Brown: 6904 books
Teaching Spirits
Understanding Native American Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Teaching Spirits offers a thematic approach to Native American religious traditions. Through years of living with and learning about Native traditions across the continent, Joseph Epes Brown learned firsthand of the great diversity of the North American Indian cultures. Yet within this great multiplicity,...
by Henry Box Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
After enduring more than 30 years of slavery, Henry "Box" Brown achieved freedom by having himself nailed inside a packing crate and shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia. Initially published in 1851, Brown's extraordinary memoir recounts the harsh circumstances of his bondage as well as...
by Mary Ward Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South.
Mary Ward Brown is a storyteller in the tradition of such powerful 20th-century writers as William Faulkner,...
by Archie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Accessibly written to appeal to a wide readership, this is a meticulous study of Gorbachev by a leading Western specialist on Soviet politics. - ;Mikhail Gorbachev was arguably the most important world statesman of the second half of the twentieth century. He played the decisive role in ending the Cold...
Moral Capital
Foundations of British Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment...
The Seven Pillars of Creation
The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
In their highly selective and literal reading of Scripture, creationists champion a rigidly reductionistic view of creation in their fight against "soulless scientism." Conversely, many scientists find faith in God to be a dangerous impediment in the empirical quest for knowledge. As a result...
by Tracey Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Come spend some time in Richland Louisiana Parish Detention Center, a prison in the Deep South, with Tracey Brown, as she takes you into the lonely and often frightening world of the female inmate. Life as she knew it ended the day she was arrested for identity theft and sentenced to three, ten year...
An Introduction to the New Testament
The Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Since its publication in 1997, Raymond Brown’s Introduction to the New Testament has been widely embraced by modern readers seeking to understand the Christian Bible. Acknowledged as a paragon of New Testament studies in his lifetime, Brown was a gifted communicator who wrote with ease and clarity.
Abridged...
Grappling with Legacy
Rhode Island’S Brown Family and the American Philanthropic Impulse
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode Island. Sylvia Brown has made a tremendous contribution in writing this wonderful book. It is clearly a labor of love, and we should all be grateful to...
Buddhist Economics
An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
In the tradition of E. F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful, renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability, and right living.
"Buddhist Economics will give guidance to all those who seek peace, fairness, and environmental sustainability."...
by John A. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Dining Roulette: The Truth about Restaurants from the Inside Out is essential reading for every foodie, restaurant goer, and restaurant owner and manager. It reveals the secrets, tips, and industry information needed to establish and maintain a successful business, and gives practical, prescriptive...
Designed for Good
Recovering the Idea, Language, and Practice of Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Kevin J. Brown’s Designed for Good is a study of classical virtue ethics from a Christian perspective. This book shows Christians that their faith contains resources to help them recover the idea of virtue in the face of our modern moral bewilderment.Although we may not realize it, we live...
by Josie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
OWN THEM TOGETHER!
IN BOOK 1: THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN'S HANDBOOK:
Every desperate housewife wants an alias. Donna Stone has one, and it happens to be government-sanctioned. But when terrorism hits close to home, espionage makes for strange bedfellows--and brings new meaning to the old adage,...
A Hiss Before Dying
A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
**Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim surprise. **
“As feline collaborators go, you couldn’t...