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Drinkin' Thinkin'

a Canadian cyclist's view atop an American barstool

By: Brian Mulligan

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Drinkin' Thinkin'

a Canadian cyclist's view atop an American barstool

By: Brian Mulligan

On his fortieth birthday, Brian announced to his family that his goal was to cycle from Canada to Mexico and from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts of the US. Over the next ten years, he explored the highways and trails of the country, stopping each evening to meet the locals in the pubs and taverns that only come alive at night. From a face-off with a languishing alligator in a Louisiana bayou to a strange evening with a wealthy and eccentric hot-air balloon enthusiast in Tennessee, his trips were never dull, and often had him wondering how he ever got into this mess. In the end, he learned that the heart of the country is not the winding mountain roads or desert highways, but the kindness, openness, and downright weirdness of its people. This collection of short stories is gathered from his adventures while perched atop the famed American barstool—with a little cycling thrown in for good measure.

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FriesenPress

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1525526561

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9781525526565

Only Love is Real

A Story of Soulmates Reunited

By: Brian Weiss

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Only Love is Real

A Story of Soulmates Reunited

By: Brian Weiss

A "beautiful and sensitive" tale of true love that transcends time, from the multi-million bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters (Gary Zukav, author of Seat of the Soul). Recommended by Kendall Jenner. In Many Lives, Many Masters, a skeptical Dr. Brian Weiss found his life changed profoundly after curing a patient using past-life therapy. Now he takes his research into transcendental messages one breathtaking step further. He portrays two strangers, Elizabeth and Pedro, who are unaware that they have been lovers throughout the long centuries -- until fate brings them together again. He shows how each and every one of us has a soulmate whom we have loved in past incarnations and who waits to reunite with us now. And he opens up entirely new worlds for all of us everywhere, based on a single, powerful truth...

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Grand Central Publishing

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153870403X

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9781538704035

Through Time Into Healing

Discovering the Power of Regression Therapy to Erase Trauma and Transform Mind, Body, and Relationships

By: Brian L. Weiss

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Through Time Into Healing

Discovering the Power of Regression Therapy to Erase Trauma and Transform Mind, Body, and Relationships

By: Brian L. Weiss

The book that sheds new light on reincarnation and the extraordinary healing potential of past life and hypnotic regression therapy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters. Brian Weiss made headlines with his groundbreaking research on past life therapy in Many Lives, Many Masters. Now, based on his extensive clinical experience, he builds on time-tested techniques of psychotherapy, revealing how regression to past lifetimes provides the necessary breakthrough to healing mind, body, and soul. Using vivid past life case studies, Dr. Weiss shows how regression therapy can heal grief, create more loving relationships, uncover hidden talents, and ultimately shows how near death and out of body experiences help confirm the existence of past lives. Dr. Weiss includes his own professional hypnosis, dream recall, meditation, and journaling techniques for safe past life recall at home. Compelling and provocative, Through Time Into Healing shows us how to help ourselves lead healthy, productive lives, secure in the knowledge that death is not the final word and that the doorways to healing and wholeness are inside us.

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Simon and Schuster

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143914804X

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9781439148044

Necroscope: Resurgence

The Lost Years: Volume Two

By: Brian Lumley

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Necroscope: Resurgence

The Lost Years: Volume Two

By: Brian Lumley

Radu Lykan is an original Lord of the Wamphyri who has lain preserved in resin for six centuries. But now is the time for his return - and for this he will need to use the Necroscope, Harry Keogh.

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Macmillan

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0812553640

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9780812553642

We are CHANGE

The Global Truth & Liberty Movement

By: Brian Kenny,Cynthia McKinney

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We are CHANGE

The Global Truth & Liberty Movement

By: Brian Kenny,Cynthia McKinney

What started as a small New York City youth group quickly became one of the most prominent grassroots activist/citizen journalist organizations, with over 260 chapters worldwide. We Are CHANGE emerged from the ashes of a post-9/11 New York and would eventually change the world in a historic effort of epic proportions. The group became a leading force within key political movements, including the 9/11 Truth movement, the antiwar movement, the liberty/patriot movement, and Occupy Wall Street, and confronted some of the most powerful war criminals, propagandists and institutions, on their deepest, darkest lies and secrets. Featuring the insider account of a founding member, keynote speeches and important dialogue from 21st century thought-leaders, and much more, We Are CHANGE exposes covert reconnaissance operations against peaceful activist groups, explores pressing philosophical questions, and shares tales of trials and tribulations, as well as brotherhood and camaraderie.

