Peter C: 385 books
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
Hostages to Fortune
The United Empire Loyalists and the Making of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Esteemed Canadian author Peter C. Newman recounts the dramatic journey of the United Empire Loyalists—their exodus from America, their resettlement in the wilds of British North America, and their defense of what would prove to be the social and moral foundation of Canada.
In 1776, tensions...
Here Be Dragons
Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The #1 national bestseller now revised and updated with a new Epilogue.
Now aged 75, Peter C. Newman at last tells the story of his stranger-than-fiction life. Try to keep up as we follow his many lives: as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; a Jewish kid in short pants being machine-gunned...
by Peter C. Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
The Hegel Lectures SeriesSeries Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel's lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of his life. The original editors...
Mavericks
Canadian Rebels, Renegades and Anti-Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Peter C. Newman’s poison pen has lodged itself in the viscera of the Canadian elite. In Mavericks, he has selected his most evocative writing about those Canadians who run against the grain on the grandest scale, including Conrad Black, Garth Drabinsky, the Eaton boys, Louis Riel, Robert Campeau...
Cruise Ships The Small Scale Fleet
A Visiual Showcase
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Peter C. Smith presents us here with the second release in his visually splendid Cruise Ships series. Whilst his first book concerned itself with the large-scale ships currently cruising through our seas (those weighing 40,000 GT and more) this volume focusses on the other end of the market; the ships...
No Medals
Th E True Story of the Search for Historical Evidence Necessary
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
No Medals is a Christmas story wrapped around a search of government records to locate the file of a deceased, black World War II veteran, author Peter C. Bankss father, John Henry Banks Jr. The investigation to find the records begins in 2000 and concludes on Christmas Eve, one year later. Peter...
The Untouchable Tree
An Illustrated Guide to Earthly Wisdom & Arboreal Delights
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
“[A] tribute to trees in poetry, prose, and paintings” with thirty color illustrations—from the author of Waltzes with Giants (Boston.com).
According to Peter Stone, any book about trees can’t help but be a book about people, and so his book is about our connection to the magnificence,...
by Peter C. Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
America Reflected offers eclectic film criticism and considerations of distinctive American voices from the ante-bellum era to the present."Rollins examines the roles of language, satire, and film in reflecting the American consciousness through such diverse sources as Orestes Brownson, Benjamin...
Cuba's Baseball Defectors
The Inside Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban sluggers and hurlers in Major League Baseball (MLB) has become one of the biggest headlines in America's national pastime. On-field exploits by colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, American League rookie-of-the-year José Abreu, home...
Greek Americans
Struggle and Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. Blending sociological insight with historical detail, Peter C. and Charles C. Moskos trace the Greek-American experience from the wave of mass immigration in the early 1900s to today....
Geschichte Frankreichs
Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
Language: German
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Frankreich hat wie kein anderes Land die Geschichte Europas geprägt. Der Hof und die absolutistische Herrschaft Ludwigs XIV. waren lange Zeit Vorbild für europäische Herrscher. Seit dem Mittelalter und erst recht seit der Aufklärung gehörten französische Denker zur europäischen Avantgarde....
Counterintuitive Marketing
Achieving Great Results Using Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
Why does American business seem to sputter along where it ought to thrive? What is the source of the current plague of downsizing, disappearing companies, dot-com crashes, and here-today-gone-tomorrow advertising campaigns? Why do more products flop than ever before? Marketing experts Kevin J. Clancy...
Heroes
Canadian Champions, Dark Horses and Icons
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
In Heroes, Peter C. Newman gives us incisive analysis of dozens of Canadians, past and present, who have defined this country, drawing on fifty years of writing. He writes about iconic Canadians such as Terry Fox, Margaret Atwood and June Callwood. From the political ring, he discusses the legacies...