Richard Brian: 88 books
The Penguin Jazz Guide
The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked...
by Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A. Smith, Ralph C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...
Amazon Town TV
An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In 1983, anthropologist Richard Pace began his fieldwork in the Amazonian community of Gurupá one year after the first few television sets arrived. On a nightly basis, as the community’s electricity was turned on, he observed crowds of people lining up outside open windows or doors of the few homes...
Bribery and Corruption
Navigating the Global Risks
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
As businesses continue to expand globally into new and emerging markets, bribery and corruption risks have increased exponentially. Bribery and Corruption offers a comprehensive look at this growing problem, and at the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other international anti-bribery and corruption...
The Workforce Scorecard
Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm's survival. Yet, in most organizations, employee performance is both poorly managed and underutilized. The Workforce Scorecard argues that current management and human resources practices...
by Brian North, Mila Angelova, Elżbieta Jarosz
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This essential guide examines course planning as an end-to-end process, from learners’ needs through to assessment, taking into account both the broader issues and the practical details at every stage. Areas covered include: • effective needs analysis • using the CEFR as a resource for course...
Box Set: Dark Stories
Contains: Hides the Dark Tower, In a Cat's Eye, and Dark Luminous Wings
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
This 3-book box set is a collection of three anthologies of Dark Stories:
Hides the Dark Tower
In a Cat's Eye
Dark Luminous Wings
Hides the Dark Tower
Mysterious and looming, towers and tower-like structures pierce the skies and shadow the lands. Hides the Dark Tower includes over...
by Richard Chizmar, Ray Garton, Brian Keene
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
From Richard ChizmarManuscripts found in a dark corner of his office, from a time long forgotten–the Eighties. Revived at the hand of two horror masters, these stories are a slice of the past brought into the present.The SculptorWith Ray GartonAn artist finds a block of stone...
Redeeming the Life of the Mind
Essays in Honor of Vern Poythress
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Vern Poythress, one of today’s leading Reformed theologians, has made many vital contributions to evangelical scholarship—particularly a vision to glorify Christ as Lord over all areas of human life in order to redeem all realms of human thought.
In honor of his many years of faithful thinking...
Literacy Tools in the Classroom
Teaching Through Critical Inquiry, Grades 5-12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This innovative resource describes how teachers can help students employ “literacy tools” across the curriculum to foster learning. The authors demonstrate how literacy tools such as narratives, question-asking, spoken-word poetry, drama, writing, digital communication, images, and video...
by Sidonie Smith, David Palumbo-Liu, Françoise Lionnet
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer,...
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...
Better Weird
A Tribute to David B. Silva
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Better weird than plastic…
For a generation of horror fans, those four words signaled a momentous occasion: the arrival of a new issue of David B. Silva's seminal publication, The Horror Show. For nine years in the 1980s, Dave and his magazine published some of the biggest names in the genre...
Creative, Successful, Dyslexic
23 High Achievers Share Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard Branson,...