Paul Thompson: 60 books
by Paul Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Australian Planting Design identifies and explores all aspects of developing better planting designs on any scale, raising awareness of the essential elements and encouraging readers to look with fresh eyes, to create anew. This new edition guides the reader through all the stages of designing a new...
Sculling
Training, Technique and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Whether you are about to go out in a sculling boat for the first time, simply enjoy recreational sculling, or have aspirations to be a member of the national team, this book contains information that will help you to improve your performance and maximize your potential. Sculling considers the principles...
Organizational Misbehaviour
SAGE Publications
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 1999
'[A] textbook specifically aimed at organizational misbehaviour. ...it certainly fills a gap... containing a large survey of academic literature on the subject. The book is good: it brings to light subjects which are too often negleced, and it provides an understanding of phenomena which are so common...
Training for the Complete Rower
A Guide to Improving Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This book aims to provide and challenge coaches and rowers with best practice, advice, principles and training programmes to improve their rowing experience and performance. Regardless of whether you are looking to improve on-water performance, set an indoor rowing personal best or enhance the quality...
Spiritscope
A pocket dictionary of spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Spiritscope is a compact, portable, reference guide to world spiritual traditions: a pocket micro-telescope, or spotlight, on the world of the spirit. Offering an overview of many of the key concepts of diverse traditions, faiths, myths and viewpoints, also herein are some of the common themes of...
Pathways to Social Class
A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Calling for a broader, new approach to social mobility research, Pathways to Social Class: A Qualitative Approach to Social Mobility moves beyond pure statistics to use qualitative techniques-such as life stories and family case studies-to examine more closely the dynamics of mobility and address more fundamental sociological questions.
Philosophy of Medicine
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
What kind of knowledge is medical knowledge? Can medicine be explained scientifically? Is disease a scientific concept, or do explanations of disease depend on values? What is "evidence-based" medicine? Are advances in neuroscience bringing us closer to a scientific understanding of the...
Sunlight Rippling in the Wheat
An Expanded Version of Wheat Rippling in the Sunlight
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
This book is an expanded version of an earlier work entitled Wheat Rippling in the Sunlight published by RoseDog in 2005. In this work the Table of Contents is enhanced by grouping the poems into eight sections by year. The primary purpose of this new book is to incorporate ten poems that did not...
The Agrarian Vision
Sustainability and Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance between progress and the earth's ability to provide for its inhabitants grows increasingly precarious as we attempt to achieve sustainable...
From Field to Fork
Food Ethics for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
After centuries of neglect, the ethics of food are back with a vengeance. Justice for food workers and small farmers has joined the rising tide of concern over the impact of industrial agriculture on food animals and the broader environment, all while a global epidemic of obesity-related diseases...
The Spirit of the Soil
Agriculture and Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B. Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competing visions for agriculture. Productionists have sought increasing yields—to make two seeds grow where only one grew before—while traditional visions...
Haunted: Houses
Haunted
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
500 pages of spooky haunted house stories from 12 authors!
What happens when the place in which you’re meant to feel the safest turns against you? Where do you go when the world inside your four walls is scarier than the world outside?
Get ready to find out!
From the authors...
The Middle of Nowhere
Dragonlance: Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The latest title in the world-spanning Crossroads series. Popular Dragonlance author Paul B. Thompson pens the latest novel that explores an area of the setting that has been mentioned but not previously described in detail to readers.
The peace of a rural village is shattered by the sudden...
Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences
Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the volume's publication in 1981. As comprehensive as it is illuminating, this lucid introduction to Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory...