New Releases by Craig Brown

If advancing years bestow a welcome freedom, opening a golden pathway to the sunset of our lives, they also expose us to the risks of illness, accident and bereavement. In these stories, love and laughter collide with sadness, mischance and, sometimes, the stark finality of death. More than twenty memorable characters occupy a world where smiles and tears are never far apart, in scenes constantly reminding us that old age is both beautiful and dangerous... neighbours organise a race on their mobility scooters, an escapade that does not turn out as planned... Thelma, recently widowed, takes a desperately sad walk on the pier with a well-meaning friend... a school reunion brings out the juvenile worst in former classmates... an ageing pianist wearily confronts his last concert. Here are 14 tales to gladden, and sadden, the heart.

Craig Brown was the first Scotland manager to take his side to the European Championship and World Cup Finals in succession. He began his career as a professional footballer and was a member of Dundee''s championship winning side in 1962, the only time the club has ever won the title. However, a knee injury brought a promising career to a premature end, and it was to be as a manager that Craig''s talents really shone through. In this autobiography, he talks about the thrills and spills of this relentlessly demanding job and takes us behind the scenes, into the dressing room with its tensions, decisions and celebrations.

The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science is older than the university itself. Chartered in 1827 as King’s College, it officially opened in 1843 with four professors and twenty-seven students. In this lively and engaging book, Robert Craig Brown vividly recounts the 150-year history of the faculty’s staff, students, and achievements. Brown takes readers on a sweeping journey though the development and growth of the faculty through wartime and peace, depression and prosperity. He covers teaching and research in the vast array of subjects offered, administrative and financial concerns, and the Faculty’s significant contributions to higher education in Canada. Throughout, Brown traces how the faculty evolved past its early defining traits of elitism and exclusivity to its current form – a remarkably diverse body with students of all ages, backgrounds, and academic interests.

This being a history in two volumes of the lands and people of the sovereign Kingdom of Calontir, herein will be found the Chronicles of the earliest years of the Kingdom and its birth from its Midrealm Mother. These volumes encompass its culture and traditions as well as its chronological progress presented through the passing of its rulers. Light is shed on the origins of many titles, orders, customs, and shibboleths; many of our founders are celebrated.

First published in 1987, The Illustrated History of Canada was the first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of the country. It featured chapters by seven of Canada''s leading historians and hundreds of engravings, lithographs, cartoons, maps, posters, and photographs. Together, these elements created a sweeping chronicle of Canada from its earliest times to yesterday''s news. Now The Illustrated History of Canada has been fully updated to bring readers into the twenty-first century, with new material on such topics as the rise of small government, the recognition of Native land claims, Canada''s role in the post-Cold War "peace," and the 2011 federal election. More than ever, The Illustrated History of Canada is a must-have reference guide for all Canadians interested in the history - and the future - of our country. Contributors include Ramsay Cook (emeritus, York University), Christopher Moore (Toronto writer), Desmond Morton (McGill University), Arthur Ray (emeritus, University of British Columbia), Peter Waite (emeritus, Dalhousie University), and Graeme Wynn (University of British Columbia).

Life is made up of individuals meeting one another. They speak, or don''t speak. They get on, or don''t get on. They make agreements, which they either hold to or ignore. They laugh, they cry and they share secrets. Often it is the most fleeting of meetings that turn out to be the most noteworthy. One on One examines the curious nature of different types of meeting, from the oddity of encounters with the Royal Family to those often perilous meetings between old and young. Ingenious in its construction, witty in its narration, panoramic in its breadth, One on One is a wholly original book.

OPTIMUM HEALING is an essential guide to everyone interested in what good health really means - and how to encourage it. Through case histories which mirror the lives of ordinary people everywhere, Dr Craig Brown shows that physical illness is often the expression of a deeper emotional and spiritual problem. He explains that five negative attributes underly all illness: anger, depression, guilt, attachment and worry, and that unless these are released, as one physical symptom is cured, so another will inevitably occur. In this highly readable book, Dr Brown offers practical suggestions, excercises and ideas to help you: *Confront and release your own negative attributes *Find a balance between your body, mind and spirit *Establish harmony with your environment *Discover your own path to optimum healing and inner peace

The first comprehensive, authoritative one-volume history of Canada

''The Lost Diaries'' is a wide-ranging anthology of the world''s greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.

Provides a method of parenting to transform your home into a loving, peaceful, and respectful environment. Create an environment in which your child will want to behave, foster an internal sense of respect and responsibility in your child, structure your routines to encourage positive behavior, and use Biblical principles to undergird all of the above.

When four women suffer at the hands of one man, the results are deadly! Heaven''s Rage has the usual components of a mystery novel - the crime of murder, a gruff but loveable protagonist and an assortment of suspects - yet it presents a unique theme as it takes readers back in time to tell the stories of four women who loved one man and who are now suspects in his murder. Homicide Detective Ian Buchanan is assigned to the murder investigation of Richard Tate, a retired military helicopter pilot. He quickly determines the victim''s three former wives and college girlfriend all had motive and opportunity to commit the crime. As each of these women takes us through her volatile relationship with Tate, the detective finds himself sympathizing with his suspects rather than the victim. GINA RODRIGUEZ is a career naval officer determined to break through the invisible barriers of a male-dominated military. It''s 1989, and along comes Dick Tate to charm her through a whirlwind romance which leads to an explosive relationship with a drunken and abusive husband. MEG MCALLISTAR is devoted to her son, but manages to get away one night a week to party at a nearby naval base. During one of those evenings in 1982, she meets the recently-divorced Dick Tate. Two years later they marry. As Dick''s bitter resentment of his first wife grows, Meg is subjected to his frequent fits of rage. JORDAN CAMPBELL is just completing her Army training when she meets Dick Tate, a young pilot-trainee. Their brief romance is threatened when they each receive orders to opposite sides of the country, prompting them to wed quickly. Shortly thereafter, Jordan discovers she''s pregnant and is discharged from the Army. COLLEEN MORGAN and Dick Tate are both members of their college swim team. After dating for a couple of months, Dick is becoming serious but his chameleon-like moods trouble her and she decides to end the relationship. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tiffany Craig Brown is the daughter of a military officer who spent her early years traveling the world. Some of her first memories include bathing beneath waterfalls in the African Bush. After a brief stint in the Army, she worked in corporate marketing and communications for more than twenty years. Tiffany resides in Sacramento with her husband Tim and is currently working on her next novel.

The thymus, which is the primary site for T cell maturation, begins to involute after puberty leading to defects in T cell function. Although the mechanisms of thymic atrophy/involution are not clearly understood, both LPCs and stem cell niche aging have been proposed to be the cause. There are numerous studies in lympho-hematopoietic progenitor cells (LPC), along with a few studies dealing with stem cell niche ageing; however, there is a scarcity of studies that combine the interaction of the two. The lack of models seems to be a contributing factor to the scarcity of a combined study. Age-related T-cell immune system defects are associated with developmental disabilities in the interaction of progenitors in the bone marrow (BM) and thymic niches. So far what is known is that both cellular components will ultimately develop intrinsic/irreversible defects. There is much debate about which component is primarily responsible for the initial events that lead to the adverse regulation of the other component, but understanding the relationship is of clinical relevance for rejuvenating the aged immune system in order to delay/treat the onset of age-related diseases. In order to address the role of LPCs and stem cell niche aging, we have developed several comprehensive in vivo and in vitro models for functional characterizations of the lymphostromal interaction in mice. By using BM transplantation from wild type donors along with an IL7R -/- mouse as a recipient/host, transplantation of a fetal thymus into one/two hosts to recruit naturally thymic-seeding LPCs from young and/or aged BM in vivo, we found that LPCs outlive their niche cells in the BM and thymus. Although aged LPCs cannot compete against their younger counterparts, this is reversible when a young microenvironment is provided. Therefore, aging of T-lineage stem cells is largely regulated by their niches.

