Books published by Peter Lang AG

The editors of this book combine new approaches in economics and business administration. The topics of this book range from tax policy, accounting information systems, banking in Turkey, work safety, gender pay gaps and social media marketing to e-municipality processes and Islamic indices.

The book deals with different aspects of the legal comparison of the compliance officer's function within the common law and civil law system such as the legal roots and the cultural background of the compliance function in the US, the UK and Germany.

Some sources state that the number of books Ibn Sina has written is over 240; 153 of these have been discovered. Among his valuable books, the two most well-known books are "al-Shifa", which deals mostly with philosophy, and the five-volume "al-Qanun Fi al-Tibb", which is a complete medical encyclopedia. The Little Qanun is the model of al-Qanun.

The collected volume interrogates the productivity of style as an element of cultural expression and a parameter of cultural analysis. Leading scholars in fields that range from literary criticism to post-structuralist philosophy, and American cultural studies address style in theory, literature, and cultural practice.

The Spectators shaped European identity by developing the strategies of critical journalism and by popularizing the ideas and values of the Age of Enlightenment. In this collection, we present a series of contributions which study "storytelling" in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Czech, Polish and Danish-Norwegian periodicals.

This book explores the relationship between language, culture and human mind in cognitive linguistics perspective. It offers a panchronic analysis of girl and woman as conceptualised in James Joyce's "Dubliners" by highlighting the cultural motivation behind the word.

The authors analyse how contemporary European states attempt to be active actors, responding to the crisis of the international order, in divergent and sometimes contradictory ways. This phenomenon inevitably leads to the undermining of many existing cooperation mechanisms, but it also reveals the limitations in terms of the state actions.

This book is the first monographic study of Tadeusz Baird - one of the greatest Polish composers of the second half of the 20th century. The study is an extensive, monographic representation of the composer's work and concepts in their stylistic, cultural, and esthetic contexts.

Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes steht die Frage, ob die nationalen und europäischen Regelwerke im Bereich des Bankenrestrukturierungs- und -abwicklungsrechts im Ernstfall ihr Ziel erreichen können, krisengeschüttelte Kreditinstitute entweder erfolgreich zu restrukturieren oder aber zumindest ohne negativen Einfluss auf das gesamte Finanzsystem abzuwickeln. Die Autorin erläutert die Gesetzeslage im Bereich des Bankenrestrukturierungs- und -abwicklungsrechts, die durch ein komplexes Nebeneinander von deutschen und europäischen Regeln geprägt ist. Sie skizziert die Entstehung und die Inhalte der neuen Regelungen, setzt sich kritisch mit deren rechtlichen und tatsächlichen Problemen auseinander und zeigt weiteren regulatorischen Verbesserungsbedarf auf.

Das Verhaltnis des Aufsichtsrechts uber Finanzdienstleistungsunternehmen zum Gesellschaftsrecht.

There's a continued need for overarching and profound approaches to security. The con-cept of security needs to be thoroughly considered so that issues with an ever-increas-ing complexity and interconnectivity can be understood and dealt with. The nature of security and the various aspects of threats should be considered by examining different definitions of security.This book covers researches from different perspectives and disciplines upon migration by various experts. The contributors make different and rigorous analyses of all areas influenced by migration in order to be one of the new reliable source about the immi-gration studies with various dimensions.