalism should be replaced by a realist view of properties.
Epistemology
Hume and the Demands of Philosophy
Science, Skepticism, and Moderation
By Nathan I. SasserLexington Books
March 2022 • 228 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2321 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3225 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that Hume is a radical epistemic skeptic who gives only practical reasons for retaining belief in sensory beliefs and the deliverances of reason. He advises us to take a moderate approach to the demands of philosophy, since they sometimes diverge from the demands of life.
Epistemology
How to Play Philosophy
By Michael Picard
Hamilton Books
February 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7306 8 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3075 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
How to Play Philosophy is a series of lyrical, creative essays that explore timeless and timely ideas about who we are and how we live. MIT-trained philosopher Michael Picard shares ideas of numerous philosophers from conflicting traditions and builds an intellectual background to enable readers to draw their own conclusions.
Essays
A Consequentialist Defense of Libertarianism
By Richard FumertonLexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3206 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2043 3 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3205 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
In defending freedom, most libertarians have appealed to a moral framework that puts an emphasis on the concept of moral rights. Rejecting that approach, Richard Fumerton offers a fresh, nuanced, and balanced “consequentialist” perspective on the importance of defending liberty.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
For and Against Scientism
Science, Methodology, and the Future of Philosophy
Edited by Moti MizrahiRowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Collective
Studies in Knowledge and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6333 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3344 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Does scientism pose an existential threat to philosophy, as some philosophers think, or is it a way to make philosophy as ‘successful’ as science? This book intends is to put forward a fruitful dialogue about scientism and its implications for the future of philosophy as an academic discipline.
Epistemology
Materialism, Minds, and Cartesian Dualism
By Robert Francis Almeder
Hamilton Books
March 2022 • 130 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7293 1 • $32.99 / £25.00
eBook 978 0 7618 2948 8 • $31.00 / £23.99
The book takes well-established, scientific evidence on consciousness to interrogate, and re envisions questions of personal reincarnation and thus of the mind/body problem. Methodologically, the basis of the book is rooted in the careful argumentation and logical appraisal of classical materialism and the history of the mind-body problem.
Epistemology
Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato
By Hugo Moreno Lexington Books
February 2022 • 240 pages • Part of the Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3928 8 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9295 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author argues that Borges’ Ficciones, Zambrano’s Claros del bosque, and Paz’s El mono gramático call into question the conventional distinction between literature and philosophy, and that each text embodies an alternative way of doing philosophy.
Essays
Between Desire and Reason Rights Discourse at the Crossroads
By Fernando Simón-Yarza
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4809 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4407 7 • $133.00 / £102.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1441 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book offers an in-depth account of the most important moral debates surrounding human rights today. They are the basis of legitimacy for modern Western civilisation, yet there still exists differences between our common view on the importance of rights and our profound disagreement on their meaning and content.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion
By Michael C. Brannigan Lexington Books
March 2022 • 174 pages • Part of the Revolutionary Bioethics series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4918 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9195 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This work explores caring robots’ lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving. As humans, we have a binding moral responsibility to care for the Other, and genuine caring demands our embodied, human-to-human presence.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Connection to Nature, Deep Ecology, and Conservation Social Science
Human-Nature Bonding and Protecting the Natural World
By Christian Diehm - Foreword by Holmes Rolston IIILexington Books
August 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2422 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4208 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2421 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores human-nature connectedness through deep ecological philosophy and conservation social science. mphasizing ecologicallyinclusive identities, it argues that connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates realize and that deep ecology contributes much to the increasingly pressing conversations about it.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Empathy and Ethics
Edited by Magnus Englander and Susi Ferrarello
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 526 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5410 6 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4113 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
The authors offer a phenomenological reflection on the problem of the interconnection between empathy and ethics; essential reading for professionals and scholars of philosophy, psychiatry, health science, psychology, and sociology.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Gandhi’s Global Legacy Moral Methods and Modern Challenges
Edited by Veena R. Howard Lexington Books
November 2022 • 380 pages • Part of the Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4036 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0376 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This interdisciplinary collection brings Gandhi’s ideas into conversation with issues seldom discussed in Gandhi studies. The contributors engage with crosscultural and cross-historical time periods, contributing in important ways to the ever-expanding field of Gandhi studies.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Confucian and Stoic Perspectives on Forgiveness
By Sean McAleerLexington Books
September 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2264 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2655 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Confucian and Stoic Perspectives on Forgiveness is a study in comparative philosophy exploring the absence of forgiveness in classical Confucianism and Roman Stoicism as well as the alternatives to forgiveness that these traditions offer.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Edibility and In Vitro Meat
Ethical Considerations
By Rachel Robison-GreeneLexington Books
November 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1466 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4674 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book considers the arguments for and against the implementation of in vitro meat technology. Rachel Robison-Greene argues that in light of emerging technology, we should rethink the ethical dimensions of what makes something “edible.”
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Ethical Silence Kierkegaard on Communication, Education, and Humility
By Sergia Hay Lexington BooksMay 2022 • 126 pages • Part of the New Kierkegaard Research series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1450 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4483 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1449 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes Søren Kierkegaard’s message about the ethical necessity of silence in the context of our current information age flooded with sound and words. The author investigates the question of how being silent can make us more ethical.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Gender Violence Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy
By Sylvia Jane Burrow Lexington Books
March 2022 • 126 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7885 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8868 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sylvia Jane Burrow explores self-confidence as integral to autonomy development within everyday contexts threatening gender violence, arguing that self-defense training is significant to resistance and resilience.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic
Injustice
Rethinking Theory and Practice
By Anna MalavisiLexington Books
October 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1691 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6920 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a critical analysis of the theory and practice of global development. Using how Chagas disease has been understood and addressed as an example of a failing of global development, Anna Malavisi argues for a rethinking from an ethico-epistemic perspective using a strong ethical approach.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy
By Ivan Cerovac
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3676 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6775 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book characterizes Mill as a political instrumentalist and an epistemic democrat, analyzing the epistemic arguments he uses to support his political proposals. Exploring his endeavor to resolve the conflict between political and epistemic values, it sets the epistemic criteria as a basis for unifying Mill’s political thought.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Menkiti’s Moral Man
By Oritsegbubemi Anthony OyoweLexington Books
March 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the African
Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1583 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5848 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Menkiti’s Moral Man provides an original interpretation of Ifeanyi Menkiti’s conception of person, and one that carries significant implications for his metaphysics and moral philosophy. It offers fresh insights on moral agency, moral status, and justice as well as the ontology of living and post-mortem persons in community.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Moral Responsibility beyond Our Fingertips
Collective Responsibility, Leaders, and Attributionism
By Eugene SchlossbergerLexington Books
March
Heroism and Wisdom, Italian Style
From Roman Imperialists to Sicilian Magistrates
By Raymond Angelo BelliottiFairleigh Dickinson University Press
September 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Hardback 978 1 6839 3357 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3588 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Heroism and Wisdom is an interdisciplinary work dissecting the lives, philosophies, and works of fourteen historically significant Italian figures to examine the topics of Italian history, culture, and moral psychology of notions such as practical wisdom, heroism, authenticity, honor, will to power, and leading a meaningful human life.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Just Immigration in the Americas
A Feminist Account
By Allison B. Wolf
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 234 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4984 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 3332 2 • $132.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1334 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
Using testimonies from immigrants and examples of immigrant policies, this book proposes an interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Moral Judgement
An Introduction through Anglo-American, German and French Philosophy
By Étienne BrownRowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1516 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7866 5176 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book integrates Kantian and Aristotelian reflections on the nature and justification of moral judgements. Arguing that moral judgements are ultimately grounded in the normativity of practical identities, the book concludes that it is through obligations tied to our multifaceted identities that we can ultimately understand how we ought to act.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Moral Theory
An Introduction, Third Edition
By Mark TimmonsRowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 368 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5231 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2324 4 • $48.00 / £37.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5233 1 • $46.50 / £36.00
We are responsible not only for what we think and feel but for what others do and for what we would have done. This book expands and updates the original attributionist theory of responsibility and applies it to pressing contemporary issues such as collective responsibility, leaders’ responsibility for their followers’ acts, and addiction.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Moral Theory explores historically important and currently debated moral theories, including divine command theory, relativism, natural law theory, consequentialism, egoism, Kant’s ethics, ethics of prima facie duties, and virtue and care ethics. The third edition features a new chapter on contractualism and an updated guide to terminology.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Nanotechnology
Regulation and Public Discourse
Edited by Iris Eisenberger; Angela Kallhoff and Claudia Schwarz-PlaschgRowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 308 pages • Part of the Philosophy, Technology and Society series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4790 0 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 8932 2 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0894 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
Rooted in different disciplines such as ethics, ecology, law, social and political sciences, this volume explore the normative approaches, societal practices, and legal mechanisms which have emerged in the nano-field over the last two decades.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Odera Oruka and the Right to a Human Minimum
An African Philosopher’s Defense of Human Dignity and Environment
By Michael Kamau MburuLexington Books
June 2022 • 158 pages • Part of the African
Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5002 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0030 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book advances Oruka’s argument that the right to a human minimum is the most basic and necessary (though not sufficient) means to ensuring human dignity, a precondition to functioning as a moral agent. It also defends and promotes an understanding of justice as ensuring both egalitarian and ecological fairness at the global level.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness Arendt, Derrida, and “Care for the World”
By Christopher Peys Rowman & Littlefield InternationalMarch 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4829 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 5183 3 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1519 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
Grounded in the thought of two radical continental thinkers, Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida, this book presents a world-centric ‘caring’ conceptualisation of cosmopolitanism and forgiveness. It develops political theory of repairing and cultivating the relationships which constitute our human community.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Social Media Ethics and COVID-19
Well-Being, Truth, Misinformation, and Authenticity
Edited by Pamela A. Zeiser and Berrin A. Beasley
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 180 pages
Normativity in African Regional Relations
By Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Values and
Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1589 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7866 5909 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Combining moral philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, and international relations, this book explores the possibility of using normative international relations as a realistic resolution to the problem of domination of, and discrimination against, minorities, specifically or especially migrants on the African continent.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Passionate Animals
Emotions, Animal Ethics, and Moral Pragmatics
By Mara-Daria CojocaruLexington Books
February 2022 • 230 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2856 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8572 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
To solve the problems of factory farming and animal experimentation, what we need is not new philosophical knowledge but a systematic exploration of how to put what we know into practice. This book argues for combining pragmatism and vision, reason and emotions, and morality and politics to foster significantly better human-animal relations.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Righting Health Policy
Bioethics, Political Philosophy, and the Normative Justification of Health Law and Policy
By D. Robert MacDougallLexington Books
February 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Revolutionary Bioethics series
Hardback 978 1 4985 8995 6 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9963 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Righting Health Policy, MacDougall argues that bioethics has not developed the tools best suited for justifying health law and policy. Using Kant’s practical philosophy as an example, he explores the promise of political philosophy for making normatively justified recommendations about health law and policy.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Test-Driving the Future
Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of Technological Change
Edited by Diane Michelfelder Rowman & Littlefield PublishersHardback 978 1 6669
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$95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1
$45.00 / £30.99
This multidisciplinary collection explores the ethics of social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on misinformation, truth, well-being, and authenticity.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
September 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Philosophy, Technology and Society series Hardback 978 1 7866 1323 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7866 3240 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This contributed volume examines ethical ramifications of the development and use of autonomous vehicles. From ethical emergencies akin to the classic trolley problem to more overarching effects on social and economic structures, this volume’s discussion appeal to philosophers, social scientists, engineers, urban planners, and policy makers.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Environmental Crisis and Art Thoughtlessness, Responsibility, and Imagination
By Eva Maria Räpple
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 150 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 2846 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8443 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2845 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
The global challenge of climate change presents a daunting task that requires human thinking and ingenuity. In this context, stories, narratives, and images can provide incentives for the imagination, essential in grappling with the complex perplexities of abstract dimensions while also anchoring thinking in human spatial and temporal existence.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Meaning of Mourning
Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief
Edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0892 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8930 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Meaning of Mourning brings perspectives from leading philosophers, psychologists, theologians, writers, and artists exploring different dimensions of death, loss, and grief. They together form a wide-ranging study of some of the most difficult and formative experiences in human life.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Moral Psychology of Hate
Edited by Noell Birondo
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 326 pages • Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series Hardback 978 1 5381 6085 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0862 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Provides the first systematic introduction to the moral psychology of hate compiling specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Moral Psychology of Regret
The Ethics of Anger
Edited by Court D. Lewis and Gregory L. Bock
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 284 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1519 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5176 6 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1518 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book provides a variety of diverse perspectives related to the ethics of anger, some more analytical in nature, others focused on practical issues, some in defense of anger, and others arguing against its necessity. This book is an essential resource for scholars who want to reflect critically on the place of anger in contemporary life.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Moral Psychology of Guilt
Edited by Bradford Cokelet and Corey J. Maley Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 340 pages • Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6547 8 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9656 6 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0966 3 • $37.00 / £28.00
Philosophers and psychologists come together to think systematically about the nature and value of guilt, looking at the biological origins and psychological nature of guilt, and then discussing the culturally enriched conceptions of this vital moral emotion.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Moral Psychology of Hope
Edited by Claudia Blöser and Titus Stahl Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 302 pages • Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series Paperback 978 1 5381 6548 5 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9724 4 • $133.00 / £102.00
978 1 7866 0973 1 • $37.00 / £28.00
The contributions in this volume, written by leading scholars in the philosophy of hope, gives a systematic overview over the philosophical history of hope, about contemporary debates and about the role of hope in our collective life.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Reparable and the Irreparable Being Human in the Age of Vulnerability
By Johann Michel Lexington Books
Ethics
Philosophy
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics
Edited by Ezio Di Nucci; Ji-Young Lee and Isaac A. Wagner
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 420 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Handbook series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6236 1 • $140.00 / £108.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2378 8 • $133.00 / £102.00
A wide-ranging, comprehensive overview of pressing issues in bioethics today, this handbook takes into account current affairs and historical precedents. Interdisciplinary authorship and global examples make the handbook applicable to a variety of scholar, student, and practitioner types.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Wilderness, Morality, and Value
By Joshua Duclos
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 162 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0136 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1375 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The pursuit of wilderness preservation is at odds with a commitment to animal welfare. Wilderness, Morality, and Value charts a way forward by clarifying the meaning of wilderness, investigating the fundamental value of wilderness itself, and exploring the implications of a religiospiritual valuation of wilderness.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Deleuze’s Literary Theory
The Laboratory of His Philosophy
By Catarina Pombo Nabais - Translated by Ronald Bogue - Preface by Jacques Ranciere
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 442 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4977 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 3681 1 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4369 8 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book offers a provocative and original reading of Deleuze’s entire philosophy, highlighting the question of modality (the actual, the virtual, the possible, the impossible and the incompossible), the problematic relationship between the event and the assemblage, and the unifying theme of the vitalism of nonorganic life.
General
Historical Dictionary of Husserl’s Philosophy, Second Edition
By John J. Drummond
Rowman & Littlefield
Virality of Evil Philosophy in the Time of a Pandemic
Edited by Divya Dwivedi
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 174 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6470 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4723 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The authors of this insightful and urgent collection both use the metaphor of evil as a virus or contagion and conceptualize the COVID-19 virus as a manifestation of evil to reconsider the purpose of philosophy in and for a pandemic.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Deleuze at the End of the World
Latin American Perspectives
Edited by Dorothea E. Olkowski and Julián Ferreyra
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 214 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4974 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4667 7 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1467 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
The philosophy of Deleuze is as relevant to contemporary thought as it is obscure and complex. This book guides readers through this maze by exploring the raw material that Deleuze took from thinkers in various fields of knowledge to construct his own concepts.
General
Heidegger in Question
The Art of Existing
By Robert BernasconiHumanities Press
May 2022 • 290 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5034 4 • $29.99 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 0351 1 • $28.50 / £21.99
Explores in the context of Heidegger’s thought and unpacks a number of questions and challenges.
General
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds
By Ben Almassi Lexington Books
May
concepts
General
major
Environmental Justice
a World of Wounds
how we can repair human and biotic relationships damaged by environmental injustice, climate change, animal exploitation, and ecological destruction
for the merits of a reparative approach to environmental justice and critically assessing challenges that come with it.
General
Bringing Good Even Out of Evil
Thomism and the Problem of Evil
By B. Kyle KeltzLexington Books
November 2022 • 218 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3892 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8939 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Newer formulations of the problem of evil include James Sterba’s argument from the Pauline Principle, J. L. Schellenberg’s divine hiddenness argument, Stephen Law’s evil-god challenge, and Nick Trakakis’s antitheodicy. In this book, B. Kyle Keltz defends classical theism against these formulations using Thomas Aquinas’s philosophical theology.
Good & Evil
The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence
By Gino LaPaglia
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Philosophy and Cultural Identity series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8833 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 8317 7 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8832 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence, Gino LaPaglia argues that Strategic Intelligence is a core dynamic of human rationality and that it has always been foundational for creating meaning in society. For thousands of years the identity of the heroic strategist has provided hope for human life lived in extremis.
Hermeneutics
Historical Dictionary of Heidegger’s Philosophy, Third Edition
By Frank Schalow Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 574 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6948 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4352 2 • $138.00 / £106.00
eBook 978 1 5381
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Heidegger’s Philosophy, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 crossreferenced entries that provides a clear and comprehensive exposition of the key developments in his life and his thought.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Paradigm, Logos, and Myth in Plato’s Sophist and Statesman
By Conor BarryLexington Books
October 2022 •
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pages
1 7936 4903 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9041 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Gadamer’s Truth and Method
A Polyphonic Commentary
Edited by Cynthia R. Nielsen and Greg Lynch
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 306 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6794 6 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7953 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume features essays from fourteen scholars—both established and rising stars—each of which cover a portion of Truth and Method following the order of the text itself. The result is a robust, historically and thematically rich polyphonic reading of the text as a whole, valuable both for scholarship and teaching.
Hermeneutics
Fraught Decisions in Plato and Shakespeare
By Dianne Rothleder
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 274 pages • Part of the Philosophical Projections series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4707 8 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 6272 2 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1628 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
Reading Shakespeare’s plays alongside Plato’s Republic, this book shows the intersections between literary, philosophical, and political moments in the texts and demonstrates that philosophical interventions are crucial to decision making and managing uncertainty, error and risk.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato
By Kevin Crotty Lexington BooksDecember 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2711 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7122 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Ignorance, Irony and Knowledge in Plato shows that Socratic ignorance—knowing that you don’t know—is central to Plato’s philosophy, especially in his use of dialogue and his theory of knowledge. Plato’s philosophical career can be understood as a progressive deepening of his appreciation of Socratic ignorance and its rich implications.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Plato and Demosthenes
Recovering the Old Academy
By William H. F. AltmanLexington Books
November 2022 • 306 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2005 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0062 2 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book explores the uses of the term “paradigm” with respect to both logos and myth in Plato, with a focus on Sophist and Statesman. In so doing, Conor Barry argues for a unitary as opposed to a developmental conception of Plato’s dialogues.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
In this book, William H. F. Altman turns to Demosthenes—universally regarded as Plato’s student in antiquity—and Plato’s other Athenian students in order to add external and historical evidence for Plato’s original curriculum.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Plato on the Unity of the Virtues A Dialectic Reading
By Rod JenksLexington Books
March 2022 • 128 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9203 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2048 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues, Rod Jenks argues that while Plato makes several attempts to show how virtue is one, he deliberately fails to secure this because he thinks the way in which the virtues are both one and many is finally ineffable.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Reason, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical Life in Plato’s Phaedrus
By Tiago Lier
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 298 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 6280 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2782 2 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6279 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
In a novel interpretation of Plato’s Phaedrus, Tiago Lier argues that Socrates’ defense of rhetoric stems from a tension between the desires that motivate speech and the limited power of speech to realize those desires. This tension culminates in a philosophical ethic that Socrates and Plato cultivate through their respective forms of rhetoric.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard’s Philosophy, Second Edition By Christopher B. Barnett Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 338 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2261 7 • $150.00 / £115.00 eBook 978 1 5381 2624 4 • $142.50 / £110.00
Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard’s Philosophy, Second Edition chronicles the life and thoughts of the great Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). What makes this volume essential is its extensive scope: it provides a glossary of concepts, persons, and places related to Kierkegaard’s authorship, from “Absolute” to “Hans Christian Ørsted.” History & Surveys / General
Rethinking Fanon The Continuing Dialogue
By Nigel C. Gibson Humanities PressSeptember
Plato’s Socrates on Socrates
Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy
By Anne-Marie SchultzLexington Books
March 2022 • 162 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9966 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 9641 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9965 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Anne-Marie Schultz explores Plato’s presentation of Socrates as a philosopher who tells narratives about himself in the Theaetetus, Symposium, Apology, and Phaedo. She argues that scholars should regard Socrates as a public philosopher, while examining Socratic self-disclosive practices in the works of bell hooks, Kathy Khang, and Ta-Neishi Coates.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought
Edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0085 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0866 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection enriches scholarship on Arendt by considering her contributions to and reflections on the history of thought. The chapters bring Arendt into new conversations with her contemporaries, as well as examining the themes of Arendt’s writing in light of her engagement with philosophical and literary history.
History & Surveys / General
Movements of Thought
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Diary, 1930–1932 and 1936–1937
By Ludwig Wittgenstein - Edited by James C. Klagge and Alfred Nordmann - Translated by Alfred Nordmann - Introduction by Ray Monk
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 144 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6366 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3672 2 • $22.00 / £16.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6368 9 • $20.00 / £14.99
Wittgenstein’s diary from the 1930s contains the raw material for what could have been an incomparable spiritual autobiography. For the first time in an affordable edition, the volume includes updated and expanded editorial notes on Wittgenstein’s many allusions, and an introduction by Ray Monk on the larger arc of Wittgenstein’s life and work.
History & Surveys / General
Towards a Realist Philosophy of History
By Adam Timmins
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0241 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2426 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue, first published in 1999, has become a classic, grounding
and cultural, postcolonial, Africana and gender studies with earlier African and African American dialogues.
History & Surveys / General
of
Towards a Realist Philosophy of History argues for the radical—at least in contemporary historical theory—view that historians are by and large successful in their goal of providing accurate knowledge and understanding about the historical past.
History & Surveys / General
Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments
By Celia Kathryn HatherlyLexington Books
October 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0448 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4499 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In his magnum opus, The Healing, Avicenna took four Aristotelian arguments and used them to prove a very un-Aristotelian conclusion: that the cosmos is both created and eternal. This book explains how Avicenna used his distinctive understanding of possibility and necessity to do so.
History & Surveys / Medieval
The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents
How Changing Discourse Norms are Changing Culture
Edited by Jack Simmons
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 290 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0801 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7997 7 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0800 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Philosophers and political theorists tackle the question of cultural transformation in the twenty-first century and the role discourse norms play in producing cancel culture, a counter-sexual revolution, racism and a toxic politics that has left the nation feeling vulnerable and angry.
History & Surveys / Modern
An Ironic Approach to the Absolute Schlegel’s Poetic Mysticism
By Karolin MirzakhanLexington Books
May 2022 • 128 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7893 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8912 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7892 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel’s Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel’s ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery’s Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader’s desire to comprehend them fully.
Individual Philosophers
Derrida and Africa
Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought
Edited by Grant Farred - Afterword by Jean-Paul Martinon
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 134 pages • Part of the African
Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8191 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1899 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8190 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Taking up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, this edited collection poses the questions: What is Derrida to Africa? And, its corollary, what is Africa to Derrida?
Individual Philosophers
Rethinking Rights
Historical Development and Philosophical Justification
By Eleanor CurranLexington Books
April 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 4787 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7888 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book takes a new look at the history of individual rights, focusing on how philosophers have written that history. Eleanor Curran argues that the turn to jurisprudence, after the philosophical rejection of natural rights, has resulted in an impoverished notion of rights as no more than claims and entitlements.
History & Surveys / Modern
The Other Enlightenment
Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender
By Matthew Sharpe Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Off the
Fence: Morality, Politics and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6021 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0220 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
This post-colonial and feminist reading of the Enlightenment explores the proto-postmodernist practice of examining one’s conclusions through the eyes of the Other. Self-estrangement to gain critical distance from one’s taken-for-granted assumptions, was central to the Enlightenment, and remains vital for critical sociopolitical thinking today.
History & Surveys / Renaissance
Beyond Justice as Fairness Rethinking Rawls from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
By Paul Nnodim
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 190 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5808 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 8068 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5807 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the three foundational topics in Rawls’s theories of justice (social justice, multiculturalism, and global justice) while deconstructing ideas of democratic citizenship, public reason, and liberal individualism latent in his treatment of these subjects in order to uncover their cultural and historical underpinnings.
Individual Philosophers
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger Philosophy, Modernity, and Education
By Paulina SosnowskaLexington Books
September 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8243 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2414 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8242 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The book examines the trajectory of joint philosophical-pedagogical concepts within the framework of the dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, put in the context of questions concerning the nature of modernity.
Individual Philosophers
Kant and Theodicy
A Search for an Answer to the Problem of Evil
By George HuxfordLexington Books
March 2022 • 172 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9725 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7234 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9724 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Kant was engaged with the subject of theodicy throughout his career and not merely in his 1791 treatise explicitly devoted to the subject. George Huxford traces Kant’s thought on theodicy throughout his career to show not only the continuity of Kant’s consideration but also his philosophical development on the subject.
Individual Philosophers
Reading Ricoeur through Law
Edited by Marc de Leeuw; George H. Taylor and Eileen Brennan
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 314 pages • Part of the Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur series
Hardback 978 1 7936 0091 2 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0929 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This is the first collection of essays examining Paul Ricoeur’s writings on law, bringing together eminent Ricoeur scholars from around the world to demonstrate the importance of Ricoeur’s philosophy for the juridical field while offering new paths to extend and build on his work.
Individual Philosophers
Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell A Cultural Sociology
By Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1847 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8481 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book weaves together apparently disconnected elements of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy and social activism into a coherent narrative about the acclaimed twentieth-century intellectual’s evolving stances concerning science and technology and their role in bringing either a future Golden Age or a secular Doomsday.
Individual Philosophers
The Philosophical Legacy of Jorge J. E. Gracia
Edited by Robert A. Delfino; William Irwin and Jonathan J. Sanford Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 350 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4960 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9614 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt
By Lawrence S. Stepelevich
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3690 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 6881 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3689 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines how, in a series of critical confrontations, Stirner rejected the efforts of his “Young Hegelian” contemporaries to recast Hegel as a revolutionary. For him, the various apocalyptic declarations of these “pious atheists” were only the expressions of adolescent dreams set upon the annihilation of real individuality.
Individual Philosophers
Rethinking Sage Philosophy
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on and beyond H. Odera Oruka
Edited by Kai Kresse and Oriare NyarwathLexington Books
December 2022 • 326 pages • Part of the African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0385 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3867 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book discusses Henry Odera Oruka’s sage philosophy, rethinking it in light of recent debates in African philosophy and African Studies. The chapters engage perspectives from anthropology, literature, and postcolonial scholarship, questioning and exploring the relevance of sage philosophy for current challenges, including decolonialization.
Individual Philosophers
The Experiential Ontology of Hannah Arendt
By Kimberly Maslin Lexington Books
May 2022 • 234 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1246 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2441 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1245 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Martin Heidegger’s influence on the thought of Hannah Arendt has been frequently noted, but the precise nature of Arendt’s critique of her mentor is less understood. Kim Maslin argues that Arendt’s work attempted to transform fundamental ontology for responsible use in the public realm.
Individual Philosophers
Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead
By Joseph Petek
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 190 pages • Part of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2011 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0123 3 • $45.00 / £30.99
Over the past 50 years, Jorge J.E. Gracia has been a seminal figure in Latin American philosophy, philosophy of race and ethnicity, metaphysics and ontology, medieval philosophy, and the theory of interpretation. This book commemorates Gracia’s legacy with a critical investigation of his deep and wide-ranging impact.
Individual Philosophers
Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead argues that the previously unpublished materials appearing in the recent volumes of the Critical Edition of Whitehead call for a complete reconsideration of Whitehead’s philosophical corpus and stand to turn some of what readers think they know about Alfred North Whitehead on its head.
Individual Philosophers
Untying the Gordian Knot Process, Reality, and Context
By Timothy E. Eastman Lexington Books
May 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3918 9 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9165 5 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3917 2 • $40.50 / £31.00
Untying the Gordian Knot shows how the fundamental notions of process, logic and relations, woven with triads of input-outputcontext, can be combined with quantum distinctions associated with actuality and potentiality, enabling the leveraging of many advances in philosophy and physics to unravel several long-standing philosophical problems.
Individual Philosophers
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, A Student’s Edition
Translated with commentary by Duncan Richter
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 164 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3290 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2883 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3289 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book presents both a new translation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (often similar to Ogden’s, but with significant improvements) and a line-by-line guide to relevant secondary literature. Rather than arguing for any particular interpretation, it presents a variety of positions for the reader to consider.
Individual Philosophers
Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism
By Leland Harper and Jennifer Kling Lexington Books
October 2022 • 134 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4042 0 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0437 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book unearths and outlines the semantic foundations of white fragility and their consequences for racial justice in the United States. It argues that by expanding our racial vocabulary in certain ways, we can make progress toward justice equally enjoyed by all.
Language
Theory of Value Structure From Values to Decisions
By Erich H. Rast
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1694 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6951 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Whitehead and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century Dislocations
Edited by Jeremy D. Fackenthal
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9512 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
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eBook 978 1 4985 9511 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores how thinking with Alfred North Whitehead and various continental philosophers can advance ideas about sustainability and civilization writ large. Contributors employ Whitehead and one or more continental thinkers around a given topic, whether philosophical or social, to produce the dislocations necessary for generating new ideas.
Individual Philosophers
Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy Dwelling in Speech II
By Lawrence J. Hatab Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 328 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4806 8 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 3981 1 • $144.00 / £111.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1399 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
Hatab presents a new vocabulary for Heidegger’s early phenomenology of being-in-the-world and applies it to the question of language.
Language
Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought
By Paul Magee Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Performance Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5352 9 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3536 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Employing an extensive archive of interview materials with major Anglophone poets, this book uncovers how they think in the moments of composition, providing a lucid account of the links between poetic composition and live performative thinking.
Language
Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures
The Same God?
By D. E. BucknerLexington Books
May 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8743 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7419 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8742 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the theory of value structure, or axiology, in metaethics and defends the thesis that aspects of “better than” comparisons may outrank each other and that value cannot always be summed up neatly.
Language
This book proposes a theory of reference--answering the question of whether Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures refer to the same God-within a semantic framework acceptable to atheists and fideists.
Logic
A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age
A Dialogue with Duns Scotus
By Liran Shia GordonLexington Books
May 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0298 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2990 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through an analysis of the role of the will as the supreme principle of Scotus’s thought, ultimately manifested in the idea of creation, A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age offers a transcendental investigation of finite and limited beings that are fundamentally understood as information entities.
Metaphysics
Problem-Solving Technologies
A User-Friendly Philosophy
By Sadjad Soltanzadeh Rowman & Littlefield InternationalJanuary 2022 • 218 pages • Part of the Philosophy, Technology and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5787 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7886 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Problem Solving Technologies provides a user friendly understanding of technological objects including what they are and how the function in our lives.
Metaphysics
Toward a Directionalist Theory of Space On Going Nowhere
By H. Scott HestevoldLexington Books
May 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7998 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9964 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7997 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Arguing that the universe is absolutely directioned and that there exist spatial (directional) relations that Leibniz overlooked, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space, exploring its implications for the Special Composition Question, reductivism regarding boundaries and holes, and the nature of spacetime.
Metaphysics
Techno-Scientific Practices An Informational Approach
By Federica Russo Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 336 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1232 8 • $130.00 / £100.00
Paperback 978 1 7866 2335 5 • $44.00 /
Nietzsche’s Naturalist Deconstruction of Truth
A World Fragmented in Late Nineteenth-Century
Epistemology
By Peter BornedalLexington Books
May 2022 • 340 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7932 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 9308 8 • $121.00 / £93.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7931 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book presents a new interpretation of Nietzsche’s discussions of truth and knowledge, covering the period from his early essay “On Truth and Lies” to his late notebooks. It views these discussions in the context of the neo-Kantian, Naturalist, Positivist, and Pragmatic schools influential in Nietzsche’s late nineteenth-century Europe.
Metaphysics
The Multiplicity of Interpreted Worlds
Inner and Outer Perspectives
By Donald A. CrosbyLexington Books
February 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0650 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6516 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that the subjective and the objective are crucially dependent on one another and neither is intelligible apart from the other. There is no such thing as a purely external, in-itself world. This book is not intended as a defense of epistemological relativism but as a strong recommendation for modest fallibilism and pluralism.
Metaphysics
Whitehead’s Radically Temporalist Metaphysics Recovering the Seriousness of Time
By George Allan Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2005 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0033 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2004 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book argues that Whitehead’s introduction of God into his process metaphysics renders it incoherent. Replacing roles assigned to God with the powers inherent in finite entities, George Allan recovers a coherent presentation of the truth of time’s primacy, using Whitehead’s major writings.
Metaphysics
Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition
Edited by Douglas Hochstetler - Foreword by Amby BurfootLexington Books
March 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the American Philosophy Series series
Paperback 978 1 4985 4783 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7819 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 4782 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Techno-Scientific
Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition analyzes the relationship between endurance sports and themes from the American philosophical tradition. The contributors write from a scholarly viewpoint but also informed through their own endurance sport participation.
Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul
By Carlo AlvaroLexington Books
March 2022 • 214 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9003 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0013 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9002 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Ethical veganism is the view that raising animals for food is an immoral practice that must be stopped because of the harm it causes to the animals, the environment, and our health. Carlo Alvaro argues the only way to stop that harm is to acquire the virtues that enable us to act justly and benevolently toward animals.
Mind & Body
Mind, Value, and Cosmos
On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy
By Andrew M. DavisLexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages • Part of the
Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3641 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6393 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3640 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
A engaging dialogue with the modern “axionoetic” proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie, arguing for the relational nature of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are affirmed as ultimate only in virtue of their relationality. This relationship Whitehead calls “mutual immanence.”
Mind & Body
The Ontology of Perceptual Experience
By Sebastián Sanhueza Rodríguez Lexington Books
August 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1685 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6869 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
How should we think of perceptual experiences qua dynamic phenomena? Against an increasingly popular Heraclitean approach that frames them as irreducibly dynamic, the present book argues that perceptual experiences may be described in terms of non-dynamic categories, such as properties, relations, and states.
Mind & Body
The Double Binds of Neoliberalism
Theory and Culture After 1968
Edited by Guillaume Collett and Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone - By Iain MacKenzie Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJune 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Experiments/
On the Political series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5452 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4540 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
An interdisciplinary examination of the legacies of the global 1968 uprisings from the vantage point of the current crisis of neoliberal hegemony.
Movements / Critical Theory
Imagination in Inquiry
A Philosophical Model and Its Applications
By A. Pablo IannoneLexington Books
September 2022 • 280 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4972 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9737 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Imagination in Inquiry investigates the nature, kinds, component elements, functions, scope, and uses of the imagination that are at work in inquiry. It develops a homeostatic model and discusses its applications in various branches of philosophy, from the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology to ethics and aesthetics.
Mind & Body
Schizoanalysis and Asia
Deleuze, Guattari and Postmedia
By Joff P. N. Bradley - Foreword by Toshiya Ueno Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • 368 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5775 6 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7763 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This is the first book to undertake an applied postmedia and philosophical approach to the work of Felix Guattari (and through him, Gilles Deleuze). It provides a way to understand philosophically issues in contemporary technology, social life and consumer culture in Asia.
Mind & Body
Entropic Philosophy Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation
By Shannon M. Mussett Rowman & Littlefield InternationalJanuary 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the Philosophical Projections series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1246 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7866 2472 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book traces the development of entropic themes, capturing phenomena ranging from chaos, disorder, homogenization, slackening, disspation, and ultimately death.
Movements / Critical Theory
The Ends of Critique
Methods, Institutions, Politics
Edited by Kathrin Thiele; Birgit M. Kaiser and Timothy O’Leary
Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the New Critical Humanities series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1646 3 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0534 4 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1647 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Re-examining the stakes of critique in the twenty-first century, this book contends with the complex socio-political realities of a globalized world and the changing role that critique and the academy have to play.
Movements / Critical Theory
The Fractured Subject
Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud
By Bernadette Schulz Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Founding
Critical Theory series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6336 8 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3375 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
An investigation Walter Benjamin’s conception of the subject as fractured, via a reading of Benjamin’s use of Freud; the topics cover gender, dreams, memory, childhood and mental illness.
Movements / Critical Theory
The Future of Humanity
Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age
Edited by Pavlina Radia; Sarah Fiona Winters and Laurie Kruk
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Future
Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4796 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9564 4 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0957 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century.
Movements / Critical Theory
Jacques Derrida’s Cambridge Affair Deconstruction, Philosophy and Institutionality
By Niall Gildea
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the Futures of the Archive series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4812 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 2601 1 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1261 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
This is the first study of the Cambridge Affair. Drawing upon archival and unpublished material, little-known texts pertaining to the Affair, and Derrida’s own oeuvre, this original account offers an historical and philosophical reconstruction of this crucial debate.
Movements / Deconstruction
Black Existential Freedom
By Nathalie Etoke Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 168 pages • Part of the Living
Existentialism series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5706 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3060 0 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5708 4 • $33.00 / £25.00
Black Existential Freedom looks at the ways in which Black cultural productions reflect a constant struggle for freedom and a refusal to surrender to the destructive forces of dehumanization. This book offers a counter-narrative to current Afro-Pessimist theorizations of Blackness that choose the power of death and nihilism over life.
Movements / Existentialism
The French Revolution in Theory
By Sophie Wahnich - Translated by Owen GlynWilliams Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Reinventing
Critical Theory series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1617 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7866 6197 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals and as an ethnocentric phenomenon by postcolonial studies. This book examines why.
Movements / Critical Theory
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy
By Devonya N. HavisLexington Books
December 2022 • 132 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 4985 3014 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 4985 0156 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores how vernacular practices created within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, can be understood as philosophy in their own right.
Movements / Deconstruction
Porosity between Politics and the Economy
By Egidius Berns - Edited by Frank Chouraqui Lexington Books
September 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1516 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book maps out the dynamic relations between the forces at play in politics and the economy in the West through a philosophical analysis of the relations between the concepts of politics and of the economy. It finds that their porous relations inform what it is for humans to live.
Movements / Deconstruction
How Non-being Haunts Being On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance
By Corey AntonFairleigh Dickinson University Press September 2022 • 220 pages
Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
Paperback
1 6839 3286 4
$39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
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$69.00 / £53.00
1 6839 3285 7
$38.00 / £29.00
How Non-being Haunts Being explores the many different modes of absence and non-being that pervade life, language, thought, and culture. A highly readable book of great interest to a wide audience, it ensures that readers will never think of life, death, or themselves, the same way again.
Movements / Existentialism
Mabogo P. More
Philosophical Anthropology in Azania
By Tendayi Sithole Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Creolizing the Canon series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6611 6 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6123 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This is the first book-length work to focus on the philosophical and anthropological contribution of Mabogo More, a prominent and influential black South African existentialist thinker.
Movements / Existentialism
Embodied Humanism
Toward Solidarity and Sensuous Enjoyment
By Jeff NoonanLexington Books
August 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3694 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6959 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount.
Movements / Humanism
Kant and Mysticism Critique as the Experience of Baring All in Reason’s Light
By Stephen R. Palmquist Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the
Contemporary Studies in Idealism series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0466 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4644 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0465 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Kant and Mysticism interprets Kant’s early criticism of Swedenborg’s mysticism as the fountainhead of the Critical philosophy. Kantian Critique revolutionizes not only traditional metaphysics, but also our understanding of mysticism: Critical mysticism is a unitive experience that impels us to lay bare all human pretensions to reason’s light.
Movements / Idealism
A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene Discovering Terra Incognita
By Agostino CeraLexington Books
December 2022 • 232 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3081 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0827 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism
By Lewis R. Gordon - Introduction by Mabogo Percy More Humanities PressApril 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 5739 2515 0 • $55.99 / £43.00
This book presents a philosophical journey into the Anthropocene that views this geological epoch as the potential métarécit of our age and the planetary framework within which technology becomes the environment for human life. The appropriate name for this epochal phenomenon is, as a result, not Anthropocene, but Technocene.
Movements / Phenomenology
Movements / Humanism
Happiness in Kant’s Practical Philosophy
Morality, Indirect Duties, and Welfare Rights
By Alice Pinheiro WallaLexington Books
October 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the
Contemporary Studies in Idealism series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3354 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3552 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyses Kant’s assumptions about happiness and the implications they have for his moral, political, and legal thought. It provides a “map” of the different areas in which the concept of happiness appears in his practical philosophy and examines how it relates to the main themes of his practical philosophy.
Movements / Idealism
Schelling on Truth and Person
The Meaning of Positive Philosophy
By Nikolaj ZunicLexington Books
August 2022 • 310 pages • Part of the
Contemporary Studies in Idealism series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1588 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5891 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book reinterprets Friedrich Schelling’s (1775–1854) positive philosophy as humanity’s striving for truth. It presents truth in the context of the historical phenomena of mythology and religion and the anthropological categories of the soul, spirit, and personality.
Movements / Idealism
Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility in the Early Heidegger
By Hans Pedersen
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 190 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4832 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 2557 7 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1256 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book employs Heidegger’s work of the 1920s and early 1930s to develop distinctively Heideggerian accounts of agency, freedom, and responsibility, making the case that Heidegger’s thought provides a compelling alternative to the mainstream philosophical accounts of these concepts.
Movements / Phenomenology
Before God Exercises in Subjectivity
By Steven DeLay
Rowman & Littlefield International
June 2022 • 200 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4814 3 • $39.95 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 3165 5 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1317 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this original work, Steven DeLay, using a wide breadth of philosophical sources, articulates a view of selfhood which emphasizes humanity’s ineluctable experience before-God
Movements / Phenomenology
Feelings of Believing Psychology, History, Phenomenology
By Ryan Hickerson
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 1 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7719 9 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7175 5 • $121.00 / £93.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7718 2 • $40.50 / £31.00
In Feelings of Believing, Ryan Hickerson interprets the doxastic theories of Hume, Descartes, Husserl, and James in light of empirical work on attention and overconfidence. It brings together the history of philosophy, phenomenology, and psychology.
Movements / Phenomenology
Historical Imagination Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative
By Paul Fairfield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 176 pages • Part of the Social Imaginaries series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5653 7 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6544 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a phenomenological and hermeneutical investigation into the nature of historical imagination. Carefully defining historical imagination, the book probes the relationship between the imaginative and the empirical, as well as the relationship between historical understanding and self-understanding
Movements / Phenomenology
Ontological Branding Power, Privilege, and White Supremacy in a Colorblind World
By Bonard Iván Molina García
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 150 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0235 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2365 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Applying Heideggerian tool ontology to antiblack racism in the United States, Ontological Branding argues that race is a tool to constrain nonwhite persons, especially Black persons, to ways of being in service to the white world. U.S. law’s colorblind “equality” safeguards white supremacy, and racial justice instead requires ontological equality. Movements / Phenomenology
Evil and Givenness
The Thanatonic Phenomenon
By Brian W. BeckerLexington Books
February 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5116 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Evil and Givenness describes a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil. The central concept in this work, the thanatonic, identifies that phenomenality proper to evil, arriving by a parasitic mode of givenness and manifesting itself through four figures: trauma, the evil eye, the foreign-body, and the abject.
Movements / Phenomenology
Heidegger and the Holy
Edited by Richard Capobianco
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6252 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2538 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The first book on the notion of the Holy in Heidegger, this collection evokes a poetic sense of awe before the divine present in his philosophical approach.
Movements / Phenomenology
Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language
By Dimitris Apostolopoulos Rowman & Littlefield InternationalMarch 2022 • 326 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4798 6 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 1994 4 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1200 7 • $37.00 / £28.00
Through accessible analyses of Merleau-Ponty’s views of linguistic expression and understanding, and by tracing the evolution of these views throughout the course of his philosophical career, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language offers a comprehensive picture of his engagement with the philosophy of language.
Movements / Phenomenology
Ontologies of Sex Philosophy in Sexual Politics
By Zeynep Direk
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Reframing the
Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4819 8 • $39.95 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 6631 1 • $126.00 / £97.00
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This book examines feminist philosophical analyses of sexual oppression of women by men, and brings them into conversation with phenomenological, ontological and psychoanalytical accounts of erotic experience and sexual difference.
Movements / Phenomenology
The Crowdsourced Panopticon
Conformity and Control on Social Media
By Jeremy Weissman Rowman & Littlefield InternationalOctober 2022 • 158 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7409 8 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4312 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4433 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
Informed by critiques of conformity and mass media by some of the greatest philosophers of the past two centuries, as well as by a wide range of historical and empirical studies, Weissman helps shed light on what may happen when our lives are increasingly broadcast online for everyone all the time, to be judged by the global community.
Movements / Phenomenology
The Sonic Gaze
Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening
By T Storm Heter Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Living
Existentialism series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6261 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2620 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6263 7 • $32.00 / £25.00
This book argues that whiteness is not only a visual orientation; it is a way of hearing. Inspired by the understandings of race and whiteness in the existential writings of Fanon, Beauvoir, Sartre, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis, this book introduces students to the notion of the white sonic gaze.
Movements / Phenomenology
Transcending Reason Heidegger on Rationality
Edited by Matthew Burch and Irene McMullin Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 316 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4820 4 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9588 8 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0959 5 • $37.00 / £28.00
This book offers the first edited volume to thematically foreground Heidegger’s complex relation to “the life of reason” and its relation to normativity. Authored by world-class phenomenologists and Heidegger scholars, it presents cutting-edge, convention-challenging scholarship on Heidegger’s relationship to the phenomenological traditions.
Movements / Phenomenology
We as Self Ouri, Intersubjectivity, and Presubjectivity
By Hye Young Kim Lexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5467 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4657 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5466 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
In our modern time of division, who belongs to the we is an important and underexamined area of philosophical investigation. This book offers another way of understanding we-ness by adopting diverse linguocultural traditions in a philosophical investigation of selfhood.
Movements / Phenomenology
The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology
Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn
By Anna Jani Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 266 pages • Part of the Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4900 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9010 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Anna Jani interprets the relationship between phenomenology and ontology by redefining its goals, methodological focuses, and key figures. The common methodology of hermeneutical phenomenology originates from the question on being, which resembles religious experiences in certain ways.
Movements / Phenomenology
Towards a Polemical Ethics Between Heidegger and Plato
By Gregory Fried Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7406 7 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 0003 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1002 7 • $37.00 / £28.00
This book presents an original and creative enactment of a confrontation between Heidegger and Plato. Gregory Fried outlines a new approach to ethics and politics combining skeptical idealism and what he calls polemical ethics, and goes on to apply polemical ethics to the crucial questions around fascism and racism.
Movements / Phenomenology
Transforming the Theological Turn Phenomenology with Emmanuel Falque
Edited by Martin Koci and Jason Alvis
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 214 pages • Part of the Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4834 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 6227 7 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1623 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
In this collection, the question “Must we cross the Rubicon?” is central. However, rather than simply opposing or subscribing to Falque’s position, the individual chapters of this book interrogate and critically reflect on the relationship between theology and philosophy, offering novel perspectives and redrawing the outlines of their borderlands.
Movements / Phenomenology
The Place of the Mosque Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power
By Akel Isma’il Kahera Lexington Books
June 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Toposophia:
Thinking Place/Making Space series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4687 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6880 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Place of the Mosque probes a host of discursive formations—spaces of public assembly and social interaction, quotidian practices, disputed sites, and biopolitics—while critiquing their peculiar anomalies. It goes beyond architectural criticism to emphasize the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of place and space.
Movements / Post-Structuralism
Peirce’s Pragmaticism
A Radical Perspective
By E. San Juan Jr.Lexington Books
July 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1309 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3101 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
E. San Juan Jr. examines Peirce’s discourses on semiotics, ethics, and aesthetics and suggests their analogies with the radical critiques of Marx and other progressive trends.
Movements / Pragmatism
Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the AnalyticSynthetic Distinction
By Robert Sinclair Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the American
Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1820 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8214 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an in-depth examination of C.I. Lewis’s conceptual pragmatism and its influence on Quine’s developing views in epistemology. The author shows how Quine’s engagement with problems presented by Lewis, such as analyticity and the empirical given, contribute to the development of his conception of naturalized epistemology.
Movements / Pragmatism
William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism, A Critical Edition
Edited by H. G. Callaway
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the American Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5314 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3154 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This new critical edition is an examination of William James’s Essays in Radical Empiricism in light of the scientific naturalism prominent in James’s Principles of Psychology (1890) and the subsequent development of Darwinian, functional psychology and functionalism in psychology, the philosophy psychology and the philosophy of mind.
Movements / Pragmatism
Materialist Philosophy of History A Realist Antidote to Postmodernism
By Branko Mitrović
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 282 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2002 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0002 2 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2001 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the wide-ranging implications for historical research of the view that everything is physical and that no immaterial entities, forces, or phenomena exist. It presents the consequences of materialism for our understanding of the historical past, including the rejection of postmodernist perspectives on history.
Movements / Realism
Pragmatism, Technology, and the Persistence of the Postmodern
By Andrew Wells GarnarLexington Books
May 2022 • 194 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9761 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
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eBook 978 1 4985 9760 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book reconstructs the postmodern in light of an analysis of technology through classical pragmatism. It provides a pragmatic interpretation of information and communication technologies, exploring how social interactions occur through these technologies, and ways to democratically address the challenges of postmodernity.
Movements / Pragmatism
Rationalist Pragmatism
A Framework for Moral Objectivism
By Mitchell SilverLexington Books
May 2022 • 230 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0541 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
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Ratonalist Pragmatism argues that our interest in truth—our rational nature as practical and theoretical beings—forms us as a community of mutually recognizing truth seekers and creates the possibility of objective moral knowledge.
Movements / Pragmatism
The Philosophy of Practical Affairs
An Introduction
By Joseph AgassiLexington Books
December 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the Philosophical Practice series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5173 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1747 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book addresses the problems of everyday life faced by twentyfirst-century individuals and explores practical questions central to philosophy of life: What is a good life? What makes a life good or satisfactory? What is the proper aim of life?
Movements / Rationalism
Sport Realism
A Law-Inspired Theory of Sport
By Aaron Harper Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the Studies in Philosophy of Sport series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2008 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0093 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Aaron Harper defends a new theory of sport—sport realism—focusing on sport operations and the decisions made by sports officials like umpires and referees. Sport realism offers an explanation of sport as it is played, along with normative assessment of ethical issues in sport like cheating and rules disputes.
Movements / Realism
Thoreau’s Pedagogy of Awakening
By Clodomir Barros de Andrade Hamilton BooksFebruary 2022 • 146 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7272 6 • $30.99 / £23.99
eBook 978 0 7618 2733 3 • $29.00 / £21.99
This book is a poetic and philosophic meditation on Thoreau’s work, highlighting his “pedagogy of awakening”, that is, a path towards a nondual and enlightening experience with nature.
Movements / Transcendentalism
The Mediation Theory of Technology
Toward a Social Science Philosophy of Technology
By Frederic J. Fleron Jr. Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6201 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2026 6 • $ / £
This book explores a new wave in the philosophy of technology from the perspective of the Mediation Theory of Technology (MTT) and the Social Science Philosophy of Technology (SSPT). These ground-breaking approaches transcend the weaknesses of what Carl Mitcham has labelled the Engineering Philosophy of Technology and the Humanities Philosophy of Technology. Philosophy of Technology
Africa beyond Liberal Democracy
In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Reginald M.J. Oduor Lexington Books
June 2022 • 298 pages • Part of the African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1381 1 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3828 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The contributors to this volume ask whether democracy is universal or culturally bound, how the adoption of Western liberal models of democracy has hindered democratisation in Africa, and how indigenous African political thought can be utilised to design models of democracy suitable for twenty-first-century African countries.
Political
Against Values
How to Talk About the Good in a Postliberal Era
By Philip J. Harold Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6980 3 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9810 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Post-Automobility Futures Technology, Power, and Imaginaries
By Robert Braun and Richard Randell Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5885 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8869 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents an in-depth phenomenological and deconstructive analysis of the automobility imaginary, which is none other than the mundane automobility reality within which we dwell in everyday life.
Philosophy of Technology
A New Politics for Philosophy
Perspectives on Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss
Edited by George A. Dunn and Mango Telli Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 358 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7732 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7335 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, this international group of scholars offer meticulous interpretations of key philosophical works by Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss.
Political
Afrocubanas
History, Thought, and Cultural Practices
Edited by Devyn Spence Benson; Daisy Rubiera Castillo and Inés María Martiatu Terry - Translated by Karina Alma Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 398 pages • Part of the Creolizing the Canon series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4822 8 • $39.95 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4810 0 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1482 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
There is no other published work in English devoted to analyzing the political and intellectual dimensions of black Cuban women’s thought across the island’s history. This text is essential reading for students of Afro-Latin American studies, Caribbean history, or courses focussing on black women in the Atlantic region.
Political
Anti-Colonial Solidarity
Race, Reconciliation, and MENA Liberation
By George N. Fourlas Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 200 pages • Part of the
Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4145 8 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1465 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4147 2 • $33.50 / £26.00
As a systematic introduction to the philosophical foundations of postliberalism, this timely book reveals how the idea of personal values have served to divide and segregate people rather than uniting them under a shared common good. Also discussed are the contemporary interplay of sovereignty and morality and religion and politics.
Political
Entangled in misrecognition, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) perceived people are socially and politically vulnerable throughout the colonized world. Anti-Colonial relational existence is possible through careful social labor, and cases of MENA communities prove that such normative praxis is not merely wishful thinking.
Political
Black Men from behind the Veil Ontological Interrogations
Edited by George Yancy
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0647 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6486 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Black Men from Behind the Veil bears witness to anti-Black male violence and does so from the perspective of Black male scholars who disclose their fears and what it means to suffer as Black men, courageously marking the deep material, institutional, and epistemic structures that amplify that fear and suffering.
Political
Boris Hessen and Philosophy
The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics
By Sean Winkler Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the
Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4758 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7597 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
Sean Winkler provides a comprehensive reading of the work of pioneering figure to the history and philosophy of science, Boris Hessen. This analysis of Hessen’s oeuvre engages with texts previously unstudied in the English and includes translations crucial to understanding Hessen’s importance to modern physics.
Political
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg
Edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Drucilla Cornell Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 512 pages • Part of the Creolizing the Canon series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5552 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4421 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1443 8 • $47.50 / £37.00
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg brings together a global community of writers to revisit key aspects of Luxemburg’s thought, from the accumulation of capital, to the mass strike, to her debate with Vladimir Lenin on the meaning of socialism, and her searing critiques of colonialism as inherent to capitalist accumulation.
Political
Democracy in Spite of the Demos
From Arendt to the Frankfurt School
By Larry Alan Busk
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 194 pages • Part of the Reinventing
Critical Theory series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4817 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 5251 1 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1526 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
The book calls into the question the critical value of the concept of “democracy” at a time characterized by the rise of Right-wing populist movements and the persistence of pathological political beliefs (such as climate skepticism).
Political
Blackening Britain Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization
By James G. Cantres Rowman & Littlefield InternationalSeptember 2022 • 270 pages • Part of the Global Critical Caribbean Thought series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4840 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 3544 4 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4355 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
Blackening Britain explores the key moments, figures, and patterns of radical black political development among Caribbean and African migrants in Britain after World War II. Ultimately, the move away from British identity and a radical, revolutionary consciousness rooted in the West Indian background was forged in the contentious space of Britain.
Political
Creolizing Practices of Freedom Recognition and Dissonance
By Michael J. Monahan Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Creolizing the Canon series
Hardback 978 1 5381 7461 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4623 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Articulating a creolizing theory of freedom and liberation, this book emphasizes a dynamic account of existence by appealing to a sonic metaphor of resonance and dissonance. It draws together a diverse set of figures and traditions including G.W.F. Hegel, Steve Biko, Gloria Anzaldúa, Sylvia Wynter, and Lewis Gordon.
Political
Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges
Edited by Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso; María Lugones and Nelson Maldonado-Torres Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Global Critical Caribbean Thought series Hardback 978 1 5381 5311 6 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3123 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an introduction to the key arguments in decolonial feminism, particularly, the coloniality of gender, the critique of white and Eurocentric feminisms, the imbrication between gender, race, and colonialism, feminicides, and the coloniality of democracy and public institutions.
Political
Dialogue and the New Cosmopolitanism
Conversations with Edward Demenchonok
Edited by Fred Dallmayr
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 494 pages • Part of the Philosophy and Cultural Identity series Hardback 978 1 6669 1945 5 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 6669 9462 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book stands in opposition to the doctrine that might makes right and that the goal of politics is to establish domination rather than justice and the good life for all. Its chapters present conversations with Edward Demenchonok from a number of perspectives: philosophical, anthropological, cultural, and ethical.
Political
Foucault and Governmentality
Living to Work in the Age of Control
By Benda Hofmeyr Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1172 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1734 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Drawing upon political philosophy and political economy, Benda Hofmeyr presents a Foucaultian analysis and historical contextualisation of the rise of neo-liberal governmentality. Historical, sociological and cultural studies help excavate the geneaology of the capitalist subject within the neo-liberal governmental context of the last four decades.
Political
Marx after the Kyoto School
Utopia and the Pure Land
By Bradley Kaye Rowman & Littlefield InternationalFebruary 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the CEACOP
East Asian Comparative Ethics, Politics and Philosophy of Law series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5407 6 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4083 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Showing key connections between Marx’s oeuvre and Buddhist thought, this book demonstrates connections between Marx and Nishida Kitaro, who many consider the key Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School of Philosophy, the first modern philosophers in Japan.
Political
Political Loneliness Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding
By Jennifer Gaffney
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Philosophical
Projections series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4831 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 6945 5 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0695 2 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book deepens and challenges discourses in current continental philosophy relating to the experience of alienation and the conditions for communal life.
Political
Progressive Anonymity From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government
By Naomi Zack Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 212 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7410 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 6034 4 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3604 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
Continuing her visionary work in social-political philosophy, Zack critiques identity politics as perpetuating damaging essentialist perspectives and policies. The antidote to identity group egoism is anonymity based on relevant shared interests and a meritocracy led by experts chosen without preference for group affiliation or political charisma.
Political
Frantz Fanon
The Politics and Poetics of the Postcolonial Subject
By Alejandro J. De Oto - Translated by Karina Alma Rowman & Littlefield InternationalFebruary 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Global Critical Caribbean Thought series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1348 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7866 3509 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Focusing on the contributions of Frantz Fanon’s writing to the construction of a theory of the postcolonial subject, this book engages post-structuralist discussions on subjectivity and explores the most important readings and discussions of Fanon’s work.
Political
Nietzsche and Tocqueville on the Democratization of Humanity
By David A. Eisenberg
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 364 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2789 6
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 7872 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2788 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an extended examination of Nietzsche and Tocqueville’s political thought, with an eye to shedding light on history’s democratic drift. It looks not only to a future that filled both thinkers with dread, but also to an aristocratic past that has been all but drowned beneath democracy’s shallow waters.
Political
Primal Philosophy Rousseau with Laplanche
By Lucas Fain Rowman & Littlefield InternationalAugust 2022 • 216 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4839 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 6187 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4619 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
After the epoch of the “end of metaphysics” and the attendant disasters of twentieth-century political violence, this book initiates a renewed inquiry into the responsibility of the philosopher and its rootedness in the possibility of philosophy itself.
Political
Sartre, Imagination and Dialectical Reason
Creating Society as a Work of Art
By Austin Hayden Smidt Rowman & Littlefield InternationalMarch 2022 • 302 pages • Part of the Reframing
the Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5307 9 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 1673 3 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1168 0 • $37.00 / £28.00
There are perpetual debates about the extent of freedom in politics. Are we free to choose? Are we overdetermined by our material conditions? Some hybrid between the two? In this text, Austin Hayden Smidt analyzes an oft-overlooked text by Jean-Paul Sartre in order to ground a logical framework for exploring this problem.
Political
The Conformist Rebellion
Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left
Edited by Elena Louisa Lange and Joshua PickettDepaolis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 326 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6015 2 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0169 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
The contrast between the Marxian emancipatory project and what the progressive left has made of it has never been more glaring than now, a time in which capital no longer seems to confront a political barrier. It is this predicament that The Conformist Rebellion evaluates, for a renewed approach to emancipation from capital.
Political
The Future of the State
Philosophy and Politics
Edited by Artemy Magun
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 296 pages • Part of the Future Perfect:
Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4980 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4834 4 • $147.00 / £113.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1484 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
The state has been a dominant political form for at least the last two hundred years. This is a multi-authored volume exploring the transformation of state as it experiences historical and conceptual crisis and envisioning how it could be re-constituted.
Political
The Politicization of Trans Identity
An Analysis of Backlash, Scapegoating, and DogWhistling from Obergefell to Bostock
By Loren Cannon Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2381 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3829 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The politicization of trans identity—also affecting gender non-binary and gender non-conforming persons—is a form of backlash to the Obergefell ruling (legalizing same sex marriage) and increased LGBTQ equality. This book provides a conceptual analysis and application of the notions of backlash, scapegoating, dog whistling, and virtue signaling.
Political
Today’s Struggles, Tomorrow’s Revolutions
Afro-Caribbean Liberatory Thought
By Drucilla Cornell Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 144 pages • Part of the Global
Critical Caribbean Thought series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6848 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8493 3 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6850 9 • $29.00 / £21.99
Influential political theorist Drucilla Cornell challenges readers to rethink the class struggle and the battle against racialized capitalism, and to reconceptualize the ideas of revolution, liberation and rebellion themselves, by focusing on the great revolutionary theorist CLR James.
Political
The Democracy Manifesto
A Dialogue on Why Elections Need to be Replaced with Sortition
By Wayne Waxman and Alison McCullochLexington Books
January 2022 • 198 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5398 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3994 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Elections are not the solution to political crisis, they’re the problem. In lively dialogue form, The Democracy Manifesto explains why elections are anti-democratic and should be replaced with government in which decision-makers are randomly selected from the population at large.
Political
The Militant Intellect
Critical Theory’s Conceptual Personae
By Andrés Fabián Henao Castro Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4509 8 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5111 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Re-envisioning the relationship between critical theory and politics, this book argues that critical theory cultivates the militancy of the general intellect by training that intellect to work toward the intersectional and structural death of the colonist and thus to envision the materialization of the feministdecolonial-communist-queer-marronage world that constitutes its horizon.
Political
The Politics of Desire
Foucault, Deleuze, and Psychoanalysis
Edited by Agustín Colombo; Edward McGushin and Geoff Pfeifer
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4424 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4251 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book gathers contributions from international scholars with the aim of exploring the political reflection of Deleuze-Guattari’s and Foucault’s critical encounter with psychoanalytic thought: their possible connections, their divergences and the fields of reflection that this encounter opens, the problems and debates that lead Foucault and Deleuze to engage with psychoanalysis.
Political
White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility
Transforming Collective Harm beyond the Punishment Paradigm
By Eva Boodman
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 168 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3901 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9028 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility addresses the problem of white denial. Rejecting punitive moralities that reproduce white innocence and encourage absolution, Eva Boodman makes the case for a transformative whiteness that dismantles the moral, racial, political, and affective constructs that keep racial capitalism in place.
Political
Xenophon’s Socratic Rhetoric
Virtue, Eros, and Philosophy in the Symposium
By Dustin A. GishLexington Books
December 2022 • 424 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0316 4 • $155.00 / £119.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3171 1 • $60.00 / £46.00
In one of the most charming works to survive from classical antiquity, Xenophon’s Symposium depicts an amiable evening of wine, entertainment, and conversation shared by Socrates, and a few of his associates, with certain Athenian gentlemen who are gathered to honor a young man for his recent victory in the Panathenaic games.
Political
Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Melioristic Case Studies
By Ulf ZackariassonLexington Books
February 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the American
Philosophy Series series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0301 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3027 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Taking the pragmatic insistence on the primacy of practice seriously, this book argues for the fruitfulness of a pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics within the philosophy of religion: miracles, religious diversity, and what it is to be religiously mistaken.
Religious
African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities
Re-reading the Canon
Edited by Aretha Phiri Lexington Books
March 2022 • 180 pages • Part of the African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7126 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1241 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7125 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This volume probes the interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy within the context of epistemological decolonization and the (South) African scholarly transformation project. The contributors map out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.
Social
Climate Engineering A Normative Perspective
By Daniel Edward CalliesLexington Books
March 2022 • 210 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8669 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 6672 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
978 1 4985 8668 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Should we research, develop, and deploy climate engineering technology? Drawing upon contemporary moral and political theory, this book offers a normative perspective on such questions, ultimately making the case in favor of research and regulation guided by norms of legitimacy, distributive justice, and procedural justice.
Social
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity
A Philosophical Appraisal
By John H. McClendon IIILexington Books
September 2022 • 260 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8537 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 5354 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8536 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity constitutes a philosophical inquiry on Black Theology and its attendant Black Christology. This text critically expounds on the methodologies and arguments, which guide how Black Theology specifically affirms Black Christology as the definitive paradigm for authentic Christianity.
Religious
A Critique of Liberal Cynicism
Peter Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical Liberalism
By Will BarnesLexington Books
August 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5566 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5677 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Focusing on the philosophical work of Judith Butler and Peter Sloterdijk, A Critique of Liberal Cynicism diagnoses—and proposes an immanent critique of—a form of cynicism dominant in popular and academic culture.
Social
American Imaginaries Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas
By Jeremy C.A. Smith
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 236 pages • Part of the Social Imaginaries series
Hardback 978 1 7866 0967 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7866 9694 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book studies the diverse societies, cities, nations, economies, and regions of the Americas as they emerged in the Western hemisphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on the paradigms of social imaginaries and civilizational analysis, it explores regions of Central America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America.
Social
Digital Working Lives Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy
By Tim Christiaens Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Off the
Fence: Morality, Politics and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 7373 2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3749 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Christiaens argues that digital technologies are fundamentally undermining workers’ autonomy by enacting systems of surveillance that lead to exploitation, alienation, and exhaustion. For a more sustainable future of work, digital technologies should support human development instead of subordinating it to algorithmic control.
Social
Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony
Can I Get a Witness?
By Lissa SkitolskyLexington Books
May 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Paperback 978 1 4985 6672 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 6704 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6671 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The author defends the philosophical value of underground hip-hop through illustrating how the culture significantly contributes to debates in multiple academic fields. She also examines the exclusion of hiphop from discourses on knowledge, racism, genocide and trauma as a reflection of the neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes.
Social
Philosophical Children in Literary Situations Toward a Phenomenology of Childhood
By Peter Costello
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Childhood series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0454 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4521 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0453 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is a series of readings of phenomenological texts and novels for children that carves out an interdisciplinary space that allows phenomenology to offer provocative literary analyses.
Social
Responses to a Pandemic
Philosophical and Political Reflections
Edited by Anna Gotlib
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 250 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5404 5 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4052 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a unique collection of philosophers engaging in public philosophy, offering responses to, and reflections on, the moral, political, social, and medical dilemmas born of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social
The Philosophy of Sex
Contemporary Readings, Eighth Edition
Edited by Raja Halwani; Jacob M. Held; Natasha McKeever and Alan Soble
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 664 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5536 3 • $140.00 / £108.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5370 0 • $75.00 / £58.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5538 7 • $71.00 / £55.00
With 7 new essays, the 8th edition of this best-selling text examines
desire; rape;
asexual, queer, and
Social
Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport, Second Edition
By Heather Reid
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 304 pages • Part of the Elements of Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5619 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6209 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5621 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
This comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of sport progresses through metaphysical, ethical, and sociopolitical issues, while incorporating specific concerns of today’s athletic world. The second edition features expanded sections on political issues, sex and gender, sports in the education world, and the risks of injury and violence.
Social
Race, Gender, and the History of Early Analytic Philosophy
By Matt LaVineLexington Books
May 2022 • 270 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9557 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 5551 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9556 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Matt LaVine argues that there is more potential in bringing the history of early analytic philosophy and critical theories of race and gender together than has been traditionally recognized. In particular, he explores the changes associated with a shift from revolutionary aspects of early analytic philosophy.
Social
Terrorism Unjustified
The Use and Misuse of Political Violence
By Vicente MedinaRowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 280 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7122 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4422 3513 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4422 5352 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
Vicente Medina challenges common misconceptions and excuses for extreme political violence and differentiates between justified political violence and unjustifiable terrorism. Medina draws on philosophical concepts like just war theory while adding social and political science perspectives to contextualize today’s terrorism within current international law and moral attitudes.
Social
Violence and Reflexivity
The Place of Critique in the Reality of Domination
Edited by Marjan Ivković; Adriana Zaharijević and Gazela Pudar Draško
Lexington Books
May 2022
Hardback
200 pages
6669 1018
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This book presents a multi-faceted reconsideration of dominant approaches to violence and social critique. Its unifying thread is a dedication to overcoming violence and domination on a scale larger than individual micro-resistances, even as many contributors reject programmatic thought and “self-possessed” political action.
Social
Unreliable Watchdog
The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy
By Ted Galen Carpenter Cato InstituteNovember 2022 • 320 pages
Hardback 978 1 9522 2333 4 • $24.95 / £18.99
Unreliable Watchdog explores the news media’s poor performance in monitoring the blunders and abuses that have marked U.S. foreign policy and national security issues during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.
American Foreign Policy
Economic Report of the President, April 2022
Together with the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers
By Executive Office of the President U.S. Government ReprintsJuly 2022 • 432 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1092 1 • $64.00 / £49.00
The Economic Report of the President provides valuable information about the present state of the U.S. economy and its future course. For more than 70 years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how administrations have interpreted economic developments, motivated policies, and the results of those interventions.
American Government / Executive Branch
Rivals for Power
Presidential-Congressional Relations, Seventh Edition
Edited by James A. Thurber Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 366 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 0077 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0783 3 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0079 0 • $40.00 / £31.00
Intended for students, scholars, public officials, and the general public, Rivals for Power offers an accessible and engaging analysis of executive and legislative rivalry across a span of eras, with particular attention to developments from the Obama, Trump, and Biden presidencies.
American Government / Executive Branch
Trump and Mussolini
Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists
By Anna Camaiti Hostert and Enzo Antonio Cicchino
- Preface by Anthony Julian Tamburri
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
December 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Hardback 978 1 6839 3366 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3670 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Trump and Mussolini depicts two historic individuals, though divided by a century—the former at the dawn of mass society, the latter of social networking—as men of beginnings, exploiting these unique moments to their advantage and utilizing rhetoric, mannerism, and body language as weapons of communication often against truth and common good.
American Government / Executive Branch
Campaign for President The Managers Look at 2020
By The Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6678 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6796 6 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6680 2 • $33.00 / £25.00
In this book, a distinguished group of presidential campaign staff, journalists, and political observers take us inside the 2020 race for the Republican and Democratic nominations and general election, guiding us through each candidate’s campaign from through the primaries, conventions, and up to election day.
American Government / Executive Branch
Presidential Leadership Politics and Policy Making, Twelfth Edition
By George C. Edwards III; Kenneth R. Mayer and Stephen J. Wayne Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 632 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 3610 2 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6119 9 • $80.50 / £62.00
With a focus on presidential leadership, the authors address the capacity of chief executives to fulfill their tasks, exercise their powers, and utilize their organizational structures to affect the output of government. Richly illustrated with timely examples, this text examines all aspects of the presidency, up to and including the administration of President Joe Biden.
American Government / Executive Branch
The Real World of American Politics
A Documentary Introduction
By Chris Koski and Peter Steinberger
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 656 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 0546 7 ß • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0548 1 • $42.50 / £33.00
The first documentary introduction to American government allows students to experience directly the inner workings of American politics. A brief introductory headnote and guiding questions support each document, while carefully curated excerpts focus student’s attention on the most salient characteristics of each source.
American Government / Executive Branch
Partisanship and Polarization
American Party Platforms, 1840-1896
By Adam M. Silver Lexington Books
June 2022 • 370 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 8556 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5576 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume examines the national and state party platforms of the Democrats, Whigs, and Republicans in nineteenth-century America. Overall, each major party presents a consistent message to the voters and policy positions that often conflict with those of the other party, depicting partisanship and polarization.
American Government / General
Understanding Presidential Doctrines
U.S. National Security from George Washington to Joe Biden
By Aiden Warren and Joseph M. Siracusa Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5526 4 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5257 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5527 1 • $42.50 / £33.00
This new and expanded edition of Presidential Doctrines offers a comprehensive analysis of past and present US presidential doctrine, from George Washington to the beginnings of the Biden administration.
American Government / General
Breaking the Promise of Brown
The Resegregation of America’s Schools
By Stephen Breyer - Introduction by Thiru Vignarajah Brookings Institution PressApril 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3166 5 • $19.99 / £14.99
eBook 978 0 8157 1887 7 • $15.99 / £11.99
American Government / Judicial Branch
FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980
By José Angel GutiérrezLexington Books
May 2022 • 380 pages • Part of the Latinos and American Politics series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1582 4 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5800 0 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1581 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
Utilizing FBI surveillance documents this multi-chapter book reveals hidden histories of five persons, two organizations, and one event all related to Mexicans and their Chicanos in the U.S.
American Government / Local
FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940–1980 The Eagle Is Watching
By José Angel Gutiérrez
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 274 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2455 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4536 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2454 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940-1980 is a multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on multiple, well known Mexican and Chicanos, as well as the Texas Farm Workers Union and the American G.I. Forum and, the Zoot Suit police riots in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s.
American Government / National
Votes at 16 Youth Enfranchisement and the Renewal of American Democracy
By Niall Guy Michelsen
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 158 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1144 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1420 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1143 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
Using voter turnout data and demographics, Niall Guy Michelsen argues that lowering the voting age to 16 would help young adults develop voting habits and raise voter turnout, closing the voting gap between college and non-college citizens and making the American electorate more representative of the country’s citizens.
American Government / GeneralA Social Theory of Congress Legislative Norms in the Twenty-First Century
By Brian Alexander Lexington Books
August 2022 • 1 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0129 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 1278 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0128 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Norms play an important role in the functioning of the U.S. Congress. The first book-length treatment of the topic in over fifteen years, A Social Theory of Congress addresses what are norms, what congressional norms exist, and what effects norms have, and adds a new theoretical perspective to consider Congress.
American Government / Legislative Branch
Hyperlocal Place Governance in a Fragmented World
Edited by Jennifer S. Vey and Nate Storring Brookings Institution Press
October 2022 • 300 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3957 9 • $34.99 / £27.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9586 6
American Government / Local
Overcoming Trumpery
How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy
By Norman Eisen Brookings Institution PressMarch 2022 • 320 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3967 8 • $34.99 / £27.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9685 5 • $27.99 / £21.99
American Government / National
Presidential Swing States, Third Edition
Edited by David Schultz and Rafael Jacob
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 404 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1496 4 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4971 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
Jacob and Schultz examine in this new and updated volume the phenomena of presidential swing states in the 2016 US presidential election. They explore the reasons why some states and, now counties, seem repeatedly to be the focus of candidate attention and capable of voting for either of the major candidates and being decisive in determining who wins the presidency.
American Government / National
The United States Government Manual 2021
Edited by National Archives and Records Administration
U.S. Government Reprints
April 2022 • 724 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1091 4 • $39.00 / £30.00
Known as the official handbook of the federal government, this annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, boards, commissions, and committees.
American Government / National
Book Banning in 21st-Century America
By Emily J. M. Knox Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Beta Phi Mu Scholars series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7112 7 • $35.00 / £27.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4422 1672 2 • $98.00 / £75.00 eBook 978 1 4422 3168 9 • $33.00 / £25.00
Book Banning in 21st Century America, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries.
Censorship
Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America
Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley Lexington Books
March 2022 • 326 pages • Part of the Political Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0067 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 6669 0699
eBook 978 1 6669
The Administrative State Before the Supreme Court
Perspectives on the Nondelegation Doctrine
Edited by Peter J. Wallison and John YooAEI Press
April 2022 • 398 pages
Hardback 978 0 8447 5042 2 • $110 / £85
Paperback 978 0 8447 0439 9 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 0 8447 5044 6 • $40.00 / £31.00
In this book, legal scholars outline how and why the Supreme Court should revitalize the nondelegation doctrine—which has not been invoked since 1935. If the Court does so, it will protect the constitutional separation of powers and require Congress to make the difficult political decisions that a legislature should make in a democratic society.
American Government / National
Freedom in the 50 States
An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom, Sixth Edition
By William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens Cato InstituteFebruary 2022 • 312 pages
Paperback 978 1 9522 2326 6 • $24.95 / £18.99
$42.99 / £33.00
$40.50 / £31.00
This collection of essays discusses the concepts of citizenship and civic leadership in light of contemporary challenges to American democracy. The authors invite further reflection on the features of citizenship and civic leadership under the American Constitution, and offer various suggestions about how to revitalize citizenship and civic leaders Civics & Citizenship
The sixth edition of this study ranks the American states according to how their public policies affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.
American Government / State
Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship
Edited by Agnes Czajka and Áine O’BrienRowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1278 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 7877 3706 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1280 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited volume explores the contribution of migrant and refugee artists to the performance and production of radical democratic citizenship in Europe.
Civics & Citizenship
Doing Politics with Citizen Art
By Fawn Daphne Plessner Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 240 pages • Part of the Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5147 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1488 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book distinguishes ‘citizen art’ from within the field of social and activist art practices and examines how it performs new modes of citizenship.
Civics & Citizenship
Political Refugees
A New Perspective
By Armin Danesh and Alison Assiter Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 182 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6138 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1395 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Coupling existential themes with politics and psychology, this book tells the story of Iranian political refugees through case studies and coauthor Armin Danesh’s own personal narrative. All the refugees featured in this book were politically engaged and suffered as a consequence, but their stories demonstrate the human capacity to be transformed through crisis.
Civics & Citizenship
Diplomatic Para-citations
Genre, Foreign Bodies, and the Ethics of Cohabitation
By Sam Okoth Opondo Rowman & Littlefield InternationalFebruary 2022 • 662 pages • Part of the Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1584 8 • $195.00 / £150.00
eBook 978 1 7866 5862 2 • $75.00 / £58.00
This book combines poetry, prose, and theory in ways that speak to each other to offer new insight to the connectedness of the colonial world.
Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
A Critical Evaluation of “Territorial Separation” as a Method of Addressing Ethnic Conflicts
The Case of Kirkuk
By Ako S. JalalLexington Books
August 2022 • 218 pages • Part of the Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1063 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0643 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
A Critical Evaluation of “Territorial Separation” as a Method of Addressing Ethnic Conflicts addresses the question of how to address ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk as a diverse multi-ethnic city. It analyzes territorial separation as a new untested method to address ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk.
Comparative Politics
The Rise of Regions
Conflict and Cooperation
Edited by Ronald L. Tammen and Jacek Kugler
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 328 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7115 8 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 1879 9 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3188 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This timely book presents fresh, forward-looking analyses of key regions across the globe. Tracking politico-economic trajectories, the contributors chart the resulting power dynamics likely to shape relationships within each region, offering a crucial guide to patterns of cooperation, conflict, and domination over the coming decades.
Comparative Politics
Racism, Latinos, and the Public Policy Process
By Henry Flores Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Latinos and American Politics series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9975 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9733 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9974 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Racism, Latinos, and the Public Policy Process studies the public policy process of the state and how this process becomes racially biased, looking at the relationship between the state structure and the individual decision-maker.
Civics & Citizenship
Selective Responsibility in the United Nations Colonial Histories and Critical Inquiry
By Katy Harsant Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1028 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2971 1 • $39.95 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1030 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Why does the United Nations invoke its responsibility to protect through interventions in some instances but not others? This book challenges the dominant narrative of the UN as an institution of equality and progress by analyzing the colonial origins of the organization and revealing the unequal power relations it has perpetuated.
Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Rose Summerfield Australian Radical
By Steve J. Shone
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 154 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0940 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9418 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical outlines the largely forgotten achievements of this seldom-studied labor union activist and socialist sympathetic to anarchist, feminist, and secularist ideas; a dynamic speaker, who eventually emigrated to Paraguay to live on a commune.
Comparative Politics
Corruption in the Americas
Edited by Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna S. Kassab
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2723 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 7216 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2722 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection analyzes trends of corruption in countries throughout the Americas. The contributors examine the main actors involved in corruption as well as the linkages between organized crime and state institutions.
Corruption & Misconduct
Character in the American Experience
An Unruly People
By Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllisterLexington Books
November 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Political
Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1450 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4511 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book tells the story of the American character, from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister detail how great events and daily life have both shaped and been shaped by a people committed to order and independence, community and conflict, as well as the triumphs and tragedies American unruliness produced.
General
Defining the Republic
Early Conflicts over the Constitution
By William J. NicholsLexington Books
August 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5536 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5370 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Some wish the Founders had all agreed on a coherent vision for the United States, especially on how to interpret the Constitution. Such agreement has never existed, and Defining the Republic documents the dispute between two of the most important Founders: Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
General
John F. Kennedy’s 1957 Algeria Speech
The Politics of Anticolonialism in the Cold War Era
By Gregory D. ClevaLexington Books
March 2022 • 284 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0130 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1313 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
John F. Kennedy’s 1957 speech calling for Algerian independence is one of his most important and controversial—but least recognized— speeches, although many Kennedy books are careful to mention it and indicate its importance. This book discusses all the major aspects of Kennedy’s speech from its preparation to its aftermath.
General
Power and Choice 16e and the Political Science
Student Writer’s Manual and Reader’s Guide 8e
Value Pack
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • pages
Multiple-item product 978 1 5381 7030
Civilization
Global Histories of a Political Idea
Edited by Patricia Chiantera-Stutte and Giovanni Borgognone
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 216 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4582 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5838 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
From the U.S. military intervention in the Middle East 2001, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the “clash of civilizations” theses have been widely used. What is their role in framework of identity politics? This book shows the flexible and multiple use of civilizational narratives in historical and political developments and geographical areas.
General
Democracy without Engagement?
Understanding Political Participation in PostCommunist Romania
By Marius I. TătarLexington Books
February 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 3524 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5250 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author argues that the fate of democracy in post-communist Romania largely depends on the goals and methods pursued by various organizations and social networks. These primarily act as recruitment and mobilization agents and channel citizen participation into political actions that can both challenge and strengthen democracy.
General
Philosophical Perspective on Cinema
By Pedro Blas GonzálezLexington Books
May 2022 • 190 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0622 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6233 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Philosophical Perspective on Cinema addresses the relationship between human existence and sensual reality. Applying metaphysical/existential reflection to cinema, the author explores the philosophical clarity that cinema can offer reflective persons about the human experience.
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Power and Choice
An Introduction to Political Science, Sixteenth Edition
By W. Phillips Shively and David Schultz Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022
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Power & Choice offers an in-depth look into the nuances of politics through the analysis of collective choices for a group or state through the use of power. Using extended case examples from around the world, Power & Choice provides undergraduate students with a clear and engaging
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to political science and comparative politics.
Sanctuary Ordinances
The Contemporary Politics of Immigrant Assimilation in America
By Nicholas P. Lovrich; John C. Pierce and Christopher A. Simon - Foreword by Maria L. ChávezLexington Books
August 2022 • 356 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7794 6 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7922 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7793 9 • $40.50 / £31.00
This mixed methods study of local pro- and anti-sanctuary actions taken in response to Latino in-migration features data for 3,000+ counties, a national survey, and two case studies in Twin Falls, ID and Hazleton, PA. Historical origins and contemporary circumstances combine to account for why localities are either welcoming or exclusionary.
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The Politics of Being Afro-Latino/Latina
Ethnicity, Colorism, and Political Representation in Washington, D.C.
By Isreal G. MallardLexington Books
August 2022 • 124 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0817 6 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8183 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author examines the presumed social/racial factors that influence the electability of Afro-Latinos/as into political offices in Washington, DC. He argues that ethnicity and pigmentocracy as well as other social/ racial factors influence the pathway to political office for self-identified Afro-Latinos/as in Washington, DC.
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The Holocaust in Romania
The Destruction of Jews and Roma under the Antonescu Regime, 1940–1944, Second Edition
By Radu Ioanid Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 664 pages • Part of the Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3808 3 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8090 0 • $30.50 / £22.99
Now in an updated edition that draws on a rich array of newly available sources, this book traces Romanian policies of racism, anti-Semitism, and Jewish extermination during its World War II fascist regime. Ioanid details the reality of the persecutions and the cruelty and blatant opportunism of the perpetrators.
Genocide & War Crimes
Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism
A Return to the Margin?
By Aliaksei Kazharski Lexington BooksJune 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9961 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9627 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines politics and international relations in Central Europe three decades after the fall of communism. It analyzes some of the most recent trends, including the European disagreements on migration and multiculturalism, and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on political discourses in the region.
Geopolitics
The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook
By Gary Bullert - Foreword by Ernest B. Hook
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2748 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7490 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sidney Hook’s controversial career as a public intellectual grounded in pragmatic liberalism solidified him as the leading liberal critic of liberalism. Hook forthrightly advocated American democratic principles against a legion of attackers. The controversies he addressed are very much at the center of public life today.
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Anthem of Misogyny
The War on Women in North Africa and the Middle East
By Ibtissam Bouachrine Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6089 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0909 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that misogyny is too complex to eradicate with superficial changes. Like a national anthem, misogyny in the MENA region has acquired a sacred status. Rather than exaggerate Western agency, this book makes Muslim agency visible. Stories of violence need to be told boldly because the non-West, too, is deserving of feminist critique.
Genocide & War Crimes
The Rohingya Crisis and the Two-Faced God of Janus
What Lies Ahead
Edited by Kawser Ahmed and Helal Mohiuddin
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0595 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5960 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
A protracted Rohingya crisis is not desirable, both from the host country’s and international community perspectives. Thus, a precise understanding of ongoing predicaments might persuade others to engage in early crisis intervention, resulting in a negotiated conflict resolution.
Genocide & War Crimes
Hidden Geopolitics Governance in a Globalized World
By John Agnew Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5862 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8630 0 • $33.00 / £25.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5864 7 • $31.00 / £23.99
Geopolitics is not dead, but nor does it involve the same old logic of a world determined by physical geography in a competition between Great Powers. Hidden Geopolitics recaptures the term to explore how the geography of power works both globally and nationally to structure and govern the workings of the global political economy.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
The Foreign Policy of the European Union
Assessing Europe’s Role in the World, 3rd Edition
By Federiga Bindi
Brookings Institution Press
October 2022 • 366 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3811 4 • $41.99 / £32.00
eBook 978 0 8157 8121 1 • $32.99 / £25.00
A Politics of All Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy
By Dean Caivano Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Political
Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5257 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2584 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this heterodox reading of Thomas Jefferson, Dean Caivano proposes a theory of democracy conceived through a politics of all. Democracy from this standpoint does not entail liberal consensus-building but rejects hierarchical forms of authority, supplanted by ongoing political resistance by “the people” to obtain freedom and equality.
History & Theory
An Ancient Guide to Good Politics
A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero’s De Republica
By Moryam VanOpstalLexington Books
November 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5224 9 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2256 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
In An Ancient Guide to Good Politics: A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero’s De Republica, Moryam VanOpstal argues that Cicero should be considered the great unifier of classical political thought, with fresh insight on pivotal issues such as the best way of life and how to preserve a good regime.
History & Theory
Between Empire and Republic America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination
By Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 190 pages • Part of the Politics,
Literature, & Film series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3552 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5532 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book uses literature to explain why pre-Confederation Canadians did not want to become Americans. The author argues that the perceived cultural distinctions between 19th-century American and colonial Canadian societies echoed public attitudes towards the political systems of the US and the British Empire, and the ideologies that shaped them.
History & Theory
Global Servant-Leadership
Wisdom, Love, and Legitimate Power in the Age of Chaos
Edited by Philip Mathew; Jiying Song; Shann Ray Ferch and Larry C. Spears
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 328 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2188 7 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 1863 3 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2187 0 • $40.50 / £31.00
Servant-leadership scholars from around the globe present cutting-edge research, conceptual models, and practice-oriented case studies to address the leadership challenges of the twenty-first century in order to reveal a path toward more healthy and sustainable individuals, families, organizations, and nations.
Globalization
Alexandre Kojève
A Man of Influence
Edited by Luis J. PedrazuelaLexington Books
October 2022 • 260 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5446 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4472 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Alexandre Kojève: A Man of influence offers a multi-faceted approach to the work of Alexandre Kojève in which 11 international scholars combine their perspectives on key aspects of the Russo-French thinker’s work. The result: an original reappraisal of its significance that prompts a better understanding of the contemporary world.
History & Theory
Another Love
A Politics of the Unrequited
By Asma Abbas
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 242 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7677 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 6758 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7676 5 • $99.50 / £77.00
Another Love explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to re-apprehend and re-inscribe love in an anticolonial, materialist, and non fascist politics and aesthetics.
History & Theory
Defenses Against the Dark Arts
The Political Education of Harry Potter and His Friends
By John S. NelsonLexington Books
August 2022 • 318 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9262 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2604 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9261 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Defenses Against the Dark Arts argues that performances of magic in Harry Potter show us how to leap into political action, from high politics of governments and elections to everyday politics of private lives and popular cultures. It features learning to face and defend against dark arts in dark times.
History & Theory
Democracy in Its Essence
Hans Kelsen as A Political Thinker
By Sara LagiLexington Books
August 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0373 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3715 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0372 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Democracy in Its Essence analyzes Hans Kelsen’s political theory as a pluralist, relativist, constitutional, proceduralist, and liberal theory of representative democracy, characterized by its strong recall to the values of tolerance, responsibility, and respect toward “the other” as well as to the idea of politics as space for compromise.
History & Theory
Engaging Authority
Citizenship and Political Community
Edited by Trevor Stack and Rose Luminiello
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5910 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9118 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume explores different forms of citizen’s relationship to authority in political community.
History & Theory
Invisible Labour in Modern Science
Edited by Jenny Bangham; Xan Chacko and Judith Kaplan
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Global Epistemics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5995 8 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9965 5 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book explores how and why some people and practices are made invisible in science, featuring 25 case studies and commentaries that explore how invisibility can bolster or undermine credibility, how race, gender, class, and nation frame who can see what, how invisibility empowers and marginalizes, and the epistemic ramifications of concealment.
History & Theory
Science Fiction and Political Philosophy
From Bacon to Black Mirror
Edited by Timothy McCranor and Steven MichelsLexington Books
March 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Politics,
Literature, & Film series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8645 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 6436 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8644 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This edited collection uses works of science fiction to illustrate and explore the fundamental themes and concepts of political philosophy, including freedom, justice, and the advantages and disadvantages of progress.
History & Theory
Democratic Theory Naturalized
The Foundations of Distilled Populism
By Walter Horn Lexington Books
August 2022 • 262 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2497 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4956 6 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2496 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Democratic Theory Naturalized, Walter Horn proposes his theory of “CHOICE Voluntarism” to distill populism to its core premise: giving people the power to govern themselves without the constraints imposed by those on the left or the right. Horn analyzes what makes for fair aggregation and appropriate, deliberative representation.
History & Theory
Imaginaries of Connectivity
The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance
Edited by Luis Lobo-Guerrero; Suvi Alt and Maarten Meijer
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Global
Epistemics series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7408 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 1376 6 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1138 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
This edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity in time.
History & Theory
Machiavelli’s Platonic Problems
Neoplatonism, Eros, Mythmaking, and Philosophy in Machiavellian Thought
By Guillaume Bogiaris
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 138 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1645 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 6432 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1644 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that Machiavelli’s thought entertains a more complex relationship to Platonic philosophy than previously assumed. Far from rejecting Platonism in bulk, Machiavelli actually engages with important Platonic tenets, the role of philosophical education for political leaders, and the relationship between mythmaking and policymaking
History & Theory
Sorcerer
William Friedkin and the New Hollywood
By Mark WheelerLexington Books
January 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Politics,
Literature, & Film series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9612 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6138 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
William Friedkin’s film Sorcerer (1977) has emerged in the popular and scholarly consciousness from enjoying a minor, cult status to becoming subject to a full-blown critical reconsideration in which it has been praised a major work by a key American filmmaker.
History & Theory
The Free and the Virtuous Why the Founders Knew that Character Mattered
By Heather Dutton Dudley
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 162 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0162 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1605 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0161 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
For the American founding fathers, good character was not just important to the survival of liberty, it was the load bearing central pillar. Today this is no longer true. Good character doesn’t matter. The author examines why and how this complete abandonment of the founders’ value system came about.
History & Theory
The Politics of Twin Peaks
Edited by Amanda DiPaolo and James Clark Gillies
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 212 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7839 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8370 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7838 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
The strange and wonderful place of Twin Peaks captivated audiences for more than two decades before its long-awaited return to television in 2017. In this edited collection, the authors approach Twin Peaks from a variety of perspectives with the concept of the political at its center.
History & Theory
The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age
Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education Edited by Justin Cruickshank and Ross Abbinnett Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 414 pages • Part of the Collective
Studies in Knowledge and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6140 1 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1418 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Authors from the social sciences and humanities discuss the neoliberal re-structuring of higher education and the possibilities for progressive change to the social production of knowledge (teaching and research) in universities.
History & Theory
The Spartan Drama of Plato’s Laws
By Eli Friedland
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the Political
Theory for Today series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0370 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3685 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0369 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Spartan Drama of Plato’s Laws is the first interpretation of the Laws to give sustained consideration to Megillos, the only character from Sparta that Plato created. Eli Friedland shows the profound importance of character to the Laws, and the rich drama of Plato’s longest, and supposedly driest, work.
History & Theory
The Politics of Knowledge When Loyalty Minimizes Learning
By Richard K. Laird
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7601 7 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5997 7 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7600 0 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book restores the credibility of politics with the basics of human behavior and social science. It does this by discussing how to retain the positive relationship between learnability and livability.
History & Theory
The Recurrence of the End Times
Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements
By Michael J. ColebrookLexington Books
June 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Political Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5134 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1358 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements explores the deep connection between modern political ideologies and the secular eschatological hopes and dreams of a postChristian society.
History & Theory
The Socratic Individual Philosophy, Faith, and Freedom in a Democratic Age
By Ann Ward
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 162 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0379 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3777 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0378 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in 19th century political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. For Kierkegaard the Socratic indivdual in modern times is the person of faith, for Mill the idiosyncratic public intellectual, and for Nietzsche the Dionysian artist.
History & Theory
Theology and Geometry
Essays on John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces
Edited by Leslie Marsh
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Politics, Literature, & Film series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8549 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5477 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8548 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.
History & Theory
Unequal Encounters
A Reader in Early Latin American Political Thought
Edited by Katherine HoytLexington Books
January 2022 • 366 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2252 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2532 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume presents a selection of the most compelling political writings from early colonial Latin America that address the themes of conquest, colonialism, and enslavement. The anthology centers the voices of Indigenous peoples, whose writings constitute six of the fifteen chapters while also including women’s, African, and Jewish perspectives.
History & Theory
Dictionary of Environmental Health
By Frank R. Spellman Bernan PressApril 2022 • 650 pages
Hardback 978 1 6414 3398 3 • $189.00 / £146.00
Paperback 978 1 6367 1010 0 • $67.00 / £52.00
eBook 978 1 6414 3399 0 • $179.50 / £138.00
This book is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive reference that serves as both a dictionary and encyclopedia. It defines over 17,000 words illustrating the enormous magnitude of the environmental health field. This book is an indispensable resource for individuals throughout environmental and public health industries.
Environmental Science
The Justice Laboratory International Law in Africa
By Kerstin Bree Carlson Brookings Institution PressApril 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3813 8 • $38.99 / £30.00
eBook 978 0 8157 8145 5 • $30.99 / £23.99
Human Rights
Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies
Edited by Aleksandar Fatić; Klaus Bachmann and Igor Lyubashenko
Rowman & Littlefield International
October 2022 • 248 pages • Part of the Studies in Social and Global Justice series
Paperback 978 1 7866 0589 4 • $40.00 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 5887 7 • $138.00 / £106.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0590 0 • $39.50 / £30.00
This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice.
Human Rights
Unsettling the World
Edward Said and Political Theory
By Jeanne Morefield Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 346 pages • Part of the Modernity and Political Thought series
Hardback 978 1 4422 6028 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8622 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 4422 6030 6 • $43.00 / £33.00
This is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Morefield argues that Said’s critique provides a timely approach that bridges historical analyses of imperialism and postcolonial politics with an urgent imperative to theorize contemporary global crises.
History & Theory
Freedom in the World 2021
The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties
By Freedom House
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 1546 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5182 2 • $149.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1839 9 • $141.50 / £109.00
Freedom in the World is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The methodology of this survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories.
Human Rights
The North Korean Conundrum
By Robert R. King Walter Shorestein
January 2022 • 238 pages
Paperback 978 1 9313 6865 0 • $34.99 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 9313 8681 1 • $33.00 / £25.00
Human Rights
The Uses of Imperial Citizenship
The British and French Empires
By Jack Harrington
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 112 pages • Part of the Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics series
Paperback 978 1 7834 8921 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7834 9206 6 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7834 8922 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book examines how ideas of citizenship and subjecthood were applied in societies under British and French imperial rule in order to expand our understanding of these concepts.
Imperialism
Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Second Edition
By Lin Lin and Seth Spaulding Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 768 pages • Part of the Historical
Dictionaries of International Organizations series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6904 9 • $290.00 / £223.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9056 6 • $275.50 / £215.00
Historical Dictionary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on UNESCO’s initiatives, programs, projects, normative instruments, and partners over the past 76 years.
Intergovernmental Organizations
Internet Diplomacy
Shaping the Global Politics of Cyberspace
Edited by Meryem Marzouki and Andrea Calderaro
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 280 pages • Part of the Digital Technologies and Global Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6117 3 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1180 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book proposes the concept of Internet Diplomacy to study international cooperation in the digital domain. It captures the diverse and transnational diplomatic practices that have emerged in this field and includes a wide range of perspectives, actors and processes involved in negotiating global digital politics.
International Relations / Diplomacy
Searching for Peace
A Memoir of Israel
By Ehud OlmertBrookings Institution Press
March 2022 • 320 pages
eBook 978 0 8157 3893 0 • $27.99 / £21.99
Managing U.S. Nuclear Operations in the 21st Century
Edited by Charles Glaser; Austin Long and Brian Radzinsky
Brookings Institution Press
October 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3961 6 • $44.99 / £35.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9623 3 • $35.99 / £28.00
International Relations / Arms Control
NATO and the Greater Maghreb
Geopolitics, Threats, and Great Powers
Edited by David Garcia Cantalapiedra
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 172 pages
Paperback 978 1 6669 1134 3
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 1329 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1133 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
NATO and the Greater Maghreb offers a distinctive focus and study of NATO’s future policy in North Africa and the Sahel following the new 2022 Strategic Concept, expected to be published during the next NATO Summit in Madrid.
International Relations / Diplomacy
South Korea’s Democracy in Crisis
The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization
By Gi-Wook Shin - Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Ho-Ki Kim
Walter Shorestein
April 2022 • 360 pages
eBook 978 1 9313 6871 1 • $33.00 / £25.00
International Relations / Diplomacy
The Last Gentleman
Thomas Hughes and the End of the American Century
By Bruce Smith
Brookings Institution Press
January 2022 • 390 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3890 9
eBook 978 0 8157 8916
International Relations / Diplomacy
$34.99 / £27.00
$27.99 / £21.99
International Relations / Diplomacy
Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge
By Christopher M. Smith
Brookings Institution Press
March 2022 • 384 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3924 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9258 8 • $31.99 / £25.00
International Relations / Diplomacy
Budget Superpower
How Russia Challenges the West with An Economy
Smaller than Texas
By John RuehlHamilton Books
December 2022 • 500 pages
Hardback 978 0 7618 7338 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3396 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
Budget Superpower reveals how the Kremlin has applied and refined Russia’s military strength, intelligence agencies, natural resources, political influence, and much more to drastically increase its power on the cheap. Preparing for Russia’s next steps will be crucial for the United States to safeguard its own future.
International Relations / General
Confronting the Myth of Soft Power in U.S. Foreign Policy
By Brent A. LawniczakLexington Books
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0952 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9531 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Despite the attractiveness of the idea, U.S. soft power is an unreliable source of influence in world politics. This book examines the lack of U.S. soft power influence, finding that target countries do not consider the attractiveness of the United States when deciding to participate in military interventions abroad.
International Relations / General
Democracy in Crisis around the World
By Saliba Sarsar and Rekha Datta
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 282 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0168 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1667 7 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0167 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Democracies across the globe are in crisis as authoritarian regimes rise and populist leaders emerge worldwide. Democracy in Crisis across the World weaves threads of history and politics in two parts to analyze how long this trend may last and what the future may bring.
International Relations / General
Engaging China
Rebuilding Sino-American Relations
By Mel Gurtov
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the Asia in
World Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 7218 6 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2193 3 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7220 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
International Relations / General
Cases in International Relations Principles and Applications, Ninth Edition
By Donald M. Snow Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5343 7 • $99.00 / £76.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3444 4 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5345 1 • $33.00 / £25.00
Designed to complement any introductory global politics course, Snow’s text presents original case studies that survey the state of the international system and look in-depth at current issues. The cases are geopolitically diverse, accessible, and timely with new coverage of the pandemic, election interference, China, cyberwar, and global warming.
International Relations / General
Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir
By Amya Agarwal Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 176 pages • Part of the Men and Masculinities in a Transnational World series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1239 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7866 2403 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Based on rich empirical data, this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented in the Kashmir valley. It broadens the understanding of women’s agency through its engagement with the construction, performance, and interplay of masculinities in conflict.
International Relations / General
Domination Through Law
The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa
By Mohamed SesayRowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4997 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 6316 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4632 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
Through a comparative study of state reconstruction in Sierra Leone and Liberia, this book critically examines the impact of rule of law internationalization as a means of social domination in post-colonial Africa.
International Relations / General
EU Conditionality in Turkey
When Does It Work? When Does It Fail?
Edited by Cenap Çakmak and Ali Onur Özçelik
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1069 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0704 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection of essays discusses the concept of conditionality within the context of Turkey-EU relations. The contributors analyze the dynamics of conditionality focusing on how, when and under what conditions it works or fails.
International Relations / General
Eurasianism
An Ideology for the Multipolar World
By Paolo Pizzolo - Foreword by Michael O. SlobodchikoffLexington Books
March 2022 • 1 pages • Part of the Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0481 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4798 8 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0480 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
Eurasianism: An Ideology for the Multipolar World examines the ideology of Eurasianism – specifically neo-Eurasianist thought – and its implications for the international system.
International Relations / General
Introduction to International Relations Theory and Practice, Third Edition
By Joyce P. Kaufman
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 352 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5892 0 • $104.00 / £80.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8937 7 • $41.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5894 4 • $39.00 / £30.00
This clear and concise text introduces four key theoretical frameworks that form the foundation of international relations and uses levels of analysis as the primary unifying force to explain contemporary global politics. Cases on climate change; gender, peace, and security; migration; and the rise of China illustrate Kaufman’s approach.
International Relations / General
Korea and the World New Frontiers in Korean Studies
Edited by Gregg A. Brazinsky
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies on Korea’s Place in International Relations series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9114 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1126 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9113 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book provides fresh perspectives on the historical development and contemporary problems of North and South Korea.
International Relations / General
Neutral Beyond the Cold
Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System
Edited by Pascal Lottaz; Heinz Gärtner and Herbert R. Reginbogin
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 326 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0166 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1672 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the application of neutrality policies after the end of the Cold War with a focus on Eurasian states and international organizations. The 15 chapters discuss Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, the UN, ASEAN, and several theoretical neutrality developments between 1991 and 2021.
International Relations / General
Great Power Politics in Greater Eurasia Regional Alliances, Institutions, Projects, and Conflicts
Edited by Rahman Dağ and Özgür TüfekçiLexington Books
October 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1411 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4122 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
It seems that every single issue in Eurasia and the world becomes a battleground among the great powers. This book’s initiative is to categorize the battlegrounds as three aspects: national/regional/ international conflicts, institutions/alliances, and projects.
International Relations / General
Israel’s National Security, the Arab Position, and Its Complicated Relations with the United States
By Ehud Eilam
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 216 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0750 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7513 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author argues that Israel, with help from the United States, should deal with Iran’s nuclear program, and by force, if necessary. Meanwhile, Israel is trying to disrupt Iranian bases in Syria with limited success. Israel also monitors Egypt and contains Hamas in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.
International Relations / General
Making Russia and Turkey Great Again?
Putin and Erdogan in Search of Lost Empires and Autocratic Power
By Norman A. Graham; Folke Lindahl and Timur KocaogluLexington Books
August 2022 • 278 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1024 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 0225 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1023 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book discusses the rise of Putin in Russia and Erdogan in Turkey to authoritarian power in the context of the global debate over the fragility of democracy and the persistence of authoritarianism. It is both historical and theoretical in it treatment of the politics, economics and international relations of Russia and Turkey.
International Relations / General
Normative Tensions
Academic Freedom in International Education
Edited by Kevin W. GrayLexington Books
June 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2033 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0347 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume contains a collection of essays dealing with the pressure put on academic freedom by the expansion of higher education. It includes considerations of academic freedom brought by the expansion of Western universities to illiberal societies, and by students coming from abroad to universities in the global north.
International Relations / General
Pedagogy as Encounter
Beyond the Teaching Imperative
By Naeem Inayatullah Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the Creative Interventions in Global Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6511 9 • $96.00 / £74.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5133 3 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6512 6 • $28.50 / £21.99
Is teaching possible? Is learning possible? Pedagogy as Encounter proposes that new and diverse forms of learning will appear if we abandon teaching as an explicit goal. Through these largely autobiographical vignettes, all grounded in Lacanian theory and critical global political economy, the author inspires a radical form of pedagogy.
International Relations / General
Predicting Leader Survival in Covert Operations from Congo to Cuba
By Joy S. Patton
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 190 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4171 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1724 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines several Cold War political leaders and their ability to survive US-sanctioned covert operations. The author argues that by understanding the psychological profile and emotional intelligence of leaders, it is possible to influence their mindsets and decision-making abilities.
International Relations / General
Rethinking Masculinities
Ideology, Identity and Change in the People’s War in Nepal and its Aftermath
By Heidi Riley Rowman & Littlefield InternationalFebruary 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Men and Masculinities in a Transnational World series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1550 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7866 5510 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Focused on the case of the People’s Liberation Army in Nepal, this book examines changes in insurgent masculinity during conflict and in the transition to post-conflict.
International Relations / General
Tears of Theory
International Relations as Storytelling
By Sungju Park-Kang Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 144 pages • Part of the Creative Interventions in Global Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6505 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5065 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Demonstrating how storytelling and experience can be integral parts of International Relations scholarship, this book is about failure, hurt, and survival. Focused on the author’s research journey on a mysterious Cold War-era spy, Park-Kang reflects on how to transform wounds
challenges into academically meaningful work.
International Relations / General
Politics Go to the Movies
International Relations and Politics in Genre Films and Television
By Joel R. Campbell - With Daryl Bockett; Damien Horigan; Michael Mulvey; Barry Pollick and Cord A. ScottLexington Books
March 2022 • 408 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3516 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This examination of film genres discusses how various films in five genres reflect or comment on political themes and ideas. The author uses constructivist and feminist political theory to examine the development of the political discourse in these films, and considers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between film or television and politics.
International Relations / General
Religious Soft Diplomacy and the United Nations
Religious Engagement as Loyal Opposition
Edited by Sherrie M. Steiner and James T. Christie
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 372 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9737 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7357 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9736 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In our increasingly plural and interconnected world, employing the complex and nuanced vocation of religious diplomacy is increasingly critical to the resolution of global challenges and charting a future course for the human community. The editors and contributors in this volume make a compelling case for expanding the diversity of discourse.
International Relations / General
Scramble for the Skies
The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space
By Namrata Goswami and Peter A. GarretsonLexington Books
May 2022 • 464 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8313 8 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3114 4 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8312 1 • $44.50 / £34.00
The book examines the space ambitions of China, the United States, and India. It analyzes how unique strategic cultures have shaped elite discourse, legal policy, and space programs within these states.
International Relations / General
The Belt and Road Initiative
The Threat of an Economic Cold War with China
By Jerry M. Rosenberg Lexington BooksMay 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0814 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8152 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
With roughly 140 nations, China’s BRI is an attempt to economically dominate the world. The European Union and United States are planning a financial response for developing nations with a Global Gateway and Build Back Better World. A new EU-U.S. Marshall Plan is proposed to assist in the effort to curb China’s advance.
International Relations / General
The Defender’s Dilemma
Identifying and Deterring Gray-Zone Aggression
By Elisabeth Braw AEI PressMarch 2022 • 348 pages
Hardback 978 0 8447 5039 2 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 0 8447 0408 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 0 8447 5041 5 • $43.00 / £33.00
National security threats facing the West are fundamentally changing. In this book, Elisabeth Braw offers the first sustained analysis of how new tactics in the gray zone between war and peace dangerously weaken liberal democracies. She discusses the breadth of gray-zone aggression and presents strategies for better defense against it.
International Relations / General
The International Politics of Superheroes
By Mariano Turzi Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6494 5 • $84.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4969 9 • $30.00 / £22.99
This book covers the theories of international relations, pressing current issues, as well as the structures and main players in world politics through the medium of superheroes and supervillains.
International Relations / General
The Metamorphosis of U.S.-Korea Relations
The Korean Question Revisited
By Jongwoo HanLexington Books
April 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the Lexington
Studies on Korea’s Place in International Relations series
Hardback 978 1 4985 8281 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2827 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In tracing the history of U.S./Korea encounters, this book stresses that as America opened a Pandora Box with an initial raid, thereby unleashing the “Korean Question”, the United States now needs to uphold its initial peaceful treaty commitment by normalizing relations with Pyeongyang, thus bringing closure to the “Korean Question.”
International Relations / General
The Regional Impacts on Turkey’s Zero Problems with Neighbors Policy towards Iraqi Kurdistan
By Zeravan Muhsin Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the Kurdish
Societies, Politics, and International Relations series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1663 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6645 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book has two specific objectives. First is to examine the Kurdish regional impacts by looking at the engagement of non-state actors such as Kurds in Syria, the PKK, and ISIS; second is to analyze the challenges and the opportunities raised after 2011 for implementation of the ZPN policy towards Iraqi Kurdistan by Turkey.
International Relations / General
The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy
The Case of the Yom Kippur War
By Robert W. TomlinsonLexington Books
May 2022 • 118 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 6811 1 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8036 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents a comprehensive view on how the American military examined the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War and used that analysis to change doctrinal policies and equipment acquisitions. Ultimately, the learning that occurred as a result of the war dramatically improved quality and competency of American forces.
International Relations / General
The Lived International
A Life in International Relations
By Stephen Chan, OBE Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 140 pages • Part of the Creative Interventions in Global Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6497 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4990 0 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6498 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Demonstrating that a life of praxis—living international relations— yields more insight than a life of theory alone, Steven Chan provides an antidote to a purely conceptual approach to International Relations. It is also the work of a poet with a distinguished literary reputation, recounting travel and poetry, engagement and responsibility.
International Relations / General
The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics
Edited by Sarah Biecker and Klaus Schlichte Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4992 8 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 9508 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4951 5 • $34.00 / £26.00
Explores methods and concepts of political anthropology and explains how they can be used for the analysis of international relations and internationalized politics.
International Relations / General
The Tragedy of Australian Foreign Policy Voices of Dissent and Visions of Independence in the 21st Century
By Randall Doyle Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0422 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4231 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy is a book that reflects an anxious nation experiencing an historic transition. In 2021, Australians are finally prepared to not only make an historic break from its British colonial past, but from its subsequent roles within the former empire of Great Britain, and the present-day empire of America.
International Relations / General
The United Nations as Leviathan
Global Governance in the Post-American World
By Roland Rich Hamilton BooksNovember 2022 • 290 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7372 3 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3730 0 • $23.50 / £18.99
The world needs a UN 3.0. The extent and severity of global crises are such that business as usual provides no solution. Roland Rich’s Leviathan describes the necessary next version of the United Nations and the first step of how to put it into place.
International Relations / General
Trends and Transformations in World Politics
Edited by Özgür Tüfekçi and Rahman Dağ
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 294 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5023 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0245 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the state of global governance in the current geopolitical environment through the trends and transformations it is going through. It evaluates the main challenges and crises and discusses potential opportunities for global governance.
International Relations / General
Under Siege
Counterterrorism and Civil Society in Hungary
By Scott N. Romaniuk Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 362 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9955 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9566 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book critically examines the effects of the Hungarian government’s counterterrorism and security policies and practices on the operational capacities of civil society organizations. It argues that the government’s security regime has significantly altered the autonomous space of organizations and severely strained state-society relations.
International Relations / General
Understanding Kim Jong-un’s North Korea Regime Dynamics, Negotiation, and Engagement
Edited by Robert Carlin and Chung-in Moon
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 382 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies on Korea’s Place in International Relations series
Paperback 978 1 6669 0679 0 • $ / £ Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 6776 6 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 0678 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides broad, deep insight into how North Korea calculates, balances, and addresses key policy challenges. The authors—Korean, European, and American—have extensive experience in North Korea and with North Koreans, crucial to addressing the myths and misconceptions about how the North functions and perceives the world.
International Relations / General
Seven Ways to Fix Policing NOW Building Trust, Authentic Partnerships, and Safe Communities
By Kathleen O’Toole and Robert Peirce Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 148 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6870 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8721 1
$32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6871 4 • $30.00 / £22.99
The time has come to take a comprehensive look at every aspect of policing. This book does that and offers seven critical steps towards successful and sustainable police reform.
Law Enforcement
Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear ‘Crisis’ Theoretical Approaches
By Halit M. E. Tagma and Paul E. Lenze, Jr.Lexington Books
August 2022 • 310 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9308 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 3069 9 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9307 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Understanding and Explaining the Iranian Nuclear ‘Crisis’ analyzes the ‘crisis’ surrounding Iran’s nuclear program and explores the various aspects and dimensions of the international dispute using several academic perspectives, including realism, world-systems theory, liberal institutionalism, domestic politics, and multi-level games.
International Relations / General
Treaties in Force
A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force on January 1, 2022
Edited by State Department
U.S. Government Reprints
November 2022 • 570 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1097 6 • $55.00 / £42.00
Treaties in Force contains information on treaties and other international agreements to which the United States has become a party. The treaties presented here cover a wide range of subjects, including agricultural commodities, economic and technical cooperation, defense, education, general relations, and more.
International Relations / Treaties
Xi Jinping’s China and the International Nonprofit Community China and Overseas Nongovernmental Organizations, Foundations, and Think Tanks in a New Era
By Mark Sidel
Brookings Institution Press
June 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3920 3 • $49.99 / £38.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9210 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
Finding Gender Equality in the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
From Global Promises to National Accountability
By Barbara K. Trojanowska - Foreword by Cynthia Enloe Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 174 pages • Part of the Feminist
Studies on Peace, Justice, and Violence series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5908 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9095 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the trajectory of gender equality in institutions’ engagement with the Women, Peace, and Security agenda at the intersection of global, regional, and national governance, shedding light on opportunities and challenges for a meaningful change in peace and security.
Peace
Forecasting Government Budgets
Methods and Applications
By Aman Khan and Kenneth A. Kriz Lexington Books
November 2022 • 300 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1310 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3110 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Written in a simple and easy to understand manner, Forecasting Government Budgets presents some of the frequently used methods, simple as well as advanced, in budget forecasting. Although written primarily for graduate students in public administration and management, students from other disciplines will also find it useful.
Political Economy
Men of Money
Elite Masculinities and the Neoliberal Project
By Lynn Horton Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Global Political Economies of Gender and Sexuality series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1371 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 7866 3721 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1373 8 • $43.00 / £33.00
In this book, Lynn Horton explores how the most dynamic sectors of the global economy—finance and technology—are shaping new forms of elite masculinity. She offers fresh insights into the often overlooked links between economic inequalities and the identity politics of gender and race.
Political Economy
Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus
By Jarrett Blaustein; Tom Chodor and Nathan W. PinoRowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 274 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1100 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1024 4 • $60.00 / £46.00
Sport for Development and Peace
Foundations and Applications
Edited by Robert E. Baker; Craig Esherick and Pamela Hudson Baker Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 276 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6332 0 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4864 4 • $35.00 / £27.00
This comprehensive, practical text examines both the overarching foundations and functional applications of Sport for Development and Peace, using managerial, sociological, historical, political, and other multidisciplinary frameworks. Sociology of Sports
Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy
An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market DecisionMaking
Edited by Rosolino Candela; Rosemarie Fike and Roberta Herzberg
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 316 pages • Part of the Economy, Polity, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6093 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0947 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy: An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market Decision-Making explores, both in theory and in practice, the consequences of using public policy as a tool to achieve specific individual and social goals, as well as its impact on private solutions to address such goals.
Political Economy
The Institutionalization of Indoctrination
An Exploratory Investigation based on the Romanian Case Study
By Paul Dragos Aligica and Simona Preda Lexington BooksJune 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3549 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5501 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Combining a historical case study with theoretical framing, this book offers an exploratory contribution to our understanding of the institutionalization of indoctrination and propaganda, and of the associated social monitoring and control practices, both as they have manifested in the past, and as they may manifest in the future.
Political Economy
Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle A Freedom Gaze
By Anthony Sean Neal - Foreword by Leonard HarrisLexington Books
July 2022 • 130 pages • Part of The Black Atlantic
Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
Hardback 978 1 7936 4051 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0529 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus offers the first criminological account of the relationship between international development, crime and security in nearly thirty-five years.
Political Economy
Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze analyzes the ways oppression and marginalization produced the philosophical space necessary for the development of a unique form of Black consciousness within the African Diaspora.
Political Freedom
The Party Leads All
The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party
Edited by Jacques deLisle and Guobin Yang
Brookings Institution Press
September 2022 • 365 pages • Part of the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs series
eBook 978 0 8157 3952 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Political Ideologies / Communism, Post- Communism & Socialism
Rise of the Far Right
Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization
Edited by Melody Devries; Judith Bessant and Rob Watts
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 292 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5890 6 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4926 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1493 3 • $37.00 / £28.00
This edited collection offers readers a practical focus on how media technologies are involved in recruitment and mobilization processes of far-right groups.
Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Power Politics
Trump and the Assault on American Democracy
By Darrell M. WestBrookings Institution Press
August 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3959 3 • $26.99 / £20.99
eBook 978 0 8157 9609 9 • $26.99 / £20.99
Political Ideologies / Democracy
Ruling Bodies
A Study of Coercion and Punishment in Plato’s Republic, Laws, and Gorgias
By Robin VarmaLexington Books
June 2022
Hardback
The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century
How the Past Informs the Present
Edited by Barbara Ann Chotiner and Linda J. CookForeword by Jack Snyder
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3609 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6102 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume presents studies by senior scholars and practitioners highly relevant to contemporary events in Russia, Ukraine and other postcommunist states that are challenging the international order. Contributors provide new insights into the politics of these states, agendas driving their behavior, and how leaders’ differing perceptions produce
Political Ideologies / Communism, Post- Communism & Socialism
Populism, Democracy, and the Humanities
Interdisciplinary Explorations and Critical Enquiries
Edited by Iulian Cananau and Peder Thalén Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6091 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0923 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Provides readers with an illustration of the role and relevance of the humanities in tackling contemporary political phenomena and social issues such as populism and its effects on democracy.
Political Ideologies / Democracy
Dynasty
By Kim Hakjoon Walter ShoresteinJuly 2022 • 270 pages
eBook 978 1 9313 6847 6 • $27.50 / £20.95
172 pages
This book examines how Plato theorized about coercion and punishment in the Republic, the Laws, and the Gorgias. It highlights a problem in the way we understand coercion in modern politics, and then offers a new framework and context for thinking about this.
Political Ideologies / General
Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
Exploring Hate
An Anthology
Edited by Joshua A. Geltzer; Dipayan Ghosh and Robert L. McKenzie
Brookings Institution Press
June 2022 • 314 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3803 9 • $27.99 / £21.99 eBook 978 0 8157 8046 6
$27.99 / £21.99
Political Ideologies / Radicalism
Fighting the Last War Confusion, Partisanship, and Alarmism in the Literature on the Radical Right
By Jeffrey M. Bale and Tamir Bar-On Lexington Books
January 2022 • 474 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3937 0 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9387 7 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book argues that the political and security threats posed by the domestic radical right in Western countries have been consistently exaggerated since 1945. This has allowed governments to justify censoring and repressing their political opponents, including many who cannot be fairly described as being affiliated with the radical right.
Political Ideologies / Radicalism
Atlas of the 2020 Elections
Edited by Robert H. Watrel; Kimberly Johnson Maier; Ryan Weichelt; Fiona M. Davidson; John Heppen; Erin H. Fouberg; J. Clark Archer; Richard Morrill; Fred M. Shelley and Kenneth C. Martis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 320 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5197 6 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1983 3 • $118.50 / £92.00
From presidential to congressional, state, and local tickets, this book explains the 2020 elections through more than 100 full-color maps that unleash the illustrative power of cartography. A mix of geographers, political scientists, and historians provide a comprehensive examination of the elections from the primary campaigns to the final results.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
Change and Continuity in the 2020 Elections
By John H. Aldrich; Jamie L. Carson; Brad T. Gomez and Jennifer L. Merolla Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 432 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6481 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4822 2 • $49.95 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6483 9 • $47.00 / £36.00
This book analyzes and explains the voting behavior in the most recent election, setting the results in the context of larger trends and patterns in elections studies and discussing its importance and impact. Readers will gain a better understanding of the 2020 election and its implications for the future of American politics.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
Political Volatility in the United States
How Racial and Religious Groups Win and Lose
By Baodong Liu
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Voting, Elections, and the Political Process series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5128 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1297 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Uncertainty reigns in volatile political times. This book aims to provide a systemic model for understanding how political volatility throughout the U.S. history has had its root in the rise and fall of two competing racial and religious groupings.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
The Rise of Illiberalism
By Thomas J. Main Brookings Institution Press
January 2022 • 351 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3849 7 • $34.99 / £27.00
eBook 978 0 8157 8503 3 • $27.99 / £21.99
Political Ideologies / Radicalism
Celebrities in American Elections
Case Studies in Celebrity Politics
By Richard T. LongoriaLexington Books
September 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2315 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3162 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author explains why entertainment celebrities win and lose elections in the United States. Celebrities have the talent, fame, and resources to succeed in politics, but they often lose when the political environment is not favorable to their candidacy.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
Polarization and Political Party Factions in the 2020 Election
Edited by Jennifer C. Lucas; Christopher J. Galdieri and Tauna Starbuck Sisco
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0698 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6998 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
How did the 2020 election shape the major political parties in the U.S?
This volume explores the opposing forces of party polarization and internal party factionalism during this tumultuous period. Leading authors demonstrate how factions within the parties reshaped, and responded to, the changing political environment.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
The Trifecta in Voting Barrier Causation Economics, Politics, and Race
By Shauna Reilly
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 154 pages • Part of the Voting, Elections, and the Political Process series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8901 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 8997 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8900 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores fiscal, partisan and racial influences on the enactment of voting restrictions post-2008.
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections
Policy Entrepreneurship
A Guide to Shaping and Understanding Policy
By Lynn C. RossBrookings Institution Press
June 2022 • 60 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 2736 1 • $12.00 / £8.99
eBook 978 0 8157 7378 8 • $8.99 / £6.99
Political Process / Political Advocacy
State of the Parties 2022
The Changing Role of American Political Parties
Edited by John C. Green; David B. Cohen and Kenneth M. Miller Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6484 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4853 3 • $42.00 / £32.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6486 0 • $40.00 / £31.00
Political Process / Political Parties
Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties, Third Edition
By Harold F. Bass Jr. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 490 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6952 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 2990 0 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 5381 2300 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography; the dictionary section has over 500 entries on concepts, terms, labels, and individuals central to identifying and comprehending the key roles political parties have played in American political life.
Political Process / Political Parties
The Republican Resistance
#NeverTrump Conservatives and the Future of the GOP
Edited by Andrew L. Pieper and Jeff R. DeWitt Lexington Books
June 2022 • 284 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0747 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7454 4 • $111.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0746 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Republican Resistance studies the #NeverTrump Republicans who view Donald Trump as an existential challenge to the party that he claims to lead. The contributors argue that the #NeverTrump opposition represents a key feature of modern American politics: the rise of a populist insurgency intent on overtaking the Republican party from within.
Political Process / Political Parties
Postcolonial Surveillance Europe’s Border Technologies between Colony and Crisis
By Anouk Madörin Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6503 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5041 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Linking Europe’s colonial era to today’s high-tech border crisis, this book offers a genealogical account of border technologies and excavates the unacknowledged histories that had to be rejected for the seemingly clean, unbiased, and neutral technologies and policies to emerge as such.
Privacy & Surveillance
Engagement for Equitable Outcomes A Practitioner’s Playbook
By Kathryn Newcomer; Quentin Wilson and Allyson Criner Brown
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback
1 5381 3451 1
$80.00 / £62.00
Surveillance and the Vanishing Individual Power and Privacy in the Digital Age
By Juan D. Lindau Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 314 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7350 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3510 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7352 7 • $42.50 / £34.99
This book investigates the impact of the spread of digital technologies and practices, especially mass surveillance, on privacy and personhood. Lindau argues that the quest for prediction, certainty, and control at the heart of the state’s security apparatus destroys an essential component of human dignity and fundamentally undermines liberalism.
Privacy & Surveillance
Targeting Commitment Interagency Performance in New Zealand
By Rodney Scott and Ross Boyd
Brookings Institution Press
March 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the Brookings /
Ash Center Series, “Innovative Governance in the 21st Century” series
Paperback
1 5381
$30.00 / £22.99 eBook 978 1 5381 3453
$28.00
£21.99
This book provides practical suggestions for practitioners addressing urgent social problems and reducing inequities in their communities. Newcomer, Wilson, and Criner Brown offer approaches and models customized to local conditions and equity-focused guidance for innovating and adapting encouraging interventions.
Public Affairs & Administration
Paperback 978 0 8157 3918 0 • $44.99 / £35.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9197 7 • $35.99 / £28.00
Public Affairs & Administration
The Trump Effect
Disruption and Its Consequences in US Politics and Government
Edited by Steven E. Schier and Todd E. Eberly Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4930 0 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9324 4 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4931 7 • $30.00 / £22.99
This book reveals the effects of the Trump administration’s efforts to unsettle and reshape American governance through public opinion, media coverage, Congressional relations, executive branch management, and more. The guiding focus of the chapters concerns the successes and failures of the administration’s aspirations during Trump’s presidency.
Public Affairs & Administration
Slow Culture and the American Dream
A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
By Mary Caputi Lexington BooksJune 2022 • 194 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4240 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2417 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In making its case for the philosophy of slow, this book first chronicles the origins of the Slow Food movement in Italy in the 1980s followed by various outgrowths: e.g., Cittaslow (slow cities), slow fashion, slow travel, and slow parenting. The book explains why the slow movement is in many ways at odds with the prevalent American Dream.
Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy
History of the Housing Crisis
By Rebecca Searle Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • 144 pages • Part of the Polemics series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1624 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7866 6265 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a unique insight into the long history of the housing crisis, focusing on the development of the politics of the property-owing democracy, the growth of housing finance, the history of property crashes, and the rise and fall of a different vision of housing policy, which enabled far more people to realize their right to housing.
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Borders and Immigration
The Geo-Politics of Marketplace Demands and Ethnic Relations
By Laurence Armand French and Magdaleno Manzanárez
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 208 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8406 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4043 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8405 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Borders and immigration are topics dominating world affairs during the 21st century. This book examines the historical antecedents to the current crisis notably along the U.S.A./Mexico border under the Trump administration.
Public Policy / Cultural Policy
Toward the Theory of Administrative Tethering Re-thinking Child Welfare Training amid Rationally Bounded Administrative Decision-Making and Collaborative Governance Processes
By Kevin Marino and Robert James Wright
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4294 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2950 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Toward a Theory of Administrative Tethering is the culmination of a seven-year commitment to investigate and explore the nature of collaboration, specifically in child protective services (CPS).
Public Affairs & Administration
Fixer-Upper
How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
By Jenny Schuetz
Brookings Institution Press
February 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3928 9 • $29.99 / £22.99
eBook 978 0 8157 9296 6 • $23.99 / £17.99
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Political Economy of Public Education Finance Equity, Political Institutions, and Inter-School District Competition
By Nandan K JhaLexington Books
May 2022 • 142 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9072 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0709 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9071 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Political Economy of Public Education Finance clarifies organizational, political, and socioeconomic contexts in equity in public education spending, arguing that through appropriate policy and reorganization of school finance, policymakers can reform the organizational and political set-up of school districts for more effective public education.
Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Contested Representation
Dalits, Popular Hindi Cinema, and Public Sphere
By Dhananjay RaiLexington Books
July 2022 • 268 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0133 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1344 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The crises in material spheres and the hegemonic singularity of the social sphere shape the Dalit Representation in Hindi Cinema.
Public Policy / Cultural Policy
Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice
Lessons from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries
Edited by Bola Akanji and Funmi Soetan
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 410 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5266 9 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2676 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book studies the use of gender responsive budgeting (GRB) as a tool to further global and regional gender equality goals in developing countries. Through analyses of budgets and the budgeting process in Nigeria from 2000-2020 as a case study, the book analyzes why GRB has failed to gain traction in developing countries and provides solutions.
Public Policy / Economic Policy
Reconstructing Environmental Governance
The Chance to Choose a Better Future
By Rick Reibstein Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 332 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6003 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0046 6 • $44.95 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6005 3 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book takes a creative approach to policymaking, urging citizens to engage fully with democratic governance to create more effective environmental protection programs. The technical and economic feasibility of transforming our practices to develop more sustainable and nurturing societies encourages us to jointly envision a better future.
Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Environmental Agencies in the United States
The Enduring Power of Organizational Design and State Politics
By JoyAnna HopperLexington Books
May 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7349 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3474 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7348 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Environmental Agencies in the U.S., the author considers mandates assigned to environmental agencies and how those mandates shape environmental enforcement. Arguing the importance of structure, organizational norms, and state politics, the author crafts a nuanced explanation of the policy differences that shape Americans’ well-being.
Public Policy / General
The Migration Mobile
Border Dissidence, Sociotechnical Resistance, and the Construction of Irregularized Migrants
Edited by Vasilis Galis; Martin Bak Jørgensen and Marie Sandberg
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6516 4 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5171 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Migration Mobile explores how governments use technology to control borders, and how migrants use technology to circumvent, challenge, and reconfigure that same border apparatus. The book investigates these issues through empirical examples drawn from across Europe, including cases from Greece, the Austrian-Italian border, and Northern Europe.
Public Policy / Immigration
Irrationality of Capitalism and Climate Change
Prospects for an Alternative Future
By Andrew KolinLexington Books
February 2022 • 126 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0199 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2006 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The irrational social system known as capitalism has, over time, led to the destruction of the environment. A possibility exists to replace capitalism with a form of rational socialism that doesn’t necessitate conquering the environment.
Public Policy / Economic Policy
American Federalism and Individual Rights
By Stephanie Mora Walls
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 260 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8946 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 9444 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8945 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
American Federalism and Individual Rights presents the founding concepts of federalism and individual rights, and facilitates a discussion of their compatibility. Through the lens of policy analysis, the author discovers ways in which federalism has both helped and hindered the protection of individual rights in the United States.
Public Policy / General
US Health Policy and Market Reforms
An Introduction
By James C. CaprettaAEI Press
September 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 0 8447 5045 3 • $68.00 / £52.00
Paperback 978 0 8447 0460 0 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 0 8447 5047 7 • $28.50 / £22.99
The book provides an overview of the major features of US health care and an outline of the reforms required to impose more discipline on costs without compromising quality and innovation.
Public Policy / Health Care
China and America’s Tech War from AI to 5G The Struggle to Shape the Future of World Order
By A. B. Abrams Lexington Books
July 2022 • 408 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1240 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2418 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
Assessing key areas of Sino-U.S. technological competition such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, telecommunications, green tech and defense, the ability of both countries’ industries and tech sectors to compete, and the likely consequences primacy in each area will have.
Public Policy / Military Policy
Growing Fairly
How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development
By Stephen Goldsmith and Kate Markin Coleman Brookings Institution Press
February 2022 • 279 pages • Part of the Brookings
/ Ash Center Series, “Innovative Governance in the 21st Century”
Paperback 978 0 8157 3948 7 • $32.99 / £25.00
eBook 978 0 8157 9494 4 • $25.99 / £19.99
Public Policy / Regional Planning
Digitally Invisible
How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass
By Nicol Turner LeeBrookings Institution Press
June 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3898 5 • $25.99 / £19.99
eBook 978 0 8157 8992 2 • $19.99 / £14.99
Geoengineering Discourse Confronting Climate
Change
The Move from Margins to Mainstream in Science, News Media, and Politics
By Brynna JacobsonLexington Books
July 2022 • 282 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3528 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5297 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This research examines the trajectory of the contested field of geoengineering through critical discourse analysis of relevant science policy reports, news media journalism, and congressional hearings. The analysis reveals the evolution of notions of normalcy, legitimacy, and imperative around the controversial field of geoengineering.
Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Social Security Handbook 2022
Overview of Social Security Programs
Edited by Social Security Administration Bernan Press
April 2022 • 714 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1056 3 • $89.00 / £68.00
Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
The Cyber Meta-Reality
Beyond the Metaverse
By Joshua A. SipperLexington Books
April 2022 • 280 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0925 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9265 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
You live in the cyber meta-reality. You and your family probably spend more time in this reality than any other. This book will help anyone who lives in the cyber meta-reality to understand where they live, how this world is evolving, and how we will likely evolve along with it.
Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
Social Security Handbook 2022
Overview of Social Security Programs, LARGE PRINT EDITION
Edited by Social Security Administration Bernan Press
April 2022 • 838 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1057 0 • $89.00 / £68.00
This Handbook provides information on topics such as how Social Security programs are administered, who is and isn’t covered under the insurance programs, how claims are processed, what benefits are included, and how to obtain more information about Social Security policies.
Public Policy / Social Security
The Fifth Freedom Guaranteeing an Opportunity-Rich Childhood for All
By David Erickson
Brookings Institution Press
November 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3963 0 • $24.95 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 8157 9647 7 • $19.99 / £14.99
This Handbook provides information on topics such as how Social Security programs are administered, who is and isn’t covered under the insurance programs, how claims are processed, what benefits are included, and how to obtain more information about Social Security policies.
Public Policy / Social Security
The United States Government Internet Directory 2022
Edited by Mary Meghan Ryan Bernan Press
August 2022 • 612 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1064 8 • $89.00 / £68.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0655 5 • $84.50 / £65.00
The status quo doesn’t work for millions of Americans, and the consequences of millions of failures are expensive for everyone. This book advocates a smarter social safety net that will catch kids heading toward incarceration or educational failure, and society will reap the benefits of healthier and more productive generations to come.
Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
The United States Government Internet Directory serves as a guide to the changing landscape of government information online. The Directory is an indispensable guidebook for anyone who is looking for official U.S. government resources on the Web.
Reference
Analysis of the FY 2022 Defense Budget
Funding Trends and Issues for the Next National Defense Strategy
By Todd Harrison and Seamus P. DanielsCenter for Strategic & International Studies
January 2022 • 32 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4049 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0505 5 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report assesses the Biden administration’s FY 2022 defense budget request. It outlines the priorities and potential effects of ongoing strategic reviews, tracks current congressional action on FY 2022 defense appropriations, and identifies key issues for FY 2023.
Security (National & International)
Communicating with Intelligence
Writing and Briefing for National Security, Third Edition
By M. Patrick Hendrix and James S. Major Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Security
and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6066 4 • $150.00 / £115.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0671 1 • $72.00 / £55.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6068 8 • $68.00 / £52.00
This book outlines the foundations of good intelligence communication, a toolkit for writing these documents, the briefing process, and a guide to citations and classified materials.
Security (National & International)
Constructive Conflicts
From Emergence to Transformation, Sixth Edition
By Bruce W. Dayton and Louis Kriesberg Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 378 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6099 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1005 5 • $56.00 / £43.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6101 2 • $54.50 / £42.00
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
Security (National & International)
Enduring and Emerging Issues in South Asian Security
Edited by Sumit Ganguly and Dinshaw Mistry
Brookings Institution Press
February 2022 • 238 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3884 8 • $36.99 / £28.00
eBook 978 0 8157 8855 5 • $28.99 / £21.99
Atomic Friends
How America Deals with Nuclear-Armed Allies
By Zachary KeckRowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6970 4 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9711 1 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6972 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
Through a close analysis of key cases, Keck examines the impact that acquiring nuclear arsenals had after US allies developed them. By examining existing and recently declassified documents, original archival research, and interviews with US officials, this important study challenges conventional wisdom on Washington’s nuclear containment strategy.
Security (National & International)
Complex Air Defense
Countering the Hypersonic Missile Threat
By Tom Karako and Masao DahlgrenCenter for Strategic & International Studies
May 2022 • 68 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4053 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0543 3 • $43.00 / £33.00
Hypersonic missiles are not unstoppable. This CSIS report argues how numerous efforts tailored to exploit key vulnerabilities of the hypersonic flight regime can make hypersonic defense a tractable problem.
Security (National & International)
Defense Acquisition Trends 2021
By Gregory Sanders; Won Joon Jang and Alexander Holderness
Center for Strategic & International Studies
June 2022 • 38 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4059 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0604 4 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report examines trends in what the DoD is buying, how the DoD is buying it, and from whom the DoD is buying based on analysis of data from the Federal Procurement Data System.
Security (National & International)
Enhancing Democratic Partnership in the IndoPacific Region
By Michael J. Green; Nicholas Szechenyi and Hannah Fodale
Center for Strategic & International Studies
February 2022 • 78 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4047 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0482 2 • $42.50 / £33.00
Security (National & International)
Democratic governance is a critical element of the U.S. strategy to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific region. This CSIS report catalogues regional efforts to support democracy and recommends ways the United States can partner with like-minded countries in the region.