When cars were invented, the US Postal Service said goodbye to animal-powered deliveries forever—or did it? There''s one town in the States that still receives their mail by mule! Meet Anthony Paya, who leads a train of mules on a daily three-hour trek down into the Grand Canyon to bring mail to the townspeople of Supai. Full of authentic Western details about Paya''s one-of-a-kind job and magnificent workplace, this beautifully illustrated journey will fill readers with wonder and respect for this unique American landscape. Back matter includes further information about the hazards of working this mail route and author-illustrator Craig Brown''s journey with the mule train to Supai.

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research originated at the University of Toronto in the early 1980s. Since that time, it has gone from a small, independent centre to an important and revered institution with a significant role in the study of sciences, social sciences, and humanities in Canada. A Generation of Excellence is a detailed history of the CIAR from its humble beginnings to its ascension as one of the most important research organizations in the country. Beginning in the summer of 1982, with the CIAR merely a conception in the minds of senior scholars at the University of Toronto, Craig Brown takes us through the process of realization, detailing the early years of the Institute under the presidency of Dr. Fraser Mustard. From early struggles to eventual triumphs, Brown examines the CIAR''s pursuit of an ethos - to explore fundamental issues in the social sciences and humanities by funding teams of researchers - showing how success was painstakingly achieved. The rise of the CIAR is deftly illustrated by pairing its earliest projects with the twentieth anniversary Congress held in 2002 in honour of the Institute and two decades of research. A Generation of Excellence tells the story of one of the country''s most remarkable institutions.

Every engagement that has resulted in an official ''kill'' by all U.S. forces since the end of the Vietnam conflict is chronicled in this book. Not only is this the only complete work on the subject, but almost every one of the fifty-six accounts are told by the pilots involved. These engagements involve F-14s, F-15Cs, F-15Es, F-16s, F/A-18s, and A-10s. Many of these stories have never been told outside of classified reports, and many of the photos have never been previously published. Debrief is the first book from author and former USAF fighter pilot Craig "Quizmo" Brown. The foreword is by USAF Ace and legend BGen Robin Olds.

''Hilarious'' The Sunday Times ''Side-splitting'' Daily Telegraph ''Craig Brown is the business'' Independent ''Craig Brown''s 1966 and All That is a fabulous spoof history of modern Britain. Inspired by its irreverent predecessor 1066 and All That, which was published in 1930, it begins with the First World War and ends with the Millennium Dome. It is effortlessly brilliant, eminently quotable and very much ''A Good Thing'' ... Like the best satirists, Brown skewers our pretensions, ridicules our foibles and holds a mirror up to our times...1966 and All That is a worthy successor to 1066 and should be required reading in every school across the land.'' Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler 1966 AND ALL THAT - all the modern history you can''t remember, narrated in a way you can''t begin to understand.

Canada and the First World War is a tribute to esteemed University of Toronto historian Robert Craig Brown, one of Canada''s greatest authorities on World War One, and the contributors include a cross-section of his friends, colleagues, contemporaries, and former students.

In Neil Robertson - unworldly adolescent, romantic dreamer - we find a 20th century Icarus whose youthful vulnerability sends him soaring too near an emotional sun. Neil''s stormy and bizarre affair with his grandmother''s nurse, and his friendship with Archie, the amiable Scotsman who completes the unwholesome triangle, soon threaten to destroy his childhood for ever. Neil learns the hard way that, all too often, adults are not to be trusted with a child''s affections.

Craig Brown (no not the Scottish football manager) is the funniest, the most revered and the most prolific humorist we have. This book collects together for the first time the best of his wit from the vast archive of his work spanning the last twenty years, teaming it with brand new material. This collection of parody, satire, whimsy and wit, includes extracts and articles from Private Eye, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Vanity Fair, The Mail on Sunday, The Spectator and many more. They capture the essence of British life - he is as funny on soaps, Posh Spice and the Little Chef as he is on Art and Politics.

An Amish community gathers to erect a barn in one day, and finishes in time for the owner''s cows to be milked there that very evening.

A comprehensive guide to charities and voluntary organizations in the UK and abroad. CONTENTS: Understanding the voluntary sector - working in the voluntary sector - finding the right work for you - looking at opportunities for young people - giving your free time - making a career in the voluntary sector - moving up, moving on - working overseas - working with people - working for animals and the environment