Peter Brown: 93 books
by Peter Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Recently, news editor Gene Harman keeps waking up from strange dreams night after night. His dreams previously have been of past catastrophic events, unnerving in themselves, but now his dreams take a more chilling turn. Investigating a spate of local murders, Detective Andy Dale joins up with Gene to...
Chaucer at Work
The Making of The Canterbury Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Chaucer at Work is a new kind of introduction to the Canterbury Tales. It avoids excessive amounts of background information and involves the reader in the discovery of how Chaucer composed his famous work. It presents a series of sources and contexts to be considered in conjunction with key passages...
by Peter Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Medieval folk had long suspected that the Devil was carrying out his work on earth with the help of his minions. In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII declared this to be true, which resulted in witch-hunts across Europe which lasted for nearly 200 years. In 1645, England (notably Essex) was in the grip of...
RAF Southend
1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
RAF Southend focuses in diary-type format on the airport between October 1940 and August 1944, from when it became a fighter station in its own right, to it becoming an armament practice camp later in the war. It describes the manning and maintenance of the forward fighter station, often under attack,...
Toy Manchester Terrier
A Comprehensive Owner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This diminutive terrier from Manchester, the Toy Manchester Terrier, known by British fanciers as the English Toy Terrier, is the focus of this Special Limited Edition, the only book of its kind about this elegant, compact breed. Although recognized by the American Kennel Club as well as the English...
by Helen Roy, Dr Peter Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
"A ground-breaking identification guide ... the perfect marriage of artistic excellence, deep knowledge and, dare I say it, of scientists' genuine affection."
BRETT WESTWOOD
This brand new illustrated field guide covers all 47 species of ladybird occurring in the British Isles in...
Health Care of the Older Adult
An Australian and New Zealand Nursing Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The growing number of older adults in Australia and New Zealand makes an understanding of their health needs and problems of critical importance to all nurses who work with them, both in specialty facilities and in other health facilities and services that have a large clientele who are ageing. Health...
by Peter Brown Hoffmeister
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Tenaya has never left Yosemite Valley. He was born in a car by the Merced River, and grew up in a hidden camp with his parents, surviving on fish, acorns, and unfinished food thrown away by the park's millions of tourists. But despite its splendor, Tenaya's Yosemite is a visceral place of opposites,...
The Supremacy
The Wehtiko Influence
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
In the Jhanctum galaxy, far beyond ours, a highly communicable contagion called the Wehtiko Influence has inexplicably escalated in its infection rate that is normally manageable by the unwavering vigilances of an alien military Corp. called the Qi-Tahh Supremacy. This outbreak began thousands of...
by Peter Conti-Brown, Peter Conti-Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The independence of the Federal Reserve is considered a cornerstone of its identity, crucial for keeping monetary policy decisions free of electoral politics. But do we really understand what is meant by "Federal Reserve independence"? Using scores of examples from the Fed's rich history,...
Love Minus Zero
The Dialectic of Existentialism and Religious Faith in Bob Dylan's Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This thesis outlines the influence of Judeo-Christian Religious Faith and American literature of the lyrics of American songwriter Bob Dylan, who rose to prominence in the culture of 1960s America.
Outgunned
Up Against the NRA-- The First Complete Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Ours is a nation in the grip of a strange kind of mania. Why after President Reagan was shot was there virtually no handgun legislation? Why after the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colorado, was nothing done to regulate the tools that children most frequently use to kill one another? Why was there...
How Real Estate Developers Think
Design, Profits, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced. But even when a new project is designed to improve a community, neighborhood residents often find themselves at odds with the real estate developer who...
Authoritarianism
Three Inquiries in Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to “traditional values,” in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political policies and platforms that lurked only...