Peter Hoffman's Books

What's Good?

A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients

By: Peter Hoffman

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What's Good?

A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients

By: Peter Hoffman

A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins—now in paperback What goes into the making of a chef, a restaurant, a dish? And if good ingredients make a difference on the plate, what makes them good in the first place? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers thoughtful and delectable answers to these questions. “A locavore before the word existed” (New York Times), Hoffman tells the story of his upbringing, professional education, and evolution as a chef and restaurant owner through its components—everything from the importance of your relationship with your refrigerator repairman and an account of how a burger killed his restaurant, to his belief in peppers as a perfect food, one that is adaptable to a wide range of cultural tastes and geographic conditions and reminds us to be glad we are alive. Along with these personal stories from a life in restaurants, Hoffman braids in passionately curious explorations into the cultural, historical, and botanical backstories of the foods we eat. Beginning with a spring maple sap run and ending with the late-season, frost-defying vegetables, he follows the progress of the seasons and their reflections in his greenmarket favorites, moving ingredient to ingredient through the bounty of the natural world. Hoffman meets with farmers and vendors and unravels the magic of what we eat, deepening every cook’s appreciation for what’s on their kitchen counter. What’s Good? is a layered, insightful, and utterly enjoyable meal.

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Abrams

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1647000092

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9781647000097

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Life and Work

By: Peter Shelley

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Life and Work

By: Peter Shelley

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film producer, and film and stage director, best known for his memorable supporting roles in independent films. Considered one of the best actors of his generation, he died of a drug overdose at age 46 after years of sobriety. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his titular role in Capote (2005), and Best Supporting nominations for Doubt (2008) and The Master (2012). This biography covers his life and career and provides an appendix listing his film, television and stage appearances.

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McFarland

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1476662436

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Entrepreneurship in Innovation Communities

Insights from 3D Printing Startups and the Dilemma of Open Source Hardware

By: Jan-Peter Ferdinand

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Entrepreneurship in Innovation Communities

Insights from 3D Printing Startups and the Dilemma of Open Source Hardware

By: Jan-Peter Ferdinand

Drawing on empirical insights from the field of desktop 3D printing, this book elaborates the concept of innovation communities as a pattern of open and distributed innovation. As these communities spur a fruitful exchange of explorative, open source knowledge, they represent a novel mode of “doing innovation”, which considerably differs from established practices in market and business realms. Hence, the people that participate in these collective endeavors often develop entrepreneurial ambitions and start to exploit community-based innovations commercially. The book presents deep insights on the institutional idiosyncrasies of innovation communities, the associated dilemma of entrepreneurship and the strategies of 3D-printing startups to face the corresponding challenges.

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Springer

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3319668420

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Biology

By: Peter Ellis

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Biology

By: Peter Ellis

These readers are designed to extend and deepen students' level of scientific knowledge and understanding. Topics are presented in various forms - stories, case studies, articles and discussion pieces - to stimulate and gain students' interest. Questions increase in difficulty in order to show students' progression, and help consolidate learning.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748767991

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Permutation Groups

By: Peter J. Cameron

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Permutation Groups

By: Peter J. Cameron

This book summarizes recent developments in the study of permutation groups for beginning graduate students.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521653789

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A Theory of Contract Law

Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology

By: Peter A. Alces

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A Theory of Contract Law

Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology

By: Peter A. Alces

In the past few decades, scholars have offered positive, normative, and most recently, interpretive theories of contract law. These theories have proceeded primarily (indeed, necessarily) from deontological and consequentialist premises. In A Theory of Contract Law: Empirical Insights and Moral Psychology, Professor Peter A. Alces confronts the leading interpretive theories of contract and demonstrates their doctrinal failures. Professor Alces presents the leading canonical cases that inform the extant theories of Contract law in both their historical and transactional contexts and argues that moral psychology provides a better explanation for the contract doctrine than do alternative comprehensive interpretive approaches.

