Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The book derives from an European Science Foundation project about the cohesion of European regions developed between 2010 and 2013. Flocel Sabaté led into this framework a team of fourteen scholars looking for the reason of the cohesion and permanence of Catalonia from Middle Ages to current days....
Catalonia and Portugal
The Iberian Peninsula from the periphery
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Between 2010 and 2013 the European Science Foundation project «Cuius Regio» undertook a study of the reasons for cohesion of some European regions, including the analysis of the ways for cohesion of two peripherical Iberian entities: Portugal and Catalonia. A scientific meeting held in Lleida in...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This third volume of Naturally Hypernatural explores contemporary concepts of landscape in the humanities and the arts in relation to the notion that our age is defined by a ‘geology of the human’ and that this reckoning constitutes a new epoch, aptly named the anthropocene.
The thesis of this...
Football, Ethnicity and Community
The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Winner of the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017
This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of research on the...
Ethnicity and Tribal Theology
Problems and Prospects for Peaceful Co-existence in Northeast India
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The Church and wider society in Northeast India have witnessed a number of shifts in ethnic identity and the resultant inter-ethnic conflicts since the 1980s are threatening the peaceful co-existence of various ethnic groups. Caught up in the throes of such ethnic turmoil, people of the region are...
Image et philosophie
Les usages conceptuels de limage
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d’interroger en profondeur la manière avec laquelle, historiquement, les philosophes ont « pratiqué l’image dans le concept ». Les auteurs s’interrogent sur le recours à la visualité et à la métaphore dans l’élaboration des schèmes philosophiques à travers...
Supporting Internationalisation through Languages and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century University
Supporting Internationalisation through Languages and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century University
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
‘Internationalisation’ is a key issue impacting on higher education today, but what is actually meant by this term and how does it relate to the notion of ‘global citizenship’, which also features prominently on the higher education agenda? How does the promotion of foreign language learning...
From the Lab to the Classroom and Back Again
Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting Training
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This collection of essays brings to the fore some of the most pressing concerns in the training of translators and interpreters. It does so by acknowledging the primary role of research in both the development and the results of that training. The eleven chapters of the book, authored by a range of...
Higher Education and Second Language Learning
Promoting Self-Directed Learning in New Technological and Educational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This volume explores the challenges involved in facilitating student learning of second languages at university level. Easy access to information and communication technologies inside and outside the classroom, alongside an increasing tendency for students to play an active role in shaping their own...
Diaspora, Food and Identity
Nigerian Migrants in Belgium
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits.
The author...
Experiencing Music Restoring the Spiritual
Music as Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This book concerns an examination of the totality of the musical experience with a view to restoring the soul within it. It starts with an analysis of the strands in the landscape of contemporary spirituality. It examines the descriptors spiritual but not religious, and spiritual and religious, looking...
Introduction to Kalophony, the Byzantine «Ars Nova»
The «Anagrammatismoi» and «Mathmata» of Byzantine Chant
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The anagrams, or more generally, the mathēmata and morphologically related kalophonic forms of Byzantine melopoeïa, constitute the artistic creations by which Psaltic Art is known in all its splendour and becomes an object of admiration. Kalophony as ars nova was born following the recovery of the...
Communicating Europe
Journals and European Integration 19391979
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
This volume is dedicated to the debate on European unification developed between the end of World War II and 1979 in two types of magazines. The first type of magazines are those not exclusively dedicated to the «European» themes, but particularly significant for the impact they had in the cultural-political...
Ideas and Identities
A Festschrift for Andre Liebich
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This volume gathers contributions at the intersection of history and politics. The essays, covering such topics as diverse as Italian identity in the Tientsin concession, international refugee policies in the interwar period and after, and the myths and realities of the Ukrainian-Russian encounter...