Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Working for Social Justice Inside and Outside the Classroom
A Community of Students, Teachers, Researchers, and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
What were once distinct professions for serving others and building knowledge are now communities of workers struggling against a tide of increasingly unregulated capitalism that is being fed by human greed. Teachers have become education workers, joining a working class that is rapidly falling behind...
Prelude to Disaster
George III and the Origins of the American Revolution, 17511763
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Prelude to Disaster is the most comprehensive account of the fateful decision to tax American colonists. Unlike other studies, it emphasizes the central role of the young George III in the process. Central to this examination are George’s principles of statecraft and government, his thoughts on...
Riding the Fifth Wave in Higher Education
A Survival Guide for the New Normal
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
The Fifth Wave in higher education is breaking on American shores. Unlike the four waves that preceded it from colonial times through the post-WWII mega-versity expansion, this wave is disrupting all sectors of the higher education industry. It will sweep away those institutions—be they public,...
Belle Necropolis
Ghosts of Imperial Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siècle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Given the increasing presence of nonprofit organizations and their impact upon American society, colleges and universities are recognizing the need to offer courses and programs to train current and future employees, volunteers, and supporters of the nonprofit sector.
This volume, featuring empirically-based...
by Edward Lee Lamoureux
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Very little in the American way of life functions adequately under surveillance. Democracy itself may be at mortal risk due to the loss of privacy and the increase in surveillance.
Examining challenges in a wide range of contexts, this book investigates and critically examines our systems of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the...
Molefi Kete Asante
A Critical Afrocentric Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor’s space in higher education over the past three decades. As a historical assessment, this reader is a narrative that offers a constructive perspective of Afrocentricity, as the sheer mention of...
Servants, Masters, and the Coercion of Labor
Inventing the Rhetoric of Slavery, the Verbal Sanctuaries Which Sustain It, and How It Was Used to Sanitize American Slaverys History
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book by David K. O’Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It focuses especially on the contexts of coercion and on the differences in the roles of masters and...
Africas Last Romantic
The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Africa’s Last Romantic: The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom captures the drama and excitement of John L. Brom’s film expeditions from 1949 to 1962 through sub-Saharan Africa. Brom was the only explorer to follow the footsteps of Henry Morton Stanley and in a documentary interviewed...
The Convergence Crisis
An Impending Paradigm Shift in Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Convergence Crisis tells the story of an impending paradigm shift in advertising. Beginning in the early 1840s with the birth of the first advertising agency and momentum spurred by industrial systems, the book provides a historical overview of significant events and socio-cultural economic factors...
«Schools of Tomorrow,» Schools of Today
Progressive Education in the 21st Century Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The second edition of «Schools of Tomorrow,» Schools of Today: Progressive Education in the 21st Century documents a new collection of child-centered progressive schools founded in the first half of the twentieth century and provides histories of some contemporary examples of progressive practices....
Reading the World, the Globe, and the Cosmos
Approaches to Teaching Literature for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.
The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical...
Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning
The Project-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Purposeful Engagement in Science Learning provides a blueprint of how teachers and their students can engage in science learning that mirrors the way science is practiced. It is written for K–16 science educators as well as those in the informal science education sector. The framework for this book...