Peter H : 405 books
by Peter H. Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Mountaineering has served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. A fascinating study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mt. Everest, The Summits of Modern Man reveals the significance of our encounters with the world’s most forbidding heights and how difficult it is to imagine nature in terms other than conquest and domination.
The Ontario Municipal Board
From Impact to Subsistence 1971-2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The Ontario Municipal Board attracted power to it from the time it was formed in 1906 as a railway overseer and thereafter until 1932 when it became the regulatory tribunal for municipal financing and urban and regional planning applications. By 2006, the same government of Ontario that had entrusted...
by Juliet Christian-Smith, Peter H. Gleick, Heather Cooley
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
It is zero hour for a new US water policy! At a time when many countries are adopting new national approaches to water management, the United States still has no cohesive federal policy, and water-related authorities are dispersed across more than 30 agencies. Here, at last, is a vision for what we...
The World's Water 2008-2009
The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Produced biennially, The World’s Water provides a timely examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. Each new volume identifies and explains the msignificant trends worldwide, and offers the best data available on a variety of topics related to water. The 2008-2009...
Canada's Big House
The Dark History of the Kingston Penitentiary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
A report in 1833 by a committee of three respected Kingston colonials called for the construction of a limestone penitentiary on Hatter's Bay to the west of the town. Their report contained these words of advice for its future governors: "...[shall] be a place by every means not cruel and not...
Small Town and Village in Bavaria
The Passing of a Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3,000,...
by Peter Høeg
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Een van de vijfsterrenthrillers van het jaar volgens de VN Detective& Thrillergids 2016
Susan heeft de wonderlijke gave mensen de waarheid te laten zeggen. Iedereen vertrouwt haar van alles en nog wat toe. In India brengt haar gave Susan echter in moeilijkheden. Om te voorkomen dat ze wordt...
Expressive Intersections in Brahms
Essays in Analysis and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“This exceptionally fine collection brings together many of the best analysts of Brahms, and nineteenth-century music generally, in the English-speaking world today.” —Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Contributors to this exciting volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning...
Universities and the Sustainable Development Future
Evaluating Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased...
by Peter H. Rist
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
The Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema covers the history of South American Cinema through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on directors, producers, performers, films,...
Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music
Structure and Meaning in His Werther Quartet
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. Its strategy is to focus on a single critical work, the C-Minor Piano Quartet, analyzing and interpreting it in great detail, but also using it as a stepping-stone to connect it to other central Brahms works in order to reach a...
empathy
it's what holds the world together
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This book is a concise theoretical and practical guide on how to help people improve contact with themselves and each other. Its authors met for the first time in 2007. We represent widely divergent professions, but we share an interest in the circumstances of children with regard to the rapid changes...
Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico
Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help?
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
U.S. demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug- trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. This paper examines how marijuana legalization in California might influence DTO revenues and the violence in Mexico.
Joshua 1-12, Volume 7A
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Trent C. Butler's excellent commentary on Joshua is updated and revised. This new edition takes into account the most recent scholarly work on the book of Joshua. The commentary includes Butler's translation of the text, explanatory notes, and commentary to help any professor, student, or pastor with...