Peter Thomas: 235 books
Baseball as a Road to God
Seeing Beyond the Game
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.
For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball....
A Celebration of John and William Bartram
In Philadelphia and Florida
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 1999
The Bartram 300, in 1999, will celebrate the birth of America''s first great naturalist and conservationist, John Bartram. His scientific travels in Pennsylvania, New York and throughout Florida, with his son William, are now scientific and mythic legend. William''s return to Florida in 1771, and...
The People's Victory
Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California
In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create...
Health and Community Design
The Impact Of The Built EnvironmOn Physical Activity
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environmencourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of research on the relationships between urban form and public health. It provides important information about the factors that influence...
A Nietzschean Bestiary
Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Inspired by the ancient and medieval genre, A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays treating the most vivid and lively animal images in one of the philosophic tradition's greatest bodies of work. Leading scholars treat specific animals—such as the prowling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions,...
Editing Lives
Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
Life, Death, and Meaning
Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology...
America's National Security Architecture
Rebuilding the Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
In August 2016, the Aspen Strategy Group examined how to reform America’s national security decision-making process. The papers in this volume provide practical solutions to repair the key functions of Washington’s executive departments, agencies, and advisory bodies responsible for shaping U.S. foreign policy and national security.
by Starla Anderson, Maria Blevins, Teresa Blevins
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic....
Trees
Their Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Trees are familiar components of many landscapes and have been vital in determining the ecology of our planet as well as the development of human cultures and communities. Yet how much do we really understand about how they work? This updated and revised edition provides a comprehensive introduction...
Mastering Illiquidity
Risk management for portfolios of limited partnership funds
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Arms investors with powerful new tools for measuring and managing the risks associated with the various illiquid asset classes
With risk-free interest rates and risk premiums at record lows, many investors are turning to illiquid assets, such as real estate, private equity, infrastructure and...
Dangerous Hoops
A Forensic Marketing Action Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Part crime novel, part textbook, Dangerous Hoops combines the principles of marketing and forensic accounting into a lively narrative to educate and entertain.
Set in the world of professional sports, Dangerous Hoops introduces FBI agent Bill Douglass as he pursues a deadly extortionist in order to...
by Connel Fullenkamp, Thomas Mr. Cosimano, Michael Gapen
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have significant macroeconomic effects on the economies that receive them. This paper directly addresses the two main issues of interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how to...
The Business School in the Twenty-First Century
Emergent Challenges and New Business Models
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Questions about the status, identity and legitimacy of business schools in the modern university system continue to stimulate debate amongst deans, educational policy makers and commentators. In this book, three world experts share their critical insights on management education and new business school...