Richard Peterson: 31 books
by Richard Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A post–World War II memoir of a childhood in working-class Pittsburgh
“Alongside August Wilson and John Edgar Wideman, Richard Peterson is among the most evocative chroniclers of Pittsburgh, their colorful hometown. I loved Growing Up With Clemente for both its unnostalgic lyricism and...
Conversations In The Rainforest
Culture, Values, And The Environment In Central Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
A rich, interdisciplinary study of Central African land ethics incorporating conversations with local rainforest inhabitants that yield vibrant new insights into the dilemmas of sustaining Africa's rainforests and its people. In Conversations in the Rainforest, Richard B. Peterson combines interdisciplinary research and intimate, first-hand convers
Ike Would Be Proud
Eisenhower Fellowships - a Leadership Program
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
Dick Peterson has written this book about the Eisenhower Fellows, and for the Fellows. He has chosen to focus on two very visible examples of the Fellows leadership and networking the Irish Peace Process and ProyectoCities. As an active EF Trustee since 1994, Dick has become convinced that these models...
The Slide
Leyland, Bonds, and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In the deciding game of the 1992 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Pirates suffered the most dramatic and devastating loss in team history when former Pirate Sid Bream slid home with the winning run. Bream’s infamous slide ended the last game played by...
Creating Country Music
Fabricating Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In Creating Country Music, Richard Peterson traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. Peterson captures the free-wheeling entrepreneurial spirit of the era, detailing...
Trading on Sentiment
The Power of Minds Over Markets
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
In his debut book on trading psychology, Inside the Investor’s Brain, Richard Peterson demonstrated how managing emotions helps top investors outperform. Now, in Trading on Sentiment, he takes you inside the science of crowd psychology and demonstrates that not only do price patterns exist, but...
by Evelyn E. Smith, Harry Harrison, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Fantastic Universe' started publishing in 1953 and continued until March 1960. It was one of the better magazines to launch during the boom in science fiction magazine publishing. It published many important stories' by some of the field's best known writers. This is our second Fantastic Universe...
by Richard S. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the first edition of this now-classic text, Richard Peterson offered an important revaluation of the poetry of Ben Jonson and a new appreciation of the way in which the classical doctrine of imitation-the creative use of the thoughts and words of predecessors-permeates and shapes Jonson's critical...
by Richard T. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1996
Debates over postmodernism, analyses of knowledge and power, and the recurring issue of Heidegger's Nazism have all deepened questions about the relation between philosophy and the social roles of intellectuals. Against such postmodernist rejections of philosophical theory as mounted by Rorty and...
So Lonesome
Hank Williams and the Creation of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Hank Williams (1923–53) was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as the most important country music artist of all time, creator of an unforgettable sound and persona that helped to define the genre from its infancy and beyond. Though unable to read or notate music to any substantive...
Called to Community
The Life Jesus Wants for His People
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Fifty-two readings on living in intentional Christian community to spark group discussion.
Gold Medal Winner, 2017 Illumination Book Awards, Christian Living
Silver Medal Winner, 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in Religion, Independent Book Publishers Association
Why, in an age of connectivity,...
Inside the Investor's Brain
The Power of Mind Over Money
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Unique insights into how the mind of an investor operates and how developing emotional awareness leads to long-term success
Inside the Investor's Brain provides readers with specific techniques for understanding their financial psychology, so that they can improve their own performance and...
MarketPsych
How to Manage Fear and Build Your Investor Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
An investor's guide to understanding the most elusive (yet most important) aspect of successful investing - yourself.
Why is it that the investing performance of so many smart people reliably and predictably falls short? The answer is not that they know too little about the markets. In fact,...
by Laird Barron, Richard Kirk, Stephen Graham Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Weird Tales 359 presents interviews with Laird Barron and Richard Kirk, features on books and weird music, and short stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Evan J. Peterson, Tom Underberg, Leena Likitalo, Joel Lane, and Conrad Williams -- plus poetry and the usual features.