Books with author John Bray

"John Brady’s GOLDEN PALMS gives a classic American genre a contemporary, refreshing reboot. Set in Los Angeles, the city built for and built by noir, he finds humor, danger, and pathos in the bizarre world of city government. If you’ve ever felt that truth was stranger than fiction, then you’ve met your match with this clever, engaging novel."- Sam Zalutsky, Writer and Director of SeasidePolitics. Surfing. Constituent Services. Murder. Funny places. Gentrification. More murder. Lots of LA atmosphere. GOLDEN PALMS isn’t your usual noir. Ted Burek’s not much of a sleuth. He’s a disgraced college teacher who drinks too much, gets angry too easily and tries too often to surf away his problems.Ted’s going to have to get up to speed on the detecting game pretty quick. He’s washed up in LA with one last chance to get his life right.Landing a job as a low-level political hack, he’s looking for redemption in the halls of power. It’s not going to be easy. Ted stumbles on the trail of out-of-town hard boys who have come to LA to make trouble for his new boss. To stop them, he’ll journey through a world of slick real estate developers, bloviating pols, over-confident tech bros and radical bicyclists. Along the way, Ted will discover just how high the price of justice can be.

This book describes the stage-by-stage creation and development, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, of the remarkable global communications technologies that have profoundly transformed the way that people live and work. Written in a highly readable style, this book provides a fascinating account of the key innovators from Faraday, Maxwell and Hertz to the inventors of the transistor, microchip, optical fibre systems and the World Wide Web. The book explores the background and motivation of these pioneers and the social and economic environment in which they worked. The significance of each innovative step is shown in terms of the impact - in scale and relevance - on today's communications world. John Bray also looks to the future for innovations yet to come. This book will be interest to all those interested in the human thread running through the history of technological advances in telecommunications and broadcasting.

Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series(Part I and Part II)The Rosetta Stone is one of the world's great wonders, attracting awed pilgrims by the tens of thousands each year. This book tells the Stone's story, from its discovery by Napoleon's expedition to Egypt to its current--and controversial-- status as the single most visited object on display in the British Museum.A pharaoh's forgotten decree, cut in granite in three scripts--Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic, and ancient Greek--the Rosetta Stone promised to unlock the door to the language of ancient Egypt and its 3,000 years of civilization, if only it could be deciphered. Capturing the drama of the race to decode this key to the ancient past, John Ray traces the paths pursued by the British polymath Thomas Young and Jean-Francois Champollion, the "father of Egyptology" ultimately credited with deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. He shows how Champollion "broke the code" and explains more generally how such deciphering is done, as well as its critical role in the history of Egyptology. Concluding with a chapter on the political and cultural controversy surrounding the Stone, the book also includes an appendix with a full translation of the Stone's text.Rich in anecdote and curious lore, The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt is a brilliant and frequently amusing guide to one of history's great mysteries and marvels.

"John Brady’s GOLDEN PALMS gives a classic American genre a contemporary, refreshing reboot. Set in Los Angeles, the city built for and built by noir, he finds humor, danger, and pathos in the bizarre world of city government. If you’ve ever felt that truth was stranger than fiction, then you’ve met your match with this clever, engaging novel."- Sam Zalutsky, Writer and Director of SeasidePolitics. Surfing. Constituent Services. Murder. Funny places. Gentrification. More murder. Lots of LA atmosphere. GOLDEN PALMS isn’t your usual noir. Ted Burek’s not much of a sleuth. He’s a disgraced college teacher who drinks too much, gets angry too easily and tries too often to surf away his problems.Ted’s going to have to get up to speed on the detecting game pretty quick. He’s washed up in LA with one last chance to get his life right.Landing a job as a low-level political hack, he’s looking for redemption in the halls of power. It’s not going to be easy. Ted stumbles on the trail of out-of-town hard boys who have come to LA to make trouble for his new boss. To stop them, he’ll journey through a world of slick real estate developers, bloviating pols, over-confident tech bros and radical bicyclists. Along the way, Ted will discover just how high the price of justice can be.

