Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
European Projects in University Language Centres
Creativity, Dynamics, Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This volume offers a collection of best practices carried out in university contexts with the aim of highlighting the relevant role that Language Centres play in the field of language learning and the benefit they receive from European project planning. Issues such as intercomprehension, integration...
Choices and Constraints
Gender Differences in the Employment Expectations of Final Year Undergraduates in a University in Central China
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates’ employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an...
Christian Democrat Internationalism
Its Action in Europe and Worldwide from post World War II until the 1990s- Volume III: The European Peoples Party- Continental and Social Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
From September 2011 to December 2013 the Luigi Sturzo Institute in Rome along with the Centre of European Studies planned a series of international scientific meetings to study one highly important political subject: the commitment of Christian Democrats on an international level. This project has...
Multilevel Citizenship
The Right to Consular Protection of EU Citizens Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book is the first monograph on one of the least studied and most controversial European Union citizenship rights. Despite the importance of consular protection in a globalised world, many EU Member States are reluctant to recognise consular protection for EU citizens abroad as a right, leading...
The Transnationalisation of Collective Bargaining
Approaches of European Trade Unions
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
This book analyses the transnationalisation of collective bargaining by European trade unions, presenting key theoretical concepts and debates on the Europeanisation of collective bargaining and social dialogue.
The author uses comprehensive empirical evidence to illustrate that trade union strategies...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2015 provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the international level.
The...
Motion Pictures
Travel Ideals in Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This volume examines representations and explorations of travel ideals in contemporary international cinema. It assembles work from a diverse range of academic fields including anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cinema, culture, tourism, communication and language studies, with contributions from...
Power, Persuasion and Manipulation in Specialised Genres
Providing Keys to the Rhetoric of Professional Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This volume focuses on the study of linguistic manipulation, persuasion and power in the written texts of professional communication, to go further into the understanding of how they are constructed, interpreted, used and exploited in the achievement of specific goals. Such texts are here contemplated...
by Simon Schunz
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Ever since the first international negotiations on climate change in the early 1990s, the European Union has aspired to play a leading role in global climate politics.
This book engages in a longitudinal analysis of the EU’s participation in and impact on the United Nations climate regime.
It provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This volume is a collection of essays that presents both theory- and practice-based approaches to questions concerning the embodiment of sense.
Exploring the opening of meaning in sensible configurations, the texts also address the medial structures – at once aesthetic, bodily and technical –...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Este volumen se propone avanzar en el conocimiento de la actividad traductora desarrollada por escritores españoles del siglo XIX. Se insiste en los motivos que los indujeron a realizar tal actividad: como herramienta de aprendizaje literario o como resultado de su interés en la introducción o...
Conditioned Identities
Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This book contains selected papers from the meeting «Conditioned Identities. Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities», held in the Institute of Research in Identities and Society (University of Lleida) in 2013 and attended by participants representing different disciplines, discussing the imposition...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This book contains selected papers from the meetings «To think the Identity» and «Identities on the move» held in the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida) during 2010. The aim is to understand the reasons that allow social cohesion throughout the creation of...
Perverse Identities
Identities in Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The urgent need for the study of exclusive identities in conflict is ever more apparent in a globalizing world in which societies are becoming multicultural and complex and in which inter-cultural contact and the co-existence of languages and cultures comes increasingly to bear on the construction...