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TrineDay

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1634241401

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9781634241403

Maureen O’Sullivan

By: Brian Pentland

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Maureen O’Sullivan

By: Brian Pentland

With the death of his lover, Peter, Michael is desolate. Although his friends and his wife, Maureen, rally round, no light enters his sad story until his nephew Patrick, the music student, comes into his life.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490789162

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9781490789163

Confessions of a Real Estate Man

By: Brian Dickens Barrabee

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Confessions of a Real Estate Man

By: Brian Dickens Barrabee

Confessions of a Real Estate Man By: Brian Dickens Barrabee Confessions of a Real Estate Man is a collection of some unusual stories and observations from a man with more than forty years in the real estate business. Seeing people where they “feather their nest” gave the author a unique perspective not seen by many. Hopefully the readers will see that we’re all very flawed and it’s important to see the humor in our human folly.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1637640145

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9781637640142

Black Ice

By: Teresa Lee,Brian Webster

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Black Ice

By: Teresa Lee,Brian Webster

When youre fourteen, its hard to be patient, especially when its your birthday. Yet for Anthony Brooks, any optimism for his future is shattered when his unemployed dad is shot dead in a robbery attempt at a local convenience store. Understandably, Anthony reacts as any kid might, with anger and withdrawal. Given an opportunity to lash out, he is drawn by some older boys into a plan to rob a neighborhood pizza parlor. Anthony is caught and threatened with juvie until, surprisingly, the pizza parlor owner, a washed up NHL hockey player, offers a compromise. Great book for all sports enthusiasts. The courage that Anthony portrays in order to overcome his obstacles and setbacks clearly shows hes a winner on and off the ice. Exciting, thrilling, feel good story. Jeff Mitchell OHLs Detroit Junior Red Wings Los Angeles Kings Dallas Stars General Manager of Suburban Ice, East Lansing Black Ice is a story set in the city and centered on urban issues. Its characters face adversities familiar to young people in urban settings. It captures the attention and imagination of young readers. A valuable story for educators. Michael Krystyniak YVS President/Superintendent Covenant House Academy As a former coach of an inner city hockey team in Detroit, I appreciate first-hand the adversity a young African-American player can face in a traditionally White sport. Brian Webster and Teresa Lee have depicted these struggles authentically in a very serious and entertaining way. I highly recommend Black Ice. Great hockey story! Maurice Dewey Retired Lieutenant, Detroit Fire Department Former Youth Hockey Coach

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WestBow Press

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151276454X

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9781512764543

The Billiard Room Mystery

By: Brian Flynn

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The Billiard Room Mystery

By: Brian Flynn

Set between the Wars at an English country house, of course a dead body turns up in the billiard room, and even worse, Lady Considine’s pearls are missing. First in the Anthony Bathurst series.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479442240

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9781479442249

Tuscany in the Age of Empire

By: Brian Brege

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Tuscany in the Age of Empire

By: Brian Brege

Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize A new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy’s leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an imperial power, but it did harbor global ambitions. After abortive attempts at overseas colonization and direct commercial expansion, as Brian Brege shows, Tuscany followed a different path, one that allowed it to participate in Europe’s new age of empire without establishing an empire of its own. The first history of its kind, Tuscany in the Age of Empire offers a fresh appraisal of one of the foremost cities of the Italian Renaissance, as it sought knowledge, fortune, and power throughout Asia, the Americas, and beyond. How did Tuscany, which could not compete directly with the growing empires of other European states, establish a global presence? First, Brege shows, Tuscany partnered with larger European powers. The duchy sought to obtain trade rights within their empires and even manage portions of other states’ overseas territories. Second, Tuscans invested in cultural, intellectual, and commercial institutions at home, which attracted the knowledge and wealth generated by Europe’s imperial expansions. Finally, Tuscans built effective coalitions with other regional powers in the Mediterranean and the Islamic world, which secured the duchy’s access to global products and empowered the Tuscan monarchy in foreign affairs. These strategies allowed Tuscany to punch well above its weight in a world where power was equated with the sort of imperial possessions it lacked. By finding areas of common interest with stronger neighbors and forming alliances with other marginal polities, a small state was able to protect its own security while carving out a space as a diplomatic and intellectual hub in a globalizing Europe.

