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  • Research

    A Manifesto

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    A short, bold, and timely history and defense of research in the humanities and sciences and its incalculable importanceIf there were a single tool that could cure disease, improve the quality of human life, send people into outer space, and uncover vital riddles from the deepest past, wouldn’t we celebrate it as humanity’s greatest achievement? That tool exists—it’s called research, and it powers ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • The Smart Swarm

    How to Work Efficiently, Communicate Effectively, and Make Better Decisions Using the Secrets of Flocks, Schools, and Colonies

    by Peter Miller ...
    What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach us about communication, organization, and decision-makingThe modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex problems ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Shopkeeping

    Stories, Advice, and Observations

    by Peter Miller ...
    A love letter to the small shop, and shop owners everywhere, by beloved bookseller Peter Miller.For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In Shopkeeping, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping.“There is a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Lunch at the Shop

    The Art and Practice of the Midday Meal

    by Peter Miller, Colleen Miller ...
    An invitation to participate in the joy of sharing a meal and savoring fresh, seasonal, healthy foodPeter Miller and his colleagues make lunch every day at his bookshop in Seattle. It may be only a salad or a sandwich, but it is fresh, and they put it together each day without a formal kitchen. Lunch at the Shop is an account and a guide to this intentional practice. It shows how to elevate the ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Binge Breaker!(TM)

    Stop Out-of-Control Eating and Lose Weight

    by Peter M. Miller ...
    Binge eating, eating more food than feels comfortable, is a problem for more than half of all overweight Americans. Binge eating is not bulimia, and while many do it -- over the sink, late at night, or in front of the refrigerator -- yo-yo dieters are especially susceptible. Renowned diet expert Dr. Peter M. Miller reveals the proven six-step program that has already helped thousands of dieters ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • On Conservation as a Human Science

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    Series series E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series
    Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic book, the historian Peter N. Miller imagines the outlines of a new, expansive notion of conservation ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • How to Wash the Dishes

    by Peter Miller ...
    Find order and beauty in the kitchen with this delightfully elegant primer on washing the dishes that elevates and illuminates a seemingly routine chore.Washing the dishes is an ordinary, everyday task--but with examination and care, it can become much more. In this reverent guide to the household chore, Peter Miller shows us how washing dishes can become a joy, a delight, a meditative exercise, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Biological Research on Addiction

    Comprehensive Addictive Behaviors and Disorders, Volume 2

    by Peter M. Miller ...
    Biological Research on Addiction examines the neurobiological mechanisms of drug use and drug addiction, describing how the brain responds to addictive substances as well as how it is affected by drugs of abuse. The book's four main sections examine behavioral and molecular biology; neuroscience; genetics; and neuroimaging and neuropharmacology as they relate to the addictive process. This volume ... Read more

    $176.79 CAD

  • Principles of Addiction

    Comprehensive Addictive Behaviors and Disorders, Volume 1

    by Peter M. Miller ...
    Principles of Addiction provides a solid understanding of the definitional and diagnostic differences between use, abuse, and disorder. It describes in great detail the characteristics of these syndromes and various etiological models. The book's three main sections examine the nature of addiction, including epidemiology, symptoms, and course; alcohol and drug use among adolescents and college ... Read more

    $176.79 CAD

  • Interventions for Addiction

    Comprehensive Addictive Behaviors and Disorders, Volume 3

    by Peter M. Miller ...
    Interventions for Addiction examines a wide range of responses to addictive behaviors, including psychosocial treatments, pharmacological treatments, provision of health care to addicted individuals, prevention, and public policy issues. Its focus is on the practical application of information covered in the two previous volumes of the series, Comprehensive Addictive Behaviors and Disorders. ... Read more

    $132.79 CAD

  • History and Its Objects

    Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and archeologists worldwide. — Nathan Schlanger, École nationale des chartes, ParisCultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Peiresc's Orient

    Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this described the eastern and southern space in which the Greeks and Romans lived and strove. For Peiresc the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD