Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Radical Love
A Revolution for the 21 st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Radical Love is a study about the phenomenon of love. Radical love allows for both passionate and egalitarian relationships and, in Gómez’s words, «a revolution for the twenty-first century.»
Argumentative and Aggressive Communication
Theory, Research, and Application Second edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Now in its second edition, Argumentative and Aggressive Communication is the only text dedicated to the presentation and synthesis of research, theory, and application efforts on the aggressive communication traits of argumentative and verbal aggressiveness.
In this updated edition, Rancer and Avtgis...
Inheritance and Inflectional Morphology
Old High German, Latin, Early New High German, and Koine Greek
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Inheritance, which has its origins in the field of artificial intelligence, is a framework focusing on shared properties. When applied to inflectional morphology, it enables useful generalizations within and across paradigms. The inheritance tree format serves as an alternative to traditional paradigms...
Comunidades efímeras
Grupos de vanguardia y neovanguardia en la novela hispanoamericana del siglo XX
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Comunidades efímeras estudia una de las vetas más interesantes, y menos visitadas por la crítica, de la imaginación literaria hispanoamericana: la representación novelística de pequeños grupos de vanguardia y neovanguardia que transforman la vida en arte, conspiran contra las instituciones...
Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (19791980)
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979–1980) examines the most expressive medium in Somali culture and politics, that is, oral poetry, in its ideological and discursive dimension. Oral poetry has a formidable impact...
by Seymour W. Itzkoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Judaism’s Promise, Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W. Itzkoff’s well-received three-book series, Who Are the Jews? Judaism’s Promise, confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries allowing it and its people a path of leadership into the modern...
Existential Philosophy and the Promise of Education
Learning from Myths and Metaphors
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Myths and metaphors share not only an ability to call our attention to aspects of our world of which we were previously unaware, but also a propensity toward symbolic meanings and interpretations. In Existential Philosophy and the Promise of Education: Learning from Myths and Metaphors, Professor...
Community-Based Multiliteracies and Digital Media Projects
Questioning Assumptions and Exploring Realities
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Within community-based digital literacies work, a fundamental question remains unanswered: Where are the stories and reflections of the researchers, scholars, and community workers themselves? We have learned much about contexts, discourses, and the multimodal nature of meaning making in literacy...
Tweening the Girl
The Crystallization of the Tween Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Tweening the Girl challenges the argument that the tween market began in the mid-1990s. It was actually during the 1980s that young girls were given the label «tweens» and were heralded by marketers, and subsequently the news media, as one of «capitalism’s most valuable customers». Tweening...
Disrupting Data in Qualitative Inquiry
Entanglements with the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Disrupting Data in Qualitative Inquiry: Entanglements with the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric expands qualitative researchers’ notions of data and exemplifies scholars’ different encounters and interactions with data. In Disrupting Data in Qualitative Inquiry data has become an exploratory...
Here's Looking at You
Hollywood, Film and Politics, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Now in its updated and expanded fourth edition, Here’s Looking at You: Hollywood, Film & Politics examines how the tangled relationship between Hollywood’s global film industry and the politics of federal and state governments manifests itself in the real world of political campaigns and in...
The Souls of Yoruba Folk
Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how Yoruba peoples in the African...
Fierce Entanglements
Communication and Ethnopolitical Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
The third in a trilogy on communication and ethnopolitical conflict, this book focuses on multicultural groups significantly divided by politics and religion. These groups have become «fiercely entangled»; that is, they are inescapably politically, socially, and culturally interdependent. Using...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Demographers have repeatedly confirmed that the nuclear family is on the decline. Yet when Americans are asked about their ideal family, the nuclear family emerges as the most valued kind of family. Members of families that do not match this cultural ideal face a discursive burden to legitimate their...