John Briggs: 15 books
Curtains
Windows on the Unreality We Live In
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Curtains is a dizzying photographic foray into the hidden realities lurking in the folds of puddled curtains that the photographer, John Briggs, found in windows of a central London office building. The photographer puts the curtain folds though simple transformations that result in strange creatures...
Seven Life Lessons of Chaos
Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
If you have ever felt your life was out of control and headed toward chaos,science has an important message: Life is chaos, and that's a very exciting thing!
In this eye-opening book, John Briggs and F. David Peat reveal sevenenlightening lessons for embracing the chaos of daily life.
Be...
Crime And Punishment In England
An Introductory History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.
Souls with Longing
Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human...
Judy Garland: Little Woman, Big Talent
Big Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
"The greatest entertainer who ever lived..."
Judy Garland faced plenty of problems on her way to superstardom—her height, her age, her appearance—but she also had something audiences loved: one of the best singing voices in Hollywood history.
Judy Garland: Little Woman,...
Mary Dyer, Friend of Freedom
Big Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
"Mary Dyer did hang as a flag..."
Mary Dyer was the first woman executed in America for her religious beliefs, but her death started a revolution no one could stop.
Mary Dyer, Friend of Freedom is the first children's book about this largely forgotten civil rights leader. It...
Pete Seeger The People's Singer
Big Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Pete Seeger, The People's Singer is the first children's book about the legendary folk singer and civil rights activist. Young readers can learn about this man of the people who encouraged his audiences to sing along and became a hero to millions of them. Help them discover the life of the man who:
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by John Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
I have known sadness and tears, depression and fear. By writing this book I have laid my soul bare. It is my hope you will find something in these pages that will stay with you, maybe even echo through your soul as always true.
Lay Servants as Christian Transformational Leaders
Participant's Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Building on the congregational strategic planning resource, “Does Your Church Have a Prayer?” this Participant’s Book will guide Lay Servants seeking to be more empowered to lead their congregations toward vitality. Written with two distinct purposes, Lay Servants as Christian Transformational...
Fire in the Crucible
Understanding the Process of Creative Genius
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
What makes geniuses different from the rest of us? What is the difference between a prodigy and a genius? Are geniuses born or made? What is creative vision and where does it come from? What are the secrets of talent? And why do great creators seem to have so many oppositions in their personalities?In...
A Professorial Life
An Autobiographical Account
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
John C. Jack Briggs was named professor emeritus upon his retirement from the University of South Florida. He is now affi liated with the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. He and his wife Eila, a retired economics professor, spend their summers in Oregon and winters...
by John Pickering, Frank Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Take your creativity to another level with this book! Rock music is, or should be, a form of personal expression. This text was written to encourage and develop the drummer's ability to create and develop his own ideas from a solid foundation. This is one in a series of books that deals with one of...
Chocolate and Health
Chemistry, Nutrition and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Following on from their previous volume on Chocolate as Medicine, Philip K. Wilson and W. Jeffrey Hurst edit this companion volume, Chocolate and Health, providing a comprehensive overview of the chemistry, nutrition and bioavailability of cacao and chocolate.
The book begins with a brief historical...
Moving to Opportunity
The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Moving to Opportunity tackles one of America's most enduring dilemmas: the great, unresolved question of how to overcome persistent ghetto poverty. Launched in 1994, the MTO program took a largely untested approach: helping families move from high-poverty, inner-city public housing to low-poverty...
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