Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Epistemic Principles
A Primer for the Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Epistemic Principles: A Primer of the Theory of Knowledge presents a compact account of the basic principles of the theory of knowledge. In doing this, Nicholas Rescher aims to fill the current gap in contemporary philosophical theory of knowledge with a comprehensive analysis of epistemological fundamentals....
Hollywood Raises Political Consciousness
Political Messages in Feature Films
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Feature films are jam-packed with political messages. This volume provides the tools for analyzing the politics embedded in films. Contributors reveal how subliminal messages are a clue to how the public perceives political reality through otherwise entertaining feature films.
The volume is divided...
Sacramental Politics
Religious Worship as Political Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Religion and politics have often been called taboo topics for polite dinner conversation, but in political campaigns and religious services, the two often mix. This book looks at how religious worship remains embedded with inherent political messages and behaviors, showing that conflicts between church...
by Kathryn R. Dungy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With the growing interest in the history of peoples of African descent in the Americas, narratives addressing regions outside of the United States are becoming increasingly popular. The Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800–1850 illuminates the role people of African descent played...
by Patricia H. Hinchey, Youb Kim
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
As the number of English language learners across the United States – and indeed, the world – increases exponentially, it is critical that pre-service teachers be prepared. Many currently available instructional materials are written primarily for practicing teachers, not for pre-service teachers...
Through a Lens Darkly
Films of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
While the ashes of the Holocaust were still fresh, Polish Jewish attorney Raphael Lemkin put a name to the tragedy that had decimated his family – genocide. The twentieth century was brutally scarred by the massive scale of genocide and its manifest forms of ethnic cleansing, massacres, and atrocities....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
The Internet’s explosive growth over the past decade is nowhere more visible than in Asia. Fueled by an expanding middle class, thousands of people connect to the Internet for the first time each day to explore and discuss issues that are relevant to them and their lives.
This book provides an in-depth...
Educating for Democratic Consciousness
Counter-Hegemonic Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
There is a widespread, but mainly untenable, assumption that education in Western societies (and elsewhere) intuitively and horizontally aids the democratic development of people. An argument could...
by Amy Shore
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In the 1910s, the American woman suffrage movement became a modern mass movement by using visual culture to transform consciousness and gain adherents. As part of this transformation, suffrage organizations produced several films and related cinematic projects, including four full-length, nationally...
Sepharad as Imagined Community
Language, History and Religion from the Early Modern Period to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This volume is a multidisciplinary contribution to Sephardic studies, including chapters by some of the best-known authorities in the field, interspersed with those of young scholars who have begun making their mark in current research. The text aims to enrich this emerging field through historical...
Summer of Rage
An Oral History of the 1967 Newark and Detroit Riots
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Drawing on oral history interviews and archival materials, Summer of Rage examines the causes and consequences of urban unrest that occurred in Newark and Detroit during the summer of 1967. It seeks to give voice to those who experienced these events firsthand and places personal narratives in a broader...
Global Dialectics in Intercultural Communication
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book is an edited collection of case studies of contemporary issues in culture and communication around the world. Framed around a dialectical approach to intercultural communication, this collection offers a useful framework for thinking about contemporary research in this area. It offers in-depth...
Gender and Sexualities in Education
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This volume is about the education of gender and sexualities, which is to say it explores how gender and sexuality identities and differences get constructed through the process of education and «schooling». Wittingly or not, educational institutions and educators play an important role in «normalizing»...
Humanitys Evolutionary Destiny
A Darwinian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Humans are biological creatures first. Culture is an expression of our brain and neurological function. Intelligence is the key to the flourishing of the human super-species. Humanity has reached the point where two sub-species are now competing within the earthly ecology. These are not defined by...