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Oxford University Press

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0199707596

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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

By: Peter L. Hays

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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

By: Peter L. Hays

Every day, in some part of the world, an Arthur Miller play is performed.In the nearly 60 years since its first production, the Pulitzer Prizewinning Death of a Salesman has been become a classic, a staple of school anthologies of American literature and of acting companies' repertoires. It has received worldwide productions, whether as a study of parent-child relationships, as in its landmark 1976 production directed by Miller in Beijing, or as a critique of Western capitalism and has been filmed once for television and twice for movies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441119337

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9781441119339

Spider-Man 2

By: Peter David

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Spider-Man 2

By: Peter David

Follow the adventures of one of the greatest superheroes of all time in the official novelization of the major motion picture! Two years have passed, and Peter Parker struggles to cope with the demands of life as a college student, a Daily Bugle photographer, and a crime-fighting superhero. But it hasn’t gotten any easier. Condemned by the press, tormented by secrets he can never reveal, forced to give up the girl of his dreams—at times the lonely burden of Spider-Man seems almost too great to bear . . . and the temptation to give up grows stronger by the hour. Enter the archfiend Doc Ock, armed with a lethal invention powerful enough to destroy half the city. If Spider-Man tries to stop Doc Ock, he’ll be placing the lives of those closest to him in mortal danger. If he doesn’t, it could be the end of the Big Apple. With millions of lives hanging in the balance, high about Manhattan’s glittering skyline, Spider-Man confronts his destiny, his fiercest enemy, and himself.

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Random House Worlds

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0345478754

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ARA's Untold Story

Skateboard Racing in the Rockies: Colorado 1975-1978

By: Peter Camann

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ARA's Untold Story

Skateboard Racing in the Rockies: Colorado 1975-1978

By: Peter Camann

ARA’s Untold Story: Skateboard Racing in the Rockies Colorado 1975-1978 By: Peter Camann From the Book: Like every human endeavor, it starts with one or more individuals who dare do something extreme, something they feel is worth personal sacrifice even if it means being the object of derision, even hostility. This is the way skateboarding began in the heart of Colorado's Rocky Mountains back in 1975-1976.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1639372970

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Star

The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty

By: Peter Biskind

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Star

The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty

By: Peter Biskind

In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Famously a playboy, Beatty has also been one of the most ambitious and successful stars in Hollywood. Several Beatty films have passed the test of time, from Bonnie and Clyde to Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds (for which he won the best director Oscar), Bugsy, and Bulworth. Few filmgoers realize that along with Orson Welles, Beatty is the only person ever nominated for four Academy Awards for a single film -- and unlike Welles, Beatty did it twice. Biskind shows how Beatty used star power, commercial success, savvy, and charm to bend Hollywood moguls to his will. Beatty's private life has been the subject of gossip for decades, and Star confirms his status as Hollywood's leading man in the bedroom, describing his affairs with Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Leslie Caron and Madonna, among many others. Biskind explains how Beatty exercised unique control, often hiring screenwriters out of his own pocket, producing, directing, and acting in his own films. He was arguably one of the most successful and creative figures in Hollywood during the second half of the twentieth century, and in this fascinating biography, Warren Beatty comes to life -- complete with excesses and achievements -- as never before.

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Simon and Schuster

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1847378390

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Beyond the Factory Gates

Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America

By: Peter Bartrip

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Beyond the Factory Gates

Asbestos and Health in Twentieth Century America

By: Peter Bartrip

Beyond the Factory Gates examines the issue of asbestos and health in the USA between the early 1900's to the mid-1970s. Areas covered include the emergence of medical concern about the three fatal diseases related to asbestos (asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma); the actions of the US Navy (the main consumer of asbestos-based insulation products); the response of the federal government before and after enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970; and the roles of organized labour and the asbestos industry. The book provides an important insight into occupational health and its regulation in twentieth century America, and is original in several ways. First, there is no satisfactory history of asbestos, health and medicine in the USA - a major gap in the literature. Second, no previous publication has examined the asbestos issue 'beyond the factory gates' in a non-manufacturing context and explored the complex interactions between organised labour, the US Government, business corporations and the US navy. Finally, Beyond the Factory Gates avoids the one-sided, anti-business interpretations that predominate much of the existing literature. It accepts that the history of asbestos is in many ways a human tragedy, but it rejects simplistic, universalised arguments that this has been a tragedy with a cast only villains, dupes and victims.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441188185

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Psychology

By: Peter O. Gray

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Psychology

By: Peter O. Gray

More than ever, the new edition of Gray’s Psychology helps students understand the basic interactions between behavioral and biological science. Experience teacher and author…Cutting-edge researcher on the topic of evolutionary play…Psychology Today blogger…This combination makes Peter Gray the ideal author for a challenging yet accessible introduction to the fundamental questions explored by psychology researchers.

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Macmillan

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1429219475

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Brave New Mind

A Thoughtful Inquiry into the Nature and Meaning of Mental Life

By: Peter Dodwell

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Brave New Mind

A Thoughtful Inquiry into the Nature and Meaning of Mental Life

By: Peter Dodwell

How was the standard model of the mind developed? Is it adequate? And is there a place in this model for the creative genius of artists, scientists, and mathematicians? This book looks at how scientists investigate the nature of the mind and the brain, providing answers to these important questions. It opens with a description of the historical roots of cognitive science and analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the standard model of the mind, including its inability to account for the many dramatic features of human achievement. The final chapter develops the notion that human creativity and the unfolding of human consciousness demand two things: that we acknowledge the central role that ideals play in human knowledge and conduct and that such ideals have no role in the standard model. Brave New Mind proposes a new image of humankind that accommodates the place of ideals and creativity in cognition and life, without abandoning the scientific ideals of empirical soundness and theoretical rigor.

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Oxford University Press

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0195358392

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Eigenspaces of Graphs

By: Dragoš M. Cvetković,Peter Rowlinson,Slobodan Simic

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Eigenspaces of Graphs

By: Dragoš M. Cvetković,Peter Rowlinson,Slobodan Simic

Current research on the spectral theory of finite graphs may be seen as part of a wider effort to forge closer links between algebra and combinatorics (in particular between linear algebra and graph theory).This book describes how this topic can be strengthened by exploiting properties of the eigenspaces of adjacency matrices associated with a graph. The extension of spectral techniques proceeds at three levels: using eigenvectors associated with an arbitrary labelling of graph vertices, using geometrical invariants of eigenspaces such as graph angles and main angles, and introducing certain kinds of canonical eigenvectors by means of star partitions and star bases. One objective is to describe graphs by algebraic means as far as possible, and the book discusses the Ulam reconstruction conjecture and the graph isomorphism problem in this context. Further problems of graph reconstruction and identification are used to illustrate the importance of graph angles and star partitions in relation to graph structure. Specialists in graph theory will welcome this treatment of important new research.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521573521

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There's a Riot Going On

Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the 60s

By: Peter Doggett

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There's a Riot Going On

Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the 60s

By: Peter Doggett

“Doggett’s encyclopaedic account of Sixties counter-culture is a fascinating history of pop’s relationship with politics.” —The Independent Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking. Rock and soul music fueled the revolutionary movement with anthems and iconic imagery. Soon the musicians themselves, from John Lennon and Bob Dylan to James Brown and Fela Kuti, were being dragged into the fray. From Mick Jagger’s legendary appearance in Grosvenor Square standing on the sidelines and snapping pictures, to the infamous incident during the Woodstock Festival when Pete Townshend kicked yippie Abbie Hoffman off the stage while he tried to make a speech about an imprisoned comrade, Peter Doggett unravels the truth about how these were not the “Street Fighting Men” they liked to see themselves as and how the increasing corporatization of the music industry played an integral role in derailing the cultural dream. There’s a Riot Going On is a fresh, definitive, and exceedingly well-researched behind-the-scenes account of this uniquely turbulent period when pop culture and politics shared the world stage with mixed results. “A fresh and near-definitive slant on a subject you might have thought had been picked clean by journalists and historians.” —Time Out London “An extraordinary book . . . Doggett emerges triumphant. Grab a copy—by any means necessary.” —Mojo

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802197744

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Family Law, Sex and Society

A Comparative Study of Family Law

By: Peter De Cruz

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Family Law, Sex and Society

A Comparative Study of Family Law

By: Peter De Cruz

Comparative in both approach and framework, Family Law, Sex and Society provides a critical exposition of key areas in family law, exploring their evolution and development within their historical, cultural, political and legal context. Cross-referencing to English law throughout, this comparative textbook pays particular attention to the transformation of marriage; the development of divorce laws; matrimonial property; the legal recognition of unmarried heterosexual and same-sex cohabitants; the universal adoption of the best interests standard for children in domestic and international legislation; and the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on family law in a variety of jurisdictions. Divided into different sections, Family Law, Sex and Society includes coverage of: a jurisdictional and historical survey of some of the main themes in Family Law, as well as consideration of the evolution of the Western family the English law relating to divorce, marital property and children and a comparison with the equivalent law in the civil law jurisdictions of France and Germany family law developments in other common law countries such as Australia and New Zealand, selected American jurisdictions, parts of Africa and some Far Eastern countries; and hybrid jurisdictions like Japan and Russia an analysis of the law relating to unmarried cohabitation and domestic partnerships in civil law jurisdictions such as France, Germany and Sweden in comparison to Anglo-American law a comparative analysis of the laws relating to domestic violence. Family Law, Sex and Society offers valuable socio-legal and socio-cultural insights into the practice of family law, and is the only textbook that provides a unified, coherent and comparative approach to the study of family law as it operates in these particular jurisdictions.

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Routledge

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1134999984

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9781134999989

Southern African Geomorphology

Recent Trends and New Directions

By: Peter Holmes,Michael Meadows

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Southern African Geomorphology

Recent Trends and New Directions

By: Peter Holmes,Michael Meadows

This book covers the geomorphology and landscape evolution of South Africa, focusing on arid landscapes, fluvial systems, karst, Quaternary landscapes, macro-scale geomorphic evolution, coastal geomorphology and applied geomorphology. It would appeal to postgraduate students in Physical Geography (Geomorphology) and Physical Geology and all academics in the earth sciences.

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UJ Press

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1920382364

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The Terrible Hours

By: Peter Maas

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The Terrible Hours

By: Peter Maas

Offers a detailed account of U.S. Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen's attempts to save thirty-three men who were trapped in a sunken submarine during the first days of World War II

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Harper Collins

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0061014591

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9780061014598

Norfolk

The First Four Centuries

By: Thomas C. Parramore,Peter C. Stewart,Tommy Bogger

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Norfolk

The First Four Centuries

By: Thomas C. Parramore,Peter C. Stewart,Tommy Bogger

This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-century concerns, including pollution of Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813919886

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United States of Jihad

Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

By: Peter Bergen

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United States of Jihad

Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?

By: Peter Bergen

A riveting, panoramic look at “homegrown” Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans—born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere—have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight abroad: an American was among those who planned the attacks in Mumbai, and more than eighty U.S. citizens have been charged with ISIS-related crimes. Others have acted on American soil, as with the attacks at Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, and in San Bernardino. What motivates them, how are they trained, and what do we sacrifice in our efforts to track them? Paced like a detective story, United States of Jihad tells the entwined stories of the key actors on the American front. Among the perpetrators are Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born radical cleric who became the first American citizen killed by a CIA drone and who mentored the Charlie Hebdo shooters; Samir Khan, whose Inspire webzine has rallied terrorists around the world, including the Tsarnaev brothers; and Omar Hammami, an Alabama native and hip hop fan who became a fixture in al Shabaab’s propaganda videos until fatally displeasing his superiors. Drawing on his extensive network of intelligence contacts, from the National Counterterrorism Center and the FBI to the NYPD, Peter Bergen also offers an inside look at the controversial tactics of the agencies tracking potential terrorists—from infiltrating mosques to massive surveillance; at the bias experienced by innocent observant Muslims at the hands of law enforcement; at the critics and defenders of U.S. policies on terrorism; and at how social media has revolutionized terrorism. Lucid and rigorously researched, United States of Jihad is an essential new analysis of the Americans who have embraced militant Islam both here and abroad. — Washington Post, Notable Non-Fiction Books in 2016

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Crown

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0804139563

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Mark Twain and Male Friendship

The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships

By: Peter Messent

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Mark Twain and Male Friendship

The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships

By: Peter Messent

Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, this book examines three profoundly influential and vastly different friendships in the life of Mark Twain.

