Peter Lang: 4879 books
Rethinking Black Motherhood and Drug Addictions
Counternarratives of Black Family Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Rethinking Black Motherhood and Drug Addictions: Counternarratives of Black Family Resilience offers a unique perspective on the complexities of being a Black mother addicted to crack, powder cocaine, heroin, and crank. Qualitative interviews provide rich narratives from five Black mothers challenging...
Musica Mathematica
Traditions and Innovations in Contemporary Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The concept of «musica mathematica*»* seeks to accurately examine the intersection of two seemingly radically different subject areas. From the perspective of a European perception, the definition of the science of music was a result of the Pythagorean concept of universal harmony. The Pythagoreans...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This third volume of Naturally Hypernatural explores contemporary concepts of landscape in the humanities and the arts in relation to the notion that our age is defined by a ‘geology of the human’ and that this reckoning constitutes a new epoch, aptly named the anthropocene.
The thesis of this...
From Goethe to Novalis
Studies in Classicism and Romanticism: "Festschrift" for Dennis F. Mahoney in Celebration of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This Festschrift in honor of Dennis F. Mahoney’s sixty-fifth birthday is somewhat different from the standard Festschrift: rather than present essays from various authors, this Festschrift collects twenty-one of Mahoney’s most important English-language publications on German Classicism and Romanticism...
Football, Ethnicity and Community
The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Winner of the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017
This book is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. Covering the years 1970 to 2010, it seeks to address the paucity of research on the...
The Embodiment of Authority
Perspectives on Performances
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Performance is a forum for social action, embodied interaction and shared authority. Recently, as the various acts and agencies surrounding a performance have become the target of scholarly interest, the complex split between theory and practice has been challenged, as has the idea of a singular,...
Ethnicity and Tribal Theology
Problems and Prospects for Peaceful Co-existence in Northeast India
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The Church and wider society in Northeast India have witnessed a number of shifts in ethnic identity and the resultant inter-ethnic conflicts since the 1980s are threatening the peaceful co-existence of various ethnic groups. Caught up in the throes of such ethnic turmoil, people of the region are...
Communicating Music
Festschrift fuer Ernst Lichtenhahn zum 80. Geburtstag Festschrift for Ernst Lichtenhahns 80th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Ernst Lichtenhahn ist ohne Übertreibung ein Doyen der schweizerischen Musikforschung. Als einer der wenigen Musikwissenschaftler im deutschsprachigen Raum hat er unterschiedliche sprachkulturelle und disziplinäre Forschungstraditionen zusammengeführt. In seinem Wissenschaftsverständnis sind historische...
The Music of Chopin and the Rule of St Benedict
A Mystical Panorama of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The book defines and describes the relationships between Chopin’s music and one of the oldest but still used monastic rules, the Rule of Saint Benedict. Its goal is to construct bridges between music and spirituality. Since these two realms both refer to human life, the chapters of the book deal...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This volume contains a collection of papers by an international team of scholars covering the subject of literary character in Roman poetry. The list of authors discussed in the book includes the most prominent poets of Augustan and Imperial period like Horace, Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, Lucan and...
Image et philosophie
Les usages conceptuels de limage
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d’interroger en profondeur la manière avec laquelle, historiquement, les philosophes ont « pratiqué l’image dans le concept ». Les auteurs s’interrogent sur le recours à la visualité et à la métaphore dans l’élaboration des schèmes philosophiques à travers...
by Dietmar Tatzl
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This book offers a macrostrategy for teaching English as a foreign language to students in tertiary degree programmes. This teaching strategy has been developed from various methodological currents in higher education and language didactics. The volume provides inspiration, ideas and practical examples...
Supporting Internationalisation through Languages and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century University
Supporting Internationalisation through Languages and Culture in the Twenty-First-Century University
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
‘Internationalisation’ is a key issue impacting on higher education today, but what is actually meant by this term and how does it relate to the notion of ‘global citizenship’, which also features prominently on the higher education agenda? How does the promotion of foreign language learning...
Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education
From Theory to Practice- Selected papers from the 2013 ICLHE Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Higher education has seen dramatic changes in the past quarter of a century, notably in the language used for instruction. Universities worldwide are increasingly switching to English enabling them to attract a wide student population. This book presents a new collection of original papers showing...