Contents January–December 2022
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Smallpox in Washington’s Army Disease, War, and Society during the Revolutionary War
By Ann M. Becker
Lexington Books
November 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. Schmidt
Lexington 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
Lexington Books
and Mir-Yusif Mir-Babayev
November 2022 • 186 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2952 4 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9531 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
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
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 Publishers
January 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. Bodie
Lexington 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 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.
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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. Dare
Lexington 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
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Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution Public Health, Economics, Design, and Transformation
By Melanie J. La Rosa
Lexington Books
January 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 Books
March 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
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Grappling with Representation in the WWE Exploring Issues of Diversity and Inclusion in World Wrestling Entertainment
By
Lowery A. Woodall III
Lexington 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. Strawser
Lexington 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 Shaban
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 146 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4726 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 7276 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
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
Health Communication and Sport Connections, Applications, and Opportunities
Edited by Jimmy Sanderson and Melinda R. Weathers
Lexington 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. Harris
Lexington 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 Sobre
Lexington Books
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
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Leadership Practices in Speech and Debate Coaches
Applying Full-Range Leadership Behaviors to Coaching Intercollegiate Forensics
By Barry J. Regan
Lexington 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
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
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
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 McCluskey
Lexington 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
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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 III
Lexington 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 Johnson
Lexington 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. Hyden
Lexington 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
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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 Petin
Lexington 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 Books
February 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 Publishers
September 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
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The Art of Communication Improving Your Fundamental Communication Skills, Fourth Edition
By Randy Fujishin Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 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. Crandall
Lexington 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. Furgerson
Lexington 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 Books
January 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 Books
July 2022 • 162 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4054 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0550 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
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
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Rachel Sussman Kaplan investigates the rhetorical forces that are driving the opioid crisis in America.
Transnational Korean Television Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences
By Hyejung Ju
Lexington 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 Mortenson
Lexington 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
Understanding and Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism Implications for Education and Work
By Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin
Lexington 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-Ocando
Lexington 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
Edited
by Yahya R. Kamalipour - Foreword by Cees J. Hamelink
Rowman & 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
By Bill Dodd
Lexington Books
October 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
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Selecting and Implementing Technologies in Libraries A Primer
By Tod Colegrove
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 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
September 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Medical Library Association Books series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6219 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2200 0 • $49.00 / £38.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6221 7 • $46.50 / £36.00
The book, written from the e-Health literacy perspective, is unique in its nuanced approach to misinformation. 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
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
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
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
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.
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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.
Ideology and Libraries
California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945–1952
By Michael K. Buckland - With Masaya Takayama
Rowman & 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 Caputo
Rowman & 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
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Pioneers in Librarianship Sixty Notable Leaders Who Shaped the Field
By Christian A. Nappo
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 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 Publishers
April 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 Shaw
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Library Support Staff Handbooks series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4539 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5401 1 • $37.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4541 8 • $35.00 / £27.00
Using Digital Information Services in the Library Workplace: An Introduction for Support Staff is an updated text for professors who teach digital information use and management in library support staff programs and a handbook for those working in libraries who want to keep current as they expand their knowledge and skills.
Library & Information Science / General
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 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5374 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3758 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5376 5 • $42.50 / £33.00
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 Library A Handbook
Edited by Amanda R. Scull
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 160 pages • Part of the Medical Library Association Books series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5542 4 • $135.00 / £104.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 5431 1 • $59.00 / £45.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5544 8 • $56.00 / £43.00
The handbook includes sections on information and access services, reference and instruction, collections, and clinical services, encompassing the challenges and opportunities presented by virtual services for nearly every area of the health sciences library. Library & Information Science / General
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Virtual Storytimes A Practical Guide for Librarians
By Rebecca Ogle Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 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 Publishers
May 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. West
May 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 Danesi
Lexington 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
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
Virtual Technical Services A Handbook
By Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 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. Berger
November 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 Kartchava
Lexington 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
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
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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 Publishers
August 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 Tsujimura
Lexington 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-Almiñana
Lexington 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 Eagleton
Lexington 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. Smead
Lexington 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. Swanson
Lexington 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
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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. Dumanig
Lexington
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 Saft
Lexington 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-Ferrán
Lexington 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
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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 Bowers
Lexington 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 Duncan
Fortress Academic
May 2022 • 296 pages
Hardback 978 1 9787 1308 6 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 9787 3093 3 • $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
Democratic Disunity Rhetorical Tribalism in 2020
By Colleen Elizabeth Kelley
Lexington 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 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
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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
Index and Finding Aids, Revised as of January 1, 2021: Part 1
The Rhetoric of the “Corrupt Bargain” in the 1824 Election Clay, Jackson, and Democratic Strategy
By Amos Kiewe
Lexington 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
February 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1755 5 • $34.00 / £26.00
Index and Finding Aids, Revised as of January 1, 2021: Part 2 February 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1756 2 • $34.00 / £26.00
Title 01 General Provisions, Revised as of January 1, 2021 March 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1757 9 • $11.00 / £7.99
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January 2022 • Paperback 978 1 6367 1759 3 • $67.00 / £52.00
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