Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Communication and the Baseball Stadium
Community, Commodification, Fanship, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Baseball stadia are places of memory, identity, athletic and architectural accomplishment. They are sites capable of arousing passion, sentimentality and a sense of community. The baseball stadium provides a unique lens through which to understand, explore and expand an understanding of communication...
Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en literatura y cine postdictatorial
Eltit, Fuguet, "Johnny cien pesos" de Graef-Marino y "Machuca"de Wood
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en la literatura y el cine podictatorial analiza discursos narrativos sobre el legado de la dictadura militar en Chile. El argumento inicial del libro indica que los «discursos apocalípticos» que representan el legado de Pinochet como opresivo...
by Jorge Serrano
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
African antiquity has been discerned both nullifyingly and constructively. Uses of African Antiquity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries reveals how reading the past can be extended to understand sensitivities involving origins and how it imparts collective posture. The ancient historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This book engages with the mediatized dynamics of political, military and cultural conflicts. In today’s global and converging media environment, the interrelationship between media and conflict has been altered and intensified. No longer limited to the realms of journalism and political communication,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In an era in which The Episcopal Church and the Church of England have become increasingly alarmed about numerical decline, Christian proclamation has become more important than ever. To fully meet this challenge, Anglicans must reclaim a vocation to preach the good news with both deep theological...
by Jeremy Stephen Roethler
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Through the last century, Catholic fraternity alumni have served as German chancellors, presidents, federal ministers, state executives, and leading voices in Germany’s parliament. They have played leading roles in the Catholic press, in Catholic youth groups, in Catholic civic associations, and...
Venezuela Heroica
Historical Vignettes
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
For more than a century, Venezuela Heroica has been a source of inspiring stories for Venezuelan schoolchildren. Now ably translated and profusely annotated, the book retains the literary beauty and entertaining character of the original, presenting a vivid account of the Venezuelan wars waged against...
Each Child Is My Only One
Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbis Wife
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In Each Child Is My Only One: Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi’s Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively household of a rabbi’s...
A Communication Perspective on the Military
Interactions, Messages, and Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A Communication Perspective on the Military brings into focus the challenge of sense-making in the war state. How do military family members talk to one another about the stress of deployment on their lives? How do media – old and new – render the costs of war meaningful? How is the narrative...
Experiencing Same-Sex Marriage
Individuals, Couples, and Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This book provides an understanding of how the legal and cultural debates and advances and limitations on same-sex marriage are experienced by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) people, same-sex couples, and their social networks. Using data collected from hundreds of GLBT people, same-sex...
Bearslayers
The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The 1959 purge of the Latvian national communists has long been cast in black-and-white terms: Russification and resistance; victimizers and victims. Conventional wisdom holds that Nikita Khrushchev was behind the purge. After all, he was the Soviet premier; he stopped in Riga just a few weeks before;...
Religious Authority and the Arts
Conversations in Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The transcripted conversations that represent the substance of this volume are the result of a research project funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. The product of nearly three years of interviews conducted with senior religious figures from a diversity of religious...
Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political,...
Socialist Literature
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Socialist Literature studies the relationship between the development of socialist literary theory and the process of cultural transformation in modern society by tracing the outline of the theory in the works of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, and examining its reflection in actual works of literature. This...