Security (National & International)
Europe Alone
Small State Security without the United States
Edited by David Schultz; Aurelija Pūraitė and Vidmantė Giedraitytė
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 464 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6728 1 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7298 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
Europe Alone explores the prospects of European security in a future when the United States may no longer be a reliable partner. Leading security scholars offer a multifaceted approach to the changing role and meaning of national security into the future from the perspective of small states.
Security (National & International)
Future NATO Enlargement
Force Requirements and Budget Costs
By Mark F. Cancian - With Adam SaxtonCenter for Strategic & International Studies
January 2022 • 120 pages • Part of the CSIS
Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4041 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0420 0 • $42.50 / £33.00
Past NATO enlargement helped produce a Europe whole, free, and at peace, but future enlargement, facing a hostile Russia, could require billions of dollars in additional defense spending. NATO and the United States should weigh these costs in future enlargement decisions.
Security (National & International)
Influence and Escalation
Implications of Russian and Chinese Influence Operations for Crisis Management
By Rebecca Hersman; Eric Brewer; Lindsey Sheppard and Maxwell Simon
Center for Strategic & International Studies
January 2022 • 72 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4045 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0468 8 • $42.50 / £33.00
Technology-enabled influence operations, including disinformation, will likely figure prominently in adversary efforts to impede U.S. crisis response and alliance management in high-risk, high-impact scenarios under a nuclear shadow.
Security (National & International)
Integrated Arms Control in an Era of Strategic Competition
By Rebecca K.C. Hersman; Heather Williams and Suzanne Claeys
Center for Strategic & International Studies
May 2022 • 68 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4051 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0529 9 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report explores how arms control remains an essential partner of deterrence and strategic stability. The competitive security environment, rise of disruptive technologies, and limited resources call for recoupling arms control with deterrence to address integrated, crossdomain threats today.
Security (National & International)
Europe’s High-End Military Challenges
The Future of European Capabilities and Missions
By Seth G. Jones and Rachel Ellehuus
Center for Strategic & International Studies
February 2022 • 72 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4043 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0444 4 • $42.50 / £33.00
This CSIS report from CSIS’s International Security Program and Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program examines the evolution of European military capabilities over the next decade and the types of missions states will be able (and unable) to perform by 2030.
Security (National & International)
Human Security
Theory and Action, Second Edition
By David Andersen-Rodgers and Kerry F. Crawford Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 368 pages • Part of the Peace and Security in the 21st Century series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5992 7 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9934 4 • $44.95 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5994 1 • $42.50 / £33.00
This thoroughly revised second edition of a popular text explores the theory and application of concepts central to human security, the protection of individuals from harm. Through an examination of the critical questions and priorities, it grounds students in the conceptual roots as well as applications and challenges both in war and peacetime.
Security (National & International)
Information War
How Artificial Intelligence Is Driving U.S.-China Military Competition
By Tom Stefanick
Brookings Institution Press
August 2022 • 280 pages
Paperback 978 0 8157 3882 4 • $38.99 / £30.00
eBook 978 0 8157 8831 1 • $30.99 / £23.99
Security (National & International)
Leveraging Networks in Future Operations
DISA’s Changing Role in Battle Networks
By Gregory Sanders and Rhys McCormickCenter for Strategic & International Studies
April 2022 • 36 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4057 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0581 1 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report explores the important choices that the Department of Defense has to make about the future mission and organization of the Defense Information Systems Agency—the organization created in the Cold War to unify its top-level communications—as it adapts to the challenges of a changing world.
Security (National & International)
Nuclear Ethics in the Twenty-First Century
Survival, Order, and Justice
By Thomas E. Doyle, II Rowman & Littlefield InternationalMarch 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6413 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4422 6604 4 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 4422 7661 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
Using a constructivist approach, the book addresses international security studies’ concerns about the relevance of moral reasoning to strategic and political thinking.
Security (National & International)
Principles of Maritime Power
By Bruce A. Elleman - Foreword by S. C. M. PaineRowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6104 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1067 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This concise but exhaustive treatment of sea powers examines the strengths and weaknesses of maritime power, including chapters on mutiny, blockades, coalitions, expeditionary warfare, piracy, commerce raiding, and soft power operations. Throughout, Elleman analyzes the competition between land power and sea power strategies.
Security (National & International)
The Academic-Practitioner Divide in Intelligence Studies
Edited by Rubén Arcos; Nicole K. Drumhiller and Mark Phythian
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 330 pages • Part of the Security and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4446 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4473 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
The profession of intelligence and those delivering intelligence education share a common aim of developing intelligence as a discipline. However, this shared interest must also navigate the existence of an academic-practitioner divide. This book provides a range of international approaches to navigate the academic-practitioner divide.
Security (National & International)
The Future of National Intelligence How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities
By Shay Hershkovitz Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Security and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6069 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0701 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6071 8 • $32.50 / £25.00
The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities provides a blueprint for the future of national intelligence agencies by exploring emerging technologies and collaborative strategies for intelligence gathering and managing data. Essential reading for students of national security and professionals.
Security (National & International)
On the Horizon, Vol. 4
A Collection of Papers from the Next Generation of Nuclear Professionals
Edited by Reja Younis
Center for Strategic & International Studies
August 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7047 2 • $75.00 / £58.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0489 9 • $71.25 / £55.00
These papers explore a range of crucial debates such as the future of arms control and deterrence, emerging technologies, SSBN vulnerability, public opinion, cyber norms, and the role of regional dynamics including China and India in nuclear security.
Security (National & International)
Rescuing Aid in Syria
By Natasha HallCenter for Strategic & International Studies
May 2022 • 80 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4055 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0567 7 • $43.00 / £33.00
Eleven years into the Syrian conflict, needs continue to rise. Yet, violence, uncertainty, and the Syrian government’s manipulation of the aid sector continues to plague the aid response. This CSIS report articulates the challenges to assistance and how to overcome them.
Security (National & International)
The Challenge of European Political Will, CSIS Report
By Rachel Ellehuus and Seth G. Jones
Center for Strategic & International Studies
September 2022 • 56 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7051 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0526 6 • $42.50 / £34.99
Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has galvanized Europe and triggered a renewed focus on hard security and defense. This latest CSIS report analyzes whether European political will to conduct military missions and operations worldwide will be sustained in the coming years.
Security (National & International)
The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures
Edited by Ryan Shaffer
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 380 pages • Part of the Security and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5999 6 • $140.00 / £108.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0008 8 • $133.00 / £102.00
The Handbook of Asian Intelligence Cultures explores the historical and contemporary influences that have shaped Asian intelligence cultures as well as the impact intelligence service have had on domestic and foreign affairs.
Security (National & International)
The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures
Edited by Florina Cristiana Matei; Carolyn Halladay and Eduardo E. Estévez
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 414 pages • Part of the Security and Professional Intelligence Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6081 7 • $140.00 / £108.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0824 4 • $133.00 / £102.00
The Handbook of Latin American and Caribbean Intelligence Cultures provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary efforts of Latin American and Caribbean nations to develop an intelligence culture that converts the former military regimes’ repressive security apparatuses into democratic intelligence communities.
Security (National & International)
The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament
A Power-Analytical Approach
By Nik Hynek and Anzhelika Solovyeva
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 228 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4987 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 1659 9 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1166 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
This novel and original book examines and disaggregates, theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international security regimes.
Security (National & International)
Trends in Department of Defense Other Transaction Authority Usage, CSIS Report
By Rhys McCormick and Gregory Sanders
Center for Strategic & International Studies
August 2022 • 50 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7053 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0540 0 • $42.50 / £34.99
This report examines trends in Other Transaction Authority (OTA) usage across the DoD to provide insights into how the DoD is using OTAs to pursue innovation, how DoD spending under an OTA is organized, and to whom the majority of OTA obligations go.
Security (National & International)
U.S. Military Forces in FY 2022 Peering into the Abyss
By Mark F. CancianCenter for Strategic & International Studies
May 2022 • 154 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7043 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0441 1 • $43.00 / £33.00
This CSIS report is a compilation of the “U.S. Military Forces in FY 2022” white paper series, covering in detail the overall strategy and priorities of the DOD by service as well as SOF, contractors, and
civilians. Security (National & International)
The Kremlin Playbook 3
Keeping the Faith
By Heather A. Conley and Donatienne Ruy Center for Strategic & International Studies
April 2022 • 116 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7045 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0465 5 • $43.00 / £33.00
The Kremlin Playbook 3: Keeping the Faith aims to expose a new front of Russian malign influence in Europe and Eurasia: the instrumentalization of values, traditions, and religious beliefs to exploit or sow divisions among Western societies.
Security (National & International)
Toward a U.S.-Japan Technology Alliance
Competition and Innovation in New Domains
Edited by Michael J. Green; Nicholas Szechenyi and Hannah Fodale
Center for Strategic & International Studies
December 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Hardback 978 1 5381 7055 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0564 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7057 1 • $43.00 / £33.00
This edited volume is an anthology of nine essays from Japanese and U.S. scholars examining the technology policy landscape in both countries with an eye toward developing recommendations for bilateral cooperation in the years ahead. Topics include U.S. and Japanese technology strategy, economic security, and rulemaking for the digital economy.
Security (National & International)
U.S. Defense Posture in the Middle East, CSIS Report
By Seth G. Jones and Seamus P. Daniels
Center for Strategic & International Studies
August 2022 • 102 pages • Part of the CSIS Reports series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7049 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0502 2 • $42.50 / £34.99
There are growing calls for a decrease in the United States’ military presence in the Middle East. This new CSIS report assesses posture options in the context of Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and other threats in the region.
Security (National & International)
United States Foreign Policy 1945-1968
The Bomb, Spies, Stories, and Lies
By Michael Wayne Santos Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 358 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0219 0 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2176 6 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0218 3 • $40.50 / £31.00
There are many studies of the Cold War, but none has sought to understand the period in the broader context of human history as this one does. Michael Wayne Santos examines the interplay of the longstanding limits on human decision-making, our propensity for storytelling, and need for certitude in a period of chaos and confusion.
Security (National & International)
Foreign Fighters and International Peace
Joining Global Jihad and Marching Back Home
By Cholpon OrozobekovaHamilton Books
September 2022 • 254 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7370 9 • $24.99 / £18.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3716 6 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book provides compelling account of the emergence of jihadism and ISIS, radicalization process of jihadism and their post-ISIS lives, and consequences of a family jihad that resulted of thousands of women and children held in the desert with nowhere to go.
Terrorism
Veiled Threats
Women and Jihad
By Mia BloomBrookings Institution Press
March 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 0 8157 3143 6 • $24.99 / £18.99
Terrorism
How Terror Evolves
The Emergence and Spread of Terrorist Techniques
By Yannick Veilleux-Lepage Rowman & Littlefield InternationalMarch 2022 • 198 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4981 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 8789 9 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0879 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book contextualizes the use of terror as part of wider movements of political contention, demonstrating that terroristic innovation occurs as part of wider historical processes rather than in a vacuum.
Terrorism
Rethinking Utopia
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Edited by Ebru Deniz Ozan
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 132 pages • Part of the Political Theory for Today series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0695 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6967 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The authors of the book believe that utopia is a multidimensional concept, hence best understood with a multidisciplinary perspective. The book seeks utopian thinking in political theory (in Kant and Derrida), international law, populism, Turkish Islamism, and it dilates on the themes of modernism and classless society in the selected utopias.
Utopias
Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa
Designing for Gender Equality
Edited by Amanda Gouws
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6008 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0091 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book deals with feminist institutionalism through asking the question if gender equality can be designed and applying an analysis related to this question to the South African Commission for Gender Equality.
Women in Politics
Africa-China-Taiwan Relations, 1949–2020
Edited by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 322 pages • Part of the African Governance, Development, and Leadership series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4966 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9676 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an insightful analysis from complementary perspectives of the seven-decades-long contest and contestation between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China for diplomatic recognition on the Africa continent. It examines China and Taiwan’s presence and active involvement in African affairs.
World / African
Africa’s International Relations in a Globalising World Perspectives on Nigerian Foreign Policy at Sixty and Beyond
Edited by Usman A. Tar and Sharkdam WapmukForeword by Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4690 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6910 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Africa’s International Relations in a Globalising World: Perspectives on Nigerian Foreign Policy at Sixty and Beyond address essential questions about Nigeria’s foreign policy such as how well the policy and its practice of diplomacy have served national interest, and what more needs to be done to assure of better results now and into the future.
World / African
America’s Other Muslims
Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam
By Muhammad Fraser-Rahim
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9021 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0198 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9020 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Fraser-Rahim spotlights the emergence of an American school of Islamic thought, which was created and established by the son of the former Nation of Islam leader.
World / African
Bantu Authorities
Apartheid’s System of Race and Ethnicity
By Veronica Ehrenreich-RisnerLexington Books
February 2022 • 388 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3126 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1275 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides the first holistic study of Bantu Authorities (BA), the system South Africa created to implement rural apartheid. Based on interviews with Zulus and former commissioners and archival research, Bantu Authorities proves the primary objective of the system was to protect white capital, with white racial purity secondary.
World / African
Cameroon-Nigeria Relations
Trends and Perspectives
Edited by Osita Agbu and C. Nna-Emeka Okereke
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 384 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3594 5 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5952 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the trends and dynamics associated with Cameroon–Nigeria relations. It offers rich perspectives for understanding the objectives and drivers of diplomatic relations between both countries.
World / African
Civil Wars in Africa
Edited by Kelechi A. Kalu and George Klay Kieh Jr.Lexington Books
May 2022 • 358 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4933 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9348 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that civil wars in Africa stem from the contradictions and crises that have been generated by the post-colonial state as the result of the adverse effects of colonialism and the failure of successive generations of African leaders to lead the process of changing the state’s nature, character, and mission.
World / African
Contemporary Wars and Conflicts over Land and Water in Africa
By Carlson Anyangwe Lexington Books
August 2022 • 350 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1036 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0377 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Black Women’s Rights Leadership and the Circularities of Power
By Carole Boyce DaviesLexington Books
October 2022 • 336 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1238 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2397 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book studies the manifestation of leadership as expressed, narrativized, and represented by women of African descent. It uses the language of “rights” and “power” to assert that Black women find strategic alternatives to the male-dominated leadership status quo and are the leaders of the future.
World / African
Civil Society Narratives of Violence and Shaping the Transitional Justice Agenda in Zimbabwe
By Chenai G. MatshakaLexington Books
August 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4534 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5357 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Based on civil society perspectives, Chenai G. Matshaka captures how narratives of violence based on particular norms and values have impacted the transitional justice trajectory and agenda in Zimbabwe.
World / African
Conflict at the Edge of the African State
The ADF Rebel Group in the Congo-Uganda Borderland
By Lindsay Scorgie Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 338 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 6169 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 1709 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book looks at one of the oldest and most secretive rebel groups in the eastern Congo warscape: the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Moving away from traditional state-centric concepts of cross-border conflict, the author examines how their deeply embedded position in local borderland histories has fueled their surprising resiliency.
World / African
Copper King in Central Africa Corporate Organization, Labor Relations, and Profitability of Zambia’s Rhokana Corporation
By Hyden Munene Rowman & Littlefield InternationalJanuary 2022 • 292 pages • Part of the Africa: Past, Present & Prospects series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4642 2 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6439 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines land and maritime boundary conflicts, intra and inter-state armed conflicts, transboundary terrorism, and conflict resolution arrangements in Africa. It provides an important contribution to a deeper understanding of conflicts on the continent.
World / African
This book studies the corporate structure, labour relations, and profitability of an individual mining company on the Northern Rhodesian (Zambian) Copperbelt.
World / African
Economic Growth and Democracy in PostColonial Africa
Cabo Verde, Small States, and the World Economy
Edited by João Resende-Santos and Aminah N. Pilgrim Lexington Books
March 2022 • 340 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5383 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3840 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume provides an analysis of the political economy of Cabo Verde from its independence in 1975 to the present. The collection serves as both a primary source and sociopolitical study, featuring some of the most accomplished scholars and policy practitioners on the subject matter of the nation’s political economy.
World / African
Identity Transformation and Politicization in Africa
Shifting Mobilization
Edited by Toyin Falola and Céline A. JacqueminLexington Books
September 2022 • 334 pages • Part of the Africa:
Past, Present & Prospects series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1792 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7932 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book interrogates how identities are politicized, transformed, and mobilized throughout the African continent to demonstrate alternatives for nation building. It examines ways of transforming identity and provides concrete options where institutions and technology mobilize for education and empowerment around issues of African identities.
World / African
Indigenous Knowledge
An Alternative for Food Security and Wellness in Africa
By Emmanuel O. OritsejaforLexington Books
July 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1508 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5091 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Indigenous food systems have been neglected in regards to current global food security challenges. The author argues that use of indigenous methods will reduce the vulnerabilities of food insecure households in Africa.
World / African
Interrogating Xenophobia and Nativism in Twenty-First-Century Africa
Edited by Emmanuel Matambo
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 326 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4531 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5326 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa
Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle
Edited by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi; Tshepo Moloi and Alda Romão Saúte Saíde
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 280 pages • Part of the Africa: Past, Present & Prospects series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4844 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 5602 2 • $132.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1561 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
This collection brings together essays on the role that radio played in political resistance against oppressive regimes during the period of the armed struggle in the region.
World / African
Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
Ten Measured Steps into the Future
By Philip C. Aka and Joseph Abiodun Balogun
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1417 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4184 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Improving Disability Laws under Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, Philip C. Aka and Joseph Abiodun Balogun explore measures for improving the capacity of the Nigerian national government to implement regional and global treaties and laws related to disability that are human rights-centric and that support the potential of persons living with disabilities.
World / African
Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa Zimbabwe and Namibia
Edited by Everisto Benyera
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9284 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2826 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9283 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores indigenous and traditional, non-state transitional justice mechanisms used in two South African countries where there were no formal transitional justice mechanisms after protracted violence. It details how communities delve into their history and modes of everyday living in order to resolve conflict and achieve reconciliation.
World / African
Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa
Edited by J. Jarpa Dawuni - Foreword by Julia Sebutinde
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 446 pages • Part of the Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3267 8 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2685 5 • $50.00 / £38.99
This book examines immigration policies and politics in Africa, the social impacts and history of xenophobia and nativism in African life and culture, and the effects of xenophobia and nativism on PanAfricanism. The chapters also offer suggestions for reducing xenophobia and nativism in Africa through social and economic policies.
World
This book examines women’s access to justice in both traditional and statutory courts through an intersectional lens. It analyzes the lived experiences of women and their access to justice by situating the courtroom as both a spatial and a temporal arena for seeking justice (as litigants) and for seeking access to the bench (as judges).
World / African
Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Kingdom and PanAfricanism Reinterpreted, 1909–1972
By A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-AssensohForeword by Damien Ejigiri
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 162 pages • Part of the African Governance, Development, and Leadership series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0674 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6752 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. The authors present a twenty-first-century reinterpretation of Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanist views in the context of Black unity as well as Black liberation within the African continent and the United States and Caribbean diaspora.
World / African
National Narratives of Mali
Fula Communities in Times of Crisis
By Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Ba KonaréLexington Books
August 2022 • 120 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0267 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2657 7 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0266 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Studying the reactions from Fula communities in West Africa that have created narratives of their own, Narratives of Mali: Fula Communities in Times of Crisis analyzes the various narratives employed in Mali as the country faces a lasting political, social, and security crisis that threatens the country’s sense of identity.
World / African
Nigerian Media Industries in the Era of Globalization
Edited by Unwana Samuel AkpanLexington Books
November 2022 • 350 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2285 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2868 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
In this book, media professionals and scholars of media studies examine how the Nigerian media industry has changed in the era of globalization and digitization. They provide history on the Nigerian media industry and examine changes in media law, journalism, broadcasting, sports media, and digital news.
World / African
Pastoralist-Farmer Conflicts in Nigeria A Human Displacement Perspective
By Adeola Aderayo Adebajo Rowman & Littlefield PublishersNovember 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the Africa:
Past, Present & Prospects series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1457 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7866 4582 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
The book provides the readers a deeper understanding on how the conflict management mechanisms adopted in pastoralist-farmer conflict affect the protection of internally displaced persons in Benue and Nasarawa states.
World / African
Language, Society, and Empowerment in Africa and Its Diaspora
By Akinloyè Òjó
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4471 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4725 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues for centrality of language to address Africa’s developmental challenges. It contends for the empowerment of African languages to serve in all domains, and it propagates ways to empower African languages for African socio-cultural and economic development in the twenty-first century.
World / African
Nigeria in the Fourth Republic
Confronting the Contemporary Political, Economic, and Social Dilemmas
Edited by E. Ike Udogu - Foreword by A. B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0049 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0507 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume provides ways to tackle the political, economic, and social dilemmas in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic to promote national cohesion, political stability, and peaceful coexistence.
World / African
Online Learning, Instruction, and Research in Post-Pandemic Higher Education in Africa
Edited by Martin Munyao - Foreword by George John Law
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1606 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6072 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that universities need to adapt to technology-mediated communication learning to thrive. Looking at case studies in Africa, the contributors call for a rich combination of twenty-first century pedagogical skills, education technology, and institutional collaboration to achieve optimum learning outcomes through ODEL.
World / African
Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa Perspectives on the Changing Wave of Law Enforcement
Edited by Usman A. Tar and Dawud Muhammad Dawud - Foreword by Solomon Ehigiator Arase
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 494 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5380 2 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3819 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book critically examines the insecurity crises in Africa propelled by the complexity of the changing wave of crime and insurgency on the continent and policing and law enforcement patterns.
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Religion and Global Politics
Soft Power in Nigeria and Beyond
Edited by Olusola Ogunnubi and Sheriff Folarin -
Foreword by Jeffrey Haynes
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4561 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5623 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the deployment of religious soft power in African states to influence international relations as well as the role and perception of politics for African people. The book analyzes how religion has been used as an instrument of persuasion and influence in a cross-disciplinary study of political science and religious studies.
World / African
The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces
Genealogies, Discourses, and Epistemic Struggles
Edited by Khanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 282 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4525 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5265 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume uses post-/de-colonial approaches to examine subalternity in online media representations, specifically the intersectional subalternity of Matabeleland. The editors argue that in online spaces the liberatory politics of Matabeleland emerges as trapped in coloniality.
World / African
The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya Memory, Identity, and Heritage
By Herman Ogoti Kiriama
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4615 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6163 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through analysis of two communities in coastal Kenya, The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya argues that heritage construction is a discursive and selective process, that the landscape—both physical and mental—is the arena in which this process takes place, and that there are many conflicting and contested views of heritage.
World / African
The PhD Experience in African Higher Education
Edited by Ruth Murambadoro; John Mashayamombe and uMbuso weNkosi
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4537 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5388 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Taiwan in Africa
Seven Decades of Certainty and Uncertainties
Edited by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5092 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0931 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Once a doyen of African governments, Taiwan is today diplomatically isolated on the continent. This book examines gaps in the literature on Taiwan-African relations by historicizing Taiwan’s seven-decade relationship with Africa to address Taiwan’s role in the growth and development of the continent.
World / African
The Islamist Challenge and Africa
By Samory Rashid
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 274 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 6444 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 4427 7 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6443 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Islamist Challenge and Africa examines Islamist militancy among Africans historically and at present, a topic largely ignored in the United States. It examines Islamist militancy’s longstanding presence in Africa and its diaspora, Islamist militancy’s distinct ideological features among Africans, and ways to minimize its violence.
World / African
The Oromo Movement and Imperial Politics Culture and Ideology in Oromia and Ethiopia
By Asafa JalataLexington Books
March 2022 • 210 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0339 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3371 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0338 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book critically examines the dialectical relationship between Ethiopian colonialism, Oromo culture, and the collective grievances of the Oromo nation. It identifies the chains of sociological and historical factors that developed the Oromo national movement and demonstrates how that movement is transforming Ethiopian imperial politics.
World / African
The Struggles of Post-Independence Nigeria Missed Opportunities and a Continuing Crisis
By Ucheoma Nwagbara
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 372 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3375 0 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3767 7 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book provides insights on the state of higher education in Africa, focusing on South Africa, the hub for doctoral training. It depicts the competing realities shaping the doctoral process and the resulting learning outcomes for African students pursuing studies in the fields of humanities and social sciences.
World / African
This book examines Nigeria’s struggles with corruption, poverty, inequality, crime, and insurgency to show how poor leadership in the post-independence era has failed to use the country’s enormous natural and human resources to improve citizens’ lives.
World / African
The War on Drugs in Tanzania Prohibition and Punishment
By Dane Degenstein Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5419 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4205 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the war on drugs in Tanzania, enacted through policy change and constructed narratives, and how it has contributed to the continuation of war on drugs ideology in East Africa and internationally. Centering the perspectives of people who use drugs themselves, the author argues for a radical rethinking of global drug policy.
World / African
International Relations of Asia, Third Edition
Edited by David Shambaugh
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 514 pages • Part of the Asia in World
Politics series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6284 2 • $130.00 / £100.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2859 9 • $49.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6286 6 • $46.50 / £36.00
In this comprehensive study, leading scholars offer the most current and definitive analysis of Asia’s regional dynamics. They set developments in Asia in historical and theoretical context, assess the leading powers, and consider subregional actors and intraregional linkages. Students and practitioners will find this book invaluable.
World / Asian
Kim Jong-un’s Strategy for Survival
A Method to Madness
By David W. ShinLexington Books
October 2022 • 482 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0822 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 8208 8 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0821 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
In this book, David W. Shin argues that North Korean leader Kim Jongun, who is often labeled a madman by the press, is actually a competent strategist who has been consistently underestimated.
World / Asian
Forgotten Voices of the British Empire
How Knowledge was Created and Curated in Colonial India and Burma
By Carol Ann Boshier Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5988 0 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9897 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study investigates the contribution made by outsiders in accumulating knowledge from the days of the East India Company until the early twentieth century, when photography became an important tool for recording information.
World / Asian
Japan as an Immigration Nation
Demographic Change, Economic Necessity, and the Human Community Concept
By Hidenori Sakanaka - Translated by Robert D. Eldridge and Graham B. Leonard
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 286 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1495 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 4933 3 • $121.00 / £93.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1494 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this treatise by veteran Japanese immigration specialist, Hidenori Sakanaka—the former director of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau—proposes sweeping changes to Japan’s immigration policy to address the interrelated problems of a rapidly declining population and a decrease in working-age adults.
World / Asian
Peace as Government
The Will to Normalize Timor-Leste
By Ramon Blanco
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 278 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8179 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 1776 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8178 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
The author argues that peace operations have a precise function in the international scenario – the maintenance of a neoliberal order in the international society. The author, analyzing the United Nations’ engagement with Timor-Leste, evinces that this function is developed through the will to normalize the Timorese state and population.
World / Asian
Poverty and Pacification
The Chinese State Abandons the Old Working Class
By Dorothy J. SolingerRowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 332 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5495 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4960 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
This groundbreaking book explores China’s Minimum Livelihood Guarantee program, which was extended in the hopes of quieting the protests of millions of laid-off workers. Solinger replays the duet that unfolded between the state and the ranks of the proletariat and documents the progressively more silent drama as workers have struggled to survive.
World / Asian
Protest and Resistance in the Chinese Party State
Edited by Hank Johnston and Sheldon Zhang
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 356 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6502 7 • $40.00 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 5003 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6501 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This collection analyses Chinese protest movements and state responses.
World / Asian
Social Economy in Asia
Realities and Perspectives
Edited by Euiyoung Kim and Hiroki Miura
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9896 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8941 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9895 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Social Economy in Asia: Realities and Perspectives, thirteen specialists discuss the multi-dimensional characteristics and challenges of the social economy in Asia, arguing for its unique effectiveness as a political economic system in the twenty-first century.
World / Asian
The Political Logic of the US–China Trade War
Edited by Shiping Hua
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2498 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4994 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection examines the political logic of the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. The contributors examine a number of theories behind the trade war, the historical background in which the trade war emerged, and the international contexts.
World / Asian
A Fervent Crusade for the National Soul Cultural Politics in Colombia, 1930–1946
By Catalina Muñoz-Rojas
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the Social Movements in the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1811 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8122 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
A Fervent Crusade for the National Soul examines the implementation of state cultural intervention in Colombia between 1930 and 1946. It explores the multi-vocal debates about the role of culture in shaping the relationship between the ruler and the ruled in a country undergoing deep socioeconomic transformations.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Decolonizing Patagonia
Mapuche Peoples and State Formation in Argentina
By Lucas SavinoLexington Books
February 2022 •
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The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific
Edited by Michael Clarke; Matthew Sussex and Nick Bisley
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 254 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8277 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 2759 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8276 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific interrogates to what extent the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) represents an achievable vision of a China-centric order in Asia, exploring its major security implications for the region.
World / Asian
US-China Relations
Perilous Past, Uncertain Present, Fourth Edition
By Robert G. SutterRowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 420 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5716 9 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7176 6 • $48.00 / £37.00
This comprehensive and balanced assessment of the historical and contemporary determinants of Sino-American relations explains the conflicted engagement between the two countries. Offering a rich discussion and analysis, Robert G. Sutter explores the twists and turns of the relationship over the past two hundred years.
World / Asian
Affect, Archive, Archipelago
Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives
By Beatriz Llenín-FigueroaRowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 298 pages • Part of the Rethinking the Island series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5144 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1457 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores how Puerto Rico’s affective archive of Caribbean relations, comprised of historical-political figures and communitarian, activist, and artistic work, has envisioned and embodied decolonization and sovereignty in relation to the archipelagic and the sea, thus furthering emancipatory and reparatory horizons.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Dictatorships in Twenty-First-Century Latin America Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and El Salvador
By Osvaldo Hurtado - Translated by Barbara Sipe Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 7107 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1080 0 • $41.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7109 7 • $38.50 / £30.00
In Decolonizing Patagonia: Mapuche Peoples and State Formation in Argentina, Lucas Savino examines Indigenous efforts for selfdetermination, territorial autonomy, and decolonization in Northern Patagonia, Argentina.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
This book explores the most important Latin American political phenomenon to emerge in the twenty-first century: democratic governments have become autocratic governments not by military coups but by politicians manipulating the system after a fair election. Through five countries, the book examines this new generation of Latin American dictators.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Latin America since Independence
Two Centuries of Continuity and Change, Second Edition
By Thomas C. Wright and Robert L. Smale Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 396 pages • Part of the Latin American Silhouettes series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6621 5 • $125.00 / £96.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6222 2 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6623 9 • $37.50 / £29.00
This book offers an innovative, thematic approach to the history of Latin America since independence. It traces continuity and change in colonial legacies, showing how crucial they have been in shaping contemporary political systems, economies, societies, and religious institutions in a richly diverse region.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Selective Security in the War on Drugs
The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico
By Alke Jenss Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 288 pages • Part of the
Transforming Capitalism series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5109 9 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1105 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book offers an analysis of security practices within the scope of the war on drugs, through the lens of political economy and coloniality. It juxtaposes the contexts of Colombia and Mexico to show that security practices of the 2000s were highly ambiguous and selective.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation in Latin America and Beyond Actuality and Pertinence
Edited by Lorenzo Fusaro and Leinad Johan Alcalá SandovalLexington Books
March 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3823 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8243 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through this edited collection, the contributing authors examine the pertinence and actuality of Marx’s general law while analyzing past and present issues in political economy in Latin America and beyond.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Globalization and Regime Change
Lessons from the New Russia and the New Europe
Edited by Robin Alison Remington and Robert K. Evanson
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 434 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 6648 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback 978 0 7425 8049 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4422 2679 1 • $42.50 / £33.00
This timely book examines postcommunist developments in Russia and Europe, emphasizing foreign and security policies and their domestic linkages. Comparing how different countries responded to the end of the cold war, the contributors assess the prospects for further regime change from democracies to hybrid systems and the implications for the EU.
World / European
Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments
Creative Tensions between Resistance and Convergence
Edited by Steve Ellner; Ronaldo Munck and Kyla Sankey Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6394 8 • $94.00 / £72.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3955 5 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6396 2 • $37.00 / £28.00
This book examines the tensions and convergences between social movements and progressive Latin American governments. Leading scholars present a well-rounded picture on a controversial topic and argue against the accepted view that robust social movements are independent of the state. This is an invaluable supplement for Latin American studies.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Social Movements and Radical Populism in the Andes Ecuador and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective
By Jennifer N. CollinsLexington Books
March 2022 • 320 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7233 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2347 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Social Movements and Radical Populism in the Andes: Ecuador and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective, Jennifer N. Collins examines why the new left took the form of radical populism in Ecuador and Bolivia and how social movements were impacted by this development.
World / Caribbean & Latin American
Brave New Hungary
Mapping the “System of National Cooperation”
Edited by János Matyas Kovács and Balazs TrencsenyiLexington Books
March 2022 • 454 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 4368 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3668 8 • $144.00 / £111.00
eBook 978 1 4985 4367 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book examines the rise and main structural features of a “brave new” anti-liberal regime in Hungary during the past decade. The transition to authoritarian rule in a member state of the European Union may serve as a warning for other countries that suffer from comparable deadlock of liberal democracy.
World / European
Hungary in State of Exception
Authoritarian Neoliberalism from the AustroHungarian Monarchy to the COVID-19 Crisis
By Attila Antal
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5227 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2287 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Neoliberalism as an economic and political ideology defined the history of Hungary, not just in the 21st century, but in the troubled 20th century. Contemporary authoritarian populist tendencies in Hungary and other Central and Eastern European nations rely on this historical embedded neoliberalism.
World / European
Splitting Europe
The EU, Russia, and the West
By Jens Stilhoff Sörensen Rowman & Littlefield InternationalFebruary 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5079 5 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0801 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores and analyses the deep political crisis, new fragmentation and splitting that takes place both within Europe and between Russia and the West.
World / European
A New Structure for Security, Peace, and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf
By Seyed Hossein Mousavian
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4846 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 6507 7 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4651 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book provides a new model for sustainable peace and security in the Middle East. It provides detailed analyses and roadmaps to the political quandaries in the Middle East, particularly with respect to Iran and Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
World / Middle Eastern
Breaking Intersubjectivity
A Critical Theory of Counter-Revolutionary Trauma in Egypt
By Vivienne Matthies-Boon Rowman & Littlefield PublishersOctober 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the Radical
Subjects in International Politics series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1032 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0331 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Rejecting the concept of PTSD, Matthies-Boon develops an alternate theory of trauma using the Egyptian revolution as a case. The testimonies of Cairene activists explain how multileveled traumatic status subordination inflicted on them destroyed the potentiality of revolutionary collective becoming, resulting in demoralized, depoliticized silence.
World / Middle Eastern
Continuity and Change in Political Culture
Israel and Beyond
Edited by Yael S. Aronoff; Ilan Peleg and Saliba Sarsar
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0572 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5726 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0571 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Leading scholars and practitioners of politics, political science, anthropology, Israel studies, and Middle East affairs examine aspects of continuity and change in political culture in tribute to Professor Myron J. Aronoff whose work on political culture has built conceptual and methodological bridges between political science and anthropology.
World / Middle Eastern
The Coloniality of Asylum
Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis
By Fiorenza Picozza Rowman & Littlefield InternationalAugust 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the New Politics of Autonomy series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5011 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 0092 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5010 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book offers a critique of asylum in Europe from the standpoint of autonomous border struggles, enacted both by refugees and those in solidarity with them.
World / European
Accountability in Syria
Achieving Transitional Justice in a Postconflict Society
Edited by Radwan Ziadeh Lexington Books
May 2022 • 142 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 1191 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1896 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 1190 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the patterns of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria since 2011. The contributors also discuss the possibilities of achieving accountability through the international system and the linkages between the transition and the new justice system that should emerge in Syria.
World / Middle Eastern
Circular Economy
Multidisciplinary Approaches from Turkey
Edited by Natalya Ketenci
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2108 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1090 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book reviews different industries and sectors that are becoming active players in the circular economy, on example of Turkey.
World / Middle Eastern
Europeanisation in Turkish Water Management Policy
A Sociological Institutionalism Perspective
By Burçin Demirbilek
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 274 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0163 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1641 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book aims to test the explanatory value of such a sociological institutionalism perspective for Europeanization in Turkish water policy.
World / Middle Eastern
Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism
The Making of a Nation in Kurdish Journalistic Discourse (1898-1914)
By Deniz EkiciLexington Books
August 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1261 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2595 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1260 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism: The Making of a Nation in Kurdish Journalistic Discourse (1898-1914), Deniz Ekici argues that the Kurdish periodicals of the late Ottoman period served as a communicative space in which Kurdish intellectuals constructed, negotiated, and disseminated an unambiguous Kurdish ethnic nationalism.
World / Middle Eastern
Lebanese Women at the Crossroads
Caught between Sect and Nation
By Nelia Hyndman-RizkLexington Books
March 2022 • 170 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 2276 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2748 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2275 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book argues that women are caught between sect and nation in Lebanon due to the division between religious and civil law. Consequently, a dual struggle is necessary, the first for women’s equal political and civil rights and the second for women’s equal legal rights in relation to personal status law.
World / Middle Eastern
Postrevolutionary Iran The Leader, The People, and the Three Powers
By R. R. Asaadi
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2032 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0309 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2031 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
How have Iran’s political institutions evolved since the revolution?
This book is first a study of the structure of Iran’s political institutions, of their composition and function in theory; and second an analysis of their evolution in practice over the first forty years of the Islamic Republic regime.
World / Middle Eastern
Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances Change and Continuity in the U.S.-Kurdish Relationship
By Ozum YesiltasLexington Books
August 2022 • 180 pages • Part of the Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4591 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5920 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Rethinking State-Non-State Alliances explores how the Kurds’ interactions with the U.S. transformed them into a considerable player in the Middle East while addressing how these transformations reshape the U.S. foreign policy. The book investigates the agency of non-state actors by putting the U.S.-Kurdish relationship within the broader International Relations context.
World / Middle Eastern
Kurds and Their Struggle for Autonomy
Enduring Identity and Clientelism
By Mehran Tamadonfar and Roman Lewis
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 462 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7118 0 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 4985 1197 7 • $50.00 / £38.99
Kurds and their Struggle for Autonomy: Enduring Identity and Clientelism is a comprehensive study of the roots of Kurdish identity, the processes of identity formation among the Kurds, and the Kurds’ seemingly never-ending struggle for self-determination.
World / Middle Eastern
Palestine and the Great Feud A Land Torn in Two, Zionism and the Infancy of Ideas (1897–1918)
By Dr. Labeeb Ahmed BsoulLexington Books
December 2022 • 332 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2405 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4060 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume analyzes the early period of the Arab-Israeli conflict (1897–1948), which encompasses the emergence of the Zionist movement, the spread of Western colonialism, and the end of the First World War.
World / Middle Eastern
Reframing Syrian Refugee Insecurity through a Feminist Lens The Case of Lebanon
By Jessy Abouarab
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 200 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1393 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3912 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1392 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Capturing the unique dynamics of a Global South-South forced migration case, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of Syrian refugee insecurity in Lebanon. It applies a transnational feminist approach to explore the plight of Syrian women who are often absent from and generally neglected in refugee securitized practices.
World / Middle Eastern
Saudi Arabia
A SWOT Analysis of a Family-Wahhabi Nationalism Case Study
By Gadi Hitman
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 132 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0931 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9326 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the process of national development in Saudi Arabia through the use of the SWOT model, which examines the kingdom’s strengths and weaknesses as well as the opportunities and threats it faces in internal and external arenas. This book combines a historical and contemporary analysis of Saudi politics and society.
World / Middle Eastern
The Evolution of the Turkish School Textbooks from Atatürk to Erdogan
By Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 292 pages
Paperback 978 1 6669 1698 0
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 6966 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1697 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book highlights Turkey’s transformation from Atatürk to Erdogan by providing a comprehensive insight on the indoctrination process of the dominant political ideologies through the history, religion, civics, and national security studies textbooks.
World / Middle Eastern
Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century Cooperation and Competition Amid Systemic Turbulence
By Muhammet KoçakLexington Books
September 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1573 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5747 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides a comprehensive examination of Turkey-Russia Relations in the twenty-first century. It analyzes the complex interactions between Turkey and Russia within the wider regional and global dynamics.
World / Middle Eastern
Turkish-Qatari Relations
From Past to Present in a Turbulent Geopolitical Landscape
By Özgür Pala and Khalid Al-JaberLexington Books
April 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0172 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1733 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
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.
World / Middle Eastern
Conflict Areas in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Edited by Göktürk Tüysüzoğlu and Arda Özkan
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 468 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5125 9 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1266 6
Turkey and the Post-Pandemic World Order
Edited by Ahmet Salih Ikiz
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3850 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8519 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the post-pandemic era with special emphasis on Turkey. It evaluates the current role of Turkey with respect to economic, security, and foreign policy perspectives.
World / Middle Eastern
$50.00 / £38.00
The aim of the study is to make sense of the political problems experienced in two regions that are economically, socially and politically similar, such as the Caucasus and Central Asia. For this purpose, frozen conflict zones produced by ethnic / religious conflicts faced by the countries of the region will be examined.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Turkish-American Relations since 1783
Edited by Tuba Ünlü Bilgiç and Bestami S. Bỉlgiç
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0832 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8336 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The recent turbulence in Turkish-American relations has once more drawn attention to the nature of the seventy-year-old alliance between Turkey and the United States. This elaborative study demonstrates that turbulence is not a novelty in bilateral relations.
World / Middle Eastern
Belarus Prospects of a Middle Power
By Piotra P. Murzionak
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 348 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5491 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4922 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines Belarusian history since the ninth century CE. The author analyzes issues surrounding Belarusian society regarding identity, religion, elites, and recent events since 2020 and argues for a Western-oriented identity.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Post-Soviet Conflicts
The Thirty Years’ Crisis
Edited by Ali Askerov; Stefan Brooks and Lasha Tchantouridze
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 398 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9656 5 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 6541 1 • $132.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9655 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
Thirty years have passed since the emergence of the first conflicts in the Soviet Union. Some of them have been successfully resolved, but those that persist promise no peace for Russia and its neighbors.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Putin’s Russia, Eighth Edition
Edited by Darrell Slider - With Stephen K. Wegren
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 454 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4867 9 • $104.00 / £80.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8686 6 • $49.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4869 3 • $47.00 / £36.00
Thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis of contemporary Russia. Leading scholars explore the domestic and international problems Russia confronts, considering a comprehensive array of economic, political, foreign policy, and social issues.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Russian Conservatism
Managing Change under Permanent Revolution
By Glenn DiesenRowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5000 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 9980 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4999 7 • $34.00 / £26.00
An analysis of Russian conservatism from the 19th century to contemporary Russia.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
The Long Telegram 2.0
A Neo-Kennanite Approach to Russia
By Peter EltsovLexington Books
March 2022 • 198 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0240 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2381 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0239 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Inspired by the telegram that the legendary American diplomat and historian George F. Kennan sent from Moscow to Washington in February 1946, The Long Telegram 2.0 provides an original explanation of contemporary Russia, exploring its resurgent imperial character and predicting its forthcoming disintegration.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Being Subordinate Men
Paul’s Rhetoric of Gender and Power
By Brian J. RobinsonFortress Academic
August
Previously
Russia’s Foreign Policy Change and Continuity in National Identity, Sixth Edition
By Andrei P. Tsygankov
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6148 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1494 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6150 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book focuses on Russia’s distinct concepts of the national interest and attempts to cooperate and compete with the West. It explains foreign policy by changes in Russia’s identity and interaction with the Western powers. It also evaluates Russia’s international accomplishments and losses, and it draws lessons for policy makers.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology
Edited by Guoli Liu and Joanna Drzewieniecki
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 482 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0635 6 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6363 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
This collection presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies. The contributors examine governance issues in Russia in comparative perspective and examine key theoretical issues, such as incorporating the philosophies of science and technology into political studies.
World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
The Bahá’í Faith and African American Studies
Perspectives on Racial Justice
Edited by Loni Bramson and Layli Maparyan
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0016 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0170 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides new material on the members of the Bahá’í Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony is central to their religious expression. Using historical research, social scientific analysis, and personal memoir, the contributors document the Bahá’ís’ efforts to address America’s “most challenging issue.”
Baha’iCorinthians
Gender and Second-Temple Judaism
Edited by Kathy Ehrensperger and Shayna Sheinfeld
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 260 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0788 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 9787 7863 3 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0787 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Being Subordinate Men offers a gender critical examination of Paul’s use of gender and power in the argument of 1 Corinthians, showing that the apostle consistently undermines first-century Roman norms of masculinity.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Gender and Second Temple Judaism examines the myriad constructions of gender in Second Temple Judaism including early Christianity. The chapters examine the state of the field and methodology and hone in on specific texts.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
How Ancient Narratives Persuade Acts in Its Literary Context
By Eric CloustonFortress Academic
March 2022 • 280 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0662 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 6606 6 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0661 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
In How Ancient Narratives Persuade: Acts in Its Literary Context, Eric Clouston brings a new approach to the interpretation of Acts by treating it as a persuasive narrative.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity
Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early Christian Texts
Edited by Jin Young Choi and Mitzi J. SmithLexington Books
May 2022 • 164 pages • Part of the Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9160 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1584 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9159 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book consists of cutting-edge analyses of constructions of racial/ ethnic identities in early Christian texts and contemporary contexts from the perspectives of minoritized nonwhite women New Testament scholars. The range of intersectionality comprises gender/sexuality, class, patriarchy, slavery, religion, and empire.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Rhetoric, History, and Theology Interpreting the New Testament
Edited by Todd D. Still and Jason A. Myer
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 350 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0972 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 9787 9737 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Rhetoric, History, and Theology: Interpreting the New Testament, the contributors interpret the New Testament and early Christian literature in light of their rhetorical, historical, and theological elements.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Begging for Their Daily Bread Beggar-Centric Interpretations of Matthew 6
By Zhenya Gurina-RodríguezFortress Academic
October 2022 • 152 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1062 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0634 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Jesus the Sacrifice A Historical and Theological Study
By Scott Shauf
Fortress Academic
April 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1389 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3901 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a study of the New Testament interpretations of Jesus’ death as a sacrifice. Scott Shauf shows that such interpretations are not limited to the idea of atonement but serve in multiple ways to relate Jesus’ death to early Christian identity and practice.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
Morality, Not Mortality
Moral Psychology and the Language of Death in Romans 5–8
By William Horst
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 250 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0028 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0293 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study argues that in Romans 5–8, the present plight of “death” refers to a state of moral bondage in which a person’s will is dominated by passions. It is death of this sort, rather than human mortality or a “cosmic power,” that entered the world through Adam.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament
The Meaning and Interpretation of Desire in the Bible
The Semantic Study of hmd and ‘wh Word Fields
By Samo SkralovnikLexington Books
August 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5287 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2881 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a comprehensive semantic analysis of the lexical roots ??? and ??? serve for the interpretation of the roots in both versions of the Decalogue (Exod 20:17 and Deut 5:21) to resolve questions concerning the meaning of the desire in Tenth Commandment.
