Peter Lang: 4879 books
The Europeanization of Industrial Relations in the Service Sector
Problems and Perspectives in a Heterogeneous Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The service sector has not always received the attention it merits in industrial relations research when set against its enormous economic significance. One factor in this is certainly the highly diverse nature of services. Research attention has also lagged behind long-standing processes of transnationalization...
The Kaiserslautern Borderland
Reverberations of the American Leasehold Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The area around the German city of Kaiserslautern – or K-Town in American parlance – is home to approximately 50,000 Americans who live within the Kaiserslautern Military Community, the largest organized settlement of American citizens outside the U.S.A. This book comprises the first study to...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The book discusses various cases of financialisation and financial crisis in South-Eastern Europe. While these can be directly traced to the region’s reliance upon the global financial regime, the interplay of international financial institutions, the eurozone’s rigidity and domestic policies...
Nacer desde el sueño
Fenomenología del onirismo en el pensamiento de María Zambrano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2017
María Zambrano (1904–1991) creó una antropología filosófica labrando con paciencia artesanal y vitalicia un puñado de conceptos: la divinización de lo sagrado, la razón-poética, el sentir originario, la forma-sueño, el devenir-persona. El pensamiento subyacente a los conceptos de forma-sueño...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book is a collection of papers written by researchers, lawyers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of law, communication and arts. The topics include women rights in Turkey, witness statement as evidence in Turkish law, legal regulations about...
Foreign News on Television
Where in the World Is the Global Village?
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news from a number of different countries. It examines what viewers of television news think about foreign news, their interest in it, and what sense they...
Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity
Processes of Learning, Creating and Organising
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Throughout the literature of creative learning, many assumptions and even stereotypes about the artists’ creativity are nurtured, often according to myths going back to the Romanticism. The authors have been investigating and describing outstanding artists’ creativity and learning/working processes,...
No More Robots
Building Kids Character, Competence, and Sense of Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This book was named a 2015 Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title.
Place-based education offers a compelling opportunity to engage students in the life of their community. More than just taking a field trip, participants in a place-based project make sustained efforts to make a difference...
Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education
The Journey Stories of Undocumented and Unafraid Community Activists
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The topic of immigration has become increasingly volatile in U.S. society, and undocumented college students play a central role in mobilizing and politicizing a critical mass of activists to push forth a pro-immigration agenda, in particular the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors...
The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions
A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker’s methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Social Media in the Classroom provides a comprehensive resource for teaching social media in advertising, public relations, and journalism at the undergraduate and graduate levels. With twelve chapters by contributors from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, this volume provides...
Intentional Excellence
The Pedagogy, Power, and Politics of Excellence in Latina/o Schools and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Are we bold enough to recognize our own excellence in our schools and communities? This question drives Intentional Excellence, an audacious attempt at developing a Pedagogy of Excellence in Latina/o schools and communities as a result of observations, insights, and lessons learned from work with...
Chinas New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme
Evolution, Design and Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) was implemented in 2003 in response to the poor state of health care in rural China. It holds the primary objective of insuring rural residents against catastrophic health expenses, protecting them from impoverishment caused by medical expenses. The objective...
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...