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Completing the World Trading System: Proposals for a Millennium Round 1 review
Peter Watson
Springer, 1999
Outstanding
Thought provoking with interesting historical perspectives. Without a doubt, this book is the seminal work on the Millennium Round!
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Small Rain: Eight Poets from San Diego2 reviews
Sarai Austin, Richard Astle, ...
D. G. Wills Books, 1996
An excellent showcase of talented poets.
I highly recommend this book to all readers who love poetry. Ted Burke, Paul Dresman, and the other cast of poets included in this book share a talent for writing and yet maintain individual and unique voices.
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A Terrible Beauty2 reviews
Peter Watson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History, 2001
A Terrible Beauty - a Delightful Read
Highly recommended. Watson goes further than précis the work of the thought-leaders that shaped the twentieth century, he maps out the progression of ideas, their influences and interactions, and identifies the historical consequences: the influence of Darwin, Picasso, Marxism and Freud senseless tragedies culminating in two world wars; the ingredients for Modernism and transition to Post ...
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A Field Guide To Landscape Photography1 review
Peter Watson
Guild of Master Craftsman, 2002
A Field Guide To Landscape Photography
Peter Watson does a great job of explaining how you visualize an image but his explanation of how he uses filters to warm up the scene or change the mood with a particular filter is worth the price of the book. I personally am beginning to pay attention to the techniques used by European and especially English photographer. It is a different prospective and one you can apply to your on style of ...
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On Kingdom Business: Transforming Missions Through Entrepreneurial Strategies3 reviews
Crossway Books, 2003
Lots of applications for Christians in business
I found this book just by searching on the title after reading a paper that a friend in India wrote on kingdom business. I have been hungry to learn what it means for me as an entrepreneur to have a Matt 6:33 'his kingdom first' mentality in running a for profit venture. I devoured this book and found it to be one of the most helpful I've seen yet, even though a primary focus of the book is ...
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Ideas1 review
Peter Watson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005
The best and the brightest on Ideas
In the last few years I have been searching books offering a general overview of the past, and I have realized that many books entitled "History of ...whatever" only provide information about the West, the rest of the world being almost ignored.
Watson's on ideas is different, is truly global. It is about ideas in general, not just abstract philosophy, all kind of them.I was surprised that no ...
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Escape to Danger1 review
Peter Watson Jenkins
1st Books Library, 2000
Running away from Terrorists' Bombs
Thiss is a thriller of the James Buchan's "39 Steps" variety. It is the story of a man running away from the nuclear warheads that a bunch of religious terrorists plan to use to annihilate Britain. There is a neat tension as we wait for the first bomb to explode, then share in the the hero's mad scramble to escape which follows the blast.
The book has depth of characterization. The hero, a ...
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Healing with the Universe, Meditation, and Prayer1 review
Peter Watson Jenkins, Toni Ann Winninger
Celestial Voices, Inc., 2007
A transformational perspective on healing and prayer
This is a wonderful book that resonated deeply within me and has left me feeling a deep inner peace. The book beautifully explains about the journey of the soul and the causes and purpose of illness and dis-ease, enabling the reader to gain a new perspective on their own ability to heal themselves.
The information on how the soul can heal itself is remarkable and I feel everyone would benefit ...
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Ideas17 reviews
HarperCollins e-books, 2005
Best book I have ever read
To read history as an evolution of ideas and inventions instead of a series of battles/wars or moving from one political machination to the next was most satisfying. Even more refreshing was to read a history that includes eastern as well as western innovation with many interesting asides and anecdotes. I've sent copies to my children and brother-in-law!
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Talking with Leaders of the Past4 reviews
Peter Watson Jenkins, Toni Ann Winninger
Celestial Voices, Inc., 2008
Life-changing, answers questions I've had my whole life!!!
Oh my gosh! This book is absolutely amazing. Purely a gift from God. It is the most magnificent book I have read in a year. It is one of those that you just can't put down. It is unique from anything I have ever read, and rivals "Jesus Speaks." Most importantly, this book finally answers the question we all carry with us our whole lives: "WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?" I ...