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Bitter the Chastening Rod
Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo
Edited by Mitzi J. Smith; Angela N. Parker and Ericka S. Dunbar Hil
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1200 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2010 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Begging for Their Daily Bread, Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez formulates a beggars-centric hermeneutic and interprets Matthew 6 through this lense, arguing that this text could be both engaging and alienating to beggars in the first-century Jesus movement. Gurina-Rodriguez also reconstructs the voices of beggars in antiquity that are often absent from academic discourse.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
In this book, Africana biblical scholars argue that race, class, gender, and sexuality still matter for doing biblical interpretation/translation, centering the socio-political and cultural contexts of Africana peoples negotiating life, death, and hope in the age of #BLM, #SayHerName, #MeToo, and a global pandemic.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Black Flesh Matters
Essays on Runagate Interpretation
By Vincent L. WimbushFortress Academic
March 2022 • 420 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1269 0 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2706 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book models an ex-centric orientation to the study of modern formation as the study of the hyper-signification (“scripturalization”) of difference as racialization/racism. As Black flesh came to be identified as persistent baseline for difference, it opens windows onto mimetic translations (“scripturalizing”) of all modern subjectivities.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament
Edited by Osvaldo D. Vena and Leticia A. GuardiolaSáenz - Foreword by Fernando F. Segovia
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 514 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0510 4 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 9787 5111 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to examine and interpret each of the twenty-seven books that make up the New Testament.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Oral Law of Ancient Israel
By Robert D. Miller II, OFSFortress Academic
October 2022 • 172 pages • Part of the Coniectanea Biblica series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1521 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 5226 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Ancient Israel’s legal system was both oral and written, its law both preserved in written forms and performed orally. By unpacking this system, Robert D. Miller II, OFS, sheds light on its practitioners, venues, verbal forms, and connections to neighboring peoples.
Biblical Studies / History & Culture
The Solar Nature of Yahweh Reconsidering the Identity of the Ancient Israelite Deity
By Daniel SarloFortress Academic
October 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the
Coniectanea Biblica series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1431 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4328 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
In this book, the original nature of the ancient Israelite god, Yahweh, is reconsidered. Daniel Sarlo challenges the current belief that Yahweh was initially a storm god by examining the relevant biblical texts and comparing them with Ancient Near Eastern texts, ultimately arguing that Yahweh was a solar deity.
Biblical Studies / History & Culture
Daniel’s Mysticism of Resistance in Its Seleucid Context
By Timothy L. Seals
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 176 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1314 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3154 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The prophet Daniel practiced a mysticism that was resistant to the repressive measures of Antiochus IV in 167 BCE. In this book, Timothy L. Seals argues for a postcolonial interpretation of Daniel that can serve as a spiritual resource in the on-going process of the decolonization of the world and hearts.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
Theologies of Human Agency
Counterbalancing Divine In/Activity in the Megilloth
By Megan Fullerton StrolloFortress Academic December 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1380 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3819 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theologies of Human Agency: Counterbalancing Divine In/Activity in the Megilloth demonstrates the diversity of theological thought implicit in the Hebrew Bible through an examination of the books of Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, and Esther. These post exilic works portray human agency as a vital counterpoint to divine skepticism.
Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics
The Dynamics of Human Life in the Bible Receptivity and Power
By Martin J. BussLexington Books
April 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4699 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7009 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In The Dynamics of Human Life in the Bible: Receptivity and Power, Martin J. Buss describes the dynamics of human life that are encouraged in the Bible and how biblical guidance parallels those of non-Christian religious traditions.
Biblical Studies / History & Culture
Paul and the Image of God
By Chris Kugler - Foreword by N. T. WrightFortress Academic September 2022 • 264 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0740 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 7382 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0739 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Paul and the Image of God, Chris Kugler argues that Paul adapted Jewish wisdom and Middle Platonic intermediary traditions so as to present the preexistent Jesus as the cosmogonical image of God, according to which Adam himself was made and toward which the whole of humanity was destined.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul’s Letters
Receiving Back One’s Deeds
A Protestant Reading of Justification and Final Judgment according to Works in 2 Corinthians
By Benjamin M. DallyFortress Academic
November 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0873 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8747 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book investigates the relationship between justification by faith and final judgment according to works as found in Paul’s second epistle to the Corinthians within a Protestant (Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, and Anglican) theological framework.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul’s Letters
To Know All Mysteries
The Mystagogue Figure in Classical Antiquity and in
Saint Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians
By C. Andrew BallardFortress Academic September 2022 • 404 pages • Part of the Paul in
Critical Contexts series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1110 5 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1112 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the way that Paul presents himself as a guide into mysteries, a “mystagogue,” in 1-2 Corinthians. Paul employed the figure of the mystagogue as a strategic tool in his communication with the Corinthians in order to persuade the Corinthians that he was the legitimate mystery teacher for the community.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul’s Letters
Follow Me
The Benefits of Discipleship in the Gospel of John
By Mark ZhakevichFortress Academic September 2022 • 232 pages • Part of the Interpreting Johannine Literature series
Paperback 978 1 9787 1028 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 0269 9 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 9787 1027 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, Mark Zhakevich investigates the rewards of following Jesus alongside the call toward continuous discipleship. He argues that John’s bouquet of benefits is held together with three primary promises— adoption, friendship, and abiding—which function as motivations toward faithful commitment to Jesus.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Jesus the Epic Hero
The Theology of Empress Eudocia’s Homeric Gospel
By Karl Olav SandnesLexington Books
August 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0862 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8633 3 • $45.00 / £30.99
Scriptures, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians
Edited by A. Andrew Das and B. J. OropezaAfterword by David E. Garlan
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 286 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1353 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3543 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book advances the interpretation of 2 Corinthians and Philippians by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to, or “echoes” the Jewish Scriptures. Identification of allusions is at the forefront, as are questions about the Torah, God’s righteousness, reconciliation, lament language, cultic metaphors, canon, rhetoric, and more.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul’s Letters
Divine Shepherd Christology in the Gospel of Matthew
By Wayne Baxter
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0447 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4480 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Wayne Baxter examines Matthew’s Shepherd Christology against the backdrop of the metaphor’s appropriation in the biblical tradition, in the writings of Second Temple Judaism, and in the New Testament. The convergences and divergences between the Evangelist and these three groups of authors reveals Matthew’s high Christology: Jesus is YHWH. Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Jesus and Materialism in the Gospel of Mark Traveling Light on the Way
By Robert Ewusie Moses
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0093 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0949 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mark presents discipleship as a journey on “the way” with Jesus. Robert Ewusie Moses argues that the journey is a call for believers to reassess their relationship with material possessions and their desire for wealth and power.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Mark and Literary Materialism A Lesson in Reading Liberation
By Niall McKay
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0226 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2273 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
What happens to Jesus when his story and ministry are told in narratives and lines lifted from Homer’s epics? Empress Eudocia told the Jesus Story in this way, and provided through this a genuinely interesting, prolific, and special piece of theological work.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Niall McKay explores the use of Christian scriptures to resist apartheid in South Africa. From this, the author develops an approach to reading the gospel of Mark which is shaped by literary materialism and examples an approach to religious texts for the sake of liberative theory and action.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Matthew and the Roman Military How the Gospel Portrays and Negotiates Imperial Power
By John E. ChristiansonFortress Academic
May 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1221 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2225 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book addresses the ways that the Gospel of Matthew portrays Roman military power. Christianson argues that Matthew seeks to help his audience negotiate imperial military control through strategies of avoidance, accommodation, non-violent resistance, mimicry, and dreams of divine retribution and eschatological fulfillment.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Reading John through Johannine Lenses
By Stan Harstine
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 144 pages • Part of the
Interpreting Johannine Literature series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1293 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2942 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Stan Harstine examines three passages in the Gospel of John in order to illustrate how diachronic and synchronic methodological approaches produce distinct results. Using Leitwörter from the gospel’s opening verses to shape an interpretive lens, Harstine identifies these passages as crucial transition points in the plot of the Gospel.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
The Sheep and the Goats A Matthean Teaching in Historical Context
By Chad Venters
Fortress Academic August 2022 • 232 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0807 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8082 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Chad Venters argues that Psalm 80 (Psalm 79 LXX) is an important source for the composition of Matthew 25:31—46 and provides a religio—political background for understanding the devastation facing Israel at the hands of the Romans.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
Buddhist Ecological Protection of Space A Guide for Sustainable Off-Earth Travel
By Daniel Capper - Foreword by Bonnie Cooper
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2240 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2417 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Matthew, Disability, and Stress Examining Impaired Characters in the Context of Empire
By Jillian D. EngelhardtFortress Academic December 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1203 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2041 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines four Matthean healing narratives, focusing on the impaired characters in the scenes. Informed by both empire studies and social stress theory, Jillian D. Engelhardt argues that more nuanced characterizations of the impaired characters and their social and somatic circumstances results in ambiguous interpretations.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
The Identity of John the Evangelist Revision and Reinterpretation in Early Christian Sources
By Dean FurlongFortress Academic
March 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0932 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 9300 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0931 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines how the identification of John the Evangelist with the Apostle John, the son of Zebedee, from around the third century, gave rise to various conflated narratives. Dean Furlong argues that this culminated in Eusebius’s synthesis of the traditions, which provided the template for the traditional Johannine narrative.
Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
The Supporting Cast of the Bible Reading on Behalf of the Multitude
By Gina Hens-PiazzaFortress Academic March 2022 • 134 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0695 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 6934 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 9787 0694 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Focusing on supporting characters in the Old Testament, Gina HensPiazza argues against the caste system of the biblical narratives and provides insight into the many and different “others” who make up the anonymous multitude in the biblical world.
Biblical Studies / Old Testament / Historical Books
The African Church and COVID-19
Human Security, the Church, and Society in Kenya
Edited by Martin Munyao; Joseph Muutuki; Patrick Musembi and Daniel Kaunga
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 230 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5098 6 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0993 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides essential guidance that we need to act as responsible ecological citizens while we expand our reach beyond Earth. The author not only examines the science and morals behind ecological
scenarios, but he also provides groundbreaking policy responses founded upon ethics from both Buddhists and American ethnographers alike.
This book explores the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic exposed fragilities in socio-economic and political structures in Africa as well as the weaknesses in the African Church’s role in helping and serving African communities. The book also analyzes how the African Church should move forward in a post-COVID-19 era to address these failures.
Christian Church / General
Ministry in the Anglican Tradition from Henry VIII to 1900
By John L. Kater
Fortress Academic
June 2022 • 332 pages • Part of the Anglican Studies series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1482 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4830 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, John L. Kater traces the process by which Anglican ministry evolved over time from the Reformation in dialogue with social and political changes and the ways in which Anglicans in multiple contexts have contributed to the emergence of a globally diverse and unique way of practicing the Church’s ministry.
Christian Church / History
Before Belief
Discovering First Spiritual Awareness
By Bruce A. StevensLexington Books
March 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the Emerging
Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0723 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7218 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0722 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Before Belief explores our first spiritual awareness, before language and cognitive understanding. This unconscious spiritual learning, beginning in infancy, is foundational for a relationship with God. The theoretical approach advanced in this volume is both constructive and pastorally sensitive.
Christian Living / Spiritual Growth
Migration, Transnationalism, and Faith in Missiological Perspective
Los Angeles as a Global Crossroads
Edited by Kirsteen Kim and Alexia SalvatierraForeword by Amos Yon Fortress Academic
April 2022 • 228 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1374 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3758 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Like other megacities, Los Angeles is a crossroads of migrating communities who are motivated or sustained by a faith that is also challenged in the encounter with others. Using sociological, missiological, and theological methods, the contributors examine the migrant landscape of Southern California—its injustices, innovations, and global impact.
Christian Ministry / Missions
Explore Vocational Discovery in Ministry
Edited by Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi and Matthew Floding
Alban Books
September 2022 • 240 pages • Part of the Explorations in Theological Field Education series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6763 2 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7649 9 • $28.00 / £21.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6765 6 • $26.00 / £19.99
This volume helps ministerial leadership students engage the tools of discernment while introducing the various roles that seminarians may pursue, including pastors, varieties of chaplaincy, clinical pastoral educators, academics, and nonprofit leaders. It is an ideal resource for seminarians, particularly during theological field education.
Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
Re-membering the Reign of God
The Decolonial Witness of El Salvador’s Church of the Poor
By Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo and Laurel Marshall Potter Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 394 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1895 5 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8962 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
Reflecting theologically on the 50-year history of ecclesial base communities in El Salvador, this book argues that the church of the poor is a decolonial sacrament of the reign of God. The authors challenge Christians to unlearn colonial expressions of faith, concluding with a retrieval of solidarity in the Catholic social tradition.
Christian Church / History
Pastoral Care in the Anthropocene Age Facing a Dire Future Now
By Ryan LaMothe Lexington Books
October 2022 • 232 pages • Part of the Emerging
Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4147 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1489 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
Drawing on current climate research, LaMothe explores the implications of the present climate emergency for pastoral care and theology. In particular, LaMothe argues that the key theological question of the Anthropocene Age is how will we dwell together, which includes attending to the needs of other species and the earth.
Christian Ministry / GeneralA Postcolonial Political Theology of Care and Praxis in Ethiopia’s Era of Identity Politics
Reframing Hegemonic and Fragmented Identities through Subjective In-Betweenness
By Rode MollaLexington Books
November 2022 • 218 pages • Part of the Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2288 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2899 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author resists identity politics through a postcolonial political pastoral care and praxis that decolonizes biopolitical governmentalities, reframes hegemonic and fragmented identities, and restores the inbetween spaces and in-between subjectivities of Ethiopians.
Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
Finding Yourself in Chaos
Self-Discovery for Religious Leaders in a Time of Transition
By James R. Newby and Mark Minear Alban BooksSeptember 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6674 1 • $65.00 / £50.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6758 8 • $22.00 / £16.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6676 5 • $20.00 / £14.99
This volume guides religious leaders during turbulent life events that challenge their ability to serve as effective ministers. Encouraging careful introspection and a focus on personal fulfillment and self-care, the book challenges all readers to build support systems for themselves and their faith communities.
Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
The Speed Method, Awareness in Four Steps
Lonergan’s Approach for Pastoral and Spiritual Counseling
By Barbara MarchicaLexington Books
November 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0037 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0385 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
How to improve your spiritual growth? The author, creator of the Speed ??Method, presents a theoretical-practical training manual which becomes an opportunity and a concrete support for the counselors in view of a new spiritual springtime for the Church and human care.
Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
Embodied Idolatry
A Critique of Christian Nationalism
By Kyle Edward Haden
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1111 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1093 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1110 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is a critique of Christian nationalism and an analysis of Christian theological ethics and practice in the US. Utilizing Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and René Girard’s mimetic theories, Haden identifies the problematic dynamics of US Christians embodying idolatrous ideological beliefs and calls for Christian conversion from such practices.
Christian Theology / Anthropology
Worshiping in Season Ecology and Christ through the Liturgical Year
By Joseph E. Bush Jr.
Alban Books
March 2022 • 334 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 2198 6 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1993 3 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 2200 6 • $28.50 / £21.99
Worshiping in Season guides ministers through a meaningful framework for ecologically oriented worship. Following the liturgical calendar and maintaining a Christocentric emphasis, Joseph E. Bush Jr. aligns earthly seasons with the liturgy and suggests readings, songs, and other acts of worship to amplify an ecologically informed Christology.
Christian Theology / Christology
Truth-Telling and Other Ecclesial Practices of Resistance
Edited by Christine Helmer
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1211 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 2096 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1210 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book leading American Lutheran theologians address the ways in which Christian communities might be mobilized for embodied works of resistance against systemic injustices in our times, and examine how the call to resistance reframes classic Lutheran doctrinal commitments to truth and sacramental theology, and in some cases, redefines them.
Christian Theology / Ecclesiology
Unmasking White Preaching
Racial Hegemony, Resistance, and Possibilities in Homiletics
Edited by Lis Valle-Ruiz and Andrew Wymer
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5299 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3000 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book unmasks and destabilizes the white, colonial hegemony that continues to shape the field of homiletics today and explores alternative, non-dominant homiletical pathways toward a more just future for the church and the world.
Christian Ministry / Preaching
The Cry of the Poor
Liberation Ethics and Justice in Health Care
By Alexandre A. MartinsLexington Books
March 2022 • 336 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9220 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
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eBook 978 1 4985 9219 2 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book offers an interdisciplinary effort to address global health issues grounded on a human rights framework seen from the perspective of those who are more vulnerable to be sick and die prematurely: the poor.
Christian Theology / Anthropology
The Evangelical Doctrine of the Church The Church and Kingdom Communities of Those Who Belong to the Lord
By Robert Doyle
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 376 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0411 4 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4121 1 • $50.00 / £38.00
In this book, Robert Doyle provides a disciplined introduction to ecclesiology using descriptive criticism of biblical themes and careful analysis of the history of interpretation.
Christian Theology / Ecclesiology
Dread and Hope Christian Eschatology and Pop Culture
By Joshua Wise
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 174 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 0816 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Dread and Hope brings early Christian hopes concerning the consummation of the cosmos and modern apocalyptic pop-culture into dialog. Drawing from a wide range of research and media, Joshua Wise examines how figures like Antiochus IV, Damien from The Omen, the Emperor Nero, and Winston Smith from Orwell’s 1984 inform each other.
Christian Theology / Eschatology
A Christian and African Ethic of Women’s Political Participation
Living as Risen Beings
By Léocadie W. LushomboLexington Books
November 2022 • 302 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4774 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7757 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Anthropological poverty has long been overlooked in Christian theology. It disproportionately affects women, striking at the heart of their existence. However, when women are empowered to follow Christ and live as risen beings, they can radically contribute to a Catholic Christian theology that claims solidarity with the poor and oppressed.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Christian Theology After Christendom
Engaging the Thought of Douglas John Hall
Edited by Patricia G. Kirkpatrick and Pamela R. McCarroll - Foreword by Walter BrueggemannAfterword by Douglas John Hal
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 212 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0698 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 6965 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0697 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Christian Theology after Christendom brings together contemporary thinkers to engage and build upon Douglas John Hall’s work—and to take up his challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the cross as a means to speak of the realities of life and faith today.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Embodying Aga Tausili
A Public Theology from Oceania
By Mercy Ah Su-Maliko - Foreword by David TombsFortress Academic
September 2022 • 270 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0854 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 9787 8525 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0853 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Embodying Aga Tausili is a groundbreaking contextual approach to public theology which constructs a theological response to social problems by interweaving the Samoan and Christian values of service, respect, dialogue, love and justice. The public theology that emerges is then applied to the problem of violence against women in Samoa.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Insurrectionist Wisdoms
Toward a North American Indigenized Pastoral Theology
By Marlene Mayra Ferreras Lexington BooksNovember 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4546 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5470 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
Through practical theological and anthro/gynopological methods, Insurrectionist Wisdoms offers an analysis of the situation of workingclass Maya mexicanas living in Yucatán, México, working on the assembly line of a multinational corporation.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Christian Social Ethics
By Elmar Nass
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 376 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6526 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5270 0 • $70.00 / £54.00
This book considers the relationship between Christian and general ethics in postmodernism.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Christian Theology in the Age of Migration
Implications for World Christianity
Edited by Peter C. Phan Lexington Books
March 2022 • 360 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0075 2 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0738 8 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0074 5 • $40.50 / £31.00
A pioneering study of how global migration challenges Christians to reinterpret the Old and New Testaments and church history by highlighting the impact of migration on the formation of the Bible and church historiography. It moves on to reformulate basic Christian beliefs (systematic theology), ethics, and practical theology.
Christian Theology / Ethics
God, Race, and History Liberating Providence
By Matt R. JantzenLexington Books
August 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1957 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
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eBook 978 1 7936 1956 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
God, Race, and History examines how Christian theologies of providence have served as sites at which race has been constructed and resisted in modernity. It articulates an account of providence as the presence of Jesus Christ in the struggles of ordinary, overlooked, and oppressed human creatures to survive and flourish.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Suffering and the Vulnerable Rule of God A Feminist Epistemology
By Kathleen McManus, OP
Fortress Academic
May 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0150 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1519 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Kathleen McManus employs Edward Schillebeeckx’s method of negative contrast experience to explore how the global suffering of the marginalized, particularly women, reveals God’s vulnerable rule, posing an ethical imperative for the church.
Christian Theology / Ethics
The Colonial Compromise
The Threat of the Gospel to the Indigenous Worldview
Edited by Miguel A. De La TorreFortress Academic
September 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0374 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
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eBook 978 1 9787 0373 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the different types of compromises Indian people were forced to make and must continue to do so in order to be included in the colonizer’s religion and culture. The contributors in this collection are in conversation with the contributions made by Tink Tinker.
Christian Theology / Ethics
The Holy Spirit and Moral Action in Thomas
Aquinas
By Jack Mahoney, SJFortress Academic
August 2022 • 194 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1046 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 0443 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1045 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is a detailed study of how, according to Thomas Aquinas and his works, God’s Holy Spirit is continuously at work in and through human moral activity.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Theology and Black Mirror
Edited by Amber Bowen and John Anthony Dunne
Fortress Academic
April 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1116 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book brings together scholars from various disciplines to think alongside Black Mirror with resources from the Christian tradition, discerning what the show and theology can teach us about how to live faithfully in a technocratic age.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives
By Jaco J. HammanLexington Books
October 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Emerging
Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4045 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0468 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence explores hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as fundamental traits for artificial intelligence. Incorporating these values into algorithms will minimize AI’s biases of technological determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy.
Christian Theology / General
The Devil’s Own Luck
Lucifer, Luck, and Moral Responsibility
By John R. GilhoolyLexington Books
June 2022 • 114 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0018 9 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0196 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that the sin of the devil compels a view of moral responsibility that undermines concerns about luck. It surveys the biblical account of the primal sin, its major interpretation in the tradition, and navigates that interpretation through objections from the perspective of moral luck.
Christian Theology / Ethics
The Other Black Church
Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom
By Joseph L. Tucker EdmondsFortress Academic
August 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0482 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 9787 4800 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0481 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Other Black Church places Father Divine, Charles Mason of COGIC, and Albert Cleage in conversation with the long history of Black theology and Black religious studies, and it suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the failures of US-based democracy.
Christian Theology / Ethics
Willful Ignorance
Overcoming the Limitations of (Christian) Love for Refugees Seeking Asylum
By Helen T. BoursierLexington Books
April 2022 • 408 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2826 8 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8275 5 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book combines interviews of ethnically diverse clergy from various Christian traditions and their attitudes regarding forced migration at the U.S.-Mexico border with case studies and church history to argue for a compassionate response to refugees seeking asylum that resists racism and exclusion.
Christian Theology / Ethics
The Many and the One
Creation as Participation in Augustine and Aquinas
By Yonghua GeLexington Books
August 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2912 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9104 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2911 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Ge argues that by transforming participatory ontology in light of creatio ex nihilo, Augustine and Aquinas have developed a distinctively Christian metaphysics that offers a promising solution to the modern dialectic of the One and the Many.
Christian Theology / General
A Eucharist-shaped Church Prayer, Theology, Mission
Edited by Daniel J. Handschy; Donna R. HawkReinhard and Marshall E. Crossno Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 434 pages • Part of the Anglican Studies series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1449 6 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4502 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
A Eucharist-shaped Church: Prayer, Theology, Mission places a range of Anglican and Episcopal eucharistic theologies in their historical contexts, paying attention to the interplay between worship, theology and mission. It then applies these considerations to possible liturgical revisions.
Christian Theology / History
Sacramental Poetics in Richard Hooker and George Herbert Exploring the Abundance of God
By Brian Douglas Fortress Academic
June 2022 • 152 pages • Part of the Anglican Studies series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1407 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4083 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores sacramental poetics through the lens of moderate realism in relation to the thought and work of Anglican theologians Richard Hooker and George Herbert.
Christian Theology / History
Resisting Occupation
A Global Struggle for Liberation
Edited by Miguel A. De La Torre and Mitri Rahe Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 262 pages • Part of the Decolonizing Theology series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1137 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1389 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Resisting Occupation, scholars from around the globe discuss the radical denial of human flourishing caused by the occupation of mind, body, spirit, and land. They explore how religious perspectives can be, and often are, constructed to teach the colonized to want, yearn, and embrace their occupation.
Christian Theology / Liberation
Reciprocal Causality in an Event-Filled World
By Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback
eBook 978 1
Origen of Alexandria Master Theologian of the Early Church
By John Anthony McGuckinFortress Academic
March 2022 • 184 pages • Part of the Mapping the Tradition series
Hardback 978 1 9787 0843 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8440 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, John A. McGuckin reviews and assesses the monumental influence that Origen of Alexandria has exercised over the shape and content of the Christian tradition over seventeen hundred years.
Christian Theology / History
The Church in the Latin Fathers
Unity in Charity
By James K. LeeFortress Academic
September 2022 • 136 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0689 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 6873 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0688 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Church in the Latin Fathers analyzes the development of Latin ecclesiology over the course of the first five centuries of Christianity. James K. Lee explores how the church is one and holy, visible, and invisible, according to Latin theologians such as Tertullian, Cyprian, Augustine, and Leo the Great.
Christian Theology / History
Process Thought and Roman Catholicism Challenges and Promises
Edited by Marc A. Pugliese and John Becker
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Religion and Borders series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2778 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7797 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores convergences and divergences between process thought and Roman Catholicism. It examines why process philosophy and process theology have had a minimal impact in Roman Catholic circles compared to Protestantism, and investigates avenues of promising engagement between process thought and Roman Catholicism.
Christian Theology / Process
Total Atonement
Trinitarian Participation in the Reconciliation of Humanity and Creation
By W. Ross Hastings
Fortress Academic
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Joseph Bracken examines key writings of process-oriented philosophers like Alfred North Whitehead along with systems-oriented thinkers such as Ludwig von Bertalanffy to create a systems-oriented understanding of the God-world relation that serves as a complement to Pope Francis’s reflections on the environmental crisis.
Christian Theology / Process
August 2022 • 320 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0215 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 2134 4 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0214 1 • $40.50 / £31.00
In this book, W. Ross Hastings re-imagines the mystery of the atonement within the framework of the participation of God in humanity and of humans in this life. He argues for a total approach to the atonement, involving the whole Trinity, the person and history of Christ, and all the biblical motifs and theological models.
Christian Theology / Soteriology
The Dialogic Evangelical Theology of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Exploring the Work of God in a Diverse Church and a Pluralistic World
Edited by Peter Goodwin Heltzel; Patrick Oden and Amos Yong - Foreword by Peter C. Phan
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 320 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1035 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0368 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen broke new ground in developing a Christian systematic theology that embeds rich hospitable dialogue with many different areas of expertise and religions. This volume offers a response to his work by experts of these diverse fields, offering rich insights and points to continuing fruitful conversations.
Christian Theology / Systematic
The Trauma of Doctrine
New Calvinism, Religious Abuse, and the Experience of God
By Paul Maxwell - Foreword by Kevin J. VanhoozerFortress Academic
August 2022 • 398 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0425 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 4237 7 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0424 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
The Trauma of Doctrine investigates the difficult relationship between traumatic experiences, maximalist religious beliefs, and the experience of God. The book highlights the dynamic and conflictive interplay between the timeless realities of abuse, divine control, and the psychology of religious participation.
Christianity / Calvinist
Holy Silence
By Michael Hickey Hamilton Books
October 2022 • 138 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7366 2 • $19.00 / £14.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3679 9 • $18.00 / £13.99
Looking at Holy Silence and comprehending it more fully through understanding the role silence has played in the Bible, as well as with the Desert Fathers, and in Christian spirituality throughout the ages. We will discuss such areas as Benedictine spirituality, Hesychasm, Centering Prayer and the interface of silence with not only spirituality, but death, love, and the universe itself.
Christianity / Catholic
Christians, the State, and War
An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World
By Gordon L. HeathFortress Academic
March 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1290 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2911 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
The New Apologetics
At the Intersection of Secularism, Science, and Spirituality
By Ian S. MarkhamFortress Academic
September 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1136 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 9787 1341 1 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1135 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In The New Apologetics, Ian S. Markham presents a provocative defense of Christianity through a model of the world as a spiritually-infused universe. This book is an invitation to the church to rediscover a selfconfident account of the faith that can accommodate the insights of modern science.
Christian Theology / Systematic
Intergenerational Catechesis
Revitalizing Faith through African-American Storytelling
By timone a davisLexington Books
August 2022 • 110 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9596 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5940 0 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9595 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book moves away from youth-centered catechesis toward a catechetical method that has applications for faith formation for all generations: storytelling. The author’s method of African-American storytelling brings to life the Christian story through our shared experiences with both the storyteller and listener embodying the story.
Christianity / Catechisms
Building the Body of Christ Christian Art, Identity, and Community in Late Antique Italy
By Daniel C. Cochran
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 298 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0770 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 7689 9 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0769 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Building the Body of Christ argues that monumental Christian art and architecture played a crucial role in the formation of new religious identities in late antique Italy. Bishops and their supporters employed the visual arts to articulate and encourage specific beliefs, practices, and values that shaped the emerging institutional church.
Christianity / History
Hildegard of Bingen, Gospel Interpreter
By Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Mapping the Tradition series
Paperback 978 1 9787 0803 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 8013 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0802 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World, Gordon Heath rethinks the binary world of Christians and war. He proposes a different starting point for discussions of violence that originates and orients itself with a tradition found initially within the teaching and experience of the pre-Constantinian early church.
Christianity / History
This book probes how a twelfth-century woman became a Gospel interpreter, analyses the creative methodology and themes of the homilies, and deals with the vast legacy of Hildegard’s works, including their relevance for today.
Christianity / History
Jan Hus
Faithful Witness to Truth
By Jan Blahoslav Lášek and Angelo Shaun Franklin
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Czech
Theological Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3742 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7437 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Bohemian reformer Jan Hus is an important figure for understanding both previous and later developments of the medieval church. This book probes the heart of Hus’s theological views concerning the human conscience, justice, and truth by examining his legal appeal to Jesus Christ against the pope and canon law and his preaching.
Christianity / History
Mary Magdalene, La Malinche, and the Ethics of Interpretation
By Jennifer Vija PietzFortress Academic
December 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1254 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2553 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
By critically comparing Mary Magdalene’s and La Malinche’s histories of interpretation, Jennifer Vija Pietz challenges these women’s popular images and reevaluates the use of past lives to address current concerns. She also posits strategies for developing historically plausible and ethically responsible interpretations of past people.
Christianity / History
The Walsingham Gambit Deception, Entrapment, and Execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
By R. Kent Tiernan - Foreword by John J. DziakLexington Books
September 2022 • 286 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4702 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7030 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through the lens of a contemporary deception model, The Walsingham Gambit describes how the English deception planners led by Sir Francis Walsingham designed, engineered, and executed a complex seven-year operation to expand Queen Elizabeth I’s power by ending the life of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Christianity / History
Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts
Edited by Christy Cobb and Eric Vanden Eykel
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3784 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936
$45.00 / £35.00
Martyrdom, Sacrificial Libation, and the Eucharist of Ignatius of Antioch
By Frederick C. Klawiter
Fortress Academic September 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1275 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2768 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Frederick G. Klawiter argues that in Ignatius’ eucharist, a wine libation symbolized the pouring out of Jesus’ blood in his sacrificial death. By drinking from the libation cup in the eucharist/agape meal, Christians sought unity of agape with one another and the crucified, risen Jesus— while anticipating the possibility of martyrdom.
Christianity / History
Portraits of Jesus A Reading Guide, Fourth Edition
By Robert Imperato
Hamilton Books
September 2022 • 136 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7334 1 • $32.99 / £25.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3358 8 • $31.00 / £23.99
This is an introductory guide to the ways Jesus is depicted in the New Testament. Attention to Jesus’ political and historical contexts help to clarify the one Jesus behind the diverse portrayals.
Christianity / History
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Phenomenology of Art Broken Open by Beauty
By Brett David Potter
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4549 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5500 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book uncovers the theological aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988), by sketching out a phenomenological approach to art and revelation, providing unexpected resources for a contemporary theology of art.
Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Orthodoxy and Fundamentalism Contemporary Perspectives
Edited by Davor Džalto and George E. Demacopoulo
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1245 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2461 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines instances of sexual violence within a diversity of early Christian texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge of sexual violence that is so often manifest in both ancient and contemporary Christian communities.
Christianity / Literature & the Arts
This book brings together twelve essays by some of the leading scholars on Orthodox Christianity on the issue of fundamentalism and religious Orthodoxy in the contemporary world.
Christianity / Orthodox
“Same Is Better”
A Qualitative Study of Latinx and White Young Adults in Churches of Christ in the Southwestern U.S.
By Cari MyersLexington Books
December 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5512 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5134 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Within the context of Churches of Christ in the southwestern United States, this study answers the question, “How do survival narratives contribute to the accumulation and transmission of capital across generations, and what do the differences between Latinx and white survival narratives expose about inequalities in evangelical social norms?”
Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic
Elonei Mamre
The Encounter of Judaism and Orthodox Christianity
Edited by Nicholas de Lange; Elena Narinskaya and Sybil Sheridan
Fortress Academic
November 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1398 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3994 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book contributes to dialogue between Judaism and Orthodox Christianity. Essays by prominent experts, writing within their own tradition, tackle key issues relating to theology and worship as well as the vexed question of antisemitism. The book identifies a great deal of common ground as well as points of tension.
Comparative Religion
Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue
Kairotic Place and Borders
By Allen G. JorgensonLexington Books
August 2022 • 136 pages • Part of the Religion and Borders series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1969 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9679 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1968 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, the author uses the discipline of comparative theology to illumine how Indigenous insights can unearth a fresh theology of place. He proposes that certain places are kairotic, and so kenotic, harmonic, poetic and especially enlightening at the margins where we meet the religious other.
Comparative Religion
The Insurgency of the Spirit
Jesus’s Liberation Animist Spirituality, Empire, and Creating Christian Protectors
By Robert E. Shore-GossLexington Books
May 2022 • 338 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2320 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3188 8 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2319 5 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book is an animist Christian liberation theology and a call to insurrection against the fossil fuel empires that have created the climate catastrophe. As such, it retrieves the animist Jesus to inspire resistance to anti-ecological, contemporary settler colonization of the Earth.
Comparative Religion
Postcolonial Preaching Creating a Ripple Effect
By HyeRan Kim-Cragg - Foreword by John McClure - Afterword by Kathy Black Lexington Books
August 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1711 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 7095 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1710 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, HyeRan Kim-Cragg calls for a postcolonial approach to preaching that takes identity, liturgy, migration and practice seriously. To address our current context, she proposes six concepts as essential elements of postcolonial homiletics: Rehearsal, Imagination, Place, Pattern, Language, Exegesis.
Clergy
Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion
Edited by Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long Lexington Books
December 2022 • 172 pages • Part of the Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2315 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3164 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume is based on innovative ideas coming from different Indic philosophies and how they can enrich the theory and methods in religious studies.
Comparative Religion
Jewish Church
A Catholic Approach to Messianic Judaism
By Antoine Lévy O.P. - Foreword by Mark S. KinzerLexington Books
August 2022 • 434 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3344 6 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 3422 2 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3343 9 • $44.50 / £34.00
For two millennia calling oneself a Jew and confessing Jesus-Christ was perceived as nonsense. This is no longer the case. Jewish believers in Christ - “Messianics”, Catholics, Orthodox, and so forth - are now reclaiming their Jewish identity. Jewish Church is about imagining what their home in the Church would look like.
Comparative Religion
Historical Dictionary of Daoism
By Ronnie L. Littlejohn
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 310 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6949 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 2730 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2274 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
Historical Dictionary of Daoism contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on related to the Chinese belief and practice worldview known as Daoism including dozens of Daoist terms, names, and practices.
Deism
Borderlands of Theological Education
Edited by Joshua B. Davis and Deirdre Goo Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 180 pages • Part of the Borderlands of Theological Education series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1533 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 5349 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book outlines a history and a new vision of the church as the primary location of ministerial formation for the future of theological education.
Education
Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal
Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics
By Sofía BetancourtLexington Books
February 2022 • 162 pages • Part of the Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4138 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1397 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal, Sofia Betancourt constructs environmental ethics at the intersection of the global North and global South. Betancourt explores transnational environmental justice through the lived experience of women from the African Diaspora who migrated to Panamá to work on the Canal.
Ethics
Reconciling Opposites
Religious Freedom and Contractual Ethics in a Democratic Society
By W. Royce ClarkFortress Academic
February 2022 • 582 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0867 9 • $155.00 / £119.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8686 6 • $60.00 / £46.00
The American justice system was founded on the idea of “majorityrule,” but in a democracy this is achievable only if the majority has the interests of the whole at heart. As a solution, W. Royce Clark formulates a non-majoritarian ethic that would represent not just the interests of white Christian men, but all citizens.
Ethics
War and Negative Revelation
A Theoethical Reflection on Moral Injury
By Michael S. YandellLexington Books
March 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4192 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1939 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Decolonizing Interreligious Education
Developing Theologies of Accountability
By Shannon FredianiLexington Books
September 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3859 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8601 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Decolonizing Interreligious Education explores multiple injustices, focusing on the lived experience, unaddressed grief, and acts of resistance and resilience of populations impacted by coloniality and white supremacy. This book lifts up the voices of those speaking from embodied experience of suffering multiple oppressions.
Education
Necropolitics
The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America
By Christophe D. RingerLexington Books
May 2022 • 162 pages • Part of the Religion and Race series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2681 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 6790 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2680 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book argues that the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is part of the religious meaning of America that fuels the problem of mass incarceration. The author develops a religious interpretation of the significance of these images to America’s political economy the produces the very problems we punish as a society.
Ethics
The Road to Sanctuary
Building Power and Community in Philadelphia
Edited by Amada Armenta; Caitlin Barry and Abel Rodríguez - Foreword by Mayor Jim Kenne
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0465 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4664 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Philadelphia is a leader in the modern sanctuary movement. This collection of essays and interviews, written by organizers, community leaders, and academics, examine the making of Philadelphia’s sanctuary movement from multiple perspectives.
Ethics
Decolonial Futures
Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education
By Christine J. Hong - Foreword by Marcia Y. RiggsLexington Books
August 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7938 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9360 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7937 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
From the concrete experience of war, Michael S. Yandell constructs a phenomenology of “negative revelation” in which false or distorted claims of goodness and justice disintegrate and become meaningless, adding depth to the term moral injury.
Ethics
In theological education, we do the work of deconstructing and reconstructing teaching and learning for the sake of our collective decolonial futures. Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education invites teachers to imagine what that future might hold and how it might take shape.
General
The Hindu Self and Its Muslim Neighbors
Contested Borderlines on Bengali Landscapes
By Ankur BaruaLexington Books
April 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the Explorations
in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4258 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2592 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument is that these relations are marked by various patterns of amicability and antipathy which emerge at dynamic intersections between Hindu selfunderstandings and social shifts on contested landscapes.
Hinduism / History
Africana Faith
A Religious History of the African American Crusade in Islam
By James L. Conyers Jr.Hamilton Books
October 2022 • 532 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7126 2 • $56.99 / £44.00
Previously published in hardback 978 0 7618 8729 9 • $139.00 / £107.00
eBook 978 0 7618 6873 6 • $54.00 / £42.00
This primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and religiosity, within the African American Muslim movement. This collection of essays places emphasis on the role and views of the missionary and voluntary spread of Islam among African Americans in the United States.
Islam / General
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang’s Eulogy of the Prophet Muhammad
Historical, Literary, and Linguistic Analyses
By Abdul Karim Bangura
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2336 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3379 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book engages in a multidisciplanary analysis of the Hongwu Emperor’s eulogy to Prophet Muhammad and Islam to better illuminate the interaction between China and Islam.
Islam / History
Prophet al-Khidr
Between the Qur’anic Text and Islamic Contexts
By Irfan A. Omar
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 156 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9591 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5926 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Anton Boisen
Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education
By Sean J. LaBatFortress Academic
August 2022 • 190 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1157 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 9787 1556 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1156 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen’s life and work. He demonstrates how the founder of clinical pastoral education and institutional chaplaincy suffered from mental illness, yet was also a visionary who pioneered patient-centered care and reconciled science and religion in his work as a chaplain.
History
Courting Islam
US-British Engagement with Islam since the European Colonial Period
By Sean Oliver-Dee
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 0507 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 5055 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 0506 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book is an exploration of the perceptions of the American and British governments about Islam and Muslims based upon their experiences over the past two centuries.
Islam / History
This work situates the Qur’anic story of Moses’ meeting with Khi?r (Surat al-Kahf, 18:60-82) in an ever-expanding network of intercultural and interreligious ideas about knowledge, humility, and spiritual excellence, where Moses and Khi?r are seen as representing the ?ahir (exoteric) and the ba?in (esoteric), respectively.
Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings
On Pain and Suffering A Qur’anic Perspective
By Abla Hasan - Foreword by Jonathan E. Brockopp
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Classical and Modern Islamic Thought series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5005 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0061 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Driven by a careful hermeneutical investigation of the Qur’an, this book provides an invitation to reevaluate the real meaning of pain and suffering and humanity’s lost divine merit as God’s own representatives on Earth.
Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings
Forging Ideal Muslim Subjects Discursive Practices, Subject Formation, & Muslim Ethics
By Faraz Masood Sheikh Lexington Books
May 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Classical and Modern Islamic Thought series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2014 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0125 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2013 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book describes and analyzes Muhasibi’s and Nursi’s accounts of what it means to live an authentically Muslim ethical life. It documents and examines the discursive practice, reflectivity, dynamism and complexity involved in living properly as a Muslim individual and social being.
Islam / Theology
Organ Donation in Islam
The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Society
Edited by Mahdiyah Jaffer; Aasim I. Padela and Gurch Randhawa
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 434 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0991 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9920 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book tackles the thorny issue of organ donation and Islam through a multidisciplinary lens giving voice to the various stakeholders involved, including potential donors and Islamic scholars. The collection provides fresh ethical, empirical and sociological insights into the engagement of the Islamic tradition with modern biomedicine.
Islam / Theology
Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman
Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy
By Samantha PicketteLexington Books
December 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Jewish Women in the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3315 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3163 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes how contemporary representations of Jewish women on television challenge stereotypes of Jewish femininity, using a variety of series created by Jewish women to explore how this selfrepresentation and evolving industry practices have come together to establish new, more diverse paradigms of Jewish femininity.
Judaism / General
Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel
Edited by Ilan Peleg
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5352 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3506 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5351 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book provides an analysis of the politics of victimhood in contemporary Israel and the Palestine. Its insights about victimhood are conceptual, empirical and comparative.
Judaism / General
Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the TwentyFirst Century Intersections and Prospects
Edited by Carsten Schapkow and Klaus Hödl
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 330 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0511 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5092 2 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0510 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book discusses the multiple intersections between Jewish studies and Israel studies in the twenty-first century. The volume offers a stimulating and thought-provoking discussion of the current state of scholarship with an outlook toward future areas of research and cross-pollination.
Judaism / History
Haunted Laughter
Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television
By Jonathan C. FriedmanLexington Books
March 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4015 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0161 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Haunted Laughter is a comprehensive study of film productions that have used comedy to represent Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Author Jonathan Friedman proposes a model and a set of criteria to evaluate the effective use of comedy as a means of representation.
Judaism / General
Reenvisioning Israel through Political Cartoons
Visual Discourses During the 2018–2021 Electoral Crisis
By Matt Reingold Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0683 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6844 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores Israeli political cartoons produced during the politically fraught and culturally divided period between December 2018 and June 2021. The author argues that the work of Israel’s political cartoonists presents visual commentary to critique the status quo and to envision alternative realities for their country.
Judaism / General
Francophone Sephardic Fiction Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity
By Judith Roumani
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2009 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0101 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration, producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies, languages, and cultures.
Judaism / History
Jews in Southern Tuscany during the Holocaust Ambiguous Refuge
By Judith Roumani
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2981 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 9791 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2980 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book illuminates the troubled history of how Italian and foreign Jews in an internment camp were deported to Auschwitz in full view of a bishop who supposedly was protecting them. Elsewhere brave farmers hid local Jews in caves and farms from the Fascist/Nazi hunters.
Judaism / History
The Age of the Parákletos
A Historical Defense of Rabbinic Knowledge
By Ron NaiweldLexington Books
January 2022 • 124 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5503 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5042 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents the history of the theological-political conversation that started with the publication of the Torah in Jerusalem of the Persian period. It shows how this conversation, which still engages us today, evolved around political and social issues rather than theological ones.
Judaism / History
Translated Memories
Transgenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust
Edited by Ursula Reuter and Bettina Hofmann
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 404 pages • Part of the Lexington
Studies in Jewish Literature series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0608 2 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6068 8 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0607 5 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.
Judaism / History
Enchanted Dulcinea
By Angelina Muñiz-Huberman – Translated by Rebecca Marquis – Introduction and notes by Rebecca Marquis
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Jewish Women in the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3483 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4849 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This annotated translation of Enchanted Dulcinea by Mexican author Angelina Muñiz-Huberman features a narrator traveling through memories, times, and places. The author’s mystical novel exemplifies crypto-Judaism and exile in Latin America and highlights her importance in the Sephardic literary tradition.
