Böcker av Peter White

How to be a Funny Person: A Practical Guide to Everyday Humor Being funny is like having a key that unlocks the door to a better life. It makes people like you. Funny people are perceived as intelligent, confident, and likeable - traits that make all aspects of social interaction easier. Most people think that being funny is in inherent trait, but it isn't. It's a skill that can be learned and honed, and it's a skill that can be leveraged to improve your life. In this book you'll learn the techniques and motivations that cause people to laugh, and how to use that knowledge to create funny jokes, stories, and moments. In the second section, you'll learn how to apply what you've learned to different aspects of your life - work, friendships, and relationships. Becoming funny is like getting in shape, anyone can do it with the right knowledge and motivation. This book gives you that knowledge.

At the end of "See It My Way" Peter White had been appointed the BBC's Disability Affairs Correspondent. In "Do You Know Where You Are?" he recounts his adventures at home and abroad as a professional broadcaster who just happens to be blind.

The definitive 'at a glance' guide to powerboating - in Fernhurst's popular Companion series A powerboat is a craft that incorporates an engine. (about 90% of all boats) This book is the definitive small version of Peter White's Powerboating - The RIB and Sportsboat Handbook.

Cicero in Letters analyzes letter-writing habits and political preoccupations that define the correspondence between Cicero and his contemporaries during a period of crisis at the end of the Roman Republic.

Perfect for anyone going afloat in a powered craft up to 30 ft long. A brilliant introduction for beginners and a great refresher for those more experienced.

This important work refutes a currently fashionable consensus, which maintains that the English Civil War can be seen as primarily the result of a Laudian and Arminian assault on a previously predominant Calvinism.

Packed with worked examples and problems, this book will help the reader improve their confidence and skill in data-handling. The mathematical methods needed for problem-solving are described in the first part of the book, with chapters covering topics such as indices, graphs and logarithms. The following eight chapters explore data-handling in different areas of microbiology and biochemistry including microbial growth, enzymes and radioactivity. Each chapter is fully illustrated with worked examples that provide a step-by-step guide to the solution of the most common problems. Over 30 exercises, ranging in difficulty and length, allow you to practise your skills and are accompanied by a full set of hints and solutions.

The legacy of the Group of Seven and the reinvention of Canadian landscape art since the 1960s.

A report on the excavations carried out at various times in the 20th century on Sherborne Old Castle, built by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury (1102-39), later the country seat of Sir Walter Ralegh.

As a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised journal of his regiment's advance through the Low Countries and into Germany in the closing months of the war in Europe.

Witty, thought-provoking, moving and totally honest autobiography of a man, born blind, who is now a leading broadcaster.