Bøger af Peter Davis

A selection of poems and musings written over several years, chronicling thoughts and emotions whilst going through a number of life changing events - new jobs, new relationships and more importantly, new beginnings.

They had a plan, But they never thought the plan would be reality. Friendship as a whole is strong but during an Apocalypse is a different story.

Young Will Archer suddenly finds himself thrust into the bizarre world of the Fades - a lost band of magical outsiders on the run from the authorities. Along with his friends Selina and James, Will embarks on a dangerous journey to restore the magical 'relic' to its rightful owner, pursued by the fearful and deadly assassin Luna. Will's adventure will lead him to a world of giants, warriors, terrible creatures and cruel enemies, and it will be one that tests friendships and loyalties forever.

When the murder of a presidential candidate is covered up, the witness to the crime is the one on the run.In the violent, misogynistic, technologically innovative world of Maxcon, a wildly popular hedonistic mixture of sporting spectacle and virtual experience, power over others is the prevailing ethos, and this bleeds into the dystopian world in which it thrives, where empathy is a weakness, and if you get hurt, you had it coming. The end justifies the means Truth and reality are relative concepts, depending on what serves those in power.Thus when Antaeus Smith, a young Maxcon athlete, witnesses aging superstar and newly named VP candidate, Lucifer Sampson, kill the maverick founder of the Maxcon empire, Wellington Gains, in a violent explosion of ego-driven rage, a doctored video of Smith beating a 'service girl' to death, and then killing a man who helped him escape, immediately dominates the media in order to poison his testimony. Meanwhile, an assassination attempt is staged to cover for the disappearance of Gains from the campaign, while arousing support for his candidacy and ensuring his victory. The mastermind of all this, co-founder Vincent Welles, will use the enormously popular Sampson as his front.Brittney Watson, enlightened blogger, sexy stripper, single mother, is a voice of opposition to the powerful and pervasive Maxcon empire and its use of interactive technology to manipulate the minds and desires of its subscribers in sport, pornography, and gambling (and now politics) which has had a corrosive and coarsening effect on society, unacknowledged by those seduced by it. The Maxcon platform injects its subscribers into an augmented reality narrative that they believe they control, but which controls them through algorithmic remediation of their input, which in turn, they remember as their intent.Brought together circumstantially through her crippled son, a huge fan of the sport, Watson and Smith seek the help of Beowulf Baird, the creator of the mind/body interface on which Maxcon made its name and fortune. Disillusioned by how his innovations were stolen and misused, and having had his heart broken by the woman he loved leaving him, he has been a recluse for ten years.It is up to the three of them to return to the command center of Maxcon in order to download the evidence of the crime, recorded on the performance chip embedded in Smith's brain, without being apprehended, and then to expose the cover-up, and reveal the Truth.

The second instalment in the Fades series, following on from 'The Market of Shadows'... After narrowly escaping the battle with the Shadowmen, Will and Selina must continue their journey to find Lillith, the lost lead of the Fades. Together with the eccentric Duke, lovable Ash and the others, they must overcome new foes and enemies while still evading capture by the fearsome General Luna and her new protégé. Their mission leads them to Asilum, supposedly a safe haven for the Fades. But is everything as it seems, and who can be trusted in their hour of need?

A guy's life takes on a supernatural edge after receiving a personal message from God. Simon and his five friends learn what it means to move mountains.

Illuminating the experiences of life in small-town America, award-winning writer for CBS News Peter Davis pens an ode to a small town thirty miles north of Cincinnati—documenting its strengths and struggles over the course of a year.After a scandal involving a high school teacher caught his interest, award-winning news writer Peter Davis spent a year studying life in Hamilton, Ohio. While examining the small town during an intense time of change, including segregation of schools and economic decline, Davis shares an honest, full scope view of the life in a small town during the 1960s. Hometown takes readers into the forces that unite and divide the small-town community of Hamilton through a look at politics, sports, marriage, crime, and social lives in a variety of classes.

Considerations of the effect of trauma on heritage sites.

Wide-ranging essays on intangible cultural heritage, with a focus on its negotiation, its value, and how to protect it.

Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.

