Peter Lang: 4879 books
by Suzana Žilic Fišer
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This book explores a hybrid model of broadcasting and takes a close look at public TV broadcasting operating in a market-driven environment. While media and media institutions play an important role in democratic societies, their management is a complex process and has to coordinate the various demands...
Water and the Development of Africa
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book examines Africa’s water resources from pre-historic times to the present, illustrating how Africans and their rulers formulated water management systems to support water-sector activities including irrigation, livestock raising, fishing, river transportation, industry, and the generation...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This collection of essays is a tribute to Andrzej Kopcewicz, the first professor ordinarius of American literature in the history of English studies in Poland. It coincides with the centenary of Imagism and what would have been Professor Kopcewicz’s 80th birthday. The title alludes to his first...
Henry Jamess Enigmas
Turning the Screw of Eternity?
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Discovering Lamb House in 1896, Henry James fell under the spell of the words of Biblical «Wisdom» written on the tower clock of Rye parochial church: «For our time is a very shadow that passeth away». From the young bachelor’s «angry vow» to «live for himself and turn the key on his heart»...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June 2015 join their voices in demonstrating the vitally spiritual power of Christianity in the recently modern world (in twentieth...
«Miłosz Like the World»
Poet in the Eyes of Polish Literary Critics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Czesław Miłosz, poet, literary critic, essayist and Nobel Laureate, is a familiar person to the Anglophone literary community. But American and British critics in the main are not very competent in the intimate features of Polish literary culture and have no access to the Polish language. This volume...
Scientific Visualisation
Epistemic Weight and Surpluses
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Much of the recent confidence in the future of science and technology stems from advances in scientific visualisation. But is it right to assume that visual – and especially pictorial – measures carry special epistemic weight in the context of scientific reasoning? Do pictorial approaches have...
Conducting Hermeneutic Research
From Philosophy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosophical hermeneutic perspective. It is an invaluable resource for graduate students about to embark in hermeneutic research and for academics or other researchers...
Robotics in Germany and Japan
Philosophical and Technical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Germany and Japan are two of the worldwide leading countries in robotics research. Robotics as a key technology introduces technical as well as philosophical and cultural challenges. How can we use robots that have a human-like appearance in everyday life? Are there limits to technology? What are...
The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2015
New Generative Aspects in Contemporary Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2015 is dedicated to the question of generativity, and more broadly to the generative aspects of and in contemporary phenomenology. We continue to proceed in Husserlian research as well as to address newly emerging contemporary cultural,...
Psychology and Formalisation
Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book revisits psychology’s appropriation of natural scientific methods. The author argues that, in order to overcome ongoing methodological debates in psychology, it is necessary to confront the problem of formalisation contained in the appropriation of methods of natural science. By doing...
Uprooting Urban America
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race, Class and Gentrification
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Shifts in America’s socioeconomic geography have been documented since the 1960s, demonstrating the reversal of white flight and the reshaping of a nation, evidenced by the growing divide between underprivileged citizens and the wealthy. As state and local governments continue to scale back social...
Communicating the City
Meanings, Practices, Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
How human meanings, practices and interactions produce and are produced by urban space is the focus of this timely and exciting addition to the study of urban communication.
Challenging notions of the ‘urban’ as physically, economically or technologically determined, this book explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book presents a collection of papers written by researchers, teachers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of social sciences. The scientific studies include a wide range of topics from the analysis of social science textbooks to the teacher...