George Brown: 83 books

Book cover of Following A Lark
by George Mackay Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

A country boy creeps unwillingly to school on a lark-filled summer morning. Norse crusaders, preparing to sail on Earl Rognvald's crusade in 1151 break into the burial chamber at Maeshowe seeking treasure, and cut runes in its massive stones. And the famous Iceland poet Thorbjorn leaves his farm to...
Book cover of Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
by David Bloom, David Brooks, Peter Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Book cover of Historical Atlas of Mormonism
by Cannon, George Q., Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994

A comprehensive reference source explores the impact of Mormonism on America, especially on the settling of the West. This atlas offers seventy-four sections, each with maps, that describe migration routes, missions centers, population distribution, and much more.
Book cover of Portrait of Orkney
by George Mackay Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014

Portrait of Orkney is a personal account of a people, their history and their way of life, and of a landscape that has shaped them, and been shaped by them.
Book cover of CoDestiny: Overcome Your Growth Challenges By Helping Your Customers Overcome Theirs
by George F. Brown Jr.; Atlee Valentine Pope
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

This thought-provoking book by two global strategy experts delivers a proven approach for solving a company’s most difficult growth challenges. To create value for your customers and capture value for your shareholders, the authors describe how to unlock the secrets of your customer chains.
Book cover of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Classics, Vol. 3
by Pearson, Bill; Skeates, Steve; Stallman
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014

The original classic adventures of Dynamo, NoMan, Menthor, and more from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents issues #8–10 and Dynamo #2. Features the artwork of Wally Wood, Dan Adkins, Mike Sekowsky, Chic Stone, and more.
Book cover of The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories
by George Mackay Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014

An incident from the Viking period in the Northern Isles of Scotland inspired the story from which this collection takes its name. The stories range from the first century, to the 1920s - when the author was a child - to one which ends a hundred years from now.
Book cover of Hawkfall
by George Mackay Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014

This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and reality - a world set firmly between the sea and the sky - a collection of islands which are life-sustaining and soul refreshing.
Book cover of Race and Crime

Race and Crime

Geographies of Injustice

by Elizabeth Brown, George Barganier
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

Criminal justice practices such as policing and imprisonment are integral to the creation of racialized experiences in U.S. society. Race as an important category of difference, however, did not arise here with the criminal justice system but rather with the advent of European colonial conquest and...
Book cover of Toleration on Trial
by Nathan J. Brown, Richard H. Dees, John Ferejohn
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2008

Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the field. The volume addresses the toleration...
Book cover of Discourse Analysis
by Gillian Brown, George Yule
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1983

Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a psycholinguist, it is primarily concerned with the nature...
Book cover of Chemical Biology of Glycoproteins
by Zhongping Tan, Lai-Xi Wang, Michael Boyce
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017

Glycans play a vital role in modulating protein structure and function from involvement in protein folding, solubility and stability to regulation of tissue distribution, recognition specificity, and biological activity. They can act as both positive and negative regulators of protein function, providing...
Book cover of Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2

Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 2

Cultivation techniques, pest and disease control

by Alam Sher, Xiaoli Liu, Jincai Li
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

Sample content Not sure what you're getting if you buy this book? Click on the cover image below to open a PDF and preview pages from the book.  Alternatively, watch our informative video introduction.
Book cover of Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine E-Book
by Peter Cameron, MBBS, MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011

A major postgraduate textbook in emergency medicine, covering all the major topics that present to the trainee doctor in the emergency department. A comprehensive textbook of adult emergency medicine for trainee doctors - covers all the problems likely to present to a trainee in the emergency...
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