Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Communicative Cities in the 21st Century
The Urban Communication Reader III
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This book explores the concept of the «communicative city», developed initially by participants in an international Urban Communication Foundation initiative, by bringing together scholars from across the communication arts and sciences seeking to enhance our understanding of the dynamic relationship...
The Fat Pedagogy Reader
Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Over the past decade, concerns about a global «obesity epidemic» have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the «facts» we have come to believe about «obesity». We live in a culture that privileges...
Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Edited by the leading scholars in the field, Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education provides an overview and introduction to the growing field of disability studies in education, including the application of the interdisciplinary field of disability studies to inclusive education,...
The Story of the Mexican Screenplay
A Study of the Invisible Art Form and Interviews with Women Screenwriters
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The Story of the Mexican Screenplay: A Study of the Invisible Art Form and Interviews with Women Screenwriters contributes to the international development of screenplay studies. While the debate on the ontology of the screenplay continues, a fact remains clear for screenwriters: the screenplay is...
An Island Economy
Hellenistic and Roman Pottery from Hierapytna, Crete
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book offers the first presentation of Hellenistic and Roman period ceramic assemblages from the city of Hierapytna, located on the southeast coast of Crete. Recovered from three rescue excavations in the heart of the ancient city, this pottery records a diachronic history of Hierapytna from the...
The World Leaders in Education
Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The World Leaders in Education: Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods explores the practices and policies that the highest-ranking nations in education implement to achieve their success. Topics include the education of disadvantaged students; cultural attitudes toward education;...
Shifting the Kaleidoscope
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Educators Insights on Culture Shock, Identity and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally diverse environments. Although these phenomena are often cast as illnesses to be avoided, this study suggests that both types of shock can help educators develop...
Communication and Political Crisis
Media, Politics and Governance in a Globalized Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Communication and Political Crisis explores the role of the global media in a period of intensifying geopolitical conflict. Through case studies drawn from domestic and international political crises such as the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, leading media scholar Brian McNair argues that...
What Is Sustainable Journalism?
Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This edited volume, which elaborates on the idea and concept of sustainable journalism, is the result of a perceived lack of integral research approaches to journalism and sustainable development. Thirty years ago, in 1987, the Brundtland Report pointed out economic growth, social equality and environmental...
The Funniest Pages
International Perspectives on Humor in Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Charles Dickens, celebrated novelist and journalist, believed that his greatest ability as a writer was to make people laugh. Yet, to date, humor has been strangely marginalized in journalism, communication and media studies.
This innovative book draws together the work of seventeen writers to show...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Pedro Almodóvar is an internationally acclaimed Spanish director. The national and international fascination over Almodóvar’s cinema lies in his ability to reflect the problems of contemporary society, his lucidity in combining the urban and the rural, his ability to express the frustrations of...
Fractured
Race Relations in «Post-Racial» American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
«What do you think is meant by the term ‘post-racial’ and how far do you think we’ve come, as a country, toward achieving it?» Helen Fox, a white teacher and scholar, asked variations of this question to 87 high school and college students, educators, administrators, community organizers,...
Water and the Development of Africa
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book examines Africa’s water resources from pre-historic times to the present, illustrating how Africans and their rulers formulated water management systems to support water-sector activities including irrigation, livestock raising, fishing, river transportation, industry, and the generation...
Communicating the City
Meanings, Practices, Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
How human meanings, practices and interactions produce and are produced by urban space is the focus of this timely and exciting addition to the study of urban communication.
Challenging notions of the ‘urban’ as physically, economically or technologically determined, this book explores...