Peter Peter: 17025 books
The New Work of Educational Leaders
Changing Leadership Practice in an Era of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
`If there in one word to describe the issues addressed by Peter Gronn in The New Work of Educational Leaders it's "timely" And if there is one book that education policy makers, system CEOs and education ministers should find the time to read, this is it' - Educare News
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by Peter F Dashwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
Peter Dashwood began life as a war baby and later lived through the London Blitz. He then became a steward in the merchant navy and made his first visit to Australia at the age of eighteen. His seafaring led him to California and then the Vietnam War, where he lived through the Tet Offensive, having...
by Peter Vundla
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
1948 was the year South Africa’s National Party came into power on 26 May under D. F. Malan and the abominable system of apartheid was born and institutionalized. It also marked the year that Bunguza Peter Vundla was born: a boy from humble beginnings who made it against all odds. Peter Vundla is...
The Diary of a Shropshire Farmer
A Young Yeoman's Life and Travels 1835-37
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Not many young farmers of the early nineteenth century left diaries that have come down to us, still fewer from Shropshire, at a time when country life continued much as it had since long before the Industrial Revolution. In June 1835, twenty-three-year-old Peter Davis set out from his home in the...
The Well Life
How to Use Structure, Sweetness, and Space to Create Balance, Happiness, and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Three simple principles for creating a balanced and satisfying life!
The secret to living an exceptional life—with fulfilling work and leisure, meaningful relationships, and time for oneself—is finding balance. Briana and Dr. Peter Borten have the strategies you need to achieve this all-important...
John Sparrow: Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
«I loathe all common things»
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls, was a notable character in post-war Oxford. He was educated in the old-time classical humanist tradition, and this remained his field even as the world about him changed. A man with a brilliant mind, he is often remembered negatively – as a bogeyman to progressives...
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Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
by Peter Dube
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Jean Genet stated: ''Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.'' A few strange facts within this book, the latest collection by Shirley Jackson award finalist, Peter Dubé, are: the heat within a boy or a man can be muscular, be with purpose, be all consuming; mobs become consuming...
The First Arc of the Great Circle
How to Do 1001 Stupid Things and Still Be Covered by Grace
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
Early Reviews
The Arc is full of golden nuggets. One just has to mine them for themselves if they havent already.
The First Arc is a three dimensional On the Road. We travel on land, air and sea, from the desert to the Alps, Las Vegas to Mallorca, and from bliss to despair and back up...
by Peter Koch, June Cooper Price
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited the new Big Bend National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a couple of weeks—and ended up staying for the rest of his life. Koch's magnificent photographs and documentary...
by Peter Sansom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
With poems culled from a period of 20 years, this compilation brings together the works of English poet Peter Sansom. Having made the local and familiar his own resonant territory, Sansom explores the common ground of modern life, such as supermarkets, darts matches, life with teenagers, and family...
by Peter Brune
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
'. . . Brune's book is a timely reminder that despite the warmest alliances, nations sometimes have to stand up and save themselves.' - The Weekend Australian Financial Review
'. . . A Bastard of a Place undeniably ranks as the best book ever written about the Aussie battles in Papua . . ....
Hurricane R4118
The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery and Restoration of a Battle of Britain Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
In 1982 when he was traveling in India, Peter Vacher stumbled on the remains of a British plane - a Hurricane Mark 1, a veteran of the Battle of Britain. It was in a dreadful state. Could he restore it? Would it fly again?Not until 14 years later did he decide to act and after six years of wrangling...
A Time to be Born
Memoir of a Canadian Mennonite
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Having a title that suggests that I was born to do something for three generations of Russlaender Mennonites is a bit crass, and yet that is what three testimonial contributors suggest, though unknown to one another. “Peter Penner's rich and varied life exemplifies bridge-building between the worlds...