In 1942 William Brown was posted as a recently commissioned Indian Army Officer to the Gilgit Agency in the very north of the North West Frontier. He travelled widely, learnt the local dialects and built the Chilas Polo ground. After a brief period away from Gilgit, just prior to Partition in early 1947 he was appointed acting Commandant of the Gilgit Scoots.To his horror he learnt that the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten had ruled that Gilgit, despite being 99% Muslim, should be ceded to Hindu r...

Sweeter than Honey explains and illustrates why entertainment is the most powerful source of social change and learning in the world today. Dr. William Brown, a professor and research fellow with more than 30 years of experience in teaching the use of entertainment for social change, explores how entertainment is being used strategically around the world to increase literacy, help communities and families plan their growth, reduce high-risk sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS, reduce substance a...

"I am married to an amazing woman, and we have great kids. I also am carrying a huge secret deep inside: I am gay." Accepting truth about sexual identity after living outwardly as straight is terrifying and incredibly difficult to maneuver. Some fool themselves that this will be just fine, some have been caught exploring their sexuality, and some consider drastic steps to spare themselves and their loved ones from this truth. Better days are ahead! Coming True serves as a comprehe...

As soloist, master class teacher, and pianist of the world-renowned Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler can boast of four Grammy nominations, three honorary doctorates, more than 80 recordings, and lifetime achievement awards presented by France, Germany, and Israel. Former Pressler student William Brown traces the master's pianistic development through Rudiakov, Kestenberg, Vengerova, Casadesus, Petri, and Steuermann, blending techniques and traditions derived from Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt,...

To identify with people with a captured mind, with no room for peace within, you are not alone. It will pass!This book Is dedicated to the people who took their lives before they could speak. Get those demons out of your head and down on paper, or just open your mouth; it may save your life.

The first memories of interesting flying experiences were while I was stationed at Point Mugu, California, in the late ‘60s. When those were captured on paper, my daughter suggested expanding the notes to include stories about our family, my introduction to aviation in the U.S. Navy, the medical years thereafter, and my return to flying again.

Be prepared for the spiritual fight.Religious Crossroads—shedding light on obstacles that are faced and prevalent in the world today, while addressing questions and hesitations that are not easily answered by Christians about serving God.“Afraid of God?” “personal voids,” “theories of life,” “Is heaven real?” and “the church” are some of many topics that are covered in great detail.I’m not blaming, judging, or pointing fingers at anyone because we are taught by the ...

Fully updated for its second edition, Pass the PSA is written specifically for the Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) exam, with one chapter dedicated to each PSA exam section.This latest edition: - Introduces a simple, memorable and failsafe approach to prescribing (the 'PReSCRIBER' mnemonic) - Specifies the universal basic principles of prescribing for all sections - Examines each section's question structure and how to approach it - questions (structured identically to the exam) that c...

Are you ready to make $10M?All you need is commitment, drive, a talent, high-value skill or knowledge to share with others through an information product, coaching service or agency offer… and this book.For the first time outside of his exclusive coaching programme, William Brown reveals everything he’s learned about how to build and scale an incredibly successful e-learning business, making multiple millions of dollars along the way. He leaves no stone unt...

Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which digital special effects and editing techniques require a new theoretical framework in order to be properly understood. Here William Brown proposes that while analogue cinema often tried to hide the technological limitations of its creation through ingenious methods, digital cinema hides it...

As soloist, master class teacher, and pianist of the world-renowned Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler can boast of four Grammy nominations, three honorary doctorates, more than 80 recordings, and lifetime achievement awards presented by France, Germany, and Israel. Former Pressler student William Brown traces the master's pianistic development through Rudiakov, Kestenberg, Vengerova, Casadesus, Petri, and Steuermann, blending techniques and traditions derived from Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt,...

When a man and a bear meet together casually in an American forest, it makes a great deal of difference, to the two parties concerned at least, whether the bear eats the man or the man eats the bear. We haven't the slightest difficulty in deciding afterward which of the two, in each particular case, has been the eater, and which the eaten. Here, we say, is the grizzly that ate the man; or, here is the man that smoked and dined off the hams of the grizzly. Basing our opinion upon such famil...