"An overlooked rangeland classic . . . well written and good reading." -Don Russell, Westerners Brand Books."Bratt's story is a minor classic because of the raw but credible frontier adventures of a young English emigrant."---Merrill J. Mattes. John Bratt's 1921 book "Trails of Yesterday," is among the greatest first-hand accounts of cattle ranching on the northern Great Plains during the wild time of the 1870s and 1880s. His book is the memoirs of a rancher on the Nebraska frontier plains, and gives a window into life on the Western cattle country as well as his youthful adventures in traversing the Great Platte River Road while avoiding attack from Indians.Bratt (1842-1918) was born in England and came to the U.S. at age 22, joining in 1866 a wagon train going from Nebraska City, Nebraska, to Fort Phil Kearny, working as a bullwhacker supplying Ft. Kearny and other Army posts. Bratt gives an authentic look at the country along the Great Platte River Road, noting the condition of the trail, and run-ins with buffalo and Indians such as Dull Knife.In describing one encounter with Dull Knife's band, Bratt writes: "We had all but eight of the wagons across when a small party of Indians (maybe twenty), mounted and carrying spears in addition to the customary bows and arrows, came charging at breakneck speed out of the adjacent hills and with a war whoop rode close up to the eight teams and commenced to shoot arrows at the teamsters and the cattle, sending some of their arrows into the flanks and sides of the cattle…."Another tense encounter took place with an Indian named "Big Mouth":"The next moment I was brought to my sense of danger by hearing the war-whoop yell. I imagine I can hear that yell as I sit penning these lines. It was given in earnest and with vigor. Had I been a black-haired man I think my hair would have turned white as they came galloping toward me. Fortunately I had tightened the cinch on my saddle. I heard one voice, that I recognized as Big Mouth's, yell in Sioux: 'Stop, Yellow Hair. We have you now!' I had sent my spurs into my horse's flanks . . ." Interestingly Bratt gives accounts of the frontier forts used for protecting the long trail, including Forts McPherson, Kearny, Mitchell, and Sedgwick-as well as the cattle ranches of John Burke and the famous Jack Morrow, among others. Bratt was a cattle rancher for more than 20 years, starting his cattle ranching venture in 1870. The majority of his narrative is devoted to the development of the ranching industry on the Great Plains.Bratt's book is a well-regarded historical source, and is cited by the following modern works: •Trails South: The Wagon-road Economy in the Dodge City-Panhandle Region, C. Robert Haywood - 2006 •The Great Plains Guide to Buffalo Bill: Forts, Fights & Other Sites, Jeff Barnes - 2014 •Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2, Philip A. Greasley - 2016 •The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande Across the Far Marias, Mari Sandoz – 1978•The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline Via Fort, Merrill J. Mattes – 1987•Wyoming's Pioneer Ranches, Robert Homer Burns 1955•North from Texas: Incidents in the Early Life of a Range Cowman, James Clay Shaw – 1996•Nebraska history: an annotated bibliography, Michael L. Tate – 1995•National Cowboy Hall of Fame Chuck Wagon Cookbook, B. Byron Price – 1995•The call of the range: the story of the Nebraska Stock Growers, Nellie Irene Snyder Yost-1966•The Westerners Brandbook, Westerners. Chicago Corral – 1953•Journeys to the Land of Gold: Emigrant Diaries from the Bozeman, Susan Badger Doyle - 2000

If you want to live a healthy and long life, then you have to take care of your liver. This liver in question is a very important organ in human body that helps large number of other organs in your body. The recipes in this book will guide you on how to prevent and reverse a fatty liver ailment and still achieve your wonderful health which you desired, for instance, obese have a 75% chance of getting fatty liver but just be grateful because the information in this book will help you reverse and also have a healthier life.This fatty liver guide cookbook is for everybody as it will assist you avert and reverse fatty liver ailment. It will also put you on the track of being healthy.

What does the Rosetta Stone tell us about the past? What treasures of Egyptian literature can now be read, thanks to its decipherment? What does it tell us about the history of writing and the story of our own alphabets? How do decipherments work and how can we know if they are right? Who owns the Rosetta Stone and what happens if we start to return pieces of the past to countries who claim them? These are some of the fascinating questions which are explored in this introduction to one of the true Wonders of the World.

Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part II) The Rosetta Stone is one of the world's great wonders, attracting awed pilgrims by the tens of thousands each year. This book tells the Stone's story, from its discovery by Napoleon's expedition to Egypt to its current--and controversial-- status as the single most visited object on display in the British Museum. A pharaoh's forgotten decree, cut in granite in three scripts--Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic, and ancient Greek--the Rosetta Stone promised to unlock the door to the language of ancient Egypt and its 3,000 years of civilization, if only it could be deciphered. Capturing the drama of the race to decode this key to the ancient past, John Ray traces the paths pursued by the British polymath Thomas Young and Jean-Francois Champollion, the "father of Egyptology" ultimately credited with deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. He shows how Champollion "broke the code" and explains more generally how such deciphering is done, as well as its critical role in the history of Egyptology. Concluding with a chapter on the political and cultural controversy surrounding the Stone, the book also includes an appendix with a full translation of the Stone's text. Rich in anecdote and curious lore, The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt is a brilliant and frequently amusing guide to one of history's great mysteries and marvels.

How would an innocent, unworldly sixteen-year-old boy survive the rigors of boot camp in the Civil War Union Army? How would he be changed by his experience on the bloody field of the Battle of Fredericksburg? Can he return to his former life or is he a different person forever? These questions are explored in this riveting, meticulously researched novel narrated from Johnny's point of view. The story is told with real understanding of the mind of a maturing young man. A first rate read.

Cast: 1 Male, 1 FemaleSynopsis: This subtle and touching drama takes place at a truck stop diner in West Texas, where two desperate and lonely strangers find redemption in each other's eyes while discussing a stolen guitar. The play explores raw human emotions and consequences while these two desperate characters navigate and come to terms with the choices they've made on the road of life. “Goodnight Lovin’ Trail is about as perfect a one act play as I’ve ever come across; effectively comprised of all the parts that make a play work: characters who are brimming with contradiction, both hopeful and hopeless and a story line that drops in on the surface of these lives like a perfect teardrop.”—The Happiest Medium