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  • 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

    $8.99 USD

  • 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

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

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  • Poetry, Sound, and the Matter of Prosody, 1800–2000

    by Peter Miller ...
    When modernist poets rejected meter at the beginning of the twentieth century, they seemed to reject something at the heart of poetry: sound. Yet meter was only one of the many sound media that poets on either side of 1900 used to structure their poems. As new technologies, such as the phonograph, unsettled printed modes of representing sound, language, and voice, poets likewise pluralized the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Famous James Military Lightweight

    by Peter Miller ...
    This book tells the story of the famous James ML military motorcycle which had originally been developed as a utility machine for the working man and was then modified for the military during the Second World War. The James ML was used for carrying messages on the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day landings, earning it lasting respect and affection. The book covers the various military roles for ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Light of the World

    Daily readings for Advent

    by Peter Miller ...
    Daily readings for Advent from Iona Community members, associates and friends: Peter Millar, John Harvey, Kathy Galloway, Ian M Fraser, David Rhodes, Jan Sutch Pickard and others. ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Domination and Power

    by Peter Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy
    First published in 1987. Our understanding of the nature of power in western societies is currently undergoing a major reassessment. The significance of this reassessment emerges forcefully through comparing the writings of the principal exponents of Critical Theory - Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas - with those of Michel Foucault. Peter Miller suggests that these two ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Smart Swarm

    How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done

    by Peter Miller ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    In a world where speed and flexibility are valued more than ever, leaders from the corporate boardroom to the military are looking for answers from seemingly unlikely experts—the ones in the grass, in the air, in the lakes, and in the woods. In this innovative audio book, veteran National Geographic editor Peter Miller explains the basic principles of smart swarms— self-organization, diversity of ... Read more

    $34.98 USD

  • How to Bag the Biggest Buck of Your Life

    With a new introduction by Lamar Underwood, former editor of Sports Afield."This is a simple, plain-talking, commonsense, and no-nonsense book on hunting the Whitetail," begins HOWTO BAG THE BIGGEST BUCK OF YOUR LIFE. It's the book that started instructional hunting literature as we know it, and it's in print again.Larry Benoit had spent decades tracking and taking deer in the mountains of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Inside Animal Minds

    The New Science of Animal Intelligence

    The Animal Intelligence Bundle: "Minds of Their Own" by Virginia Morell (March 2008) "Almost Human" by Mary Roach (April 2008) "The Genius of Swarms" by Peter Miller (July 2007) In "Minds of Their Own," Virginia Morell provides an overview of the science of animal intelligence. She introduces you to an African gray parrot named Alex, a bonobo named Kanzi, and a border collie named Betsy. Each of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Lunch at the Shop

    The Art and Practice of the Midday Meal

    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

    $23.79 USD

  • Governing the Present

    Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life

    The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This volume will bring together key papers from their work for the first time, including those that set out the basic frameworks, concepts and ethos of this approach to the analysis of political power and the ... Read more

    $21.00 USD