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Peter Smith

    January 1, 1944

    This author focuses on the intricate exploration of human nature and ethics. Their style is characterized by penetrating psychological depth and precise linguistic craft. Through their works, they seek to uncover the hidden motivations and dilemmas that shape our lives. Readers appreciate their ability to provoke reflection on complex moral questions.

    Peter Smith
    The Petlyakov Pe-2
    The Psychology of School Bullying
    Wayfaring Stranger
    An Introduction to Gödel's Theorems
    Naval Warfare in the English Channel, 1939-1945
    Understanding Children's Development
    • Understanding Children's Development

      • 417 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      This introductory textbook provides an overview of child development. It covers such topics as perception, the development of language and reading skills, the bonding of parent and child, the development of sex differences, friendship and play. Each chapter contains two case studies.

      Understanding Children's Development
    • An extensively rewritten second edition of this best-selling standard text for graduates and upper-level undergraduate students of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and pure mathematics. A clear and accessible treatment of Gödel's famous, intriguing, but much misunderstood incompleteness theorems.

      An Introduction to Gödel's Theorems
    • Wayfaring Stranger

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.3(104)Add rating

      A journey to the American South in search of friendship, life lessons and bluegrass.

      Wayfaring Stranger
    • The Psychology of Bullying provides a highly accessible overview about the nature of bullying, what is known about it, its possible effects, and what can be done about it. It focuses on bullying at school with special attention given to the development of cyberbullying, and a final chapter looks at bullying in other contexts. Illustrated with examples and case studies, it examines who bullies and who gets bullied, what is known about effective coping strategies, and what friends, peers and the school can do to help. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and parents looking for psychological insights into what bullying is.

      The Psychology of School Bullying
    • The Petlyakov Pe-2

      • 456 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Full and comprehensive on the origins, design, construction and battle record of the Petlyakov Pe-2 dive-bomber, the Peshka. A-10A.

      The Petlyakov Pe-2
    • This new edition has been expanded to include areas of current importance such as bifurcation, structural stability and chaotic behavior. Other topics covered are linearization, perturbation theory, subharmonics, stability, the existence of limit cycles, and Poincaré maps. The text isconcerned with practical applications and includes over 400 examples and exercises.

      Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations
    • An Introduction to Formal Logic

      • 428 pages
      • 15 hours of reading
      3.9(69)Add rating

      Formal logic provides us with a powerful set of techniques for criticizing some arguments and showing others to be valid. These techniques are relevant to all of us with an interest in being skilful and accurate reasoners. In this very accessible book, extensively revised and rewritten for the second edition, Peter Smith presents a guide to the fundamental aims and basic elements of formal logic. He introduces the reader to the languages of propositional and predicate logic, and develops natural deduction systems for evaluating arguments translated into these languages. His discussion is richly illustrated with worked examples and exercises, and alongside the formal work there is illuminating philosophical commentary. This book will make an ideal text for a first logic course and will provide a firm basis for further work in formal and philosophical logic.

      An Introduction to Formal Logic