Brett: 1126 books

Interstellar astronaut Helene Kirsch surveyed asteroids for a privately funded research station in an outlying star system. Overworked and underpaid, she flew through the belt until her ship's scanning equipment met a rocky mass with high interference. If her intuition was correct, good things would follow and Hammond could deliver a steady paycheck for once.

Humanity's dreams drift to a distant planet. An expedition, fitted with the latest technology and weaponry that Earth has to offer, is tasked with determining whether this new world can support human life. Dangers both great and small lie in wait, light years away on the green planet.

This edition of Galaxy Dog is special because it includes ten illustrations by the author. Galaxy Dog is the first book in the Dark Galaxy series, and it is an old-school story of robots, spaceships, and rebellion across a galactic empire. The journey starts when a soldier named Knave and a scientist...

Gary Turner, deep space pilot extraordinaire and anything but worthless, might have crashed his ship in the middle of a run, but it totally wasn't his fault. That planet had it coming. In a search for a Xilium deposit to fix the shortage from his patched up fuel tank, Gary discovers how much size matters on this rock and how bad he wants to reach escape velocity.

Prose poems and vignettes. "(We) must remember that retrospect is a moody historian, who wears glasses only for reading and driving."

We don’t have to lose the next generation to culture. In this practical guide, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle explore questions including: What unseen undercurrents are shaping twenty-first-century youth culture? Why do so many kids struggle with identity? How do we talk to kids about same-sex...

When authors Steph Adams and Samantha Brett published their first book, The Game Changers, Samantha was dealing with life as a new mum while Steph was heavily pregnant with a three-year-old toddler at home. Eager to learn the secrets of how other mothers try to balance everything in their lives, they...

Brett Christophers shows how laws help capitalism maintain a crucial balance between competition and monopoly. When monopolistic forces dominate, antitrust law discourages the growth of corporations and restores competitiveness. When competition becomes dominant, intellectual property law protects corporate assets and encourages investment.

This book is about the four dogs that I have owned plus another one who lived next door to me. It is a book about their lives and how they interacted with me. It is not a book about dog training although I hope you will be able to pick up some useful tips on how to treat, or more importantly how not...

Get up to date quickly with clear, expert coverage of SCCM 2016 Mastering System Center Configuration Manager provides comprehensive coverage of Microsoft's powerful network software deployment tool, with a practical hands-on approach. Written by Santos Martinez, Peter Daalmans, and Brett Bennett,...

This study of the evolution of Chinese capitalism chronicles the Song family of North China under five successive authoritarian governments. Brett Sheehan shows both foreign and Chinese influences on private business, which, although closely linked to the state, was neither a handmaiden to authoritarianism nor a natural ally of democracy.

Improve your vocabulary a rhyme at a time with Vocabulary Rhyminders: GRE 50 Pack. This eBook includes creative and memorable rhymes for 50 vocabulary words likely to appear on the GRE exam. Don't spend countless hours in front of a dictionary when there is a better alternative. Pick up Vocabulary Rhyminders and enjoy the process of learning new words.

Bring on the Craic is a very funny and well-written read about Australian-born musician Brett Bennett, portraying his take on various occurrences and circumstances that he encountered on the initial European gigs that he played interwoven with some hilarious happenings in his native island, Tasmania....

The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognizable element of the contemporary cultural landscape. Using psychoanalytic theory as his guide while inflecting it with insights from both film theory and queer theory, Brett Farmer moves beyond this cliché to develop...