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's ... 15 reviews
Peter Watson, Cecilia Todeschini
PublicAffairs, 2007
Great Book
Have been waiting for some time to read this book, and I really enjoyed it. Of course I like art-related mysteries and other stories anyway. I'll be looking for other titles by this author.
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Training for the Marathon of Life: Choosing Jesus as Our Life Coach1 review
Peter Watson Jenkins
Resource Publications (OR), 2005
Jesus' Plan for The Good Society
The book aims to help the reader to discover how a plan for living with strong and realistic goals, leading to personal fulfillment.
(I), The idea of choosing a coach for the "marathon of life" comes from Socrates' illustration of the marathon runner who is looking for a trainer. This idea led the author, an agnostic at the time, to choose Jesus of Nazareth as his life coach with major ...
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Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond12 reviews
Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre
Bantam, 2000
A warm tale behind a cold company
Indeed a truly heart-warming, rivetting story. One of the best - possibly the best - bios that I have ever read. This is a story about IBM, the big blue corporate monolith. Yet in its core, this is really the story of a Son, a father and the relationship between them. Once into the pages of the book, you will soon realise that IBM is just a necessary but incidental backdrop to a father-son ...
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Sotheby's1 review
Peter Watson
Random House Value Publishing, 1999
Expose
The author does an excellent job of describing the lack of integrity that nearly took down Sotheby's. Before Enron, this story unveiled a secret world of collusion that rattled the art and auction worlds. Sotheby's failure to develop processes for identifying looted antiquities and smuggled artwork nearly destroyed its reputation in a business driven almost exclusively on trust.
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The Princess and the Goblin43 reviews
George MacDonald, Jean Watson, ...
Zondervan Publishing Company, 1980
Great set
These books are pleasing to look at, have heavy paper with beautiful illustrations. The cloth like hardcover and illustration are much prettier in person than in the photograph.
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Talking with Twentieth-Century Women1 review
Peter Watson Jenkins, Toni Ann Winninger
Celestial Voices, Inc., 2008
Intriguing and Inspiring
Not only did I learn a lot about these womens 'real' life but even more interesting was the point of view the soul takes on once life is over and there a very different "reality" is uncovered. I very much enjoyed the deep insights from a soul perspective, a truth that resonates deeply and has the power to change one's way of perceiving life.
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War on the Mind (Pelican)1 review
Peter Watson
Penguin Books Ltd, 1980
War on the mind: The military uses and abuses of psychology
I inherited this book from my father's library and was expecting an entirely negative book. Instead, what I found was an author who tried to find as much information on military psychological research and covers it all. From discovering what British soldiers would work hardest for in the 50s (more pay? college?) to some of the darker stories that have become counterculture fodder for decades. ...
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Light In The Landscape: A Photographer's Year3 reviews
Peter Watson
Guild of Master Craftsman, 2002
Wonderful pictures, excellent prose
U.K. photographer Peter Watson goes over British/Scottish/Welsh landscape photographic opportunities throughout each month. His pictures are extraordinary, many with phenomenal skies. That's one of his keys and you can tell he has a great deal of patience (and, apparently, a flexible schedule) to be in the right place at the right time.
As a photographer, I found his explanations behind each ...
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Wisdom and Strength1 review
Peter Watson
Doubleday, 1989
Wisdom,Beauty always wins over Strength,Brute Force.
How can a work of art last so long? It is that art is stronger than evil.
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The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century31 reviews
Peter Watson
HarperCollins, 2001
Pretty Much as Advertised
Dense, erudite and challenging, but never boring: An 800-page panoramic view of the intellectual history of the 20th Century. It follows both the paradigms and the paradigm shifts in the arts, humanities and most of all in the sciences -- paradigms and shifts that have taken place over the 20th Century mostly in the Western world.
All of the big ideas and the people that introduced them are ...
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