Books published by Peter Lang AG

Every single human being is becoming unintentionally more and more dependent on Information and Communication technologies. In a reality of ambient intelligence we all sacrifice our rights for the sake of convenience and security.

Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies or cognitive skills? Are doomed to disintegration and an episodic self? This book examines how technologies affect our selves from the perspective of health humanities (e.g., transplantology, bionics, disability studies), phenomenology, philosophy of mind and posthumanism

The book deals with the fate of Poles from Poznan, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania, who served in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. In regiments recruited on the Polish soil, it was common to use the Polish language, and from 1917 Poles deserted to the Polish Army in France

Was ist im umsatzsteuerlichen Sinn unter Wettbewerb zu verstehen? Trennt man privates und hoheitliches Handeln konsequent anhand des Wettbewerbsmerkmals, so werden Kriterien wie die rechtliche Gestalt des Handelnden oder die Form der Handlung uberflussig.

The book deals with the issue of the Holocaust in the Polish literature for children and adolescents. Drawing upon some of the leading Polish authors of the twentieth and the twentieth-first centuries, the author reveals the historical, ideological, and cultural entanglement of their works.

Die Studie basiert auf einem Korpus von mehrsprachigen Gesprachen in der Auslandsgermanistik. Es wird nachgewiesen, dass das auftretenden Codeswitching und Codemixing in der Community regelhaft erfolgt. Es finden sich Praktiken dafur, wie zwischen Deutsch und Schwedisch gewechselt bzw. die Sprachen grammatikalisch ineinander eingebettet werden.

The work argues strongly that child adoption is something good and noble when it aims at the good and welfare of the child but at the same time not relegating the welfare of the adoptive parents to the background.

This book presents a comprehensive picture of binding relations in Polish and specifically focuses on two problem areas: (a) subject orientation of reflexives, and (b) the fact that dative experiencers locally bind both reflexive possessives and pronominal ones. The analysis rests on current minimalist mechanisms such as Agree, Valuation and Move.

This work is located in the field of contrastive media linguistics. Its goal is to examine the origin and nature of readers' comments by readers of French and English popular science magazines. The book dissects media content using text linguistic tools. Transmedial cultures are explored across time, platforms, languages, and editing houses.

Arbitration of intra-corporate disputes has an interdisciplinary angle combining arbitration and corporate law. The book has a solution-oriented approach. It acts as a guide for corporate practitioners arbitrating their disputes in Turkey. It provides risk analyses and proposals to minimize the risks to consider during all stages of arbitration.

This book deals with different visions of culture in management, emphasising epistemological and methodological pluralism, and the need for the development of new, creative concepts of culture. It presents reflections on the most significant cognitive problems of cultural currents.

The monograph covers the history of the only strictly scientific Polish musicological periodical. The subject allows the author to present the beginnings of Polish musicology and its evolution through three epochs: the late partitioning period, the interwar period of Poland's independence, and the early years after the Second World War.

The book investigates Kant's aesthetic theory and its problematic relation to theory of knowledge in his transcendental philosophy. It discusses the nature of Kant's aesthetic theory and that constitute a pure aesthetic judgment of reflection and attempts to clarify its proper place in critical philosophy regarding his theory of knowledge.