Christopher Peterson: 14 books
Pursuing the Good Life
100 Reflections on Positive Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
When we think of psychology, we think of a field dedicated to understanding and curing the dark side of life--addictions, phobias, compulsions, anxieties, and on and on. But there is a field of psychology that looks at the bright side, that considers seriously these questions: What makes life most...
Monkey Trouble
The Scandal of Posthumanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying.
The human has become a conspicuous blind spot for many theorists seeking to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient...
Character Strengths and Virtues : A Handbook and Classification
A Handbook and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2004
Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse but this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does not do but a more active and thorough definition is necessary one that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular...
by Christopher Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Positive psychology is the scientific study of what goes right in life, from birth to death and at all stops in between. It is a newly-christened approach within psychology that takes seriously the examination of that which makes life most worth living. Everyone's life has peaks and valleys, and positive...
Is Hell for Real or Does Everyone Go To Heaven?
With contributions by Timothy Keller, R. Albert Mohler Jr., J. I. Packer, and Robert Yarbrough. General editors Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson.
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Both outside and inside of the church, many people today are increasingly uncomfortable with hell. They wonder: How could it be fair to punish anyone for eternity? Will Jesus really condemn millions simply for not believing the right things about him? Isn’t God a God of love, not vengeance? The...
Where Credit is Due
Bringing Equity to Credit and Housing After the Market Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
While much recent attention has been focused on the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, little has been said about its radically-disparate impact. Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color;...
Hell Under Fire
Modern Scholarship Reinvents Eternal Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2009
Of all the teachings of Christianity, the doctrine of hell is easily the most troubling, so much so that in recent years the church has been quietly tucking it away. Rarely mentioned anymore in the pulpit, it has faded through disuse among evangelicals and been attacked by liberal theologians. Hell...
Play Bigger
How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design.
Winning today isn’t about beating the competition at the old game. It’s about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market...
by 阿爾．拉瑪丹(Al Ramadan)、大衛．彼得森(Dave Peterson)、克里斯多夫．洛克海德(Christopher Lochhead)、凱文．梅尼(Kevin Maney)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 10, 2016
想稱霸市場，就不要做出最好的產品，而要提供最好的解決方案！
過去的企業若想稱霸市場，總是希望能創造最好的商品最優秀的性能、最快速的運作……等然而，這個時代的致勝邏輯已經截然不同！
創造一個全新的市場品類(category)讓你的產品無法定義，無法跟過去相比，才能成為頂尖，創造無懈可擊的事業，讓你定義市場，而不是市場定義你！...
Key States, High Stakes
Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The 2010 elections were one of the most highly anticipated midterm elections in our nation's recent history. After the historic 2008 election, in which America elected its first black president, Sarah Palin's involvement and the emergence of the Tea Party in the 2010 congressional elections had the...
Misfit Children
An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce...
Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa
Past and present
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
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by Christopher Goodrich, Allan C. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This text provides the first comprehensive treatment of the discrete fractional calculus. Experienced researchers will find the text useful as a reference for discrete fractional calculus and topics of current interest. Students who are interested in learning about discrete fractional calculus will...
Narrating Midlife
Crisis, Transition, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation is rooted in a discussion about why it is important to address the midlife years in ways that challenge and interrogate the myths that surround this phase of life. Although readers are free to construct their own meaning after reading each...