Brian J : 404 books
Bureaucracy and Self-Government
Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this new edition of his provocative book Bureaucracy and Self-Government, Brian J. Cook reconsiders his thesis regarding the inescapable tension between the ideal of self-government and the reality of administratively centered governance. Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions...
Carnival in Louisiana
Celebrating Mardi Gras from the French Quarter to the Red River
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
From the revelers on horseback in Eunice and Mamou to the miles-long New Orleans parade routes lined with eager spectators shouting “Throw me something, mister!,” no other Louisiana tradition celebrates the Pelican State’s cultural heritage quite like Mardi Gras. In Carnival in Louisiana, Brian...
A Century of Subways
Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The transit historian and author of Under the Sidewalks of New York delivers a lively and authoritative history of New York City’s fabled subway.
On the afternoon of October 27, 1904, ordinary New Yorkers descended beneath the sidewalks for the first time to ride the electric-powered trains...
The Autonomy Premium
Professional Autonomy and Student Achievement in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Autonomy Premium is a concise response to the popular and often loosely defined debate about whether higher levels of student achievement may flow from autonomy in school management and professional practice. Drawing on over 40 years of research Brian J Caldwell examines a series of compelling...
Lincoln before Lincoln
Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Remembered as the Savior of the Union, Abraham Lincoln is one of America's most revered presidents. There have been tens of thousands of books published about him since his death, but he has proved to be a surprisingly daunting subject for filmmakers. Despite a wealth of biographical material, relatively...
Meaning and Authenticity
Bernard Lonergan and Charles Taylor on the Drama of Authentic Human Existence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The language of self-fulfilment, self-realization, and self-actualization (in short, ‘authenticity’) has become common in contemporary culture. The desire to be authentic is implicitly a desire to shape one’s self in accordance with an ideal, and the concern for what it means to be authentic...
Communal Reading in the Time of Jesus
A Window into Early Christian Reading Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Much of the contemporary discussion of the Jesus tradition has focused on aspects of oral performance, storytelling, and social memory, on the premise that the practice of communal reading of written texts was a phenomenon documented no earlier than the second century CE. Brian J. Wright overturns...
The "Other" Psychology of Julian Jaynes
Ancient Languages, Sacred Visions, and Forgotten Mentalities
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In his provocative but critically acclaimed theory about the origin of introspectable mentality, Julian Jaynes argued that until the late second millennium people possessed a different psychology: a "two-chambered" (bicameral) neurocultural arrangement in which a commanding "god"...
Nationalisms of Japan
Managing and Mystifying Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
In this fresh and original analysis, Brian J. McVeigh confronts both the demonizers and apologists of Japan. He argues persuasively that far from being unique, Japanese nationalism becomes demystified once 'management' and 'mysticism'—the same processes and practices that operate in other national...
Life in a Japanese Women's College
Learning to be Ladylike
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
One third of the Japanese female workforce are 'office ladies' and their training takes place in the many women's junior colleges. Office ladies are low-wage, low-status secretaries who have little or no job security.
Brian J. McVeigh draws on his experience as a teacher at one such institution to...
The Nature of the Japanese State
Rationality and Rituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Brian J. McVeigh uses a unique anthropological approach to step outside flawed stereotypes of Japanese society and really engage in the current debate over the role of bureaucracy in Japanese politics.
To many in the West, Japan appears as a paradox: a rational, high-tech economic superpower and yet...
The Jaynesian
Newsletter of the Julian Jaynes Society (Volume 1, Issue 2)
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
In this issue:
"Humility as a Profession: A Memorial to Julian Jaynes" by Brian J. McVeigh, Ph.D.
Announcements:
Jaynes Session at the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference;
The 2008 Julian Jaynes Conference on Consciousness
Book Review:
Daniel B Smith's Muses, Madmen, and Prophets:...
by Brian J. Libby
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Have you ever wished that you could live a day over again? Well, Gavin “Gilby” Gilmartin has actually done it. Join Gilby in some fun as he lives the same day over and over and over again until he finally “gets it right!”
by Brian J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
My Little Town is a collection of stories about Brian's boyhood in Ingersoll, Ontario. Brian recounts youthful adventures with friends, discovers his passion for music and details navigating the 1970's education system. He finds religion to be a powerful influence through his participation in many...