M Peter: 582 books
The Tribute of Blood
Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive...
Back Channel to Cuba
The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing...
Islands at the Crossroads
Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
A long sequence of social, cultural, and political processes characterizes an ever-dynamic Caribbean history. The Caribbean Basin is home to numerous linguistic and cultural traditions and fluid interactions that often map imperfectly onto former colonial and national traditions. Although much of...
by Peter M. Lichtenstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Peter M. Lichtenstein believes that any social-economic theory of capitalism must begin with a theory of value and price. Dismissing the neoclassical school, he turns to post-Keynesian and Marxian economics with their coherent and consistent theories of value and price based on concrete objective...
Simplicity Marketing
End Brand Complexity, Clutter, and Confusion
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2001
For more than half a century, marketers have bombarded customers with more and more choices in products and services. What is the result? Unprecedented anxiety. Our mental circuit breakers are on overload. In fact, pioneering brand strategists Steven M. Cristol and Peter Sealey assert that we have...
Die Befreiung der Schweiz
Zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen
Language: German
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Es ist eine ganz einfache Idee: Jede Bürgerin und jeder Bürger erhält bedingungslos 2500 Franken pro Monat. Dieses Buch verwandelt die Utopie Grundeinkommen in einen konkreten Zukunftsentwurf für die Schweiz. Es erklärt in den Grundzügen die Idee, die Mechanismen und die möglichen Auswirkungen...
by Peter C. Whybrow, Sarah F. Brosnan, Darby Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.
Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive....
by Peter M. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Sick of people offering easy answers about writing and publishing? You Don’t Want To Be Published goes straight for the hard answers and keeps digging.
There are plenty of books that tell you how to get published, but very few that focus on how to build a career. You Don’t Want to Be Published...
Conflict Dialogue
Working With Layers of Meaning for Productive Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2006
Conflicts are more effectively managed if people understand the layers meaning in their conflicts and collaborate based on those meanings. In this book, author Peter M. Kellett analyzes and interprets real-life conflict stories as a way to create opportunities for more productive ways to navigate and resolve conflict.
Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #2
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
More than 25 of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever written—many in eBook form for the very first time. More than four hundred pages of top flight fiction selected by the editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com, including 'Ticking' by Allen M. Steele; 'All Cats are Gray' by Andre...
Corporate Cthulhu
Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.
Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never...
by John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Sean Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
by Amal El-Mohtar, Susie Moloney, Claire Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology to be published annually by ChiZine Publications, collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work produced by Canadian writers. Canadian...
by Peter M. Leschner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Has a single defining moment ever led to a chain of events that dramatically changed your life forever?
Larry lived an uneventful life as a commodity trader in New York City until a sudden tragic incident during a routine dinner with a friend connected him to Sofia, the beautiful and intriguing...