Preston: 857 books
Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning
The Existential Threat of Competency
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade. CBET supposedly offers a new type of learning that will lead to skilled employment; here, Preston...
Feyerabend
Philosophy, Science and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science.
The book traces the evolution of Feyerabend's thought, beginning with his early attempt to graft insights from Wittgenstein's conception of meaning...
by Hugh Binning, John Preston, Arthur Dent
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
"The Digital Puritan" is a quarterly digest of helpful Puritan works. Each article is carefully edited and formatted to maximize readability. This edition contains the following articles:
Be Sober and Watchful - Hugh Binning. Binning answers the question, 'Given the shortness of...
by William Preston Stapp
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
In late 1842, Private William Preston Stapp and about three hundred other citizens of the Republic of Texas took it upon themselves to invade Mexico. They intended to retaliate for a recent Mexican attack on San Antonio and to humiliate President Sam Houston, who had been hesitant to seek revenge. Stapp...
by Preston Peet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Where did "modern" civilization begin? What lies beneath the waves? Do myths describe interstellar impact? How'd they lift that stone? Was the Ark of the Covenant a mechanical device? Were there survivors of an Atlantean catastrophe? Who really discovered the "New" World?
"Hidden...
by Caroline Y Preston
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Do you want to maximise your short stay in the beautiful city of Budapest?
If so ... this could be the guide for you!
Particularly pertinent if this is your first visit to this wonderful city.
This ebook travel guide:
* Gives daily itinerary’s which you can follow, or tailor to suit...
by Caroline Y Preston
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Do you want to maximise your short stay in the romantic city of Riga?
If so ... this could be the guide for you!
This ebook travel guide:
* Gives daily itinerary’s which you can follow, or tailor to suit yourself
* Has a map, pictures and information on locations and attractions (including...
by Jack Preston King
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Do arrogant Twitter atheists make your blood boil? When Richard Dawkins, the Amazing Randi, or Bill Nye the Science Guy smugly tell you how stupid you are for believing in God, or psychic powers, or ghosts, or the afterlife, or even your own immortal soul, do you want to just reach through the screen...
La Guerra Civil Española
reacción, revolución y venganza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Edición corregida y ampliada con un capítulo inédito sobre la represión durante la guerra.
En el septuagésimo aniversario del estallido del trágico conflicto español, Paul Preston, hispanista de prestigio internacional, actualizó y amplió su estudio de la Guerra Civil teniendo en cuenta...
by Paul Preston
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Un brillante ensayo sobre el bombardeo de Guernica que nos ayuda a entender mejor el fuego y las llamas y a distinguir el humo de las mentiras.
La destrucción de Guernica el 26 de abril de 1937 quedó grabada a fuego en la conciencia europea: fue la primera ciudad «abierta» prácticamente...
El holocausto español
Odio y exterminio en la Guerra Civil y después
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 8, 2011
La represión durante la guerra y en la inmediata posguerra contada por el más prestigioso hispanista de la actualidad.
«Durante la Guerra Civil española, cerca de 200.000 hombres y mujeres fueron asesinados lejos del frente, ejecutados extrajudicialmente o tras precarios procesos legales,...
El zorro rojo
La vida de Santiago Carrillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 4, 2013
La biografía del líder comunista español Santiago Carrillo, figura fundamental del siglo XX
El fallecimiento de Santiago Carrillo el 28 de octubre de 2012 puso fin a noventa y siete años vividos intensamente y en primera fila de la política. Hijo de Wenceslao Carrillo, dirigente socialista,...
El final de la guerra
La última puñalada a la República
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 4, 2014
La fidedigna narración del Golpe de Casado y de los últimos meses de la guerra civil española por Paul Preston, el más prestigioso hispanista de la actualidad.
«La paz negociada siempre; la rendición sin condiciones para que fusilen a medio millón de españoles, eso nunca.»
Juan Negrín
«La...
by Paul Preston
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller, Nan Green, Priscilla Scott-Ellis, Margarita Nelken y Carmen Polo son los cinco personajes de este libro riguroso, documentado y conmovedor en el que Paul Preston aúna el trabajo de investigación con las historias personales y emotivas de cinco mujeres únicas y relativamente...