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  • The Book of Fungi

    A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World

    "The lurid photographs and enticing, offhandedly witty descriptions make the reader want to go out collecting specimens right away."— Popular ScienceFrom morels to chanterelles, toadstools to truffles, fungi have been a source of fascination since the earliest hunter-gatherers first foraged for them. Today there are few, if any, places on Earth where fungi have not found themselves a home—their ... Read more

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  • The Book of Fungi

    A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species From Around The World

    Series series The Book of...
    The fifth order of the natural kingdom is made up of an estimated 1.5 million species of fungi, found in every habitat type worldwide. The Book of Fungi takes 600 of the most remarkable fleshy fungi from around the world and reproduces each at its actual size, in full colour, and accompanied by a scientific explanation of its distribution, habitat, association, abundance, growth form, spore colour ... Read more

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  • Sacred Remembrances

    A Collection of Chronicles by Saint Peter the Apostle Translated from the Greek by Alistair Chapman and Fellows of Jesus Emmanuel College

    by Peter Roberts ...
    This fictional work attempts to flesh out the psychological and theoretical dilemmas faced by Saint Peter in the course of his journey with Jesus Christ. From skepticism through to absolute commitment, Peter's inner tribulations, including his traditional and religious restrictions, are projected in light of his awakening and crowning as the Prince of the Apostles. It takes on Peter's life from ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • French - Learn 35 Words to Speak French

    An English/French language booklet, teaching beginners how to speak French using only 35 words. Created by Peter and Helena Roberts, this booklet teaches the same 35 key words needed to get by for the absolute beginner in any language, including: “I want something”, “I want to buy something”, “I need to find somewhere”, or “Thank you”. This book not only teaches this core vocabulary, but shows how ... Read more

    $7.59 USD

  • Truth and Education

    Attention, Rigour and Commitment

    by Peter Roberts ...
    We live in what has been described as a 'post-truth' world. This poses serious problems for educationists. For centuries, the search for truth has played a vital role in our activities as teachers and learners. It has been fundamental to scholarly inquiry and the advancement of knowledge. If truth is now routinely abandoned or ignored, we might be led to wonder what comes next for education. Truth ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Upstream Petroleum Concessions

    Evolution for the Energy Transition

    by Peter Roberts ...
    For the last seventy years, upstream petroleum concessions have been granted worldwide by states to investors, in order to facilitate petroleum exploration and production for the state's benefit, but at the investor's risk and expense. This process has had to evolve in order to accomodate the increasing transition to net zero carbon forms of energy. This book examines the use of petroleum ... Read more

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  • The Edges of Education

    Limits and Possibilities

    by Peter Roberts ...
    Series Book 64 - Complicated Conversation
    In education, as in other areas of human endeavour, we often strive for what is easiest, least troubling and most certain. We want clear, definitive answers to our questions. Ambiguity and complexity may be viewed as impediments to our progress as learners, and doubt will sometimes be portrayed as a sign of weakness. This book pushes back against these tendencies. Informed by the work of Giacomo ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Better Worlds

    Education, Art, and Utopia

    Series series Critical Education Policy and Politics
    Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia provides a fresh examination of utopia and education. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, the authors explore utopia not as a model of social perfection but as the active, imaginative building of better worlds. Utopian questions, they argue, lie at the heart of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Oil & Gas Industry Terms, 2e

    by Peter Roberts ...
    Roberts' dictionary is a comprehensive yet concise guide to the various legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and financial abbreviations, acronyms, terms and phrases which define the oil and gas industry today. The dictionary is divided into three sections: commonly-used acronyms, an A to Z definition of terms and phrases and a series of technical appendices which summarise certain essential ... Read more

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  • Welsh - Learn 35 Words to Speak Welsh

    An English/Welsh language booklet, teaching beginners how to speak Welsh using only 35 words. Created by Peter and Helena Roberts, this booklet teaches the same 35 key words needed to get by for the absolute beginner in any language, including: “I want something”, “I want to buy something”, “I need to find somewhere”, or “Thank you”. This book not only teaches this core vocabulary, but shows how ... Read more

    $7.69 USD

  • Education and the Limits of Reason

    Reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov

    Series series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education
    In recent decades, a growing body of educational scholarship has called into question deeply embedded assumptions about the nature, value and consequences of reason. Education and the Limits of Reason extends this critical conversation, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and significance of reason in human lives, sources other than non-fiction educational or philosophical texts can ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Happiness, Hope, and Despair

    Rethinking the Role of Education

    by Peter Roberts ...
    Series Book 43 - Complicated Conversation
    In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness, Hope, and Despair argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as happiness and joy. Education can be uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unsettling; it can lead to greater ... Read more

    $42.09 USD