Peterson: 1610 books
Managing Tourism Growth
Issues And Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Tourism is by many measures the world's largest and fastest growing industry, and it provides myriad benefits to hosts and visitors alike. Yet if poorly managed, tourism can have serious negative impacts on tourist communities-their environment, physical appearance, economy, health, safety, and even...
by Michael P. McCauley, B. Lee Artz, DeeDee Halleck
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting's role as vox populi has come under threat. With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume examines the crisis...
Homer Simpson Ponders Politics
Popular Culture as Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
It is often said that the poet Homer "educated" ancient Greece. Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale have assembled a team of notable scholars who argue, quite persuasively, that Homer Simpson and his ilk are educating America and offering insights into the social order and the human condition.
Following...
Vikings and Goths
A History of Ancient and Medieval Sweden
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The Vikings descended upon Europe at the close of the 8th century, invading the continent’s western seas and river systems, trading, raiding and spreading terror. In the north, they settled Iceland and Greenland and reached North America. In the east, Swedish Varangians established a river road...
The Call of the Mild
Misadventures in Africa, Hollywood, and Other Wild Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Responding to the Lion's Roar
Join comedian, actor, and writer Torry Martin as he shares his latest outlandish misadventures!
Whether he's dealing with pythons in South Africa, pickpockets in Ireland, or grizzlies in Alaska, Torry shares his blunders and the life lessons they've taught...
Celebrating Planet Narnia: 10 Years in Orbit
Volume 1, #4
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
When Michael Ward's Planet Narnia emerged a decade ago, myriad things were pulled into its orbit: The immense gravitational force altered the field of C.S. Lewis studies, to be sure, but the discovery's scope stretched far into the worlds of literary criticism, Christian apologetics, and the arts.
Only...
Challenges of Aging on U.S. Families
Policy and Practice Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Examine the changing structure of the family as America’s population ages!
As the United States’ economy evolves and manufacturing jobs disappear, the prospect of each generation experiencing a standard of living that exceeds that of their parents’ generation also disappears. Challenges...
by Quintin Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
D.C. Police Officer Jacob "Doc" Holloway was recruited to work as a narcotics undercover operative for the federally funded Janus Project, working in conjunction with federal law enforcement agencies' entire Special Investigations Network (SIN). Eighteen months later, he discovered that...
Darkest Before Dawn
U-482 and the Sinking of Empire Heritage 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
The full story of one of the greatest Allied shipping losses of World War II For the first time, this book describes how U-482 managed to slip undetected into the busy shipping lanes of the North Channel and carry out the last great U-boat patrol of the war. In the autumn of 1944 World War II was...
by Major Greg Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In 1954 the French Armed Forces began a campaign in Algeria against the insurgent Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) which had started a bloody uprising against French sovereignty. Initially, the French military did not have a viable counterinsurgency doctrine that was effective in defeating the...
by Gary Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Your Complete Sniper Guide. There has never been a Sniper Guide like this. It contains 140 answers, much more than you can imagine; comprehensive answers and extensive details and references, with insights that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This all-embracing...
The American Family
From Obligation to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a culture devoted to pleasure and individual fulfilment.
Warrior Kings of Sweden
The Rise of an Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
For a hundred years, Sweden was the international military power of Northern Europe, in control of the entire Baltic region and among the first to colonize in Africa and America. But the history of Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, and Prussia is largely neglected in American classrooms...
Oman in the Twentieth Century
Political Foundations of an Emerging State
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Oman was ruled by the Al Bu Sa’id for 250 years, and during this period the fortunes of the state varied considerably. But in July 1970, as a result of a palace coup, the state abruptly turned away from isolation and traditions of the past. The most obvious alteration was in the dramatic change...