Peter Lang: 4879 books
Evoking Polish Memory
State, Self and the Communist Past in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime – have actively engaged...
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism
Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture, especially Japanese aesthetics, bore on Western intellectuals,...
Education and the Crisis of Public Values
Challenging the Assault on Teachers, Students, and Public Education Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society’s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last decade’s growing social...
Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement
Analyzing and Evaluating Rater-Mediated Assessments- 2 nd Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Since the early days of performance assessment, human ratings have been subject to various forms of error and bias. Expert raters often come up with different ratings for the very same performance and it seems that assessment outcomes largely depend upon which raters happen to assign the rating. This...
Coping with Uncertainty
Petty Traders in Post-Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Petty trade helped vast numbers of people to survive the crisis faced by post-Soviet Russia. The book analyses how this survival technique was carried out in practice. On the basis of his fieldwork research, the author shows how people coped with rapid social change and places their activities within...
Rural Poverty Determinants in the Remote Rural Areas of Kyrgyzstan
A Production Efficiency Impact on the Poverty Level of a Rural Household
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book is a study about rural poverty in the remote rural area of Kyrgyzstan. It analyses the linkage of poverty with the limits of production frontier efficiency of the rural households in the selected area. A field survey of the cross-section random sample collects primary information about 297...
The Rise of Bardolatry in the Restoration
Paratexts of Shakespearean Adaptations and other Texts 16601737
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book explores from a new perspective the adaptations of Shakespeare in the Restoration, and how they contributed to the rise of the cult of the National Poet in an age where his reputation was not yet consolidated. Adaptations are fully independent cultural items, whose paratexts play a crucial...
by G. Giappichelli Editore s.r.l.
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This book outlines and analyses the legal framework governing the free movement of persons between Switzerland and the European Union, looking at it from an Italian perspective. The intention is to provide not only students but also a broader gerneral public with a handful tool of basic information...
The Legacy of Polish Solidarity
Social Activism, Regime Collapse, and Building of a New Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Polish Solidarity was a phenomenon combining a trade union, a social movement and general ideas of freedom and solidarity. Led by Lech Walesa it contributed greatly to the evolution of the old system and to its final collapse in 1989, followed then by the end of the communist regimes in all of Central...
Knowledge, Action, Pluralism
Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
In this book, an international team of scholars from leading American, British and Continental European universities, led by Richard Swinburne, Eleonore Stump, William Wainwright and Linda Zagzebski, presents original ideas about three currently discussed topics in the philosophy of religion: religious...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Few concepts in Discourse Studies are so versatile and intricate and have been so frequently contested as interpersonality. This construct offers ample terrain for new research, since it can be viewed using a range of diverse theoretical frameworks, employing a variety of analytical tools and social...
A Conceptual Blending Theory of Humour
Selected British Comedy Productions in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
The book presents an analysis of humour in a selection of British comedy productions. The conceptual integration theory devised by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, also known as blending, provides the tool for explaining the creation of humour in detail. It seems that blending can elaborate on the...
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Discourse Coherence
From Standardness to Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book presents a comprehensive study of the subject of text and discourse coherence, integrating some of the traditional trends of discourse analysis and creating new channels of research which help to understand the notion further. Based on the work of leading theoreticians and on the actual...
Slavic Grammar from a Formal Perspective
The 10th Anniversary FDSL Conference, Leipzig 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages in Leipzig 2013 offer current formal investigations into Slavic morphology, phonology, semantics, syntax and information structure. In addition to papers of the main conference, the volume presents those of two...