Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits – aesthetic, political, social, cultural, economic – of spectacle? How do we explain the inherently exclusionary, revolutionary,...
Schooling and Education in Lebanon
Syrian and Syrian Palestinian Refugees Inside and Outside the Camps
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This book provides insights into the education and schooling of Syrian and Palestinian Syrian children inside and outside Lebanese refugee camps. It describes what is happening to these children and young refugees in terms of their schooling. Investigating the perspectives of children, their parents,...
CIUTI-Forum 2014
Pooling Academic Excellence with Entrepreneurship for New Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The proceedings of the CIUTI FORUM 2014 outline in five chapters the different perspectives of academic excellence, pooled with entrepreneurship for new partnerships, focusing thus on an additional sense of innovation, fresh ideas and clever solutions in T&I training at universities. Therefore new...
Henry Jamess Enigmas
Turning the Screw of Eternity?
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Discovering Lamb House in 1896, Henry James fell under the spell of the words of Biblical «Wisdom» written on the tower clock of Rye parochial church: «For our time is a very shadow that passeth away». From the young bachelor’s «angry vow» to «live for himself and turn the key on his heart»...
by George Rick Welch
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book paints a flowing picture of the relationship beween life and nature, through the evolution of a word – physiology. Today, it denotes a scientific discipline at the intersection of biology and medicine, signifying the «study of life». Yet, physiology manifests a split personality in the...
Destination Italy
Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Italy is one of the most recent immigratory destinations in Europe, having long been one of the continent’s most important sources of emigration. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Italian peninsula is a crossroads of complex transnational movements and represents a unique and...
(Re)visiting Translation
Linguistic and Cultural Issues across Genres
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This collection of essays addresses translation as an evolving thread that metaphorically represents the essence of contemporary society. As translation is the main tool for global information flow, the constant necessity of negotiating meanings evokes the complex issues of contact, interaction and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport.
This collected volume investigates what is at stake in boxing in the modern world...
by Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor, Sylvain Paile, Quentin Michel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Chaudfontaine Group was established in 2010 as an annual two-day gathering of young Europeans with diverse academic backgrounds, including lawyers, economists and political scientists, from relevant national authorities, European institutions, scientific centres and industry. Its members are invited...
The European Democratic Deficit
The Response of the Parties in the 2014 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The «never-ending crisis» that started in 2008 and the technocratic and fiscal measures demanded by the «Troika» have aggravated the EU’s so-called «democratic deficit» more than ever before. In this essay the principal theoretical and practical dimensions of this phenomenon at the levels...
Christe Eleison!
The Invocation of Christ in Eastern Monastic Psalmody c. 350-450
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
For centuries the Jesus Prayer has been leading Orthodox Christians beyond the language of liturgy and the representations of iconography into the wordless, imageless stillness of the mystery of God. In more recent years it has been helping a growing number of Western Christians to find a deeper relationship...
by Jonathan Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Ruth: Bridges and Boundaries is a literary close reading of the text as a bridge between the anarchic period of the Judges and the monarchic age that begins with the birth of David, as reflected through Ruth’s absorption process within Bethlehemite society. This bridge is constructed from three...
A Very Special Life: The Bernice Chronicles
One Womans Odyssey Through Twentieth Century Jewish America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923. The oldest daughter of a family of Eastern European origin, Bernice had an American-born mother, but in other things was similar to her contemporaries, reflecting the lives...
Interdisciplinarités entre Natures et Sociétés
Colloque de Cerisy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Comment appréhender les phénomènes reliant faits de nature et faits de société qui constituent la majeure partie des problèmes critiques et irrésolus contemporains ? Comment dépasser le grand partage fondateur de la modernité et surmonter la division du travail scientifique en disciplines...