Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: roberts peter

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  • OPENING THE DOOR
    KATHLEEN JONES / JOHN BROWN / W. J. CUNNINGHAM / JULIAN ROBERTS / PETER WILLIAMS
    First published in 1975, Opening the Door is a survey of policies and problems in services for the mentally handicapped. It describes the improvements which have taken place since 1969, when the inquiry into conditions of patients at Ely hospital in South Wales stimulated public concern into the quality of life of many mentally handicapped people in hospital. The authors discus...

    $840.00

  • NEOLIBERALISM AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
    GUY ROBERTS-HOLMES / PETER MOSS
    Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has ‘sunk its roots deep’ into Early Childhood Education and Care. This book considers its deeply detrimental impacts upon young children, families, settings and the workforce. Through an exploration of possibilities for resistance and refusal, and r...

    $980.00

  • CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE AND ENGLISH RENAISSANCE CULTURE
    DARRYLL GRANTLEY / PETER ROBERTS
    First published in 1996, this volume asked the question: who – and what – was Christopher Marlowe? Dramatist, poet, atheist and possible spy, he was a man in contrast with his time. The authors here gather to explore Marlowe on the four hundredth anniversary of his death. They include significant interdisciplinary elements and focus on dramaturgy, textual criticism and biograph...

    $980.00

  • EDUCATION, ETHICS AND EXISTENCE
    PETER ROBERTS / ANDREW GIBBONS / RICHARD HERAUD
    Best known today for his novels, plays and short stories, but also an accomplished essayist, editor and journalist, Albert Camus was one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. He has gained widespread recognition for works such as The Stranger, Caligula, The Plague and Exile and the Kingdom. In 1957 Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 196...

    $1,380.00

  • REGIONAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE
    DAVID SHAW / PETER ROBERTS
    This title was first published in 2000:  Providing a review and assessment of a number of the major features evident in regional planning and development in Europe, this volume contains a series of regional case studies, drawn from current research in various European countries. These illustrate a broad range of theoretical views, which offer perspectives on the operation of th...

    $980.00

  • EDUCATION AND THE LIMITS OF REASON
    PETER ROBERTS / HERNER SAEVEROT
    In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and significance of reason in human lives, sources other than non-fiction educational or phi...

    $1,280.00

  • VIRTUES OF OPENNESS
    MICHAEL A. PETERS / PETER ROBERTS
    The movement toward greater openness represents a change of philosophy, ethos, and government and a set of interrelated and complex changes that transform markets altering the modes of production and consumption, ushering in a new era based on the values of openness: an ethic of sharing and peer-to-peer collaboration enabled through new architectures of participation. These cha...

    $1,280.00

  • PAULO FREIRE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    PETER ROBERTS
    This book explores the implications of world renowned educationalist Paulo Freire's theories for educational practice and how his ideas can help in bridging different genres and traditions. It addresses themes, questions and issues that have received little attention to date, including Freire's conception of the critical intellectual, the problem of defining literacy, and the p...

    $1,340.00

  • GET AHEAD! SPECIALTIES: 250 SBAS FOR FINALS
    FIONA BACH / ELIZABETH WADDINGTON / PETER CARTLEDGE / MAHESH JAYARAM / HANNAH ROBERTS
    This new edition of Get ahead! Specialties: 250 SBAs for Finals is an invaluable practice aid for medical students preparing for final exams. Written by an experienced team of authors under the guidance of Saran Shantikumar, it covers the entire syllabus in a clear and comprehensive style. The book covers paediatrics, obstetrics, gynaecology, and psychiatry. With practice quest...

    $820.00

  • PEOPLE, LAND AND TIME
    BRIAN ROBERTS / PETER ATKINS / IAN SIMMONS
    This major new text provides an introduction to the interaction of culture and society with the landscape and environment. It offers a broad-based view of this theme by drawing upon the varied traditions of landscape interpretation, from the traditional cultural geography of scholars such as Carl Sauer to the 'new' cultural geography which has emerged in the 1990s. The book com...

    $1,160.00

  • METROPOLITAN PLANNING IN BRITAIN
    PETER ROBERTS, KEVIN THOMAS AND GWYNDAF WILLIAMS
    Metropolitan Planning in Britain is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almost two decades. Changes in population distribution, styles of local government, business practices, and attitudes to the environment have all had an impact on cities in recent years which planners and other policy makers must take into con...

    $2,000.00

  • ACHIEVING UNDERSTANDING
    KATHARINA BREMER / CELIA ROBERTS / MARIE-THERESE VASSEUR / MARGARET SIMNOT / PETER BROEDER
    This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about the function of language as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the psy...

    $960.00

  • RESILIENT SUSTAINABLE CITIES
    PEARSON, LEONIE / NEWTON, PETER / ROBERTS, PETER
    Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, R...

    $1,540.00

  • PLANT CELL WALLS
    PETER ALBERSHEIM / ALAN DARVILL / KEITH ROBERTS / RON SEDEROFF / ANDREW STAEHELIN
    Plant cell walls are complex, dynamic cellular structures essential for plant growth, development, physiology and adaptation. Plant Cell Walls provides an in depth and diverse view of the microanatomy, biosynthesis and molecular physiology of these cellular structures, both in the life of the plant and in their use for bioproducts and biofuels. Plant Cell Walls is a textbook fo...

    $3,000.00

  • THE BIOGRAPHIES OF RECHUNGPA
    PETER ALAN ROBERTS
    This book traces the lifestory of Rechungpa (1084-1161) - the student of the famous teacher Milarepa - using rare and little-known manuscripts, and discovers how the image of both Milarepa and Rechungpa underwent fundamental transformations over a period of over three centuries. Peter Alan Roberts compares significant episodes in the life of Rechungpa as portrayed in a successi...

    $1,560.00

  • NOTES AND PROBLEMS IN MICROECONOMIC THEORY
    DIXON, PETER B. / BOWLES, S. / KENDRICK, DAVID / TAYLOR, L. / ROBERTS, M.
    In a unique approach to microeconomic theory, this book constructs (and proposes solutions to) major problems in mathematical programming, the theory of consumer demand, the theory of production, and welfare economics. Readers can thereby derive for themselves many of the major results achieved in microeconomics. Introductory notes set the scene for each chapter, and the subseq...

    $928.00

  • SACRED REMEMBRANCES
    PETER ROBERTS
    This fictional work attempts to flesh out the psychological and theoretical dilemmas faced by Saint Peter in the course of his journey with Jesus Christ. From skepticism through to absolute commitment, Peter's inner tribulations, including his traditional and religious restrictions, are projected in light of his awakening and crowning as the Prince of the Apostles. It takes on ...

    $302.00

  • THE BOOK OF FUNGI
    PETER ROBERTS / SHELLEY EVANS
    Colorful, mysterious, and often fantastically shaped, fungi have been a source of wonder and fascination since the earliest hunter-gatherers first foraged for them. Today there are few, if any, places on Earth where fungi have not found themselves a home. And these highly specialized organisms are an indispensable part of the great chain of life. They not only partner in symbio...

    $984.72