Peter Lang: 4879 books
What Does It Mean to Be White?
Developing White Racial Literacy Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin DiAngelo reveals the factors that...
Entertainment Public Relations
Communicating with Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Every show needs an audience. How do we find them? How do we reach them? How do we motivate them to buy tickets? This informative book provides an essential look at the public relations strategies, tactics, and tools that have put Hollywood entertainment at the center of global popular culture. It...
Microéconomie
Une approche critique Théorie et exercices
Language: French
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Une Microéconomie en accord avec les faits !
Cet ouvrage est d’abord un manuel « classique » de microéconomie où sont présentés pédagogiquement tous les thèmes habituels qu’un étudiant en licence est censé devoir maîtriser. A cette fin, des exercices simples avec corrigés,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This book gathers Polish and foreign scholars to consider diverse aspects of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). It examines key general areas such as the improvement of the position of the negotiating parties in the world economy, in politics and in international organisations....
The Middle Years of Marriage
Challenge, Change, and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Midlife can be a time of great change for individuals and a "make or break" period for marriages. Couples navigate a relationship landscape defined by such lifecourse landmarks as "the empty nest," changing roles at home and at work, aging bodies, and the need to care for family...
Bildliteralitaet im Uebergang von Literatur und Film
Eine interdisziplinaere Aufgabe und Chance kompetenzorientierter Fachdidaktik
Language: German
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Obwohl sich der Film als Gegenstand im Deutschunterricht etabliert hat, stellt sich die Frage nach Unterrichtskonzepten stetig neu. Dieser Sammelband thematisiert die permanente Veränderung der Inhalte, die im Kontext der Ausprägung von Visual Literacy zu betrachten sind, und fragt nach den Potenzialen,...
An Introduction to Visual Communication
From Cave Art to Second Life (2nd edition)
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Technological changes have radically altered the ways in which people use visual images. Since the invention of photography, imagery has increasingly been used for entertainment, journalism, information, medical diagnostics, instruction, branding and communication. These functions move the image beyond...
White Fatigue
Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
White Fatigue: Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice explores how, despite the pleas and research of critical scholars, what passes for multicultural education in schools is often promotion of human relations and tolerance rather than a sustained critical examination of how race and racism shape...
Terrorizing the Masses
Identity, Mass Shootings, and the Media Construction of «Terror»
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Why are some crimes identified as acts of terrorism, while others are not? How are critical terms like «terrorism» and «mass shooting» defined and understood in the 21st century? What are some of the causes of the unique American epidemic of mass shootings and gun violence? Terrorizing the Masses...
An Officer of Civilization
The Poetics of Michel Houellebecq
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Michel Houellebecq posits himself as an officer of civilization, offering a map of contemporary reality and according literature a substantial role in the field of public involvement. His unique style problematizes contemporary cultural processes and deconstructs the aesthetic and ideological thought-habits...
La perception des normes textuelles, communicationnelles et linguistiques en écriture journalistique
La perception des normes textuelles, communicationnelles et linguistiques en écriture journalistique
Une contribution à létude de la conscience linguistique des professionnels des médias écrits québécois
Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Cet ouvrage expose les conceptions de la langue et du texte que les professionnels des médias écrits québécois ressentent comme des normes – ou des obligations à suivre – en matière de rédaction d’articles. L’étude s’appuie sur une analyse de contenu d’un corpus d’entrevues et...
Livresse entre le bien et le mal
De lAntiquité à nos jours
Language: French
Release Date: December 19, 2017
L’ambivalence de la relation à l’ivresse est au cœur de l’histoire. Depuis l’Antiquité, des hommes et des femmes s’enivrent en s’appuyant sur des arguments complaisants et en laissant de côté les arguments moralisateurs.
Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de mieux comprendre cette...
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Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2018
L’ouvrage fait converger des éclairages singuliers sur le dandy, paradigme de l’individualisme moderne et de la construction de la masculinité. Le volume croise des approches sociologiques, politiques, littéraires et artistiques au sens large. Il problématise les traits du dandy historique...
Paths to Transnational Solidarity
Identity-Building Processes in European Works Councils
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
With national industrial relations systems struggling to keep apace with the global and mobile nature of capital, the emergence of the European works council has caught the imagination of both practitioners and scholars of this institution in the last two decades. European works councils find themselves...