Nancy Brown: 44 books

Book cover of Virtual Gal Friday's Virtual Assistant Start Up Guide
by Nancy A. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012

Virtual Assistants: If you are READY to start your Virtual Assistant Business today, and want to work from your home office NOW! You have come to the right place… From: Nancy A. Brown, Owner, VirtualGalFriday.com & Author of Virtual Assistant Start Up Guide You are about to...
Book cover of A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse
by Nancy Marie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011

After several visits to study the medieval Icelandic sagas, Nancy Marie Brown returns to Iceland to search for the perfect horse, one she can bring back to her Pennsylvania farm and make her own. She arrives shaken by tragedy, uncertain of the language, lacking confidence in her riding skills, but...
Book cover of The Woman Who Was Chesterton
by Nancy Carpentier Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015

This is a love story. But it is also a detective story. And best of all, it is a true story, told here for the the first time. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a romantic, a writer of detective tales, and a teller of the truth. His own story and the stories he told are becoming better and better known....
Book cover of Democracy in What State?
by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011

"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political...
Book cover of Knitting Socks from Around the World

Knitting Socks from Around the World

25 Patterns in a Variety of Styles and Techniques

by Kari Cornell, Sue Flanders, Janine Kosel
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011

This book collects 25 fantastic patterns for socks inspired by knitting traditions from around the world. Patterns from top designers including Star Athena, Beth Brown-Reinsel, Candace Eisner Strick, Chrissy Gardiner, Janel Laidman and Anna Zilboorg are featured, along with an introduction from Nancy Bush, author of Folk Socks.
Book cover of Now We Are Ten
by Peter F. Hamilton, Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

Sixteen original stories of science fiction and wonder from sixteen talented authors, written to commemorate the first ten years of NewCon PressContents:1. Introduction by Ian Whates2. The Final Path – Genevieve Cogman3. Women’s Christmas – Ian McDonald4. Pyramid – Nancy Kress5. Liberty...
Book cover of Song of the Vikings

Song of the Vikings

Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths

by Nancy Marie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri...
Book cover of Critical Theory at a Crossroads

Critical Theory at a Crossroads

Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis

by Tariq Ali, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018

We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has...
Book cover of Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
by Nancy Marie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with...
Book cover of Architecture That Speaks

Architecture That Speaks

S. C. P. Vosper and Ten Remarkable Buildings at Texas A&M

by Nancy T. McCoy, David G. Woodcock, Lilia Y. Gonzales
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

When the A&M College of Texas opened its doors in 1876, its early buildings followed a Victorian architectural style. Classical architecture came to the campus with the Academic Building, after the 1912 fire that destroyed Old Main. Subsequent buildings generally followed this neoclassical path,...
Book cover of God's Word, Our Story

God's Word, Our Story

Learning from the Book of Nehemiah

by Paige B. Brown, Nancy Guthrie, Kathy Keller
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

"You have kept your promise, for you are righteous." —Nehemiah 9:8 The book of Nehemiah powerfully illustrates God's faithfulness as it chronicles Israel's return from exile. In this collection of biblical expositions, nine prominent Bible teachers lead readers on a gospel-centered survey...
Book cover of The Abacus and the Cross

The Abacus and the Cross

The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages

by Nancy Marie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010

The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages-in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called “The Scientist Pope,” Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant...
Book cover of Cognition Switch #5
by Ed Simon, Michael Strauss, Raja Halwani
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas Issue #5: April 2019 Featuring Ideas by: Michael Strauss, Ed Simon, Raja Halwani, Robert Noggle, Archie Brown, Michael Robertson, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Peter Levine, Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Julian Baggini, Christopher Kavanagh, and Johanna Hanink
Book cover of Here Is Our God

Here Is Our God

God's Revelation of Himself in Scripture

by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, Timothy J. Keller, John Piper
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014

“I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up.” - Isaiah 6:1 Scripture records a number of instances in which God visibly revealed himself to his people, offering a glimpse of his stunning beauty and overwhelming glory. These awe-inspiring manifestations of God’s presence—known...
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