Peter Miller

Draws on the examples of insect colonies and fish schools to demonstrate how ancient animal instincts surpass modern human developments in speed and productivity, revealing how numerous technological breakthroughs were inspired by natural organizations.

How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done

The Smart Swarm

Find order and beauty in the kitchen with this delightfully elegant primer on washing the dishes that elevates and illuminates a seemingly routine chore. Washing the dishes is an ordinary, everyday task--but with examination and care, it can become much more. In this reverent guide to the household chore, Peter Miller shows us how washing dishes can become a joy, a delight, a meditative exercise, and an act of grace and rhythm. We pay so much attention to recipes but little attention to maintenance and cleanup. Washing the dishes is as much a part of making a meal as prepping the vegetables, making the sauces, or seasoning the meats. At times it is quite routine, sometimes raucous, other times complex. It is never convenient. Despite its din and clatter, and despite its reputation, washing the dishes is the coda to the meal. It is a bustling musical of water and soap, of flow and surface, and done well, the fragile shall sit as proudly as the cast-iron. There are some who do the dishes for the clarity and privacy of it, and there are some who relish the quiet isolation of putting things in order where they belong. There are some who feel the time and movement is a kind of digestive. In the evening in particular, there is a silence when it is all done. How to Wash the Dishes brings elegance, art, and a bit of mindfulness to the sink. It is the perfect gift for those who love to clean and equally as apt for those we wish would clean a bit more.

How to Wash the Dishes

First published in 1987. Our understanding of the nature of power in western societies is currently undergoing a major reassessment. The significance of this reassessment emerges forcefully through comparing the writings of the principal exponents of Critical Theory - Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas - with those of Michel Foucault. Peter Miller suggests that these two traditions embody fundamentally distinct philosophical and sociological principles. He grounds his analysis in the concepts of domination (Critical Theory) and power (Foucault). Miller identifies the notion of subjectivity as central to a differentiation of the respective approaches of Critical Theory and Foucault. For Critical Theory it is the repression of subjectivity which provides the evidence of domination and the rationale for its critique, while for Foucault subjectivity in western societies is fabricated through power and linked to the deployment of specific knowledges. Miller shows that despite the achievements of Critical Theory in bringing to light the repressive nature of advanced industrial societies, its thinking is inadequate as a basis for future analysis and critique. He argues that Foucault's genealogy of the modern subject, which highlights the role of the human sciences in its fabrication, is a more fruitful basis for charting and investigating the mode of operation of contemporary forms of power. The book includes a survey of all published works by Foucault, up to the time of his death in 1984, and commentaries on the writings of Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas.

Domination and Power

We will have to look at the data. As this quote hit the airwaves it was said to sum up England's backward and stuttering performance at the 2015 World Cup. It didn't matter that Peter Moores, the coach at the time, had been misheard - he said he would look at it later. The narrative of a team held back by too much information had taken hold. But this was not the first time England had struggled in cricket's premier event. England's history with one-day cricket is a troubled one. Despite inventing the limited-overs game more than 50 years ago they have never won the World Cup. 28 Days' Data tells the story of England at every World Cup since 1992, speaking with those that were there and the journalists that covered their efforts to pick through the remains. With interviews from England captains, players and coaches, this is the definitive take on England's failed attempts to be world beaters in the shortest forms of the game - and whether things might finally be about to change.

28 Days' Data

A Literary Agent's Tips on how to Sell Your Writing

Get Published! Get Produced!

Daily readings for Advent from Iona Community members, associates and friends: Peter Millar, John Harvey, Kathy Galloway, Ian M Fraser, David Rhodes, Jan Sutch Pickard and others.

Daily readings for Advent

Light of the World

What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach about communication, organization, and decision-making. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarmers. A fascinating new take on collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, The Smart Swarm introduces a compelling new understanding on solving our own problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and technology. This lively tour from National Geographic reporter Peter Miller introduces ant colonies that have been the inspiration for streamlining factory processes, telephone networks, and truck routes; termites, used in studies for climate-control solutions; schools of fish, on which the U.S. military modeled a team of robots; and many other examples of the wisdom to be gleaned about the behavior of crowds.

How to Work Efficiently, Communicate Effectively, and Make Better Decisions Usin g the Secrets of Flocks, Schools, and Colonies

Léon Long-yien Chang

Chinese calligraphy evokes a complex beauty by the simplest means—a single character, a stroke, or even a dot. It is an intriguing art form that at once reveals a calligrapher's talent and learning, reflects whole epochs of philosophy, religion, and culture, and embraces an artistic tradition thousands of years old. This volume offers a loving appreciation of the aesthetic values underlying Chinese calligraphy as well as an authoritative guide to its historical development as one of China's supreme artistic accomplishments.

Four Thousand Years of Chinese Calligraphy

Peter Miller's Ski Almanac

George Brough started building motorcycles shortly after the First World War. The machines were named Brough Superior both to distinguish them from his father's Brough machines and to denote the highest levels of performance and quality of manufacture. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the name Brough Superior was synonymous with the very best in motorcycle design. The machines gained fame in the hands of riders such as Bert le Vack, Eric Fernihough, Noel Pope and, of course, T. E. Lawrence 'Lawrence of Arabia'. This book documents the full story of Brough and Brough Superior from the early years of the twentieth century through to the end of production in the Second World War, and post-war attempts at revival.

The Complete Story

Brough Superior

A sumptuous visual indulgence, these 150 images taken by a distinguished photographer memorably capture the life and the people of Paris in the fifties.

Photographs and Memories from the City of Light

The First Time I Saw Paris

Laura Westra

The Ethics of Maintaining Planetary Life

Just Ecological Integrity

Wimbledon Football Club (WIMBLEDON)

B. C. CORKE

A. FUCE

Souvenir Handbook. Compiled & Edited by Peter Miller, Assisted by A. Fuce and B.C. Corke. [With Illustrations.].

◆Are you wasting away in a crummy office? ◆Do you dream of packing your bags and going off in your RV? If so, then keep reading… Many people would gladly trade their nine-to-five job for living off the grid. When you live for too long surrounded by concrete walls and deafened by the noise of the city, it is natural to feel a strong desire to be free and explore the world. It’s perfectly normal to desire to take off and live a meaningful life in nature, a life of culture and new experiences on the road. But, how to finance it all? I had the same question in my mind when I started this journey long ago, wishing for both FREEDOM AND FINANCIAL STABILITY. I left my career in marketing and escaped the grind in my RV. Years later, I'm still doing great! I wouldn't trade this life for ANYTHING, and I want YOU to enjoy the same lifestyle I’m currently living! That’s why I wrote "RV Passive Income Guide", to teach you how to embrace freedom in nature WHILE MAINTAINING YOUR BANK ACCOUNT AT THE SAME TIME. In this book, I will share with you: ★Numerous passive income ideas to gain while traveling in your RV; ★Strategies and instructions to secure your passive incomes; ★Information on how to manage your RV costs; ★Tips to make fast money on-the-go with freelancing jobs; ★How to profit from your RV becoming a digital nomad; Plus much, MUCH MORE! Living an adventurous life with passive income that finances our needs and those of our loved ones is possible now more than ever! So, why are you still sitting by your desk? ◆Act now on your life! Start by putting this book in your shopping cart and set off on a new adventure!

Learn to Earn while living in a Motorhome to become a Real Digital Nomad. Do Your Job and Business in Total Freedom Traveling and Camping Full Time With no Worries.

RV Passive Income Guide

Taylor & Francis Group

Peter Miller compares the writings of the principal exponents of critical theory - Max Horkeimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas - with those of Michel Foucault.

Offering a detailed plan for getting dinner on the table, no matter how busy your day has been, Peter Miller reveals five brilliant ways to cook a group of indispensable ingredients. These versatile, healthy foods--a carefully curated range of vegetables, grains, legumes, pastas, and proteins--form an adaptable toolbox for making simple, delicious meals. With five tried-and-tested methods for a wide range of common ingredients at their fingertips, busy home cooks can quickly focus on how to prepare whatever is on hand and in season. Offering more than 90 recipes, plus menus, tips for giving new life to leftovers, and detailed advice on sourcing ingredients, Five Ways to Cook Asparagus shows you how to cook dinner with only one or two fresh ingredients and be confident that you will eat well.

The Art and Practice of Making Dinner

Five Ways to Cook Asparagus (and Other Recipes)

The old Tolbuith, the Heart of Mid-Lothian, with the Luckenbooths and the mercat cross of Edinburgh, from 1365 to 1617. (Repr. with additions from the Proc., Soc. of antiq. of Scotl.).

David J. Cooper

Christopher S. Chapman

Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management, and accountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important part of the curriculum and research of business and management schools, the fastest growing sector in higher education. This growth is largely a phenomenon of the last 50 years or so. Prior to that, accounting was seen mainly as a mundane, technical, bookkeeping exercise (and some still share that naive view). The growth in accounting has demanded a corresponding engagement by scholars to examine and highlight the important behavioural, organizational, institutional, and social dimensions of accounting. Pioneering work by accounting researchers and social scientists more generally has persuasively demonstrated to a wider social science, professional, management, and policy audience how many aspects of life are indeed constituted, to an important extent, through the calculative practices of accounting. Anthony Hopwood, to whom this book is dedicated, has been a leading figure in this endeavour, which has effectively defined accounting as a distinctive field of research in the social sciences. The book brings together the work of leading international accounting academics and social scientists, and demonstrates the scope, vitality, and insights of contemporary scholarship in and on accounting and auditing.

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