Brink: 152 books

We live in turbulent times: the world is slowly emerging from the worst economic decline in 80 years and it will take years to recover from the damage. The impact of the internet and fall of the Berlin wall changed the world. Greatness and victory is ours if we can turn data into knowledge,...

Is The Raven a trickster or a hero? Nakai and Nizoni Proudtree are Native American kids growing up on the wrong side of the tracks. In Shadowtown, it's not cool to root for superheroes. Especially when the most powerful hero in town is on the warpath. An evil cult has killed Coyote and...

Jael is just an average teenage girl with over-protective parents, an unrequited crush on the hottest guy at school, and a best friend she shares everything with. Until her parents let her in on the secret they’ve kept for nearly sixteen years… Jael is the Chosen One. Born to be a vampire slayer,...

Jael leaves Nevada and her close friends, Brianna and Shadow, behind. She travels to the Loon Lake Amish community in Minnesota where she moves in with grandparents she’s never met and learns to live the plain and simple life... at least as plain and simple as she can handle. She may learn to milk...

The Bishop is growing his vampire followers by leaps and bounds, feeding on the naturally rebellious teenage population. Jael tries to keep one step ahead of the undead and their schemes while maintaining a semi-normal life. But living Amish while still being considered an outsider is beginning to...

Communication with clients, colleagues and presentations are critical life skills. This book focuses on the vital communication elements specifically relevant for the financial industry.

Finalist, 2019 Outstanding Publications Award, sponsored by the Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society Dama gazelles, the largest of the gazelles, were once a common sight in Northern Africa, with a habitat ranging from the Atlantic Ocean east almost to the Nile River. Today, these animals are...

For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process...

What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and...

To soar in life is to know that lots of data and information mean very little. Greatness and victory is if we can move to knowledge, then insight and ultimately the wisdom. To do it is to drown the mind with facts, discuss it with diverse people, test the water, burn some scars, emerge with humility...

This book takes the skills introduced in Roy van den Brink-Budgen's bestselling book Critical Thinking for Students and extends and builds on them. As a result, it will be especially useful for students on advanced level courses, whether in schools, colleges, or universities. It shows how complex...

Until the 1950s, the struggle to feed, clothe, and employ the nation drove most of American political life. From slavery to the New Deal, political parties organized around economic interests and engaged in fervent debate over the best allocation of agonizingly scarce resources. But with the explosion...

Competitive sport requires their participants to focus all their time on it. Great wealth can be created yet the sports person seldom have the luxury of studying and preparing for a career after sport. When the limelight fades at a young age, very often the wealth created is spend and destroyed simply because we do not know. This essay gives steps towards the future wealth preservation.

A 10 story boxset of heroes and the villains they fight! Table of Contents 1. "Six Superhero Stories" by Robert Jeschonek 2. "Courageous" by Russ Crossley 3. "White Crane" by Blaze Ward 4. "Hungry Gods" by J. D. Brink 5. "A Matter of Size" by Robert Jeschonek 6. "Daphnia Fights Back" by Charles...