Bøker av Jeremy Brown

The Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed it. At each critical juncture in the spring of 1989, demonstrators and decision makers agonized over difficult choices and saw how events could have unfolded differently. The alternative paths that participants imagined confirm that bloodshed was neither inevitable nor necessary. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources and examining how ordinary citizens throughout China experienced the crackdown after the massacre, this ambitious social history sheds fresh light on events that continue to reverberate in China to this day.

The worlds of Harry Potter have always been imbued with wry humor and occasional moments of slapstick comedy, in both the books as well as the films. Harry Potter paired with humor is nothing new. But in this big new book of jokes, riddles and puns, Harry Potter hilarity is taken to new heights of broom-powered fun. Inside readers will find more than 500 laugh-inducing entries, perfect for Harry Potter fans happy to have a little fun with their literary favorites. Written by Jeremy Brown, author of the bestselling humor book The Official John Wayne Big Book of Dad Jokes and regular Fatherly columnist, this book also includes recurring special features such as "Who is the funniest person in the Harry Potter universe?"

In this book, readers are invited to join his team of revolutionary creators, outliers, misfits and rebels to better understand the future and develop breakthrough strategies for your business.

FINDING THE RICH AND SATISFYING LIFE THAT JESUS PROMISED YOUAre you tired of going to church to find a rich and satisfying life and all that seems to change is you have one less hour in your life and one less morning to sleep in? You are not alone! Numerous professing Christians feel exactly the same way: disappointed with empty religion. Yet author Jeremy Brown explains how the Christian life is far from disappointing and empty.In The Journey Is the Destination, Jeremy invites you to find the rich and satisfying life Jesus promised to his followers. This is an invitation to move beyond just believing the right information about God and biding your time until you get to go to heaven. This life with Jesus is, after all, not about arriving somewhere-the journey is the destination."Jeremy Brown's passion is absolutely infectious! Grab this book and get ready to enjoy the journey."- Albert Tate, lead pastor, Fellowship Monrovia"Uniqueness is a gift. I for one am glad Jesus isn't bland or boring. Jesus came so we can live abundantly. Jeremy Brown understands that. He lives and preaches out of the abundance of Jesus in his heart."- J.J. Weeks, singer/songwriterJEREMY BROWN is the founder and lead pastor at Journey Church, a church near Jackson, Tennessee, that helps people take their next step toward Jesus. Jeremy earned a degree from Moody Bible Institute and has served for eighteen years in student ministry. Jeremy is passionate about the church being a place where "mercy and grace are written on open arms." He and his wife, Sheila, live with their children in Jackson, Tennessee.

If you were born and raised at rock bottom and that was all you ever knew, could you even imagine and believe that something better was possible? A young girl becomes a woman under horrendous circumstances and not only escapes her own hellacious reality but builds up enough strength within herself to then pull others from this same pit.

Katelyn, Mo, and Leon have a new enemy - fire-breathing creatures destroying the Amazon rainforest! Can the Renegades save the human race before the world goes up in flames?In this fast-paced action adventure series, The Renegades are called upon to use their superpowers to combat threats to the world's climate.Holed up on a ranch in Texas, the Renegades are recouping after their Arctic adventures. But a bout of mysterious fires soon sees them fly off to the Amazon, where deadly fire-breathing creatures called Flamejantes are destroying the rainforest. Katelyn, Mo, and Leon must team up with local indigenous activists to stop them. And it looks like something - or someone - sinister is behind the creatures' sudden appearance...Combining urgent issues about the climate emergency and exciting new superheroes with unique powers, this graphic novel is not just a gripping adventure but an important discussion of climate change and its potentially devastating consequences.

Beneath the melting Arctic permafrost a sleeping methane monster - the Methanaur - is awakening. Can Katelyn, Mo, and Leon, three unsuspecting heroes, use their superpowers to trap it in the ice and save the planet? Meet Professor Katelyn, Leon, and Mo - also known as The Renegades. Professor Kateyln is a whip-smart, sassy scientist who uses her 'Oracle Specs' to see into the future. Wrestling with his anger at the naysayers who don't seem to care about the environment, Leon has the ability to become invisible - the perfect spy! And then there's Mo who, in the wake of his brother's death in a cyclone, finds his courage and builds a Solar Supershield that can generate an electrical force strong enough to fight the deadliest of foes. Our superheroes grapple with multiple environmental threats, most deadly of all a monster that lurks beneath the melting Arctic permafrost. If it escapes, this creature of chaos will release huge plumes of methane gas into the atmosphere, changing the balance of our planet's climate forever.

Bruder doesn't kill anyone unless he has to, but for some people he's willing to make an exception...When a past job comes back to haunt Bruder, a man he should have killed forces him to pull off what seems like a simple errand-steal an impounded yacht and deliver it to its owner in the Gulf of Mexico-but the heist quickly gets complicated when he finds out who the luxury craft belongs to and meets the ruthless crew he's supposed to run.On top of it all, Bruder doesn't know a damn thing about boats, or enjoy any time on them, and when he discovers the yacht is much more than just a floating status symbol, the stakes turn more dangerous than a shark in bloody water.But Bruder is dead set on pulling off the job and getting free of the man he should have killed, and this time around, he's not leaving any survivors in his wake.The Wake is the third book in the gritty Bruder Heist Novels. If you like professional hard case criminals with a relentless focus on pulling off the big heist and getting away with it, join the crew and buckle up.

When you steal from people who pull the trigger instead of calling the law, you'd better be good at it. Bruder is the best.Bruder is a career master thief, an apex predator hijacker who takes what he wants from people who would never turn to the cops for help. His jobs are planned down to the second, pulled off with a professional crew he knows and trusts.And all of that doesn't mean a damn thing when the plan makes first contact with the job...When Bruder sees the chance to steal a couple million in untraceable Wall Street bonus cash, he moves fast to scout the job and put the crew and plan together.But the money belongs to a group of people you don't steal from-ever. The heist turns into a bloody killing ground, testing loyalties and pushing Bruder's abilities and instincts to the brink. And whoever holds the money will owe a debt that must be paid in blood, a debt telling Bruder exactly how much his life is worth.The Wrench is the first book in the gritty Bruder Heist Novels. If you like professional hard case criminals with a relentless focus on pulling off the job and getting away with it, join the crew and buckle up.

Everybody knows: When you want to steal fourteen million dollars from a group of Romanian thugs, you go to Iowa.That's exactly what Bruder and his crew are going to do, and they figure the hardest part will be getting into the gang's armored car and grabbing the cash without getting shot.They're dead wrong.Because first they have to scout the job and get in tight with a local-somebody expendable who can give them the information they need. But when one of the men gets wrapped in so tight he starts popping loose ends, Bruder has to make a call: Who's more of a threat, the Romanians, or his own crew?He'll find out when the gang boxes Bruder and the others in, cutting off the few roads out of town and hunting-farm to farm, house to house, room to room.It's only a matter of time before the Romanians get their shot at vengeance on the crew. But shooting at Bruder hasn't worked out well for anybody...so far. The Box is the second book in the gritty Bruder Heist Novels. If you like professional hard case criminals with a relentless focus on pulling off the big heist and getting away with it, join the crew and buckle up.

The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell studies the compositions for wind band by twentieth-century composer Henry Cowell, a significant and prolific figure in American fine art music from 1914-1965. The composer is noteworthy and controversial because of his radical early works, his interest in non-Western musics, and his retrogressive mature

The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and the peasant, his revolutionary policies misfired and ended up provoking still greater discrepancies between town and country, usually to the disadvantage of villagers. Through archival sources, personal diaries, untapped government dossiers and interviews with people from cities and villages in northern China, the book recounts their personal experiences, showing how they retaliated against the daily restrictions imposed on them while traversing between the city and the countryside. Vivid and harrowing accounts of forced and illicit migration, the staggering inequity of the Great Leap Famine and political exile during the Cultural Revolution reveal how Chinese people fought back against policies that pitted city dwellers against villagers.

The Wind Band Music of Henry Cowell studies the compositions for wind band by twentieth-century composer Henry Cowell, a significant and prolific figure in American fine art music from 1914-1965. The composer is noteworthy and controversial because of his radical early works, his interest in non-Western musics, and his retrogressive mature style-along with notoriety for his imprisonment in San Quentin on a morals charge. Eleven chapters are organized both topically and chronologically. An introduction, conclusion, series of eight appendices, bibliography, and discography complete this comprehensive study, along with an audio playlist of representative works, hosted on the CMS website.

Maoism at the Grassroots challenges state-centered views of China under Mao, providing insights into the lives of citizens across social strata, ethnicities, and regions. It reveals how ordinary people risked persecution and imprisonment in order to assert personal beliefs and identities, despite political repression and surveillance.