Peter Lang: 4879 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The papers in this book address the most fundamental, currently investigated problems in cognitive linguistics in a wide spectrum of perspectives. Apart from some traditional descriptions of particular metaphors and metonymies, there are analyses of spatio-temporal relations, motion and stillness,...
Christe Eleison!
The Invocation of Christ in Eastern Monastic Psalmody c. 350-450
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
For centuries the Jesus Prayer has been leading Orthodox Christians beyond the language of liturgy and the representations of iconography into the wordless, imageless stillness of the mystery of God. In more recent years it has been helping a growing number of Western Christians to find a deeper relationship...
The Discursive Dimension of Employee Engagement and Disengagement
Accounts of keeping and leaving jobs in present-day Bucharest organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
The book analyses organizational disengagement and its consequences at an organizational and at an individual level. The author argues for the existence of an additional dimension of employee disengagement, namely discursive disengagement. It is a distinctive dimension with respect to its dependence...
by Jonathan Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Ruth: Bridges and Boundaries is a literary close reading of the text as a bridge between the anarchic period of the Judges and the monarchic age that begins with the birth of David, as reflected through Ruth’s absorption process within Bethlehemite society. This bridge is constructed from three...
A Very Special Life: The Bernice Chronicles
One Womans Odyssey Through Twentieth Century Jewish America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923. The oldest daughter of a family of Eastern European origin, Bernice had an American-born mother, but in other things was similar to her contemporaries, reflecting the lives...
Mobile and Ubiquitous Media
Critical and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
What does the phrase "ubiquitous media" actually mean? Individual definitions are just as varied and ubiquitous as the media to which they refer. As a result, there is to date no large-scale theoretical framework through which we can understand the term. The goal of this volume is to provide...
Interdisciplinarités entre Natures et Sociétés
Colloque de Cerisy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Comment appréhender les phénomènes reliant faits de nature et faits de société qui constituent la majeure partie des problèmes critiques et irrésolus contemporains ? Comment dépasser le grand partage fondateur de la modernité et surmonter la division du travail scientifique en disciplines...
by Yonghong Yang
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book explores China’s perspective on sovereignty. The concept of sovereignty is universal, however, the understanding of it varies in different states and due to cultural backgrounds, history or the composition of ethnic groups. In order to comprehend China’s current perspective on sovereignty,...
by Tobias Benz
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In den zurückliegenden Jahrzehnten stellten der Bund und die 16 Bundesländer in großer Anzahl Beamte ein. Ausreichende Rücklagen für zukünftige Versorgungsausgaben wurden aber nicht gebildet. Aufgrund des Altersaufbaus der Beamtenpopulation werden die kohortenstarken Jahrgänge in naher Zukunft...
Citizen Journalism
Global Perspectives- Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; Providing a new set of case studies...
The Future of 24-Hour News
New Directions, New Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Over the last 30 years 24-hour television news channels have reshaped the practice and culture of journalism. But the arrival of new content and social media platforms over recent years has challenged their power and authority, with fast-changing technologies accelerating the speed of news delivery...
Arab TV-Audiences
Negotiating Religion and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Today the relations between Arab audiences and Arab media are characterised by pluralism and fragmentation. More than a thousand Arab satellite TV channels alongside other new media platforms are offering all kinds of programming. Religion has also found a vital place as a topic in mainstream media...
Jazz in Poland
Improvised Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This book studies the different roles that jazz played in Poland in the course of the 20th century, from its implementation in the 1920s, through World War II to the Third Polish Republic. The author, sociologist and jazz musician, depicts how jazz was forbidden under Stalin, accepted and even supported...
by Monica Kang
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The book explores cellular pivots as a new means of progression, functional tonality having disappeared in much of contemporary music. Béla Bartók can be seen as a kind of father figure to the other two composers, Chen Yi and George Crumb, in terms of their stylistic, technical, and even philosophical...