Peter Alexander: 56 books

In this extraordinary work, Peter Alexander Meyers shows how the centerpiece of the Enlightenment—society as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice—was primarily composed and animated by its most ambivalent figure: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Displaying this...

What's a girl to do? Someone like Carolyn Niskanen, whose family escaped Hitler when she was just a baby. Now she's a small town teenager who just wants to grow up and become a veterinarian. But things keep happening in West Palmerton. Evil things. She and her pal, Glenn, discover that the deacon...

Khantida, a spirited young Thai courtesan, once married to a handsome but ruthless police major, finds herself desperately seeking sanctuary in her rural childhood village, Phayu. Wrathful ghosts and angels are drawn to the battle between the former lovers as the village suffers. The fates of Khantida,...

A sudden storm with wind, rain, thunder and lightning crashed down around Grandfather. He had been searching for healing plants he used to help his friends in a Northern Thailand village. All at once a tiny creature fell through the trees and landed at his feet. It was a pink, sightless one-week-old...

The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this...

Steve Harrah is an active man. A schoolteacher in his twenties. Marries a scintillating and mercurial Japanese beauty who divorced a rich and dangerous banker. Becomes a film editor in his thirties. Engages in a flirtatious relationship with his stepdaughter. Moves from Massachusetts to the Arizona...

When the Greek Civilisation finally faded in 10 A.D. Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and the Moon, an avowed virgin warrior led her Nymphs to a portal which took them to safety in a parallel universe where they lived happily without aging. Hades maintained his Hell hole under the earth, and Zeus,...

The cataclysm everyone had been fearing finally took place. Not many humans were prepared to survive what occurred all around the planet: earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions and every other imaginable disaster. One such person, however, was Dennis Quant, a bright, intuitive book and...

"Nichts auf dieser Welt kann gerettet werden, wenn es nicht dazu bestimmt ist, gerettet zu werden." (aus "Falsche Hoffnung" von Manuela Wunderlich) Unsere Umwelt ist verschmutzt, die Luft ist verpestet, in den Gewässern schwimmt der Müll, die Wälder werden abgeholzt und immer...

Mubu's grandfather used his healing herbs to save the life of a young boy in the village. The grateful father gave an elephant to him in pay for his miracle. Mubu had never seen an elephant before. When she inspected every part of the elephant, the elephant inspected her! They liked each other. Mubu...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

If you work with SharePoint, you may have discovered that there are countless tricks for using this platform to solve real-world problems—and you certainly wouldn’t mind learning some of them. That’s the purpose behind EndUserSharePoint, a community site that lets end users share ingenious new...

Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong. Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...

Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery. In “One Dollar Jackpot,” Michael Connelly’s curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver...