Peter B : 271 books
by Pat Adams, American Association of Museums, Association of Science-Technology Centers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
There has been, and continues to be, an explosion of interest in developing new small science centers that is changing the world of museums. This handbook is designed to be a one-stop source for future and current centers, and anyone interested in the important roles these institutions play in their...
Breaking Rockefeller
The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr., and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire
Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889, John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of...
The Only Negotiating Guide You'll Ever Need, Revised and Updated
101 Ways to Win Every Time in Any Situation
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Discover the critical elements you need for a successful negotiation and 101 tactics to use in any high stakes business deal, when asking your boss for a raise, or even when asking your significant other to take out the garbage.
In this book, you'll discover your negotiating behavioral style...
Embedded Autonomy
States and Industrial Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies,...
by Peter B. Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In this book Peter Gunn brings together many aspects of aviation history in the two counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, chronicled by place-name in alphabetical order. Subjects include airfields, war graves and memorials but also the less obvious aeronautical connections in, for example, country houses,...
Adam and Eve in Scripture, Theology, and Literature
Sin, Compassion, and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Adam and Eve in Scripture, Theology, and Literature: Sin, Compassion, and Forgiveness is an extended consideration of the narrative of Adam and Eve, first seen in the Hebrew Bible but given new life by St. Paul in the New Testament. Paul’s treatment of Adam and Eve, especially his designation of...
Second Arc of the Great Circle
Letting Go
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
While the First Arc covered ages 21-33, during his search for answers to life, the Second Arc of the Great Circle is about "Letting go" and letting God. This book brings us up to the present, with yacht deliveries out of Fort Lauderdale to Key West and to Lake Michigan. After meeting an...
The Great Uprising
Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations,...
Tales of the Alaska State Troopers
Stories of Courage, Survival, and Honor from the Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
“Cops have the greatest stories and the Alaskan Troopers’ tales are in a class of their own. Peter Mathiesen truly brings these stories to life” (Lt. Randy Sutton, ret., author of True Blue).
In the state of Alaska, anything goes. For the state troopers, an average day can include blizzard...
by Peter B. Doghramji
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
What does it mean to live and behave as a Christian within a non-Christian, Muslim context? This is not a question about doctrine, liturgy, or ethnic history; it is a question of Christian ethics. Within the context of a constant interaction between religion and culture in the West, the ethical question...
by Peter B. Licht, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. Peter Licht, is devoted to Management of Hyperhidrosis. Dr. Licht has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: History of Sympathetic Surgery; Pathophysiology of Hyperhidrosis; Emerging Nonsurgical Treatments...
Hermann Klostermann
Der populärste Wilddieb Westfalens und sein Fortleben in literarischen Mythen
Language: German
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Für die preußischen Behörden war Hermann Klostermann, der sich vor anderthalb Jahrhunderten im Eggegebirge, Sauerland und Waldeckischen wie zahlreiche andere Bewohner als Wilddieb betätigt hat, einfach ein Krimineller. Nicht wenige Zeitgenossen, vor allem in ärmeren Schichten, bewunderten ihn...
Sculthorpe Secrecy and Stealth
Norfolk Airfield in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Set in the north Norfolk countryside, Sculthorpe was the hub of offensive operations until its closure in 1944 for upgrading as a base for heavy bombers, its runway ideal for US Strategic Air Command bombers like the B-29. By 1951, it was formally handed over to US control and became a prime front-line...
Trade Theory in Computable General Equilibrium Models
Armington, Krugman and Melitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
This book is for people who want to understand modern trade theory, particularly the Melitz model. It lays out Melitz theory from first principles and relates it to earlier theories of Armington and Krugman. For trade theory specialists, the book produces some significant conclusions. It identifies...