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Harvard University Press

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0674258770

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9780674258778

Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation

By: Brian Patrick McGuire

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Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation

By: Brian Patrick McGuire

In this biography of the noted French philosopher and theologian Jean Gerson, the first since 1929, Brian Patrick McGuire presents a compelling portrait of Gerson as a voice of reason and Christian humanism during a time of great intellectual and social tumult in the late Middle Ages. Born to a peasant father and mother in the county of Champagne, Gerson (1363-1429) was the first of twelve children. He overcame his modest beginnings to become a scholastic and vernacular theologian, a university intellectual, and a church reformer. McGuire shows us the turning points in Gerson's life, including his crisis of faith after becoming chancellor of the University of Paris in 1395. Through these key moments, we see the deeper undercurrents of his mystical writings. With their rich display of spiritual and emotional life, these writings were to earn Gerson the appellation "doctor christianissimus." In turn, they would influence many later thinkers, including Nicholas of Cusa, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis de Sales, and even Martin Luther. Gerson is a man perhaps easier to admire than to love: conscientious to a fault, at once a pragmatist and an idealist in church politics, a university intellectual who both fostered and distrusted the religious aspirations of the laity, a powerful prelate who moved among the great yet never forgot his peasant origins, a self-revealing yet intensely private man who yearned for intimacy almost as much as he feared it. McGuire ably situates Gerson in the context of his age, an age replete with doctrinal controversies and the politics of papal schism on the eve of the Protestant Reformation. Gerson emerges as a proponent of dialogue and discussion, committed to reforming the church from within. His courageous effort to renew the unity of a unique civilization bears examination in our own time.

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Penn State Press

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0271046805

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9780271046808

Michael's Myth

By: Brian M MacDonald

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Michael's Myth

By: Brian M MacDonald

Michael James is a gay man living in denial. He believes he has found the perfect expression of spirituality while taking care of the practical demands of everyday existence. However, his life as a Catholic priest in the twenty-first century fails to nourish his personal need for love and the free expression of that love. Michael's story is one of lost opportunity, spiritual emptiness, but ultimate discovery. The story begins with Michael as a university student. He is active in the university's Chaplaincy Center and has a personal connection to the chaplain, Father Mathew Brown. Under Father Brown's influence, Michael decides to enroll in the seminary. Six years later, Michael has his own parish in a university town similar to the one in which he was an undergraduate. His bishop forces him into an active role in the local university chaplaincy group, with the idea of promoting the Catholic Church, something Michael finds distasteful in an organization that welcomes all students. From this point until his final act of defiance, Michael's life as a Catholic priest deforms his spirit, leaving him empty and unloved.

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iUniverse

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0595437419

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9780595437412

Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s

By: Brian Diemert

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Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s

By: Brian Diemert

In Graham Greene's Thrillers and the 1930s Brian Diemert examines the first and most prolific phase of Graham Greene's career, demonstrating the close relationship between Greene's fiction and the political, economic, social, and literary contexts of the period. Situating Greene alongside other young writers who responded to the worsening political climate of the 1930s by promoting social and political reform, Diemert argues that Greene believed literature could not be divorced from its social and political milieu and saw popular forms of writing as the best way to inform a wide audience. Diemert traces Greene's adaptation of nineteenth-century romance thrillers and classical detective stories into modern political thrillers as a means of presenting serious concerns in an engaging fashion. He argues that Greene's popular thrillers were in part a reaction to the high modernism of writers such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, whose esoteric experiments with language were disengaged from immediate social concerns and inaccessible to a large segment of the reading public.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773514325