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OUP USA

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0195391160

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The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Docudrama Series

Pivotal Moments in American History

By: Peter Goodchild,Murray Horowitz,Jonathan Estrin,Geoffrey Cowan,Leroy Aarons

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The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Docudrama Series

Pivotal Moments in American History

By: Peter Goodchild,Murray Horowitz,Jonathan Estrin,Geoffrey Cowan,Leroy Aarons

A unique play anthology featuring five gripping docudramas originally commissioned by L.A. Theatre Works that each explore pivotal moments in 20th century U.S history. With ensemble casts and innovative staging potential these plays are perfect for theatre companies, schools and educational groups looking to stage familiar historical stories in new and original ways. Each play is accompanied by dramaturgical notes that help contextualize and analyze both the events themselves and the dramatic form in which they are presented. The scripts included are: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild The Real Dr. Strangelove by Peter Goodchild RFK: The Journey to Justice by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin The Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Peter Goodchild Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons (Winner of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Best Live Entertainment Award, 1992) As well as five scripts this anthology includes a foreword by Professor Michael Hackett, professor of directing and theatre history at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135013581X

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics

By: Peter Sloane

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics

By: Peter Sloane

Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but never quite reveal, the ineffable, inexpressible essence of his narrators' emotionally fraught worlds. Reformulating Martin Heidegger's suggestion that the 'essence of world can only be indicated' as 'the essence of world can only be gestured towards,' Sloane argues that while Ishiguro's novels and short stories are profoundly sensitive to the limitations of literary form, their narrators are, to varying degrees, equally keenly attuned to the failures of language itself. In order to communicate something of the emotional worlds of characters adrift in various uncertainties, while also commenting on the expressive possibilities of fiction and the mimetic arts more widely, Ishiguro appropriates a range of metaphors which enable both author and character to gesture towards the undisclosable essences of fiction and being.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501348000

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Ballpark

Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream

By: Peter Richmond

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Ballpark

Camden Yards and the Building of an American Dream

By: Peter Richmond

In this lively chronicle of the creation of the Baltimore Orioles' new stadium, Richmond interweaves baseball history and hardball politics, architecture and the structure ot sports in the '90s to tell a tale as filled with tussles, turmoil, and triumphs as baseball itself.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684800489

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The Immanuel Papers

By: Peter Adams

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The Immanuel Papers

By: Peter Adams

In the silent shrouds of mist the Soviet nuclear Immanuel Class submarine is the focus of intrigue and foreboding as Mike Delmar investigates the activities of the FSB intelligence service and the hope of the Soviet sailor Ivan Godunov.

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Authors On Line Ltd

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0755200853

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Gene Hackman

The Life and Work

By: Peter Shelley

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Gene Hackman

The Life and Work

By: Peter Shelley

Gene Hackman (b. 1930) has been described as the best actor of his generation. During almost half a century as an American film, television and stage actor, film producer and author, he was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Best Actor for The French Connection (1971) and the Best Supporting Actor for Unforgiven (1992), as well as three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs. This study examines his film work in detail, with a filmography/videography included.

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McFarland

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1476670471

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Act Now!

A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Working Actor

By: Peter Jazwinski

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Act Now!

A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Working Actor

By: Peter Jazwinski

So, you want to be an actor . . . but you have no idea how to get started. In the pages of Act Now!, you’ll find a step-by-step process to show you not only how to get started, but also how to become a working actor. It will take time and commitment, but if you follow these steps you will find success. Author and acting teacher Peter Jazwinski explains every aspect of becoming an actor from start to finish. You’ll learn about: • Improving Your Acting Skills • How Actors Get Cast • Finding Auditions on Your Own • Working with an Agent or Manager—and What the Difference Is • The Importance of Networking • And More! A frank and encouraging game plan for success, Act Now! will empower those who have the drive to stop dreaming and start making a living—as an actor.

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030741972X

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The Shipwreck of Their Hopes

THE BATTLES FOR CHATTANOOGA

By: Peter Cozzens

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The Shipwreck of Their Hopes

THE BATTLES FOR CHATTANOOGA

By: Peter Cozzens

Civil War enthusiasts will welcome a new book by Peter Cozzens, author of two highly praised works on Civil War campaigns--No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River and This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. In The Shipwreck of Their Hopes, Cozzens fully chronicles one of the South's most humiliating defeats. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252065956

