Peter Gordon: 52 books
Philosophers as Educational Reformers (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 10)
The Influence of Idealism on British Educational Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This volume assesses how far the ideas and achievements of the 19th century British Idealist philosophical reformers are still important for us today when considering fundamental questions about the structure and objectives of the education system in England and Wales. Part 1 examines those ideas...
by Peter Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
First published in 1974. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Graham Balfour, in a lecture delivered in February 1921, first drew attention to the growing importance of the elementary school manager in the system of educational administration during the period with...
Stalking Salmon & Wrestling Drunks
Confessions of a Charter Boat Skipper
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016
Each fisherman steps onto the docks, sees Peter Gordon's boat the MV Kalua, glances at the other members of the charter and feels a rush of anticipation. The challenge is on to see who will catch the biggest fish.
Told with a skipper's authority, Stalking Salmon and Wrestling Drunks recounts...
by Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
"An important book…[R]ichly rewarding. It is full of fascinating insights about Jefferson." —Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books
Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" is one of the richest and most insightful accounts of Thomas...
Authoritarianism
Three Inquiries in Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only...
Corporate Cthulhu
Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.
Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never...
by Peter E. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Adorno was forever returning to the philosophies of bourgeois interiority, seeking the paradoxical relation between their manifest failure and their hidden promise. As Peter E. Gordon shows, Adorno’s writings on Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger present us with a photographic negative—a philosophical portrait of the author himself.
by Peter F Gordon, MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
“Love is the most powerful of all forces; it is the greatest addiction. It is our driving force and fills our souls. By following it, we may have found the seat of the soul.” This book comes from the personal experiences of Dr Gordon and his years of counseling. They are the topics and techniques...
New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy
The Play of Poiesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change.
Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
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...
Islam and Christianity on the Edge
Talking Points in Christian-Muslim Relations into the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The relationship between Christianity and Islam is complex. This collection of essays by scholars and human rights activists engages with some of the most pressing issues in Christian-Muslim relations, addressing matters of theology, the encounter between civilisations and inter-religious affairs....
by David, Peter; Sutton, Tom; Purcell
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Someone aboard the starship Enterprise has killed Captain Kirkor so it seems. While the captain recovers, it falls to his crew to uncover the facts behind the case and learn whether one of their own is a cold-blooded killer. Add in the unwanted arrival of the Klingons and Kirk's nemesis from his academy days, Finnegan, to take charge of the investigation for an action packed adventure.
by Brian Blackman, Gordon Beeming, Michael Fourie
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
With this ebook, the ALM Rangers share their best practices in managing solution requirements and shipping solutions in an agile environment, an environment where transparency, simplicity, and trust prevail. The ebook is for Agile development teams and their Scrum Masters who want to explore and learn...
Our Story Begins
Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.
Everyone’s...