Michael Peters: 36 books
Richard Rorty
Education, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
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...
Shakespeare's Global Philosophy
exploring Shakespeare's nature-based philosophy in his sonnets, plays and Globe
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
The three parts of Shakespeare’s Global Philosophy present evidence and argument that Shakespeare's Sonnets of 1609 articulate the philosophy behind all his plays and longer poems and that the Globe Theatre symbolises the global significance of the philosophy.
Part 1 examines the 1609 edition...
by Michael Peters
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Mike's girlfriend has recently dumped him. Lost and confused, he sets off on a journey up north to leave his life behind.
Renting a cabin located in isolation, the battle with his manipulative and destructive thoughts will soon commence.
You can run from everything, but can you run from yourself?
Counternarratives
Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives develops a concept of "postmodern...
by Michael Peters
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
A stranger observes the home of David and Janine from across the street. Bathed in darkness, the man makes no movements. He simply watches. Beset by a dark secret long kept dormant, David and Janine's seemingly happy marriage will be tested by this stranger. But by confronting their past, this enigmatic watcher may be the least of their concerns.
by Michael Peters
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Attacked and left for dead in the desert by an unknown entity, a man awakens to find himself in an enigmatic new world brimming with unholy chaos.
Where every imaginable evil can and does exist, this desolate wilderness relishes in the destruction of humanity.
With little understanding,...
Individualism And Community
Education And Social Policy In The Postmodern Condition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of...
The Great Sports Documentaries
100+ Award Winning Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Sports and competition have been film subjects since the dawn of the medium. Olympic sports documentaries have been around nearly as long as the games themselves; films about surfing, boxing, roller derby, motorcycle racing and bodybuilding were theatrical successes during the 1960s and 1970s. The...
Education, Philosophy and Politics
The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions - so the world can read them in...
Pauvreté invalidante et Citoyenneté habilitante
Un projet du Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Le projet Pauvreté invalidante, citoyenneté habilitante est un projet de recherche quinquennal
(2008-2014) des Alliances de recherche des universités-communautés (ARUC), financé par le
CRSH et dirigé par le Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences...
The Digital University
A Dialogue and Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The Digital University: A Dialogue and Manifesto focuses on teaching, learning, and research in the age of the digital reason and their relationships to the so-called knowledge economy. The first part of the book, ‘The University in the Epoch of Digital Reason,’ presents the authors’ insights...
by Michael A. Peters OD
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the competitive world, conditioning is everything. Athletes who can get an edge have a better chance of moving up the ladder to more and more elite levels of play. But one aspect of conditioning that is often overlooked is vision. Ignored or undetected problems in the visual system have stopped many...
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship
A project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship, a five year (2008 – 2014) SSHRC funded Community
University Research Alliance (CURA) project, has been led by the Council of Canadians with
Disabilities (CCD), with Professor Michael J. Prince and Yvonne Peters as the Co-Principal
Researchers....
The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Chinese Educational Philosophy Reader, Volume VII
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
This edited collection is based on a series of articles written by Michael A Peters as Editor-in-Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory to explore the concept of The Chinese Dream first introduced by President Xi in 2012. This seventh volume in the Editor's Choice series provides a philosophical...