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  • MANAGING THE UNTHINKABLE
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    MANAGING THE UNTHINKABLE
    JOHN G. PETERS
    Crises are no strangers on campuses—whether the deaths of students, severe weather events, athletic wrongdoing, crime, or student or employee malfeasance. How leaders respond can save lives, strengthen the institution, and comfort the community—or compromise reputations and result in scandal.Risk management and readiness are not often at the top of the list of what presidents a...

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  • THE MANAGEMENT OF A STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECT
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    THE MANAGEMENT OF A STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECT
    JOHN A SHARP / JOHN PETERS / KEITH HOWARD
    The third edition of this popular book has been extensively revised to reflect the changes that have affected student research in higher education in recent years. The ability to carry out research successfully has come to be seen as a 'key transferable skill' required of all higher education students - and The Management of a Student Research Project addresses directly the ski...

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  • NARRATIVIZING THEORIES
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    NARRATIVIZING THEORIES
    BENJAMIN JOHN PETERS
    Ours is an age of offense, a time of reactionary shock--always received, never given. Ours is an age that has forgone cultural narratives, a time of individualism--wherein personal identities trump the collective spirit. Ours is an age of failing earth, a time of ecological collapse--yet the consumption of global capitalism continues to run amok. But don't fear. You have the co...

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  • THROUGH ALL THE PLAIN
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    THROUGH ALL THE PLAIN
    BENJAMIN JOHN PETERS
    We kill. We come home. We move on. But the violence haunts. And then it questions. Was I justified in Iraq? Is there meaning in violence? For some, the answer comes easily. For others, one question leads to many--the answers seen through all the plain. Benjamin John Peters invites you to accompany him on his harrowing journey through Marine Corps Recruit Training, a violence-ri...

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  • LUKE AMONG THE ANCIENT HISTORIANS
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    LUKE AMONG THE ANCIENT HISTORIANS
    JOHN J. PETERS
    For centuries scholars have analyzed the composition of Luke-Acts presupposing that the reference to "many" accounts in Luke's Preface indicates the written texts which served as the author's primary sources of information. To justify this portrait of Luke as a text-based author, scholars have appealed to analogies with the text-based authors Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Diodoru...

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  • JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE INTERSECTION OF NARRATIVE, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND COSMOLOGY
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    JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE INTERSECTION OF NARRATIVE, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND COSMOLOGY
    JOHN G. PETERS
    This volume presents a comprehensive collection of critical essays on Joseph Conrad's works, developed over three decades of scholarly engagement. While addressing diverse aspects of Conrad's oeuvre, these studies are unified by a consistent methodological approach and thematic focus that distinguishes this collection from existing scholarship. Methodologically, this work emplo...

    $1,160.00

  • PROMISCUOUS KNOWLEDGE
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    PROMISCUOUS KNOWLEDGE
    KENNETH CMIEL / JOHN DURHAM PETERS
    Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to “the mind of God.” As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google’s divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age fr...

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  • THE MARVELOUS CLOUDS
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    THE MARVELOUS CLOUDS
    JOHN DURHAM PETERS
    An expansive, wide-ranging exploration of the long, little-known prehistory of contemporary media When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelo...

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  • SPEAKING INTO THE AIR
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    SPEAKING INTO THE AIR
    JOHN DURHAM PETERS
    Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific and a fundamental knot in Western thought. "This is a most interesting and thoug...

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  • COURTING THE ABYSS
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    COURTING THE ABYSS
    JOHN DURHAM PETERS
    Courting the Abyss updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread their doctrines as freely as everyone else has come increasingly under fire. At the same time, in the wake of 9/11, the Right and the L...

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