Illustration

Biographie et livres de John Preston

Découvrez tout l'univers de l'auteur en livre numérique
John Preston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of Feyerabend: Philosophy, Science and Society (1997) and Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: A Reader's Guide (2008). He edited the third volume of Feyerabend's Philosophical Papers and co-edited The Worst Enemy of Science?: Essays in Memory of Paul Feyerabend (with Gonzalo Munévar and David Lamb, 2000).
Découvrez tous ses livres

Dernière parution

Téléchargez le livre :  Watford Forever
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Watford Forever

Elton John , John Preston


Viking

2023-11-16

ePub

The Sunday Times Sports Book of the YearA Times Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'The heartwarming story of the collaboration and friendship between English football’s oddest...

14,99

Lire plus

Tous les ebooks de John Preston en PDF et EPUB


19  résultat(s)
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

The Dig


Anaïs Goacolou , John Preston


Un récit brillamment réalisé de la fouille archéologique la plus célèbre de l'histoire britannique, maintenant un film avec Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan et Lily James.Au cours du long été chaud de 1939, la Grande-Bretagne se prépare à la guerre. Mais dans une ferme au...

Parution : 2021-08-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Hachette Lab
Collection : YRA
J'achète
9,99
Télécharger le livre :  Utopia in the Factory
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Utopia in the Factory


Rhiannon Firth , John Preston


This book is open access.The idea that automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics might lead to a utopian future for humanity is a powerful one both in mainstream and radical discourse. The paradigm of ‘Industry 4.0’ where digital manufacturing...

Parution : 2025-07-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
J'ajoute au panier
Gratuit
Télécharger le livre :  Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder


Julie A. Fast , John Preston


Revised and updated, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder is a groundbreaking, comprehensive program to help those with bipolar disorder—and those who care about them—gain permanent control over their lives. Most people diagnosed with bipolar disorder are sent...

Parution : 2023-05-09
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Balance
J'achète
10,99
Télécharger le livre :  Interpreting Mach
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Interpreting Mach


John Preston


This volume presents new essays on the work and thought of physicist, psychologist, and philosopher Ernst Mach. Moving away from previous estimations of Mach as a pre-logical positivist, the essays reflect his rehabilitation as a thinker of direct relevance to debates...

Parution : 2021-03-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
J'achète
32,01
Télécharger le livre :  Fall
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Fall


John Preston


WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell from the...

Parution : 2021-02-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
J'achète
9,49
Télécharger le livre :  Getting It Done When You're Depressed, 2E
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Getting It Done When You're Depressed, 2E


Julie A. Fast , John Preston


Don't wait another day to live the life you deserve! Instead, get it done while you're depressed.Many people experience the hardships of depression and tend to struggle with productivity. This self-help book offers you 50 strategies to break the cycle of unproductivity...

Parution : 2021-01-12
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Dk
J'achète
7,99
Télécharger le livre :  Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom


Rhiannon Firth , John Preston


This book considers how the UK government’s response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic disadvantages the working class, and how mutual aid, based on anarchist principles, can be used as a force for social change. The authors draw on Marxist and anarchist thought in class...

Parution : 2020-11-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
J'achète
28,47
Télécharger le livre :  Grenfell Tower
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Grenfell Tower


John Preston


The Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 is one of the most tragic political events in British history. This book argues that preparedness for disasters has always been designed in the interests of the State and Capital rather than citizens. This was exemplified by the...

Parution : 2018-08-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Pivot
J'achète
63,29
Télécharger le livre :  Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Competence Based Education and Training (CBET) and the End of Human Learning


John Preston


This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade. CBET supposedly offers a new type of learning that will lead to...

Parution : 2017-05-04
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
J'achète
58,01
Télécharger le livre :  A Very English Scandal
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

A Very English Scandal


John Preston


The bestselling book that inspired the Bafta-winning BBC dramaCorruption. Blackmail. Conspiracy to murder. A Very English Scandal has all the hallmarks of a classic thriller with one difference. It's all true.In the late 1960s Jeremy Thorp, the charismatic leader of the...

Parution : 2016-05-05
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
J'achète
9,49
Télécharger le livre :  Feyerabend
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Feyerabend


John Preston


This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science. The book traces the evolution of Feyerabend's thought, beginning with his early attempt to graft insights from...

Parution : 2013-04-23
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : Polity
J'achète
53,70
Télécharger le livre :  Feyerabend
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Feyerabend


John Preston


This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science. The book traces the evolution of Feyerabend's thought, beginning with his early attempt to graft insights from...

Parution : 2013-04-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Polity
J'achète
22,68
Télécharger le livre :  Residential Location Choice
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Residential Location Choice


Francesca Pagliara , John Preston , David Simmonds


The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book...

Parution : 2010-08-12
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Springer
J'achète
94,94
Télécharger le livre :  Wittgenstein and Reason
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Wittgenstein and Reason


John Preston


This volume discusses Wittgenstein’s work, as well as his oeuvre in general, and its implications for the nature of reason. Investigates the nature of reason which has always been a topic at the very heart of Western philosophy Analyses how Wittgenstein raised crucial...

Parution : 2009-02-23
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Collection : Ratio Special Issues
J'achète
24,79
Télécharger le livre :  The Dig
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

The Dig


John Preston


A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James.'Exquisitely original' Ian MacEwan'An enthralling story of love and loss' Robert HarrisIn the long...

Parution : 2008-05-29
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
J'achète
8,99
Télécharger le livre :  Whiteness and Class in Education
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Whiteness and Class in Education


John Preston


Like many of my friends I didn’t really realise that I was working class until I went to university. Suddenly, what I thought as normal became subtly and not so subtly differentiated as I came into close contact with the middle classes. I had not known a time, though,...

Parution : 2007-08-08
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : Springer
J'achète
94,94
Télécharger le livre :  The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Moods
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Moods


John Preston


Anger. Depression. Anxiety. Low self-esteem. With the help of this guide, millions of Americans can stop suffering from these difficult emotions. Written by a prominent psychologist, this book is chock-full of the many strategies and approaches that have proven...

Parution : 2006-11-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Dk
J'achète
7,99
Télécharger le livre :  Views into the Chinese Room
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

Views into the Chinese Room


Mark Bishop , John Preston


to follow

Parution : 2002-08-22
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
J'achète
51,10
Télécharger le livre :  The Worst Enemy of Science?
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies

The Worst Enemy of Science?


David Lamb , Gonzalo Munevar , John Preston


This stimulating collection is devoted to the life and work of the most flamboyant of twentieth-century philosophers, Paul Feyerabend. Feyerabend's radical epistemological claims, and his stunning argument that there is no such thing as scientific method, were highly...

Parution : 2000-02-10
Format(s) : PDF
J'achète
115,62

Restez informé(e) des événements et promotions ebook

Paiements sécurisés

Paiements sécurisés