Peter C: 385 books
In the Watches of the Night
Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s...
The Director's Manual
A Framework for Board Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Directors: Improve Board Performance
The Director's Manual: A Framework for Board Governance offers current and aspiring board members essential up-to-date governance guidance that blends rigorous research-based information with the wisdom found only through practical, direct experience. The...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
Germany Since 1945
Politics, Culture, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War right up to the present day. The book provides a narrative that not only explores the histories of East and West Germany in their international...
The Secret Mulroney Tapes
Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The Secret Mulroney Tapes is an outrageous and intimate portrait of a Canadian prime minister, as told in his own words. There has never been a political book like this, and there will almost certainly never be another.
Peter C. Newman, the author of books about John Diefenbaker, Lester B....
Many Faces, One Church
Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2004
Many Faces, One Church: Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience both captures and facilitates a seismic shift in the who, what, where, when, why, and how of Catholic theology today. Along with a diverse group of theologians who represent the many faces of the church, editors Peter...
Design for Trustworthy Software
Tools, Techniques, and Methodology of Developing Robust Software
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
ASQ 2007 CROSBY MEDAL WINNER! An Integrated Technology for Delivering Better Software—Cheaper and Faster! This book presents an integrated technology, Design for Trustworthy Software (DFTS), to address software quality issues upstream such that the goal of software quality...
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....
Energy and Emissions Markets
Collision or Convergence?
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Written by best selling author Peter C. Fusaro and renowned energy market expert and commentator Tom James, this book demonstrates that the forces of energy and environmental issues and linked more than ever before. The beginning of European emissions and trading in 2005 and the implementation of...
by Peter C. Whybrow, MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2006
A doctor's bold analysis of the cultural disease that afflicts us all.
Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, depression, obesity, and time urgency are...
by Peter C. Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This history of woodworking hand tools from the 17th to the 20th century is one of a very gradual evolution of tools through generations of craftsmen. As a result, the sources of changes in design are almost impossible to ascertain. Published sources, moreover, have been concerned primarily with...
by Peter C. Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
FEATURES:
• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table...
by Peter C Glover
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
In the 30 years since Dr Francis Schaeffer’s The Great Evangelical Disaster showed how what was supposed to be ‘the Bible-believing evangelical church’ was largely becoming ineffectual and abandoned by God as a result of becoming increasingly dominated by a new ‘super-spirituality’. Peter C...
Why We Fought
America's Wars in Film and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Film moves audiences like no other medium; both documentaries and feature films are especially remarkable for their ability to influence viewers. Best-selling author James Brady remarked that he joined the Marines to fight in Korea after seeing a John Wayne film, demonstrating how a motion picture...