Peter Lang: 4879 books
Patterns of Patronage in Renaissance Rome
Francesco Sperulo: Poet, Prelate, Soldier, Spy Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This book is also available as a set, together with Volume I.
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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...
by Pedro Martínez García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Los conceptos de alteridad e identidad han ocupado en los últimos años un espacio central en los debates académicos en torno a la multiculturalidad. Con este libro se pretende hacer una aportación novedosa al debate uniendo dos tiempos y dos espacios que habitualmente han sido estudiados por separado:...
Sleeping Beauties in Victorian Britain
Cultural, Literary and Artistic Explorations of a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Artists, scientists and the wider public of the Victorian era all seem to have shared a common interest in the myth of the Briar Rose and its contemporary implications, from the Pre-Raphaelites and late Victorian aesthetes to the fascinated crowds who visited Ellen Sadler, the real-life ‘Sleeping...
The Power and Impact of Standardised Tests
Investigating the Washback of Language Exams in Greece
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Standardised tests and language certification exams have been a popular topic in the field of assessment for many years now. The washback effect of such tests, that is how and to which degree language tests influence teaching and learning, has been the focus of several research projects in various...
The Early Modern Stage-Jew
Heritage, Inspiration, and Concepts With the first edition of Nathaniel Wiburnes «Machiavellus»
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Taking on what has been said about Shakespeare’s Shylock and Marlowe’s Barabas in the last centuries, the author analyses seven other, largely ignored plays to enhance the image we have...
Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life
James Joyce and the Renaissance Magus
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. This book makes a useful contribution...
Arrested Mourning
Memory of the Nazi Camps in Poland, 19441950
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
«Analyzing the earliest debates over the memory of Nazi camps, the author makes an important contribution to the study of their origin, reducing the existing asymmetry in our knowledge on the relevant phenomena in Western and Eastern Europe. This is all the more important as the Poles and Polish...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
English is increasingly used as a medium of instruction in European higher education not only in northern countries, but also in the European ‘south’. This volume is fruit of a project which was carried out in a public university based in the north-east of Italy with the aim of delivering professional...
A Child, A Family, A School, A Community
A Tale of Inclusive Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book is a true story of one family’s journey into inclusive education. Having previously been told that her son Benny had "failed to function" in two exclusionary special education classrooms in New York City, Berman’s family set off in search of a school where Benny would be accepted...
Dramatic Minds
Performance, Cognition, and the Representation of Interiority
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This volume seeks to put drama and its neglected mental dimension into the limelight. While narrative fiction with its intricate ways of rendering consciousness has been deemed an ideal playground for approaches of a cognitivist leaning, the dramatic genre has been all but ignored by cognitive literary...
Philosophy and Logic of Quantum Physics
An Investigation of the Metaphysical and Logical Implications of Quantum Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The book investigates the ontology and logic of quantum physics. The first part discusses the relationship of theory and observation and different views on the ontological status of scientific theories. It introduces the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and some of its interpretations and their compatibility...
by Shaun May
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The entry of the capital relation into its epoch of structural crisis forms the material basis for the development of the author’s conception of revolutionary agency. Drawing on the work and achievements of both Marx and Hungarian socialist thinker István Mészáros, May relates the emergence and...
Adult Learning and Education in International Contexts: Future Challenges for its Professionalization
Comparative Perspectives from the 2016 Wuerzburg Winter School
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This volume analyses adult education and lifelong learning as international phenomena, which have a strong influence on professionals working in this field. Based on the 2016 Würzburg Winter School, the book identifies influences on policy at local, national and international levels. It examines...
13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights
Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Constituted of a range of essays, the present volume addresses a variety of contemporary and historical events from human rights perspectives. Taking on issues from the American presidential election to North Korean missile tests to terrorism and «civilizational» conflict to Cold War history, the...