J Peter J : 864 books
Competition in British Industry
Restrictive Practices Legislation in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book, first published in 1974, presents the findings of a research project and considers their implications for public policy. The project was designed to find out what effect the 1956 Restrictive Trade Practices Act (and the subsequent legislation of 1968) had on British industry. The Act was...
Merchants, Bankers, Governors
British Enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 17861920
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This is the story of British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya from 1786 to 1920, when British vision, zeal and drive developed Penang, then Singapore and, finally, the peninsular Malay States.
In the initial years, commerce and finance were paramount. The seeds of these commercial activities...
by Alan Kolp, Peter J. Rea, James K. Stoller
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The antidote to navigating turbulent times isn’t more rules. It is timeless virtue that creates sustainable value.
Thoughtful leaders are keenly aware of the enormous challenge they face to drive high performance in a world that continues to ratchet up pressure and uncertainty. Some leaders...
High-Speed Marine Craft
One Hundred Knots at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This book details the efforts to build a large naval vessel capable of traveling at one hundred knots. It is the first book to summarize this extensive work from historical and technical perspectives. It explores the unique principles and challenges in the design of high-speed marine craft. This volume...
by Roger A. MacKinnon, MD, Robert Michels
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Much has changed in the critical interval since the last edition of The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice was published. This new, third edition provides an up-to-date examination of the psychiatric interview that reflects changes introduced in DSM-5, while continuing to recognize that describing...
Transforming the Quality of Life for People with Dementia through Contact with the Natural World
Fresh Air on My Face
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. It also gives a voice to people with dementia who have felt the benefit of getting closer to nature. The contributors explore many different ways...
The Ethical Subject of Security
Geopolitical Reason and the Threat Against Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ and other security practices take place.
First, it argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a function of security...
by Peter J. Morin
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
All life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collections of two or more species. Communities are typically studied using a diversity of techniques, including observations of natural history, statistical...
Quantum Ontology
A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory itself is remarkably silent on the nature of the physical world, and the various interpretations of the theory on offer present conflicting ontological...
Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development
The Bloomington School
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program. The Bloomington School has become one of the most dynamic, well recognized and productive centers of the New Institutional Theory movement....
by Lawrence Watt-Evans Peter J. Lawrence Watt-Evans Heck
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Working with the great Mark Twain is a job Wentworth Cabot relishes -- especially when it includes a first-class boat trip, a visit to Europe, and a steady paycheck. But Cabot hopes his third adventure with the renowned author won't involve any murders...
The genial company of Twain's friend...
Themes in Dickens
Seven Recurring Concerns in the Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
The Victorian age is often portrayed as an era of repressive social mores. Yet this simplified view ignores the context of Great Britain’s profound shift, through rapid industrialization, from rural to metropolitan life during this time. Throughout his career, Charles Dickens addressed the numerous...
The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics
Incriminating Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century....
An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning
Numbers, Sets and Functions
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic ideas of mathematical proof to students embarking on university mathematics. The emphasis is on helping the reader in understanding and constructing proofs and writing clear mathematics. This is achieved by exploring set theory, combinatorics and...