David Peters: 27 books
The Many Faces of Biblical Humor
A Compendium of the Most Delightful, Romantic, Humorous, Ironic, Sarcastic, or Pathetically Funny Stories and Statements in Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
The Many Faces of Biblical Humor examines how the Bible writers intentionally used humor, irony, and sarcasm to argue their points concisely. This work begins with the dysfunctional families of Genesis, continues delightfully through every book of the Bible, and ends with a glorious fulfillment in...
The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
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...
by Graham Dodgshun, Michel Peters, David O'Dea
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
A must-have book for thirty years, and now in its sixth edition, Cookery for the Hospitality Industry remains Australia's most trusted and reliable reference for commercial cookery students, apprentice chefs and those studying vocational courses in schools. It covers the essential skills, methods...
by Charles J. Yeo, MD, FACS
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Comprehensive and complete, Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract delivers the definitive, clinically oriented, cutting-edge guidance you need to achieve optimal outcomes managing the entire spectrum of gastrointestinal disorders. Make effective use of the latest endoscopic, robotic, and...
Demosthenes' "On the Crown"
Rhetorical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Demosthenes’ speech On the Crown (330 B.C.E.), in which the master orator spectacularly defended his public career, has long been recognized as a masterpiece. The speech has been in continuous circulation from Demosthenes’ lifetime to the present day, and multiple generations have acclaimed it...
Indigenous Homelessness
Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
by David Manzo, Elizabeth Campbell Peters
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
In 1893, two pioneering orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Augustus Thorndike and Dr. Edward Bradford, saw the need to educate children whose physical challenges prevented them from attending school. As an experiment, they founded the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children in Boston. Modeled after...
by Michael A. Peters, Valerie Allen, Ares D. Axiotis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamines Heidegger's work and its legacy for educational...
Writing for Engagement
Responsive Practice for Social Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
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...
by Mark Peters, David Glasser, Diane Hildebrandt
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Design and Synthesis of Membrane Separation Processes provides a novel method of design and synthesis for membrane separation. While the main focus of the book is given to gas separation and pervaporation membranes, the theory has been developed in such a way that it is general and valid for any type...
by Daniel Beneke, Mark Peters, David Glasser
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Researchers share their pioneering graphical method for designing almost any distillation structure
Developed by the authors in collaboration with other researchers at the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis, column profile maps (CPMs) enable chemical engineers to design almost any distillation...
Learn PowerShell Core 6.0
Automate and control administrative tasks using DevOps principles
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Enhance your skills in expert module development, deployment, security, DevOps, and cloud
Key Features
A step-by-step guide to get you started with PowerShell Core 6.0
Harness the capabilities of PowerShell Core 6.0 to perform simple to complex administration tasks
Learn core administrative concepts...
Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis
A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine communication within specific global settings and scenes with the goal of ensuring that the meanings made among those within specific communities is more...
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