A Hero for the Atomic Age; Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition

Axel Andersson

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd.
• Nomination for Best Foreign Film at the 2013 Academy Awards In English and many other languages the name 'Kon-Tiki' has become a byword for adventure ... Lees meer

Modernism on Sea

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 2
• Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today's most exciting seaside critics, curators, filmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on ... Lees meer

Clearing a Space

Amit Chaudhuri

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 8
• In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space , Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a modern Ind... Lees meer

Home on the Horizon

Sally Bayley

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 21
• In this study of space and place, Sally Bayley examines the meaning of 'home' in American literature and culture. Moving from the nineteenth-century h... Lees meer

Gilberto Freyre

Peter Burke, Maria Lúcia G Pallares-Burke

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 11
• Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian, a journalis... Lees meer

Modern Theories of Politics

Evangelia Sembou

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 37
• Everything you ever wanted to know about modern political theory, but never dared to ask ... This book offers a concise introduction to the main ideas... Lees meer

Napoleon's Other War

Michael Broers

• Hardcover | Frans | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 18
• The wars of Napoleon are among the best-known and most exciting episodes in world history. Less well known is the uproar the armies stirred up in thei... Lees meer

Clearing a Space

Amit Chaudhuri

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 13
• In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space , Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a modern Ind... Lees meer

Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture

Ricarda Vidal

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 5
• Why are we so obsessed with cars? Shiny objects of desire, cars never cease to fascinate us. As symbols of freedom they return again and again in art ... Lees meer

The World Makers

William Poole

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 15
• When educated men in the seventeenth century thought about the Earth on which they stood, they might ask themselves the following questions. When was ... Lees meer

The Enlightened Physician

Geoffrey Wall

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 39
• Geoffrey Wall's narrative biography of Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, the father of the author of Madame Bovary , follows him from his birth in a French p... Lees meer

Driven to Innovate

Ioan James

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 1
• Ioan James celebrates the extraordinary contribution made by Jewish people in mathematics and physics, from the mathematician Norbert Wiener, the foun... Lees meer

The End of Journalism- Version 2.0

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 40
• This book brings together the work of British, American and Australian scholars and practitioners in a substantially new edition of this popular colle... Lees meer

The Contested Terrain of the New Zealand All Blacks; Rugby, Commerce, and Cultural Politics in the Age of Globalization

Jay Scherer, Steve Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 38
• In 2011, New Zealand rugby fans erupted in celebration as the All Blacks narrowly defeated France to win the Rugby World Cup - the team's first title ... Lees meer

Ethics in the Economy

Laszlo Zsolnai

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 99999
• The book aims to provide a comprehensive, new look at business ethics topics and models from a European perspective. Apart from theoretical arguments ... Lees meer

Tabloid Century

Martin Conboy, Adrian Bingham

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd.
• Popular newspapers played a vital role in shaping British politics, society and culture in the twentieth century. This book provides an overview of th... Lees meer

Modernism on Sea

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 2
• Modernism on Sea brings together writing by some of today's most exciting seaside critics, curators, filmmakers and scholars, and takes the reader on ... Lees meer

Gilberto Freyre

Peter Burke, Maria Lúcia G Pallares-Burke

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 16
• Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian, a journalis... Lees meer

Before the Wars

Alan Baxendale

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd.
• Winston Churchill will be forever known as the great statesman who bravely led Britain through the war years, but what led the young Churchill down th... Lees meer

False Prophets

Richard J Bonney

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 14
• After 9/11 the US response to Al-Qaeda - the Global War on Terror - was heavily influenced by the 'clash of civilizations' theory. First introduced by... Lees meer

Rumours and R Ebels

K A Wagner

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 29
• The Indian Uprising of 1857 had a profound impact on the colonial psyche, and its spectre haunted the British until the very last days of the Raj. For... Lees meer

Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking

Richard Scholar

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 27
• We know a great deal of what Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), Shakespeare's near-contemporary and fellow literary mastermind, thinks. We know, because h... Lees meer

A Cinematic Artist

Kim Knowles

• Paperback | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd.
• The American artist Man Ray was one of the most influential figures of the historical avant-garde, contributing significantly to the development of bo... Lees meer

The Century's Midnight

Clive Bush

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter Lang Ltd. | nr. 3
• The Century's Midnight is an exploration of the literary and political relationships between a number of ideologically sophisticated American and Euro... Lees meer