Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Re-rising Japan
Its Strategic Power in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
"The lost two decades" of Japan’s economic power since the early 1990s have generated the image among scholars in the discipline of international relations (IR) that Japan is no longer a significant player. Hence, today’s IR literature focuses on the rise of China. Re-rising Japan: Its...
Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education
Resistance, Reclaiming, Organizing, and Black Lives Matter in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education is a cutting-edge investigation of the alarming state of education today. This practical how-to handbook gives readers tactics and strategies to organize and challenge forces that threaten liberatory critical education. Drawn from scholars and...
What Is This Thing Called Soul
Conversations on Black Culture and Jazz Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
How does academic jazz education impact the Black cultural value of soulfulness and esthetic standards in contemporary jazz music? Through candid conversations with nine of the country’s most highly respected jazz practitioners and teachers, What Is This Thing Called Soul explores the potential...
Re-Assembly Required
Critical Autoethnography and Spiritual Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Entering the academy as an older woman, the author had not foreseen the challenges that awaited her when she left behind a successful career as a public school Spanish teacher/department head to pursue a Ph.D. She took for granted her position of power and privilege in an educational setting, not...
Student Involvement & Academic Outcomes
Implications for Diverse College Student Populations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Student Involvement and Academic Outcomes links student involvement to tangible academic outcomes (i.e., GPAs, retention rates, graduation rates). This is particularly important for diverse student populations (e.g., underrepresented minority, first-generation college, and low-income students) who...
by Jennifer L. Bevan
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book won the 2014 National Communication Association’s Diamond Anniversary Book Award
This book received the 2014 Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award from the «Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association» and the «National Communication Association...
RIP Jim Crow
Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Together we can build enough momentum to see Jim Crow lying silent and still in his grave.
This book shouts out ways that we can and must respond to the sickening accumulation of racially inspired and systemically sanctioned deaths. Today, we remember the passing of young, Black Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
Graduate Study in the USA
Surviving and Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The premise of this book is simple: if the chapter writers could go back in time and talk with themselves when they began their studies, what advice would they give? Isn’t hindsight a bonus? Each chapter offers this hindsight. The chapters are not personal stories, but useful lessons learned through...
Editors Talk about Editing
Insights for Readers, Writers and Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
The work of «editing» is by and large something that happens behind the scenes, noticed only when it is done badly, or not done at all. There is not much information about what editors do. The result is that editing is not often talked about in its own right – not even by the people who do it....
by Ode Ogede
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
All who treasure great literature recognize the pivotal role played by a title. But, until now, at both the undergraduate and the graduate level, no book-length study has devoted detailed expert attention to the subject of academic paper titling. Helping Students to Write Successful Paper Titles is...
Dynamics of International Advertising
Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Now in its third edition, Dynamics of International Advertising highlights the unique challenges marketers face in developing and implementing successful international advertising campaigns.
With a balance of theoretical and practical perspectives, this edition takes the reader inside the dynamics...
Pedagogy of Insurrection
From Resurrection to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
«Pedagogy of Insurrection» by Peter McLaren has won the American Educational Research Association, Division B Outstanding Book Recognition Award 2016.
Peter McLaren, named Outstanding Educator in America by the Association of Educators of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2013 and winner...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Communication is ubiquitous and information is abundant. Political and economic markets are more open than they have ever been. Yet, there is no escaping the fact that communication continues to flow across fields where power is distributed unevenly. This collection of articles analyzes and responds...
The Final Crossing
Death and Dying in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death, dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly, and original essays on death and dying in literature from around the globe and from different time periods....