Peter Peter: 17025 books
Gurkha
The True Story of a Campaign for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The course of a life can be altered by the smallest decisions; the most innocuous events can turn out to have the greatest of consequences. On a Sunday afternoon in 2004, local politician Peter Carroll invited four men into his Folkestone home and promised to help them fight for the right to settle...
by Peter James Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Well known in the city of Bristol for his Pirate Walks around the harbourside, Peter James Martin’s enduring fascination with the seafaring rogues inspired him to produce this book of swashbuckling tales. Weaving together colourful folklore and intriguing facts, the collection of stories about some...
by Peter Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South.
Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally...
With the Jocks
A Soldier's Struggle for Europe 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Born in battle, Peter White's journal is one of the most extraordinary stories to come out of the Second World War. As a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment's advance through the Low Countries and into Germany in the closing...
Holy War, Inc.
Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2001
On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flame, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil....
Gallipoli
A Ridge Too Far
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
For the first time showcasing a unique and extensive range of Australian War Memorial photographs, Gallipoli: a Ridge too far describes the pivotal events of that momentous year as they affected all the countries involved. The book combines fresh perspectives from the worlds leading authorities, including...
A New Form of Beauty
Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In Glen Canyon waters rose, inundating petroglyphs and creating Lake Powell. Now the Colorado River basin is experiencing the longest dry spell in modern history—one that shows alarming signs of becoming the new normal.
In A New Form of Beauty photographer Peter Goin and writer Peter Friederici...
by Peter Gabel
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
In ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING, Peter Gabel argues that our most fundamental spiritual need as human beings is the desire for authentic mutual recognition. Because we live in a world in which this desire is systematically denied due to the legacy of fear of the other that has been passed on from generation...
by Peter Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Peter Drucker's lively and thoughtful memoirs are now available in paperback with a new introduction by the author. He writes with wit and spirit about people he has encountered in a long and varied life, including Sigmund Freud, Henry Luce, Alfred Sloan, John L. Lewis, and Marshall McLuhan. After...
The Ransom of the Soul
Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Tablet Book of the Year Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s...
Direct Struggle Against Capital
A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This is the most extensive collection of Peter Kropotkin's writings available in English. Over half the selections have been translated for the first time or salvaged from long-out-of-print pamphlets and newspapers. Both an introduction to classic texts and a recontextualization of Kropotkin from...
by Saint Peter Bishop of Alexandria
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This edition consists of fragments of St. Peters writings...
Peter Mansbridge One on One
Favourite Conversations and the Stories Behind Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
From one of Canada’s most respected and recognizable journalists comes a collection of the best interviews with the leading thinkers and cultural icons of our time, from the country’s most trusted interview show.
An extraordinary selection from Newsworld’s Mansbridge One on One, including...
The Inner Life of Animals
Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World Love, Grief, and Compassion—Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
"Like The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben's The Inner Life of Animals will rock your world. Surprising, humbling, and filled with delight, this book shows us that animals think, feel and know in much the same way as we do--and that their lives are, to them, as precious as ours are to us."
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