Peter Samuel: 26 books

Book cover of Truth and Politics

Truth and Politics

A Theological Comparison of Joseph Ratzinger and John Milbank

by Peter Samuel Kucer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Truth and Politics tackles the crucial question of how the concept of truth is defined and how such is grounded theologically, through an analysis and comparison of the thought of two of the most important contemporary Catholic and Protestant theologians, Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) and John Milbank. Peter...
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Financial Services Partnerships

Labor-Management Dynamics

by Peter Samuel
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

The purpose of this book is to evaluate the debate on partnership, using original research data. Samuel provides a novel categorisation with which to synthesise and clarify a highly diverse literature on labour-management partnership, thus helping to refine the contemporary partnership debate. Secondly,...
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Nocturnal Omissions

A Grim Faerie Tale of Murder, Money Laundering, Buggery, Incest, Insecticide and Lycanthropy – an Account of Life Within a Disorganized and Dysfunctional Crime Family

by Peter Samuel Kolins
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008

a grim faerie tale of murder, money laundering, buggery, incest, insecticide and lycanthropy-- an account of life within a disorganized and dysfunctional crime family.
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Fantastic Trains

An Anthology of Phantasmagorical Engines and Rail Riders

by Neil Enock, Jason Lane, David Worsick
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2019

Book your ticket now for a trip to the future, the past, and the timeslips in between. Through the eloquent prose and imaginings of eighteen tellers of tales, we are pleased to present to you a collection of stories-on-a-train that will transport you to tantalizing worlds that you simply cannot...
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Debugging Game History

A Critical Lexicon

by Mikael Jakobsson, Nick Montfort, Erkki Huhtamo
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
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Retirement and the Hidden Epidemic

The Complex Link Between Aging, Work Disengagement, and Substance Misuse -- and What To Do About It

by Peter A. Bamberger, Samuel B. Bacharach
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014

Evidence from both local and national surveys suggests that substance misuse and abuse among older adults in the United States is a "hidden epidemic" that poses a major threat to the welfare and quality of life of older drinkers and their families, and has significant public health implications. Based...
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While They Were Dying

The Road to Iraq

by Samuel Peter Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012

Samuel Peter Shaws drama of love and betrayal is peopled by the Sink Set, a group of fickle, moneyed sophisticates living in London's leafy southern suburbs. For all but one of them, the Iraq War is sobering but coincidental, a backdrop against which they shrug and carry on. Colly Wolfson, a member...
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The Weimar Moment

Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law

by Peter C. Caldwell, Christophe Chalamet, Rodrigo Chacón
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012

The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
Book cover of Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
by David Bloom, David Brooks, Peter Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Book cover of Trains, Culture, and Mobility
by Hiraku Shimoda, Peter Soppelsa, Alexander Medcalf
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011

Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to...
Book cover of The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners
by Samuel Peter Orth
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

Three momentous things symbolize the era that begins its cycle with the memorable year of 1776: the Declaration of Independence, the steam engine, and Adam Smith's book, “The Wealth of Nations. ” The Declaration gave birth to a new nation, whose millions of acres of free land were to shift the economic...
Book cover of Managing Employee Performance and Reward

Managing Employee Performance and Reward

Concepts, Practices, Strategies

by Michelle Brown, Catherine Dolle-Samuel, Jack Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Now in its second edition, Managing Employee Performance and Reward continues to offer comprehensive coverage of employee performance and reward, presenting the material in a conceptually integrated way. This new edition has been substantially updated and revised by a team of specialist contributors,...
Book cover of Rediscovering Political Economy
by Bruce Caldwell, Samuel Hollander, Alan Levine
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy—an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories...
Book cover of Unwatchable
by Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...
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