Brian: 7780 books
Empire of the Seas
How the navy forged the modern world
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation and it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality – that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book...
by Brian Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has attracted the attention of countless historians over the last 70 years but, despite this coverage, views of his character remain controversial and contradictory. His younger brother Brian, himself a successful soldier, enters the fray with this charming...
An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?
Challenges and Choices for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2008
Forty years ago, as the United States became increasingly involved in Vietnam, questions were raised in Canada about the relationship between its foreign policy agenda and that of its southern neighbour. Now, with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is time to raise the same questions: does...
by Brian Bercusson
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
European Labour Law explores how individual European national legal systems, in symbiosis with the European Union, produce a transnational labour law system that is distinct and genuinely European in character. Professor Brian Bercusson describes the evolution of this system, its national, transnational...
Wet Behind the Ears
Poems by Brian K. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
In 2004, The New England Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVIII and the CIA admitted that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Facebook was founded at Cambridge, Massachusetts and Scientists in South Korea announced the cloning of 30 human embryos....
Afghanistan Declassified
A Guide to America's Longest War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but...
The Night Shift
Real Life in the Heart of the E.R.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
In The Night Shift, Dr. Brian Goldman shares his experiences in the witching hours at Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto. We meet the kinds of patients who walk into an E.R. after midnight: late-night revellers injured on their way home after last call, teens assaulted in the streets by other...
by Brian J. Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought. In this meticulous and absorbing...
Lost Men
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
A novel of rare grace and power, Lost Men is the story of a father and a son each confronting his past. Westen Chan was just eight years old when his Caucasian mother died and his father, Xin, sent him away to be raised by her relatives.
Twenty years later, after a lifetime of estrangement,...
Breakbeat Pedagogy
Hip Hop and Spoken Word Beyond the Classroom Walls
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Breakbeat Pedagogy provides a groundbreaking framework for the inclusion of hip-hop culture in schools. Looking beyond the previous model of hip-hop-based education, Brian Mooney argues for school-wide hip-hop events, such as poetry slams, as the ideal site for students to engage in the elements of...
A Sense of the Sea
Our View of the Sea and How We Got It
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
"What does the ocean mean to people - to individuals and to society as a whole? That is the question Brian Whitehouse answers in his first book, A Sense of the Sea. An avid sailor, oceanographer, and former Executive Director of the influential Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing, Dr. Whitehouse...
My Imaginary Illness
A Journey into Uncertainty and Prejudice in Medical Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How Patients Think
At age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for months at a time, she frequently required intubation and life support. She eventually became quadriplegic, dependent both on a wheelchair and...
The Complete Guide To Ivf
An inside view of fertility clinics and treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
The most recent studies show that 40,000 cycles of IVF are carried out in the UK each year - and approximately a million are carried out worldwide. It is estimated that at least 200,000 IVF babies are born annually - and this figure is constantly rising.
With assisted conception increasing year on...
by Brian C. Kalt
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
The United States Constitution's provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents contain serious weaknesses that could lead to constitutional controversies. In this compelling and fascinating book, Brian Kalt envisions six such controversies, such as the criminal prosecution of a sitting...