Judaism / Sacred Writings
Transforming Conflict
The Blessings of Congregational Turmoil
By Terasa Cooley – Foreword by Gil RendleAlban Books
June 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6182 1 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1838 8 • $22.00 / £16.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6184 5 • $20.50 / £15.99
With more than three decades of ministry and conflict resolution research, Rev. Dr. Terasa Cooley embraces conflict as an opportunity for growth within church congregations. Exploring the neuroscience and psychology of conflict, Cooley reveals new response patterns and includes exercises and discussion questions for individuals or group seminars.
Leadership
The History of Galilee, 1538–1949
Mysticism, Modernization, and War
By M. M. SilverLexington Books
January 2022 • 402 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4942 3 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9430 0 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book traces the history of Galilee from its biblical roots to the eruption of the Arab-Jewish conflict in 1948, illustrating how modernization in the region was intertwined with mystical beliefs and practices and developed among Palestinians, Orthodox Jews, Christians, and Druze without being a byproduct of Western intervention.
Judaism / History
Applying Jewish Ethics
Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition
Edited by Jennifer A. Thompson and Allison B. Wolf Lexington Books
December 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the New
Directions in Applied Jewish Ethics series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5530 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5318 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition is a groundbreaking collection that introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely under-represented, Jewish ethical perspectives.
Judaism / Rituals & Practice
Torah Encounters Numbers
By Rabbi Daniel Pressman
United Synagogue Of Conservative Judaism
September 2022 • 118 pages • Part of the Torah Encounters series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7416 6 • $25.00 / £18.99
eBook 978 1 5381 4173 3 • $23.50 / £18.99
The fourth in the five-volume Torah Encounters series, Numbers offers Torah commentary and discussion guides for each Torah portion. It shares observations drawing from each parasha and from historical and contemporary commentators and Rabbi Pressman. A wonderful resource for clergy, personal study, or adult or high school Hebrew education.
Judaism / Sacred Writings
Dreams Beyond Time
On Sacred Encounter and Spiritual Transformation
By Lee Irwin Lexington Books
May 2022 • 366 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4261 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2622 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Dreams Beyond Time describes a variety of dream types related to nonordinary and exceptional dreams, including mythic, paranormal, and transpersonal dreaming. The book describes a metaphysics of discovery as intrinsic to dreaming in a pan-sentience cosmos, where dreams reveal human potential for personal spiritual development.
Mysticism
The Global Mystical Tradition
By Bruce Stephen Naschak Lexington Books
December 2022 • 260 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3790 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7918 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Esoteric communities of masters and disciples (“Holy Traditions”) have, in both prehistoric and historical eras, developed doctrines and rituals to experience mystical union with the divine. The author describes these traditions, their ideas, and their practices—noting their similarities to and their interactions with other mystical traditions.
Mysticism
Printing Religion after the Enlightenment
By Timothy Stanley Lexington Books
July 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3793 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7949 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Over the course of the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, an interior private notion of religion gained wide public recognition in Europe. This book provides a new model to study the interaction between religion and its publication through various material printed forms such as books, pamphlets, and newspapers.
Philosophy
The Perils of Human Exceptionalism
Elements of a Nineteenth-Century Theological Anthropology
By Dennis L. DurstLexington Books
July 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0019 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0200 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theological anthropology over the nineteenth century took on a naturalistic shape by viewing humanity through the lens of biology rather than theology. Elites criticized theological creeds as childish, attending instead to diverse subjective religious experiences, yielding a religious and cultural fragmentation.
Philosophy
The Whole Megilla
Reading the Tractate on the Scroll of Esther in the Babylonian Talmud
By Joshua A. Fogel Hamilton BooksJuly 2022 • 156 pages
Paperback
eBook
The Whole Megilla tracks tractate Megilla of the Babylonia Talmud page by page, offering an close reading and exegesis of the text. It makes this difficult work comprehensible.
Prayerbooks / Jewish
Ethics and the Future of Religion Redefining the Absolute
By W. Royce Clark
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 476 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0864 8 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8655 5 • $50.00 / £38.00
Humanity needs a common ethic, but the ethics of various religions are tied to their unique claims, which merge history with mythology or metaphysics. To address this problem, W. Royce Clark examines the thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher, G.W.F. Hegel, Paul Tillich, and Robert P. Scharlemann for elements of a possible universal ethic.
Philosophy
The Non-Hierarchical Way from Yijing to Jeongyeok A New Paradigm for East Meeting West
By Young Woon KoLexington Books
December 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7392 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 3931 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book discusses the structure of Yijing in relation to ideas developed in the West and presents the Jeongyeok to overcome any hierarchical system implied by the Yijing. Both the Yijing and the Jeongyeok are also examined as textual sources for kindling a discussion about divine impersonality and personality for the meeting of East and West.
Philosophy
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion
Edited by Mark A. Lamport – Foreword by Michael L. Peterson – Introduction by Charles Taliaferro –Afterword by Ronald T. Michener Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 452 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Handbook series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4127 4 • $140.00 / £108.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1281 1 • $133.00 / £102.00
Exploring mysteries that have evoked wonder and consternation for millennia, this handbook covers topics such as the nature of divinity and humanity, the legitimacy of religious experience, the possibility of miracles, and idea of life after death. As a reference volume and introductory text, this is an essential resource for students and scholars.
Philosophy
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Contemporary Christianity in the United States
Edited by Mark A. Lamport Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 584 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Handbook series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3880 9 • $140.00 / £108.00
eBook 978 1 5381 8816 6 • $133.00 / £102.00
This one-volume handbook examines Christianity’s contributions to and conflicts with the contemporary culture of the postmodern United States. Chapters present historical, cultural, and theological context for the ways conservative, mainline, and evangelical Christian traditions have influenced and responded to modern life.
Reference
Religion, Women of Color, and the Suffrage Movement
The Journey to Holistic Freedom
Edited by SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 358 pages • Part of the Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2769 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7704 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection focuses on the uncelebrated insights and perspectives of women of color in a world where systemic discrimination persists. It articulates new strategies and paradigms for recognizing their contributions to the broader struggles for freedom and equity of women in our world.
RELIGION / Politics & State
Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics
Edited by Arvin M. Gouw; Brian Patrick Green and Ted Peters – Foreword by Aubrey deGrey
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 494 pages • Part of the Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse series
Hardback 978 1 4985 8413 5 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 4985 4142 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
In this book, the contributors examine how various religious traditions engage with transhumanism and its vision for the future.
Religion & Science
Religion and Sexuality in Zimbabwe
Edited by Francis Machingura and Ezra Chitando
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0328 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3294 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume reviews the impact of African Indigenous Religions and Christianity in its varied forms on the construction and expression of sexuality in Zimbabwe. These contributors examine the role of indigenous beliefs and interpretations of sacred texts in the understanding of sexuality in Zimbabwe.
Sexuality & Gender Studies
Tilling Sacred Grounds Interiority, Black Women, and Religious Experience
By Phillis Isabella SheppardLexington Books
March 2022 • 184 pages • Part of the Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3862 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8632 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Tilling Sacred Grounds centers Black women’s interiority as a site for religious experience. Phillis Isabella Sheppard argues that interiority is a site for the negotiation of gender, race, and sexuality and finds articulation in public religious practice.
Sexuality & Gender Studies
Ecology of Vocation Recasting Calling in a New Planetary Era
By Kiara A. JorgensonFortress Academic
March 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0023 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 9787 0215 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0022 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, Kiara A. Jorgenson draws on early Protestant thought to recast vocation as the interrelated space between our myriad roles. When understood apart from the contexts of work-as-vocation or passion (as avocation), vocation can extend the conception of neighbor beyond the human and lead to ecologically responsible living.
Religion & Science
Sámi Nature-Centered Christianity in the European Arctic Indigenous Theology beyond Hierarchical Worldmaking
By Tore Johnsen
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5293 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2942 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sámi Nature-Centered Christianity in the European Arctic unpacks the theological significance of North Sámi indigenous Christianity (Norway). Through thick description, critical analysis, and dialogue with African and Native American theologies, a nature-centered Christian paradigm is suggested.
Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
Religious Trauma Queer Stories in Estrangement and Return
By Brooke N. PetersenLexington Books
August 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Emerging
Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4114 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1151 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through the rich stories of eight participants, the author explores the psychological, spiritual, and ritual dimensions of religious trauma among queer people and offers key recommendations for congregations and pastoral caregivers that seek to welcome those who have experienced religious trauma.
Sexuality & Gender Studies
Women and Religion in Zimbabwe Strides and Struggles
Edited by Ezra Chitando; Sophia Chirongoma and Kudzai Biri Lexington Books
July 2022 • 308 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0331 7 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3324 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume reaffirms the fact that religion and culture often serve as a double-edged sword, that is, they can either obstruct or enrich African women’s flourishing. Drawing insights from African women’s experiences of religion and culture, the authors proffer gender sensitive and life-giving applications of African religio-cultural traditions.
Sexuality & Gender Studies
A Playful Spirit
Exploring the Theology, Philosophy, and Psychology of Play
By Mark W. Teismann – With Lynn Weber Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1843 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 8412 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1842 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Teismann embarks on a whirlwind ride through different aspects of play and how they relate to spirituality. Drawing on classical philosophers, memories of childhood, developmental science, poets, and his long career as a psychotherapist, he explores how the spirit of play informs our moral pursuits and spiritual yearnings.
Spirituality
Dancing in the Muddy Temple
A Moving Spirituality of Land and Body
By Eline KieftLexington Books
June 2022 • 212 pages • Part of the Studies in Body and Religion series
Hardback 978 0 7391 8902 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 0 7391 9030 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Eline Kieft creates an embodied spirituality that is based in improvised movement and embedded in the land. Weaving between theory and practice, this innovative work explores fundamental interconnections between self, surroundings, and the sacred.
Spirituality
A Church for the World
The Church’s Role in Fostering Democracy and Sustainable Development
Edited by Samuel Yonas Deressa and Josh de Keijzer – Foreword by Gary M. Simpso
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 284 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 1079 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 0771 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1078 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In A Church for the World, contributors from mostly non-Western theological communities offer historical, developmental, ecclesiastical, and theological perspectives on the church-world relationship, challenging misconceptions and practices that prevent the church from being salt and light in the world.
Theology
Bernard Bolzano
A New Evaluation of His Thought and His Circle
By Kamila Veverková – Translated by Angelo Shaun Franklin
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the Czech
Theological Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5305 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3062 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book introduces the ethical, philosophical, and social legacy of Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848), emphasizing the theological dimension of his thought. The author situates Bolzano as a significant and influential figure in the late Enlightenment in Bohemia, which developed in the politically unfavorable times of the early nineteenth century.
Theology
Awakening
Exploring Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation
Edited by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Gloria Neufeld Redekop
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 372 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9311 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 3090 0 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9310 6 • $40.50 / £31.00
Awakening illuminates key discoveries in the sciences, theology, psychology, spirituality, humanities, and peace and conflict studies. The process of awakening is seen through the lens of emergent creativity and spirituality with a view toward taking responsibility for relationships and creating justice.
Spirituality
Transforming
Applying Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation
Edited by Gloria Neufeld Redekop and Vern Neufeld Redekop
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 486 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9314 4 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 3120 0 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9313 7 • $44.50 / £34.00
Global crises—from pandemics to climate change—demonstrate the vulnerability of the biosphere and each of us as individuals, calling for responses guided by creative analysis and compassionate reflection. Transforming explores actions that create paths of understanding and collaboration as the groundwork for transformative community.
Spirituality
A Postfoundationalist Comparative Christology
Parity, Particularity, and Universality in Indian Interreligious Dialogues
By David Muthukumar Sivasubramanian – Foreword by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Fortress Academic
March 2022 • 214 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1383 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3840 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a postfoundationalist comparative method, emerging from the Indian-Christian minority perspective, to affirm religious diversity and parity among religions. It upholds the particularity and universality of faith assertions across religions in dialogue by defining each religion’s attempt at their revealed truth as a parallel quest.
Theology
Bonhoeffer’s Religionless Christianity in Its Christological Context
By Peter Hooton
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0935 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 9331 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0934 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, Peter Hooton explores Bonhoeffer’s response to the challenge of a future “religionless age” in Western civilization and its place in his theology.
Theology
Centering Hope as a Sustainable Decolonial Practice
Esperanza en Práctica
By Yara González-Justiniano Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 164 pages • Part of the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5089 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0900 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In believing hope is at the center—and not at the end of things—this author illustrates models of hope as axis of our humanity, leaving us with a practical recipe to take with an apply to our ministerial and organizational contexts in search of a sustainable hope in the midst of crisis.
Theology
Deconstructing Undecidability
Derrida, Justice, and Religious Discourse
By Michael OliverFortress Academic
March 2022 • 266 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0440 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 4381 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0439 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book critically advances readings of Jacques Derrida to offer a renewed understanding of the problem of decision and its inherent exclusivity. Michael Oliver applies this deconstructive insight to the contexts of justice pursuits and theological negotiations of divine decision, arguing for the necessity of reckoning with difficult decisions.
Theology
Dissension and Tenacity
Doing Theology with Nerves
Edited by Jione Havea
Fortress Academic December 2022 • 260 pages • Part of the Theology in the Age of Empire series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1437 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4380 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Doing theology requires dissension and tenacity. Dissension is required when scriptural texts, and the colonial bodies and traditions (read: Babylon) that capitalize upon those, inhibit or prohibit “rising to life.” The contributors in this book challenge the way Christian theology is currently done in the academy and the Western world.
Theology
Flesh Made Word
The Protestant Interpretation Problem and an Embodied Hermeneutic
By Lauren Smelser White
Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1104 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1051 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Assessing the Protestant interpretive tradition in conversation with modern contemplative theologies, White argues that readers of Scripture cannot read well when primarily fixated upon the text’s objective meaning. They must instead risk finding themselves implicated in, and formed by, a Spirit-led hermeneutic process that is carefully embodied.
Theology
Cuban Feminist Theology Visions and Praxis
By Ofelia Ortega – Foreword by Mary E. Hunt
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 324 pages • Part of the Decolonizing Theology series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1299 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3000 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Ofelia Miriam Ortega describes the social, economic, and political realities in Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin America as the contexts of Cuban feminist theology.
Theology
Discipleship and Unity Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology
By Cole JodonFortress Academic
June 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1194 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1952 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology, Cole Jodon presents Bonhoeffer’s ecumenical theology — a theology grounded in an understanding of the church as the person of Christ, and practiced in active obedient discipleship.
Theology
Ethnoreligiosity in the Contemporary Societies of the Former Yugoslavia
The Veils of Christian Delusion
By Branko Sekulić
Fortress Academic
February 2022 • 324 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1296 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2973 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using Christian communities in the former Yugoslavia as a case study, Branko Sekulic introduces the concept of ethnoreligiosity in order to resolve the confusion that occurs when scholars talk about the concepts of ethno-religion or ethnoreligion.
Theology
Human Becoming in an Age of Science, Technology, and Faith
By Philip Hefner – Edited by Jason P. Roberts and Mladen Turk
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0837 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 8389 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Philip Hefner produces his final major work on the topic of the created co-creator, depicting Homo sapiens as a memoirist on an ambiguous journey of self-discovery. Hefner, editors Jason P. Roberts and Mladen Turk, and other contributors each give guidance for that journey in an age of science, technology, and faith.
Theology
Marveling Religion
Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel
Cinematic Universe
Edited by Jennifer Baldwin and Daniel White Hodge
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 284 pages • Part of the Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2138 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1399 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse.
Theology
The Crux of Theology
Luther’s Teachings and Our Work for Freedom, Justice, and Peace
Edited by Allen G. Jorgenson and Kristen E. Kva
Fortress Academic
May 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1251 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2522 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Crux of Theology puts Luther’s teachings concerning the cross in dialogue with the preamble of the United Declaration’s Declaration of Human Rights, which advances a vision of the common good wherein freedom, justice and peace are enjoyed by all. Using diverse voices, it reframes theological loci and raises critical contextual questions.
Theology
The God Who Is with Us Theology of Mission in the Doctrine of Revelation
By Benjamin H. KimFortress Academic
October 2022 • 258 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1530 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 5318 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book explores the theology of the ission Dei by understanding mission as a revelatory concept of person. Mission as a concept of person recovers the original meaning of mission, which is a description of the trinitarian movement of God.
Theology
The Holy Spirit and Public Life Empowering Ecclesial Praxis
By Mark J. CartledgeFortress Academic
April 2022 • 264 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 0234 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2356 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Taking It to the Streets
Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance
Edited by Jennifer Baldwin – Preface by Jennifer Baldwin
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 228 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9012 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0105 5 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9011 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Taking It to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance is an edited volume that explores public expressions of activism and resistance to social and political oppression. Contributors reflect on the need for resistance, strategies and resources for effective activism, and prominent areas of contemporary protest.
Theology
The European Reception of John D. Caputo’s Thought Radicalizing Theology
Edited by Joeri Schrijvers and Martin Koci
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0841 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8428 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book explores Caputo’s proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo’s attempt to configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo, thereby strengthening the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad.
Theology
The Goldilocks God Searching for the via media
By Guy Collins Fortress Academic
August 2022 • 266 pages • Part of the Anglican Studies series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1347 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3482 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Goldilocks God explores the fertile middle ground between toxic Christianity and militant atheism. Illuminating ancient Christian practice with cutting-edge philosophy and theology, Guy Collins reveals the lifelong habits that are “just right” for encountering the mystery of God.
Theology
The Revolutionary Gospel
Paul Lehmann and the Direction of Theology Today Edited by Nancy J. Duff; Ry O. Siggelkow and Brandon K. Watson Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 414 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1224 9 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2256 6 • $50.00 / £38.99
Mark J. Cartledge argues that the church is called to be truthful with love in the public spheres of society. It does this by being empowered by the Holy Spirit to engage critically and graciously for the sake of the common good.
Theology
This volume is a collection of 33 essays, sermons, and contemporaneous addresses by Paul L. Lehmann, some of which are published here for the first time. The material addresses the revolutionary dimension of Protestant thought, the contextual character of theological ethics, and the humanizing power of the gospel.
Theology
Theologies on the Move
Religion, Migration, and Pilgrimage in the World of Neoliberal Capital
Edited by Joerg Rieger
Fortress Academic
September 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Decolonizing Theology series
Paperback 978 1 9787 0710 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 7085 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0709 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Theologies on the Move examines how the experiences of migration and pilgrimage that are created as a result of the pressures of neoliberal capitalism shape theological and religious traditions. Based on these insights, the contributors examine what difference religion can make in a world dominated by the interests of the few rather than the many.
Theology
Theology and Breaking Bad
Edited by David K. Goodin and George Tsakiridis
Fortress Academic July 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1272 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 2737 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Theology and Breaking Bad, the contributors explore the hidden theological themes woven into the show and its spinoff series, Better Call Saul.
Theology
Theology and H.P. Lovecraft
Edited by Austin M. Freeman
Fortress Academic August 2022 • 290 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1170 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 1716 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theology and H.P. Lovecraft engages with the work of horror author H.P. Lovecraft from a theological perspective. With responses ranging from admiration to critique, the contributors explore the dark uncharted regions of Lovecraft’s dark mythology in the service of theological truth.
Theology
Theology as Threshold Invitations from Aotearoa New Zealand
Edited by Jione Havea; Emily Colgan and Nāsili Vaka‘uta
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 286 pages • Part of the Decolonizing Theology series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1479 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 4809 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
The future of theological education requires crossing thresholds that mainstream theologies blocked and engaging native heritage and wisdom. The contributions to this volume demonstrate that theological studies have a future, and there is a role for theologians and educators in and from Aotearoa New Zealand and Pasifika to play in navigating (into) that future.
Theology
Theology and Batman
Examining the Religious World of the Dark Knight
Edited by Matthew Brake and C. K. Robertson –Foreword by Paul Levitz – Afterword by Michael Uslan
Fortress Academic
November 2022 • 312 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1074 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0757 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theology and Batman examines theological themes such as theodicy and evil, ethics and morality, justice and vengeance, and the Divine in various stories featuring The Dark Knight from across different mediums, including comics, movies, and video games.
Theology
Theology and Game of Thrones
Edited by Matthew Brake
Fortress Academic February 2022 • 342 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 0762 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 9787 7634 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theology and Game of Thrones explores themes of religion, institutional norms, and power, Christian ecclesiology, Augustinian thought, religious pluralism and representation, and theology’s relationship with sexual violence and death in the HBO television series and the original A Song of Ice and Fire novels.
Theology
Theology and the Star Wars Universe
Edited by Benjamin D. Espinoza
Fortress Academic July 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 0723 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 9787 7245 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Theology and the Star Wars Universe is an engaging and enlightening foray into exploring the galaxy far, far away from a theological perspective. Written for an academic audience but accessible to fans of the franchise, the book will be an excellent addition to any collection.
Theology
Theology on a Defiant Earth
Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
Edited by Jonathan Cole and Peter Walker
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0322 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3232 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, theologians and scholars of religion grapple with the political, philosophical, and ethical implications of a climate crisis provoked by one species, our own, serving its needs at the increasingly intolerable cost of all life on the planet.
Theology
Theology, Religion, and Dystopia
Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon SimonsoFortress Academic
September 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the
Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1329 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3307 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
Ancient and modern readers alike turn to dystopian tales and topics in order to make sense of experiences of reality that are increasing negative and outside their control. This volume takes theological and religious approaches to dystopian works and themes as revelatory for human flourishing.
Theology
Uncovering Calvin’s God
John Calvin on Predestination and the Love of God
By Forrest H. Buckner – Foreword by Oliver D. CrispFortress Academic August 2022 • 250 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0386 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 9787 3841 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0385 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Uncovering Calvin’s God, Forrest H. Buckner provides a robust exposition of John Calvin’s teaching and preaching to reveal that the controversial theologian believed in a God of love who is sovereign over predestination.
Theology
Climate Change Education
Reimagining the Future with Alternative Forms of Storytelling
Edited by Rebecca L. Young
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1579 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5808 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection offers innovative approaches to using popular forms of storytelling as a lens for teaching about climate change. Contributors share their classroom experiences and guidance about how to engage students in productive conversations about the future with empathy and agency.
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene
Edited by Elizabeth G. Dobbins; Luigi Manca and Maria Lucia Piga
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 434 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0762 1 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7607 7 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0761 4 • $44.50 / £34.00
This book defines for readers the ecological epoch known as the Anthropocene and brings together an interdisciplinary roster of researchers and scholars to address key imminent challenges to human society posed by climate crisis. The work also analyzes and provides a constructive vision on the relationship between social justice and the media.
Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Late Theology
Encounters with the Unknown Christ
By Eleanor McLaughlin – Foreword by Rowan WilliamsFortress Academic
March 2022 • 224 pages
Paperback 978 1 9787 0827 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 9787 8259 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0826 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Eleanor McLaughlin traces the development of Bonhoeffer’s work on unconscious Christianity in his writings and constructs a definition of the term, shedding light not only on Bonhoeffer’s later works, but his theological development as a whole.
Theology
Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis in Dialogue
The Labyrinth of Liquid Modernity
By Zeger PolhuijsFortress Academic
February 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1020 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 9787 0214 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis in Dialogue: The Labyrinth of Liquid Modernity, Zeger Polhuijs recounts the mutual exchanges between Zygmunt Bauman and Pope Francis and draws attention to the role this mutual influence has played in the developments of their social thought.
Theology
Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice
Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation
Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Amber E. George - Foreword by Jordan Halliday and Tyler Lang Lexington Books
March 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Critical Animal Studies and Theory series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3522 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5235 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
By promoting total liberation, this volume challenges the reader to think about new approaches to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. The contributors examine and disrupt many of the exclusionary assumptions and behaviors by those working toward justice and liberation, encouraging the reader to reflect on their own thoughts and actions.
Animal Rights
Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial Averting Our Gaze
Edited by Tomaž Grušovnik; Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke Syse
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1048 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0461 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1047 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
The theory of denialism proposes that people actively avoid information that threatens their established worldviews, lifestyles, and identities.
Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people use denialism to avoid awareness of climate change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal industrial complex.
Animal Rights
Food Geographies
Social, Political, and Ecological Connections
By Pascale Joassart-Marcelli Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 342 pages • Part of the Exploring
Geography series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2664 6 • $129.00 / £99.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6653 3 • $49.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2666 0 • $46.50 / £36.00
This text introduces students to current food issues and their underlying social, political, and ecological connections. Concise and accessible, it covers how food production and consumption influences the environment, social and economic relations, politics, and everyday life, with current global examples that address sustainability and equity.
Earth Sciences / Geography
How to Care More
Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change
By Miranda Campbell PhD Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4504 3 • $75.00 / £58.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5050 0 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4506 7 • $30.00 / £22.99
How to Care More offers a definition of care based in relational action, highlighting care as an umbrella concept that can catalyze personal and social change. Each chapter provides an overview of one skill to practice caring more, including listening, consent, collaboration, and cultivating inclusion, love, and resilience.
Activism & Social Justice
Intersections of Race, Gender, and Precarity Navigating Insecurities in an American City
By Stephanie M. Baran Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0853 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8543 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book includes interviews and observations from benefit recipients and social-service agents based on a two-year ethnographic study of poverty and insecurity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The author has an honest conversation about the circumstances and institutions around poverty that affect people experiencing it in different ways.
Agriculture & Food
Art and Nuclear Power
The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate
By Anna VolkmarLexington Books
February 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the
Environment and
Hardback
series
Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement, Third Edition
By Miranda Schreurs and Elim Papadakis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 480 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6946 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 9594 4 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1960 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced on green movements, green politics, green trends, and major environmental agreements and events.
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Beer and Society
How We Make Beer and Beer Makes Us
By Eli Revelle Yano Wilson and Asa B. Stone Lexington Books
August 2022 • 210 pages
Paperback 978 1 6669 0435 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 4338 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0434 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines how beer reflects the structure of society’s collective values, economic structures, and structural inequity. The authors explore the organization of our social world through looking at beer as a marker of identity, an object of connoisseurship, and a livelihood for those who produce and distribute it.
Agriculture & Food
A Sacred Vertigo Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France
By Deana L. Weibel
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 200 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5032 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0337 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Deana L. Weibel explains the shifting identities of Rocamadour, a medieval Black Madonna shrine turned tourist attraction, which enchants both the devout and secular. Weibel analyzes how locals and visitors compete to define Rocamadour, arguing that the unusual properties of the cliff-hanging site make it a prize worth fighting for.
Anthropology / Cultural
Arts of Healing Cultural Narratives of Trauma
Edited by Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4826 6 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 0973 3 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1098 0 • $37.00 / £28.00
In Art and Nuclear Power, Anna Volkmar explores a radical new approach to engage with the environmental destruction
social change caused by modern technologies. With a focus on
power, Volkmar demonstrates how art
through these issues intelligently and ethically.
Anthropology / Cultural
Proposes new ways of ‘thinking trauma’, foregrounding the possibility of healing and the task that the critical humanities has to play in this healing. Where is its place in an increasingly terror-haunted world, where personal and collective trauma is as much of an everyday occurrence as it is incomprehensible?
Anthropology / Cultural
Belfast Imaginary Art and Urban Reinvention
By Katharine Keenan Lexington Books
March 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2811 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8121 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Belfast Imaginary depicts the work of artists and policy makers as they imagine and perform a new urban identity for Belfast in the liminal time between the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit.
Anthropology / Cultural
Clinical Anthropology 2.0
Improving Medical Education and Patient Experience
By Jason W. Wilson and Roberta D. Baer Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9768 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7692 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that highlights how medical anthropologists can help to improve patient experience and medical education as members of interdisciplinary care teams in clinical settings.
Anthropology / Cultural
Decolonizing Queer Experience
LGBT+ Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Edited by Emily Channell-JusticeLexington Books
August 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3032 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0308 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3031 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Decolonizing Queer Experience draws from research around the post-socialist world to argue that understanding LGBT+ experience in the region cannot be limited to oppression and violence. Using a decolonizing lens, the contributors explore performance, identity, and political affiliations as essential parts of LGBT+ communities.
Anthropology / Cultural
Eastern Métis
Chronicling and Reclaiming a Denied Past
Edited by Michel Bouchard; Sébastien Malette and Siomonn Pulla
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 372 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0545 0 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5436 6 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0544 3 • $40.50 / £31.00
Pushed to the historical and social margins for too long, Eastern Métis reviews the record of these sidelined communities and the effort to reclaim their past. This book is the first-ever scholarly endeavor to trace the emergence and consolidation of Métis identities from the Atlantic Coast to Ontario and beyond.
Anthropology / Cultural
Black Millennials Identity, Ambition, and Activism
Edited by Jacquelin Darby Lexington Books
August 2022 • 128 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1183 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 1819 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1182 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Black Millennials is a collection of writings by self-identified black millennials who engage with their own unique experiences of identity, career, and social engagement in modern society.
Anthropology / Cultural
Complying with Genocide
The Wolf You Feed
By E.N. Anderson and Barbara A. AndersonLexington Books
August 2022 • 172 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3461 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 4597 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3460 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
E.N. Anderson and Barbara A. Anderson examine why individuals and whole nations become complicit in genocide. They present leading research on the characteristics of those most susceptible to genocidal messages and outline counteractive strategies.
Anthropology / Cultural
Designing Social Architecture Spaces, Relationships, and Communities in the Philippines
By Fuyuki MakinoLexington Books
May 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4951 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9522 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Designing Social Architecture, Fuyuki Makino examines how experimental methods in modern architecture have helped form microrelationships, social networks, and social structures among inhabitants of Manila, Philippines, and considers whether the architects’ aim to promote certain social behaviors was successful or not.
Anthropology / Cultural
Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities
By Siobhan Brooks
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 110 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7577 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5751 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7576 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
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.
Anthropology / Cultural
Extracting Honduras
Resource Exploitation, Displacement, and Forced Migration
By James J. Phillips Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3033 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0346 6 • $104.50 / £81.00
This book explores the deeper causes of recent massive emigrations from Honduras, tracing the roots to the neoliberal extractive development model that has created conditions of poverty, corruption, and violence for over a generation in the context of the colonial (or imperial) relationship of Honduras to the United States.
Anthropology / Cultural
Feeding the Hustle
Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry
By Jesse Dart Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3501 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5020 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Feeding the Hustle, Jesse Dart examines how free food programs in the workplace alter the relationship between employer and employee, support a flexible type of workforce, and reveal a commensality that is both exclusionary and inclusionary.
Anthropology / Cultural
Forests as Fuel Energy, Landscape, Climate, and Race in the U.S. South
By Sarah Hitchner; John Schelhas and J. Peter Brosius - Foreword by James Marshall Shepherd Lexington Books
January 2022 • 252 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3234 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2357 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Forests as Fuel uses extensive multi-sited ethnography to address the complexities of bioenergy development, highlighting the impacts of varying perceptions of climate change in rural, forest- dependent communities within the US South.
Anthropology / Cultural
Imagining Asia Cultural Citizenship and Nation Building in the National Museums of Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau
By Emily Stokes-ReesRowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 268 pages • Part of the Asian
Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4795 5 • $44.95 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9045 5 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0905 2 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book explores the development and influence of national museums in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau.
Anthropology / Cultural
Fashionable Traditions
Asian Handmade Textiles in Motion
Edited by Ayami Nakatani
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 316 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8651 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 6498 8 • $121.00 / £93.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8650 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian, handmade textile production and consumption. Contributors to this collection reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions, and consumers to offer a vivid account of the socioeconomic, political, and cultural dynamics of Asian fashion.
Anthropology / Cultural
Field Stories
Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 142 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 4398 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 3964 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4397 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Field Stories presents and analyzes fieldwork stories shared in classrooms to demonstrate how ethnographic methods and analysis can be communicated more clearly to the next generation of students. The chapters are rich in detail, and written in clear narrative prose, highlighting the value of ethnographic data, and the enchantment of the field.
Anthropology / Cultural
Historic Takings in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Recreation and Remains
By David Fazzino
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 252 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2739 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7407 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author examines the many takings of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to consider the contested legal and personal meanings and valuations of property, place, and memory. The book suggests personal and systemic approaches to reframe place and reconcile public development with personal and community loss.
Anthropology / Cultural
Mentored to Perfection
The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia
By Simone Dennis and Alison Behie
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1477 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4788 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mentored to Perfection: The Masculine Terms of Success in Academia examines how mentoring programs between women tend to replicate the hierarchical relations of patriarchy that they are meant to dismantle.
Anthropology / Cultural
Metropolitan Intimacies
An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life
By Francisco CrucesLexington Books
July 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3321 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
Paperback 978 1 7936 3231 1
eBook 978 1 7936 3322 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents’ daily lives.
Anthropology / Cultural
Not Even a Grain of Rice
Buying Food on Credit in the Dominican Republic
By Christine HippertLexington Books
August 2022 • 176 pages • Part of the
Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change series
Paperback 978 1 4985 6962 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9606 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6961 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Not Even a Grain of Rice, Christine Hippert examines the intercultural networks of buying food with in-store credit at corner stores in the Dominican Republic.
Anthropology / Cultural
Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales
Edited by Allyssa McCabe and MinJeong Kim Lexington Books
August 2022 • 200 pages • Part of the Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1288 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2890 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume examines East and Southeast Asian folktales unfamiliar to most Western audiences and highlights similarities to and differences from Western folktales. The discussion includes folktales from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, China, Japan, and Korea.
Anthropology / Cultural
Resettling Displaced Communities
Applying the International Standard for Involuntary Resettlement
By William L. Partridge and David B. HalmoLexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages • Part of the Crossing
Borders in a Global World series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2404 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4024 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2403 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The goal of resettlement must be the sustainable social, economic and human development of displaced communities. The provisions and directives entailed in resettlement policies and current performance standards constitute the I.S.I.R. Case examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas illustrate the praxis required for improving outcomes.
Anthropology / Cultural
Mexico’s Rebellious Afterlives
Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War
By Olof Kjell Oscar OhlsonLexington Books
July 2022 • 198 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0937 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9388 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mexico’s Rebellious Afterlives: Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War examines Mexican activists’ mobilizations against the state, capitalist, and criminal violence in the narco epoch.
Anthropology / Cultural
Nude and Naked Women in the Arts
Mexico and Beyond
By Eli Bartra - Foreword by Francesca Gargallo Celentani - Translated by Ellen Jones; Jessie Méndez Sayer and Andrea Knowles
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 298 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4744 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7450 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Nude and Naked Women in the Arts: Mexico and Beyond is a study of female nudity as represented by men and women in Mexico and other parts of the world through analysis of both high art and folk art.
Subjects & Themes / General
Raymond Williams at 100
Edited by Paul Stasi Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 210 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5431 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 5074 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4508 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
This volume, timed to coincide with what would have been Williams’s 100th birthday, tests his ideas in our own experience and to engage Williams’s work in ways that move past the familiar terrain that has grown around it.
Anthropology / Cultural
Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel Stories Beyond Nature-Culture Divide
By Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Ecocritical
Theory and Practice series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9115 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 1164 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel, Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu examines shamanism as a significant trope in a selection of contemporary novels. Yazicioglu finds that these works ultimately challenge anthropocentric and androcentric discourses and offer alternative perspectives for social and environmental justice on an endangered planet.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Gift of the Middle Tanana Dene Pre-Colonial History in the Alaskan Interior
By Gerad M. Smith - Foreword by Charles E. Holmes
- Afterword by Evelynn Combs
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 316 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5476 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4779 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Gerad Smith explores the history, ethnography, and archaeological record of the Native people living in the Middle Tanana Valley in Alaska during the late Holocene. Smith illustrates how the role of deep-play rituals of reciprocity shaped a traditional society that has lasted over a thousand years.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Mosque Conflict in Catalonia Space, Culture, and Capitalism
By Martin LundsteenLexington Books
October 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0895 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8961 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Martin Lundsteen investigates the often overlooked political-economic aspects of mosque conflicts. Focusing on the mosque project in Barcelona, Lundsteen takes a socio-spatial approach, investigating both the local and global processes of contemporary capitalism.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Politics of Alterity France and her Others
By Sarah Mazouz - Translated by Rachel Gomme Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 248 pages • Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4590 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5920 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
Drawing on an ethnographic survey conducted in antidiscrimination and naturalisation offices in the Paris region, this book shows how immigration, nation, and racialization are articulated in the social space and questions the processes of inclusion and exclusion within the national group itself and between the national and the foreigner.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Relationship People
Mediating Love and Marriage in Twenty-First Century Japan
By Erika R AlpertLexington Books
January 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9420
The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco Cultural and Economic Transformations
By Hsain IlahianeLexington Books
February 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1658 6 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6593 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
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.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Politics and Promise of Yoga Contemporary Relevance of an Ancient Practice
By Anjali KanojiaLexington Books
November 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9934 4 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9351 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
Yoga is a popular and beneficial evidence-based health practice. This book addresses the origins, explores yoga’s evolution, and outlines current scientific research as well as contemporary discussions related to the possibilities as well as the politicization of this ancient Indian practice.
Yoga
The Politics of Memory Urban Cultural Heritage in Brazil
By Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos Rowman & Littlefield InternationalMay 2022 • 216 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4813 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 1215 5 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1122 2 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book explores how a site can turn into a mummification of the past, displaying long-gone splendour, or a living, breathing treasure offering dynamic cultural and educational opportunities.
Anthropology / Cultural
The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders
Political Resistance from the Margins
By Anny MorissetteLexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 4572 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5708 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4571 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Relationship People examines the marriage industry and its clients in neoliberal Japan. It addresses what industry professionals are promoting to ease Japan’s low rates of
what singles are actually doing, and whether focusing on introducing more singles to each other can effectively solve Japan’s millennial woes.
Anthropology / Cultural
In The Secret Struggles of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Leaders: Political Resistance from the Margins, Anny Morissette examines Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg actors’ political resistance to the Canadian government amidst threats to the tribe’s traditional political structures.
Anthropology / Cultural
To Eat or Not to Eat Meat
How Vegetarian Dietary Choices Influence Our Social Lives
Edited by Charlotte De Backer; Julie Dare and Leesa
Costello - By Maryanne L. Fisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5965 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4964 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1497 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
How does being vegetarian influence our social life? This book applies a narrative inquiry approach and presents stories from vegetarians across the globe that explore how our food choices can have complex social consequences.
Vegetarian & Vegan
Transnational Yoga at Work
Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots
By Laurah E. KlepingerLexington Books
July 2022 • 284 pages • Part of the Anthropology
of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1562 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5633 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this ethnography, Laurah E. Klepinger examines wageworkers, yoga practitioners, and spiritual tourists in a transnational yoga institution. Klepinger argues that the institution’s peacebuilding mission obscures the patterns of injustice and social inequality it reproduces.
Anthropology / Cultural
Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept Understanding Connections among Culture, Community, and Health
Edited by Janet M. Page-Reeves
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 460 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society series
Paperback 978 1 4985 5940 9 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9386 6 • $144.00 / £111.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5939 3 • $44.50 / £34.00
Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept contributes to our understanding of the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations.
Anthropology / Cultural
A Visual Dictionary of Decorative and Domestic Arts
By Nancy Odegaard and Gerry Wagner Crouse American Alliance of Museums
December 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4887 7 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBookt 978 1 5381 4888 4 • $80.50 / £62.00
Trans-Asia as Method
Theory and Practices
Edited by Jeroen de Kloet; Yiu Fai Chow and Gladys Pak Lei Chong
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4810 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 0782 2 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1079 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
This collection offers an interdisciplinary discussion of “trans-Asia” approaches from critical theory, historical studies, cultural studies to film studies.
Anthropology / Cultural
Trapped by History
The Indigenous-State Relationship in Australia
By Darryl Cronin Rowman & Littlefield InternationalAugust 2022 • 312 pages • Part of the Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5261 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 1451 1 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1146 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book advocates for a movement beyond the current colonial relationship with Indigenous Australians.
Anthropology / Cultural
This full-color visual dictionary contains an unambiguous vocabulary for the parts of handcrafted decorative, domestic, and artistic items. Terminology for a broad array of object types is accompanied by original color illustrations.
Directories
Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica
Seven Miles of Sandy Beach
By A. Lynn BollesLexington Books
January 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1556 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5572 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica: Seven Miles of Sandy Beach, A. Lynne Bolles examines Jamaican women tourist workers and their workplaces in Negril, Jamaica.
Anthropology / Cultural
Artistic Traditions of Inner Eurasian Cultures
Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Golden Ages
By Ardi KiaLexington Books
September 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1858 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8595 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times to the ancient and medieval golden ages. The manuscript features extensive analysis of multiple Inner Eurasian cultural groups, their artistic traditions, and the development thereof throughout the region’s history.
Anthropology / General
Child Survivors of Genocide
Trauma, Resilience, and Identity in Guatemala
By Shirley A. Heying - Foreword by Andre J. HoltenLexington Books
June 2022 • 346 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0229 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2305 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the experiences of orphaned child survivors of Guatemala’s 36-year internal armed conflict and genocide who were raised in an in-country permanent residential home. Now adults, they have faced long-term consequences but also have become resilient, welladapted adults with a strong sense of identity and belonging.
Anthropology / General
Creating Care
Art and Medicine in US Hospitals
By Marlaine Figueroa GrayLexington Books
June 2022 • 198 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4861 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8624 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Creating Care: Art and Medicine in US Hospitals is an ethnographic study of art programming in hospitals across the United States.
Anthropology / General
Indigenous Settlers of the Galápagos Conservation Law, Race, and Society
By Pilar Sánchez Voelkl
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0659 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6608 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Pilar Sánchez Voelkl offers an anthropological account of the early arrival and prominence of Indigenous peoples in the Galápagos Islands. Their history and everyday life reveal how multiple notions of nature, race, and society travel and meet, shaping the way conservation thought is translated into law.
Anthropology / General
Nomadic Food
Anthropological and Historical Studies around the World
Edited by Jean Pierre Williot and Isabelle Bianquis
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5964 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 5985 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1599 2 • $34.00 / £26.00
This enlightening collection of essays from expert scholars examines the idea of food nomadism and food nomads. Looking at the role of mobility and the influence of food manufacturers and related industries, they reveal the complexities of this intriguing subject.
Anthropology / General
Conservation and Community in Kenya Milking the Elephant
By Carolyn K. LesorogolLexington Books
June 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5029 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0306 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book, Carolyn K. Lesorogol examines community-based wildlife conservation in Kenya and its complex effects on local communities. Lesorogol argues that this approach to conservation creates new land use institutions, brings both benefits and costs to conservancy members, and at times heightens social conflict.
Anthropology / General
Feminist Ethnography
Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities, Second Edition
By Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 2979 1 • $98.00 / £75.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9807 7 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2981 4 • $39.50 / £30.00
Now in its second edition, Feminist Ethnography is at once a howto manual for doing feminist ethnography and a compendium of contributions from influential feminist ethnographers. Its multi-vocal and interdisciplinary focus make it ideal to assign in any discipline promoting critical methodologies as sites for reflection, collaboration, and creativity.
Anthropology / General
Medical Tourism and Inequity in India
The Hyper-Commodification of Healthcare
By Kristen SmithLexington Books
March 2022 • 222 pages • Part of the Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4417 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4183 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores the role of private hospitals in India in the global healthcare service supply chain. Smith examines the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian healthcare system, and the local populations facing critical health issues.
Anthropology / General
Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World
A Critique of Unreason and Academic Nonsense
By H. SidkyLexington Books
August 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0653 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6518 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0652 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this book, H. Sidky examines how a cadre of American academics influenced by French postmodern philosophy during the 1980’s and 1990’s informed and empowered the assault on science and truth by corporate organizations, post-truth politicians, religious extremists, and right-wing populists in the present post-truth era.
Anthropology / General
Speaking of Race
Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children
By Jennifer B. DelfinoLexington Books
August 2022 • 202 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0650 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6488 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0649 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
In Speaking of Race, Jennifer B. Delfino draws on three years of teaching experience and ethnographic research to examine language and racial identity among African American children in a Washington, D.C.-based after school program. after school program. It is based on three years of the author’s teaching and ethnographic research.
Anthropology / General
Terrestrial Transformations
A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature
Edited by Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 318 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0548 1 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5467 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0547 4 • $40.50 / £31.00
Drawing on a broad range of case studies, the contributors to Terrestrial Transformations explore the political and economic forces entangled in environmental and ecological problems and look at humanity’s future in light of climate change and existing environmental problems.
Anthropology / General
The Mobility Imperative
A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration
By Augustin F. C. Holl
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 280 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0379 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3805 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
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 (EES) rationales. The selected case studies range from the emergence and expansion of humans to cattle domestication and beyond.
Anthropology / General
Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene
Edited by Peter Kraftl; Peter Kelly; Diego Carbajo Padilla; Rosalyn Black; Seth Brown and Anoop
Nayak
Rowman
Sustaining Social Conflict
Hatred, Money, and Genocide
By E.N. Anderson and Barbara A. AndersonLexington Books
September 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1870 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8717 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book examines the roots of hatred, genocide, and mass murder in psychology, history, politics, and economics, including the funding of destructive political campaigns. It provides solutions grounded in moral philosophy as well as possible legal measures.
Anthropology / General
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the TwentyFirst Century
By Alin Rus
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 468 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1543 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5440 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century excavates the neglected ideological substratum of peasant folk plays by closely analyzing the promotion, exploitation, and transformation of traditional practices from northeastern Romania and southwest Ukraine.
Anthropology / General
Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene
Edited by Peter Kelly; Peter Kraftl; Diego Carbajo Padilla; Rosalyn Black; Deborah MacDonald; Meave Noonan and Ana Sofia Ribeiro
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 232 pages • Part of the Children and Young People in the Anthropocene series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5364 2 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3659 9 • $109.00 / £84.00
This book presents stories of children and young people’s entanglements with times of ongoing crisis in the Anthropocene.
Anthropology / General
Krav Maga and the Making of Modern Israel For Zion’s Sake
By Andrea MolleRowman & Littlefield Publishers
Littlefield
book
children
young
ways of
when planetary systems are in crisis.
Anthropology / General
March 2022
pages
of the Martial Arts Studies series
This book examines the political implications of martial arts through an analysis of Zionism. Grounded in political science, martial arts studies, and hoplology, it presents a critical history of Krav Maga, the processes that have contributed to defining Israeliness, and the idea that limited violence is vital to maintain a cooperative society.
