New Releases by Greg Brown

An accessible, bite-sized introduction to a very big concept. Ever wondered how it all began? How it will all end? And while we're waiting, what's been going on in the meantime? From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch, dark matter to antimatter, The Universe is your pocket guide to everything that ever was and ever will be--a big claim for a small book, but one it earns through its clarity and scope.

HAVE YOU LOST FAITH IN RELATIONSHIPS AND MARRIAGE? Have you ever said: "I'll never trust anyone again." "I'll never forgive myself." "I'm going to be single forever." "I'll never fall in love again." "I don't need a man." "Why was I so stupid?" "What is wrong with me?" "I'm going to be by myself for the rest of my life." "Why can't I find someone who wants to be with me?" "I'm a good person. Why do I always pick the worst person?" "I don't deserve this." "Is this it for me?" "God, why is this happening to me?" If love is the agenda in every aspect of your life, you will have happiness, peace, wholeness, joy, love and fulfillment in your relationship with yourself, God, family, friends and your true love. -Greg Brown It's not too late to: break the bad habit of sex before commitment forgive yourself for past mistakes or letdowns stop feeling lonely or inadequate stop living in the past and move forward with your life start fully loving yourself heal your broken spirit so that it doesn't damage and poison your life and relationship stop believing you can't have a happy life learn how to properly date, court, and bond with someone have a healthy relationship trust someone "Love Is The Agenda" was written to give women their power back and empower all women. The book voices an honest perspective on how so many young girls grow up to become broken women, and how toxic behavior affects their lives and relationships with their partners. "Love Is The Agenda" speaks on dysfunctional behavior in relationships and how it negatively affects the love between men and women. "Love Is The Agenda" shines a light on how, what, and why men and women settle for relationships due to adolescent issues or damage from past experiences. "Love Is The Agenda" addresses toxic femininity and masculinity. It also addresses the toxic behavior some women provide or exchange with men in their relationships and how that behavior is not only destructive to women, but also creates a manipulative and abusive exchange between women and men. This book is a chapter-by-chapter pathway back to absolute self-love and finding one's true love. Instead of settling for the typical sexual hook-up or temporary relationship.

In this second book, the life of Priscilla Davis and Greg Brown is chronicled. Priscilla is the once-famous Texas celebrity who has lost most of her money and Greg is her junior lover who happens to be gay. It's now 1995 and the two of them have been on parallel paths without meeting until earlier in the year just as the movie of Priscilla's life was airing on ABC. She is now 54 and Greg is 26.Their lives were chronicled in the first book "No Clear Path: Two Texas Tales of Survival," which began with Priscilla's marriage to the wealthiest man in Texas in 1968 and Greg's birth in 1969. Greg humorously finds that he is gay just as Priscilla is shot at the largest mansion in Ft. Worth in 1976. Priscilla's husband is accused of the shooting in which two others are murdered and is prosecuted and brought to trial in 1977. By 1979, Cullen Davis is acquitted of all charges and his divorce from Priscilla is final in which she is awarded 3.4 million dollars. She moves to Dallas and starts a new life as one of the most lavish and opulent socialites.During this time, Greg is being raised 20 miles from the mansion in Ft. Worth by and educated couple who adopted him in Washington, D.C., where his dad was a physicist for NASA. He feels something is wrong with himself from very early years and finally discovers he is gay by age 8. The coping mechanisms are funny and dramatic but the family isn't equipped to handle disfunction. A blind eye is easier...until it's not.This is the story of how two people are brought together who are very different but need each other in the most primal of ways. They are both looking to survive; both mentally, emotionally and financially. But tragedy strikes Priscilla in the year 2000 and she has died by early 2001. At this point, Greg has to decide how to live his life with almost no money, healthy support system or job. The ties to his parents have frayed over the years and it may take many more to rebuild them. But what obstacles will he encounter? How will he survive without his only real lover and supporter? It will take many years to find himself and along the way old patterns will have to be broken and a new motivation to live will have to be found. But old patterns are hard to break; sometimes when it's almost too late.

