peter davidson

An Introduction to Electrodynamics provides an excellent foundation for those undertaking a course on electrodynamics, providing an in-depth yet accessible treatment of topics covered in most undergraduate courses, but goes one step further to introduce advanced topics in applied physics, such as fusions plasmas,...

An Introduction to Electrodynamics provides an excellent foundation for those undertaking a course on electrodynamics, providing an in-depth yet accessible treatment of topics covered in most undergraduate courses, but goes one step further to introduce advanced topics in applied physics, such as fusions plasmas,...

This is a mighty book of Norths: northern geographies, histories, lights; a place of definition, frost and cold. There is an unfaltering Recusant spirit about these poems, a survival through defeat and a sense of underlying permanences. Each poem has an occasion: some of...

"With all-new material on New York's notorious 'Cannibal Cop'"--Cover.Author: Peter DavidsonISBN-10: 0425276864ISBN-13: 9780425276860Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2015Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.00d

Following in the successful nature-writing style of Robert MacFarlane and Gillian Clarke, Distance and Memory is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of...

This is the calamitous, at times hilarious, story of Detective Inspector Doddie Macfarlane's attempt to lead his chaotic team of homicide detectives in their mission to solve the mysterious murder of much-loved pediatrician Dr. George Ross. His Inverness-based team is led on many a...

This is the calamitous, at times hilarious, story of Detective Inspector Doddie Macfarlane's attempt to lead his chaotic team of homicide detectives in their mission to solve the mysterious murder of much-loved pediatrician Dr. George Ross. His Inverness-based team is led on many a...

When my grandson, Joel, got engaged, I decided to jot down a few words of marital wisdom for him, based on my vast experience as a husband. Then I thought, why share this wisdom with only one person when I can share it with...

Alex Gideon is America's heartthrob. His eight movies have been box office smashes, he is rich and handsome, and he has millions of adoring fans. But all is not well. He needs to get away from the pressure of stardom, the demands of his...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.Author: Peter DavidsonISBN-10: 3375129637ISBN-13: 9783375129637Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2022Pages: 334Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.Author: Peter DavidsonISBN-10: 3375129629ISBN-13: 9783375129620Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2022Pages: 334Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d

Have you ever looked at a coin in the palm of your hand and wondered where it has been, what it has seen and heard, and what stories it could tell? Well, in a nutshell, that is what PENNY is about as this very...

"Pete's Pandemic" is all of our stories yet none of our stories. It is one man's attempt to understand the new reality caused by the coronavirus. We all have had to come to terms with very different lives. This is Jimmy Tolmie's attempt to...

"Pete's Pandemic" is all of our stories yet none of our stories. It is one man's attempt to understand the new reality caused by the coronavirus. We all have had to come to terms with very different lives. This is Jimmy Tolmie's attempt to...

Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book draws many astonishing, unfamiliar...

Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book draws many astonishing, unfamiliar...

Someone is operating the largest stock market insider trading scheme in the history of the United States, that is making millions of dollars in illegal profits. Whoever it is has access to secret information about numerous major corporations before the information is made available...

While a compass might tell us which direction we are going, there is really only one direction to which it ever points: north. North is the ultimate point of orientation, but it is also a celebrated destination for the adventurous, the curious, the solitary,...

Neither day nor night, twilight has long exerted a fascination for Western artists, thinkers, and writers, while haunting the Romantics and intriguing philosophers and scientists. In The Last of the Light, Peter Davidson takes readers through our culture's long engagement with the concept of...

Neither day nor night, twilight has long exerted a fascination for Western artists, thinkers, and writers, while haunting the Romantics and intriguing philosophers and scientists. In The Last of the Light, Peter Davidson takes readers through our culture's long engagement with the concept of...

Offering a combination of place-writing, memoir, and cultural study, Peter Davidson examines the motif of the lighted window. Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire. These are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling image of the lighted window. In this innovative book, Peter Davidson is...

'The nation-state is the enemy of the baroque.' This is the point of departure of this radical, even revolutionary, re-examination of the cultural history of the early-modern world. Drawing on sources in six languages, many of them hitherto unavailable to the English-speaking reader, and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...