Peter Burgess: 7 books

Book cover of How to Power Tune MGB 4-Cylinder Engines
by Peter Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012

All you could want to know, and all the expert tips, about getting the maximum performance from the MGB's four-cylinder B-series engine for road or track. A book packed with understandable and down to earth advice based on the author's years of hands-on e
Book cover of How to Build, Modify & Power Tune Cylinder Heads
by Peter Burgess, David Gollan
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013

- New! Revised and updated edition - complete with extra illustrations - of this best-selling SpeedPro title._x000B_- The complete practical guide to successfully modifying cylinder heads for maximum power, economy and reliability._x000B_- Understandable language and
Book cover of The Ethical Subject of Security

The Ethical Subject of Security

Geopolitical Reason and the Threat Against Europe

by J. Peter Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ and other security practices take place. First, it argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a function of security...
Book cover of Cultures of governance and peace

Cultures of governance and peace

A comparison of EU and Indian theoretical and policy approaches

by J. Peter Burgess, Oliver Richmond, Ranabir Samaddar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

This volume brings together insights which look at the intersection of governance, culture and conflict resolution in India and the European Union. Two very different but connected epistemic, cultural and institutional settings, which have been divided by distance, colonialism and culture; yet have...
Book cover of The Golden Age of Piracy

The Golden Age of Piracy

The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates

by Douglas R. Burgess, Guy Chet, John A. Coakley
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...
Book cover of Imaginarium 2013
by Amal El-Mohtar, Susie Moloney, Claire Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013

Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology to be published annually by ChiZine Publications, collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work produced by Canadian writers. Canadian...
Book cover of Superplasticity and Grain Boundaries in Ultrafine-Grained Materials
by Peter M. Burgess, A I Pshenichnyuk
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

Superplasticity is a state in which solid crystalline materials, such as some fine-grained metals, are deformed well beyond their usual breaking point. The phenomenon is of importance in processes such as superplastic forming which allows the manufacture of complex, high-quality components in such...
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