Peter Lang: 4879 books
Isotopias
Places and Spaces in French War Fiction of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This monograph is the first book to examine places and spaces in French war fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These places and spaces are presented as literary isotopias, or fictional «worlds», and analysed in a selective corpus of thirty-three novelists and forty-two examples...
Worker Resistance and Media
Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
With developments in media technologies creating new opportunities and challenges for social movements to emerge and mobilize, this book is a timely and necessary examination of how organized labour and workers movements are engaging with this shifting environment. Based on extensive empirical research...
Aristotle on the Meaning of Man
A Philosophical Response to Idealism, Positivism, and Gnosticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Why was (and is) Aristotle «right» and why are we «wrong»? In other words, why are Aristotle’s philosophical reflections on man and the world full, real, and convincing and why is so much of our modern philosophy partial and false? This work offers a detailed assessment of Aristotle’s thought...
Women in post-revolutionary Egypt
Can Behaviour Be Controlled?
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This book addresses how identity, structures, and agency affect women’s everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. The authors analyses the topic both on a macro- as well as on a micro-level. Through interviews and workshops, women around Egypt express their own experiences in dialogue, in groups...
The Gospel of Luke
A Hypertextual Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This commentary demonstrates that the Gospel of Luke is a result of twofold, strictly sequential, hypertextual reworking of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians. The ideas of this letter were sequentially illustrated by Luke with the use of numerous literary motifs, taken from other Pauline and post-Pauline...
by Peter Chidi Okuma
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
One of the great problems among most theologians and theologies today is to restrict and to think of theology only in terms of mere intellectual enquiry without any fundamentum in rei in the lives of peoples. The book is aimed at overcoming this gap. It establishes this reality through the story of...
Masamunes Blade
A Proposition for Dialectic Affect Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Affect is so powerful and represents such ripe territory for study that, in its infancy, conventions of research need to be established that attend to its particular motion and shape. Masamune’s Blade: A Proposition for Dialectic Affect Research outlines an original research method for the study...
Bishop Joseph Butler and Wang Yangming
A Comparative Study of Their Moral Vision and View of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book is a comparative study of the Anglican Bishop Joseph Butler’s and Neo-Confucianist Wang Yangming’s ethical enterprise. It first analyses, within their respective historical context, the two thinkers’ overarching worldviews and their seminal conception of conscience / liang-chih as...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
This book is a collective effort of scholars who elaborate on democracy, civil society and media-political relations in Central and Eastern Europe. The authors look at both theories and practices of media systems and democracy. They indicate problems, risks, challenges related to political transformations,...
Doing Critical Educational Research
A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from...
The Physician as a Rebellious Intellectual
The Book of the Two Pieces of Advice or "Kitb al-Naṣīḥatayn" by c Abd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghddī (1162-1231)- Introduction, Edition and Translation of the Medical Section
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The medical section of the Kitāb al-Naṣīḥatayn or Book of the Two Pieces of Advice by the medieval author cAbd al-Laţīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī (1162-1231) challenges the idea that Arabic-Islamic medicine declined after the twelfth century A.D. Moreover, it offers some interesting insights...
Lay People in the Asian Church
A Critical Study of the Theology of the Laity in the Documents of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences with Special Reference to John Paul IIs Apostolic Exhortation «Ecclesia in Asia» and the Pastoral Letters of the Vietnamese Episcopal Conf
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book investigates the role of the laity in the Asian Church. Lay people have three responsibilities: proclaiming the Gospel, be a witness of life, and the triple dialogue with the cultures, the religions, and the poor. Focusing on the triple dialogue, the bishops of Asia have offered fresh ideas...
The Personal Weblog
A Linguistic History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book outlines a coherent genre history of the personal weblog from the perspective of media linguistics. An analysis of a diachronic corpus (1997–2012) suggests distinct phases in the history of the genre. In addition to media linguistics, the author draws on methods from textual and corpus...
Récits mythiques récits modernes
La mythologie antique dans le roman contemporain de langue allemande
Language: French
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Dans l’après-guerre comme dans les années 80, la recrudescence des mythes grecs et latins dans une trentaine de romans de langue allemande entraîne un jeu passionnant de narration et de réécriture. Entre création et recréation, la redécouverte d’un mythe interroge à la fois un fondement...