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Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension
Peter AdeyIn this fascinating book, Peter Adey hovers over the peculiar stories of those who have dreamed of, believed in, or--can you believe your eyes--practiced levitation, offering a wide-ranging history of a unique phenomenon that can be found ...
The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities
PreviewPeter Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, Peter Merriman, Mimi Sheller. First published 2014 by Routledge 2 ParkSquare, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN andby Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an ...
Mobility
Peter AdeyThis book traces out the concept of mobility as a key idea within the discipline of geography as well as subject areas from the wider arts and social sciences.
Air: Nature and Culture
Peter AdeyCombining established figures such as Joseph Priestley, John Scott Haldane, and Marie Curie with unlikely individuals from painting, literature, and poetry, this richly illustrated book unlocks new perspectives into the science and culture ...
Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz: Protecting ...
Peter AdeyDrawing on a range of contemporary sources, the book throws into relief today's experiences of war and terror, the response in crime and deviancy, and the experience and practices of preparedness in anticipation of terrible threats.
Crime, Regulation and Control During the Blitz: Protecting ...
Peter AdeyDrawing on a range of contemporary sources, the book throws into relief today's experiences of war and terror, the response in crime and deviancy, and the experience and practices of preparedness in anticipation of terrible threats.
Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects
Peter AdeyAs Kingsley Dennis and John Urry (2009) suggest, the apparent flexibility and liquidity of mobile technologies such as the aeroplane are entirely dependent upon the liquidity of the resource oil - a commodity with a limited future. In this context ...
Cargomobilities: Moving Materials in a Global Age
PreviewMoving Materials in a Global Age Thomas Birtchnell, Satya Savitzky, John Urry. Changing Mobilities Series Editors: Monika Büscher, Peter Adey This series explores the transformations of society, politics and everyday experiences wrought by ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977
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Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Dr. Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
John Ireland: A Catalogue, Discography and Bibliography
PreviewProfessor Stewart R Craggs. General index. Adey, Christopher, 98 Adni, Daniel, 35, 37, 44, 83, 110, 125 Aeolian String Quartet, 5 Ainsley, J.M., 53, 59, 69, 75, 88, 93 Alcock, Walter, xx, 6 Alexander, Arthur, 70, 89 Allen, Hugh, xxi, xxii Amoris ...
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter
Robert SteinerSixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel
Lisa JewellPeter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Dr. Laurence J. PeterWith the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
Natural reef aquariums: simplified approaches to creating ...
John H. TullockA stunning live rock and live sand reef system created by Karl Coyne exhibits a minimal fish load and dense stocking of many types of soft and stony corals One of California coral breeder Steve Tyree's 180-gallon reefs: proof. Adey's systems ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...
Paul Dickson280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...
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Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis
Peter TurchinMany people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
National Character in South African English Children's ...
Elwyn JenkinsDavid Adey, Ridley Beeton, Michael Chapman and Ernest Pereira, Companion to South African English Literature (Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1986), 97. 2. Thomas Pringle, African Poems of Thomas Pringle, Eds. Ernest Pereira and Michael ...
Peter's Almanac
Laurence J. PeterProviding support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time
Willie M. GrahamPeter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...
Jack J. GibsonJohn Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective
Peter HujarPeter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions
PreviewThe author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...
Josh FrankMaybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and ...
South Asia: An Environmental History
Christopher V. Hill... I hope they all know how much their support and assistance has meant to me: Daud Ali, Rich Barnett, Peter Brumlik, ... Jim and Becky Menlove, Rila Muckerjee, Pashendra Satyal Pravat, Peter Robb, Pushkar Sahoni, Peter Schmitthenner, ...
The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics
PreviewBoettke, Peter J., and Rosolino Candela. 2014. “Hayek, Leoni, and Law as the Fifth Factor of Production.” Atlantic Economic Journal 42, no. 2: 123–131. Boettke , Peter J., Christopher J. Coyne, and Peter T. Leeson. 2008. “Institutional ...
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