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9780773514324

Hunting and Gathering on the Information Savanna

Conversations on Modeling Human Search Abilities

By: Brian Clark O'Connor,Jud H. Copeland,Jodi L. Kearns

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Hunting and Gathering on the Information Savanna

Conversations on Modeling Human Search Abilities

By: Brian Clark O'Connor,Jud H. Copeland,Jodi L. Kearns

Serves as the focal concept in a search for a truly functional document access system, enabling us to stand back from the present, to look into the shadows of our current designs, marvel at the breadth of human search capabilities, recognize frailties in both humans and systems, and ask new questions as we grapple with navigating our information environment. O'Connor and Copeland offer three different arenas of nontrivial information seeking for our consideration: "Submarine Chasing" explores the thoughts of a highly decorated Cold War submarine hunter. "Bounty Hunting" involves a long and convoluted search for a reported bond skipper. "Engineering Design" presents a content analysis of the few works on epistemological foundations of engineering design activity. These stories, told at great length and in considerable detail, are framed within a foundational model that links the simple act of document seeking to the broader issue of making one's way through life in the physical world. In each case, the authors ramble, mull, and stumble upon ideas without the least prior constraint, developing some threads quite fully and leaving others to tease us, but never ever throwing us to the lions.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810847604

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9780810847606

The Samson Heuristic

By: Danny Rittman,Brian Downing

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The Samson Heuristic

By: Danny Rittman,Brian Downing

While running tests on a popular microprocessor, gifted chip designer Ethan Alon makes a puzzling discovery: an undocumented section with unknown functions. Ethan and his friend Rina Hardin crack the encryption and discover a clandestine network monitoring defense systems around the world, but especially focused on the Middle East. With the help of military analyst Barrett Parker, they discover the program is the work of scientists from Project Floweran actual Israeli-Iranian missile program from the 1970s. These scientists came to mistrust politicians and generals and designed a system to prevent or at least limit wars. Their program is astounding, but it has a flawthe Samson Heuristic. The flaw becomes apparent when intelligence operations come undone and overtax the system. American, Iranian, and Israeli militaries are on high alert, and war seems imminent. Ethan and Rina race to fix the Samson Heuristic while in a Tel Aviv command centerunder the noses of generals who know nothing of Samson. Meanwhile, Barrett and like-minded analysts build opposition to war from inside bureaus in Washington and Jerusalem. The future of the Middle East lies in the balance.

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iUniverse

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1491721448

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9781491721445

Grey's Revenge

By: Brian D Lambert

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Grey's Revenge

By: Brian D Lambert

Sometimes the monsters aren’t paranormal. Sir Malcolm Bradbury, Knight of the Realm and a man whose ambitious greed and avarice lets him destroy lives, is slowly taking control of the City of Plymouth leaving the dead bodies of his victims in his wake. The Plymouth Grey, the secret group protecting Plymouth against paranormal threats, know that they are the only people able to put a stop to his reign of terror. But how can they do so without calling unwanted attention upon themselves? Their plans take shape when a cargo ship arrives back in Plymouth, and its captain becomes a vital piece in the strangest horse race ever witnessed by Queen Victoria at the Chelson Meadow racecourse. But have the Grey done enough to defeat a human monster?

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Brian Lambert

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1916056318

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9781916056312

Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans

English Transnationalism and the Christian Commonwealth

By: Brian C. Lockey

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Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans

English Transnationalism and the Christian Commonwealth

By: Brian C. Lockey

Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective of 16th-century English Catholic exiles and 17th-century English royalist exiles helped to generate a form of cosmopolitanism that was rooted in contemporary religious and national identities but also transcended those identities. Author Brian C. Lockey argues that English discourses of nationhood were in conversation with two opposing 'cosmopolitan' perspectives, one that sought to cultivate and sustain the emerging English nationalism and imperialism and another that challenged English nationhood from the perspective of those Englishmen who viewed the kingdom as one province within the larger transnational Christian commonwealth. Lockey illustrates how the latter cosmopolitan perspective, produced within two communities of exiled English subjects, separated in time by half a century, influenced fiction writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Anthony Munday, Sir John Harington, John Milton, and Aphra Behn. Ultimately, he shows that early modern cosmopolitans critiqued the emerging discourse of English nationhood from a traditional religious and political perspective, even as their writings eventually gave rise to later secular Enlightenment forms of cosmopolitanism.

