Peter James: 373 books
Spiritual Transmission
Paradoxes and Dilemmas on the Spiritual Path
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Most eastern religious traditions are based on the sacred bond between teacher or Guru and the student. This is one of the few books to delve deeply into the subject based on wide ranging interviews with both teachers and students.
The foreword by Ken Wilber, who is the foremost, widely recognized authority...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
The Frontier of Patriotism
Alberta and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and...
by Peter F. Lawrence, Richard M. Bell, Merril T. Dayton
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
For nearly 25 years, medical students and faculty alike have chosen Essentials of General Surgery and its companion textbook, Essentials of Surgical Specialties, for authoritative coverage of surgical information that every physician in training should know. The Fifth Edition incorporates current...
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia
History, Principle and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia examines the body of constitutional jurisprudence in an original and rigorous yet accessible way. It begins by exploring the historical and intellectual context of ideas surrounding the Constitution's inception, and closely examines its text, structure,...
Landpower in the Long War
Projecting Force After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation,...
by Michael Savage, James Barlow, Peter Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
We Need to Talk about Religious Education
Manifestos for the Future of RE
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Although Religious Education (RE) is a legal requirement in UK schools, it is an oft-neglected and misunderstood subject. It is important to seriously re-think this key subject at this time of low religious literacy and rising extremism, to protect communities from the consequences of hatred and misunderstanding....
by Ronald Bailey, James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation;...
by Roxann Prazniak, Arif Dirlik, John Brown Childs
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2001
This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global...
by Peter J. Kuznick, James Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s...
Fractured Communities
Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more...
How to Get Published in Anthropology
A Guide for Students and Young Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This one-stop guide to getting published in anthropology gives graduate students and young professionals the crucial information and tools they need to tackle the all-important requirement to publish. Part I provides step-by-step guidance on key efforts that budding anthropologists can benefit from,...
Cosmic Society
Towards a Sociology of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Space weaponry, satellite surveillance and communications, and private space travel are all means in which outer space is being humanized: incorporated into society’s projects. But what are the political implications of society not only being globalized, but becoming ‘cosmic’?
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