James Brown
1) Wilderness
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English
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A plague has devastated the land.
Bloodthirsty creatures stalk the night.
A loose band of survivors fight for their lives.
Can they make it through?
And what will become of them if they do?
2) Exodus
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English
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They fled through the city, away from the school, racing in desperation towards an uncertain future.
At every step, they battled the ravenous creatures of the night.
But there was danger within.
One of their number had been bitten, and soon they would face a terrible, unthinkable choice....
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Award-winning author James Brown gained a cult following after chronicling his turbulent childhood and spiraling drug addiction in The Los Angeles Diaries. This River picks up where Brown left off in his first memoir, describing his tenuous relationship with sobriety, telling of agonizing relapses, and tracking his attempts to become a better father.
This is the heartbreaking and at times uplifting tale of Brown's battles, peeking into his former...
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Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises and despair. In The Los Angeles Diaries he reveals his struggle for survival, mining his past to present the inspiring story of his redemption. Beautifully written and limned with dark humor, these twelve deeply confessional, interconnected chapters address personal failure, heartbreak,...
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Two legends that have enthralled millions of people around the World come together on one special night to provide a unique once in a lifetime performance to an invited VIP audience. This concert combines the talents of James Brown and B.B King. Brown and King perform such numbers as "Let the Good Times Roll," " It's a Man's, Man's World," "Guess Who," and many more.
6) The Choice
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English
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CBS NFL Today anchor James Brown recounts his story of how the decision he made as a young basketball star shaped his life forever.
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English
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"A reinvention of the recovery memoir that examines how he has made peace with the family whose ghosts haunted him so vociferously, about the teeming new addictions growing all around him, and about helping the next generation of addicts overcome their disease, all the while raising three sons and helping them set their course in life"--
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On his nineteenth birthday, James E. Brown tries to fake to his flight instructor that he has flown before. On his twenty-first birthday, Brown is on his way home after logging eighty-five missions in a P-47 fighter over Italy, France, and Germany. Brown's stories surrounding his training and combat experiences in World War II reveal brushes with death, continuous peril and, ultimately, a coming of age for a young man whose freshman year in college...
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George Washington was born on December 14, 1799. He was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence. He presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which established the U.S. Constitution and a federal government. Washington has been called the "Father...
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Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The relation between the Church of Christ and human society has long been ill-defined and unsettled. The Church has to present to society, in its struggles and sufferings, an aspect in which the kindliness of human sympathy and interest is blent with the severity of truth; and this is always difficult. Between worldly compliances on the one hand, and bigoted formalities on the other, it is hard to strike the mean. Between the two extremes the Church...
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Living in a networked world means never really getting to decide in any thoroughgoing way who or what enters your “space” (your laptop, your iPhone, your thermostat . . . your home). With this as a basic frame-of-reference, James J. Brown’s Ethical Programs examines and explores the rhetorical potential and problems of a hospitality ethos suited to a new era of hosts and guests. Brown reads a range of computational strategies and actors, from...
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McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO PROGRAM MANAGEMENT--FULLY UPDATED AND REVISED Program managers must strike a balance between operations and project implementations in order to develop and maintain a culture in which the components of success are repeatable. The Handbook of Program Management is designed to help you do exactly that. This go-to guide supplies you with the insight and tools you need to establish processes that ensure the success of your project...
14) My last lament
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Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
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First edition.
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English
Description
Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is a part of an evolving Greece, a country moving steadily away from its rural traditions. To capture the fading folk art of lamenting, an American researcher asks Aliki to record her laments, but in response, Aliki sings her own story. It begins in a village in northeast Greece, where Aliki witnesses the occupying Nazi soldiers execute her father for...
15) Gus's garage
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Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Gus's workshop is chock-full of odds and ends. His friends bring him their vehicle problems, and Gus finds just the thing to fix them. No job is too difficult! Effortlessly simple text, detailed illustrations, and vehicles galore.
Publisher
Foundation Sales and Consulting
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
James Brown: The Man, The Music & The Message is an inspiring and entertaining program about the remarkable life of “The Godfather Soul” that features his greatest hits including “Living in America” and “I Feel Good.”
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Stoney says he has dumb luck. His grandfather was the doctor on the island in Ireland where the legendary maker of documentary film, Robert Flaherty, shot his film Man of Aran. So Stoney's film, exploring the effects Flaherty's film had on the island and its people, is digging into his own roots as an individual while simultaneously studying the work of his intellectual mentor as a producer of nonfiction films.Robert Flaherty's 1934 classic Man of...
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Three theoretical physicists (Freeman Dyson, Artur Ekert, Nima Arkani-Hamed) and one philosopher (James Robert Brown) reflect on different aspects of “mathematical Platonism” - the belief that numbers and mathematical concepts somehow have an existence independent of space, time, and us.