Peter Lang Ltd International Academic Publishers imprint: 133 books
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c.3001500 AD
Selected Papers from the XVII International Graduate Conference of the Oxford University Byzantine Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Profound cultural change defined the Byzantine world. For centuries after its embrace of Christianity, exchanges of ideas, objects, peoples and identities continued to flow across an empire that found itself located at the crossroads of so many other worlds. This book brings together a selection of...
John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
«I loathe all common things»
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls, was a notable character in post-war Oxford. He was educated in the old-time classical humanist tradition, and this remained his field even as the world about him changed. A man with a brilliant mind, he is often remembered negatively – as a bogeyman to progressives...
Writing for Freedom
Body, Identity and Power in Goliarda Sapienza's Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Sicilian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924–1996) is increasingly regarded as a central figure in modern Italian literature, especially with the international success of her masterpiece L’arte della gioia [The Art of Joy]. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Sapienza’s major works, identifying...
The Archers in Fact and Fiction
Academic Analyses of Life in Rural Borsetshire
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
If you have ever wondered about the ethical implications of Dr Richard Locke’s affair with Shula Hebden Lloyd, or whether the ergonomic design of tractor seats could have prevented Tony Archer from getting a bad back, then this book is for you. Leading academics from across the United Kingdom use...
Uncovering English-Medium Instruction
Glocal Issues in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
English-medium instruction (EMI) is a complex educational innovation and a prerequisite for active participation in the process of internationalizing academia. Given its impact on today’s universities, it is crucial that EMI should be effectively and responsibly implemented.
This book draws...
Queering Paradigms VI
Interventions, Ethics and Glocalities
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This edited volume brings together perspectives on embodied queerness within the complicated parameters of hegemonic normativities, biopolitics and social-religious governmentalities. Queering Paradigms VI offers queer interventions, explores value-production in socio-corporeal normative frameworks,...
Networked Remembrance
Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways beneath London and Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Networked Remembrance is the first book to explore questions of urban memory within what are some of the most commonly experienced subterranean margins of the contemporary city: underground railways. Using London’s and Berlin’s underground railways as comparative case studies, this book reveals...
Verbal Semantics in a Tibeto-Burman Language
The Bodo Verb
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive description of the verbal system of Bodo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India, particularly Assam. The description is primarily based on a 1.2-million-word Bodo corpus, both written and spoken, involving different genres.
This...
Diversity and Intersectionality
Studies in Religion, Education and Values
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
This volume brings together two core concepts that are central to understanding the social and public significance of religions and theologies within the contemporary world and are therefore of key importance to the discipline of religious education: diversity and intersectionality. Religious diversity...
The Newsroom
A Space of Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Journalists are in the daily business of making the unseen visible, of connecting us to the world beyond our direct experience. In doing this, objectivity becomes a pivotal issue, and a highly debated topic both in academia and everyday life. The first systematic approach to the issue of objectivity...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema builds and expands on existing work in the field, providing a coherent analysis of films which, despite their international importance, have so far received limited critical attention. The volume maps key trends in Greek cinema since the...
Mapping Cinematic Norths
International Interpretations in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Mapping Cinematic Norths presents an international range of research and enquiry into the significance, representation and manipulation of depictions of the ‘North’ in cinema and television. Northern landscapes, soundscapes, characters and narratives are defined and recognized as distinctive image-spaces...
by Georg Cavallar
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
It is often assumed that cosmopolitan thinkers since the Renaissance have simply adopted and refined concepts from classical antiquity. This study argues that modern European cosmopolitanism should be perceived as a unique phenomenon, distinct from Greek and Roman forms of cosmopolitan thinking. One...
Preparing Modern Languages Students for 'Difference'
Going beyond Graduate Skills
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This book informs and encourages aspiring lecturers and teaching staff in Modern Languages who prepare students for using their language skills in and out of the classroom. Drawing on pedagogical, psychological and language-specific concepts of learning, the book illustrates how such concepts can...