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In 1976, the most famous murder scene at the largest mansion in Ft. Worth was unfolding. The millionaire-oilman Cullen Davis was accused of shooting his estranged wife, Priscilla, along with two others at their palatial mansion in Ft. Worth. Priscilla was a beautiful, blond bombshell and many in Texas didn't believe her testimony that it was Cullen who committed the shootings; not only of her but also of her current boyfriend and 12-year-old daughter. The trials of Cullen lasted from 1977-1979 and were so infamous that by 1995 three books and a 4-hour movie starring Heather Locklear and Peter Strauss had been made. But this book isn't about the trials, really. It's about Priscilla Davis and how she lived before and after the murders in August of 1976. It's the story of Texas money and glamour in the 1980's and how public image of someone can change the opinion of "justice." Cullen was acquitted of murdering his 12-year-old stepdaughter and still remains the wealthiest man in America to ever be tried for murder. The case of Cullen and Priscilla Davis was the precursor to O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson. The only difference was that there was no such thing as cable television yet. Priscilla received 3.4 million dollars in her divorce from Cullen in 1979 and moved to the neighboring city of Dallas to start a new life. She was beautiful, rich and famous now. Dallas was exploding with glamour and money as most cities were in the 1980's. But with a future that looked so promising, the demon of alcoholism and a thirst for attention would become a problem.Meanwhile, while the shootings were occurring in Ft. Worth in 1976, the young life of a 7-year-old boy was just beginning twenty miles from the mansion in a small city named Grand Prairie. It was the life of a boy named Greg Brown who was just realizing that he was different. Greg had been born and adopted in Washington D.C. in 1969 by an educated couple from Texas. Greg's father was a physicist for NASA and his mother was an educator who decided to stay home and raise a family. This is the funny and sometimes dramatic story of a young boy trying to fight loneliness but find acceptance. After he humorously demises he is gay because he loves the teenage singer Sean Cassidy, he begins a life-long mission of hiding it and deflecting attention from this grave secret. The family dynamics and views of his upper-middle-class parents are a great snapshot of life in such a family at this time .By 1991, Priscilla is all but broke and living in a one-bedroom apartment in Dallas and Greg has been sent to Lubbock for a second time since his parents don't know what else to do with him. He is now at the age of 22 with no clear path in life and Priscilla is counting on a multi-million dollar settlement from Cullen.But what will happen to Greg and when will Priscilla get her money? Through a series of fateful decisions by Greg, his parents and Priscilla, the worlds of these people will collide and the most unlikely outcomes will transpire. This is the story of a young gay boy from Texas who meets the most infamous woman in Texas history at a time when they both need each other the most. But first you have to understand the events which made them....the events which they each had to experience before their meeting which will lead to the most surprising of outcomes. This is the first in a two-book series. The next book "Unexpected Outcomes: A Continual Search for Identity and Purpose" follows this one and is now available.

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America repeatedly finds itself mired in military interventions long after public buy-in to the national interest has waned. Why is the timely disengagement of military forces so difficult to achieve? Traditional international relations theories diminish the role of the individual leader in favor of the state or international institutions. Behavioral science theories have in recent years experienced a resurgence. However, the dominant behavioral explanation of foreign policy decision-making, prospect theory, while it focuses on how people tend to make decisions under risk, still minimizes the influence of the individual president. Decisions to disengage military forces are presidential decisions, just like the decisions to commit forces to foreign interventions. If we accept this, then it is important to understand if, and if so why, some presidents inherently are more or less acceptant of the risks disengagement presents. This book operationalizes a competing personality-based model of decision-making under risk. Referred to here as the trait-based model, it is assessed using disengagement opportunities in three varied levels of military intervention across four presidencies: humanitarian relief turned nation-building under George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton in Somalia, compellent air campaigns turned peace-making/keeping in Bosnia and Kosovo under Clinton, and major combat operations turned irregular warfare in Iraq under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Data for the model predominantly comes from existing presidential personality profiles based on the dominant model of personality theory, the five-factor model, augmented by Myers-Briggs Type Inventory data from public sources. This study aims to explain the roughly 30 percent of cases which defy prospect theory's predictions and to better explain those cases where prospect theory might heretofore have sufficed. The results suggest specific personality traits do in fact point to presidents' predispositions toward risk, which in turn help explain their disengagement decisions. This work may be only the second to apply the five-factor model to presidential foreign policy decision-making and is the first to do so in the context of disengagement decisions. Hopefully it will foster further work in both areas.

