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  • Aristotle on Meaning in the Living World
    Peter N. Jackson
    This book provides an examination of Aristotle’s relevance to modern philosophy and science. It presents Aristotle’s corpus as a complex and comprehensive picturing of a sublunary world in which meaning is exhibited by and shared between “beings” (ousiai). This approach is mirrored in modern philosophy by phenomenology and in modern science by biosemiotics. Peter N. Jackson arg...
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    183,03 €

  • Educating Young Children
    Helen McAuley / Peter Jackson
    In its discussion of the three levels of teaching and learning - whole school philosophy, classroom policy and specific teaching frameworks - Educating Young Children, originally published in 1992, addresses the twin themes of teacher ethics and pedagogic theory. ...
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    60,23 €

  • Alien Physics
    Peter A Jackson
    A report on apparent subliminal communication by intelligent Aliens who wish to help us advance our theoretical understanding of nature and the universe. Seemingly unable to communicate with or guide us directly, they’ve studied all our doctrinal and alternative theories and pointed to those consistent with their own far more advanced understanding. The many inconsistencies and...
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    21,47 €

  • Educating Young Children
    Helen McAuley / Peter Jackson
    In its discussion of the three levels of teaching and learning - whole school philosophy, classroom policy and specific teaching frameworks - Educating Young Children, originally published in 1992, addresses the twin themes of teacher ethics and pedagogic theory. ...
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    169,78 €

  • Capitalism Magic Thailand
    Peter A Jackson
    By studying intersections among new cults of wealth, ritually empowered amulets and professional spirit mediumship-which have emerged together in Thailand’s dynamic religious field in recent decades-Capitalism Magic Thailand explores the conditions under which global modernity produces new varieties of enchantment. Bruno Latour’s account of modernity as a condition fractured be...
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    53,34 €

  • Legions of the Moon
    Peter Jackson
    In AD180 Quintus Suetonius and his stepson Manius are frumentarii, the Roman Empire’s secret police. Dispatched to Britannia on a mission whose purpose is from them they they join forces with the formidable female spy Tita Amatia and find themselves embroiled in plot, counter-plot and assassination, unsure of either their allies or their enemies. They journey from bustling, cos...
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    12,30 €

  • Eating, Drinking
    Farhana Sultana / Peter Jackson / Walter EL Spiess
    This publication addresses the global challenges of food and water security in a rapidly changing and complex world. The essays highlight the links between bio-physical and socio-cultural processes, making connections between local and global scales, and focusing on the everyday practices of eating and drinking, essential for human survival. Written by international experts, ea...
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    53,28 €

  • Eating, Drinking
    Farhana Sultana / Peter Jackson / Walter EL Spiess
    This publication addresses the global challenges of food and water security in a rapidly changing and complex world. The essays highlight the links between bio-physical and socio-cultural processes, making connections between local and global scales, and focusing on the everyday practices of eating and drinking, essential for human survival. Written by international experts, ea...
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    67,64 €

  • Parenting Teens
    Peter Jackson
    In a world where every day feels like another Formula One race, it can be challenging to step back, reflect and listen instead of throwing a fit. With the help of the latest research on peaceful parenting and its effectiveness, those valuable hours can be easily saved.This easy-to-use guide explains how you can help your son:Communicate effectively with othersStrengthen self-im...
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    16,00 €

  • Studies on the Mongol Empire and Early Muslim India
    Peter Jackson
    The first section of this volume brings together five studies on the Mongol empire. The accent is on the ideology behind Mongol expansion, on the dissolution of the empire into a number of rival khanates, and on the relations between the Mongol regimes and their Christian subjects within and potential allies outside. Three pieces in the second section relate to the early histo...
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    97,12 €

  • Reframing Convenience Food
    Helene Brembeck / Jonathan Everts / Peter Jackson
    This book questions the simplistic view that convenience food is unhealthy and environmentally unsustainable. By exploring how various types of convenience food have become embedded in consumers’ lives, it considers what lessons can be learnt from the commercial success of convenience food for those who seek to promote healthier and more sustainable diets. The project draws on ...
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    136,26 €

  • Reframing Convenience Food
    Helene Brembeck / Jonathan Everts / Peter Jackson
    This book questions the simplistic view that convenience food is unhealthy and environmentally unsustainable. By exploring how various types of convenience food have become embedded in consumers’ lives, it considers what lessons can be learnt from the commercial success of convenience food for those who seek to promote healthier and more sustainable diets. The project draws on ...
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    134,64 €

  • Reframing Convenience Food
    Helene Brembeck / Jonathan Everts / Peter Jackson
    This book questions the simplistic view that convenience food is unhealthy and environmentally unsustainable. By exploring how various types of convenience food have become embedded in consumers’ lives, it considers what lessons can be learnt from the commercial success of convenience food for those who seek to promote healthier and more sustainable diets. The project draws on ...
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    48,05 €

  • The Mongols and the West
    Peter Jackson
    The Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive survey of contacts between the Catholic West and the Mongol Empire from 1221 to 1410. This book considers the Mongols as allies as well as conquerors; the perception of them in the West; the papal response to the threat (and opportunity) they presented and the impact of the Mongols on the expanding world view of the maturing Mid...
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    267,07 €

  • The Mongols and the West
    Peter Jackson
    The Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive survey of contacts between the Catholic West and the Mongol Empire from 1221 to 1410. This book considers the Mongols as allies as well as conquerors; the perception of them in the West; the papal response to the threat (and opportunity) they presented and the impact of the Mongols on the expanding world view of the maturing Mid...
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    76,35 €

  • Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013
    Paul Jackson / Peter Albrecht
    Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013　examines how the process of state-building through security-sector reform developed in Sierra Leone, and the impact of this experience on international conceptualisations of　such　reform as well as on international interventions more broadly. ...
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    268,28 €

  • Beyond the Balance of Power
    Peter Jackson
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    79,67 €

  • Maps of Meaning
    Peter Jackson
    This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past environments.  Maps of Meaning proposes a new agenda for cultural geography, one set squarely in the context of contemporary social and cultural theory.Notions of place and space are explored through the study of elite and popular cul...
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    268,11 €

  • Horizons of Shamanism
    Peter Jackson
    The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of “shamanism” has aroused intense popular and scholarly interest since its initial coinage by the Russian scholar V. M. Mikhailovsky in the late 19th century. In this book, three leading scholars, representing different branches of the humanities, dwell on the current status of shamanic practices and conceptions of the soul, bot...
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    17,85 €

  • Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice
    Peter Jackson
    This volume addresses the means and ends of sacrificial speculation by inviting a selected group of specialist in the fields of philosophy, history of religions, and indology to examine philosophical modes of sacrificial speculation — especially in Ancient India and Greece — and consider the commonalities of their historical raison d’être. Scholars have long observed, yet witho...
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    128,19 €

  • Race and Racism
    Peter Jackson
    First Published in 1987. In September 1985 the Social Geography Study Group of the Institute of British Geographers held a three-day conference at Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic on the subject of ’Race and Racism’. The present volume is a selection of essays derived from some of the papers that were given at the conference, together with one newly commissioned paper (by Susa...
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    87,54 €

  • Anxious Appetites
    Peter Jackson
    Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily available today than ever before, recent survey evidence demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively rare in the West, food scares relating to individual products, concerns about global food security and other expressions of consumer ...
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    154,34 €

  • Anxious Appetites
    Peter Jackson
    Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily available today than ever before, recent survey evidence demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively rare in the West, food scares relating to individual products, concerns about global food security and other expressions of consumer a...
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    47,20 €

  • Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013
    Paul Jackson / Peter Albrecht
    Securing Sierra Leone, 1997-2013　examines how the process of state-building through security-sector reform developed in Sierra Leone, and the impact of this experience on international conceptualisations of　such　reform as well as on international interventions more broadly. ...
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    77,55 €

  • Food Words
    Peter Jackson
    Food Wordsis a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current controversies and on-going debates.Words like ’choice’ and ’convenience’ are often used as explanatory terms in understanding consumer behavior but are clearly ideological in the way they reflect particular positions and serve specific in...
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    46,88 €

  • Exploring Social Geography (Routledge Revivals)
    Peter A. Jackson / Susan J. Smith
    Exploring Social Geography, first published in 1984, offers a challenging yet comprehensive introduction to the wealth of empirical research and theoretical debate that has developed in response to the advent of a social approach to the subject. A distinctive view of social geography is adopted, inspired by the Chicago school of North American pragmatism, but also incorporating...
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    315,35 €

  • Global Aging Preparedness Index
    Neil Howe / Richard Jackson / Tobias Peter
    Which countries are most prepared to meet the challenge? And which countries are least prepared? CSIS’s Global Aging Preparedness Index, now available in a second thoroughly updated edition, provides the only comprehensive quantitative assessment of the progress that countries worldwide are making in preparing for global aging, and especially the old-age dependency dimension of...
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    84,47 €

  • Food Words
    Peter Jackson
    Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current controversies and on-going debates.Words like ’choice’ and ’convenience’ are often used as explanatory terms in understanding consumer behavior but are clearly ideological in the way they reflect particular positions and serve specific...
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    173,62 €

  • Bobby Windsor - The Iron Duke
    Bobby Windsor / Peter Jackson
    Lions legend Bobby Windsor has enjoyed triumphs beyond the dreams of most international players but has also suffered personal tragedy. His rugby career as the best hooker in the British Isles during the second golden era of Welsh rugby in the 1970s is a turbulent tale of blood and thunder on the pitch. There are riotous incidents off the pitch including unscheduled fights wit...
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    22,66 €

  • Benchmarking Muslim well-being in Europe
    Pamela Irving Jackson / Peter Doerschler
    This highly topical book aims to undermine unsubstantiated myths by examining Muslim integration in Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, states which dominate the debate on minority integration and the practice of Muslim religious traditions. 3 ...
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    125,64 €


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