Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Gourmands and Gluttons
The Rhetoric of Food Excess
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From «supersizing it» to hoarding, we are living in an age of excess. Whether it is cars or housing, American culture is being driven by the old adage that «bigger is better». Yet, although we often overlook it, nowhere is this rhetoric of excess more on display than within our food discourses.
While...
Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth
Schools, Families, and Communities in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth brings together cuttingedge research, social action methods, and theory on the topic of transgender youth and gender creative children. Organized in three sections covering theoretical and clinical, educational, and community perspectives, the chapters...
Emerging from out of the Margins
Essays on Haida Language, Culture, and History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book provides an insider view of Haida language, history, and culture, and offers a perspective on Haida culture that comes not only from external research but also from intimate knowledge and experiences the author has had as a Haida Nation citizen. The book’s focus on language – past, present,...
America's Atonement
Racial Pain, Recovery Rhetoric, and the Pedagogy of Healing -- 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
The second edition of America’s Atonement: Racial Pain, Recovery Rhetoric, and the Pedagogy of Healing argues that racial pain is a driving force in contemporary race relations and is especially prevalent in social discourses on identity, fairness, and social justice. Despite its importance, racial...
Saving France in the 1580s
Writings of Etienne Pasquier
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Etienne Pasquier (1529–1615) was a renowned magistrate of the Parliament of Paris, a poet, an advisor to the last Valois kings as well as to Henri IV, and a founder of modern French historiography. This book examines Pasquier’s use of various genres: the dialogue, the published correspondence,...
by Kyle A. Schenkewitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized this discourse of healing to instruct and guide their followers in...
Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness
Views from the Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Whiteness is a narrative. It is the privileged dimension of the complex story of "race" that was, and continues to be, seminal in shaping the socio-economic structure and cultural climate of the United States and other Western nations. Without acknowledging this story, it is impossible to...
African American Males in Higher Education Leadership
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
African American Males in Higher Education Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities presents narratives from thirteen African American males working in higher education leadership. Their narratives describe the barriers and roadblocks that continue to impede them while climbing the ivory tower ladder...
Postgraduate Study in Australia
Surviving and Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Each contributor to this book was given the remit: "If you could go back in time to talk with yourself when you began your studies, what advice would you give?" Hindsight is such a bonus, especially, when vying for your doctorate or postgraduate degree. Postgraduate Study in Australia: Surviving and...
Real World Career Preparation
A Guide to Creating a University Student-Run Communications Agency
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
University student-run communications agencies allow students to work with real clients and get real world experience before they graduate from college and enter the workforce. Student-run agencies are increasing in popularity, but building a successful agency is challenging.
With more than...
Border Crossing «Brothas»
Black Males Navigating Race, Place, and Complex Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Book Award
Winner of the 2017 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award
Border Crossing «Brothas» examines how Black males form identities, define success, and utilize community-based pedagogical spaces to cross...
by Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance aims to address the contentious practice of assessment in schools and universities within a poststructuralist educational paradigm. Within the theoretical paradigm of Foucault’s (1994) notions of governmentality, subjectification and dissonance,...
The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism
Portraits of Four Teachers for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Through the artful science of portraiture, The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism presents the stories of four teacher activists—how they are and have become social change agents—to uncover important pedagogical underpinnings of teacher activism. Embedded in their stories are moments of political clarity...
Law and Popular Culture
A Course Book (2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Popular culture constructs our perceptions of law and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Now in its second edition, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book explores the interface between two subjects of enormous importance to everyone...