This is the unusual true story of two people in Texas who are separated by both time and space until they have an unlikely meeting which evolves into an extraordinary tale of love and dysfunction. Greg Brown was born in 1969 and knew that he was different from an early age. By 1977 he was humorously (and frightfully) able to identify the condition as being gay. The adventures and situations which follow due to his homosexuality are both dramatic and funny. But just as important are the situations he's introduced to regardless of his emerging sexuality. He was introduced to alcohol at age eleven by an older wealthy relative (which would influence him for years); is accidentally introduced to pornography by thirteen; is sent to Europe basically unsupervised at age fourteen and starts experiencing feelings of love for other men even though he can't tell anyone.This is a snapshot of a seemingly ordinary upper-middle-class American family of it's time. But it's not a frivolous story of coming out or of having privilege. It's a story of a boy hiding a secret and a family thinking they're doing everything right. Events that occur are Unintended Consequences of actions and inactions by several people.Eventually, Greg's parents move to Taiwan for a job opportunity when Greg is eighteen and just entering Texas Tech in Lubbock. It's decided that he will come home after the first semester to take care of the family home near Dallas when his parents leave. What ensues for the next several years is a series of events, including a trip around the world, which leads him to meet Priscilla Davis, a highly dysfunctional lady thirty years his senior who has become known as one of the most infamous (and beautiful) women in Texas history. Priscilla Davis was the 36-year-old estranged wife of Cullen Davis in 1977 when the most famous murder case in Texas history against her husband was commencing. She accused her husband of being the shooter in their 19,000 square foot mansion in Ft. Worth in the summer of 1976 in which her boyfriend and 12-year-old daughter were murdered and Priscilla herself was shot. The subsequent trials lasted until 1979 and Cullen was acquitted of multiple charges, including murder. A movie title Texas Justice with Heather Locklear in 1995 told the story up until 1979. Priscilla moved to Dallas in 1981 with 3.5 million dollars to start a new life. Just at that time, Greg was entering his teenage years in Grand Prairie, a city five miles from Dallas. This book chronicles the parallel paths of Greg and Priscilla's lives before they meet. Priscilla's struggles are increasing as the years are going by and so are Greg's; but for different reasons. When the two do meet, even 28 years of time and space can't keep them apart.This story has many layers and dynamics. It's a story of drama and humor which most people and families experience at one time or another. But it also speaks to the human capacity to forgive and forge forward.

Destiny is a powerful concept. It is a word that resonates within our hearts. It is a word which invokes the belief that God has a plan for our lives and path for us to follow. It is a belief that there is something greater for us to find, to experience and to embrace. Destiny is this and so much more. In Destiny Groups Book 3, you will learn about biblical destiny, which connects the free will of man with the plans of God. God created you with a plan, and he allows you to choose to follow that plan.

Find your purpose through knowing your gifts!Have you ever picked something up and wondered, "What is this for?" When this happens, we take time to look at what we have before us and try to figure out why it was made. This happens because all of us know that everything is made with a purpose in mind.It is important for you to know that you were also made with a purpose. Through this book, along with your Destiny Group, you will learn how to identify your purpose. Finding purpose is connected to looking at how God designed you: What are the things you do well? Much about your purpose can be derived from looking at yourself the same way we all look at the tools we learn to use every day. Destiny Groups: Purpose will enable you to know your God-given giftings and how they point to your purpose!

God has a plan for each one of our lives. We are designed for destiny! There is no greater joy than when we find those things we are designed to do and get to do them on a regular basis. This is what Destiny Groups is all about. In our three part series, we are going to find the biblical promises to help each person unlock God's identity, purpose and destiny for their lives. We use a group interactive format which creates community and releases God's Spirit to and through one another. We include additional scriptures and journaling pages for you as well. These groups can meet in homes, coffee shops or at the local church. Together we are going to see everyone move into a new season of destiny!Who am I? That's an age old question! The answer is simple; if you know Jesus as Lord and Savior you are a Child of God! Because of our relationship with God through Jesus Christ we are defined by Him alone. Yet, the world, others and our own frailties seem to convince us that we are not who God says we are. The truest definition of you can be found within the pages of the Holy Bible. The word says that you have the mind of Christ, you are adopted and accepted, and you are free from condemnation!

