Peter Peter: 17025 books
Isotopias
Places and Spaces in French War Fiction of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This monograph is the first book to examine places and spaces in French war fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These places and spaces are presented as literary isotopias, or fictional «worlds», and analysed in a selective corpus of thirty-three novelists and forty-two examples...
Nelson's Victory
101 Questions and Answers About HMS Victory, Nelson's Flagship at Trafalgar 1805
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
With the approach of the 200th anniversary of the Royal Navy's greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on October 21st 1805, much attention will be given to our most tangible symbol of that most ferocious engagement, Nelson's fully preserved flagship HMS Victory. Much has been written about HMS Victory...
Jonathan Edwards on the New Birth in the Spirit
The Life, Times, and Thought of America’s Greatest Theologian
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Biblical truth in the hands of Edwards lives mightily. Edwards in the hand of Peter Doyle comes alive. As we see an anemic Christendom today in its witness, ethics, and influence, we find the correctives and the guidance we need in the works of Jonathan Edwards––revivalist preacher, philosopher,...
The Last Man Standing
Herb Ashby and the Battle of El Alamein
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Where was the rest of the company? Why is no one else firing? A quick look behind revealed the shocking truth. Herb was alone. No one was following there was no one able to follow. He was the last man standing.'
The Australians played a crucial role in the Allied victory in the Battle of El...
Worker Resistance and Media
Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
With developments in media technologies creating new opportunities and challenges for social movements to emerge and mobilize, this book is a timely and necessary examination of how organized labour and workers movements are engaging with this shifting environment. Based on extensive empirical research...
Na to Hoa Aroha, from Your Dear Friend, Volume 2
The Correspondence of Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1925-50 (Volume II, 1930-32)
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The leading historian Keith Sorrenson has collected in three volumes the complete correspondence (174 letters in all) between two distinguished twentieth-century Māori scholars and statesmen, Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa). 'The letters confirm that each man was indeed a totara...
Innocent on the Bounty
The Court-Martial and Pardon of Midshipman Peter Heywood, in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
This is the first complete publication of a rare collection of letters and poems written from 1790 to 1792—many of which have never appeared in print—telling the true story of Peter Heywood, a young Royal Navy midshipman on H.M.S. Bounty accused of mutiny, and his devoted sister, Nessy, who worked...
Britain and a Widening War, 1915-1916
From Gallipoli to the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In a series of concise, thought-provoking chapters the authors summarize – and make accessible – the latest scholarship on the middle years of the Great War – 1915 and 1916 – and cover fundamental issues that are rarely explored outside the specialist journals. Their work is an important contribution...
by Peter F. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
W hen the first Pilgrims arrived on the shores of Massachusetts, they set foot in a world full of promise and new beginnings. Colonists witnessed the births of new children, governments and traditions, but even the Puritans could not wholly escape the Old World�s basest human instincts. In Plymouth,...
by Peter Jalesh
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
There is no genuine affiliation between Joyce's book "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and this book with the exception of the mock title that in the current usage plays the role of a gigantesque pastiche. Joyce's portraiture genre, superimposed over a restless American landscape,...
Aristotle on the Meaning of Man
A Philosophical Response to Idealism, Positivism, and Gnosticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Why was (and is) Aristotle «right» and why are we «wrong»? In other words, why are Aristotle’s philosophical reflections on man and the world full, real, and convincing and why is so much of our modern philosophy partial and false? This work offers a detailed assessment of Aristotle’s thought...
Exquisite Destinations
Adventures of a Maritimer in Lesser-known places
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
EXQUISITE DESTINATIONS:
When we are young, we dream dreams. We fantasize about things we want to do, places we want to go, what we wish to be. Then, it is up to us, to time, chance and fortune, as to whether those dreams will come true.
A native of Nova Scotia, Peter L. McCreath grew...
Hole
Kidnapped in Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
In June 2002, Peter Shaw, a banker from Wales, was brutally kidnapped by a Pseudo-military organisation in a busy suburb of Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia, in eastern Europe. Hole is the harrowing account of his five month captivity and subsequent 'escape' in November 2002. Peter's...
by Peter G. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
What kind of a life are you living? A life full of stress, stress that leaves you breathless and tired at the end of the day? Have you ever questioned why you live that way, what the root of it is, and if there is something you can do to change it? In his second book, Peter Anderson addresses a reality...