Bücher veröffentlicht von Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

This book proposes a series of ten "lessons" on many of the important ethical questions in human life, based on a wide-ranging series of poems in English. These poems are treated as testimonies to the poets' experience and understanding of such topics as forgiveness, centering, self-reliance, and one's ultimate parting from life.

Omniprésent dans les médias, le terme transhumanisme nécessite un éclaircissement académique. En e¿et, il n¿existe pas un, mais des transhumanismes.La parole est ici donnée à des penseurs de diverses disciplines, plus ou moins ouverts à ce courant d¿idées parfois taxé d¿idéologie, voire de menace pour l¿Humanité.Ces craintes sont-elles fondées ? Quelles sont les origines de ce mouvement de pensée ? Quels en sont les di¿érentes rami¿cations ? Quelles en sont les réalisations, notamment dans le domaine médical ? Un encadrement éthique et/ou juridique de ces pratiques est- elle nécessaire ? De nouveaux droits fondamentaux méritaient-ils d¿être reconnus ?La parole est ici donnée tant aux militants transhumanistes qu¿aux penseurs critiques än de croiser leurs regards.

The book Researchers Remember: Research As an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, A Collection of Academic Autobiographies is composed of over 30 chapters written by prominent researchers worldwide who belong to the "Second Generation" and "Third Generation" of Holocaust offspring.

The book concerns the church of Sant'Ambrogio at Milan. It discusses previously overlooked material which calls into question the conventional reconstruction of the building history. Correspondingly, it offers a reappraisal of the building's transmutations over several periods, from the Romano-Christian to the Romanesque.

This volume aims at bridging the gap between LSP translation, gender issues, and the professional world. The purpose is to broaden the discussion on gender awareness in LSP and translation.

This book explores if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The data are retrieved from parliamentary discourse and conversations corpora.

The book is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the author's path to making that choice, and describes and analyses her life after her immigration and at various crossroads of her life.

Many questions remain open about the transmission and international reception of pedagogical tools and methods peculiar to Neapolitan conservatories in the eighteenth century. This volume collects contributions from an international conference that was held in Milan and Bern in 2017 on these issues.

The volume examines the role of context in the production and reception of historical news texts from the 17th until the 20th centuries. The authors use various methodological approaches comprising historical pragmatics and corpus linguistics. The volume is divided into: British News Contexts, International News Contexts, and Advertising Contexts

The book analyses Tanzania's new challenges related to climate change, migration and COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the country's successes through a multi-disciplinary approach considering economic perspectives as well as conflict prevention, dialogue integration, climate change adaptation, forests' protection, and social perspectives.

This book aims at testing the insertion of eight Sardinian complex predicates inside the Interclausal Relation Hierarchy (RRG). This hierarchy grades them according to their semantic and syntactic cohesion degree. It introduces some first-hand diatopic data, showing that Sardinian verbal morphosyntax is more cohesive than phonological isoglosses.

This volume discusses vocational education and training and the tensions that apprenticeship faces in the new scenarios of production and labour market relations. It discusses weaknesses and innovation in well-reputed dual systems as well as the introduction of apprenticeships in non-dual systems and their coexistence with formal school VET.

In the early nineteenth century the theory and practice of translation received special attention in Italy, a country that was still trying to define itself. Translation, particularly from English, became a means of enriching the Italian language, culture and literature, laying the foundations for the construction of a new national identity.

This book assembles the contributions to the international symposium Narrativity and Intermediality on the Contemporary Stage, based on the hypothesis that theatre performances still tell stories after all. They reflect the relation between narration, theatre and intermediality nowadays.

Der Band basiert auf den Beitragen des Klassik-Kollegs "The Queen's Two Bodies", das im Juni 2018 an der Klassik-Stiftung-Weimar zwischen den drei Herausgeberinnen und Institutionen veranstaltet wurde: Elena Agazzi (Universita degli Studi di Bergamo), Gesa Dane (Freie Universitat Berlin) und Gaby Pailer (University of British Columbia, Vancouver).

Der Sammelband enthalt eine Auswahl der Beitrage, die auf der vierten internationalen Konferenz uber Heimat in der deutschsprachigen Literatur an der Universitat des Baskenlandes vorgestellt wurden. Darunter sind international anerkannte und mehrfach ausgezeichnete Experten wie Withold Bonner und Sabine Egger zu finden.

The portrayal of nature in works of fantasy is coloured by the corresponding context. This book shows how the natural world has been depicted within this genre, comparing the British tradition with Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle. Because of her specific context, Le Guin's works deviate from the received tradition in significant ways.

The monograph focuses on the characterization and history of the English reaction object construction (ROC) from the perspective of Diachronic Construction Grammar.

In this book are presented and analysed local scholarly perspectives on contemporary political, legal and societal developments in Kosovo and how path-dependent historical legacies set in motion prior to and during the war for independence, coupled with dependence on and interdependence with external actors shaped society and institutions.