Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
The Wine Goblet of Ḥfeẓ
A Comparative Study of the Influence of Ḥfeẓ on the Fifteenth-Century Classical Persian Poet Jmī
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
In this innovative book, Bahman Solati presents a comparative study of Ḥāfeẓ, an internationally renowned poet in the West, particularly in Germany, France, and the Anglophone world for the past 250 years, and his influence on the fifteenth-century classical Persian poet Jāmī.
Having...
Learning from Counternarratives in Teach For America
Moving from Idealism Towards Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Grounded in the belief that hope comes from a place of reality, not necessarily popular ideology, this book explores the gap between designated and actual narratives within Teach For America. TFA founder Wendy Kopp stated that there is «nothing elusive» about successful teaching; people simply need...
by Michelle I. Seelig
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Communicating the Environment Beyond Photography is a modern look at how photographers visualize what is happening to people and places on a changing planet. Michelle I. Seelig draws attention to what compels photographers to focus on these important messages, what tools they are using to advocate...
Nurturing Sanctuary
Community Capacity Building in African American Churches
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
How are predominantly African American churches meeting the needs of young people? What resources of, and tensions in, faith leadership are shaping answers to this and other related questions? Nurturing Sanctuary analyzes ways in which the two most vital institutions of the Black experience – families...
The Plight of Invisibility
A Community-Based Approach to Understanding the Educational Experiences of Urban Latina/os
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Plight of Invisibility offers unique contributions that inform the use of a community-based research approach that examines educational issues identified by urban, Latina/o communities. It offers a new lens from which to understand the circumstances of Latina/o students in schools as they navigate...
The New Reality for Suburban Schools
How Suburban Schools Are Struggling with Low-Income Students and Students of Color in Their Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Since the year 2000, the population of people of color and of poor families in the suburbs has been rapidly increasing, making these areas far more diverse than they were a generation ago. Along with the increase in diversity has come re-segregation, leaving some schools with very high concentrations...
My People as Your People
A Textual and Archaeological Analysis of the Reign of Jehoshaphat
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
My People as Your People provides an in-depth analysis of the chronology, history, and archaeology associated with the reign of Jehoshaphat of Judah. The synthesis of these various elements illuminates a diverse geo-political picture of the southern Levant in the mid-ninth century BCE. In recent years,...
by Nancy A. Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Although parents and teachers are among the numerous socializing agents through which children learn about the world, media, too, has begun to take center stage as a substantial force in children’s lives. Media characters are some of the people being integrated into the social lives of children,...
Brewing Identities
Globalisation, Guinness and the Production of Irishness
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity– Irishness – it is simultaneously...
The Spike Lee Enigma
Challenge and Incorporation in Media Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Spike Lee Enigma is an exploration of ideology and political economy in the films and career of one of America's most controversial filmmakers. Since the 1980s Spike Lee has created numerous films that are socially challenging, some would even say radical, while simultaneously maintaining a collaborative...
Language of Images
Visualization and Meaning in Tantras
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
While Indian visual culture and Tantric images have drawn wide attention, the culture of images, particularly that of the divine images, is broadly misunderstood. This book is the first to systematically address the hermeneutic and philosophical aspects of visualizing images in Tantric practices....
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks
Volume 1- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The huge corpus of literature reviewed in this volume reflect current issues and discussions dealing with education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies, history, politics, multiculturalism,...
Mad Men and Working Women
Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This book was featured as one of thirty-four Epic Feminist Books in Teen Vogue magazine.
This book offers interpretive and contextual tools to read the AMC television series Mad Men, providing a much-needed historical explanation and exposition regarding the status of women in an era that has...
Beyond Columbine
School Violence and the Virtual
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
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School violence has become our new American horror story, but it also has its roots in the way it comments on western values with respect to violence, shame, mental illness, suicide, humanity, and the virtual. Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual offers a...