Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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À la recherche de l'homme nouveau
Rossella Maria Bondi
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 1 Décembre 2020
- 9781788743815
Cette étude innovante retrace le parcours de l'écrivain, musicien, dramaturge et peintre italien Alberto Savinio afin d'évaluer sa place dans l'avant-garde parisienne. Elle examine l'apport littéraire et la pratique de l'art moderne du frère de Giorgio de Chirico, cet autre Italien adopté par la cap...
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Africa's Incomplete Cycles of Development
Josiah Taru, Wellington G. Bonga, Kenneth Mahuni
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 23 Novembre 2020
- 9781433168192
Juxtaposing qualitative as well as quantitative facts across the broader African continent, the authors explore critical issues compounding developmental woes of the continent at the present. Despite the facts being on the fringes as explanations to the sluggish development of Africa, the authors sh...
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Taiwan Sign Language Interpreting
Riccardo Moratto
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 23 Novembre 2020
- 9781433180965
This book is the first monograph on interpreting issues related to Taiwan Sign Language (TSL). TSL is the language used amongst deaf communities in Taiwan. As far as interpreting from and into TSL is concerned, there are numerous issues and inadequacies to be tackled in terms of the professional ide...
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Learning to Disclose
Joni Schwartz, Rebecca Schwartz
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433183904
Joni and Rebecca Schwartz in their collaborative autoethnography, Learning to Disclose: A Journey of Transracial Adoption, are doing soul work. This adult white mother and black daughter reflect and dialogue around the places and histories that shaped their relationship. Through three voices: the vo...
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Plat?n's Reality, Baudrillard's Nostalgia
Anastasia Nicephore
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433182310
Plat?n establishes the principle that literature should cut through the notion of an ideal truth rather than be used as a vehicle for subjective visions and aesthetic tropes by those claiming to be `artists.' To engage with this centrality of human consciousness means to integrate a single source of...
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Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Anthony J. Nocella Ii
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433174421
Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K-12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirming communities where students, parents, advocates and community members collaborate to compose liberating and just frameworks that effectively define th...
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Gay Men and Feminist Women in the Fight for Equality
D. Travers Scott
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433162831
What did gay men do in women's liberation-and vice-versa? This book offers the first systematic investigation of the question. Conventional wisdom has offered varied and contradictory stories: Gay men were misogynistic enemies of feminism; feminist women were homophobic or androphobic; feminist wome...
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Binge Watching
Bridget Rubenking, Cheryl Campanella Bracken
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433161933
This book situates binge watching as one of several new television viewing behaviors which collectively contribute to a fundamental change in the way we view television today. Simply put, binge watching changes, or has the potential to change, everything: Engagement, immersion, attention to content ...
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The Transatlantic Culture Trade
Desrine Bogle
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433157257
This unique collection, The Transatlantic Culture Trade: Caribbean Creole Proverbs from Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, celebrates indigenous Caribbean Creole languages and one of their associated cultural vectors, Creole proverbs. It is particularly timely as 2019 has been designated by the Unit...
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Russian Regional Journalism
Wilson Lowrey, Elina Erzikova
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433171369
Russian Regional Journalism: Struggle and Survival in the Heartland takes an intimate look at the enormous challenges and small victories experienced by local Russian journalists across the post-perestroika and Putin eras. The book examines 13 years of journalists' struggles for independence and mea...
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Integrating Syrian Refugees in Eastern Germany
Kamilia Rostom
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433168079
This book covers the integration of Syrian refugees in Germany, especially eastern Germany. In this novel genre of "teddytext" the author visibly reacts with scholarly evidence to explain how eastern and western perspectives converge and differ. The author guides refugee integration by showing Syri...
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La recepción de Platón en el siglo XX
Claudio Cesar Calabrese, Ethel Junco
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433177880
La presencia de Platón y del pensamiento platónico se ha mantenido de manera incesante a lo largo de la historia de la cultura. En esta historia, el siglo XX refleja el rechazo y la aceptación, la recepción, en suma, de un modo inusitado tal vez porque, durante este siglo, la humanidad se vio cara a...
