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Theorizing Animals: Re-thinking Humanimal Relations

Theorizing Animals: Re-thinking Humanimal Relations

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... the human animal violence connection from a psychological perspective she is an associate editor for Society & Animals and regularly reviews for Anthrozoos Peter Beatson Peter Beatson has doctorates in english literature from Cambridge  ...
Wheels, Waves, Wings and Drums: My Twentieth Century Journey

Wheels, Waves, Wings and Drums: My Twentieth Century Journey

Peter Beatson

In Wheels, Waves, Wings and Drums, Peter Beatson recalls his early life in the English Midlands from 1919 to the onset of World War II. His story continues with enlistment in the R.A.F. medical service.
Reading Pakeha?: Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Reading Pakeha?: Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Christina Stachurski

In a review in Landfall, a leading literary journal, Peter Beatson expresses his fear that, since Once Were Warriors is a “novel by a Maori which uncompromisingly lists Maori shortcomings, it may provide an alibi for morally lazy Pakeha whose ...
Iris Murdoch and Morality

Iris Murdoch and Morality

Anne Rowe

The literary critic Peter Beatson notes that 'in all of White's novels, characters find their God in human form [...] God is too vast to be embraced directly, and a local habitation must be found for him'.12 White's concept of Christ sees him as a ...
The Arts in Aotearoa New Zealand: Themes and Issues

The Arts in Aotearoa New Zealand: Themes and Issues

Peter Beatson

... 5 89) 15 Denis O'Connor interview 11 12 92 16 Roger J Angus GU( 25 6 88) HTPGarrity G13(140:15) 18 Dean Parker G19(16:131) 19 Denis Welch G12(6 3 93:21) 20 Dick Frizzell Vl»6:19 21 Mike Chunn M9:2 22 Stacy Gregg G13(142: 104) ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From 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

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From 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 Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty 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

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter 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

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With 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 ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 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.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many 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 ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing 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

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter 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 ...
A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British ...

A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British ...

Robert Beatson

47. Devon County. 1 Sir Will. Courtenay, bt. Robert Rolle, esq. 2 Sir Will. Courtenay, bt. Robert Rolle, esq. 3 Sir Will. Pole, bt. " John Rolle, esq. Sir Will. Courtenay, bt. 4 Sir Will. Courtenay, bt. Sir Cop. W. Bampfylde, bt. 5 Sir Will. Courtenay, bt.
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John 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 Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

Josh Frank

Maybe 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  ...
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

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The 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 ...
South Asia: An Environmental History

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

The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics

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Boettke, 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 ...
Haunted London

Haunted London

Peter Underwood

Peter Underwood. unidentified Frenchwoman accompanied by her ghost dog that used to haunt the old houses behind St Peter's church in Cranley Gardens. A huddled form, thought to be the ghost of Catherine Eddowes, a Jack the Ripper ...
Constitutional Mythologies: New Perspectives on Controlling ...

Constitutional Mythologies: New Perspectives on Controlling ...

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Boettke, Peter, and Peter Leeson. 2004. “Liberalism, Socialism, and Robust Political Economy.” Journal of Markets & Morality 7(1): 99–111. Boettke, Peter. 2009. “Institutional Transition and the Problem of Credible Commitment,” The Annual ...
Peter Hujar: night : [exhibition] Fraenkel Gallery, Matthew ...

Peter Hujar: night : [exhibition] Fraenkel Gallery, Matthew ...

Peter Hujar

In the tradition of Brassai's Paris at Night, Peter Hujar's Nightbrings together 43 hauntingly beautiful images of New York City.
Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management

Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management

Peter Ferdinand Drucker

This book gathers together Peter Drucker's articles from Harvard Business Review and frames them with a thoughtful introduction from the Review's Editor Nan Stone.

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