Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
El español y su evolución
Segunda edición
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 1, 2013
El español y su evolución es una obra compacta y didáctica, dirigida a los estudiantes universitarios que están haciendo una concentración en español o los que se encuentran en un programa de Maestría. Nuestro texto se basa en la evolución de la lengua castellana, desde sus orígenes en latín...
Opening Doors
Community Centers Connecting Working-Class Immigrant Families and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In 2014—for the first time—over 50% of those in U.S. public schools are students of color. Furthermore, children of immigrants, the majority of whom are of Asian and Latinx origin, are the fastest-growing population in the U.S. Addressing their needs has become an important issue facing educators,...
Social Media and Participatory Democracy
Public Notice and the World Wide Web
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Public notices are usually provided in the form of a document when something is about to be done or recently has been done by government. For about two hundred years these notices have often taken the form of legal notices placed as classified ads in newspapers.
With the onset of social media, government...
Dancing with Absurdity
Your Most Cherished Beliefs (and All Your Others) Are Probably Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Dancing with Absurdity explores the limitations of knowledge and argues that neither reasoning nor direct observation can be trusted. Not only are they unreliable sources, they do not even justify assigning probabilities to claims about what we can know. This position, called radical skepticism, has...
Voces femeninas españolas desde dentro
El discurso masculino reconfigurado por mujeres en "El libro de romances y coplas del Carmelo de Valladolid" [c. 15901609]
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 13, 2014
El presente estudio explora El libro de romances y coplas del Carmelo de Valladolid [c. 1590–1609] escrito por las hermanas carmelitas descalzas del Convento de la Concepción del Carmen en Valladolid España a finales del siglo XVI y principios del XVII. Por medio de esta monografía demostraremos...
by Zhou Yanxian
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
China is home to one of the largest and oldest societies in the world, and presently contains fifty-six ethnic groups. Among them is the Zhuang, the largest of the minority populations, which partakes in a very long history of preliterate oral traditions. This volume presents an introduction to Zhuang...
Funciones de género
Mito, historia y arquetipo en tres dramaturgas iberoamericanas. Lourdes Ortiz, Sabina Berman y Diana Raznovich
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Este libro examina seis obras que representan en escena tanto la sociedad latinoamericana como la peninsular, y dan voz a la desestabilización de los discursos hegemónicos de género, mostrando la arbitrariedad de los mismos. Las autoras elegidas para el análisis son la española Lourdes Ortiz,...
Mediated Eros
Sexual Scripts Within and Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This book makes a unique contribution to the field of media studies by analyzing the perpetuation of sexual scripts through news articles, films, TV shows, lifestyle magazines, advertisements, and other forms of popular mediated culture. Focusing on cultural differences between North America and Europe,...
by Xavier Kalck
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Few poets have been as adamant about the uselessness of their art in the face of history as American poet George Oppen (1908–1984), and yet, few poets have been as viscerally convinced of the important role of the poem in restoring meaning to our words. Oppen came to maturity between two world wars,...
by Ivo Komsic
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The Theory of Social Pulsation is a new social theory elaborated from the social phenomenology and philosophy of sciences’ standpoint. It represents an innovative interpretation of social phenomena postulated as active states of social actors including individuals, social groups, and social facts...
Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy
Insurrection and Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Critical pedagogy, political economics, and aesthetic theory combine with dialectical and materialist understandings of science, society, and revolutionary politics to develop the most radical goals of society and education. In Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy: Insurrection and Commonwealth, Marcuse’s...
Unsettling Research
Using Critical Praxis and Activism to Create Uncomfortable Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Unsettling Research investigates what can be learned from the journey of an insider activist researcher seeking social transformations around issues of gender in an isolated rural Australian community. Unique and risky in its undertaking, the research evolves to create a new discourse in qualitative...
Restoring Dignity in Rural and Urban Madagascar
On How Religion Creates New Life-stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Christian churches across the world such as the Lutheran church in Madagascar have long been engaged in what we would today term «development». The church has been deeply involved in humanitarian assistance and development work, especially in the areas of education and health. Restoring Dignity...
Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps
A New Form of Representation or Depictions as Usual?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Black Women in Reality Television Docusoaps explores representations of Black women in one of the most powerful, popular forms of reality television – the docusoap. Viewers, critics, and researchers have taken issue with what they consider to be unflattering, one-dimensional representations. This...