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

Hans Jacob I. Gessner war fur die Stadt Zurich zugleich Munzmeister, Stempelschneider und Medailleur. Vor dem Hintergrund von Archivalien und der uberkommenen Munzen und Medaillen von Hans Jacob I. Gessner wird dessen Werdegang, kunstlerische Orientierung, Wahrnehmung der Verantwortung als Munzmeister von Zurich und dessen Vermachtnis beleuchtet.

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.

La didactique du francais ne peut faire l'economie de penser les effets des nouvelles technologies sur le francais et sur son enseignement. Cet ouvrage explore, de part et d'autre de la frontiere scolaire, traditionnellement etanche, les jeux de circulation et d'innovation qui en marquent la renovation.

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.

El libro analiza un corpus de cuatro obras de autor, dos filmes y dos cortos (espanoles y argentinos), investigando sobre la dificultad de trasladar al italiano imagenes y modismos, en especial expresiones coloquiales pertenecientes al habla soez o fruto del humorismo.

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.

This volume analyzes in detail Spinoza's reasoning in Tractatus theologico-politicus, identifies allies and enemies in its historical context, and explores its more or less obvious connection with the Ethica.