Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Learning-Centered School Leadership
School Renewal in Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This book, a sequel to A Resource Book for Improving Principals’ Learning-Centered Leadership, first introduces the content and process of the Learning-Centered Leadership Development Program. It then presents nine case studies and a cross-case analysis of how schools enacted the content and process,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as overtly preachy and rife with racially stereotypical characterizations and controversial themes. This...
Rodrigo de Valdés: Poema heroyco hispano-latino panegyrico de la fundación, y grandezas de la muy noble, y leal ciudad de Lima
Annotated, Edited, and with a Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Poema heroyco hispano-latino (1687), a national chronicle or “epic poem,” commemorates the founding and greatness of Lima, Peru. Its unique rhymed quatrains can be read in either Latin or Spanish with equal meaning, and its insightful marginal notes interpret the city’s cultural history. Rodrigo...
Casa en que nunca he sido extraña
Las poetas hispanoamericanas: identidades, feminismos, poéticas (Siglos XIXXXI)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Casa en que nunca he sido extraña. Las poetas hispanoamericanas: identidades, feminismos, poéticas (Siglos XIX-XXI) reúne artículos de destacados académicos y estudiosos de Europa y América con aproximaciones a relevantes autoras de la poesía de América Latina desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad,...
Scripts and Communication for Relationships
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The book is divided into five parts: (1) Emotions, Imagination, and Physiology of Relationships, (2) Bases of Relational Scripts, (3) Relational Escalation and Deescalation, (4) Relationship Scripts in Context, and (5) Cautions and Recommendations. The authors discuss the basis of relationship scripts,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
There is a significant amount of research that substantiates the connection between social support/relationships and the development, onset, and/or recovery of several physical diseases/illnesses. Research has shown, for example, that an unhappy marriage can increase the likelihood of becoming ill...
by Dwayne Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
In The Causal Exclusion Problem, the popular strategy of abandoning any one of the principles constituting the causal exclusion problem is considered, but ultimately rejected. The metaphysical foundations undergirding the causal exclusion problem are then explored, revealing that the causal exclusion...
No One Better
Essays in Honour of Dr. Norman H. Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In honour of the work and legacy of Norman H. Young, this compilation of essays covers a range of topics on the Old Testament, New Testament, mission, sociology of religion, identity, and church history. The Old Testament essays include typological readings of Esther, the goodness of God, and the...
Performative Listening
Hearing Others in Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Performative Listening: Hearing Others in Qualitative Research offers an alternative theory of listening – as a performative act, or as a relational stance and performance in which listeners ethically engage in an act of learning from others across difference. This theory emerges from an interdisciplinary...
by Irmengard Rauch
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The sixteen chapters comprising this book on the Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project offer over twenty-five years of research into the changing language of native speakers and first-generation American-German speakers residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1984 the principal project...
Applicative Arguments
A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and English applicative arguments. These arguments are nominal elements that are not obligatory parts of a sentence. Both German and English have several types...
Teacher Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom
A Practical Guide for Education Philosophy Courses
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Teacher Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom takes its readers into the deep waters of investigating teaching not simply as a profession but as a precious "way of life." The author begins by investigating the nature of teaching as both an "active" and a "contemplative" endeavor and inquires into the...
The Economic Gulag
Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The Economic Gulag: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Inequality is a trenchant critical analysis of the devastating ravages of capitalist patriarchy in our modern society and its pervasive and increasingly destabilizing negative influence on our views and values regarding power, gender, wealth, and inequality....
Across Three Continents
Reflections on Immigration, Education, and Personal Survival
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Born in Soviet Moscow, Katerina Bodovski was twelve years old when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, coming of age as the «perestroika» and «glasnost» movement gained full speed. She would later arrive in Israel during the peak of the peace process during which time Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated....