Books published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

This book focuses on the coordination between family life and professional career under the condition of repeated mobilities. It analyses the division between the labour force work and the care work of couples of highly-skilled migrants settling in either Switzerland or Germany.

This book aims to assess the issue of cultural heritage and illicit trafficking within the frame of a destabilized region and provide a historical and geopolitical understanding of what the Middle East is currently experiencing

The book analyses Iraqi Army's reconstruction in the post-Saddam era. Despite an apparent plan and a coalition in charge, the research identified multiple consideration, planning and synchronisation issues. The roles of actors like the United Nations or national governments are isolated and discussed through a unique method.

The publication is addressed to future translators and interpreters and to those who work or research in this field. From a theoretical-practical perspective, it presents original and innovative research on the complexity of the texts and their reformulation. It also includes works focused on interpretation as a process, product and profession.

Suivant les methodes de la lexicologie sociohistorique et les dernieres avancees en matiere d'exploitation de corpus textuel, ce volume etudie les origines et l'histoire du vocabulaire des arts de la table, a travers la constitution d'un corpus representatif qui s'etend du XVIe au XVIIIe siecle.

L'etude propose une reflexion sur les mecanismes ayant conduit au baby-boom en Suisse. Dans une perspective de parcours de vie et en recourant a des methodes mixtes, l'interrelation des trajectoires familiales et professionnelles des cohortes feminines est examinee au regard du systeme de valeurs promulgue dans la societe suisse de l'epoque.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary and novel approach to the historical evolution of identities in Europe - identities connected with regions as a multi-layered and processual key concept in dialogue and/or conflict with the emerging nation-state.

This critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized text of the Restoration comedy "Mr. Turbulent" . The introduction adresses topics such as the political dimension of the green spaces of Restoration London represented onstage; and the rethorical use of madness associated with the Bedlam hospital for the insane.