Peters: 1371 books
How To Get Your Wife In Bed
A Practical Plan To Creating A Powerful Relationship That Lasts A Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This book has been created out of the reaction to the ever growing divorce rate in North America and the world as well as a belief that two people really can maintain the level of love and passion that they had in the beginning of the relationship. I think that people forget the rewards that come...
Showing and Doing
Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational researchers and practitioners through provocative, innovative, and playful readings of his work. They vividly demonstrate the influence of his thinking...
Building Knowledge Cultures
Education and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
This book develops the notion of 'knowledge cultures' as a basis for understanding the possibilities of education and development in the age of knowledge capitalism. 'Knowledge cultures' refers to the cultural preconditions in the new production of knowledge and their basis in shared practices, embodying...
Virtues of Openness
Education, Science, and Scholarship in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The movement toward greater openness represents a change of philosophy, ethos, and government and a set of interrelated and complex changes that transform markets altering the modes of production and consumption, ushering in a new era based on the values of openness: an ethic of sharing and peer-to-peer...
Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism
Creativity and the Promise of Openness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
We live in the age of global science – but not, primarily, in the sense of ‘universal knowledge’ that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of ‘free’ science and the ‘free society’ since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links science to national...
by Michael A. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Education plays an important role in challenging, combating and in understanding terrorism in its different forms, whether as counter-terrorism or as a form of human rights education. Just as education has played a significant role in the process of nation-building, so education also plays a strong...
by Michael A. Peters, Valerie Allen, Ares D. Axiotis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2002
Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamines Heidegger's work and its legacy for educational...
by R. S. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
First published in 1981, Essays on Educators is a collection of essays on a variety of themes relating to Great Educators. The book is not only an exposition of the thought of these educators but a collection of critical essays in which their writings are used selectively to raise problems of permanent...
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
Islamic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that the crusaders attacked was used only sparingly – in part because it was hard for most westerners to read, and in part because much of...
Martin Luther
The Life and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Combining biographical narrative and analytical essays, this book provides a new, comprehensive view of Martin Luther’s life and times, along with a new examination of the radical theology that sparked the Reformation and changed the Christian world forever. Drawing on sources new and old, the authors...
Foundations of Computer Vision
Computational Geometry, Visual Image Structures and Object Shape Detection
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book introduces the fundamentals of computer vision (CV), with a focus on extracting useful information from digital images and videos. Including a wealth of methods used in detecting and classifying image objects and their shapes, it is the first book to apply a trio of tools (computational...
by Cheryl Peters
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...
Sin Boldly!
Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
When we discover we don't justify ourselves because God has justified us, we become free. What Sin Boldly! points to is the presence of the crucified and living Christ in the human soul, placed there by the Holy Spirit. And this becomes transformative.
Sin Boldly! provides an experiential analysis...
by Rock Peters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"The Greatest Love of All" is a powerful, deeply contemplative book about a journey with God. A compilation of intense Christian poetry and Catholic apologetics. Moving, inspiring love sonnets to God, Christmas poems that will put you in the manger with the Holy Family and Passion poems...