Peter Lang: 4879 books
East Asia and Eastern Europe in a Globalized Perspective
Lessons from Korea and Estonia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This book compares development experiences from South Korea and Estonia, which are both very successful examples of development within their region. The development experience of states in the 20th century offers a bewildering variety and often downright contradicting models, which nevertheless led...
Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful
Scrutinizing States and Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Despite the enormous economic, physical and social impacts of crimes committed by states and corporations, they are still relatively under-researched within contemporary social science—partly because of the perpetrator’s ability to evade critical scrutiny. The contributions in this book map out...
Translating German Novellas into English
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Translation of fiction is always interpretation. This book discusses the challenges facing translators of fictional works from German into English using as examples English translations of canonical German novellas by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theodor Storm, Gerhart Hauptmann, Thomas Mann and Franz...
by Karolina Janczukowicz
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This book aims to aid English teachers at the junior and senior secondary school levels in teaching pronunciation within a regular EFL syllabus. It presents such a way of incorporating the phonetic and lexical components so as to facilitate students’ acquisition of a standard phonetic system and...
The Trademark Paradox
Trademarks and Their Conflicting Legal and Commercial Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Trademarks play a fundamental role in our everyday lives as consumers, helping us to quickly choose the products we like and avoid those that we don’t. Trademarks are also essential elements in a competitive market, allowing companies to build brand loyalty without fear of free-riding by competitors....
Azerbaijan at the Crossroads of Eurasia
The Tumultuous Fate of a Nation Caught Up Between the Rivalries of the Worlds Major Powers
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Modern Azerbaijan came into being in 1991 following a national struggle for the re-establishment of its independence, initiated long before the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is situated in a unique geographic location, at the crossroads of Eurasia and on the famous Silk Road that links Europe and...
The Maidan Uprising, Separatism and Foreign Intervention
Ukraines complex transition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The current crisis in Ukraine has revealed a striking lack of background knowledge about Ukraine’s history and politics among West European politicians, journalists, intellectuals and even many academics. In this book, experts from Poland, Ukraine, the US, Russia and Western Europe fill the gap...
Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe
Modules for History Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Colonialism and decolonization are historical phenomena that are part of the historical experience of many European countries. This volume offers students and teachers a new understanding of how colonialism and decolonization fit into our shared European past and contains teaching materials for history...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Les sites de production de pétrole ne correspondant pas la plupart du temps aux lieux de consommation, le pétrole fut dès l’origine un produit transporté sur de longues distances, soit par voie maritime, soit par oléoducs.
Parce que les routes du pétrole (et de plus en plus souvent du gaz)...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Initiative inédite, motivée par l’expression des attentes et besoins concrets des doctorants, cet ouvrage s’est fixé comme objectif de donner aux doctorants en sciences humaines et sociales de fin de 1ère année (et au-delà), un ensemble construit d’outils transversaux, théoriques, méthodologiques...
Uncovering English-Medium Instruction
Glocal Issues in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
English-medium instruction (EMI) is a complex educational innovation and a prerequisite for active participation in the process of internationalizing academia. Given its impact on today’s universities, it is crucial that EMI should be effectively and responsibly implemented.
This book draws...
The Balotelli Generation
Issues of Inclusion and Belonging in Italian Football and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Sports governing bodies, governments and European institutions highlight the inclusive power of sport and its capacity to foster a sense of belonging among youth of immigrant background. At the same time, sport at youth and grassroots level can be as much an exclusionary as an inclusive experience....
John Berryman
Centenary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Selected Short Works by Klaus Mann makes available for the first time a number of pieces by the author of Mephisto and The Turning Point. Klaus Mann (1906–1949) was an early opponent of Nazism, an émigré to the United States who enlisted in the U.S. Army to fight the German fascists, and the eldest...