Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
by Kayle B. de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This book breaks fresh ground in the interpretation of the Apocalypse with an interdisciplinary methodology called aural-performance criticism that assesses how the first-century audience would have heard the Apocalypse. First-century media culture is probed by assessing the dynamics of literacy,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Communication is at the heart of any complete understanding of the end of life. While it is true that individuals physically die as a single entity, the process of ending an individual life is located within a complex system of relationships and roles connected and constructed through communicative...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The Handbook of Lifespan Communication is the foundational scholarly text that offers readers a state of the art view of the varied and rich areas of lifespan communication research. The fundamental assumptions of lifespan communication are that the very nature of human communication is developmental,...
Text in the Natural World
Topics in the Evolutionary Theory of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The study of literature has expanded to include an evolutionary perspective. Its premise is that the literary text and literature as an overarching institution came into existence as a product of the same evolutionary process that gave rise to the human species. In this view, literature is an evolutionary...
Journeys and Journals
Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora travel has been forced and selected...
Critical Education and Sociomaterial Practice
Narration, Place, and the Social
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Critical Education and Sociomaterial Practice presents a situated approach to learning that suggests the need for more explicit attention to sociomaterial practice in critical education. Specifically, it explores social, place and narrative dimensions of practical experience as they unfold in schools,...
Out of K.O.S. (Knowledge of Self)
Black Masculinity, Psychopathology, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Out of K.O.S. (Knowledge of Self): Black Masculinity, Psychopathology, and Treatment provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of racialized masculinity in Black males. This text explores the current theories related to gender development and racial identity development and their impact...
by Julie Warner
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This book provides a deeper understanding of the phone-based composing practices of youth and their implications for literacy learning. In the United States, smartphone use among teens is nearly universal, yet many youth who are avid digital composers still struggle with formal schooled literacy....
by April Larremore
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Young children’s access to knowledge about gender, relationships, and sexuality has critical implications for their health and well-being, not only in their early years but throughout their lives. This knowledge can build children’s competencies and resilience, contributing to new cultural norms...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Advances in Intergroup Communication is a timely contribution to the field. It reflects developments in older, more established intergroup settings (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, organizations) whilst introducing newer studies such as the military and political parties. It also pays attention...
Secularism, Education, and Emotions
Cultural Tensions in Hebrew Palestine (18821926)
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Secularism, Education, and Emotions: Cultural Tensions in Hebrew Palestine (1882–1926) aims to explore the sources of secularism, its social and emotional significances, its various expressions, and its thorny frictions with different religious environments during the first decades of modern settlement...
American Indian Women of Proud Nations
Essays on History, Language, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This multidisciplinary collection of nine previously unpublished essays presents new research in three interlocking domains: tribal history with a special emphasis on Native women in the Southeast, language revitalization efforts and the narrative knowledge inherent in indigenous oral culture, and...
Understanding New Media
Extending Marshall McLuhan Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Marshall McLuhan made many predictions in his seminal 1964 publication, Understanding Media: Extensions of Man. Among them were his predictions that the Internet would become a «global village,» making us more interconnected than television; the closing of the gap between consumers and producers;...
Female Images of God in Christian Worship
In the Spirituality of "TongSungGiDo" of the Korean Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Female Images of God in Christian Worship: In the Spirituality of TongSungGiDo of the Korean Church examines problems that arise from the use of exclusively patriarchal images in modern Christian worship. The author asserts that female images in the Bible could help worshippers find a relationship...