Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
The Rhizome of Blackness
A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. They enter a «social imaginary» where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture,...
Philosophic Thoughts
Essays on Logic and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Philosophic Thoughts: Essays on Logic and Philosophy comprises a collection of essays on logic and philosophy. The first section features essays that address issues in informal logic, such as the question of whether fallacies are common and the nature of the ad baculum and ad hominem fallacies. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Family Communication in the Age of Digital and Social Media is an innovative collection of contemporary data-driven research and theorizing about how digital and social media are affecting and changing nearly every aspect of family interaction over the lifespan. The research and thinking featured...
Digital Literacy
A Primer on Media, Identity, and the Evolution of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The Internet, World Wide Web, and digital devices have fundamentally changed the way people communicate, affecting everything from business, to school, to family, to religion, to democracy. This textbook takes a well-rounded view of the evolution from media literacy to digital literacy to help students...
Diaspora Studies in Education
Toward a Framework for Understanding the Experiences of Transnational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The Latino/a diaspora is undoubtedly transforming the demographics and cultural geographies of the United States. Diaspora Studies in Education advances an active use of the concept of «diaspora», focusing on processes that impact the diasporization of the Latino/a population, and more specifically,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly healthy...
Church and Chapel in Industrializing Society
Anglican Ministry and Methodism in Shropshire, 17601785
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Church and Chapel in Industrializing Society: Anglican Ministry and Methodism in Shropshire, 1760–1785 envelopes a new and provocative revisionist history of Methodism and the Church of England in the eighteenth century, challenging the Church’s perception as a varied body with myriad obstacles...
Black Feminism in Education
Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out, authors use an endarkened feminist lens to share the ways in which they have learned to resist, adapt, and re-conceptualize education research, teaching, and learning in ways that serve the individual, community, nation, and all...
From Bricolage to Métissage
Rethinking Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Environmental Education and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Rethinking Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Environmental Education and Research arose from a physical and philosophical journey that critically considered the relationship between Western, Indigenous, and other culturally rooted ecological knowledge systems and philosophies. This book shares...
by Serie McDougal III
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The revised edition of Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general. The first edition was the first of its kind, offering instruction on how to conduct culturally relevant critical...
Against Indifference
Four Christian Responses to Jewish Suffering during the Holocaust (C. S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, André and Magda Trocmé)
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Against Indifference analyzes four responses to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust, moving on a spectrum from indifference to courageous action. C. S. Lewis did little to speak up for victimized Jews; Thomas Merton chose to enclose himself in a monastery to pray for and expiate the sins of a world...
Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations
Al-Jazeera and Qatars Soft Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Intercultural Communication as a Clash of Civilizations argues that Al-Jazeera is not an agent of globalization, as is widely argued, but a tool used by the Qatari government to advance its political as well as Islamist goals. This book also maps the Western tendency to reject the network outright...
On the Pedagogy of Suffering
Hermeneutic and Buddhist Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This text articulates how and why suffering can be pedagogical in character and how it is often key to authentic and meaningful acts of teaching and learning. This is an ancient idea from the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus (c. 525 BCE) – pathei mathos or «learning through suffering». In our understandable...
Cryptographic Crimes
The Use of Cryptography in Real and Fictional Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book examines the use of cryptography in both real and fictional crimes—a topic that is rarely broached. It discusses famous crimes, such as that of the Zodiac Killer, that revolve around cryptic messages and current uses of encryption that make solving cases harder and harder. It then draws...