L Brown: 276 books
Being Peculiar and Why It Works
"Stop expecting the help you seek to do the work for you"
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
A loss is never the end of the world. Find out how you can tap into your own strength to overcome obstacles that have plagued you for years. Divorce, the economy and even death have ways of making you a stronger individual. There are many who don't recover from tragedies. You do not have to be a statistic....
by Helen E. Roy, Peter M. J. Brown, Richard F. Comont
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This revised and updated edition of Ladybirds provides a succinct but comprehensive and accessible overview of the biology of ladybirds and their parasites, focusing on ecology in an evolutionary context. It provides the latest information, coverage of recent additions to the British list including the...
Movies in the Age of Obama
The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
by Laura Lee, Elizabeth Lynx, Marika Ray
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
10 Resolutions. 2 Friends. 1 Shot At Love
I’ll admit, having nine New Year's resolutions makes me twitchy. After all, I’m Allison Gottlieb; overthinker, overachiever, hot mess extraordinaire. I’ve spent my entire life trying to be the best but for some reason, I’ve always fallen short....
by L.M. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
When a dentist meets an average suburban vampire, it may just be a match made in heaven.Tom is your typical modern vampire. He lives in a detached house in the suburbs, pays his taxes, and bemoans the price of bottled blood. He doesn't usually tell people what he is, but sometimes it can't...
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change
An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of...
by Erin Lee, Olivia Marie, Sara Schoen
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Inside
A Crazy Ink anthology
The rules were simple:
We were to accept His testimony.
We were to want no worldly goods.
We were to give up our ties to the outside world.
We were to finish strong.
We were to know this wasn't our world.
That would...
Engineering Design
Representation and Reasoning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Contrary to popular mythology, the designs of favorable products and successful systems do not appear suddenly, or magically. This second edition of Engineering Design demonstrates that symbolic representation and related problem-solving methods, offer significant opportunities to clarify and articulate...
The Frontier of Patriotism
Alberta and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
With the centenary of the First World War, communities across Canada arranged commemorations of the war experience to honour local servicemen who, through their triumphs and sacrifices, were presented as laying the foundation for a free and independent country. Often overlooked are the triumphs and...
by Nathan J. Brown, Richard H. Dees, John Ferejohn
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the field. The volume addresses the toleration...
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the transition from slavery...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2
Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
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Africana Race and Communication
A Social Study of Film, Communication, and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Africana Race and Communication: A Social Study of Film, Communication, and Social Media focuses on the areas of History, Ethos, Motif, and Mythology-Philosophy. This study is an interdisciplinary study, which surveys the collection, interpretation, and analysis of Black communication and culture....
Media Disparity
A Gender Battleground
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the...