Peter Lang: 4879 books
by Carolyn M. Shields
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Transformative Leadership: A Primer both delivers a complete and engaging overview of transformative leadership and also clearly distinguishes it from other popular approaches to leadership. Hence, this will be the text of choice for many graduate courses in educational leadership. Carolyn M. Shields...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
As we grow up and grow old, embrace new experiences, try new roles, and adopt new technologies, our senses of time, space, connection, and identity are fundamentally explored through communication. Why, how, with whom, and to what end humans communicate reflect and shape our ever-changing life span...
From Education to Incarceration
Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is a ground-breaking book that exposes the...
The Common European Constitutional Culture
Its Sources, Limits and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
The authors focus on the interrelations between the sense of individual identity and the sense of national identity. Their aim is to find a common European legal culture. The processes of Europeanization have been proceeding on the legal level, wherein the CJEU took a prominent role, and on the level...
Media Ecology
An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition provides a long-awaited and much anticipated introduction to media ecology, a field of inquiry defined as the study of media as environments. Lance Strate presents a clear and concise explanation of an intellectual tradition concerned...
Commercial Integration between the European Union and Mexico
Multidisciplinary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The economic integration between the European Union and Mexico is of strategic significance to both parts. The EU is Mexico’s second most important trading partner and an integral piece in the diversification of its economic dependence from the United States. Besides, as Mexico is part of the North...
Gamify Your Classroom
A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
This completely revised and expanded field guide is packed with new innovative ideas on how to implement game-based learning and gamification techniques in everyday teaching. With nearly two dozen more experts than the first edition, this book contains interviews with more than 70 authorities in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The worldwide integration and globalization of finance, an aspect of «financialization», coincided with the rise of market-oriented neoliberalism promoting free trade and privatization strategies. New Internet-based technologies have reinforced financial market integration, creating a fragile, globally...
Dimensions of Racism in Advertising
From Slavery to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Advertising has had a racial dimension from slavery to the present. Contributors to this book explore the role of institutionalized racism and bigotry in multicultural marketing since its inception in the 1920s. Promoting ethnic diversity in the advertising industry is not just an important regulatory...
Heuristics of Technosciences
Philosophical Framing in the Case of Nanotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Confronted with the accelerated development of science and technology the presented analyses are focusing on three predominant theoretical approaches in the philosophy of science and technology: technoscience (STS), technology assessment (TA) and converging technologies (NBIC). On this base are extrapolated...
Trust, Morality, and Markets
Rethinking Economy and Society via the Russian Case
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The spread of contemporary globalized capitalism wrought by the new patterns of industrialization, marketization, and consumerization shapes Russia’s recent historical path and developmental possibilities. This book discusses Russia’s transformation into a market economy and the role of trust...
Industrial Clustering, Firm Performance and Employee Welfare
Evidence from the Shoe and Flower Cluster in Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The author examines the productivity, profitability and welfare effects of industrial clustering and a public policy promoting industrial clusters in Ethiopia. He uses reliable counterfactuals as well as original enterprise and worker level data. By investigating the effect of firm, time, entrepreneur...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The present book intends to critically examine the paths taken by the EU for cultural questions and how it integrates it into the whole of its parts. This means describing, explaining and evaluating the objectives, the nature, the extent and the impact of European interventions in cultural matters...
by Hongyul Han, Murat A. Yülek
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Designing effective industrial and science, technology and innovation (STI) policies is still an ongoing quest for both developed and developing countries. This book examines industrial as well as STI policies in East Asian countries South Korea and Japan comparatively. Japan is one of the largest...