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Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high rate...
by Warren Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
**Vintage Tales is a collection of short stories based on the mixed-race community of India, called Eurasians or Anglo-Indians. These short stories and short sketches by Warren Brown an Eurasian author provide an insight into life in Calcutta. **
This interesting mixture of short stories also depict...
by Dr. Larry E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
“If Pillows Could Talk, is a story that every man who has ever experienced discouragement, disappointment, and rejection should read. Dr. Larry Brown writes a humble and honest reflection of his life revealing both his mistakes and his greatest accomplishments. From dropping out of school at the...
by Gillibran Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
‘Fasten your seatbelts for another round of domestic adventures with houseboy Gillibran Brown.In his own words: ‘think of me as a gay male version of Flora Thompson writing not so much about Larkrise to Candleford as Arsehole to Breakfast Time. The BBC will never commission it as a series,...
Shadow Daughter
A Memoir of Estrangement
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A riveting, provocative, and ultimately hopeful exploration of mother-daughter estrangement, woven with research and anecdotes, from an award-winning journalist.
The day of her mother's funeral, Harriet Brown was five thousand miles away. For years they'd gone through cycles of estrangement...
The Power of Music
God's Call to Change the World One Song at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Music can either Connect You to God or Drive You to the Devil.
God created the human race to enjoy music and to make music, and through music the world has been dramatically changed—for good and for evil. In this fascinating book Michael L. Brown takes the reader on a journey through...
by William W. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Narrative of William W. Brown is one of the most famous slave narratives. He became a prolific author after escaping to Ohio. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents.
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Confessions of a Reluctant Policeman
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Once an enemy of the apartheid police, Andrew Brown has worked as a police reservist for almost twenty years. In this book he takes the reader on patrol with him – into the ganglands of the Cape Flats, the townships of Masiphumelele and Nyanga, and the high-walled Southern Suburbs. Good Cop, Bad...
The Art of Medicine in Early China
The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In this book, Miranda Brown investigates the myths that acupuncturists and herbalists have told about the birth of the healing arts. Moving from the Han (206 BC–AD 220) and Song (960–1279) dynasties to the twentieth century, Brown traces the rich history of Chinese medical historiography and the...
From Frontiers to Football
An Alternative History of Latin America since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
With Brazil hosting the FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympic Games in 2016, all eyes are on Latin America. But what vision of these countries will we be given? Will our airwaves be full of cultural stereotypes about Latin Americans and inaccurate interpretations of the region’s position in...
Peasants Come Last
A Memoir of the Peace Corps at Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
'Peasants Come Last: A Memoir of the Peace Corps at Fifty' is an unforgettable account of renowned scholar and author Dr. J. Larry Brown's tenure as Peace Corps Country Director for Uganda. In an easy, captivating storyteller's voice, Brown takes us on an eye-opening journey into the heart of Africa...
Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice in Education
A Sociological Grounding
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Evidence use is now part of the rhetoric of educational research, policy and practice. Grounded in the contention that using evidence can help educationalists develop better solutions to the key issues facing teaching and learning today, Chris Brown seeks to develop a complex, rich and socially situated...
by Sue Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Bare Thoughts… is a must read in today's world.The thoughtful and compelling writings are about common traits given to all men; everywhere. The writing is clear and passionate. It matters little whether the book is read “a slice at a time” or “devoured in its entirety.” It is...
by Rhona Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical press. Rhona Brown explores Fergusson's poetic output in its immediate periodical context, enabling a new understanding of Fergusson's contribution to poetry that also enlarges...