Böcker utgivna av Peter Lang AG

With the development of industry, both social lives and economies have been significantly affected. Together with the Industry 4.0 revolution, significant changes have occurred in both the social life and the production process. As a result, different sectors are affected by this change.

The book demonstrates the ambiguity in representing North Greenland and the Inughuit in Knud Rasmussen's expedition accounts: The New People and My Travel Diary. The reading of both works is founded on postcolonial critical theory including colonial discourse analysis and Homi Bhabha's notion of ambivalence.

The aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementations to solve certain traditional epistemological problems and their metaphysical consequences.

The author of the book discusses the essence and social consequences of the postmodern era in the field of psychology of work and technology. He describes the relationship between the human being and the goals achieved through the use of technical tools, which is of interest to the industrial and engineering psychology.

Influence of politics on media, corruption of media and stereotypes related to the social minorities are, according to the authors, the most significant problems of the 21st-century Slovak media. This book explains why the existence of public media is important and why alternative media fail to inform truthfully, impartially and objectively.

The volume provides a collection of articles on current debates in the fields of politics and public administration. The authors deal with frequently mentioned concepts of our era in political and public administration sciences.

The book focuses on the interpretation of linguistic strategies of interaction between the sacred (the metaphysical world) and the profane (the physical world) in Polish folklore. An analysis of linguistic and ritual behaviour in the context of the origin myth reveals the use of symbolism common to many cultures of the world.

Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes steht die Frage, welche der in der Literatur diskutierten Patentauslaufstrategien unter Berucksichtigung der aktuellen Rechtslage und Weiterentwicklung der pharmazeutischen Branche noch anwendbar sind. Die Autorin erstellt daher ein Klassifikationsschema fur Patentauslaufstrategien und gibt Handlungsempfehlungen.

The book focuses on the translation issues connected with cross-cultural communication, selected linguistic and cultural components of nationality, diverse elements of humour and different methods and features of their rendition, intricacies of audiovisual translation and challenges arising in the sphere of a translator's professional training.

The book provides a new way to understand the often unspoken, silenced history of the Asian diaspora experience in the U.S. as articulated in fiction, especially the experiences of suppressed ethnic women who are subordinated by the powers of a male-dominated mainstream American society.

A comparative study of European cinema that explores the turn from national traditions to transnational cooperation. It reactivates the European peace project with a critical history lesson and new overview of culture bound syndromes, changing gender systems, and ethnic conflict fields.

The Islamic World comprises territories of Muslim states throughout the world. This area faces a lot of dilemmas regarding ethnic and religious conflicts as well as political and economic instability. The authors address the topic from the perspective of international security, foreign policy, economic and energy policy as well as regional studies.

This book focuses on the results obtained from Wing's musical intelligence test and the pronunciation test measured by three English native speakers and by Praat. It delves into a detailed discussion of the obtained results and attempts to find the convergence between the level of musical intelligence and L2 pronunciation ability.

L'examen des Å?uvres de Peter Kosminsky permet de mieux comprendre le caractere atypique de son parcoursã??: comment, en optant pour la fiction il est parvenu a porter a l'attention de tous, un travail de questionnement des politiques gouvernementales au Royaume-Uni depuis les annees 1990.

The intention of this book is a modern interpretation of the life and theological work of Jan Valerian Jirsik (1798-1883), the fourth bishop of Ceske Budejovice / Budweis (1851-1883) and a participant at the First Vatican Council (1869-1870).

Through several reviews and original work, the book focuses on three key topics: first, the role of real-time auditory feedback in learning, second, the role of motor aspects for learning and memory, and third, representations in memory and the role of sleep on memory consolidation.

Selected papers from Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 11), syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, phonology, experimental work, Slavic languages, Slavic linguistics, guest paper Noam Chomsky.

This book covers deep researches from different perspectives and disciplines upon migration by successful and expert researchers in their field. In this book, different and rigorous analyses of all areas influenced by migration were made in order to be one of the new reliable source about the immigration studies with various dimensions.

The book aims to bring together studies using different data types (panel data, cross-sectional data and time series data) and different methods (e.g., panel regression, nonlinear time series, chaos approach, among others) and to create a source for those interested in these topics and methods by addressing some selected applied econometrics topics.

The book presents an interdisciplinary and cross-genre study of the relationship between culture and psychopathology as concerns their essence, mutual influence on symptom formation, and on manifestation in mystical states, mental disorders, and treatment. Predictions about cultural trends and their impact on pathology and identity are made.

The fundamental determinant of the success of inclusive education is the quality and permanent interaction of its components. Key components are discussed from the aspect of pedagogy, psychology, special education, therapeutic education, social pedagogy, history, philosophy, psychology, law, medicine in its transdisciplinary correlation.