Peter Coates: 10 books
A Story of Six Rivers
History, Culture and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Many of the world’s major cities sprang up on the banks of rivers. Used for water, food, irrigation, transportation, and power, rivers sustain life and connect the world together, but most of us think of them simply as waterways that must be crossed on the way to another place. Using four European...
by Peter Coates
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Every year, wild salmon travel hundreds of miles upstream. They fight fierce river currents, leap over rocks and small waterfalls, and die by the thousands of starvation, disease, and exposure to cold. Even if they surmount these obstacles, the fish risk becoming dinner for hungry predators like bears,...
Nature
Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both in terms of human attitudes and human impacts. Coates outlines the major understandings of 'nature' in the western world since classical times, from nature as higher...
Environment and History
The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler...
Local Places, Global Processes
histories of environmental change in Britain and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still live in particular places. Our perceptions of change, and what kind of change might be for good or ill,...
Ibn 'Arabi and Modern Thought
The History of Taking Metaphysics Seriously
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
These penetrating metaphysical and spiritual teachings cross the divides of culture and time, providing unexpectedly modern insight.
Hallucination
Philosophy and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of...
by David Coates; Peter Siavelis
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Getting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico. The scale and character of illegal immigration is only one facet of the immigration problem currently before Congress...
Necessary Travel
New Area Studies and Canada in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations – Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London – reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what does ‘expertise’ mean in this new...
Parent-Focused Child Therapy
Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Function
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems. Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions is an edited collection, drawing from leading...