Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
The Curriculum
Whose Internationalization?
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The Curriculum: Whose Internationalization? asks a series of important questions in the re-examination of the internationalization of curriculum studies. It reflects the work of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Task Force – created at the American Association for the Advancement of...
The Future of the Library
From Electric Media to Digital Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Originally written in the late 1970s, this book was untouched for more than 35 years. McLuhan passed away before it went to press, but Logan always intended to finish it. Even though much has changed in the three decades since work on the project was halted, many of the points that McLuhan and Logan...
by Ben Stahlberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
While Spinoza is often interpreted as an early secular or liberal thinker, this book argues that such interpretations neglect the senses of order and authority that are at the heart of Spinoza’s idea of God. For Spinoza, God is an organized and directed totality of all that exists. God is entirely...
The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622641)
A Critical Revision of Muslims Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and Conquests
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
What motivated the early Islamic conquests? Did the Arabs fight for Allah, or for wealth and dominance? Were the conquerors principally Arabs, or specifically Muslims? Were the Muslim believers motivated by religious zeal to proclaim Islam to the non-Muslims? Consequently, was Islam spread by the...
The Best Surgeon in England
Percivall Pott, 171388
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Percivall Pott (1713–88) was a leading surgeon in eighteenth-century Britain. This work mines the rich biographical and bibliographical record Pott and his students left behind to add to the historical and intellectual understanding of pre-modern surgery. This was a time when surgery was becoming...
Gender and Violence in Spanish Culture
From Vulnerability to Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
For the true exercise of citizenship to occur, gender violence must be eradicated, as it is not an interpersonal problem, but an attack on the very concept of democracy. Despite increasing social awareness and legal measures taken to fight gender violence, it is still prevalent worldwide. Even in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The research in A Guide to LGBTQ+ Inclusion on Campus, Post-PULSE is premised on the notion that, because we cannot choose our sexual, racial, ethnic, cultural, political, geographic, economic, and chronological origins, with greater advantage comes greater responsibility to redistribute life’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Are we living in a post-colonial world? A colonial one? An anti-colonial one? Lifting the veil from language and politics, Anti-Colonial Theory and Decolonial Praxis uses case studies from around the world to explore and untangle these concepts as they relate to education. The anti-colonial prism...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Teaching with Disney, the first comprehensive volume on Disney as cultural pedagogy and classroom praxis, explores what it means to teach, learn, and live in a world where many familiar discourses are dominated by The Walt Disney Company. The book analyzes the ways in which the powerful messages of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This anthology provides exciting, innovative research focused on the construction of adolescent girls’ sexuality in the media. The volume includes a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences, addressing how girls and others respond to, work...
Mediated Girlhoods
New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Mediated Girlhoods, Volume 2 is an anthology devoted to scholarship on girls’ media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes studies of girls’ media representations, girls’ media consumption, and girls’ media production. In an attempt to push research on girls’ media culture...
Adolescents Online Literacies
Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
This revised edition of Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture features a variety of digital tools for humanizing pedagogy. For example, the book examines numerous artistic representations of young people’s self-selected graphic novels and fan...
Critical Youth Studies Reader
Preface by Paul Willis
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.
This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural capital,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
African Americans in the History of Mass Communication offers a variety of stories focusing on how African Americans use the media to educate, advocate, empower, and serve others. Stories ranging from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, which include different forms of media from cinema and music...