Peter Lang: 4879 books
The Quicksands of Belief
The Need for Skepticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Quicksands of Belief: The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don’t question enough. Instead, uncritically accepting the often absurd beliefs swirling around them,...
Defining Critical Animal Studies
An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation as a social justice movement...
Human Lifeworlds
The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book, which presents a cognitive-semiotic theory of cultural evolution, including that taking place in historical time, analyses various cognitive-semiotic artefacts and abilities. It claims that what makes human beings human is fundamentally the semiotic and cultural skills by means of which...
by Renáta Kišonová
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The first part of this textbook introduces philosophy to the reader as a part of culture, in addition to science, religion, art. It outlines various disciplines of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of mind etc. The second part maps the understanding of history, or the philosophical reflection of history in the history of philosophy.
On the Threshold of the Holocaust
Anti-Jewish Riots and Pogroms in Occupied Europe: Warsaw Paris The Hague Amsterdam Antwerp Kaunas
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
In the early months of the German occupation during WWII, many of Europe’s major cities witnessed anti-Jewish riots, anti-Semitic incidents, and even pogroms carried out by the local population. Who took part in these excesses, and what was their attitude towards the Germans? Were they guided or...
Virtuous Educational Research
Conversations on Ethical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This is a book of conversations with researchers working across Europe, the USA and Africa. It aims to illuminate the lived reality of educational research on a wide variety of topics, including family life in rural South Africa, support for self-harming students in the UK, character development in...
by Regina Bochenek-Franczakowa
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2018
La réception de George Sand en Pologne est considérée dans ces études par le biais des « présences » de la romancière dans la culture du pays : écrivaine célèbre, femme émancipée et maîtresse de Chopin. C’est au XIXe siècle que l’admiration pour l’œuvre sandienne se manifestait...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This volume presents selected contributions to an annual symposium on metaphor and metonymy held at the English Department of Heidelberg University. It brings together papers by lecturers, PhD students and graduates from three universities – Heidelberg University, Eötvös Loránd University in...
Giorgio Scerbanenco
Urban Space, Violence and Gender Identity in Post-War Italian Crime Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The works of Giorgio Scerbanenco repeatedly articulate and explore the implications of new forms of criminality that emerged in Italy’s post-war transformation towards its «economic miracle». An indepth analysis of Scerbanenco’s Duca Lamberti series constitutes the critical focus of this study,...
Luigi Ghirri and the Photography of Place
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) was one of the most significant Italian artists of the late twentieth century. This volume – the first scholarly book-length publication on Ghirri to appear in English – introduces his photographic and critical work to a broader audience and positions...
In-Visible Palimpsest
Memory, Space and Modernity in Berlin and Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
In the early 1990s, Berlin and Shanghai witnessed the dramatic social changes in both national and global contexts. While in 1991 Berlin became the new capital of the reunified Germany, from 1992 Shanghai began to once again play its role as the most powerful engine of economic development in the...
The Nordic PhD
Surviving and Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding is an edited book written for prospective and current doctoral students by a mix of doctoral students and those who have recently completed their doctorates. The premise is simple: if you could go back in time and talk with yourself when you began your studies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The nine extensive essays of this volume are by specialists on South Asia whose research focus includes the extremely complicated problematics of the linguistic situation there. It is devoted to the broadly understood problem of defining Hindi as well as indicating the different ranges of its use....
Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome
Francesco Sperulo: Poet, Prelate, Soldier, Spy - Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book is also available as a set, together with Volume II.
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Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome is the first full-length study of the life and works of Francesco Sperulo of Camerino (1463–1531). In a remarkable career during which...