Brendan: 646 books
Brunch Is Hell
How to Save the World by Throwing a Dinner Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
A call to arms against BRUNCH... and a how-to guide for fighting back, from the hosts of the hit podcast and public radio show The Dinner Party Download.
Society is under threat. The culprit? BRUNCH. Not merely a forum for overpriced eggs, brunch is a leisure-time-squandering hellscape, embodying...
Doll Therapy in Dementia Care
Evidence and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Advocating doll therapy as an intervention for people with dementia, this book combines theory and evidence to show its many benefits and present guidelines for best-practice.
Despite being widely and internationally used, doll therapy is a controversial and often misunderstood intervention....
by Brendan James Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In the early years of the twentieth century an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, it was nguman; to the whites...
Cleveland Is King
The Cleveland Cavaliers' Historic 2016 Championship Season
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
All In. The moment that LeBron James declared his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014, there was no doubt the franchise was all in on ending the city of Cleveland's over half-century drought without a major sports championship. From the mid-season coaching change to a 3-1 NBA Finals deficit,...
Slovakia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Slovakia has struggled with a low international profile. Often overlooked as the Czech Republic's little sister, it is a young country with an old culture and history, and a people who are proudly Central (not Eastern) European. Although for much of the twentieth century Czechs and Slovaks lived together...
by James Brendan Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
What a great thing if we could do away with war!
by Professor Brendan Dooley, Professor Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy.
Inside a badly damaged copy of Straparola's 16th-century...
by Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A. Smith, Ralph C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...
by Brendan Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Tourists have long enjoyed the sunshine and the French “joie de vivre” in Nice, the elegant city on the French Riviera. The city is the second-most visited tourist destination in France with four million arrivals a year. Its Mediterranean beaches stretch for miles along the famous “Promenade...
In the Name of Democracy
American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq?
Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information...
In Pursuit of Spenser
Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
When Robert B. Parker passed in early 2010, the world lost two great men: Parker himself, iconic American crime writer whose books have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, and his best-known creation, Spenser. Parker's Spenser series not only influenced the work of countless of today's writers,...
What Would MacGyver Do?
True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
A clever collection of true stories celebrating real-life ?MacGyverisms?
For anyone who?s ever wished they could channel 1980s action-adventure icon Angus MacGyver?a secret agent known for relying on his brains, scientific prowess, duct tape, and a Swiss Army knife to save the day?this unique...
Lakatos
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Lakatos: An Introduction provides a thorough overview of both Lakatos's thought and his place in twentieth century philosophy. It is an essential and insightful read for students and anyone interested in the philosophy of science.
by Brendan Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
In explaining an improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker's Daughter explores changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gives way to the Counter Reformation and Early Modern Europe.