Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Mapping Media Ecology
Introduction to the Field
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Until now, the academic foundations of media ecology have been passed down primarily in the form of edited volumes, often by students of Neil Postman, or are limited to a focus on Marshall McLuhan and/or Postman or some other individual important to the field. Those volumes are invaluable in pointing...
by James Ottavio Castagnera
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The Handbook for Student Law for Higher Education Administrators, Third Edition is a practical tool, intended for administrators dealing with students in higher education, focusing principally on four-year institutions. Addressing the ever-evolving relationship between higher education and the law,...
Catholics and Millennialism
A Theo-Linguistic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Philosophers of religion such as Mark Kingwell regard millenarian dreams as humanity’s most powerful hopes for transformation, transcendence, apocalypse, and utopia. In Catholics and Millennialism: A Theo-Linguistic Guide, Warren A. Kappeler III explores the insights of critical discourse theory...
Communicating Advice
Peer Tutoring and Communication Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Although competent peer tutoring depends heavily on knowledge within the particular discipline, there is certainly more to the process than subject knowledge alone. One of the most important components of tutoring in any academic area is effective communication. Research in the area of communication...
Reimagining the Public Intellectual in Education
Making Scholarship Matter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
While the term «public intellectual» has been used to describe scholars who seek to share their re-search with the public, little work has been done to examine the role of a public intellectual in the field of education. This book builds upon the notion of the public intellectual in a way that makes...
The Democratic Gulag
Patriarchy, Leadership and Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The Democratic Gulag is a provocative, comprehensive investigation of the pervasive and transparent power of patriarchy in social evolution and contemporary society. It asserts that we live in a well-constructed ideological, intellectual and social gulag of patriarchal values, beliefs, attitudes and...
Animals, Disability, and the End of Capitalism
Voices from the Eco-ability Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Animals, Disability, and the End of Capitalism is a collection of essays from the leaders in the field of eco-ability. The book is rooted in critical pedagogy, inclusive education, and environmental education. The efforts of diverse disability activists work to weave together the complex diversity...
Politics, Pedagogy and Power
Bullying in Faculties of Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education is the result of research seeking to find explanations for bullying between faculty members in faculties of education around the world. The frank and devastating revelations of professors are shocking and painful, screaming for interrogation....
Global News
Reporting Conflicts and Cosmopolitanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Global News explores how media representation is conceived and enacted in a world of diversity and transborder flows. Among the ‘new media’ crowding the global mediascape are influential television outlets that promise viewers alternative vantage points to those of established Western broadcasters....
Religion and Development
Nordic Perspectives on Involvement in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
The role of religion in development work has long been a neglected issue in the Western academic tradition. Religion and Development: Nordic Perspectives on Involvement in Africa is part of a recent wave of publications trying to bring more colors into the traditional black-and-white picture of religion...
Christianity and the Secular Border Patrol
The Loss of Judeo-Christian Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Christianity and the Secular Border Patrol: The Loss of Judeo-Christian Knowledge centrally looks at how secular universities have dominated academic knowledge on the one hand and have also been a part of bias against Christian academics on the other. Authors generally ask for borders of understanding...
Moral Good, the Beatific Vision, and Gods Kingdom
Writings by Germain Grisez and Peter Ryan, S.J.
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
For close to half a century, the work of Germain Grisez has been highly influential, and his writings continue to receive considerable attention from philosophers and theologians of diverse viewpoints. His co-author for this work is the professor and noted moral theologian Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J., currently...
«Yin-Yang» Interplay
A Renewed Formation Program for the Catholic Seminary in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
«Yin-Yang» Interplay: A Renewed Formation Program for the Catholic Seminary in China puts the spotlight on the design of a renewed formation program for the Catholic seminary in China. Without any renewed formation, transformation becomes pessimistic in the Chinese Catholic Church (CCC). Though...
New Social Foundations for Education
Education in 'Post Secular' Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
There has been growing scholarly attention to questions about the revival of religion and religiosity on global social, cultural and political fronts and the emergence of a ‘post-secular’ society. New Social Foundations for Education is dedicated to the drawing of the implications of the contemporary...