M Peter: 582 books
My New Orleans, Gone Away
A Memoir of Loss and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A New York Times bestseller: A “charming” memoir of growing up Jewish among New Orleans high society—and finding a place in the bigger world (Winston Groom, The Wall Street Journal).
The Wolf family had been in New Orleans for generations. They were Jewish but—as Peter Wolf’s grandmother...
Governing through Goals
Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.
In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development...
Designing and Managing Programs
An Effectiveness-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The Fifth Edition of the classic Designing and Managing Programs for human services helps readers grasp the meaning and significance of measuring performance and evaluating outcomes. Authors Peter M. Kettner, Robert M. Moroney, and Lawrence L. Martin, all leaders in the field, incorporate the principles...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
Redeeming the Life of the Mind
Essays in Honor of Vern Poythress
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Vern Poythress, one of today’s leading Reformed theologians, has made many vital contributions to evangelical scholarship—particularly a vision to glorify Christ as Lord over all areas of human life in order to redeem all realms of human thought.
In honor of his many years of faithful thinking...
Dr. Peter Scardino's Prostate Book, Revised Edition
The Complete Guide to Overcoming Prostate Cancer, Prostatitis, and BPH
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Newly revised, with up-to-the-minute findings: the potentially lifesaving guide to prostate health by one of the world's foremost urologists
Although most men know little about their prostate glands, an overwhelming majority will be affected by prostate problems at some time in their lives....
by M.G. Aune, Bruce E. Brandt, Douglas Bruster
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing...
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...
by M. Necmettin Pamir, Rudolf Fahlbusch, Peter M Black
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Meningiomas, by M. Necmettin Pamir, MD, Peter M. Black, MD, PhD, and Rudolf Fahlbusch, MD, presents current and comprehensive guidance on this most common, yet clinically challenging type of brain tumor. Written and edited by the world’s most prominent brain tumor neurosurgeons, it helps you to...
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition.
This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
The Lives of Campus Custodians
Insights into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This unique study uncovers the lives and working conditions of a group of individuals who are usually rendered invisible on college campuses--the custodians who daily clean the offices, residence halls, bathrooms and public spaces. In doing so it also reveals universities’ equally invisible practices...
Und das ist erst der Anfang
Deutschland und die Flüchtlinge
Language: German
Release Date: December 4, 2015
60 Millionen Menschen sind weltweit auf der Flucht. Ein kleiner Prozentsatz davon macht sich auf den gefährlichen Weg nach Europa. Sie kommen aus Syrien, Eritrea, dem Irak, vom Balkan. Sie kommen aus verwüsteten Ländern, aus armen Ländern, und viele werden bleiben. Wohin sollten sie zurück? Experten...
Schaffen wir das?
Ein Plädoyer für mehr Offenheit in der Flüchtlingspolitik
Language: German
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Deutschland und der Flüchtlingsstrom – "Wir schaffen das", sagt Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel. Die mehr als 20 zumeist prominenten Autoren des Buches setzen sich in nachdenklichen, teils sehr bewegenden und mitfühlenden Texten gedanklich mit dem Neuen und Fremden, den Problemen, Sorgen...
by Claus Peter Müller-Thurau
Language: German
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Die Chancen für qualifizierte Bewerber auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt stehen derzeit gut - auch für Expatriates, Migranten oder Flüchtlinge. Doch wer sich als ausländischer Bewerber beruflich erfolgreich positionieren möchte, muss die Besonderheiten des deutschen Bewerbungsprozesses kennen, um...