Peter Lang: 4879 books
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Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Ce volume recueille des études d’œuvres québécoises et françaises considérées dans leur relation au fait religieux. À partir des écrits des jésuites et des moniales en Nouvelle-France, en passant par les modèles offerts par Molière et Chateaubriand, on suit le parcours, sinueux et parfois...
HI-Touch Pastoral Approach in the 21st Century
A response to the problem of insufficient organic link between faith and daily life in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
«Human Integrated Touch» (HI-Touch) is a pastoral care approach that could be a response to the lingering problems of Christianity marred by an insufficient organic link between faith and daily life in Nigeria. Arguing for an integrated approach to humans and the human condition, the study presents...
Division, Diversity, and Unity
A Theology of Ecclesial Charisms
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
The term «charism» is drawn originally from Pauline literature and refers to a gift given by the Spirit for the upbuilding of the body of Christ. Since the mid-twentieth century, Christians from a broad spectrum of theological positions have applied this term, in varying ways, to groups within the...
La forma epistolar en los espectadores españoles
Características y tipología de las cartas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Los espectadores son un género periodístico del siglo XVIII que surge en Europa como imitación del modelo inglés «The Spectator». El rasgo diferenciador de este género es el autor ficticio, quien establece una correspondencia con el público lector. Junto con una definición de las características...
Analyzing Wealth Effects for Bondholders
New Insight on Major Corporate Events from the Debtholders Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Despite the growing importance of funds through corporate bonds, most investigations on the short-term effects of certain events on firm value are only conducted for stocks. Thus, research provides an incomplete view on how firm value is truly affected. The author fills this gap and focuses his research...
Hashtag Publics
The Power and Politics of Discursive Networks
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
This collection investigates the publics of the hashtag. Taking cues from critical public sphere theory, contributors are interested in publics that break beyond the mainstream – in other publics. They are interested in the kinds of publics that do politics in a way that is rough and emergent, flawed...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Higher education and society are becoming increasingly intertwined. Both act as a transmitter of culture, yet many colleges and universities also ideally seek to create a more perfectible society and more enlightened, engaged citizens. When the connections between social structures and post-secondary...
Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education
A Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses. Educators from disciplines as diverse as theater arts, early childhood, psychology, mathematics, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
In social sciences the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is an ever growing phenomenon. Emanating from the need of knowledge about society and economy, we are constantly striving to create ideas and methods for a better use of information. This study analyses different practices...
by Gheorghe H. Popescu, Jean Vasile Andrei
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Agriculture represents a basic economic sector for Romanian economy with major implication on a large part of inland population. The accession to the EU has imposed major changes to the Romanian agricultural sector to achieve better outcomes and to adapt to the new economic performance criteria. The...
Value Creation of Corporate Restructuring
A Market Cycle and Industry View
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The study offers a contribution to the debate about shareholder wealth creation following corporate restructuring transactions. Including market cycle and industry factors, it provides an analysis of merger and acquisition (M&A) and corporate divestiture success between 1989 and 2008 in Europe....
Segment Reporting under IFRS 8
Reporting practice and economic consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
The adoption of IFRS 8 marked a major change in the segment reporting rules under IFRS. This step, however, was heavily criticized and several questions regarding IFRS 8 still remain unanswered. Therefore, this study analyzes the impact of IFRS 8 on segment reporting practice and its economic consequences....
Full IFRS and IFRS for SMEs Adoption by Private Firms
Empirical Evidence on Country Level
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
The issuance of the International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs) in July 2009 has mixed up the bipolar financial reporting landscape between Local Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAPs) and Full IFRS by adding a third dimension to international...
CIUTI-Forum 2013
Facing the Worlds New Challenges. The Role of T & I in Providing Integrated Efficient and Sustainable Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The proceedings of the CIUTI FORUM 2013 outline in five chapters the different perspectives of sustainable language policies, role of translators and interpreters and the challenges they face on the globalized market. Such as new global partnerships between Universities and Organizations and transcultural...