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Armed Groups

The Twenty-First-Century Threat

By: Peter G. Thompson

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Armed Groups

The Twenty-First-Century Threat

By: Peter G. Thompson

Armed Groups is the most comprehensive text to provide a framework for categorizing the key actors that pose a threat to today’s security arena—terrorists, mercenaries, insurgents, militias, and transnational criminal organizations—and analyzing their characteristics to provide a thorough overview. Drawing on case studies, histories, and a rich, yet underexplored theoretical literature, this study presents students with the tools to methodically examine these often overlooked, but key drivers of violence in the international system. Additionally, globalization, the privatization of force, and the return of great power competition have altered the security landscape and enhanced armed group threats. These forces have also led to an increasing overlap between conflict and crime, and a growth in the state use of armed group proxies. Coming to terms with armed groups—their objectives, strategies, internal composition, and the environment that fosters them—remains a critical task for practitioners, scholars, and policy makers alike in understanding the changing nature of war. This second edition, updated throughout, includes new material on the importance of private military companies, the shift to sub-Saharan Africa as an important center of conflict, the return of great power politics, the increased use of social media and advanced technology, and the increasingly criminalized nature of armed groups. ,

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Magic and Modernity

Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment

By: Birgit Meyer,Peter Pels

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Magic and Modernity

Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment

By: Birgit Meyer,Peter Pels

This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also at home in modernity.

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Stanford University Press

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0804744645

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Developments in Social Work with Offenders

By: Gill McIvor,Peter Raynor

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Developments in Social Work with Offenders

By: Gill McIvor,Peter Raynor

Explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843105381

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Psychology Of Childhood

By: Peter Mitchell

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Psychology Of Childhood

By: Peter Mitchell

The aim of this book is to serve as an introduction to students and professionals who require an understanding of developmental psychology, but who have no background knowledge. The text outlines some of the main areas of developmental psychology, and as such, seeks to offer a broad overview of contemporary interest in the subject. It provides a description of development, both normal and abnormal, and presents explanations of the way in which development progresses and why it takes a particular form. It is aimed at GCSE students, A level students, first year psychology undergraduates and school teachers.

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Taylor & Francis

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1135427151

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The Federal Courts

An Essential History

By: Peter Charles Hoffer,Williamjames Hoffer,N. E. H. Hull

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The Federal Courts

An Essential History

By: Peter Charles Hoffer,Williamjames Hoffer,N. E. H. Hull

There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story of all of these courts and the judges and justices who served on them, of the case law they made, and of the acts of Congress and the administrative organs that shaped the courts. But, even more importantly, this is a story of the courts' development and their vital part in America's history. Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, and N. E. H. Hull's retelling of that history is framed the three key features that shape the federal courts' narrative: the separation of powers; the federal system, in which both the national and state governments are sovereign; and the widest circle: the democratic-republican framework of American self-government. The federal judiciary is not elective and its principal judges serve during good behavior rather than at the pleasure of Congress, the President, or the electorate. But the independence that lifetime tenure theoretically confers did not and does not isolate the judiciary from political currents, partisan quarrels, and public opinion. Many vital political issues came to the federal courts, and the courts' decisions in turn shaped American politics. The federal courts, while the least democratic branch in theory, have proved in some ways and at various times to be the most democratic: open to ordinary people seeking redress, for example. Litigation in the federal courts reflects the changing aspirations and values of America's many peoples. The Federal Courts is an essential account of the branch that provides what Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Judge Oliver Wendell Homes Jr. called "a magic mirror, wherein we see reflected our own lives.

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Oxford University Press

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0199387907

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Psychology, Fourth Edition

By: Peter O. Gray

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Psychology, Fourth Edition

By: Peter O. Gray

The new edition of Gray's acclaimed text, featuring dramatic new coverage of sensation and perception and new media tools that actively involve students in psychological research.

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Macmillan

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0716751623

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Plastic Surgery E-Book

Volume 4: Trunk and Lower Extremity

By: David H Song,Peter C. Neligan

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Plastic Surgery E-Book

Volume 4: Trunk and Lower Extremity

By: David H Song,Peter C. Neligan

Completely revised to meet the demands of today's trainee and practicing plastic surgeon, Lower Extremity, Trunk and Burns, Volume 4 of Plastic Surgery, 4th Edition, features new full-color clinical photos, dynamic videos, and authoritative coverage of hot topics in the field. Editor-narrated video presentations offer a step-by-step audio-visual walkthrough of techniques and procedures in plastic surgery. - Offers evidence-based advice from a diverse collection of experts to help you apply the very latest advances in lower extremity, trunk, and burn surgery and ensure optimal outcomes. - Provides updated coverage of: Lymphedema microsurgery; Transgender surgery; and Skin grafting and reconstructive surgery for burns. - Includes brand-new color clinical photos, videos, and lectures. - Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, videos, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323357075

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