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Routledge

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131714709X

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9781317147091

Sacred Sites of Minnesota

By: John-Brian Paprock,Teresa Peneguy Paprock

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Sacred Sites of Minnesota

By: John-Brian Paprock,Teresa Peneguy Paprock

For the traveler seeking to find the spirit--however he or she chooses to define that term--Minnesota is blessed with a large number of sacred sites, many of which are unique. This book profiles approximately 350 sites, including retreat centers, churches, temples, cemeteries, and effigy mounds. Learn about each site's history, uniqueness, aesthetic beauty, and awe. Specific location and contact information is also included.

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Big Earth Publishing

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1931599262

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9781931599269

Heroism and the Christian Life

Reclaiming Excellence

By: Brian Stewart Hook,Russell R. Reno

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Heroism and the Christian Life

Reclaiming Excellence

By: Brian Stewart Hook,Russell R. Reno

This volume is a literary and cultural investigation of the discord and resonance between classical ideals of heroic action and the imperatives of the Christian life, from the Homeric epic to the present day. Its central theme is the difficulty of recognizing, imitating, and participating in heroic excellence--a difficulty that has been a concern for classical, Renaissance, and modern writers alike.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664258123

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9780664258122

Mood Spectrum in Graham Greene

1929-1949

By: Brian Edwards

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Mood Spectrum in Graham Greene

1929-1949

By: Brian Edwards

Mood Spectrum in Graham Greene examines the pathology of bipolar disorder through symptoms uniquely expressed in the writer’s novels. It explains and illustrates how mutated genes endow him with artistic genius, even as they engender a mental illness that too often results in a life barren of intimacy, and in an unquiet mind that can lead to psychosis and suicide if untreated. Critics have generally either ignored his illness in his novels or ascribed agency based on false psychological models, despite Greene often projecting his illness into character-constructs that share his condition and that provide the reader with a virtual case study of manic depression.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443884324

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9781443884327

The Tao of Potter

By: Brian Donohue

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The Tao of Potter

By: Brian Donohue

The stories have been told: now it is time to learn their lessons. Life lessons and psychological insight drawn from the Harry Potter books.

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Lulu.com

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0557671787

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The Shock of the News

Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11

By: Brian A. Monahan

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The Shock of the News

Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11

By: Brian A. Monahan

How did the events of September 11, 2001 come to be thought of as 9/11? The Shock of the News is an authoritative account of post-9/11 political and social processes, offering an in-depth analysis of the media coverage of this momentous event. Brian Monahan demonstrates how 9/11 has been transformed into a morality tale centered on patriotism, victimization, and heroes. Introducing the idea of “public drama” as a way of making sense of how media processed and packaged the 9/11 attacks for their audiences, Monahan not only illuminates how and why the coverage took shape as it did, but also provides us with new insights into the social, cultural, and political consequences of the attacks and their aftermath. Monahan explains how and why 9/11 became such a potent symbol, exploring how meanings and symbols get created, reinforced, and disseminated in modern society. Ultimately, Monahan offers an important new understanding of this singular event of our time, and his compelling narrative brings the momentous events back into focus.

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NYU Press

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0814796125

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9780814796122

Survivors of a Kind

Memoirs of the Western Front

By: Brian Bond

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Survivors of a Kind

Memoirs of the Western Front

By: Brian Bond

In this collection of essays Brian Bond brings a lifetime's study of the Western Front to the analysis of some of the best-known memoirs of the campaign. Literary and military historians alike will find the result of great value for their own studies, while for the general reader it should help destroy many long-standing myths. It is a worthy climax to a long and distinguished career." Sir Michael Howard This is a unique study of World War One memoirs from a historical perspective. It explores the tremendous effect that war experience had on writers' lives and how they came to terms with it after 1918, in deeply moving and often brilliant writing. As well as such famous literary figures as Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, it includes historically significant writers such as Lord Reith, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan. It challenges the view that memoir writers were in any clear sense 'anti-war'. While many were appalled by heavy losses and awful conditions they were, however, determined to achieve victory and proud of their regimental service and comrades. Above all, they constitute a brilliant source for understanding the war on the Western Front.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441149805

