Peterson: 1610 books
American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
The Bolshoi Ballet's American Premiere
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet’s American Premiere is the first full-length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. Following the signing of an American-Soviet cultural exchange agreement in the late 1950s, Soviet officials resolved to utilize the Bolshoi Ballet’s...
A Girl's A Gun
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Haunting and candid, A Girl's A Gun introduces a poet whose bold voice merges heightened lyricism with compelling narrative. Steeped in storytelling traditions, the poems in Rachel Danielle Peterson's debut collection exhibit linguistic dexterity and mastery of form as the poet mixes lyrical paragraphs,...
The Misadventures of Cowhead
Cowhead's Big Move
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
A little calf named Cowhead is forced to move to a new neighborhood, leaving behind all her friends. She is sad and lonely and is afraid of meeting new friends. What she later discovers is that meeting new friends can be a challenge, but can also be wonderful.Cowhead meets mean Gloria Goose, who teases...
by Peterson Ojieson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
The Irregular Migrant, tells the true life story of a young African man, who had become disillusioned with situations in his home country of Nigeria, and the raging poverty in his immediate family. As a result of this, he'd decided to migrate to Europe for economic reasons.
However, due to the lack...
Pride Parades and LGBT Movements
Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Today, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe,...
Who Is the Church?
An Ecclesiology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Many congregations today are beset by fears, whether over loss of members and money, or of irrelevancy in an increasingly pluralistic society. To counter this, many congregations focus on strategy and purpose—what churches “do”—but Cheryl Peterson submits that mainline churches need to focus...
The Ghosts of Gombe
A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base...
The Moira Cycle
Surviving the Last Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Is its meaning Margot, Moira, Mother, or the mileage between lovers? Zeus the lightning thrower has advised his son of no fame to publish twenty books/of praiseworthy poems/ before getting back to him
Now in Geoff Petersons latest, an aging Adonis is challenged by an on-again/off-again affair...
by Geoff Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
*Horrible Intimacies* concerns the relationship between two aging artists, a painter & a poet, who, unknown to the other, had spent years in New York City in the last century, and now meet for the first time in the desert at the end of history. It's like that old joke: What are you drawing, Johnny?...
3:30
Nocturnes & Etudes
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
3:30 a man wakes up after hearing a voice. He flips on a light and searches his memory. Someone or something has sent a message that requires a response or immediate action. Reaching for pen & paper, he waits for words to begin. The texts that follow are half-conscious attempts at recognizing...
by Geoff Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
"Penance" is a book of meditations in poetic form that was inspired by a quote from the Desert Fathers of the 4th century. "There is a huge silence and a great quiet there." For years the author made it a point to stop at the Trappist Monastery in Huntsville, Utah to absorb its...
by Carrie Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In the Wild West days of the 1990s, expatriates flocked to the the former Soviet Union in search of adventure and riches. The Great Russian Bear eagerly obliged anyone with enough strength (or stupidity) to ride the wave of corruption and uncertainty that plagued the bygone Superpower, a nation tragically...
Newton's Clock
Chaos In The Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1993
With his critically acclaimed best-sellers The Mathematical Toursist and Islands of Truth, Ivars Peterson took readers to the frontiers of modern mathematics. His new book provides an up-to-date look at one of science's greatest detective stories: the search for order in the workings of the solar...
Shattered Dreams
A Girl Named Silas and Me
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
In Shattered Dreams: A Girl Named Silas and Me, author Susan Peterson Lane presents a collection of powerful poetry that seeks to help each of us to find ourselves in the face of pain, hurt, and shame and enable us to escape the prisons, labels, and mistakes of both the past and present. Lanes poems...