Peter O Brien: 11 books
by Lauren Dick, Evan J. Hoskins, Sophia Yan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
As the zipper falls and reveals every storyline, we embrace the words pouring over us. We connect with each notch and each letter rushing past our gaze. My team and I crafted Existere Volume 38 Issue 1 to represent the cycle all writers, readers, poets, artists and audiences experience while interacting...
A Slant of Light
Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting...
Ecological Entanglements in the Anthropocene
Working with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This edited collection explores the relationships between humans and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded. The ‘Anthropocene,’ whose literal translation is the ‘Age of Man,’ is one way of marking these planetary...
by Peter O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
Tough Crimes
True Cases by Top Criminal Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by twenty of Canada’s most prominent criminal lawyers. In the book, they write about cases that had surprising turns, or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We’ve all heard the media’s take on notorious criminals, but...
Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices
A Novel in 36 Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.
Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary...
How Does Foster Care Work?
International Evidence on Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning,...
by David Binks, Natalie Banerji, Natalie Stingelin
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Materials for type III solar cells have branched into a series of generic groups. These include organic ‘small molecule’ and polymer conjugated structures, fullerenes, quantum dots, copper indium gallium selenide nanocrystal films, dyes/TiO2 for Grätzel cells, hybrid organic/inorganic composites...
Competition in British Industry
Restrictive Practices Legislation in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book, first published in 1974, presents the findings of a research project and considers their implications for public policy. The project was designed to find out what effect the 1956 Restrictive Trade Practices Act (and the subsequent legislation of 1968) had on British industry. The Act was...
Improving Outcomes for Children and Families
Finding and Using International Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, so successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is therefore essential.
This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking...