Brian Williams: 108 books
Flight and Motion
The History and Science of Flying
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Designed for readers from grade 6 and up, this lavishly illustrated set provides comprehensive coverage of the history of aviation, including space flight, as well as the science and technology on which it depends. Detailed A-Z entries trace the development of human flight from ancient myths and legends...
by Brian Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Bitcoin has captivated the imagination of technologists, financiers, and journalists. It is now at the center of a worldwide speculation by sophisticated investors and the general public alike. Some of them became billionaires in the space of one year. Like them, you want to make a quick fortune with...
by Brian Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
You have always wondered how financial markets work, how companies structure their ownership and raise capital, why regulating financial companies is important. This book answers these questions in a simple and concise manner. It addresses 67 different notions in modern finance in three different...
by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
Language: German
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Tief unter London irren Will, sein Bruder Cal und Chester auf der Suche nach Wills verschollenem Adoptivvater Dr. Burrows umher. So knüpft Abgrund unmittelbar an Tunnel, den erfolgreichen ersten Teil der Reihe, an. Im Fokus des Geschehens steht vorerst Wills leibliche Mutter Sarah, die den Spuren...
Patient-Centered Prescribing
Seeking Concordance in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman Half of all prescribed medicines are used in a sub-optimal manner and clinicians struggle to find ways of improving the situation. There is a move towards greater partnership with patients, but concordance (shared decision making...
Tunnel
Das Licht der Finsternis
Language: German
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Eine Stadt tief unter der Erde. Eine dunkle Welt, bevölkert von geheimnisvollen Wesen und Menschen, die seit über hundert Jahren in der Finsternis leben - unter der Herrschaft der skrupellosen Styx. Als Will und sein Freund Chester, auf der Suche nach seinem verschollenen Vater, in diese Welt geraten,...
Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
The Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Translated into seven languages, Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has for the last 25 years been the basic primer for endoscopy around the world, providing clear, clinical and practical guidance on the fundamentals of endoscopy practice, from patient positioning and safety,...
Unfettered III
New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III.
Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to...
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...
Predators
The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Predators is a riveting introduction to the murky world of Predator and Reaper drones, the CIAÆs and U.S. militaryÆs most effective and controversial killing tools. Brian Glyn Williams combines policy analysis with the human drama of the spies, terrorists, insurgents, and innocent tribal peoples...
Counter Jihad
America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the War on Terror, it provides a retrospective on the extraordinary series of conflicts that saw the United States deploy more than two and a half million...
Sound Unbound
Sampling Digital Music and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work.
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...
Inferno in Chechnya
The Russian-Chechen Wars, the Al Qaeda Myth, and the Boston Marathon Bombings
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America...
The Last Warlord
The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Re
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Chronicling the spectacular rise to power of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, this is an intimate profile of the one of the most powerful warlords to have dominated Afghanistan in the years since the Soviet withdrawal in the late 1980s. His rise from simple peasant villager to warrior against the repressive...