This book combines practical guidance and theoretical background for analysts using empirical techniques in competition and antitrust investigations. Peter Davis and Eliana Garces show how to integrate empirical methods, economic theory, and broad evidence about industry in order to provide high-quality, robust empirical work that is tailored to the nature and quality of data available and that can withstand expert and judicial scrutiny. Davis and Garces describe the toolbox of empirical techniques currently available, explain how to establish the weight of pieces of empirical work, and make some new theoretical contributions. The book consistently evaluates empirical techniques in light of the challenge faced by competition analysts and academics--to provide evidence that can stand up to the review of experts and judges. The book's integrated approach will help analysts clarify the assumptions underlying pieces of empirical work, evaluate those assumptions in light of industry knowledge, and guide future work aimed at understanding whether the assumptions are valid. Throughout, Davis and Garces work to expand the common ground between practitioners and academics.

Essays dealing with the question of how "sense of place" is constructed, in a variety of locations and media.

Investigations into the cultural significance of that most familiar and charismatic group of animals, bears.

Support and encourage students in their study of business behaviour and the labour market with this revised and restructured Economics Workbook.

This book presents a method for creating a working model of society, using data systems and simulation techniques, that can be used for testing propositions of scientific and policy nature. Readers of this text will, for the first time, have a simulation-based working model of society that can be interrogated for policy and substantive purposes.

Support and encourage students in their study of markets and market failure with this revised and restructured Economics Workbook.

The fourth book by Peter Davis, author of TINA, Hilter's Mustache, and Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!

A sweeping novel of the 1930s that captures the essence of a golden, lurid era when Hollywood became the fantasy capital of the world

At each stage of their lives-from infant cribs to teen dropouts to welfare dependents to basement shelters for the elderly-the people of the underclass are shunned by the rest of the population, even by the working poor. The cycle is vicious: Underclass children get little help in their own homes (when they have homes); they are shoved aside at school until they drop out like their parents did; they are unable to find decent work without an education; they have children of their own for whom they cannot provide adequate care; and finally, they are dumped into human (but inhumane) warehouses for the not-quite-deceased. America cannot afford to do this to its poorest citizens; we cannot afford not to rescue the underclass. In the richest country on earth, the people of the underclass are not merely a problem, they are a scandal.

This is a biography of Sir William Jardine (1800-1874), Scottish naturalist of the 19th-century, who owned a private natural history museum and libarary and made natural history available to anyone who could read by issuing 40 small volumes on birds, mammals, fishes and insects.

Case-studies of whether and how heritage can be used to bring about reconciliation.This volume explores one of the most critical issues of our time: whether heritage can contribute to a more peaceful society and future. It reflects a core belief that heritage can provide solutions to reconciling peoples and demonstrates the amount of significant work being carried out internationally. Based round the core themes of new and emerging ideas around heritage and peace, heritage and peace-building in practice, and heritage, peace-building andsites, the twenty contributions seek to raise perceptions and understanding of heritage-based peace-building practices. Responding to the emphasis placed on conflict, war and memorialization, they reflect exploratory yet significant steps towards reclaiming the history, theory, and practice of peacebuilding as serious issues for heritage in contemporary society. The geographical scope of the book includes contributions from Europe, notably the Balkans andNorthern Ireland, the Middle East, and Kenya. Diana Walters is an International Heritage Consultant and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter; Daniel Laven is Associate Professor of Human Geography, Department of Tourism Studies and Geography/European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR), Mid Sweden University; Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology, Newcastle University. Contributors: Tatjana Cvjeticanin, PeterDavis, Jonathan Eaton, David Fleming, Seth Frankel, Timothy Gachanga, Alon Gelbman, Felicity Gibling, Will Glendinning, Elaine Heumann Gurian, Lejla Hadzic, Feras Hammami, Lotte Hughes, Bosse Lagerqvist, Daniel Laven, Bernadette Lynch, Elena Monicelli, Yongtanit Pimonsathean, Saleem H. Ali, Sultan Somjee, Peter Stone, Michele Taylor, Peter van den Dungen, Alda Vezic, Jasper Visser, Diana Walters.