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  • Invested

    How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds

    by Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Helen Paul ...
    Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals.Who hasn't wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and otherwise, have guaranteed that they alone can illuminate the golden pathway to prosperity—despite strong evidence to the contrary. In fact, too often, they are singing a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conspiracy Culture

    From Kennedy to The X Files

    by Dr Peter Knight, Peter Knight ...
    Conspiracy theories are everywhere in post-war American culture. From postmodern novels to The X-Files and from gangsta rap to feminist polemic, there is a widespread suspicion that sinister forces are conspiring to take control of our national destiny, our minds, and even our bodies. Conspiracy explanations can no longer be dismissed as the paranoid delusions of far-right crackpots. Indeed, they ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Buried Cause

    Unearthing Hidden History in the Lee Monument Cornerstone

    by Ms. Katherine Ridgway, Christina Keyser Vida, Dr. Elizabeth Moore, Adam H. Domby, Dr. John S. Salmon, Sue Donovan, Professor Caroline (Carrie) E. Janney, PhD, Ervin L. Jordan Jr.0, Sam Florer1, Erik Goldstein2, Laura Galke3, Maggie Creech4, Laura Lavernia5, Brendan Burke6, Professor Christopher Alan Graham7, Hannah Sanner8, Robert L. Jolley9, Professor Julian Maxwell Hayter0, Lea Lane1, Sir Knight Peter Spring2 ...
    Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil WarIn December 2021, a copper box filled with artifacts that had been buried beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 134 years was opened with great ceremony. Newspaper articles from 1887 had dubbed these mementos of Lee and life in the capital during and after the Civil War “cornerstone ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Abbot's Meadow

    by Peter Knight ...
    Dan Curran is a rookie journalist newly recruited from university to the Castlebridge Gazette, a struggling provincial newspaper owned by distinguished Fleet Street veteran, Jack Marston. Although sad to have moved away from home Dan relishes his newfound freedom, away from his father’s disapproval of his new career.Dan’s first assignment is to investigate why the Castlebridge District Council ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics

    Edited by Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In recent years, money, finance, and the economy have emerged as central topics in literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics explains the innovative critical methods that scholars have developed to explore the economic concerns of texts ranging from the medieval period to the present. Across seventeen chapters by field-leading experts, the book highlights how, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories

    Edited by Michael Butter, Peter Knight ...
    Series series Conspiracy Theories
    Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political phenomenon in contemporary life.This handbook provides the most complete analysis of the phenomenon to date. It analyses conspiracy theories from a variety of perspectives, using both qualitative and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Assessing Learners in Higher Education

    by Sally Brown, Peter Knight ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
    This study examines the factors influencing the changes in teaching assessment at the higher education level and studies the range of techniques and methods available to the assessor. It evaluates the effectiveness of certain methods and discusses their implementation. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Learning, Curriculum and Employability in Higher Education

    by Peter Knight, Mantz Yorke ...
    How can universities ensure that they are preparing their students for today's competitive job market?This book tackles the highly topical subject of graduate underemployment with insight and clarity. The authors argue the case for more sophisticated research into employability with passion and vision, discussing how employability-friendly curricula can be developed, even in subjects which have ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Introductory Quantum Optics

    by Christopher Gerry, Peter Knight ...
    This book provides an elementary introduction to the subject of quantum optics, the study of the quantum mechanical nature of light and its interaction with matter. The presentation is almost entirely concerned with the quantized electromagnetic field. Topics covered include single-mode field quantization in a cavity, quantization of multimode fields, quantum phase, coherent states, quasi ... Read more

    $59.09 USD

  • Glaciers

    by Peter Knight ...
    This book offers a comprehensive and detailed summary of our knowledge and understanding of glaciers and sets them within a global environment context. The text explains the significance both of recent advances in glaciology, and of teh many research problms that remain to be solved. The accessible style adopted in the text facilitates a clear understanding of glaciers and the role they play in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Reading the Market

    Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America

    by Peter Knight ...
    Series series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    America’s fascination with the stock market dates back to the Gilded Age.Winner of the BAAS Book Prize of the British Association of American StudiesAmericans pay famously close attention to “the market,” obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Primary Geography Primary History

    by Peter Knight ...
    The theme of this book is the teaching and learning of the humanities in the primary years. While it dwells on the National Curriculum, it also examines issues of current international concern, drawing upon international research literature. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD