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Zen in the Art of Rock ’n’ Roll Management is a compact, poetic meditation on the hidden figures who shaped the loudest culture on earth. Written by veteran manager Michael Browning (who helped launch AC/DC), the book reframes legendary managers as Zen archetypes - The Enforcer, The Trickster, The Quiet Architect, and distills their hard-won wisdom into short, lyrical chapters paired with koans and “Zen lessons.”Each portrait is a two-to-three-page parable rather than a biography. ...

Corruption in the realm of charitable organizations. This book goes beyond the usual conspiracy themes. It covers a world feeding on itself, and the necessities committed to ensure survival, including murder.

Bon turned up with two bottles of bourbon, some dope and some speed. When Angus saw this stash, he said to Malcolm, 'If this guy can walk, let alone sing, it's going to be something.'Michael Browning first spotted AC/DC in September 1974. They were raw and rough, and much of the crowd, Michael included, was bewildered by the flashy guitarist dressed as a school kid. But Michael knew they had something - a blistering sound, killer songs and a wildly charismatic stage presen...

"Readers who enjoy plants and offbeat tales will find Brown's book a happy mix" ( Publishers Weekly).Mankind has always had a morbid fascination with poisonous plants. Over the centuries, poisonous plants have been used to remove garden pests—as well as unwanted rivals and deceitful partners. They have also been used for their medicinal qualities, as rather dangerous cosmetics, and even to help seduce a lover when perceived as an aphrodisiac. Some of these...

Did you know you're likely to have had over 89,000 heated altercations with your closest relations before you reached the age of eight?By age 16, thousands more hours will have been spent by most of us in some form of disagreement with those in our extended social networks.As a species, we're well practised at falling out with each other. We may even have a gene for it – certainly, some of us seem to be gifted.When it comes to finding resolutions, however, things do...

"A fascinating account of formal gardens during the middle ages," including plants and their uses, features, tools, cultivation techniques, and more ( Books Monthly ).Medieval gardens usually rate very few pages in the garden history books. The general perception is still of small gardens in the corner of a castle. Recent research has shown that the gardens were larger than we previously believed. This book contains information and...

You get up before the house stirs, carry the weight of providing, come home to a family that needs you present, and by 10 p.m. your brain is still running through tomorrow. You meant to pray this morning and you told yourself you would start on Monday. This book closes the gap between intention and action.One Minute with Jesus for Christian Men is 365 morning prayers written as if you are speaking straight to Jesus. Michael Brown built each day around a single Scripture line, a 60 ...

Despite the popular theology of our day, Christians should not expect to get out of experiencing the tribulation or the end times. Nowhere in the Bible does the Lord promise us this, say Michael Brown and Craig Keener, two leading, acclaimed Bible scholars. In fact, they say, Jesus promises us tribulation in this world.Yet this is no reason to fear. In this fascinating, accessible, and personal book, Brown and Keener walk you through what the Bible really...

Together for the first time in a single volume, two of Dr. Michael L. Brown's groundbreaking works are ready to challenge a new generation of Christians to combat the status quo of a compromised church and a godless society.-----Have you ever wondered why you rarely-if ever-see the kinds of miracles today that were so common in the Bible? Whatever Happened to the Power of God? explores why so few of the seriously ill are healed, why apparent encounters with God's s...

"The Torah doesn't speak of Jesus at all!" "You're completely misinterpreting Isaiah!" "This verse has absolutely nothing to do with your Jesus! It's not even a messianic prophecy!" "As for the real messianic prophecies, Jesus fulfilled none of them."These are some objections raised by Jews regarding Jesus as the Messiah. Using the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic texts, and the New Testament, Dr. Michael Brown provides thorough answers to nearly forty such objections. This third installment ...

Devastated by the civil wars of the 17th century or by the neglect of their owners, the majority of Scottish baronial castles built between 1250 and 1450 survive as little more than skeletal ruins.These reminders of Scotland's past have captured the imaginations of romantics, artists, writers and tourists since the late 18th century. Often set in spectacular surroundings, on cliff-tops, islands, and gorges, their ruined grandeur evokes a medieval world of sieges, b...

The question of how the church deals with homosexuality has become the great moral and spiritual issue of this generation.How do we respond to gay people who tell us how much they love the Lord and experience God's power? How do we answer them when they say that the greatest law is the law of love, and that love requires us to embrace them as they are? What do we do with the argument that the Old Testament laws (such as the prohibition against homosexuality and the ...