“peter martel”

Coming from humble origins, the protagonist in these memoirs was completely innocent of the fact that like all human endeavors, physics is often strongly influenced by politics. In reading the biographies of famous physicists like Einstein, one often ends up with the feeling that physicists are abov... More

Sailor's Home is a miscellany (or anthology) of poems by six poets who came together for a private festival in London in October 2005. The poets are Arjen Duinker (Netherlands), W.N. Herbert (UK), Uwe Kolbe (Germany), Peter Laugesen (Denmark), Karine Martel (France) and Yang Lian (China), whose idea... More

Winner of the Booker Prize 2002 Piscine Molitor Patel, otherwise known as Pi, lives in Pondicherry, where his father runs and owns the city’s zoo. When he is sixteen, his parents decide to emigrate to Canada, taking their large family with them, but tragedy strikes when the cargo ship carrying the... More

'Matthiessen's book is a triumph that will outlive him. It is a masterpiece' John Hillaby 'In 1973 [Matthiessen] journeyed with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region called bharal. They also hoped to see the rare snow l... More

In the irreverent and entertaining tradition of Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker, Peter Robinson's Snapshots from Hell is a hilarious and enlightening attempt to provide an answer to the paramount question every prospective student asks: what is business school really like? During his first year at Sta... More

Bestselling author Peter Senge and his Fifth Discipline team havewritten Schools That Learn because educators have asked for a book that focuses specifically on schools and education, to help reclaim schools even in economically depressed or turbulent districts. One of the great strengths of Schools... More

In this #1 national bestseller--now fully revised and updated--Peter Lynch shows investors how to reap the rewards of managing their own investments. Lynch offers clear suggestions for establishing and maintaining a balanced portfolioof long-term and short-term stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.Develo... More

Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason, say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing - the fundamentals of our economic system and what they have to do with the stock market - aren't taught in sc... More

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLING BOOK THAT EVERY INVESTOR SHOULD OWNPeter Lynch is America's number-one money manager. His mantra: Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.Now, in a new int... More