In August of 1976, one of the most notorious murder scenes played out in Ft. Worth, Texas. Cullen Davis was one of the richest men in Texas and his second wife, Priscilla Davis, with whom he was divorcing, was shot in their mansion. Also shot and murdered were her twelve-year-old daughter and her thirty-year-old boyfriend, Stan Farr. Priscilla and two other people said it was Cullen. The culprit was wearing a wig so his identity was somewhat hidden but not completely. Cullen was arrested in the early morning hours of August 3, 1976, at the home of his girlfriend, Karen Master. He later went on trial for the murder of Priscilla's daughter. He was found not guilty but the next year he was put on trial for a murder-for-hire plot to kill the judge overseeing his divorce from Priscilla. He got off from that charge, too. Finally in 1979 he and Priscilla were divorced. Priscilla received 3.3 million dollars and Cullen was able to move back into his 19,000 square-foot mansion. This book explains the facts of that fateful August night and what happened in the courtrooms of Texas. But the majority chronicles the path Priscilla took after the trials of the 1970's. Priscilla was not done with Cullen yet and she would try tirelessly to obtain some kind of justice. She also decided to have a little fun along the way. The press loved Priscilla but the general public were split. She had been painted as a low-rent gold-digger in the Texas courtrooms but everyone also knew that Cullen was probably guilty of murder. In the end, only the two of them really knew the truth. This is the story of how Priscilla learned to live with the fact that Cullen would never have to pay for his actions and her reputation would be forever marred. In 1995, a 26-year-old man named Greg Brown moved in with Priscilla, who was now 53. They became lovers and Greg tells how Priscilla learned to make the most of tragic situations which were both of her making and not of her making. It's a story of struggle, love and compromise even in the most dire of circumstances.

Donna and Greg Browns A Book of Moons is a collection of poems about the twelve full moons, according to names given to them by the Algonquin tribes. These moons watch the cycle of the seasons as they progress from lonely winter through the thaw of spring, into summers warmth, then to autumns harvest and back to cold, frosty winter. Exposing children to poetry helps strengthen vocabulary, language and rhythm in children. Each poem in A Book of Moons is accompanied with a beautiful illustration by Bradley Wilson. Working together, the poems and the illustrations will bring an increased appreciation of the moon, earth, and language.

Most people agree they need a breakthrough but few can explain what one is or how to experience it. It is not a lucky break nor is it temporary relief from a trial. It is a process God has designed for each of us to advance through our seasons of life until we reach our place of true purpose. The 7 Laws of Breakthrough gives you a biblical understanding of this powerful concept. You will encounter God as the Master of Breakthrough and learn how to cooperate with Him through your life cycles into your destiny.

Glory is God's solution to deep darkness. Glory is different than ability, gifts or anointing. It is a dynamic of God that he chooses to release at the appropriate time, and this is such a time. The world is filled with darkness. It is covering the earth. There are problems with people, diseases and catastrophes facing our world like never before. Darkness is affecting our health, our families and our finances. While everyone is wondering what to do, God promises to send his people his solution--GLORY! This move is more than signs and wonders; it is a visitation of Abba Daddy God showing us how much he loves us. The hunger in the people is being met with demonstrations of love.

The instant New York Times bestselling book of entertaining, irreverent, and totally accessible illustrated answers to the scientific “questions you had no idea were bugging you all your life” (Fast Company), from the creators of the wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE. Why do we get hung over? What would happen if you stopped sleeping? Is binge-watching TV actually bad for you? Why should I take a power nap? In their first-ever book, Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown, the geniuses behind the YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, explain the true science of how things work in their trademark hilarious and fascinating fashion. Applying the fun, illustrated format of their addictive videos to topics ranging from brain freeze to hiccups to the science of the snooze button, AsapSCIENCE takes the underpinnings of biology, chemistry, physics, and other hard sciences and applies them to everyday life through quirky and relatable examples that will appeal to both science nerds and those who didn’t exactly ace chemistry. This is the science that people actually want to learn, shared in a friendly, engaging style. “Science is big fun. The ASAP guys get that, and they’ll show you—they’ll even draw you a diagram” (Bill Nye, “The Science Guy”). And amid the humor is great information and cocktail conversation fodder, all thoughtfully presented. Whether you’re a total newbie or the next Albert Einstein, this guide is sure to educate and entertain...ASAP.

