Brian Allen: 41 books

As a security professional, have you found that you and others in your company do not always define “security” the same way? Perhaps security interests and business interests have become misaligned. Brian Allen and Rachelle Loyear offer a new approach: Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM)....

A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings. In...

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding,...

A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline....

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to manage your time efficiently and effectively. Our concept of time cannot be manipulated. We cannot add another hour to the twenty-four hours we get every day. Our snooze button does not have the power to delay the sun from rising in the...

This book of Wisdom Keys is the product of careful thinking. It is offered to the public for daily meditation, motivation, and thought recognition for people to identify their innate purpose. When you properly access supremacy of the mind, one can achieve power from within; strengthening the heart, body, and soul.

That odd-looking coin could be worth a fortune! Mistakes happen. Now you can cash in on them. The U.S. Mint produces error coins every year on every denomination. From doubled die cents to rotated reverse quarters to missing letters on dollars, these coins can be worth far more than face value. Featuring...

Barnstable Barnstable is a very conceited cat and he takes his young master on a very odd tour. They visit Levity where gravity is backwards and things fall upwards and meet very odd people including a treacle miner. The Ning Nong of Grockle Sam helps visitors from Planet Grockle...

A book of fun children's poems including; tales, humor, and nonsense.

For nearly 150 years, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the famed antislavery newspaper The Liberator, has been represented by scholars, educators, politicians and authors as the founder of the American abolitionist movement. Yet the idea that Garrison was the leader of a coherent movement was strongly...

Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness. There is also growing recognition of the significance of a person's spiritual life in forming an essential basis for their sense of identity, and...

A history of the most stupid ideas throughout history including; the retrieveable arrow, the flywheel driven pushchair, dehydrated water, a barge pole for not touching people and others all equally ridiculous with many at first glance almost appearing reasonable. A clever and very amusing read. 32,829 words.

A lyrical, apocalyptic debut novel about addiction, friendship, and the struggle for survival at the height of an epidemic. The sickness started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. Artificial lights were destroyed so addicts could sip shadow...

On the surface, menace lurks in many of the stories in Brain Food and Other Tales. Some of these disturbing stories seem to be based on fact. All are surprisingly difficult to forget. The short story “Brain Food” tells of a distressed woman who happens on an unbelievably cruel and callous way...