Bøger af Douglas Brown

Are you wondering what you an bring to that potluck? Tired of making the same old casserole? Here are some ideas that have been proven successful over generations of family reunions and take minimal effort to produce.

Have you ever wanted a new story to play out in your life? You know, how you perform on stage or on a team? Or how you feel around people? What if we could write that new story? Childhood experiences can imprint a mindset that plays out in your life -- even 40 years later at a tennis club. The author wrestled down these old stories. They were not going to be his stories anymore. Two inspiring "ghosts" coached the author to live a new ending. This memoir shows how to dig through and journal about old memories to live a better story -- even in a game of tennis.

A one-stop compendium of the uniforms and personal equipment for each unit of all forces (American, British, Loyalist, French, German and Spanish) that participated in the Revolutionary War. It also include clear and concise summaries of the major events and campaigns of the war, showing how the sides adjusted their strategies (and the assigned forces) as the war progressed. The book draws from a wide range of sources and includes a large bibliography that is a significant resource in its own right. Published in black-and-white to make it affordable to the average researcher, it also provides a web link to the full-color version of the illustrations.

This novel was first published by Faber in August 1940 under the title, The Loss of Eden. It was then reissued by the British Publishers Guild (a wartime cooperative venture), in March 1941, with the more arresting and overt title, If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale. It was a work of speculative fiction with a moral purpose. It was a counterblast to the waverers, to those of a defeatist mien who could convince themselves an arrangement between Great Britain and Nazi Germany wouldn't be such a bad thing after all. The original Faber book description asks, 'What would it be like in England, if, after a premature peace on plausibly equal terms, we found that this ''peace'' had merely delivered us completely into Hitler's hands?' It continues, 'The imaginary New Zealand journalist, writing retrospectively as an eye-witness from the security of the Antipodes, tell us what happened - or rather what might have happened. And so precise and logical does he make the narrative, so real the characters, so vivid the scenes, that in reading we are almost persuaded that it did happen. Then we say: ''Nothing could be worse than that!''In their foreword and dedication, the authors, Douglas Brown and Christopher Serpell, write:'This is no fanciful picture. It is painted from life, with England as the background instead of Bohemia or Poland or any other country now under the Nazi heel. It is not intended to cause despondency or alarm, but to confirm and justify that resolution with which we are now fighting.If such a tale is to have a dedication it can only be to:THOSE WILL NOT LET THIS HAPPEN''It is a work of fiction, but the authors write so convincingly and have so keenly observed recent events and the men who have helped to fashion them that their narrative reads like a true historical picture of England with Hitler and the Nazis in control. This remarkable book should be widely read, not merely as an awful warning, but also because it is so movingly and skilfully written.' Education 'The events it describes are so appallingly life-like that I found it difficult to remember that I was only reading a 'novel' . . . If the Ministry of Information want to attack defeatism, they should distribute free copies throughout Whitehall and the country houses of England.' New Statesman and Nation

The Black Book of Outsourcing is a comprehensive guide and directory for the emerging field of outsourcing, including expert advice on how to operate an outsourcing program, how to deal with the political aspects of outsourcing, and how to find a career in outsourcing.