Peter Lang: 4879 books
Servants, Masters, and the Coercion of Labor
Inventing the Rhetoric of Slavery, the Verbal Sanctuaries Which Sustain It, and How It Was Used to Sanitize American Slaverys History
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It focuses especially on the contexts of coercion and on the differences in the roles of masters and...
Africas Last Romantic
The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Africa’s Last Romantic: The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom captures the drama and excitement of John L. Brom’s film expeditions from 1949 to 1962 through sub-Saharan Africa. Brom was the only explorer to follow the footsteps of Henry Morton Stanley and in a documentary interviewed...
How Pilots Live
An Examination of the Lifestyle of Commercial Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This book paints a detailed picture of the commercial pilot lifestyle, from the struggle to pay for training to time spent down route to thoughts of retirement. Once a glamorous occupation, commercial flying is today more of a job than a vocation with many pilots working the maximum permissible hours...
Le DRH innovateur
Management des ressources humaines et dynamiques dinnovation
Language: French
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Concepteurs et gestionnaires créatifs de la fonction RH, les managers RH peuvent, en interaction avec d’autres acteurs, jouer un rôle essentiel dans les innovations économiques, en agissant sur la production des idées et en instaurant une culture de l’innovation, que ce soit dans le cadre...
Innovations in Languages for Specific Purposes - Innovations en Langues sur Objectifs Spécifiques
Present Challenges and Future Promises - Défis actuels et engagements à venir
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The papers collected in this book present diverse views and experiences on teaching English and French for specific and academic purposes. The scope of reflection covers a wide spectrum of cognitive areas of ESP and FOS, encompassing a multitude of training aspects and components (curricula, methods...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Karl Hanssen’s memoirs provide an invaluable outsider’s view of life in New Zealand prisons and a unique perspective on German Samoa under New Zealand occupation. In October 1915, Hanssen, manager of the DHPG, a large German copra production company, was sent from Samoa to New Zealand to serve...
The Convergence Crisis
An Impending Paradigm Shift in Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Convergence Crisis tells the story of an impending paradigm shift in advertising. Beginning in the early 1840s with the birth of the first advertising agency and momentum spurred by industrial systems, the book provides a historical overview of significant events and socio-cultural economic factors...
«Schools of Tomorrow,» Schools of Today
Progressive Education in the 21st Century Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The second edition of «Schools of Tomorrow,» Schools of Today: Progressive Education in the 21st Century documents a new collection of child-centered progressive schools founded in the first half of the twentieth century and provides histories of some contemporary examples of progressive practices....
Reading the World, the Globe, and the Cosmos
Approaches to Teaching Literature for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.
The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical...
Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning
The Project-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning provides a blueprint of how teachers and their students can engage in science learning that mirrors the way science is practiced. It is written for K–16 science educators as well as those in the informal science education sector. The framework for this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book on higher education institutional history is unlike any other. It is not a history of a particular school or a group of schools of the same type; instead it describes the emergence of a varied collection of higher education institutions in the same area in a specific time frame. The setting...
Those Who Can
A Handbook for Social Reconstruction and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Those Who Can: A Handbook for Social Reconstruction and Teaching traces the development of a critical pedagogy within one educator’s personal history, and examines the implications of critical pedagogy from this educator’s perspective. The study draws from her years of practice and reflection,...
From the Parade Child to the King of Chaos
The Complex Journey of William Doll, Teacher Educator
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
From the Parade Child to the King of Chaos depicts the pedagogical life history of an extraordinary teacher educator and internationally renowned curriculum scholar, William E. Doll, Jr. It explores how his life experiences have contributed to the formation and transformation of a celebrated teacher...
Innovative Approaches to Educational Leadership
Selected Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Of late, leadership has come to include individuals in elementary, secondary and tertiary institutions who do not necessarily carry leadership titles. Faculty in preK-16 institutions, along with other staff and community people, have increasingly begun to take on leadership responsibilities as shared...