Daniel Brown: 68 books
The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation)
The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The #1 New York Times bestseller about the Greatest Generation freshly adapted for the next generation.
For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the astonishing tale of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the 1936 Olympics showed the world what...
by Robert Louis Stevenson, James Hogg, Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The short-story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with the first men who told their stories round the savage camp-fire.
by Michael DeMarco, Daniel Rosenberg, John Donohue
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This two-volume anthology conveniently contains useful academic tools for studying the combative arts. Each chapter will prove special to all interested in the intellectual side to the martial arts. Some chapters provide fine details for categorizing the variety of what we commonly refer to as "martial...
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
by Daniel W. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Covering the origins, key features, and legacy of the Islamic tradition, the third edition of A New Introduction to Islam includes new material on Islam in the 21st century and discussions of the impact of historical ideas, literature, and movements on contemporary trends.
Includes updated and...
by Nikolai Findeizen, Daniel C. Waugh, Malcolm Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
In its scope and command of primary sources and its generosity of scholarly inquiry, Nikolai Findeizen's monumental work, published in 1928 and 1929 in Soviet Russia, places the origins and development of music in Russia within the context of Russia's cultural and social history.
Volume 2 of...
Building Digital Culture
A Practical Guide to Successful Digital Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
WINNER: 2018 Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year - Management Futures Category
Building Digital Culture aims to answer a simple question: How can organizations succeed when the environment they operate in is changing so quickly? The last thing businesses need today is...
Building the Intentional University
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.
Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground...
Existere 37.2
Journal of Arts and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
A story is never one-sided. There will always be other perspectives,
other points of view, that someone can take—and why shouldn’t we?
Using these different perspectives helps us observe, understand and
learn from our experiences—they help us grow. Putting forth the
effort to take on these points...
The Firebird Chronicles
Rise of the Shadow Stealers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
In this fantasy adventure, Fletcher and Scoop are Apprentice Adventurers from the ancient establishment of Blotting's Academy on Fullstop Island. This is the place where all story characters are trained. The trouble is, they can't remember how they got there.It's the first day of term, but the...
Safeguarding Adults Under the Care Act 2014
Understanding Good Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Practice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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Thinking in the Dark
Cinema, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating,...
Health Geographies
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field’s past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry.
Introduces key topics in health...