Peter James: 373 books
Everything You Want to Know about Jesus
Well … Maybe Not Everything but Enough to Get You Started
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Jesus is the most influential person who ever lived. But for many of us, he has ceased to be a real person. We’ve sanitised him with pious jargon, framed him in stained glass, and reduced him to a religious puppet who floats through biblical landscapes dispensing Christian cliches and nice advice....
Everything You Want to Know about the Bible
Well…Maybe Not Everything but Enough to Get You Started
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
It’s the bestselling book ever. It’s been translated into more than 2,000 languages. It’s changed people’s lives around the world. No, it’s not Thin Thighs in 30 Days . . . it’s the Bible!Yet the Bible remains about as well-understood to many people as your typical software license agreement—and...
A Tokyo Anthology
Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works,...
by Peter Malcolm James
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Why would I even think to write a book with a title like this? Why do I smile and say hello to so many people I meet every day? Because I might be the only person who has done it and we dont know what people are going through but I can assure you the feedback is always excellent. Everything I write...
Cataract Blindness and Simulation-Based Training for Cataract Surgeons
An Assessment of the HelpMeSee Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Cataracts cause about half of all cases of blindness worldwide, largely in developing countries. HelpMeSee Inc. is developing a simulator-based method for rapid cataract surgical training that RAND researchers determined could significantly help to close the backlog of cataract cases, expected to be...
Victims of the Environment
Loss from Natural Hazards in the United States, 1970–1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The research reported in this volume was designed to provide estimates of the extent of damages and injuries from certain natu ral hazards inflicted on households in the United States. In addi tion, it reports on sources of aid proffered to households and the extent to which there are differences...
True Digital Control
Statistical Modelling and Non-Minimal State Space Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
True Digital Control: Statistical Modelling and Non–Minimal State Space Designdevelops a true digital control design philosophy that encompasses data–based model identification, through to control algorithm design, robustness evaluation and implementation. With a heritage from both classical and...
Natural Product Extraction
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Natural products are sought after by the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, and research continues into their potential for new applications. Extraction of natural products in an economic and environmentally-friendly way is of high importance to all industries involved.
This book...
by H.W. Richardson, Alan W. Evans, Peter Greenston
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Originally published in 1971, this volume contains papers invited for a conference on economic research relevant to national urban development held in September of the same year. The conference pulled together researchers from both the United Kingdom and the United States who were interested in economic...
The Reality of Precaution
Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The 'Precautionary Principle' has sparked the central controversy over European and U.S. risk regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond precaution as an abstract principle and test its reality in practice. This groundbreaking resource combines detailed case...
by James Ballinger, Peter F. Buckley, Richard J. Frances
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
The Year Book of Psychiatry and Applied Mental Health brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in psychiatry and mental health, carefully selected from more than 300 journals worldwide. Expert commentaries evaluate the clinical importance of each article...
How to Motivate Others
Self Help
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Thank you for your interest in the for self help series.
The self help series is a series of books aimed and designed for your personal development and to help you improve in various aspects of your life. As such the books are more like booklets in that they are short but made so that they...
by James Damon, Peter Giblin, Gareth Haslinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This monograph considers a basic problem in the computer analysis of natural images, which are images of scenes involving multiple objects that are obtained by a camera lens or a viewer’s eye. The goal is to detect geometric features of objects in the image and to separate regions of the objects...
The Child Welfare Challenge
Policy, Practice, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded...