John Peter: 364 books

Book cover of Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

by Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, Tonio Andrade
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth...
Book cover of Curriculum and Assessment in English 3 to 11
by John Richmond, Andrew Burn, Peter Dougill
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

Curriculum and Assessment in English 3 to 11: A Better Plan provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current language and literacy curriculum and its assessment arrangements for 3- to 11-year-olds in England, and...
Book cover of Curriculum and Assessment in English 11 to 19
by John Richmond, Andrew Burn, Peter Dougill
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

Curriculum and Assessment in English 11 to 19: A Better Plan provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current English curriculum and its associated examinations for 11- to 19-year-olds in England, and of developments...
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Frankfurter Einladung

Erzählungen, Geheimnisse und Rezepte

by Susanne Konrad, Peter Feldmann, Sylvia Schopf
Language: German
Release Date: September 8, 2016

Franconofurd, Mainhatten, Bankfurt, Europastadt oder einfach FRA. Die Stadt am Main bekam im Laufe der Zeit nicht nur viele verschiedene Beinamen, sondern hat auch zahlreiche Gesichter, die selbst unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Soziologen bezeichnen Frankfurt auch als die Stadt der "super...
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Baseball as a Road to God

Seeing Beyond the Game

by John Sexton, Thomas Oliphant, Peter J. Schwartz
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....
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Reading Seattle

The City in Prose

by John Trombold, Peter Donahue
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Seattle, with its spectacular natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology spans seven decades and includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting, imparting the flavor of the city through a...
Book cover of Ideas for a New Century
by Paul Kennedy, Bernie Lucht, Lister Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010

An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio’s Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues — most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy — some of the great intellectuals of our time reflect, interject, and project on the course of human civilization,...
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Life, Death, and Meaning

Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

by David Benatar, Margaret A. Boden, Peter Caldwell
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...
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America's National Security Architecture

Rebuilding the Foundation

by Nicholas Burns, Zoë Baird, Robert Blackwill
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.
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Teaching America

The Case for Civic Education

by David J. Feith, Seth Andrew, Charles F. Bahmueller
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011

In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...
Book cover of New Directions in Contemporary Sociological Theory
by Peter M. Blau, Thomas J. Fararo, Jack A. Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002

Written by eminent sociologists, this book introduces and assesses some of the most influential, recent sociological theories. Each chapter explains the theory and describes a related program of empirical research. Chapters are authored by the actual founders (and/or leading exponents) of these theoretical...
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Higher Education Assessments

Leadership Matters

by Raymond Barclay, Bryan D. Bradley, Peter J. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010

Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape...
Book cover of Analyzing Public Policy
by Peter John
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis: institutions groups and networks society...
Book cover of Liberal Arts for the Christian Life
by Michael Wilder, Sharon Coolidge, Leland Ryken
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012

Comprehensive in scope, this substantial volume was compiled in honor of Leland Ryken and champions the importance of an approach to faith and learning grounded in the Christian liberal arts.
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