Enhanced ebook (includes audio) Night falls in wavelets of gentle fantasy at a seaside hotel in this charming bedtime story. With a peaceful “Good Night Moon” vibe, this story-song penned features whimsical, lush illustrations. The narrated story is followed by the recording of the theme song “Down at the Sea Hotel”.

A series of visual exercises that develop the ability to play arpeggios without a lot of memorizing shapes. Along with the visual exercises there is practical application with various arpeggios used in styles. The reader will be giving a very complete understanding of arpeggios and how they are used in the most cutting edge applications today.The techniques covered with arpeggios include traditional picking, sweep picking, and tapping, along with string skipping concepts as well. All a player needs to play every kind of arpeggios is covered. More than just memorizing shapes real visual skills are given and shown how to use to develop you mastery of arpeggios.

Understand the guitar before you even play a note! This short study can be read in few hours but gives you years of knowledge at the same time. The first book of is kind is designed to give you the knowledge you need to be a great guitarist in just a few hours.The title Mentally Mastering the Guitar is descriptive of exactly what this book does for you. It allows you to master the guitar in your mind. Then you start your guitar adventure with the edge others would not have just starting off blind.

A Visual Learning System that is continuation of Nano Volume 1, that covers advanced visual skill. These visual skills are aplied to styles as blues, rock, metal, and jazz. There are examples in all the above mentioned styles that start with simple lessons to very advanced examples.

Visualing learning the guitar, with special disnged inovetive techiques. The lessons cover all the fundamentles needed to read, music, play chords, and understand the guitar in nano time. For those that want to learn the guitar and understand what they are doing, including music theory this book is the one you have been waiting for!

The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project proposes the construction of a twin pipeline system running from central Alberta to an oil tanker port in Kitimat, B.C., providing an unprecedented link between Alberta's oil sands and Asian markets. The dual pipeline would export 525,000 barrels a day of petroleum products from the oil sands and import 193,000 barrels a day of condensate, a substance used to dilute raw bitumen so that it can flow in a pipeline, aiding additional Alberta oil sands extraction. As such, the environmental consequences and risks of the pipeline project extend beyond the pipeline and the associated oil tanker port. They include the extraction of the additional oil sands bitumen, the tanker traffic and associated risk to B.C.'s inside coastal waters, the upgrading of oil sands bitumen to synthetic crude oil, the refining into usable petroleum products and the end use consumption. The purpose of this report is to estimate the environmental impacts of oil sands expansion that would be enabled by the proposed Northern Gateway Export Pipeline. The data sourced for calculations is from proposed oil sands projects and therefore results in a forward-looking estimate.

With the Light Speed Guitar method, students can learn in months what used to take years. This unique and cutting edge method provides instruction on improvisation, music styles and fretboard theory. Students will gain confidence and inspiration as they acquire the tools to be top-notch guitar players. The Light Speed Guitar method is based on a visual process. Students can study a variety of styles including classical guitar, blues-rock, heavy metal, jazz, and country music. Students can learn and improve the following: Scales, chords, arpeggios Guitar technique Solfege and note reading Music theory Understanding of the fretboard Composition skills Light Speed Guitar is an innovative curriculum consisting of four levels. Students are grouped by age and ability to create an ideal atmosphere for group learning.

Written from "a peon in this vast universe" type of viewpoint in an effort to find out more about God who is the creator of life, love and all things, the author looks around, explores, discovers, falls down and arises because of her undying curiosity about life. The question "why?" always pops up when things don't go so right. "What?" is not too far behind as she endeavors to identify the problem. "Where?", of course, follows because once you've located the culprit, the next step is where to begin working on the solution. "When?" immediately comes to mind after establishing locale in order to start right away working on solutions. Finally, "how?"--with God's guidance is the only way (the author believes) to approach a situation, find the right answer and solve the problem! "A Little Something" is the author's first work written out of an attempt to capture the right perspective in her life with the help of God's word in a not-so-right environment. Her writings are a reflection of thoughts and emotions experienced as she contemplates about life, discovers love and makes an effort to express it all within the pages of this book.

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