Peter Lang: 4879 books
College Media
Learning in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
College Media: Learning in Action is a unique resource for journalism educators and students, media advisors, student personnel administrators, and students at any level – undergraduate or graduate – interested in learning theory and practice. Sixteen original, scholarly and diverse chapters encompass...
Trading Women, Traded Women
A Historical Scrutiny of Gendered Trading
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
For the scholarly reader it is a truism that trade, in its widest sense (exchange, interchange, deal) is the basis of human society, it is part of the human interaction which is the very texture of society. The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss demonstrated in his seminal essay «The Elementary...
Black Mask-ulinity
A Framework for Black Masculine Caring
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Black Mask-ulinity: A Framework for Black Masculine Caring is a collection of research, narratives, essays, and conceptual works to lay the foundation for an important emerging theoretical framework: Black Masculine Caring (BMC). This framework facilitates an understanding of the teaching and leading...
Empire and Education in Africa
The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Empire and Education in Africa brings together a rich body of scholarship on the history of education in colonial Africa. It provides a unique contribution to the historiography of education in different African countries and a useful point of entry for scholars new to the field of African colonial...
Developing Intra-regional Exchanges through the Abolition of Commercial and Tariff Barriers / Labolition des barrières commerciales et tarifaires dans la région de lOcéan indien
Myth or Reality? / Mythe ou réalité ?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This book is related to the development of intraregional commercial exchanges in the region of the Indian Ocean. This issue is addressed from an economic as well as from a legal point of view. The contributions, in English and French, aim to present an overview of the economic, customs-related, technical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Despite being one of the main pillars of the insurance industry, reinsurance is little known by the general public and is rarely the focus of academic study. In this book, the authors – economic historians and experts in the field from across Europe and Japan – seek to address this by shedding...
Challenges to Representative Democracy
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Using different perspectives and various approaches, this collection of diagnostic texts aims at presenting all the possible faces of the contemporary Nation-State. Based on political science methodology, this volume is devoted to both theory and practice. The structure of the book is unconventional....
Dialectics of 9/11 and the War on Terror
Educational Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Dialectics of 9/11 and the War on Terror: Educational Responses examines how global financial and socio-political systems propagate a lopsided dialectic of current events that influences teachers’ pedagogies of 9/11 and the War on Terror. The lopsided dialectic is one that encourages patriotism...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The book consists of articles from East European Politics and Societies, a journal published in the United States that first appeared in 1987. This selection is composed of papers written by the journal’s founders and early authors, among them Zygmunt Bauman, Tony Judt, Katherine Verdery, Vladimir...
Die Kunst des Dialogs
Gedenkschrift fuer Michael Fischer
Language: German
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Das Buch ist dem am 1. Juni 2014 verstorbenen Salzburger Rechts- und Sozialphilosophen Michael Fischer gewidmet. Die Beiträge würdigen die Person und Bedeutung Michael Fischers und bilden seine wichtigsten Interessensgebiete schwerpunktartig ab. Die Autorinnen und Autoren behandeln dabei ein breites...
by Damian Emeka Ikejiama
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This book is about the dangers of religious intolerance, conflict and violence oriented strategies in our contemporary society. It exposes the evangelical strategies of Christian Churches and Denominations in the Nigerian society. The process of the enthronement of ‘prosperity theology’ has led...
by Philipp Nikolaus Kluge
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The marketing of luxury goods faces a fundamental challenge: balancing sales growth against exclusiveness. In today’s digital world, this trade-off has become even more challenging. A luxury brand’s fragile concept of exclusiveness is seemingly incompatible with the ubiquitous availability provided...
Labour Protest in Poland
Trade Unions and Employee Interest Articulation After Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book is an account of protests organized by trade unions from the late socialism to the 21st century. It uses protest event analysis and mass surveys to examine the impact of trade unions on institutions before and after systemic change. Social protest in the post-war Poland was primarily a working-class...
Consequences of Informal Autonomy
The Case of Russian Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The book is the first to provide a systematic overview of the interplay of formal and informal institutions as elements of the Russian federalism from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. It discusses the crucial role of informal power structures and practices in the relations between the center and...