Anthropology / Physical
Road Scars
Place, Automobility, and Road Trauma
By Robert Matej Bednar Rowman & Littlefield InternationalSeptember 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Place, Memory, Affect series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4833 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 4131 1 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1414 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
Road Scars uses mobile fieldwork, photography, and critical discourse analysis to show the complex and intriguing ways that these shrines not only work to mourn and remember individual crash victims but work to create a distinctive kind of momentary and mobile public among strangers driving by.
Anthropology / Physical
Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland
Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise
By John SoderbergLexington Books
January 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3039 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0407 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are the key to understanding Clonmacnoise’s development as a thriving settlement and a sacred space.
Archaeology
Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest
An Archaeology of Native American Cultures
By Radosław PalonkaLexington Books
July 2022 • 390 pages • Part of the Issues in Southwest Archaeology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4873 0 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8747 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the development of pre-Hispanic Native American cultures in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest from the Paleoindian period until the appearance of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century through studies of settlements, rock art, and pottery iconography.
Archaeology
Practicing Archaeology
A Manual For Cultural Resources Archaeology, third Edition
By Thomas W. Neumann; Robert M. Sanford and Mary Spink Neumann
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 496 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5937 8 • $165.00 / £127.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9385 5 • $75.00 / £58.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5939 2 • $65.50 / £50.00
Here’s the perfect one-stop for courses in field archaeology and archaeologists just beginning their initial field work. Current, up-todate and comprehensive, this is how “it’s really done” in the field.
Archaeology
The Natural History of Primates
A Systematic Survey of Ecology and Behavior
Edited by Robert W. Sussman; Donna Hart and Ian C. ColquhounRowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 680 pages
Paperback 978 1 4422 4899 1 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 4422 9004 4 • $65.00 / £50.00
The first new primatology text available in over a decade—24 chapters combine the latest in-depth findings on ecology, behavior, and conservation from top primatologists
Anthropology / Physical
Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity in the Middle Atlantic Region
By Gregory Denis Lattanzi
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1931 0 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9327 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity, Gregory Denis Lattanzi contends that the presence of highly exotic artifacts like copper beads and gorgets in prehistoric burials in the Middle Atlantic region could be representative of the different mechanisms at play within prehistoric ideology, ceremonialism, and ritual.
Archaeology
Correlative Archaeology Rethinking Archaeological Theory
By Fumi Arakawa
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 184 pages • Part of the Issues in Southwest Archaeology series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4378 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3797 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Fumi Arakawa, a Japanese scholar who was trained in Western archaeology, uses correlative thinking practices, which are derived from an East Asian view of the world that stresses connectivity, to analyze American Southwest artifacts within the prehistoric landscape of their origin.
Archaeology
Private Lives, Public Histories
An Ethnohistory of the Intimate Past
Edited by Jacqueline Fewkes and Rachel Corr Lexington Books
May 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0430 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4286 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0429 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Private Lives, Public Histories explores conceptions of public and private spaces, activities, discourse, and social interactions. Contributors to this edited collection draw on ethnohistorical and material sources to depict history as a lived experience.
Archaeology
The Archaeology of Childhood, Second Edition
By Jane Eva Baxter Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJune 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 4422 6849 4 • $80.00 / £62.00
Paperback 978 1 4422 8500 0 • $39.00 / £30.00
eBook 978 1 4422 6851 7 • $37.00 / £28.00
The Archaeology of Childhood traces the history of childhood studies in archaeology and makes a case for the importance of studying children in the past. The book summarizes current research and offers overarching ideas to help archaeologists study children using the archaeological record.
Archaeology
Growing up in Latin America
Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture
Edited by Marco Ramírez Rojas and Pilar Osorio Lora Lexington Books
July 2022 • 300 pages • Part of the Children and Youth in Popular Culture series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1687 4 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6881 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Growing up in Latin America is a collection of essays centered on the representation of the political and historical agency of children and youth within the sociohistorical panorama of Latin American countries during the 20th and 21st centuries. Questions of gender, migration, violence, postcoloniality, and precarity are central to this volume. Children’s Studies
Cleaning Up Greenwash Corporate Environmental Crime and the Crisis of Capitalism
By Angus NurseLexington Books
February 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0054 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0554 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.
Criminology
Crime in TV, the News, and Film Misconceptions, Mischaracterizations, and Misinformation
By Beth E. Adubato; Nicole M. Sachs; Donald F. Fizzinoglia and John M. Swiderski
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 232 pages
The Marginalized in Death
A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era
Edited by Jennifer F. Byrnes and Iván SandovalCervantes - Foreword by Zoë Crossland
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 372 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2309 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3100 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume brings forensic and cultural anthropology closer together through case studies of structural violence and power. Paying attention to how death further marginalizes minoritized populations, this volume goes beyond conventional forensic anthropology and sheds light on the field’s potential to address social injustice.
Archaeology
Conspiracy Beliefs as Coping Behavior
Life Stressors, Powerlessness, and Extreme Beliefs
By Helen M. Hendy and Pamela BlackLexington Books
November 2022 • 176 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0403 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4048 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using a survey of 977 US citizens, this book explores who? and why? individuals sometimes adopt conspiracy beliefs. The authors evaluate a three-step psychological sequence in which individuals experiencing intense life stressors, combined with powerlessness, have increased risk for extreme beliefs, which they argue is due to cognitive coping.
Conspiracy Theories
Crime in the United States 2022, Sixteenth Edition
Edited by Shana Hertz Hattis Bernan Press
July 2022 • 664 pages • Part of the U.S. DataBook series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1062 4 • $137.00 / £105.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0631 1 • $130.00 / £100.00
Crime in the United States contains findings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).This reference is the most comprehensive official compilation of crime statistics in the United States and is an important addition to your library’s collection.
Criminology
Crime, Punishment, and Video Games
By Kristine Levan and Steven Downing Lexington Books
November 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1337 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3387 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Hardback 978 1 7936 2868
$100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8695
$45.00 / £35.00
With a combination of field experience and criminological research, this book gives insight to the news and drama programming that shapes the way viewers perceive crime and the formation of policy.
Criminology
Crime, Punishment, and Video Games presents a comprehensive overview of some of the most pressing issues related to video games and their relationship with crime and justice.
Criminology
Crime, Second Chances, and Human Services
Creating a Pathway to Ordinary Life for the Convicted
Edited by Fonkem Achankeng I and Janet Hagen -
By Alfred T. KisubiLexington Books
March 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9590 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5889 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9589 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book argues for the importance of second chances and the importance of human services within the communities most affected by crime and the criminal justice system.
Criminology
Criminality and the Modern Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America
By Stephen Brauer
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0844 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8451 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using modernism as a lens, Stephen Brauer examines Americans’ understanding of criminality in the twentieth-century and how the powerful figure of the criminal is key to exploring cultures, social norms, and, ultimately, laws.
Criminology
Gender, Crime, and Justice Learning through Cases
By Erin Katherine Krafft; Jo-Ann Della Giustina and Susan T. Krumholz Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJanuary 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Learning through Cases series
Hardback 978 1 4422 5785 6 • $130.00 / £100.00
Paperback 978 1 4422 7863 3 • $65.00 / £50.00
In Gender, Crime, and Justice, each chapter opens with a compelling case study that illustrates key concepts, followed by a narrative chapter that builds on the case study to introduce essential elements. This book is distinctive in its inclusion of LGBTQ experiences in crime, victimization, processing, and punishment.
Criminology
Global Problems in Sexual Offenses
Edited by Rahime Erbaş Lexington Books
June 2022 • 232 pages
Criminality and Crime
A Social-Cognitive-Developmental Theory of Delinquent and Criminal Behavior
By Glenn D. Walters
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 318 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0442 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4437 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Criminality and Crime integrates criminality and participation in a specific criminal event. Although criminality and crime are normally considered separate entities, this book treats them as part of the same process, connected by their common association with criminal thinking.
Criminology
Cyberhate
The Far Right in the Digital Age
Edited by James Bacigalupo; Kevin Borgeson and Robin Maria Valeri
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0697 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6983 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Cyberhate: The Far-Right in the Digital Age explores the online world of right-wing political extremism through the propaganda, funding mechanisms, online subcultures, violent movements, and the ideologies that drive it.
Criminology
Gifts from the Dark Learning from the Incarceration Experience
By Joni Schwartz and John R. Chaney
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9172 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1706 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9171 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Without minimizing the systemic injustices and disparities of mass incarceration, Gifts from the Dark challenges the mindset of incarceration as a solely one dimensional, deficit event. Instead, this book argues that the prison experience can potentially be one of transformational learning.
Criminology
Incarcerated Resistance
How Identity, Gender, and Privilege Shape the Experiences of America’s Nonviolent Activists
By Anya StangerLexington Books
Hardback 978 1
/ £81.00 eBook 978 1
Sexual offences pose severe violations of human rights that necessitate criminal law intervention in every democratic society. This edited collection analyzes sexual offences throughout multiple jurisdictions in terms of attrition rate.
Criminology
January 2022 • 232 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0561 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5627 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Grounded in the lives of some of its most committed nonviolent activists, Incarcerated Resistance tells a story of anti-war resistance, what it means to “go to jail for justice” in the contemporary United States, and shows how identity matters in both the activation of prison witness, and as a key shaper of individual experience.
Criminology
Interpersonal Violence against Children and Youth
Edited by Hyeyoung Lim
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1433 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4346 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Pulling together researchers, practitioners, and educators from around the world, this book addresses the various practices and efforts different countries use to protect children and prevent interpersonal violence.
Criminology
Law Enforcement–Perpetrated Homicides
Accidents to Murder
By Tom BarkerLexington Books
March 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Policing
Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0192 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1902 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0191 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Tom Barker examines police homicide and the different behavior patterns that lead to it, ranging from misadventure to intent. This book includes a variety of cases from accidental deaths involving careless, reckless or negligent law enforcement officers to murders committed by LEOs engaged in organized crime or serial sexual homicides.
Criminology
Policing Sex Crimes
By Dale Spencer and Rosemary Ricciardelli Rowman & Littlefield PublishersSeptember 2022 • 130 pages • Part of the Applied Criminology across the Globe series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5948 4 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9491 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Unique in its approach, Policing Sex Crimes probes the investigations of sex crimes from the perspectives of investigators.
Criminology
Sex Trafficking of Children Online Modern Slavery in Cyberspace
By Beatriz Susana Uitts Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJuly 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the Applied Criminology across the Globe series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4694 1 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6958 8 • $60.00 / £46.00
This book argues that forms of online child sexual exploitation equate to slavery-like practices under international law and that States have a responsibility to punish offenders as such, based on a careful review of relevant legal instruments and standards.
Criminology
Justice Statistics
An Extended Look at Crime in the United States
2022, Seventh Edition
Edited by Shana Hertz Hattis Bernan PressNovember 2022 • 560 pages
Paperback 978 1 6367 1076 1 • $104.00 / £80.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0778 8 • $98.50 / £76.00
This completely updated edition of Justice Statistics: An Extended Look at Crime in the United States provides an extended look at the crimes covered and reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Criminology
Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service Gatekeepers and Street Corner Psychiatrists
By Kayla G. Jachimowski and Jonathon A. Cooper Lexington BooksMay 2022 • 130 pages • Part of the Policing
Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0174 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 1728 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0173 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the impact that training has on officer decisionmaking during calls for service where an individual has a mental health disorder, from both an empirical and historical perspective.
Criminology
Sex Crimes and Offenders Exploring Questions of Character and Culture
By Mary Clifford and Alison Feigh Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMay 2022 • 616 pages • Part of the Theory and Practice in Criminal Justice series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2516 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5175 5 • $50.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2518 2 • $47.50 / £37.00
Sex Crimes and Offenders emphasizes the need to focus on individual perpetrators while also stressing the importance of looking at the offender’s social and cultural environments, as well as the social and political responses designed to hold perpetrators accountable and help support victims.
Criminology
Social Media Victimization
Theories and Impacts of Cyberpunishment
By Jessica Emami Lexington Books
December 2022 • 116 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2964 7 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9654 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Social Media Victimization examines how and why social media cultivates conflict and misunderstanding, and offers solutions on how to move forward.
Criminology
Stop Trying to Fix Policing
Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black
Liberation
By Tony Gaskew Lexington BooksMay 2022 • 130 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8952 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9505 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8951 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, guides readers through the phenomena of police abolition, using the cultural lens of the Black radical tradition.
Criminology
The Dark Side of the Criminal Justice System
War Crimes & the Black Community, 1960-1990
By Ronald L. Morris Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 284 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1319 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3202 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Beginning in the Civil Rights era, the American criminal justice system waged a campaign of terror and warlike oppression of Black Americans, Ronald L. Morris analyzes those dark times, it’s cause, short- and longterm effects, and calls for change.
Criminology
The Illicit Economy in Turkey
How Criminals, Terrorists, and the Syrian Conflict Fuel Underground Markets
By Mahmut Cengiz and Mitchel P. RothLexington Books
March 2022 • 252 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9506 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5049 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9505 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines the transnational expansion of the illicit economy in Turkey and the unintended consequences of corruption scandals at the highest levels of the Turkish government that have resulted in the purging of important law enforcement and intelligence entities formerly responsible for countering terrorism and organized crime threats.
Criminology
Twenty Years of School-based Mass Shootings in the United States Columbine to Santa Fe
By Angelyn Spaulding Flowers and Cotina Lane PixleyLexington Books
August 2022 • 160 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1315 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3134 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1314 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines school-based mass shootings by focusing on characteristics of the incident and geographic space to synthesize a holistic picture of the legal, socio-economic, and geographic context in which these incidents occur.
Criminology
Survivor Criminology
A Radical Act of Hope
Edited by Kimberly J. Cook; Jason M. Williams; Reneè D. Lamphere; Stacy L. Mallicoat and Alissa R. Ackerman - Foreword by Elizabeth A. Stanko
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 260 pages • Part of the Applied Criminology across the Globe series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5169 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1709 9 • $114.50 / £88.00
Survivor Criminology explores how one’s status as a survivor has informed their journey and commitment to research, teaching, and activism. It provides a both a greater understanding to issues of victimization and gives a voice to those experiences as their foundation for criminological research, advocacy, and policy development.
Criminology
The Future of Policing 200 Recommendations to Enhance Policing and Community Safety
By Scott A. Cunningham Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 318 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6304 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3061 1 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6305 4 • $33.00 / £25.00
America is challenging everything about policing – its equipment, tactics, role, tasks, and even its very existence. This book guides those conversations by providing 200 specific recommendations that cover all aspects of policing, even the most controversial and important issues.
Criminology
The Politics of Human Trafficking Lessons from Asia and Europe
By Siddhartha SarkarLexington Books
May 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1171 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1697 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1170 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Based on theoretical and empirical evidence from a cross-country study, this book unfolds the basic structure of human trafficking organizations, the sophisticated methods and technology they use, and the interactions and roles played by global state and non-state actors.
Criminology
Understanding Deviance, Crime, Social Control, and Mass Media
The Construction of Social Order
Edited by Sebahattin Ziyanak
Hamilton Books
March 2022 • 130 pages
Hardback 978 0 7618 7314 3 • $70.00 / £54.00
eBook 978 0 7618 3150 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
In this book deviance through technology and media is explained. Contributors examine substance abuse, gun violence, terrorism, adolescent substance use, deviance and crime, fear of terrorism, Kurdish pride gang, media exposure, secularization and modernity, social control, social order, and the impact of Covid-19 on children’s lives.
Criminology
Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural
From Animus to Zombi
Edited by Rebecca Gibson and James M. VanderVeen
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 218 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0741 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7421 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural investigates fundamental anthropological questions about humanity, the concept of ‘dead,’ and how we relate to our own genders when using the supernatural to understand them.
Death & Dying
The 53 Rituals, Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster
By Jason S. Ulsperger - Foreword by J. David KnottnerusLexington Books
January 2022 • 216 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0974 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9755 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
In 1965, 53 men died in a Titan II missile silo in rural Arkansas, the deadliest nuclear accident ever in a U.S. facility. This book provides an analysis of the event and post-disaster life for their children, who share stories on what went wrong and how they keep moving forward.
Death & Dying
Millennials in America 2022, Fourth Edition
By Robert L. Scardamalia Bernan PressApril 2022 • 468 pages • Part of the County and City Extra series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1050 1 • $130.00 / £100.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0518 8 • $123.50 / £95.00
This completely updated fourth edition of Millennials in America provides a wide range of characteristics profiling the demographic, social, and economic status of the millennial generation.
Demography
The Grandparent Vocation Wisdom, Legacies, and Spiritual Growth
By Richard P. Olson Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6440 2 • $65.00 / £50.00
Paperback 978 1 5381
eBook
This book is about grandparenting as a Christian vocation for the afternoon and evening of life. The author presents the unconditional love of a grandparent as indicative of a vocation, a calling from God. He explores the vocation of grandparent in all of its multiple dimensions of being and doing, including play and joy and laughter.
Parenting / Grandparenting
Sociology of Death and the American Indian
By Gerry R. Cox - Foreword by Neil Thompson Lexington BooksJuly 2022 • 394 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0850 3 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8510 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents a sociological analysis of death and bereavement practices of American Indians with oral histories from select tribes describing their practices.
Death & Dying
County and City Extra, Special 2020 Decennial Census Edition
Edited by Deirdre A. Gaquin and Mary Meghan Ryan Bernan PressSeptember 2022 • 692 pages
Hardback 978 1 6367 1105 8 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 6367 1065 5 • $142.50 / £110.00
This publication is an essential single-volume source for Census 2020 information. This easy-to-read edition provides the most up-to-date census data for each state, county, metropolitan area, congressional district, and all cities with a population of 25,000 or more. It complements the popular and trusted annual edition of County and City Extra.
Demography
State Profiles 2022
The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State, Thirteenth Edition
Edited by Hannah Anderson Krog Bernan PressDecember 2022 • 568 pages • Part of the U.S. DataBook series
Hardback 978 1 6367 1074 7 • $204.00 / £158.00
eBook 978 1 6367 0754 4 • $193.50 / £150.00
State Profiles 2022 provides a completely updated ten-page profile for each U.S. state plus the District of Columbia provides reliable, up-todate information on a wide range of topics, including: population, labor force, income and poverty, government finances, crime, education, health insurance, voting, marital status, migration, and more.
Demography
The Handbook of Consensual Non-Monogamy Affirming Mental Health Practice
Edited by Michelle D. Vaughan and Theodore R. Burnes Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 436 pages • Part of the Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5712 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7138 8 • $45.00 / £35.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5714 5 • $42.50 / £33.00
This handbook is a comprehensive guide to understanding the lives/ relationships of CNM individuals for mental health professionals and trainees. This text provides critical foundational knowledge and concrete recommendations for serving this diverse and unique population.
Marriage & Long-Term Relationships
The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S.
Edited by Paul S. Adams and Geoffrey L. Wood
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 160 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2801 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7995 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2800 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in the United States. The contributors study social and political mechanisms in disaster response and relief that enable natural disasters to worsen inequalities in America.
Disasters & Disaster Relief
Can Muslims Think?
Race, Islam, and the End of Europe
By Muneeb Hafiz Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJune 2022 • 384 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6507 2 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5089 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Can Muslims Think? presents a speculative theory of the (post)racial subject of Islamophobia.
Discrimination & Race Relations
Womanist Ethical Rhetoric
A Call for Liberation and Social Justice in Turbulent Times
Edited by Annette D. Madlock and Cerise L. Glenn
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 132 pages • Part of the Rhetoric, Race, and Religion series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1357 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3554 4 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1356 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Womanist thought remains of critical importance given contemporary issues of social justice and advocacy. Womanist Ethical Rhetoric centers discourses of religious rhetoric and its influence on Black women’s aims for voice, empowerment, and agency in these turbulent times.
Discrimination & Race Relations
Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture Raw Matters
Edited by Loïc Bourdeau and V. Hunter Capps
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5008 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0092 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
A Leftist Critique of the Principles of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism
By Richard Anderson-ConnollyLexington Books
September 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9069 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 0679 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9068 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
The political and academic program of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism is not a progressive social movement and, in fact, works against the principles and values of the Left. Race against Reason critiques the key tenets of the program and offers a genuinely leftist way forward.
Discrimination & Race Relations
Interracial Romance and Health
Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and WellBeing
By Byron Miller - Introduction by Roudi Nazarinia Roy and Anthony G. James Jr.Lexington Books
November 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3405 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4061 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Interracial Romance and Health: Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being examines how the race of one’s partner, and the couple’s racial composition, can affect a person’s lived experiences and health outcomes.
Discrimination & Race Relations
Multidisciplinary Explorations of Corohysteria
Caused by the COVID-2019 Pandemic
Edited by Abdul Karim Bangura
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 584 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1219 7 • $165.00 / £127.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2203 3 • $60.00 / £46.00
This book focuses on how mass hysteria has emerged among people across the globe due to reactions to news media reports and policies instituted by governments to address the challenges emanating from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Disease & Health Issues
Womanist AIDS Activism in the United States
“It’s Who We Are”
By Angelique Harris and Omar Mushtaq
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 152 pages • Part of the Health and Aging in the Margins series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3651 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6522 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume offers a multidisciplinary study of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the French context from the 1980s to today through the concept of rawness. Exploring vulnerability, exposure, risk, citizenship, and trauma in relation to disease, this collection provides important tools to understand and discuss both the ongoing HIV and SARS-CoV-2 pandemics.
Disease
Health Issues
Using womanism, a framework that centers the worldviews of women of color, this book examines the experiences of Black women AIDS activists from across the United States. The authors conducted interviews with activists across the nation to examine the ways in which race, gender, and identity influence their work.
Disease & Health Issues
African Immigrants in the United States
The Gendering Significance of Race through International Migration?
By Mamadi Corra Lexington BooksNovember 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4822 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8235 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Today, African immigrants constitute a growing and increasingly visible component of the US population. This book takes a closer look at the growth of African immigration to the United States in recent years, examining sociodemographic profiles of these “new African Americans” or “new Americans.”
Emigration & Immigration
The Homecoming Seasons
An Irish Catholic Returns to a Changing Long Island
By James P. MacGuire Hamilton Books
March 2022 • 284 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7330 3 • $27.95 / £21.99
eBook 978 0 7618 3310 0 • $23.50 / £17.99
This book is James P. MacGuire’s poignant memoir of returning to his childhood hometown on the South Shore of Long Island to raise his own family, re-encountering its natural wetland beauty, his late parents’ now older friends, and making new ones in a community undergoing transition.
Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
The Other of Climate Change Racial Futurism, Migration, Humanism
By Andrew Baldwin Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1450 6 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7866 4513 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Offers readers an alternative way of conceptualising humanism in relation to global change, one that draws in particular from black studies as opposed to one located in the ontological fold of European humanism.
Earth Sciences / Geography
AfroLatinas and LatiNegras
Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective
Edited by Rosita Scerbo and Concetta BondiLexington Books
November 2022 • 304 pages • Part of the Critical Africana Studies series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1033 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0346 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book shows the challenges inherent to the AfroLatina experience with a focus on Black women. The authors argue the analytical power of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables resisting systems of power.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
An Ethnography of the Lives of Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Migrants Childhood, Family, and Work
By Ethel V. Kosminsky - Foreword by Arthur Sakamoto
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 376 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 2261 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2618 8 • $42.99 / £33.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2260 1 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book explores the Japanese emigration to the planned colony of Bastos in São Paulo, Brazil in the early twentieth century. Using interviews and fieldwork done in both Bastos and Japan, Ethel Kosminsky analyzes the consequences of these temporary labor migrations on the immigrants and their families.
Emigration & Immigration
The Immigration Crisis in Europe and the U.S.Mexico Border in the New Era of Heightened Nativism
By Victoria Carty
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 206 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8391 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 3893 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8390 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Victoria Carty uses theories of immigration, social movements, and critical race theory to study the recent immigration crises on both sides of the Atlantic. Carty shows that the high volume of immigration in both the European Union and the United States has led to a resurgence of nativist sentiments and white supremacy groups.
Emigration & Immigration
Transnational Mobility and Identity in and out of Korea
Edited by Yonson Ahn Lexington Books
March 2022 • 236 pages • Part of the Korean Communities across the World series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9334 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 3328 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9333 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Through a series of empirical studies, this edited volume examines socio-cultural aspects of transnational mobility in and out of Korea as well as the process in which overseas Koreans, returnees, and marriage migrants in South Korea gain agency and negotiate multiple identities. Emigration & Immigration
Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893–1943
By Ronald LaMarr Sharps Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 386 pages • Part of the Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities series
Hardback 978 1 4985 8613 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6146 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
A study in cultural politics, the book illustrates how nine black movements used competing interpretations of folklore to achieve racial identity and pursue equality in America during 50 years of Jim Crow, 1893–1943.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Black Love Matters
Authentic Men’s Voices on Marriages and Romantic Relationships
By Armon R. Perry
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2206 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 2044 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2205 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Black Love Matters is an in-depth qualitative analysis of black men’s attitudes and behavior in marriage and romantic relationships featuring the men’s firsthand accounts of the experiences and factors shaping their perspectives.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives
By Dana Renee Horton
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1913 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9143 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Gender, Genre, and Race in Post-Neo-Slave Narratives provides a new, innovative conceptual framework for describing representations of slavery in twenty-first century American cultural productions. Horton draws on broad range of examples including novels like The Known World, films like 12 Years a Slave, and the music of Missy Elliott.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
On Lynchings
By Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Introduction by Patricia Hill Collins Humanities Press
November 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the Classics in Black Studies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4738 2 • $29.99 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 7399 9 • $28.50 / £21.99
Collection of three key documents written by Ida B. Wells describing shocking testaments to cruelty and the dark American legacy of racial prejudice.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Racial Realism and the History of Black People in America
By Lori Latrice Martin Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 156 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4816 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat
Crossroads as Ritual
By Joyce White Lexington BooksNovember 2022 • 178 pages • Part of the Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4663 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6644 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Returning to the cosmological and ontological center of Africana spirituality, Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual explores the ways in which Danticat texts awaken Africana consciousness and clarify identity and subjectivity.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Historically Black Colleges and Universities in a Globalizing World
The Past, Present, and Future
Edited by Alem Hailu; Mohamed S. Camara and Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 244 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0274 7 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2754 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the unique contribution of HBCUs, arguing that through their distinct public education, engagement, and activism, they have been at the forefront of leading global transformations. The book also argues that HBCUs can do more by paying more attention to the issue of enrollment, leadership, finances, and graduation standards.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo
By Brenda F. Berrian Lexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages • Part of the Critical Africana Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 4233 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2318 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4232 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
A hybrid of memoir and history, Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo explores Brenda F. Berrian’s experiences of being both an insider and outsider throughout her global travels and of developing her racial, feminist, and political consciousness as a Black woman along the way.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
The Blackness of Black Key Concepts in Critical Discourse
By William David Hart Lexington Books
In Racial Realism, Lori Latrice Martin demonstrates how racial realism is a key concept for understanding why and how black people continue to live between a cycle of optimism and disappointment in the United States. The book includes historical topics as well as recent social movements and the pandemic.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
May 2022 • 262 pages
Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1588 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5862 2 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1587 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
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.”
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
The Color of Culture
African American Underrepresentation in the Fine Arts and Outdoor Recreation
By Daniel H. Krymkowski
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 206 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9788 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 7869 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9787 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Daniel H. Krymkowski documents the extent and causes of African American underrepresentation in the cultural realms of golf, hiking, hunting and fishing, water and winter sports, classical music, art, ballet, and theater. He argues racial-ethnic inequality in these areas is extensive and results mainly from historic and contemporary discrimination.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
W. E. B. Du Bois
Pioneer American Sociologist
By Robert A. WorthamLexington Books
November 2022 • 156 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1040 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0416 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Robert A. Wortham shines a light on W. E. B. Du Bois’s role in shaping the scientific scope of the sociological perspective through his pioneering contributions in the areas of demography, urban and rural sociology, Southern Black Belt studies, and religion and society.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Fragmented Identities of Nigeria
Sociopolitical and Economic Crises
Edited by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji and Rotimi Omosulu
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 304 pages • Part of the Africana
Experience and Critical Leadership Studies series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0583 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5847 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Studying Nigeria’s sociopolitical and economic crises, this book uses Nigeria as a microcosm of global African identity crises to analyze the ingrained conflicts within multiethnic, multilinguistic, multireligious, and multicultural societies. The book explores Nigeria’s history of colonial exploitation and poor governance to question its future.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies
Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies
Edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’BayeLexington Books
July 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1747 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7482 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume explores aspects of gender and sexuality in Kenya through the lens of humane scholarship, philosophies, politics, identities, cosmoses, literatures, languages, cultures, and more.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Transatlantic Liverpool
Shades of the Black Atlantic
By Mark Christian Lexington Books
October 2022 • 350 pages • Part of the Critical Africana Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5263 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2645 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Written within the perspective of Africana critical studies, this book presents a transatlantic voyage and the depths of historical Black experience in Liverpool, England. The author addresses the narrative of the Black Atlantic propounded by Paul Gilroy and further reveals a firsthand account of a largely hidden aspect of Black British history.
Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
A Companion to African Rhetoric
Edited by Segun Ige; Gilbert Motsaathebe and Omedi Ochieng
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 368 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4765 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7665 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
A Companion to African Rhetoric argues for a holistic view of rhetoric on the continent, gives an outline of what African rhetoric is, and serves as a pivotal anthology with contributions from African, Afro-Caribbean and African American rhetoricians to understanding African rhetoric.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Gender and Sexuality in Ghanaian Societies
Edited by Martha Donkor and Amoaba Gooden
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 180 pages • Part of the Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2844 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8459 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book studies the diversity of Ghanaian women’s sexual expression in a patriarchal society that prioritizes heteronormativity and analyzes the ways Ghanaian women negotiate the patriarchal system to make meaning of their sexual lives.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Legacies of Departed African Women Writers
Matrix of Creativity and Power
Edited by Helen O. Chukwuma and Chioma Carol OparaLexington Books
August 2022 • 360 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1465 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4665 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Legacies of Departed African Writers analyzes and celebrates the resounding contributions of ten deceased African female writers of contemporary African literature and feminist scholarship, examining the ideologies, thematic concerns, and stylistic devices which constitute the fabrics of the legacies left by these iconic pacesetters.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Singing with the Dogon Prophet
By Walter E.A. van Beek; Oumarou S. Ongoiba and Atimè D. SayeLexington Books
April 2022 • 262 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5425 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4267 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
As one of their great figures, the Dogon of Mali honor Abir?, a singer and prophet from the nineteenth century who composed the principal mourning songs. This book examines how these prophecies and songs form a poignant expression of ethnic Dogon philosophy.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
The Trial of Hissein Habré
The International Crimes of a Former Head of State
By Emmanuel GuematchaLexington Books
March 2022 • 202 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0391 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3928 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book recounts the trial of Hissein Habré, the former Head of State of Chad accused of committing international crimes during his presidency, and examines the impact and significance of the trial.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
The American Dream and Dreams Deferred A Dialectical Fairy Tale
By Carlton D. Floyd and Thomas Ehrlich ReiferLexington Books
October 2022 • 362 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3411 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4122 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how rival interpretations of the American Dream poignantly express conflicts over its very meaning, revealing the dialectical tension therein, and awakening us to the distance between the Dream and our reality, in the light of its continued deferment and its price.
Ethnic Studies / American / General
A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature
The Birth of Oppa
By Kyounghoon Lee - Translated by John M. Frankl
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the Critical
Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0628 8 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6295 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines one of the seminal chapters in the history of the modern Korea. Through an analysis of texts of various genres and types, the author analyzes Japanese colonialism and modernity and its impact on Korean culture and society during the first half of the twentieth century.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu
Capturing Cultural Capital
Edited by Gada Kadoda and Sondra Hale - Foreword by Tim Niblock
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 342 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2276 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2778 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book propels Sudanese intellectuals into the global intellectual milieu and argues for their place in world intellectual history. The book explores the history and evolution of Sudanese thought, knowledge production, and cultural capital from the fifth century to the twenty-first century.
Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Earth to Tables Legacies
Multimedia Food Conversations across Generations and Cultures
By Deborah Barndt; Lauren E. Baker and Alexandra GelisRowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 256 pages
eBook 978 1 5381 2350 8 • $32.00 / £25.00
This visually stunning multimedia book generates conversations about food sovereignty through photo essays and online videos. Using food as an entry to key issues—such as Indigenous-settler relations and antiracism—these audiovisual, educational resources feature food activists who strive for food justice and sovereignty, from earth to tables.
Regional & Ethnic / Central American & South American
The Rise of the Shame Society
America’s Change from a Guilt Culture into a Shame Culture
By Marcel H. Van Herpen Lexington BooksJune 2022 • 242 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2020 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4696 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
American society is often characterized as a “guilt culture,” as opposed to non-Western “shame cultures.” But through examples like shaming penalties in criminal law, “fat shaming,” and cyberbullying on the social media, this book shows how and why shame is increasingly invading our lives, leading to feelings of humiliation and depression.
Ethnic Studies / American / General
A Sociology of Hikikomori Experiences of Isolation, Family-Dependency, and Social Policy in Contemporary Japan
By Teppei Sekimizu
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0094 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 0958 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Hikikomori is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japan. This book explores personal hikikomori experiences and explains how post-war Japanese social policy, which depends on corporations and families, has created several generations of isolated, family-dependent individuals in contemporary Japan.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
East Turkistan’s Right to Sovereignty
Decolonization and Beyond
By Rukiye TurdushLexington Books
December 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2726 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7276 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines the relationship between the People’s Republic of China and the people of East Turkistan. The author accuses the Chinese state of settler colonialism and argues for East Turkistan’s sovereignty on the basis of international law and the Genocide Convention.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Pachappa Camp
The First Koreatown in the United States
By Edward T. Chang and Edward T. Chang Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 150 pages • Part of the Korean Communities across the World series
Paperback 978 1 7936 4518 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5166 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4517 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States proves through new research that Dosan Ahn Chang Ho established the first Koreatown in the United States in Riverside, California in 1905. Pachappa Camp studies the development of the camp and the lives of its residents.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader
Environmental Justice, Development Victimhood, and Resistance
Edited by Samina Luthfa; Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan and Munasir Kamal
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the Environment and Society series
Hardback 978 1 4985 9913 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9146 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume presents the case of environmental humanities of Bangladesh, a developing country that experiences rapid industrialization, urbanization, and ecological degradation victimizing the masses. The book highlights ecocriticism, environmental justice, biodiversity, and politics of development and sustainability.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Tibet as I Knew It
The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba
By Tsewang Yishey PembaLexington Books
December 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0856 5 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 8572 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is the memoir of Tsewang Yishey Pemba, as novelist and the first Western-trained medical doctor in Tibet, and whose memories of the Tibet of the 1930s and 1940s include festivals, travel, the author’s formative years in Tibet and India, and the daily lives of Tibetans.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Meiji Kabuki Japanese Theater through Foreign Eyes
By Samuel L. LeiterLexington Books
December 2022 • 410 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2678 1 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6798 8 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan’s kabuki theatre in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters, and reference books, it contains all significant writing about kabuki by foreigners during the full Meiji period.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan Regulating and Deregulating the Market in Edo, 1780–1870
By Akira Shimizu
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1826 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8276 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines early modern Japanese society through the lens of food and foodways. The author demonstrates how food empowered peasants, fisherfolks, and ordinary merchants to repeatedly challenge the established regulations for food trade and distribution.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
The Life and Times of George Tsarong of Tibet, 1920–1970
A Lord of the Traditional Tibetan State
By Paljor Tsarong
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 476 pages • Part of the Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4177 9 • $135.00 / £104.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1786 6 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book examines the life of an aristocrat official of the traditional precapitalist Tibetan state. The author analyzes his education, civil service career, and political intrigues as well as the fall of the state and the complex social and psychological aspects of occupation and exile.
Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society
The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective
By Ross Bowden Lexington BooksAugust 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1136 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1376 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a study of the art of the Kwoma of the Sepik River region of New Guinea and how people in this society understand their art as a cultural phenomenon, including its origins in the spirit world.
Ethnic Studies / Australian & Oceanian Studies
Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas
Social, Political, and Economic Realities
By Samantha Nogueira JoyceLexington Books
June 2022 • 122 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4423 7 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4244 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Afro-Brazilians in Telenovelas: Social, Political, and Economic Realities, Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazilian TV, interrogating the role of mass media in developing racial equality and social change.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Communes and the Venezuelan State
The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis
By Anderson BeanLexington Books
March 2022 • 172 pages • Part of the Social Movements in the Americas series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4084 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0857 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Anderson Bean examines the communal movement in Venezuela, its origins, contradictory relationship to the state, and the challenges it faces amid Venezuela’s largest economic and political crisis.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Indigenous Collective Rights in Latin America
The Role of Coalitions, Constitutions, and Party Systems
By Katherine Becerra ValdiviaLexington Books
September 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0910 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9111 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the processes and causal mechanisms by which recognition of collective rights for indigenous peoples varies wildly across Latin America.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Inequality, Identity, and the Politics of Northern Ireland
Challenges of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
By Curtis C. HollandLexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4882 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8839 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Utilizing a critical sociological perspective, this book examines how overlapping class, gender, and spatial inequalities within and across Unionist and Nationalist communities shape processes of identity formation and party politics in Northern Ireland and implications of such processes on community-based peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
Ethnic Studies / European Studies
Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government Voices for a Revolution
By Natália Ayo Schmiedecke - Translated by Sheyla Riyadh Weyersbach - Revised by Katie Clarkson and Jessica Galetta
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2285 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2860 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Chilean New Song and the Question of Culture in the Allende Government focuses on the Chilean cultural scene during the Popular Unity government (1970-73), situating the discourses and artistic productions linked to the Chilean New Song movement.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Gang Strategies in the Northern Triangle Coerced Criminality as a Form of Human Trafficking
By Adam GolobLexington Books
August 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0979 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 9807 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a novel approach to understanding the dynamics of gang criminality in the Northern Triangle. It maintains that the crimes of gang violence and the crimes of human trafficking intertwine and intersect to perpetuate an environment of trauma, exploitation, and hopelessness that leaves thousands trapped without viable options.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Performing Craft in Mexico
Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation
Edited by Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff - Afterword by Ronda Brulotte
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 330 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3997 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9981 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.
Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Seeing White
An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, Second Edition
By Jean Halley; Amy Eshleman and Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 274 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4397 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3988 8 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4399 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race is an interdisciplinary, supplemental textbook that challenges students to see race as everyone’s issue. The new edition includes updated evidence, descriptions, stories, and chapters throughout.
Ethnic Studies / General
The Struggle of Entertainment and Neoliberal Postcolonial Capitalist Politics in “New” Saudi Arabia
The Cultural Production of Modernity in the Global South
By Anas M. AlahmedLexington Books
July 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9374 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 3755 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia in transforming the state into a more neoliberal capitalist form of modernity. This book employs postcolonial analysis to examine how the Saudi government has produced and circulated cultural products in society to serve the postcolonial politics of the Global South.
Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies
Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and Activisms
By Victoria A. Newsom - Foreword by Sahar KhamisLexington Books
December 2022 • 390 pages • Part of the Gender and Activism series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1250 2 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2519 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book illustrates how third wave and contemporary forms of feminism function as “contained empowerment.” The author investigates feminist, reproductive rights, and gender-based activisms of the1990s through the present and in contrast with anti-feminist, white supremacist, and structural repressions, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Public Feminism in Times of Crisis
From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags
By Leila Easa and Jennifer StagerLexington Books
August 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4810 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8112 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Public Feminism in Times of Crisis examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media and in response to the acute crisis of the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic, analyzing the deep histories threaded through its contemporary practice and locating connections through art, literature, and culture.
Feminism & Feminist Theory
The Economies of Queer Inclusion
Transnational Organizing for LGBTI Rights in Uganda
By S.M. Rodriguez Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 150 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8173 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1714 4 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8172 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Economies of Queer Inclusion explores the formation of relationships between US-based transnational human rights actors and grassroots LGBTI activists in Kampala, Uganda. In doing so, it exposes the unintended consequences of finance-based connections and proposes alternative forms of transnational activism.
Gay Studies
Cherokee Odyssey
The Journey from Sovereign to “Civilized”
By Michael P. Morris
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the New Studies in Southern History series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1408 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4092 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study examines how, during the eighteenth century, the Cherokee transitioned from a sovereign people allied with the British to a nation subjugated to the US government. The author analyzes how the Cherokees fought with both the British and the US Continental Army during this time.
Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism
Voices from the Margins
Edited by Olga Bezhanova and Raysa E. Amador
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 242 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1945 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 9433 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1944 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins studies the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and argues that intersectional feminist analysis is essential in discussions of how neoliberal globalization impacts art by female artists and the rights of women from marginalized communities.
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Spring Man
A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture
By Petr Janeček Lexington BooksNovember 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1375 0 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3767 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book traces the creation and circulation of the heroic myth of Spring Man, legendary Czech phantom of the Second World War often described as a superhero who fights against the Nazis, through national and international popular culture from the late 19th through the late 20th century
Folklore & Mythology
A Kaleidoscope of Identities Reflexivity, Routine, and the Fluidity of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
By James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJune 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6786 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 7878 8 • $36.00 / £28.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6788 5 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book proffers a new conceptual framework of sex, gender, and sexual identity, presenting data that documents these identities as typical and extensive rather than exceptional. A Kaleidoscope of Identities reveals the more elusive elements of sex, gender, and sexual life which are often difficult to capture in quantifiable variables.
Gender Studies
American Public Memory and the Holocaust Performing Gender, Shifting Orientations
By Lisa A. CostelloLexington Books
March 2022 • 230 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0017 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0158 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0016 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores new media and new stories in Holocaust public memory as powerful agents against a rising tide of global intolerance. Arguing that gender is often absent in traditional medial forms of public memory, Costello illustrates how new forms of memorialization shift our orientation toward others and our engagement with the past.
Gender Studies
Female Friendship
Literary and Artistic Explorations
Edited by Slav N. Gratchev; Ida Day and Larry Sheret - Foreword by Ann Jefferson
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 278 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0723 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7247 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
The essays in this volume explore female emotional and social relationships in literary, cinematographic, and artistic contexts. These intimate unions offer a reflection on different historical and cultural milieus as well as the universal human need for friendship.
Gender Studies
Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality, Second Edition
By Brent L. Pickett Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 368 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5044 3 • $165.00 / £127.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0450 0 • $156.50 / £121.00
Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 200 cross-referenced entries on important historical figures, philosophic, artistic, and literary treatments of same-sex love, historical terms, and contemporary events.
Gender Studies
Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media
Edited by Hediye Özkan
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 174 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2384 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3858 8 • $45.00 / £30.99
As a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study on literary and visual representations of woman’s work, this collection examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work to understand the position of working women and the value of her labor in the capitalistic economic systems.
Gender Studies
Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States
Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance
Edited by Christina R. Pinkston and Elizabethada A. Wright Lexington Books
January 2022 • 334 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3621 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6225 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection analyzes the rhetoric used by American Catholic Women of various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes. Taken together, the essays reveal a shared ethos of resisting a powerful institution’s efforts to silence the women.
Gender Studies
Gender Equity
Global Policies and Perspectives on Advancing Social Justice
Edited by Elena V. Shabliy; Kimarie Engerman and Dmitry Kurochkin
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 220 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1447 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4481 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume provides an in-depth analysis of global perspectives on advancing public and social gender policy worldwide.
Gender Studies
Human Trafficking and the Feminization of Poverty
Structural Violence in Cambodia
By Yuko Shimazaki
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 182 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3473 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4719 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3472 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book provides a comprehensive overview of human trafficking in Cambodia and the mechanisms of poverty in Southeast Asia. By examining personal narratives, the author traces trafficked women’s efforts to liberate themselves from the poverty trap with the aid of external supporting organizations.
Gender Studies
Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy
Edited by Laura A. Gray-Rosendale
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 268 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1114 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1123 3 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1113 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy collects a range of perspectives from sexual assault survivors with backgrounds in academia. The contributors in this collection connect their experiences of sexual violence to their research and work within the academy as well as their lives outside of it.
Gender Studies
Mediated Misogynoir
Erasing Black Women’s and Girls’ Innocence in the Public Imagination
By Kalima YoungLexington Books
June 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0663 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6648 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mediated Misogynoir: Erasing Black Women’s and Girls’ Innocence in the Public Imagination interrogates contemporary media culture to illuminate the ways the intersections of anti-blackness and misogyny, i.e., misogynoir, converge to obscure public perception of Black women and girls as people with any claim to innocence.
Gender Studies
Self-Made Women in the 1920s United States
Literary Trailblazers
By Matthew Niven TeoreyLexington Books
May 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2832 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8336 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyzes eleven trailblazing 1920s female authors who wrote counter-narratives to sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia. The author brings their novels, poems, plays, film scenarios, and blues lyrics into conversation with each other to show different approaches women could take to become autonomous individuals and full citizens.
Gender Studies
Tradition and Transformation in Mohiniyattam Dance
An Ethnographic History
By Justine Lemos
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 150 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5071 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0726 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Mohiniyattam dance is a semeiotic system replete with controversy, embodied gender ideals, and cultural information. Tradition and Transformation in Mohiniyattam Dance: An Ethnographic History examines the emergence of Mohiniyattam dance in relation to its historical and cultural context with a particular focus on the semiotics of femininity.
Gender Studies
How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict
By James K. Beggan
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0783 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook
Queering Philosophy
By Kim Q. Hall Rowman & Littlefield InternationalJune 2022 • 162 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 0941 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 7866 9427 7 • $39.95 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0943 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
Ideal for courses in philosophy and gender, sexuality, race and disability studies, Queering Philosophy provides a critical introduction to and engagement with current conversations and emerging themes at the nexus of queer theory and philosophy. This accessible and important book advances a queer feminist critique.
Gender Studies
The Pivot of Civilization
By Margaret Sanger - Foreword by Peter C. Engelman Humanities Press
May 2022 • 260 pages • Part of the Classics in Women’s Studies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5036 8 • $29.99 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 0375 5 • $28.50 / £21.99
Arguably her most important and influential book, this controversial work, first published in 1922 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, attempted to broaden the still-radical idea of birth control beyond its socialist and feminist roots
Gender Studies
Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life
By Patrick Gamsby
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 286 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0097 2 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0989 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author examines the meaning that dogs have for people as friends and family members. This almost magical interspecies connection, which relates to philosophical concepts about the moral responsibility human beings have to dogs, can increase social conflict between people because of differences in how people care for their dogs.
General
This book assembles the fragments of Henri Lefebvre’s unrealized sociology of boredom and explores the sociohistorical and spatial conditions and contradictions of boredom and everyday life in the modern world.
General
Aging and the Life Course Social and Cultural Contexts
By Deborah Lowry Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 414 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4324 7 • $170.00 / £131.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3254 4 • $79.00 / £61.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4326 1 • $75.00 / £58.00
This book provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to the study of aging and the life course from a distinctly sociological perspective. It explores the sociocultural dimensions of aging while encouraging critical thinking about the diversity of aging experiences, societal attitudes toward older adults the politics and economics of growing old, and end-of-life resources.
Gerontology
Convivencia
Urban Space and Migration in a Small Catalan Town
By Martin Lundsteen Rowman & Littlefield PublishersApril 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1452 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7866 4537 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes the local-global transformation of migration and societies in a small Catalan town through a multi-scalar ethnography, connecting the local processes of space- and place-making with the more extensive processes of migration, economic crisis and social transformation, and finally, the socio-political responses to these changes.
Human Geography
Ecocriticism and the Island
Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
By Pippa Marland Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the
Rethinking the Island series
Hardback 978 1 7866 0708 9 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 7866 7096 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores a wide selection of island-themed creative nonfiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness.” The book represents an important intervention into both island literary studies and ecocriticism.
Human Geography
The Foundation of Australia’s Capital Cities Geology, Landscape, and Urban Character
By Anthony Webster Lexington BooksMarch 2022 • 340 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9795 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7968 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Foundation of Australia’s Capital Cities is the story of how the places chosen for Australia’s seven colonial capitals came to shape their unique urban character and built environments, resulting in development patterns than have persisted today.
Earth Sciences / Geography
Archaeology of Colonisation From Aesthetics to Biopolitics
By Carlos Rivera-Santana Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 202 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4797 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9007 7 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0901 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance.
Indigenous Studies
Digital Peripheries
Internet and Socio-spatial Practices in the Rurban
By Lorena MelgaçoRowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 0960 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7866 9618 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the recursive interaction between socio-spatial practices and the late introduction of internet in three marginalized rurban communities in Brazil and in the UK. It brings to the fore challenges that cross North-South divides to propose an open theory of the connected rurban.
Human Geography
North Korean Defectors in Diaspora
Identities, Mobilities, and Resettlements
Edited by HaeRan Shin
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the Crossing
Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5149 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1501 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection investigates the mobilities, resettlement practices, and identities of North Korean defectors who have relocated to the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and South Korea.
Human Geography
Polyamorous Elders Aging in Open Relationships
By Kathy Labriola Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDecember 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6926 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 9278 8 • $42.00 / £32.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6928 5 • $40.00 / £31.99
This book bridges the gap in research on elders in long-term polyamorous relationships and allows these unusual elders to tell the stories of the unique challenges and significant advantages of their relationships in their own words.
Human Sexuality
Re-Indigenizing Ecological Consciousness and the Interconnectedness to Indigenous Identities
Edited by Michelle Montgomery
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 172 pages • Part of the Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives series
Paperback 978 1 6669 1104 6
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6669 1022 2 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1103 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The authors of this book share the diversity and complexities of the Indigenous context of worldviews, examining relationships between humans and other living beings within an eco-conscious lens, showing that we belong not only to a human community, but to a community of all nature as well.
Indigenous Studies
Goliath as Gentle Giant Sympathetic Portrayals in Popular Culture
By Jonathan L. FriedmannLexington Books
January 2022 • 168 pages • Part of the Jewish
Science Fiction and Fantasy series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0469 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4703 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Goliath as Gentle Giant cuts through biblical biases and post-biblical images and considers sensitive and more nuanced portrayals of the giant in popular media, offering revisionist retellings of Goliath that challenge readers to humanize the “other.”
Jewish Studies
Judging Jewish Identity in the United States
By Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 260 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2303 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3049 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book analyzes how concepts of race and religion were interpreted in the 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb, the first case to provide race-based legal protection to American Jews. The author examines how the judges viewed the White-perceived Jews as well as the congregants’ reactions and embodied experiences.
Jewish Studies
Imagining LatinX Intimacies
Connecting Queer Stories, Spaces and Sexualities
By Edward A. Chamberlain Rowman & Littlefield InternationalAugust 2022 • 220 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4824 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4322 2 • $142.00 / £109.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1433 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories.
LGBT Studies / General
Queering Italian Media
Edited by Sole Anatrone and Julia Heim
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 174 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1612 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6104 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
Jews in Popular Science Fiction
Marginalized in the Mainstream
Edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 296 pages • Part of the Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0145 0 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1467 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume analyzes Jewish tropes in popular science fiction including Star Trek, Marvel, and other top franchises. The essays examine representations of Jewish characters and culture in the genre that range from poignant metaphor to banal tokenism.
Jewish Studies
Negotiating Identities
Conflict, Conversion, and Consolidation in Early Judaism and Christianity (200 BCE–600 CE)
Edited by Karin Hedner Zetterholm; Anders Runesson; Cecilia Wassén and Magnus Zetterhol
Fortress Academic
October 2022 • 626 pages • Part of the Coniectanea Biblica series
Hardback 978 1 9787 1473 1 • $165.00 / £127.00 eBook 978 1 9787 4748 8 • $60.00 / £46.00
Relying on archaeological remains and ancient sources, this book describes important identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the formation of group identities.
Jewish Studies
Mental Health Practice with LGBTQ+ Children, Adolescents, and Emerging Adults in Multiple Systems of Care
Edited by Cristina L. Magalhães; Richard A. Sprott and G. Nic Rider Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 400 pages • Part of the Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5446 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4472 2 • $58.00 / £45.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5448 9 • $55.00 / £42.00
This book is a practical text for coursework in counseling and social work programs, as well as a professional resource for practicing social workers and counselors and professionals in related fields such as public health, education, social services, and political/social advocacy.
LGBT Studies / General
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging
By Alexandra C.H. Nowakowski; J. E. Sumerau and Nik M. Lampe
Lexington Books
May 2022
Queering Italian Media
queer readings of LGBTQIA+ representation in Italian media.
discuss the
between the political and social lives of queer populations in Italy and investigate their
in film, news media, television, social media, and viewer-generated media
LGBT Studies
106 pages
Part of the Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1636 4
$39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
1 7936 6340
eBook
$90.00 / £69.00
1 7936 1635
$38.00 / £29.00
Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging explores the experience and negotiation of sex, gender, and sexual health and aging over time and in relation to U.S. healthcare norms.
LGBT Studies / General
Trans Identities in the French Media
Representation, Visibility, Recognition
Edited by Romain Chareyron
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0025 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0262 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection of essays reflects on the questions of trans visibility and recognition in a French context through engagement in media analysis.
LGBT Studies / Transgender Studies
Collecting the Revolution
British Engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution Material Culture
By Emily R. Williams Rowman & Littlefield PublishersMarch 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5067 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0689 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Collecting the Revolution is an exploration of British engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution material culture from 1966 to the present. It examines the ways in which the Cultural Revolution and Chinese Communism more broadly was understood, mediated, and represented through its art, propaganda, and material culture.
Material Culture
American Boarding School Fiction, 1981–2021
Inclusion and Scandal
By Alexander H. PitofskyLexington Books
December 2022 • 218 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0193 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 0 7618 3808 8 • $30.00 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 6669 0194 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives. It discusses a new generation of writers who have made American school fiction far more inclusive and wide-ranging than it was in the era dominated by best sellers such as J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace.
Media Studies
Competence, Presence, Trust, and Hyperpersonal-ness
Dissolving the Boundary between Digital and Physical Life
By B. C. BouchillonLexington Books
January 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2213 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2143 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book considers the importance of communication technology that allows users to become socially competent in ways that transcend digital and physical modes of communication.
Media Studies
Trans Men in the South Becoming Men
By Baker A. RogersLexington Books
March 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0035 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 0332 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0034 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Through the voices of 51 trans men, Baker A. Rogers analyzes what it means to be a trans man in the southeastern United States. Rogers argues that the common themes that pervade trans men’s experiences in the South are complicated by other intersecting identities, such as sexuality, religion, race, class, and place.
LGBT Studies / Transgender Studies
Algorithmic Culture
How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Are Transforming Everyday Life
Edited by Stefka Hristova; Jennifer Daryl Slack and Soonkwan Hong
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 218 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3575 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 5730 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3574 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the complex ways in which algorithms and big data are reshaping everyday culture, while at the same time perpetuating inequality and intersectional discrimination. It situates issues of humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will, surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism, and creativity.
Media Studies
Autonomous Art Institutions Artists Disrupting the Creative City
By Alberto Cossu Rowman & Littlefield InternationalMay 2022 • 150 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1602 9 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4303 3 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1603 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the current wave of artistic activism by looking at the way in which theirantagonism may lead to the creation of autonomous artistic institutions.
Media Studies
Dragon’s Lair and the Fantasy of Interactivity
By MJ ClarkeLexington Books
June 2022 • 150 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3603 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6041 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book revives a neglected video game classic through a critical examination of its design, its makers, its recording medium, and its imagery. The investigation of these facets reveals a game shaped by the demands of its context and is instructive for contemporary debates in media studies.
Media Studies
Existential Science Fiction
By Ryan Lizardi Lexington Books
January 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4735 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7368 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media and their influence on society’s conceptions of humanity. These media texts manifest abstract concepts in a genre that has historically focused on exploring new ideas and frontiers, creating powerful media that helps audiences contemplate their existence as human beings.
Media Studies
Here Comes the Flood
Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave
Edited by Marcy L. Tanter and Moisés ParkLexington Books
March 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3630 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6317 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, showing how the lines of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in Hallyu productions are often blurred to be palatable to Korean audiences or clarified to attract global audiences.
Media Studies
Interactive Media and Society
By Corinne M. DalelioLexington Books
June 2022 • 312 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3300 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3019 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Drawing on the academic literature and real-world examples, this book details the impacts of interactive media in various sectors of American society. The aim is to provide the reader with a set of applicable principles and practical tips for understanding and navigating these changes, now and into the future.
Media Studies
Japanese Role-Playing Games
Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG
Edited by Rachael Hutchinson and Jérémie PelletierGagnon
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 336 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4354 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3551 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the origins and boundaries of Japanese digital role-playing games. A geographically diverse roster of contributors introduces English-speaking audiences to Japanese video game scholarship and applies postcolonial and philosophical readings to the Japanese game text.
Media Studies
Fake News in an Era of Social Media Tracking Viral Contagion
Edited by Yasmin Ibrahim and Fadi Safieddine Rowman & Littlefield InternationalMay 2022 • 196 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4815 0 • $44.95 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4216 6 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1422 3 • $42.50 / £33.00
In this book, the authors examine factors influencing the spread of fake news, and suggest ways to combat it by exploring the key elements which enable and facilitate this phenomenon.
Media Studies
Homeless Voices Stigma, Space, and Social Media
By Mary L. Schuster Lexington Books
January 2022 • 266 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3570 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5716 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that the best sources for how to address the issues of homelessness are people experiencing homelessness themselves, particularly through their personal blogs and memoirs. Moreover, the author examines how stigmatization, metaphorical language, and spatial segregation relating to homelessness serve as tools for systemic oppression.
Media Studies
Italian Americans on Screen
Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future
Edited by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and Alan J. GravanoLexington Books
August 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Media, Culture, and the Arts series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1156 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1543 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1155 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book challenges past definitions of Italian American cinema and media studies by introducing fresh critical models into the discourse. Proposing new intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies, contributors establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen.
Media Studies
Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming
Edited by Shing-Ling S. Chen; Zhuojun Joyce Chen and Nicole Allaire
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 178 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1543 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5411 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1542 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book uses a critical lens to discuss live stream uses and misuses, as well as the impacts of live streaming on various fields. In the landscape of the historical evolution of communication technologies, this volume opens up a new space for discussing legal and ethical issues associated with the use of live streaming.
Media Studies
Making Time for Digital Lives Beyond Chronotopia
Edited by Anne Kaun; Christian Pentzold and Christine Lohmeier
Rowman & Littlefield International
June 2022 • 218 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4985 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 2977 7 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1298 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This collection explores theories of time in the digital world and examines whether the ontology of data resists slowness and how the digital revolution promised a leveling of the playing field. Assessing the emerging initiatives of slowing down, this book investigates the role of the digital in ultimately reinforcing neo-liberal temporalities.
Media Studies
Media Is Us Understanding Communication and Moving beyond Blame
By Elizaveta Friesem Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 166 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7407 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 0511 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5052 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
Exploring the nature of modern media, Friesem uses the fundamental principles of human communication to move away from the fear and blame that usually accompany discussions of new media technologies. The book employs the ACE model (from Awareness to Collaboration through Empathy) to build media literacy across professions and academic disciplines.
Media Studies
Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media Performativity, Ritual, and Representation
By Carly GieselerLexington Books
October 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0250 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2518 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Milestone Celebrations in the Age of Social Media traces the emergence and evolution of milestone celebrations in the digital era, from social media spectacles like promposals and gender-reveals to closure commemorations like divorce parties and living wakes.
Media Studies
Netflix’s Speculative Fictions
Financializing Platform Television
By Colin Jon Mark Crawford
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 132 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2530 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5281 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2529 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This monograph offers a close reading of the financial story of Netflix, exposing the central importance of narrativity, performative language, and affect, which drive the speculative worlds of global finance, technology, and now television.
Media Studies
Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies
Edited by Tanja Thomas; Merle‐Marie Kruse and Miriam Stehling
Rowman & Littlefield International
October 2022 • 300 pages
Paperback 978 1 7866 0727 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 7256 6 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0726 3 • $42.50 / £33.00
Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies addresses an important shortcoming in the research on participation in media cultures by introducing a special focus on post-migrant conditions to the discussion – both as conceptual refinements and as empirical studies.
Media Studies
Media, Ethnicity, and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya
By Jacinta Mwende MaweuLexington Books
March 2022 • 128 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1235 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2366 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Media, Ethnicity, and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya examines the interplay between the media, ethnicity, and electoral conflicts in Kenya. The author argues that politicians in Kenya and other deeply divided societies in Africa use mainstream and digital media to weaponize ethnicity as they invoke issues of belonging, inclusion, and exclusion.
Media Studies
Misogyny across Global Media
Edited by Maria B. Marron
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 342 pages • Part of the Communicating Gender series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0623 5 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 6211 1 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0622 8 • $40.50 / £31.00
This book analyzes global media representations of misogyny—including sexual harassment, rape, and even murder—to discuss the systemic nature of misogyny and the evils perpetrated against women across the world as a result.
Media Studies
Not Playing Around
Intersectional Identities, Media Representation, and the Power of Sport
Edited by Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito; Tracy Everbach and Karen Weiller-Abels
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 340 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5467 0 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4687 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book reveals how sports provide spaces for marginalized communities and create unique platforms that shift how society defines identity. Each chapter delves into how those identities—such as race, gender, disability, and sexuality—have developed and influenced social change.
Media Studies
Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and Brand Communication
Edited by Brandi Watkins
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 208 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1363 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3615 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1362 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines social media influencers as brand communicators. Each chapter represents a unique theoretical and methodological approach to examining the emergence of the growing legitimacy of influencer brand communication from a variety of perspectives and contexts.
Media Studies
Researching Creativity in Media Industries
By Mads Møller T. AndersenLexington Books
October 2022 • 116 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0169 6 • $85.00 / £65.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1702 2 • $45.00 / £30.99
Creative production processes are central to all media industries, and there is a need for more detailed understandings of how these industries facilitate and understand their own creativity. This book offers a theoretical framework to consider how researchers can conduct studies of creativity in different media industries.
Media Studies
South Korea’s Webtooniverse and the Digital Comic Revolution
By Brian Yecies and Ae-Gyung Shim Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 252 pages • Part of the Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5338 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 6358 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0636 5 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book investigates the meteoric rise of mobile webtoons—also known as webcomics—and the dynamic relationships between serialised content, artists, agencies, platforms and applications, as well as the global readership associated with them.
Media Studies
Supranational Horrors
Italian and Spanish Horror Cinema since 1968
By Rui M. Trindade OliveiraLexington Books
July 2022 • 258 pages • Part of the Lexington Books Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5434 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4359 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the parallels between Italian and Spanish horror cinemas including the cultural features they share, their ability to define distinct identities within the genre, and what the author terms ‘ItalianSpanishness.’
Media Studies
Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and their Followers
Edited by Brandi Watkins
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1366 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3646 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1365 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes social media influencers and their relationship with their online followers. Each chapter represents a unique theoretical and methodological approach to examining the importance of this relationship from a variety of perspectives and contexts.
Media Studies
Social Media, Technology, and New Generations
Digital Millennial Generation and Generation Z
Edited by Ahmet Atay and Mary Z. AshlockLexington Books
June 2022 • 190 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 5070 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 0710 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines millennials and Generation Z in the context of media and visual culture, considering three interrelated areas: how millennials and Gen Z use new media technologies in different contexts; what they do with media; and the relationship between media and the two generations that make up their target audience.
Media Studies
Stereotypes of Muslim Women in the United States
Media Primes and Consequences
By Alexis Tan and Anastasia Vishnevskaya
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 144 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2835 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8367 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents evidence that verbal and visual symbols in the media can activate implicit prejudices towards Muslim women in the United State and that social liberals, not social conservatives, can control activation. Authors suggest media and intrapersonal interventions to mitigate the harmful consequences of gendered Islamophobia.
Media Studies
The Transmedia Construction of the Black Panther
Long Live the King
By Bryan J. CarrLexington Books
April 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3183 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1848 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the Black Panther character’s multimedia legacy against the backdrop of contemporary sociopolitical reality. The author critically analyzes the character’s role as a counter-narrative to regressive attitudes toward Africa and Black identity, as well as how he represents consolidated media reality.
Media Studies
The Visual Cultures of Childhood Film and Television from The Magic Lantern To Teen Vloggers
By Karen Wells Rowman & Littlefield InternationalOctober 2022 • 200 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4823 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 1031 1 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1104 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
This innovative book gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects.
Media Studies
Men’s Studies
Of Boys and Men
Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
By Richard ReevesBrookings Institution Press
September 2022 • 256 pages
eBook 978 0 8157 3988 3 • $28.99 / £21.99
Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies
Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science
Edited by David Collier and Gerardo L. Munck
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 496 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6614 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6154 4 • $39.95 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6616 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Critical juncture theory seeks to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading practitioners offer the first coordinated effort to define this field, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and use a critical assessment of current practices as a basis for guiding its future.
Methodology
Reciprocity Rules
Friendship and Compensation in Fieldwork Encounters
Edited by Michelle C. Johnson and Edmund (Ned) Searles
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 190 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9296 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2949 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9295 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Focusing on compensation, friendship, and collaboration, this book explores what anthropologists and research participants give to each other in and beyond fieldwork. Contributors argue that while learning and following the local rules of reciprocity are challenging, they are essential to responsible research and efforts to decolonize anthropology.
Methodology
To See and Be Seen The Environments, Interactions and Identities Behind News Images
By T. J. Thomson Rowman & Littlefield InternationalMarch 2022 • 186 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4802 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 2816 6 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1282 3 • $34.00 / £26.00
To See and Be Seen considers some of the ideological, aesthetic, pragmatic, institutional, cultural, commercial, environmental, and psychological forces that consciously or otherwise shape the production of news images and subsequently influence their reception.
Media Studies
Perverse Feelings
Poe and American Masculinity
By Suzanne AshworthLexington Books
October 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2652 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6530 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
Perverse Feelings examines white masculinity in Poe’s fiction and the culture it represents. Poe’s men are tormented by ugly emotions. As it analyzes these afflictions, the book illuminates the pathologies of a past American masculinity. Just as importantly, it reminds us that “toxic masculinity” has a history.
Men’s Studies
Multispecies Ethnography
Methodology of a Holistic Research Approach of Humans, Animals, Nature, and Culture
By Katharina AmeliLexington Books
March 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1192 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1930 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book extends the ethnographic approach to animals and animate and inanimate natures. The focus is on developing a method suitable for holistic and interdisciplinary research, and to fulfill this goal, elements of Human-Animal Studies and NaturesCultures are combined and Indigenous approaches are incorporated.
Methodology
Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media
Edited by Whitney Hardin and Julia E. Kiernan
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4831 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8327 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This collection combines adaptation and disability studies to examine the ways that popular cultural remakes, reboots, and adaptations navigate representations of mental disability and health. The chapters analyze the ways that narratives of disability are framed not only by worldviews but also by the media which structure and inform them.
People with Disabilities
A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan
Edited by Claire Parkinson and Isabelle Labrouillère
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 286 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5251 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2522 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan’s films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan’s body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director’s auteur status.
Popular Culture
A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg
Edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9361 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3595 5 • $128.00 / £98.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9360 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of Steven Spielberg is written by some of the top scholars working in fields ranging from philosophy and art to history and film studies. The chapters illuminate for scholars and fans the entire artistic career of Steven Spielberg.
Popular Culture
Antiheroines of Contemporary Media Saints, Sinners, and Survivors
Edited by Melanie Haas; N. A. Pierce and Gretchen Busl
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2458 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4567 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2457 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This text offers a critical engagement with media and cultural theory to analyze how the antiheroine trope is employed to challenge the sociopolitical discourses scripted in contemporary narratives. Each chapter works to complicate our understandings of women characters and the intersections of identity, power, and culture that shape them.
Popular Culture
Community Media Representations of Place and Identity at Tug Fest Reconstructing the Mississippi River
By Michael O. Johnston Lexington Books
August 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0877 0 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8787 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a vivid portrait of place and identity as it exists in today’s US rural landscape and uses the interstate Tug Fest festival in the Midwest to explore the complex interactions of humans and environment.
Popular Culture
A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick
Edited by Elsa Colombani
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 294 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1378 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3769 9 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1377 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick provides an in-depth analysis of the director’s work and offers an enriching view of the historical, philosophical, theoretical, artistic, and cinematic dimensions of his films. The eighteen chapters in this book provide innovative readings of Kubrick’s oeuvre that will surely spark new discussions.
Popular Culture
A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam
Edited by Sabine Planka; Philip van der Merwe and Ian Bekker - Afterword by Karen Randell
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1225 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2265 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of this Terry Gilliam’s oeuvre and artistic practice as a director whose films weave avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration, and social critique together
Popular Culture
Better Living through TV Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation
Edited by Steven A. Benko
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 352 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3618 8 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6195 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The essays in this collection analyze a variety of contemporary television shows to argue for the role that TV plays in moral identity formation. Audiences take from television viewing a better sense of what matters to them, ways of relating to others, and a moral sense of the world they inhabit.
Popular Culture
Deindustrialisation and Popular Music Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere
By Giacomo Bottà Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4827 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 7379 9 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0738 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
The book offers a new and unique point of view on industrial cities and their popular music cultures based on interdisciplinary research and methods
Popular Culture
Gothic Mash-Ups
Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling
Edited by Natalie Neill
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 284 pages • Part of the Lexington Books Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3657 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6584 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through an examination of texts from diverse periods and media, Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role that appropriation and intertextuality play in Gothic storytelling. Building on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors demonstrate that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.
Popular Culture
Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials
Identity, Reception, and Politics
By Priscilla HobbsLexington Books
June 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2027 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0286 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials takes an interdisciplinary view of Harry Potter, as a series and a phenomenon, to uncover how the lessons learned from Harry’s adventures became a moral compass and a guiding light for millennial readers in an era fraught with turbulence and disharmony.
Popular Culture
Kevin Costner, America’s Teacher
Edited by Ludovic A. Sourdot and Edward Janak
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Education and Popular Culture series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4786 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7870 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Kevin Costner, America’s Teacher addresses how Kevin Costner’s oeuvre has been a vital source of informal education for, and about, Americans. This book is the first to examine the educational impact of Costner’s works.
Popular Culture
Rape in Period Drama Television Consent, Myth, and Fantasy
By Katherine Byrne and Julie Anne Taddeo
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 154 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2585 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5861 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema Screening Loss
Edited by Erica Joan Dymond
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Lexington Books Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3393 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3941 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines bereavement as it appears in horror films of the last two decades. This book addresses global hits such as Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook as well as lauded arthouse films such as Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Ari Aster’s Midsommar.
Popular Culture
Japanese Idols Go to China Cultural Adaptation and Nationalism
By Xiaofei Tu and Wei Xie
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 222 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0817 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8185 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book situates Chinese acceptance of Japanese popular culture— specifically the intriguing and sometimes awkward relationship between AKB48 and SNH48—within the broader context of nationalist ideology and international relations in East Asia.
Popular Culture
Media Representations of Retail Work in America
By Brittany R. Clark
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0638 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6394 4 • $45.00 / £30.99
Media Representations of Retail Work in America examines the ways in which retail workers have been portrayed in popular culture texts from the early 20th century to the 21st century.
Popular Culture
Rape in Period Drama Television considers the representation of rape and rape myths as well as the audience response to it in a range of the most influential television period dramas of recent years.
Popular Culture
Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements
Edited by Shearon Roberts
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 386 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0403 3 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4019 9 • $126.00 / £97.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0402 6 • $40.50 / £31.00
This collection analyzes the way that the Walt Disney Company has co-opted contemporary social discourse and studies how the current Disney era reflects changes in a global society where audiences are empowered by new media and social justice movements.
Popular Culture
Reclaiming the Tomboy
The Body, Representation, and Identity
Edited by Erica Joan Dymond; Jennifer Harrison and Holly Wells
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 254 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2294 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2952 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
With the tomboy figure currently operating in a liminal space between extinction and resurgence, this collection is an unabashed celebration of her rebellious, independent, and pioneering spirit. Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Identity, and Representation pays tribute to tomboys of the past, present, and (hopefully) future.
Popular Culture
Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls Watch It!
By Karima K. Jeffrey - Foreword by Hoda M. Zaki - Afterword by Trudier HarrisLexington Books
December 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2703 2 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7049 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines twentieth and twenty-first century speculative fiction films that represent women and girls of African descent Jeffrey offers insights about positive developments while calling attention to questionable trends in recent movie-making.
Popular Culture
The Evil Twins of American Television Feminist Alter Egos since 1960
By Kristi Rowan HumphreysLexington Books
March 2022 • 138 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8331 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 3299 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8330 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television. Employing the “schizophrenic split” theory of Betty Friedan, Humphreys analyzes the ways in which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate self and independence.
Popular Culture
The Scientist in Popular Culture
Playing God and Working Wonders
Edited by Rebecca Janicker
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 252 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3303 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3040 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Social Movements and the Collective Identity of the Star Trek Fandom
Boldly Going Where No Fans Have Gone Before
By David G. LoContoLexington Books
March 2022 • 252 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0702 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 7003 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0701 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
David G. LoConto explores the development of the Star Trek fandom through a social psychological approach, using symbolic interaction theory and strategic ritualization theory as well as ideas from Habermas and Foucault to track the fandom’s movements, values, and evolution.
Popular Culture
The Anthropocene and the Undead Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination
Edited by Simon Bacon
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 276 pages • Part of the Lexington Books Horror Studies series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2582 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5830 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures.
Popular Culture
The Human in Superhuman
The Power of the Sidekick in Popular Culture
Edited by Sandra Eckard and Alex Romagnoli
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 0694 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6952 2 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book examines the role of sidekicks in superhero narratives, offering insight into their contribution to the hero’s journey and growth through the use of distinctly human qualities like compassion, empathy, or courage.
Popular Culture
Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/ heroine
By Laura Mattoon D’Amore Lexington Books
August 2022 • 176 pages • Part of the Children and Youth in Popular Culture series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3062 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 0605 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3061 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This collection examines how scientists are represented in popular screen media, from blockbuster films and biopics to television drama. Contributors argue that across horror, science fiction, crime drama, and comedy, these fictional scientists embody the hopes and fears associated with real-life science.
Popular Culture
This book tracks the vigilante feminist teenage super/heroine in comics and YA literature, a character who acts as a vigilante on behalf of the protection of girls and women. It traces the trajectory of super/heroines who experience violent trauma and are subsequently empowered by use of violence to reclaim control over their lives and bodies.
Popular Culture
Woke Cinderella
Twenty-First-Century Adaptations
Edited by Suzy Woltmann
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 286 pages • Part of the Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2596 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7936 5946 6 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2595 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines contemporary “Cinderella” fairy tale adaptations to argue that the traditionally passive princess has been updated for the 21st century. Using wokeness as a theoretical lens, it analyzes the “Cinderella” story’s potentiality as a social gauge for how we construe gender, sex, agency, and power.
Popular Culture
Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker An Analysis of Media Representations
By Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFebruary 2022 • 212 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6514 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5157 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book considers sex worker representation in the news, where the public draws their understanding of the industry in the absence of lived interaction with it. Using New Zealand as a case study, the author encourages emerging acceptability based on neoliberal postfeminist discourses of choice, desire, authenticity, and personal responsibility.
Prostitution & Sex Trade
Crossing Racial Borders
The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern
Edited by Lenita Perrier and Luis Martínez Andrade Lexington Books
June 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1264 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2654 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through the lens of the decolonial school of thought developed by Latin American thinkers and scholars, this book focuses on the identification and analysis of the subalterns’ praxis of living, thinking, knowing, and doing. By delinking from coloniality of power, the book exposes the coexistence of power differentials trapped by Western doxa.
Race & Ethnic Relations
Neglected Social Theorists of Color
Deconstructing the Margins
Edited by Korey Tillman; David R. Dickens and C.C. Herbison
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 196 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4318 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3193 3 • $45.00 / £30.99
This book contributes to the ongoing debates concerning the canon in contemporary sociological theory by presenting the work of marginalized theorists of color, including authors from African American, Afro-Caribbean, Latinx, Asian, Asian American, and Native American backgrounds.
Race & Ethnic Relations
Free Speech Law and the Pornography Debate
A Gender-Based Approach to Regulating
Inegalitarian Pornography
By Lynn Mills EckertLexington Books
May 2022 • 244 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7262 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 2606 6 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7261 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
By examining the highly contested legal debate about the regulation of pornography through an epistemic lens, this book analyzes competing claims about the proper role of speech in our society, pornography’s harm, the relationship between speech and equality, and whether law should regulate and, if so, upon what grounds.
Pornography
Beyond Equity and Inclusion in Conflict Resolution
Recentering the Profession
Edited by S.Y. Bowland; Hasshan Batts; Beth Roy and Mary Adams Trujillo
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the ACR
Practitioner’s Guide series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6437 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 4389 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6439 6 • $33.00 / £25.00
This ground-breaking resource is for anyone, of any race or heritage, who stands ready to make progress toward equity and justice, by offering a creative vision and a practical blueprint for an inclusive, multicultural future for all those involved in conflict transformation, community mediation, and peace building.
Race & Ethnic Relations
Ethics and Race
Past and Present Intersections and Controversies
By Naomi Zack Rowman & Littlefield PublishersAugust 2022 • 274 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6671 0 • $85.00 / £65.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 6727 7 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6673 4 • $30.00 / £22.99
Ethics and Race introduces historical and contemporary conceptions of race through ideas and events and provides an ethical foundation for students to critically engage these issues in the classroom and in their lives. The book features short chapters of jargon-free writing with discussion questions and a glossary.
Race & Ethnic Relations
The Dark Side of Reform
Exploring the Impact of Public Policy on Racial Equity
Edited by Tyrell Connor and Daphne M. Penn
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 208 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4375 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3766 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Dark Side of Reform contains nine chapters on the development of social policies with the potential to advance racial equity. The volume also offers recommendations for implementing policies that address the unique concerns of structurally disadvantaged communities—with particular emphasis on Black and Latinx people.
Race & Ethnic Relations
The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity
On the Racial Sidelines
By Kavitha Koshy Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4372 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3735 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines is a provocative and lively book about Indian immigrant racialization, emerging racial subjectivity, and the potential for decolonial, anti-racist work.
Race & Ethnic Relations
Bosnian Refugees in Chicago Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies
By Ana Croegaert Lexington Books
September 2022 • 210 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2308 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3065 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2307 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book studies refugee migration through the experiences of Bosnian women displaced by the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia and analyzes themes of gender, performance, political economy, and citizenship in women’s diverse postwar lives.
Refugees
Building Global Labor Solidarity
Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States
By Kim ScipesLexington Books
August 2022 • 312 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3152 7 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1503 3 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3151 0 • $40.50 / £31.00
This collection of essays by Kim Scipes explores efforts to build global labor solidarity from the bottom up through analyses of the KMU Labor Center of the Philippines, AFL-CIO foreign policy, and contemporary initiatives.
Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Environmental Sociology Risk and Sustainability in Modernity
By Cristiano Luis Lenzi
Lexington Books
July 2022
Hardback
White Belongings Race, Land, and Property in Post-Apartheid South Africa
By Scott Burnett Lexington BooksJuly 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5494 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4953 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
White Belongings critically deconstructs everyday white discourses of the land in South Africa at a time of increasing stridency and defensiveness over restitution and reform, showing how articulating environmental stewardship and belonging are interwoven with asserting ownership and control.
Race & Ethnic Relations
The Blaming and Shaming of Defenseless Victims in America’s Rape Culture
By Lisa R. Smith Lexington BooksApril 2022 • 170 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2709 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7100 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book explores the ways collective memory, religion, and sexist beliefs are used to silence sexual assault survivors and protect the powerful. It delves into how justice is denied in sexual assault cases and why and how American society is perpetuating and protecting a dangerous culture of sexual violence.
Sexual Abuse & Harassment
Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality
By Lawrence M. Eppard; Mark Robert Rank and Heather E. Bullock - With Noam Chomsky; Henry A. Giroux; David Brady and Dan Schubert Lehigh University Press
March 2022 • 302 pages
Paperback 978 1 6114 6236 4 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 6114 2340 0 • $121.00 / £93.00
eBook 978 1 6114 6235 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
In Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality, the authors argue that a culture of individualism in the U.S. limits the pressure politicians face to develop robust social policies. This individualism combines with racism and features of the political system to help perpetuate high levels of poverty and inequality.
Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations
By Patrick L. Schmidt Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 264 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6828 8 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8295 5 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6830 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity examines the encounter between sociology and contemporary environmental issues. It presents the proposal for an environmental sociology considering the dilemmas surrounding sustainable development, ecological modernization, and risk society.
Sociology / General
Famed sociologist Talcott Parsons led some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century to establish a new department for an interdisciplinary science at Harvard. This is a fascinating instructive tale of hubris, ego, and academic politics overlaid on Parsons’s obsessive quest for an all-encompassing theory of social behavior.
Sociology / General
Personal Sociology
Finding Meanings in Everyday Life
By Jeffrey E. NashLexington Books
February 2022 • 178 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5158 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1594 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Personal Sociology, Jeffrey E. Nash transforms everyday experiences into sociological insights and understandings. Through eight chapters in three thematic sections, personal sociology is illustrated by the author’s reflections on activities from his own life that expand these particular experiences into broader sociological concepts.
Sociology / General
Groundwater Citizenship
Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer
By Brock Ternes - Foreword by Gregory Fulkerson and Alexander ThomasLexington Books
January 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0346 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3478 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Based on surveys with over 850 participants, this book explores the ways in which well ownership shapes people’s beliefs and actions about water in Kansas. The author frames well owners as a community pivotal to safeguarding aquifers that is defined by their understanding of drought and reliance on aquifers.
Sociology / Rural
Urbanormativity Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life
By Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. ThomasLexington Books
March 2022 • 306 pages • Part of the Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9704 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7029 9 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9703 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Urbanormativity examines the reality, representation, and consequences of living amid a cultural ideology that privileges urban over rural people and communities. The book analyzes and challenges the complex processes that work to devalue the rural and advocates for a rural justice ethic that reverses the present course.
Sociology / Rural
Employing Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination
How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy
By Jack FongLexington Books
March 2022 • 222 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2044 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0422 2 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2043 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, this book confronts the realities of how modern social structures, ideologies, and utopianisms affect one’s ability to purpose existence with selfauthored meaning.
Sociology / Social Theory
Please Scream Quietly A Story of Kink
By Julie L. Fennell Rowman & Littlefield PublishersJune 2022 • 296 pages • Part of the Diverse
Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6875 2 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8769 9 • $32.00 / £25.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6877 6 • $30.00 / £22.99
Please Scream Quietly is the collective autobiography of the BDSM subculture, showing how it teaches members to cherish their kinky identities and experiences. Using a wide variety of information collected by a self-identified kinkster and professional sociologist, it tells the story of how people live and love in this misunderstood subculture.
Sociology / General
The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture
All Too Familiar
By Karen E. Hayden Lexington BooksOctober 2022 • 134 pages • Part of the Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics series
Paperback 978 1 4985 4762 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 4985 7604 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 4761 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Karen E. Hayden explores how the rural other became linked to evolutionary theories that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century.
Using popular culture depictions of the rural primitive, Hayden shows that the message of rurality is clear: if society resists modernization and urbanization, degeneracy, primitivism, and an overall devolution will occur.
Sociology / Rural
A Treatise in Phenomenological Sociology Object, Method, Findings, and Applications
By Carlos Belvedere
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 134 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0610 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6110 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book outlines, for the first time in its history, the program of phenomenological sociology as a science of the natural attitude of groups. The claim is that phenomenological sociology exists as a matter of fact in the long-held, pre-reflective practices of classical and contemporary social thinkers.
Sociology / Social Theory
Positive Prejudice as Interpersonal Ethics
By Sara Kärkkäinen TerianLexington Books
May 2022 • 130 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2852 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 8503 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2851 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Positive Prejudice as Interpersonal Ethics examines prejudice not merely as a negative attitude toward others but as a general orientation that enables perception and understanding.
Sociology / Social Theory
Sociology in Post-Normal Times
By Charles Thorpe Lexington BooksFebruary 2022 • 314 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2597 7 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5984 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author contends that sociology, the science of social reform, is tied to the modern project of creating normalcy. This project is not viable in post-normal times brought on by Covid-19 and climate change. Thorpe argues that sociology must be left behind in order to create a new global humanity.
Sociology / Social Theory
Dance Music Spaces
Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism
By Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo Lexington BooksJanuary 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Critical
Perspectives on Music and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7936 0754 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7553 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Using a concept she calls authenticity maneuvering to explain how clubs, clubbers, and DJs navigate authenticity, branding, and commercialism, Danielle Hidalgo argues that the strategic use of a rave ethos bolsters acceptance in dance music spaces while also making commercial practices less visible or problematic.
Sociology / Urban
Neoliberalism, Postmodernity, and the Contemporary Memorial-Building Boom
By Nicola Clewer
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 224 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1299 1 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7866 3004 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Clewer explores the various ways the sublime is manifest in contemporary memorial architecture as well as its philosophical and political implications. She shows how the national monument is being transformed at a time when the nation-state and national identity are under extreme scrutiny.
Sociology / Urban
New Religious Movements in Modern Asian History
Sociocultural Alternatives
Edited by David W. Kim - Foreword by Eileen Barker
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 306 pages • Part of the Ethnographies of Religion series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3404 7 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4023 3 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3403 0 • $40.50 / £31.00
The new religious movements (NRMs) of Modern Asia commonly offered a new way of hope for enduring the socio-political situation of colonial life. This volume explores particular cases in relation to the aspects of origin, identity, transnational activity, text, hybrid conditions, religionized politics, geopolitical exchange, and millennialism.
Sociology of Religion
Community in Urban–Rural Systems Theory, Planning, and Development
By Gregory M. FulkersonLexington Books
September 2022 • 194 pages • Part of the Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1753 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7543 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Fulkerson provides a contemporary, in-depth understanding of communities that is useful for research, planning, and development purposes. His approach incorporates and builds on the urban-rural dynamics approach centered on the urban-rural system concept, making it relevant to urban and rural scholars.
Sociology / Urban
Everyday People Save the Planet and So Can You
A Qualitative Examination of Green Lifestyles in Lowcountry South Carolina
By Deborah McCarthy AuriffeilleLexington Books
November 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1616 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6173 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines three interview studies conducted over the last two decades with green parents, choice utility bike commuters, and necessity utility bike commuters. The book looks at how advocates and policy makers can enable pro-environmental behavior in people’s everyday lives.
Sociology / Urban
The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality
Ethnographic Case Studies of Global Cities
Edited by Angela Storey; Megan Sheehan and Jessica Bodoh-Creed
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1066 9 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0645 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1065 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
The Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores urban inequality through detailed case studies. By focusing on situated experiences of displacement, belonging, and difference, the contributors to this edited collection demonstrate the power of multidisciplinary ethnographic research to illustrate how inequalities affect city residents worldwide.
Sociology / Urban
The Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American Society
By Robert E. Parker
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2552 6 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 5533 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines the measurement efforts of several government agencies responsible for some of the most widely watched social indicators on unemployment, life expectancy, crime, and population. It argues these official statistics are dubious at best, not so much objective barometers of social life but socially-constructed metrics.
Statistics
Amazon At the Intersection of Culture and Capital
Edited by Paul Smith; Alexander Monea and Maillim Santiago
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 352 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6522 5 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5232 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book’s critical analyses of Amazon.com trace the political economy of the platform, the practices of resistance that laborers and activists have employed against it, the broader cultural impacts it has had on everyday life, and its broader environmental impacts on the world.
Technology Studies
The Anti-Nuclear Power Movement and Discourses of Energy Justice
By Jesse P. Van Gerven
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 172 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2045 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0460 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This study analyzes anti-nuclear power organizations’ claims regarding public financing for new nuclear construction, issues associated with the management of high-level radioactive waste, and other campaigns to increase the safety of nuclear facilities. This leads the author to the identification of general principals of energy justice.
Technology Studies
Inequality & Violence in the United States Casualties of Capitalism, Third Edition
By Barbara H. Chasin
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 382 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1354 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3552 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
While mass shootings make headlines, the more routine effects of corporate and government decisions on our well-being are downplayed. This book analyzes how economic and political inequalities lead to forms of violence that routinely cause harm.
Violence in Society
Trauma and Resilience in Holocaust Memoir Strategies of Self-Preservation and Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative
By Shira Birnbaum
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 204 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2305 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3034 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2304 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
A narrative analysis of memoirs of six holocaust survivors from a single family, this book examines strategies of self-preservation and resilience in young people exposed to persecution at different ages and life stages. It argues that holocaust-era stories can enhance understanding of today’s child refugees.
Violence in Society
Ethics in the AI, Technology, and Information Age
Edited by Michael Boylan and Wanda Teays
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 352 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6074 9 • $140.00 / £108.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0756 6 • $49.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6076 3 • $47.00 / £36.00
Today’s unprecedented power of computing and AI makes technology’s impact on society an essential area of ethical inquiry. This book investigates the relationship between technology and nature, ownership of technology, AI’s replacement of human functions, privacy and cybersecurity, and the ethics of self-driving cars and drone warfare.
Technology Studies
Guns 360
Differing Perspectives and Common-Sense
Approaches to Firearms in America
Edited by Eric S. See; Christopher M. Bellas and Sarah A. See
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 472 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4067 3 • $80.00 / £62.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0680 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Guns 360 takes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and commonsense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the criminal justice system but also society as a whole: firearm possession, regulation, and control.
Violence in Society
Sociocide Reflections on Today’s Wars
By Keith Doubt Lexington BooksMay 2022 • 100 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2386 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3843 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2385 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Through the lens of a neologism, sociocide, the killing of society, Keith Doubt provides persuasive evidence of the social, political, and human consequences of today’s wars, focusing on war crimes, scapegoating, torture, and capitalism.
Violence in Society
Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Feminism and Diaspora
Edited by Amritjit Singh; Robin E. Field and Samina Najmi
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 276 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 5617 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 6187 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the fiction of South Asian American writer, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and her aesthetic of interconnectivity and wholeness. Two interviews and an essay by Divakaruni offer indispensable insights into the formal, sociopolitical, and thematic concerns of this multifaceted artist.
Women’s Studies
Modern Day Mary Poppins
The Unintended Consequences of Nanny Work
By Laura BunyanLexington Books
May 2022 • 190 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1978 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9761 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1977 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Modern Day Mary Poppins explores the experiences of female nannies and their employers. Laura Bunyan analyzes hiring and employment practices and the varied views on these practices and experiences of nanny work.
Women’s Studies
Representing Latina/x Reproductive DecisionMaking
By Melissa HuertaLexington Books
August 2022 • 168 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2697 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6981 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book examines representations of reproductive decisions in cultural texts. Close analyses of Teatro Luna, Jane the Virgin, Vida, Quinceañera and Favianna Rodriguez’s artwork serve as case studies offering a refreshing way to visualize, interpret, and hear Latina/x reproductive decisions.
Women’s Studies
The Ethos of Black Motherhood in America Only White Women Get Pregnant
By Kimberly C. HarperLexington Books
May 2022 • 158 pages • Part of the Lexington Studies in Health Communication series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0144 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 1421 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0143 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book discusses existing problems with Black maternal health and the rhetorical implications of ethos in American society.
Women’s Studies
MotherScholars’ Perceptions, Experiences, and the Impact on Work-Family Balance
By Megan Reister
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4843 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8440 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
MotherScholars’ Perceptions shares how MotherScholars have achieved success, even amidst a global pandemic—both in redefining their identity and in achieving some semblance of the mythical work-family balance. Readers will gain a renewed sense of passion and vigor while practicing and cultivating gratitude as MotherScholars.
Women’s Studies
Street Harassment as Everyday Violence
By Melinda A. Mills
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 238 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1237 1 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2388 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Melinda A. Mills investigates women’s experiences with street harassment, recognizing this phenomenon as a form of everyday violence. The author argues that street harassment connects to other forms of violence that impact women’s daily lives and that can cause “multiplicative trauma” in the wake.
Women’s Studies
The Intersectionality of Women’s Lives and Resistance
Edited by Dawn Hutchinson; Dawn L. Hutchinson and Lori Underwood
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 154 pages • Part of the Communicating Gender series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1372 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 3707 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1371 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality.
Women’s Studies
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