Peter Ward: 51 books
Time Machines
Scientific Explorations in Deep Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
What is the past? It is a time as well as a place. Acclaimed author Peter D. Ward describes the tools that contemporary scientists use to uncover facts about the past - terrain, climate, and the life forms that once inhabited this planet. Time Machines presents fascinating profiles of the deep past...
by Peter L Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Eighth-Century Adventure for Twenty-First Century Children In this exciting conclusion to Peter Wards epic Viking Trilogy, Eric Bignose, bravest of the young Viking rebels, embarks on a dangerous journey. Together with Beowulf, his rescued mystical bear cub, Eric confronts the legendary demon dog,...
A World-Systems Reader
New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language...
by Peter L Ward
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Are you ready to go on a real adventure? For the first time, Peter Wards Viking journey has been condensed into a single, omnibus volume, Freedom of the Waves. In book one, Vimp the Vikings Epic Voyage, fear is not an option as the children escape their violent Viking roots and cross the sea. Not...
Geschichte des globalen Christentums
Teil 3: 20. Jahrhundert
Language: German
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Der vorliegende Band präsentiert erstmals im deutschen Sprachraum eine umfassende, interkonfessionelle und -disziplinäre Geschichte des globalen Christentums im 20. Jahrhundert. Ausgewiesene (Kirchen-)HistorikerInnen und ReligionswissenschaftlerInnen zeichnen die Entwicklungen in diesem Jahrhundert...
by Peter James Ward Richie
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Robbinsdale was named for entrepreneur, politician, and real estate developer Andrew B. Robbins. While serving in the Minnesota State Senate, Robbins often passed through the area just north of Minneapolis by train. Impressed by the landscape, he purchased 90 acres of rolling hills and lakes. In 1887,...
Impassioned Jurisprudence
Law, Literature, and Emotion, 1760–1848
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this volume of essays, scholars of the interdisciplinary field of law and literature write about the role of emotion in English law and legal theory in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The law’s claims to reason provided a growing citizenry that was beginning to establish its...
The Irony of Barack Obama
Barack Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr and the Problem of Christian Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Drawing on the political theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, described by Barack Obama as 'one of my favourite philosophers', this book assesses the challenges facing the President during his first term. It evaluates his success in adhering to Niebuhr's path of 'Christian realism' when faced with the pragmatic...
Rare Earth
Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life...
by Jan Lees, Nisha Dogra, Paul Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?
What have been the main barriers to progress?
What great achievements can we identify and celebrate today?
Marking Jessica Kingsley Publishers' 30th year of publishing books on social and behavioural issues, this book gathers together...
How Does Foster Care Work?
International Evidence on Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning,...
What Really Causes Global Warming?
Greenhouse Gases or Ozone Depletion?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Science Is Never “Settled” Thousands of scientists are convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that recent global warming is being caused by emissions of greenhouse gases and that we must act immediately to reduce these emissions or else we may render Earth unlivable for our children and our grandchildren....
by Peter Lorange, Fred Neubauer, John Ward
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Corporate Governance is the hot topic of the new millennium. Gone are the days when CEOs set agendas and earned 500 times more than average employees. Now, transparency rules. Corporations must establish new systems of accountability, and encourage long-term participation in decision-making by both...
by Peter James Ward Richie
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In 1919, Wilford Hamilton Fawcett, better known as "Captain Billy," published the first issue of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Filled with jokes and cartoons, the little magazine made a fortune for Fawcett. In 1921, he purchased 80 acres on the shore of Big Pelican Lake near Brainerd, Minnesota, and...