Brown Dog: 93 books

Phototherapy, the use of light to treat a variety of conditions, is not new and has been researched for well over 100 years. It has mainly been confined to ultraviolet wavelengths for its antibacterial properties. With the advent of LASER and Light Emitting Diodes, treatment in the visible spectrum...

Pulsed Magnetic Therapy has developed from its infancy in assisting fracture repair to wider applications based on sound research. It is an adjunct to physiotherapy in medical practice but is now widely accepted and extensively used in the veterinary world to assist in the repair and recovery for a broad...

How to Make a Mind tells the reader how he or she may equip a robot with a central control system that could enable it to behave precisely like a healthy mature human being. The book is intended for the general reader, who is engaged directly, with a minimum of technical jargon. At the same time, How...

What is the cause of gravity? Why is our universe expanding? What is the true nature of physical reality? These are just some of the fundamental questions that physics currently cannot answer. As a science, physics treats our universe as if it were a collection of parts that can be interpreted as if...

What is religion? Mark Twain said, 'Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.' St. Augustine evaded giving an answer at all. Perhaps for the true believer it is the relation of human beings to God or the gods or to something they feel...

And so began twenty years of travelling with their family of up to eight children and their friends by a variety of other means - car, minibus, train and boat - all of which offered their share of mishaps and catastrophes.

It is said love is the strongest emotion. It drives us to reach for the stars: to achieve great things on the one hand or to plunge into the depths of despair on the other. It brings intense highs and intense lows into the most humble of lives. Through the medium of these 30 short poems the Writer tells...

The Thirty-nine Million Steps is the true story of an epic 'end to end' solo walk the length of Britain. Entertaining and beautifully written from start to finish, this book is as charming as it is inspirational. Vivid descriptions let the reader follow every step of the way from the very tip of Cornwall...

Dark is a delirium in verse of modern England. It is a tale of gynaecology, murder, and mayhem, swilling around in an occultish stew. But is the world ready for Dark? Six hundred pages of expletive-strewn verse written by a fat bald mentally-ill Scotsman. We just don't know.

When celebrating his 106th birthday, Dr Bill Frankland was asked why he had lived to such an age. His reply was quite straightforward, 'Because I have been so near to death so many times. This is the biography of a truly remarkable man. Growing up in the Lake District, he qualified as a doctor in...

The four decades from early 1910 to the 1950s were arguably the most turbulent times in modern history, as they included two world wars, the Partition of India (in 1947) plus pandemic outbreaks of deadly diseases like influenza, which killed millions and disrupted the lives of many more. The author,...

In 2013, recently retired Norfolk couple, Bruce and Julia Wallis, decided to backpack the 500-mile trek across the French Pyrenees and all the way across the north of Spain to the cathedral city of Santiago de Compostela, following the centuries-old pilgrims' route of the Camino. Theirs was not a religious...

Pleb's Progress tells the story of social mobility and social change in twentieth-century Britain through the eyes of one incredibly lucky pleb. His long life was many lives, in which he did many different types of work, visited more than forty countries, and met many thousands of people, ranging from...

Our major supermarkets proclaim their health credentials with fine words such as 'we have a vital role to play in improving the health of the nation' yet they sell a product which kills more people in the UK than if there was a Titanic disaster every week.