Peter Lang: 4879 books
Sanctuaries in Washington Irving's «The Sketch Book»
The Sketch Book
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the book presents a short history of sanctuaries in nineteenth-century American and European literature.
Temporary Croatization of Parts of Eastern Slovenia between the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Century
Changing Identities at the Meeting Point of Related Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This book analyzes the reasons for the emergence and extinction of the Croatian name in four Slovene border regions. The author uses comparative methods and a broad spectrum of sources. In the early Modern Age, the Croatian name established itself in these areas as a temporary phenomenon, replacing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Este libro analiza las relaciones históricas y políticas entre Europa y América, y el proceso de integración europea desde el punto de vista de las relaciones transatlánticas de la UE con un enfoque multidisciplinario. Es el resultado de un Seminario de Doctorado sobre ese tema organizado por...
Europe between Imperial Decline and Quest for Integration
Pro-European Groups and the French, Belgian and British Empires (19471957)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
During the Middle Ages, rulers from different regions aspired to an idea of imperial hegemony. On the other hand, there were rulers who deliberately refused to be «emperors», although their reign showed characteristics of imperial rule. The contributions in this volume ask for the reasons why some...
The Funniest Pages
International Perspectives on Humor in Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Charles Dickens, celebrated novelist and journalist, believed that his greatest ability as a writer was to make people laugh. Yet, to date, humor has been strangely marginalized in journalism, communication and media studies.
This innovative book draws together the work of seventeen writers to show...
Political Animals
News of the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Newspapers have long been enthralled by accounts of cute, cuddly, strange, dangerous and endangered beasts, and by extraordinary and sometimes apocryphal narratives of natural phenomena. This study explores the incidence of several such stories in the British press: from reports of the "ethnic" conflicts...
War Experience and Trauma in American Literature
A Study of American Military Memoirs of «Operation Iraqi Freedom»
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Walt Whitman wrote: «The real war will never get into the books.» To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining the post-draft American military,...
by Oscar Koopman
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Science Education and Pedagogy in South Africa is a contemporary contribution that entices science teachers to ‘re-examine’ or ‘rethink’ the pedagogical strategies they use in their teaching. It offers fresh and exciting teaching approaches that explore new ways to tackle the worrisome problems...
Researching the Writing Center
Towards an Evidence-Based Practice, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Researching the Writing Center is the first book-length treatment of the research base for academic writing tutoring. The book reviews the current state of writing center scholarship, arguing that although practitioner-researchers continue to value anecdotal and experiential evidence, they must also...
The Dynamic Student Development Meta-Theory
A New Model for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The Dynamic Student Development Metatheodel(DSDM) is a meta-theory based on empirically based inferences drawn from a national survey entitled the University Learning Outcomes Assessment (UniLOA). The UniLOA’s current dataset consists of over 500,000 college student participants and has supported...
Power Play
Explorando y empujando fronteras en una escuela en Tejas through a multilingual play-based early learning curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Power Play tells the story of activist teachers and the very young together in a play-based curriculum in a public school in Texas. The authors narrate (with playful interruptions) a curriculum that is powered by the students’ lived encounters—the languages, landscapes, beliefs, histories, geographies,...
Justice in Search of Leaders
A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Justice in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership is a guide for educators who are committed to equity-driven teaching, leading, and policy-making, and would like to operationalize socially just school practices for all children. Moving beyond a heroes and holidays approach...
Japanese Animal-Wife Tales
Narrating Gender Reality in Japanese Folktale Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
A familiar, beloved, and yet misunderstood character in the Japanese folktale tradition is the animal-woman, an earthly animal that assumes the form of a female human. In order to articulate the characteristics that make Japanese Animal-Wife tales unique, this trailblazing book Japanese Animal-Wife...