Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This volume addresses the crucial role of knowledge and innovation in coping with and adapting to socio-economic and political transformation processes in post-Soviet societies. Unique are the bottom up or micro-sociological and ethnographic perspectives offered by the book on the processes of post-Soviet...
Sunflowers and Stars
The Ideological Role of Chinese Childrens Rhymes and Poems in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This book traces a hundred years of the development of Chinese nursery rhymes, children’s rhymes and children’s poems from the early twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. It draws on anthologies of traditional and modern rhymes and poems published in The People’s Republic of China...
Fun for All
Translation and Accessibility Practices in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Video games have evolved to become a pervasive format which is beyond entertainment, enjoyed by a broad group of people rather than as a niche activity by hardcore gamers. However, to date, academic studies focusing on game localization and accessibility are few and far between, despite the fact that...
Microfinance
Battling a Wicked Problem
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A school of thought hails microcredit as a social innovation, a messiah to enable people to help themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. An opposing school of thought considers microcredit as a capitalist demon ensnaring the poor in poverty and debt. The layman and the million professionals...
Beyond the Systemic Crisis and Capital-Led Chaos
Theoretical and Applied Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The current crisis is the expression of the struggle of a dominant ‘fictitious capital’ over real capital to redistribute the global mass of wealth. It is translated into an expansion of assets in financial markets sustained by an inverted pyramid of credits without being backed by a major growth...
Building Europe with the Ball
Turning Points in the Europeanization of Football, 19051995
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Since 1990, football history has become increasingly important within the field of sport science, yet few studies have centred on the Europeanization of the game from the interwar period onwards. This period saw the creation of a sovereign institution dedicated to European football, the establishment...
CIUTI-Forum 2015
Pillars of Communication in Times of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The speakers of the 2015 edition of the Forum all showed a particular interest in interdisciplinary research and training. The representatives of translation industry, international and national entities and organisations, professional associations, trainers and researchers offered deep insights into...
by Daniela Preda
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Alcide De Gasperi is universally recognized as a Founding Father of Europe, but his enlightened action in favour of European unification is little known outside of Italy.
At the beginning of the 1950s, he became one of the most steadfast advocates of a European federation as a response to the...
The European Community and the World
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The European Community (EC) has taken on an outward-looking dimension over the years since its first establishment, developing structures and tools which are unprecedented in the history of international relations.
The original signatories of the Treaty of Rome accepted the idea of a «little» Europe...
Contribution à lhistoire du service public postal : de la Révolution au tournant libéral du second Empire
De la Révolution au tournant libéral du second Empire
Language: French
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Peut-on parler de service public dès le XIXe siècle ? Cet ouvrage étudie l’émergence de cette notion au sein de l’administration postale, ses grandes réformes, sa législation et la jurisprudence la concernant, et ce dès la Révolution française.
La vigueur de l’institution postale et...
Linguaggio e comicità
Lingua, dialetti e mistilinguismo nellintrattenimento comico italiano tra vecchi e nuovi media
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Il comico e le molteplici manifestazioni del riso sono stati già ampiamente indagati da vari punti di vista: filosofico, letterario, psicologico, drammaturgico, musicale e, non ultimo, linguistico. Ciò nonostante, lo sviluppo delle comunicazioni di massa e dei contesti sociali caratterizzati dal...
The Trend of «Socializing Social Welfare» Policy in China
A study on Service Quality and Social Capital in the Society-run Home for the Aged in Beijing
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
China has one-fifth of the world’s total elderly population. This rapidly aging population presents serious challenges to the state to develop a social service system. To satisfy increasing demands for diversified and continuous care, a policy known as «Socializing social welfare» was introduced...
The Weight of the Social Economy
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
What is the weight of the social economy? How should we measure it? Throughout the world, cooperatives, non-profit and mutual benefit organizations, foundations and other social enterprises play an important role in job creation, social cohesion, social innovation, regional development and environmental...
Global Food Governance
Implications of Food Safety and Quality Standards in International Trade Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
With increasingly globalised markets, changing consumer preferences and the steady development of technologies influencing food trade flows, safety and quality concerns have triggered the development of new forms of global (food) governance. Since its creation in 1995, the World Trade Organization...