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Engaging the Critical in English Education
Sj Miller, Leslie David Burns
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 13 Novembre 2020
- 9781433160943
The chapters in this collection explore the implementation of social justice pedagogies with preservice teachers by members of the Commission on Social Justice in Teacher Education; a group of teacher educators from across the country whose primary goal is to prepare teachers to use socially just mo...
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Behind American Prison Policy and Population Growth
Chris Menton
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 30 Octobre 2020
- 9781433180002
In the final decades of the 20th century, a confluence of factors precipitated a policy change in the criminal justice arena that led to unprecedented growth. This growth translated into the criminalization, sentencing and incarceration of tens of thousands of marginalized people in the United State...
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Language and Identity in Europe
Vera Regan
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 27 Octobre 2020
- 9781789974478
This book brings together research perspectives on the theme of European linguistic and cultural identity. Its chapters are the responses of rising European researchers to the challenges of language and identity in the context of a multilingual Europe, particularly in urban settings. The authors exp...
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Cyber Security Challenges Confronting Canada and the United States
John Michael Weaver, Benjamin T. Johnson
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 23 Octobre 2020
- 9781433181023
This study turned the tables on a conventional understanding of the four instruments of national power (diplomacy, information, military and economic measures/D.I.M.E.) to see how potential adversaries could use these against the national security interests of Canada and the United States. Moreover,...
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Surfing the Anthropocene
Eric S. Jenkins
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 20 Octobre 2020
- 9781433179808
Surfing the Anthropocene shows how the "big tension" between the speed and scale of digital media characterizes affective life on the public screen today. An innovative look launched in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election, Eric S. Jenkins illustrates how the big tension is reflected in how...
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Imaginaires et représentations littéraires de la mobilité
Adina Balint
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 20 Octobre 2020
- 9781433176210
Qu'est-ce que la littérature contemporaine d'expression française (Canada et France) peut nous apprendre de l'expérience de la mobilité comme parcours créateur orienté vers le transculturel? Inspirée par les théories du mobility turn de John Urry et par la notion de nomadisme de Rosi Braidotti et ...
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The Mediation of Financial Crises
Sophie Knowles
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 20 Octobre 2020
- 9781433152337
In 2007-8 the world economy started its heady journey to recession. The Queen herself asked "why didn't we see this coming," but it's a question that remains unanswered. A decade later and it is still not clear exactly who is responsible for the crisis. The world has experienced the long-term impact...
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The Art of Listening
Anthony Arnone
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 20 Octobre 2020
- 9781433162954
In The Art of Listening, Anthony Arnone interviews 13 of the top cello teachers of our time, sharing valuable insights about performing, teaching, music, and life. While almost every other aspect of twenty-first-century life has been changed by technological advancements, the art of playing and teac...
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Religion and Racism
Theron N. Ford, Blanche Jackson Glimps
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 20 Octobre 2020
- 9781433160066
Religion and Racism provides an extensive examination of the paradox that arises from the intersection of being a Christian and a racist. A racist believes that one racial group is superior to another. Yet, since the nation's revolutionary birth, the United States claims a pious, devout mantle of Ch...
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Cosmotheism
Josef Chytry
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 20 Octobre 2020
- 9781433178474
Cosmotheism retrieves the importance of a cosmic approach to reality through its revival of the heliocentric creed championed by Copernicus, Bruno and Kepler, through its critiques of historical patterns of politics and technology, and through its sponsorship of emancipatory thinkers, artists, "psyc...
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Historia de la Literatura Griega
Rafael Carrion Arias
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 20 Octobre 2020
- 9781433144295
El libro que aquí presentamos está dirigido tanto al estudioso de la literatura y de la antigüedad en general, como al especialista en la filosofía nietzscheana en particular. Se trata del primer monográfico dedicado a un texto de gran importancia en el corpus nietzscheano: las lecciones de F. Nietz...
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Forces of Secularity in the Modern World
Stephen Strehle
- Peter lang inc., international academic publishers
- 16 Octobre 2020
- 9781433156229
Stephen Strehle continues his detailed analysis of the secular forces that shape the modern world in this second and final volume to the study, offering a fresh perspective and solid philosophical, theological, and historical conclusions from his years of research. He continues to find forces of sec...
