Brian: 7780 books
by Brian Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The Aspects series takes the readers on a voyage of nostalgic discovery through their town, city or area. Following on from the success of Aspects of Barnsley 6, the series continues with Aspects of Barnsley 7. Brian Elliott offers the reader a chance to become re-acquainted with the forgotten by-ways...
Reinvention
How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
As personal success expert Brian Tracy teaches that every one of us is engineered for success. But until you deal with the dissatisfactions of the present, you’ll be unable move onward and upward to create the wonderful future that is not only possible--it’s what you deserve. In Reinvention, he...
by Brian Ross
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
The first volume of Understanding Africa gave background to European discovery of the continent of Africa, and their intrusion. This volume covers examples in many areas of endeavour where incompetence, poor education and greed all add to the failure of the continent to join the Asian states in moving...
The Penguin Jazz Guide
The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked...
Before the Big Bang
The Prehistory of Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don't know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In Before the Big Bang, Brian...
How to Build a Time Machine
The Real Science of Time Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A pop science look at time travel technology, from Einstein to Ronald Mallett to present day experiments. Forget fiction: time travel is real.
In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the fascinating world...
High
Confession of an International Drug Smuggler
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
In the early 1980s, Brian O’Dea was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing threat from the DEA in 1986 for importing seventy-five tons of marijuana into the United States, he quit the trade–and the drugs–and...
by Brian Evans
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Eric Clapton is a British blues-rock guitarist, composer, singer, and songwriter. He was ranked at #53 on Rolling Stone's Top 100 Artists Of All-Time.
At the age of 17, he joined his first band called "The Roosters". In 1966 Clapton formed the band "Cream"...
by Brian Joseph Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
When We Arrested James Spader
It was the saddest thing I’d seen. How he kept thinking he was a cat and he wouldn’t get out of that filthy litter box.
And then, in the back of the cruiser, meowing for his cat brothers to save him.
Deliciously wicked satires about local and...
Signal and Noise
Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or...
Not Even a God Can Save Us Now
Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
The interplay between violence, religion, and politics is a central problem for societies and has attracted the attention of important philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and René Girard. Centuries earlier during the Italian Renaissance, these same problems drew the interest of...
New Jersey 9/11 Memorials
A Photographic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
New Jersey 9/11 Memorials: A Photographic Guide brings September 11 memorials and monuments from New Jersey communities large and small, together in one beautiful and informative photo book. Share the memories, history, and heart-felt tributes in this respectful photographic guide. Includes the National...
The Long Walk
A Story of War and the Life That Follows
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.
Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in...
The Mersey Sound
Restored 50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
'The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the selection has been made to illustrate the poet's characteristics in style and form'. With this modest brief, The...