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  • The Silver Way

    China, Spanish America and the birth of globalisation 1565-1815: Penguin Specials

    by Peter Gordon, Juan Jose Morales ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Long before London and New York rose to international prominence, a trading route was discovered between Spanish America and China that ushered in a new era of globalisation. The Ruta de la Plata or ’Silver Way’ catalysed economic and cultural exchange, built the foundations for the first global currency and led to the rise of the first ‘world city’. And yet, for all its importance, the Silver Way ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Victorian School Manager

    by Peter Gordon ...
    First published in 1974. Graham Balfour, in a lecture delivered in February 1921, first drew attention to the growing importance of the elementary school manager in the system of educational administration during the period with which this study is concerned: “Local administrators of education, other than trustees a hundred years ago, there were none. Indeed it is very curious how imperceptibly ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Walter Benjamin

    The Pearl Diver

    by Peter E. Gordon ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time“A short, serene volume. . . . Gordon avoids treating his subject in allegorical terms, in part because Benjamin always resisted conscription into a story larger than his own.�—Anahid Nersessian, New YorkerWalter Benjamin (1892†... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Cities and the Shape of Jane Jacobs’s Intricate Order

    Colocations Near and Far

    by Peter Gordon, Joongkoo John Cho ...
    People are naturally inclined to look for order in what seems like chaos. Sometimes order is emergent, meaning it reflects not an intentional design but the outcomes of many independent decisions or actions. There’s inevitably—also randomness and an element of chance. Thinkers such as Adam Smith and Charles Darwin are justly celebrated for identifying emergent orders in markets and nature. Perhaps ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Eating Well Everyday

    by Peter Gordon ...
    'Peter Gordon's food is the finest example of culinary magic.'Yotam OttolenghiUsing easily sourced ingredients and simple methods, the Godfather of fusion cooking Peter Gordon has created over 170 dishes that demonstrate his passion for innovative flavours and textures in an everyday setting.From Chorizo on Tomato-rubbed Toast with Soft-boiled Egg to start the day, via soups and pasta dishes such ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Politics and Society

    The Journals of Lady Knightley of Fawsley 1885-1913

    by Peter Gordon ...
    Louisa Mary, Lady Knightley of Fawnsley, was a woman of unusually wide interests, especially in the field of public affairs. In an age when few opportunities arose for women to make a contribution to political and feminist matters, Lady Knightley was an early pioneer of both causes. Denied the vote as a woman, she was a leading advocate of the campaign for constitutional, non-militant action to ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Teaching the Humanities

    by Peter Gordon ...
    First Published in 1991. The contributors to this book share the belief that the teaching of humanities should form an essential part of the school curriculum. It includes the areas of the scope of humanities, the cultural dimension of classroom language learnings and cross-curricular subjects of Geography, Reglues Education, Art and History as well as looking at computer assisted learning, how to ... Read more

    $233.99 USD

  • Savour

    Salads for all Seasons

    by Peter Gordon ...
    What defines a salad? Is it merely a few ingredients tossed together in a bowl with a dressing, or is it more complex than that? Acclaimed chef Peter Gordon shows us that salads are versatile and fun dishes that harmoniously combine a mixture of individually prepared ingredients, that when coming together, can either be very similar in texture and colour, or ones that oppose each other—such as ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Philosophers as Educational Reformers (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 10)

    The Influence of Idealism on British Educational Thought

    by Peter Gordon, John White ...
    This volume assesses how far the ideas and achievements of the 19th century British Idealist philosophical reformers are still important for us today when considering fundamental questions about the structure and objectives of the education system in England and Wales. Part 1 examines those ideas of the Idealists, especially T. H. Green, which had most bearing on the educational reforms carried ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

  • Musical Visitors to Britain

    by Peter Gordon ...
    Series series Woburn Education Series
    Britain has attracted many musical visitors to its shores. A varied and often eccentric collection of individuals, some were invited by royalty with musical tastes, some were refugees from religious or political oppression, some were spies, and others came to escape debt or even charges of murder.This book paints a broad picture of the changing nature of musical life in Britain over the centuries, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Verbiage for the Verbose

    Unravel Over 250 Fun Word Challenges

    by Peter Gordon ...
    Wordsmiths unite! This new book is tailor-made for everyone who enjoys the English language. Author Peter Gordon has transformed a formidable collection of adages, pop phrases, advertising slogans, and book and song titles into hilariously obfuscated aphorisms he calls "Smart Speak." After all, when it comes to communication, why take the direct approach when a wordy one will do?Verbiage for the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

    Edited by Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert ...
    The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear ... Read more

    $43.19 USD