Brett: 1126 books

Constructing International Security helps policy makers and students recognize effective third-party strategies for balancing deterrence and restraint in security relationships. Brett V. Benson shows that there are systematic differences among types of security commitments. Understanding these commitments...

To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities,...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the...

Enjoy the fun and hilarity of what was the longest running family variety/comedy show on Australian television. Hey Hey it's Saturday was on air for 28 years and this book provides an insight into not only the internal workings and behind the scenes fun, but also a glimpse of it's history and the show's tearful ending.

This book demonstrates how Japanese Americans have developed traditions of complex silences to survive historic moments of racial and religious oppression and how they continue to adapt these traditions today. Brett Esaki offers four case studies of Japanese American art-gardening, origami, jazz,...

In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and space. Before images, viewers engage in the personal...

Confessional poems and prose vignettes. "Not every measure is a keepsake, but that one line knows me naked."

First published in 1895, this classic anthology contains four novella-length detective stories by popular writers of the day: "The Long Arm" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, "The Murder at Jex Farm" by George Ira Brett; "The Secret of the Treaty" by Roy Tellet and "The...

À la nouvelle lune, les hordes infernales du Cœur se mettent en quête des deux seuls hommes susceptibles d’incarner le Libérateur légendaire, capable d’éradiquer les démons de la terre. Autrefois aussi proches que des frères, Arlen, l’Homme-rune, et Jardir, le leader des belliqueuses...

Stop the car! What the hell is that on the road? Is it a cow or a dog or is it a John Deere tractor, maybe it’s Uncle Sam? Over there, not on the road but on the side of the road tilting to one side and stuck on a 4”x4” wooden post is a mailbox all gussied up to attract attention out here in the...

Discover the ghostly history of this famed Alabama city . . . includes photos!   Tuscaloosa was first inhabited by ancient native tribes tied to the land by centuries-old traditions. Pioneering settlers later moved in, establishing a town and a university that would prove vital to the state. Some...

Tricks, techniques, turn-ons from the simple to the ornate, for men alone, couples and even with an added friend. Some may sound familiar, some (we're guessing) you've never heard of. - Maybe you've done everything, but... have you done it like this?

Brett Gray traces the portrayal of Christ that emerges throughout Williams' diverse writings, including in his engagements with literature and philosophy. What emerges is a vision of Jesus that grows from the roots of the Christian tradition, but is pronounced in a contemporary idiom and sensitive...

This is the second volume in Brett Kahr's 'Interviews with Icons' series, following on from Tea with Winnicott. Professor Kahr, himself a highly regarded psychoanalyst, turns his attention to the work of the father of psychoanalysis. The book is lavishly illustrated by Alison Bechdel, winner of the...