Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
New World View
Letters from a German Immigrant Family in Texas (18541885)
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
New World View: Letters from a German Immigrant Family in Texas, 1854–1885 is a bilingual and annotated edition of a collection of letters written by a 19th century German immigrant family in Texas. Christian Friedrich Bergmann and his family belonged to the large wave of German immigrants that...
The Country of the Blind
A New Interpretation of the Plays of Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The Country of the Blind challenges the reigning conception of Ibsen as social critic. It offers new and unique interpretations stressing his preoccupation with the limitations and failings of humankind that do not change, in particular one’s reluctance or inability to confront unpleasant truths...
by Charles Pavitt
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This detailed survey of present-day scientific communication theory rejects the outmoded «levels» organizational scheme in favor of a system based on the underlying model and fundamental explanatory principle each theory presupposes. In doing so it shows the fundamental similarities among all communication-relevant...
Movies Change Lives
Pedagogy of Constructive Humanistic Transformation Through Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Movies Change Lives is a rigorous interdisciplinary examination of cinema as a vehicle for personal and social transformation. Interdisciplinary scholar Tony Kashani builds a theory of humanistic transformation by discussing many movies while engaging the works of philosopher/psychologist Erich Fromm,...
by Florian Zollmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Prominent media scholars have argued that the dissemination of propaganda is an important function of the news media. Yet, despite public controversies about ‘fake news’ and ‘misinformation’, there has been very little discussion on techniques of propaganda. Building on critical theory, most...
War/Play
Video Games and the Militarization of Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The impact that First Person Shooter video games have had on the evolution of youth culture over a decade or more has been the focus of attention from political leaders; medical and legal specialists; and the mass media. Much of the discussion concerning these games has focused on the issues of the...
Wretched Sisters
Examining Gender and Capital Punishmend
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, fourteen women have been put to death in the United States. The criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particularly gendered context. Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that...
Web 25
Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Web. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Web has played an important role in the development of the Internet as well as in the development of most societies at large, from its early grey and blue...
Black Fatherhood, Adoption, and Theology
A Contextual Analysis and Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Black Fatherhood, Adoption, and Theology: A Contextual Analysis and Response is a qualitative exploration into the complex intersection of Black fatherhood, adoption, and theology. It is primarily based on the narratives of three Black adoptive fathers who formally adopted non-kinship children. The...
Toni Morrison and the Maternal
From «The Bluest Eye» to «God Help the Child», Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrison’s work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2015 novel God Help the Child. Wagner-Martin describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped...
The Early Runic Inscriptions
Their Western Features
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Why were runes invented? What did the Germanic peoples of southern Scandinavia speak during the first centuries CE? Can the earliest runic inscriptions be used to learn something about their dialects, and can we extract other information from their study as a corpus? The Early Runic Inscriptions:...
Whiteness Is the New South Africa
Qualitative Research on Post-Apartheid Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
In 1994, the world joined South Africa in celebration of the results of its first democratic election. The results, emblazoned on the world’s memory with President Nelson Mandela waving to a multiracial crowd, signified the end of apartheid and an emerging new era of hope. However, Mandela’s recent...
James W. Carey and Communication Research
Reputation at the Universitys Margins
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Winner of the 2017 James W. Carey Media Research Award
James W. Carey, by the time of his death in 2006, was a towering figure in communication research in the U.S. In this book, Pooley provides a critical introduction to Carey’s work, tracing the evolution of his media theorizing from his...
Teach For America Counter-Narratives
Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
In its twenty-five years of existence, Teach For America (TFA) has transformed from an organization based on a perceived need to ameliorate a national teacher shortage to an organization that seeks to systematically replace traditional fully-certified teachers while simultaneously producing alumni...