Peter A: 545 books
Coal and Empire
The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in...
El trauma visto por los niños
Despertar el milagro cotidiano de la curación desde la infancia hasta la adolescencia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 19, 2016
El trauma visto por los niños describe paso por paso la aplicación práctica de los "primeros auxilios emocionales" en las secuelas de heridas y traumas emocionales en los niños. Se ha escrito para un público general e incluye capítulos específicos que resultarán de especial interés...
In an Unspoken Voice
How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
**Unraveling Trauma in the Body, Brain and Mind—a Revolution in Treatment**
In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world...
by Peter A. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
I was five years of age when I first fell in love with the sea, which is the subject of the first story in my book All At Sea.I was a ‘natural’ at it, often performing a task on a boat before being told when or how to do it. I believe this knowledge came from a previous life spent on the...
Sacred Estrangement
The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 1993
Sacred Estrangement analyzes certain works by important American writers and thinkers in the context of the "rhetoric of conversion." Such analysis is especially valuable because it provides a reliable index of the relationship between the self and larger communities. Traditionally, "conversion"...
Edith's War
Writings of a Red Cross Worker and Lifelong Champion of Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Edith May Witt served her country by joining the Red Cross in World War II as a staff assistant (or “club woman”) in Oran, Algeria, and worked throughout the Mediterranean theater, including several assignments in Italy. Edith Witt was also a talented writer and left behind a rich archive that...
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
Toward a New Ethical Framework for the Art of Dying Well
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Physicians, philosophers, and theologians consider how to address death and dying for a diverse population in a secularized century.
Most of us are generally ill-equipped for dying. Today, we neither see death nor prepare for it. But this has not always been the case. In the early fifteenth...
by Peter A Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
The Juggernaut.
A city in space built from the twisted wreck of a thousand ships, in a decaying orbit around a dying star. The last refuge of the dispossessed.
The place Tila Vasquez now calls home.
When a distant colony of stars lost contact with earth, they descended into the...
by Peter A Clayton, Martin Price
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Sets each of the seven wonders in their historical context, bringing together materials from ancient sources and the results of modern excavations to suggest why particular places and objects have been seen as the touchstone for human achievement.
by Peter A. Lillback
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Dr. Lillback's insightful work researches the question, "Is it inherently American to be pro-Israel?" Yet, could the evidence from Washington's life and writings show that he knew far more about Israel than most thought possible? Many Americans are unaware that George Washington wrote to the Jewish people...
Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience, and Just Plain Bunk
How to Tell the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience, and Just Plain Bunk teaches readers to think like scientists to more critically evaluate the truth of scientific claims. Filled with provocative real-life examples from coffee to cancer, the book helps readers build their tools of scientific literacy.
Self Psychology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
This comprehensive, introductory text makes the concepts of self psychology accessible for students and clinicians. It begins with an overview of the development of Kohut's ideas, particularly those on narcissism and narcissistic development and explains the self object concept that is at the core...
Die Fälschungen der Evangelien
Die ursprüngliche Lehre nach dem Thomas- und Friedensevangelium
Language: German
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Ist Jesus Christus der erwartete Messias, wie das Christentum lehrt, oder war der Messias noch nicht da, wie die Juden glauben, oder gibt es ein totgeschwiegenes Geheimnis, dass der Messias lange vor Jesus erschien? Was spricht letzteren Falls dafür? Was sind bloße Behauptungen des Paulus, was lehrte...
by Bertocci, Peter A
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.