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  • The Stromness Dinner

    de Peter Benson ...
    Ed Beech is one half of Beech Building Services. He's based in Bermondsey but no job's too small, no distance too great. So when he's asked to do some work on a house in Orkney, he loads the van with paint, tools and sandwiches, and takes off. He gets nervous around farm animals and large ships, and he's never been so far north, but when he's joined by Claire, his client's city banker sister, he ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • American Artists in Postwar Rome

    Art and Cultural Exchange

    de Peter Benson Miller ...
    Series series Visual Cultures and Italian Contexts
    Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of “Cold War cosmopolitanism.”After the Second World War, American artists flocked to Rome in record numbers, even as the United States shored up Italy as a bulwark against the spread of Communism. While the market for ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • The Whittling Handbook

    20 Charming Projects for Carving Wood by Hand

    de Peter Benson ...
    A refreshed edition of a practical and charming introduction to the time-honored craft of whittling—now with brand-new step-by-step illustrations.Whittling can help you relax even as you create useful and beautiful art with just a knife and some timber. The Whittling Handbook helps beginners explore this time-honored craft and learn foundational skills, from gathering the basic tools to choosing ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers

    de Peter Benson ...
    "Engaging and entertaining, it's the perfect read to provide a bit of escapism." – Rhianon Holley; Buzz Magazine. Fargo Hawkins is 20, he's Harry Swaine's gardener. One day, after he sees a fight between Harry and his wife Anne, Fargo steals a car and he, Anne and a dog called Radar go on the run. They are chased across England by Harry, a firm of detectives and their emotions. Eventually, at a ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The South in Winter

    de Peter Benson ...
    Matthew Baxter was almost there. Almost a writer, almost a lover, almost a traveller. He wrote for the Tread Lightly range of travel guides, he loved his boss and he was about to catch a plane to the south. His job was to give an out-of-season slant to the Italian guide, and he was ready. Almost. For everything wasn't exactly as it should have been. In fact, nothing was exactly as it should have ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Managing Blind: A Data Quality and Data Governance Vade Mecum

    de Peter Benson ...
    The literal translation of the Latin vade mecum is "go with me", a small reference book that you carry with you. Managing Blind is a small, easy to read guide to the real life challenges of data quality and data governance. With over thirty years of experience working in six of the seven continents (he has not made it to Antarctica yet) and across a wide range of industries from agriculture, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Battling Siki

    A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

    de Peter Benson ...
    Battling Siki (1887–1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world, and was written about in detail by such figures as Ring Lardner and his son John, Damon Runyon, and Westbrook Pegler. One can find his legacy in the name of a popular rock group, one of Che Guevara’s lieutenants, a character on Xena, Warrior Princess, and the Battling Siki Hotel in the fighter’s ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

    Harvest of Violence Revisited

    de David Stoll, Brenda Rosenbaum, Timothy J. Smith, Abigail E Adams, J Jailey Philpot-Munson, Edward F. Fischer, Robert M. Carmack, Jennifer Burrell, Jose Oscar Barrera Nunez, Barbara Bocek0, Monica DeHart1, Peter Benson2, Liliana Goldin3, Judith M. Maxwell4 ...
    Series series Contemporary American Indian Studies
    Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mayan communities and commitment to conducting research in Mayan ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Justice in Transactions

    A Theory of Contract Law

    de Peter Benson ...
    “One of the most important contributions to the field of contract theory—if not the most important—in the past 25 years.” —Stephen A. Smith, McGill UniversityCan we account for contract law on a moral basis that is acceptable from the standpoint of liberal justice? To answer this question, Peter Benson develops a theory of contract that is completely independent of—and arguably superior to—long ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism

    Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala

    de Anita Chary, Peter Rohloff, Peter Benson, Alejandra Colom, Shom N. Dasgupta-Tsikinas, David Flood, Rachel Hall-Clifford, Nora King, Jonathan Maupin0, Carla Pezzia1, Paul Wise2 ...
    Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically endured numerous disparities in health and healthcare access. The collection provides an ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke

    de Benson, Peter ...
    When young Elliot gets a labourers job at Mr Evanss after being sacked from a pig farm for liberating six of its sows, he thinks hell have even more opportunities to lean on gates or stare at fields. But his best mate Spike keeps getting him into trouble, first by showing him what is being grown in a tucked-away polytunnel, and then turning up at his caravans door with a van full of weed. As ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Stuck Moving

    Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology

    de Peter Benson ...
    Series Libro 9 - Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
    This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society.Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD