Peter Lang: 4879 books
Human Trafficking as a Quintessence of 21st Century Slavery
The Vulnerability of Nigerians in Austria
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book is a contribution towards a better understanding of the nature of the international crime of human trafficking. It is an impulse towards finding a new way at the international levels, and encouraging cooperation among nations in the fight against human trafficking and its root causes. The...
by Amity Reading
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book explores conceptions of subjectivity in Anglo-Saxon England by analyzing the contents and sources of the Vercelli Book, a tenth-century compilation of Old English religious poetry and prose. The Vercelli Book’s selection and arrangement of texts...
Queering Paradigms V
Queering Narratives of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The authors of this edited volume use a queer perspective to address colonialism as localized in the Global South, to analyse how the queer can be decolonized and to map the implications of such conversations on hegemonic and alternative understandings of modernity. This book is distinct in at least...
Public Diplomacy
European and Latin American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Public diplomacy is a diplomatic and international communication activity aimed at foreign publics and seeking to create a positive image and/or political influence, contributing to the achievement of foreign policy goals.
On June 9th, 2015, public diplomacy scholars and practitioners coming from...
Gene Doping The Future of Doping?
Teaching Unit Gene Doping in Competitive Sports
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Gene doping is regarded as the form of performance enhancement in elite sports with the greatest potential which also raises issues for all of society that transcend competitive sport. This book brings together detailed concepts for lessons dealing with the scientific, legal, ethical, and social aspects...
Law, Politics, and the Constitution
New Perspectives from Legal and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The fourth Yearbook of the Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists reassesses central concepts of modern constitutionalism between the poles of law and politics: separation of powers, constitutional review, and constitutional rights and obligations. Fourteen...
Re-visiting World War I
Interpretations and Perspectives of the Great Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This book discusses various aspects of World War I. It focuses on topics proposed by contributors resulting from their own research interests. Nevertheless, as a result of common efforts, re-visiting those chosen aspects of the Great War of 1914–1918 enables the presentation of a volume that shows...
by Kenneth Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This book is a study of contemporary Buddhist-Christian encounter in Thailand. Case studies, which include a Buddhist nationalist group, a charismatic church movement, and a village community, describe the variety and nature of Buddhist-Christian relations. Arising issues – nationalism, identity,...
Child and Nation
A Study of Political Socialisation and Banal Nationalism in France and England
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Where do feelings of national belonging come from? Why is it that this belonging often seems both fundamental and banal, both intangible and omnipresent?
This book argues that the answers to these questions lie in childhood and the socialisation to the nation that we experience as children. It suggests...
Trasjanka und Suržyk gemischte weißrussisch-russische und ukrainisch-russische Rede
Sprachlicher Inzest in Weißrussland und der Ukraine?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Weißrussland und die Ukraine gelten als zweisprachig. Millionen von Menschen in beiden Ländern sprechen aber oft weder Weißrussisch bzw. Ukrainisch noch Russisch in Reinform. Vielmehr praktizieren sie eine gemischte weißrussisch-russische bzw. ukrainisch-russische Rede. Diese Mischungen aus genetisch...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Despite the considerable amount of criticism that Vladimir Nabokov’s literary legacy has produced since the sixties, the studies on his female characters are scarce, except the ones on Lolita. This volume delves into Nabokov’s women from different perspectives and points of view. The contributions...
General Education and Language Teaching Methodology
The Gdańsk School of ELT
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
This book presents a selection of papers on teaching English as a foreign language and the role of language education in human development. As thinking skills rely on language, language education should exceed utilitarian and everyday communicative needs and should be the basis for developing other...
Autumnal Faces
Old Age in British and Irish Dramatic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Autumnal Faces is a timely study within the ever-growing research on the ways older people and ageing itself have been conceptualized and represented in the popular imagination and, more specifically, in drama and on stage. Tracing this theme from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The essays included in this book offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and computer games, which reflect current social and political developments since the beginning of this century. The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial aspects of contemporary North-American literature...