Brian Brown: 42 books
Someone Is Out to Get Us
A Not So Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
From UFOs to Dr. Strangelove, LSD experiments to Richard Nixon, author Brian Brown investigates the paranoid, panicked history of the Cold War.
In Someone Is Out to Get Us, Brian T. Brown explores the delusions, absurdities, and best-kept secrets of the Cold War, during which the United States...
Rescued
One Family's Miraculous Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
When a family outing in a private plane takes a tragic turn, a Memorial Day trip becomes an unforgettable 15 hours of danger, rescue efforts, and miracles. On a clear Saturday morning, professional fire captain and private pilot Brian Brown, his wife, and younger daughter headed out in their Cessna Sky...
Another Yin Oan a Wan Way Tickut
A Personal Diary Documenting the Rise from Belisha Boy Signalman to the Giddy Heights of 2nd Lieutenant
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
This is Brian Brown's personal diary of his rise from Belisha Boy signalman up to the giddy heights of 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals between 1939 until 1945 and includes 31/2 years as a Prisoner of War after being ordered by CIC Percival to surrender to the Japanese at the fall of Singapore on 15th February 1942.
by Brian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
The Wisdom of the Egyptians
By Brian Brown
The story of the Egyptians, the religion of the ancient Egyptians, the Ptah-Hotep and the Ke'gemini (the oldest books in the world), the Book of the Dead, the Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus, Egyptian magic and the Book of Truth. Also contains the vision...
The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry
Imagining the Earth Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Thomas Berry had a gentle yet mesmerizing and luminescent presence that was evident to anyone who spent time with him. His intellectual scope and erudite manner were compelling, and the breadth, depth, clarity, and elegance of his vision was breathtaking. Berry was an intellectual giant and cultural...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
by Brian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The Wisdom of the Egyptians gives the reader a broad overview of the story of the Egyptians, the religion of the ancient Egyptians, the Ptahhotep and the Ke'gemini, the "Book of the dead", the wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus, Egyptian music and the Book of Thoth.
by Brian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
If we were called upon to characterize the Egyptian religion in a few words, we should call it, both as a system and as a cult, an almost monarchical polytheism in a theocratic form. The Egyptian polytheism was not purely monarchical, for there were several divine monarchies; and only by the somewhat...
by Ian Paylor, Brian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive and practical account of this important area of health and social care and provides a basis for social workers to develop a rounded approach to their practice with drug and alcohol users.
by C. Baker, P. Crawford, Brian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
A comprehensive and thematic exploration of representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction, this book is relevant to those with interests in literary studies and is a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and professionals who are interested in how literature can inform and enhance clinical practices.
by Brian Brown, E.A. Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Egypt is a place of mysteries and much hidden treasures. These treasures are not only the physical gold and artifacts found in the burial places of the Pharaohs but spiritual treasures dealing with the afterlife and cosmology. This is the basis of what contemporaries refer as the Hermetic knowledge. ...
Connections after Colonialism
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.
In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations,...
Nights of the Living Dead
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero’s landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new . . . and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect...
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...