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9781441149800

The Decadent World-View

Selected Essays

By: Brian Stableford

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The Decadent World-View

Selected Essays

By: Brian Stableford

The new collection features 14 essays relevant to the Literary Decadence movement, including pieces on: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Aloysius Bertrand, Theophile Gautier, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt, and Anatole France. Complete with bibliography and index.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434411664

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9781434411662

The Innsmouth Heritage and Other Sequels

By: Brian Stableford

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The Innsmouth Heritage and Other Sequels

By: Brian Stableford

Eleven new tales of fantasy and horror based upon the classic originals by H. P. Lovecraft, Oscar Wilde, Hans Christian Andersen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard, and Bram Stoker.

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1434448916

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9781434448910

Churchill in his Time

A Study in a Reputation, 1939–1945

By: Brian Gardner

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Churchill in his Time

A Study in a Reputation, 1939–1945

By: Brian Gardner

This book, first published in 1968, analyses Winston Churchill’s war years using a wide range of little-consulted sources to give us a full and round picture of a prime minister beloved by many but disliked by others. Contemporary accounts and opinions bring us close to the reality of the man, and in doing so give us also a picture of a nation struggling with total war.

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Routledge

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1000458334

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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

By: Brian Maxson

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The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence

By: Brian Maxson

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107043913

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9781107043916

Becoming Dr. Seuss

Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

By: Brian Jay Jones

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Becoming Dr. Seuss

Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

By: Brian Jay Jones

The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless favorites because, quite simply, he makes us laugh. The Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, Horton, and so many more, are his troupe of beloved, and uniquely Seussian, creations. Theodor Geisel, however, had a second, more radical side. It is there that the allure and fasciation of his Dr. Seuss alter ego begins. He had a successful career as an advertising man and then as a political cartoonist, his personal convictions appearing, not always subtly, throughout his books—remember the environmentalist of The Lorax? Geisel was a complicated man on an important mission. He introduced generations to the wonders of reading while teaching young people about empathy and how to treat others well. Agonizing over word choices and rhymes, touching up drawings sometimes for years, he upheld a rigorous standard of perfection for his work. Geisel took his responsibility as a writer for children seriously, talking down to no reader, no matter how small. And with classics like Green Eggs and Ham, and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Geisel delighted them while they learned. Suddenly, reading became fun. Coming right off the heels of George Lucas and bestselling Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones is quickly developing a reputation as a master biographer of the creative geniuses of our time.

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The Book of Magic

From Antiquity to the Enlightenment

By: Brian Copenhaver

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The Book of Magic

From Antiquity to the Enlightenment

By: Brian Copenhaver

. . . as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur and a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised towards the Sun . . .' An odd feature of the Bible is that it is full of stories featuring forms of magic and possession - from Joseph battling with Pharaoh's wizards to the supernatural actions of Jesus and his disciples. As, over the following centuries, the Christian church attempted to stamp out 'deviant' practices, there was a persistent interest in magic that drew strength from this Biblical validation. A strange blend of mumbo-jumbo, fraud and deeply serious study, magic was central to the European Renaissance, fascinating many of its greatest figures. Brian Copenhaver's wonderful anthology will be welcomed by everyone from those with the most casual interest in the magical tradition to anyone drawn to the Renaissance and the tangled, arcane roots of the scientific tradition.

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0141393157

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The Associational State

American Governance in the Twentieth Century

By: Brian Balogh

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The Associational State

American Governance in the Twentieth Century

By: Brian Balogh

The Associational State argues that the relationship between state and civil society is fluid, and that the trajectory of American politics is not driven by ideological difference but by the ability to achieve public ends through partnerships forged between the state and voluntary organizations.

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