Peter H : 405 books
The Anniversary Compulsion
Canada's Centennial Celebrations: A Model Mega-Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Whether it is birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Thanksgiving dinners or New Year’s celebrations, we humans demonstrate a peculiar compulsion to celebrate the continuing cycle of the recurrent calendar dates that mark our lives.
Public events of the same type evoke an even more pronounced...
Midhurst WW2 Memoirs
1. A Place Dear to My Heart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A region of picturesque and sylvan beauty that I have never seen equalled.’ - Benjamin Disraeli. 1870.
By British standards, Midhurst in West Sussex, was always a sleepy town, becoming that way due to its enviable geographical position in the midst of the award winning rural countryside of...
Heart of Europe
A History of the Holy Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Its continuity rested on the ideal of a unified Christian civilization. As Peter Wilson shows, the Empire tells the story of Europe better than histories of individual nation-states, and its legacy can be seen today in debates over the nature of the European Union.
A History of Ghosts
The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Peter Aykroyd spent his childhood watching his family's parlor séances through the crack of a basement door. Here, for the first time, Aykroyd tells the strange and delightful story that inspired his son, Dan, to make the mega-hit, Ghostbusters. Part history, part family legend, A History of Ghosts...
by Peter H. Irons
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
The Courage of their Convictions cites sixteen landmark civil liberties cases and the individuals who challenged laws that they felt impinged upon their personal freedom and who took their battles to the nation’s highest court of law.
“Thank goodness for the sixteen brave men and women...
Bottled and Sold
The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius," and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don’t the rest of us?
Bottled and Sold shows how water wfrom being a free natural resource...
Europe's Tragedy
A New History of the Thirty Years War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia...
The First 90 Days in Government
Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges-from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments-that will make their transitions...
Why Government Fails So Often
And How It Can Do Better
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
From healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused...
Unequal Gains
American Growth and Inequality since 1700
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today.
While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson...
by Peter H. Zindler
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2005
Whatever your circumstances are, wherever you find yourself in this life, don't ever think that your Father in heaven has shortchanged you. You have been created in His image and He has thoughtfully and purposely deposited in your heart the talents for true greatness in this life and the life to come....
by Peter H. Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Features an audio read-along! A creative spirit learns that thinking “ish-ly” is far more wonderful than “getting it right” in this gentle new fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book The Dot.
Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere.
Drawing is what Ramon...
by Peter H. Gott
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
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During his forty years...
by M.G. Aune, Bruce E. Brandt, Douglas Bruster
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing...