Steven Peters: 7 books

In 59 Glass Bridges, an unnamed narrator travels through a maze that is at once mutable and immutable: walls fall to vine-filled forests, hallways to rivers, bridges to lamp-lit boats. What remains is the desire to escape. He is led along his harrowing path by Willow, a mysterious figure who cajoles...

Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions—appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence—that...

The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...

Perry Rhodan im Koma. Ein Haluter läuft Amok! Zweiter Teil der Drangwalze-Trilogie: Perry Rhodan ist nach der Attacke der Millies verletzt und außer Gefecht. Auris, Gucky, Tom Blast und der Haluter Icho Tolot verfolgen die Angreifer, um die entführte Shira zu befreien. Beim Tolot bricht das kriegerische...

Auf der Welt der Drogen, Diebe und Verbrecher. Der Weg nach camelot führt über Lepso Auf der Verbrecherwelt Lepso suchen Perry, Auris und Saedelaere einen mysteriösen Kontaktmann, der die Koordinaten von Camelot kennen soll. Der entpuppt sich als Roland Tekener - Ex-Agent und Gangsterboss. Er führt...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention...

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...