Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age
Research in Honor of Pamela J. Shoemaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker has made to mass communications research. Her body of work, spanning four decades, has included groundbreaking conceptual and methodological advances, particularly in the areas of gatekeeping,...
by Boyce Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other books on the evolution of federal education...
13 Questions
Reframing Education's Conversation: Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
13 Questions: Reframing Education’s Conversation: Science examines thirteen critical questions confronting contemporary science education and a dynamic and evolving universe threatened by issues of sustainability and disharmony. The world’s leading scholars in science education utilize cutting-edge...
Crowdfunding the Future
Media Industries, Ethics, and Digital Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The concept of crowdfunding, where grassroots creative projects are funded by the masses through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, has been steadily gaining attention over the last few years. Crowdfunding the Future undertakes a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to the examination of the...
The False Promises of the Digital Revolution
How Computers transform Education, Work, and International Development in Ways that are Ecologically Unsustainable
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The False Promises of the Digital Revolution examines what currently goes largely unnoticed because of the many important uses of digital technologies. While many people interpret digital technologies as accelerating the global rate of progress, C. A. Bowers focuses attention on how they reinforce...
by Keqi (David) Liu
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Conscientization and the Cultivation of Conscience constitutes a major contribution to the international literature on the work of Paulo Freire, one of the most influential educationalists of all time. It provides a fresh perspective on the Freirean notion of conscientization, rethinking this pivotal...
Patents, Pills, and the Press
The Rise and Fall of the Global HIV/AIDS Medicines Crisis in the News
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
HIV/AIDS is a global health crisis of unprecedented proportions. Afflicting millions worldwide, its social, political, economic, and ethical dimensions have rendered explicit the vast inequalities of our «negatively globalized planet». Since the late 1990s, a major feature of the crisis has been...
Poetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
Transcending Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Poetry in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings is an international collection of essays written by seasoned and emerging scholars. This book explores, discusses, and provides new perspectives on Pre-Raphaelite paintings inspired by poems and poems inspired by Pre-Raphaelite paintings, ranging from the inauguration...
The Darker Side of Family Communication
The Harmful, the Morally Suspect, and the Socially Inappropriate
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family communication processes.
Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, the volume includes contributions from the most respected scholars...
Childrenʼs Rights and Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book compares ways in which children’s rights in, to, and through education, formal and informal, are viewed and implemented in a variety of social and political contexts, aiming to shed light on how policies and practices can improve equal access to high quality education in an environment...
Princess Cultures
Mediating Girls Imaginations and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Princesses today are significant figures in girls’ culture in the United States and around the world. Although the reign of girls’ princess culture has generated intense debate, this anthology is the first to bring together international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the multitude of princess...
Literary Intellectuals
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is particularly true of the line in British...
WechselWirkungen
Austria-Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Western Balkans, 18781918
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
What can post/colonial studies and their approaches contribute to our understanding of the Austro-Hungarian (k.u.k.) occupation and administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914?
This anthology presents some possible answers to this research question which goes back to a workshop held at...
Reading Rey Chow
Visuality, Postcoloniality, Ethnicity, Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film, ethnicity and gender. It describes and explains the features and the breadth of Chow's interventions and illustrates Chow’s arguments by way...