J Peter J : 864 books
Why Sh*t Happens
The Science of a Really Bad Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Have you ever fallen victim to Murphy's law? Sometimes bad things just happen. In Why Sh*t Happens, esteemed British scientist Peter J. Bentley takes readers on an informative and amusing tour through the least lucky, most accident-prone day of their lives. From sleeping through the alarm clock and...
Trumpet Blues
The Life of Harry James
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
Swing is back in style, and with it a renewed interest in the Big Band Era. And few players dominated that era more than Harry James, whose soaring trumpet solos and romantic hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Now, Peter J. Levinson, who knew Harry James personally, has written a...
Forging Romantic China
Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760–1840
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats,...
MacArthur's Coalition
US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From 1942–1945 the Allies’ war in the Southwest Pacific was effectively a bilateral coalition between the United States and Australia under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. By charting the evolution of the military effectiveness of the US-Australian alliance, MacArthur’s Coalition puts...
by Peter J. Vernezze
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
When Peter J. Vernezze took a leave of absence from his position as a philosophy professor to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer in China, he supplemented his main task—teaching English—with leading a weekly philosophical discussion group with Chinese undergraduate and graduate students at Sichuan...
Humanitarianism, War, and Politics
Solferino to Syria and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss trace the origins of humanitarianism, its social movement, and the institutions (international...
Beyond Citizenship
American Identity After Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application. Citizenship has mostly been about being here, either through birth or residence. The territorial premises for citizenship have worked to resolve the peculiar challenges of American identity. But globalization is...
Revolutionary Education in China
Documents and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Originally published in 1973, this title analyses revolutionary changes in the Chinese education system and illustrates China’s radical departure from both traditional and Western goals. In his extensive introduction, Peter J. Seybolt puts the transformation of education in the context of China’s...
A Professor's Duties
Ethical Issues in College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Professors, administrators, and trustees talk a lot about education but give little attention to teaching, especially at major research universities. In A Professor's Duties, the distinguished philosopher Peter J. Markie adds to the expanding discussion of the ethics of college teaching. Part One...
U.S. vs. Them
Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
A challenging, clear-eyed, and authoritative history of American conservatism and its grave effect on our country's foreign policy
In this compelling and sometimes alarming analysis, J. Peter Scoblic, executive editor of The New Republic, traces the history of American foreign policy and how...
A World of Regions
Asia and Europe in the American Imperium
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Observing the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics. This view is in stark contrast to those who focus on the purportedly stubborn persistence of the nation-state or the inevitable...
War, Welfare & Democracy
Rethinking America's Quest for the End of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
American foreign policy since World War II has actively sought to reshape both domestic and international orders to hasten the coming of the end of history in a peaceful democratic utopia. While the end of the Cold War heightened optimism that this goal was near, policymakers still face dramatic challenges....
Digital Biology
How Nature Is Transforming Our Technology and Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
*Imagine a future world where computers can create universes -- digital environments made from binary ones and zeros. Imagine that within these universes there exist biological forms that reproduce, grow, and think. Imagine plantlike forms, ant colonies, immune systems, and brains, all adapting, evolving,...
Blue Marble Health
An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor’s National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States’ economic...