Brian: 7780 books
Radicals for Capitalism
A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism-the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat- has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many...
by Brian Bouldrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Modern travelers on foot follow wisdom along the Ulster Way. Storytellers, said Walter Benjamin, are descended from one of two tribes: the mariners or the peasants. We revel in the stories of the sailors, with their lure of exotic places and the treasures a mariner brings home. We hearken to the stories...
by Brian Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Shortly after midnight on 8 December 1941, two divisions of crack troops of the Imperial Japanese Army began a seaborne invasion of southern Thailand and northern Malaya. Their assault developed into a full-blown advance towards Singapore, the main defensive position of the British Empire in the Far...
Reading Texts, Reading Lives
Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one’s own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz’s pluralistic, self-questioning approach to...
The Most Human Human
What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also...
A Nietzschean Bestiary
Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Inspired by the ancient and medieval genre, A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays treating the most vivid and lively animal images in one of the philosophic tradition's greatest bodies of work. Leading scholars treat specific animals—such as the prowling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions,...
by Brian Daley
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This book brings together a new, original survey of the significance of Gregory's life and work with translations of eight beautiful and profound orations. Gregory of Nazianzus portrays a vivid picture of a fascinating character of vital importance who deserves to be regarded as the first true Christian...
Phenomenal Reading
Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
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The essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large.
Phenomenal Reading is comprised of essays that...
by J. Brian Benestad, Robert Benne, Bruce Fields
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Few topics can grab headlines and stir passions quite like politics, especially when the church is involved. Considering the attention that many Christian parachurch groups, churches, and individual believers give to politics—and of the varying and sometimes divergent political ideals and aims among...
Trauma Farm
A Rebel History of Rural Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
"Brett's wit and giddy ambivalence makes this account a stretch more provocative than similar rural memoirs, and an altogether compelling read" -- Publishers Weekly
"You can taste the food he describes, feel the cool morning air on naked skin, smell the dogs and feel the mud....
Culture and Equality
An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live. How should public policy respond to this diversity? In this important new work, Brian Barry challenges the currently orthodox answer and develops...
by Brian Madigan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
“Catchpenny” climbs the steps of public transportation with Wilbur, at once wealthy and powerful, at the next underfunded, on the lam, past middle-age, having no marketable skills.
This story reveals hidden knowledge—hidden from some anyway—that a person is innately imbued with—about...
Childproofing Your Dog
A Complete Guide to Preparing Your Dog for the Children in Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Master dog trainer and author of Good Owners, Great Dogs Brian Kilcommons shows readers how to encourage children and dogs to be perfect companions, in a comprehensive manual that demonstrates how to train an older dog to acept an infant, choose the right breed, and more.
The Squire Quartet
Life in the West, Forgotten Life, Remembrance Day, and Somewhere East of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Four loosely linked realistic novels from “one of Britain’s most accomplished and versatile writers” (The Guardian).
A Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction writer, British novelist Brian W. Aldiss also regularly “returned to earth with distinction,” penning realistic works,...