Pearce: 510 books

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise...

Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of children and young people who have been trafficked. In Trafficked Young People, the authors call for...

In Creating Terrific Talks, author Virginia H. Pearce shares an easy four-step process to help children create their very own Primary talks. 'This book is an effort to help teachers, parents, and children see Primary talks as more than an assignment to fill, ' the author explains. 'Rather, we can...

"The Testament" is the story of Christ's mission on earth, told in his own words. This book is for those who are searching for the inner meaning of Christianity, and who are looking for the source of that overwhelming love which was offered by Jesus but so often misunderstood. It deals with difficult...

In this wide-ranging and groundbreaking new book, Robert Pearce provides an analytically-informed basis for understanding the modern multinational enterprise. It does this by tracing the development over the past half-century of two parallel strands of analysis in International Business; designated as...

The Facilitative, Interpretive and Reflective Practices of the Coordinated Management of Meaning: Making Lives, Making Meaning, showcases ways in which the theory of Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) has been applied in a variety of settings. The title reflects the three sections of the book...

Blueprint 3 is the direct sequel to the ground-breaking Blueprint for a Green Economy. Taking the argument much further, David Pearce and his colleagues show how progress towards sustainability in the UK can be measured. They set out the conditions for sustainable development and the measures of economic...

Joomla is a comprehensive website content management system that allows website owners and website developers to build and maintain websites. However its complexity means that it can take weeks or even months to learn. This handbook is designed to be used in conjunction with "The Basics"...

Beginning with the fallacy of breakfast being the most important meal of the day, Had Enough Yet!? delves deep into the minefield of misinformation surrounding diet and nutrition that typically prevents us from either achieving our fitness goals or from simply being a healthier, slimmer version...

Conundrum is a mind-stretch. Encrypting idioms into their typographic equivalents, Harry enlivens our everyday language and challenges readers to see that "time after time after time" or, at least, "more often than not" "the writing is on the wall." For fans of word puzzles,...

Oceanic Migration studies the prehistoric peopling of the Pacific. It uses science and mathematics to expand the research base of Pacific prehistory and casts new light on this final human expansion. It explores the fundamental roles of oceanography and of global climate change in determining the...

Sarah has spent the whole summer trying to get her best friend's sexy father to notice her. Jack Stone seems oblivious to her skimpy bikinis and lustful looks. But when Sarah sneaks a peek at him in the shower she gets a reaction she never expected, and one she won't soon forget!

"Impressive work, and great fun!" -- Greg Bear, Author of Hull 03 and The Forge of God "It may seem a fine thing in song or story to be ankle-deep in the blood of your enemies but in reality it's slippery, smells bad and is nearly impossible to get out of your socks afterwards." From the diaries...

Athens, 1913, the capital of a country on the brink of war. The new Greek prime minister, Venizelos, tired of the Ottoman overlords, has what he calls the Great Idea - a vision of a new Greece that unites all the Greek people scattered around the Mediterranean. Not such a great idea, in the view of...