Briggs: 499 books
Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson: Moon Called Vol. 2
Moon Called Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Mercy Thompson inhabits two worlds without truly belonging to either. To the human inhabitants of the Tri-Cities she's an oddity, a female mechanic operating her own garage. To the town's darker residents, werewolves, vampires, and fae, she's a walker, a last-of-her-kind magical being with the power...
by Raymond Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A new Christmas classic based on Raymond Briggs’s holiday favorite The Snowman.
In this holiday picture book, a companion to Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman, a little boy builds a snow puppy next to his snowman—in hopes of getting a real puppy for Christmas. That night the Snowman comes to life...
by Stephen Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
In 1968 a newborn baby boy lay alone in a crib in an English Orphanage waiting for fate to decide what would become of him. Who could imagine that twelve months later he would be learning to walk through the bright red dirt of one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth; the Australian...
by Peter Briggs, R Siva Kumar, Erin Manning
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Over a two-year period, from 2016 to 2018, four French museums —Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch d’Issoudun, La Citadelle de Belfort, La Piscine in Roubaix— are joining forces to present Peter Briggs' work. All four museums are multidisciplinary and all focus...
Comprendre les types de personnalité
avec la typologie Myers-Briggs
Language: French
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Vendu depuis plus de 30 ans, Comprendre les types de personnalité résume les conclusions de l'étude à laquelle l'auteur, Isabel Briggs Myers, a consacré toute sa vie: l'identification et la classification des types de personnalité. Inspirée des travaux de Carl Gustav Jung, la typologie créée...
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages...
Tell Me Why My Children Died
Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the...
Doug Briggs Strength, Speed, & Agility Book 2016
Get Strong, Get Fast, And Get Agile
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Doug Briggs Strength, Speed, & Agility program has been tested on actual athletes during summer strength & conditioning camps for 9-years. Many of these athletes have gone on to play in NCAA Division I programs as well as to various military academies and the program has been used successfully by...
by Kate Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s...
Sounds French
Globalization, Cultural Communities and Pop Music, 1958-1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Sounds French examines the history of popular music in France between the arrival of rock and roll in 1958 and the collapse of the first wave of punk in 1980, and the connections between musical genres and concepts of community in French society. During this period, scholars have tended to view the...
A Woman of Passion
The Life of E. Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2000
In A Woman of Passion, Julia Briggs chronicles the life of author Edith Nesbit who is credited with being the first modern writer for children and the creator of the children's adventure story. Nesbit recorded her life with varying degrees of honesty in verse and prose, and while she seldom wrote...
Stories in the Time of Cholera
Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and...
Fail
Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
2014 Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore "I thought God had called me to plant this church. Why did we have to shut our doors after only three years?" "I was at my breaking point. Then I got the news that our nine-year-old daughter had leukemia....
Wembley and Beyond
My Incredible Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
It started on a cold, frosty morning in 1951 in Christchurch, New Zealand, with a seventeen-year-old-boy, a crate of sheeps' kidneys and a dream.
The boss of the city's Belfast meatworks, had arrived an hour early to set up for the day, when he noticed one of his workers packing up a crate...