Books with author Mark Richard Brown

Long before the hit TV show E.R., emergency room doctor Mark Brown decided that the world just had to know about real life in a hospital's E.R. He canvassed 15,000 doctors and nurses across the country, asking them to contribute the stories, dramas, the ridiculous sagas, and the immensely humorous moments that make up their lives in the war zone, or "pit."

He wasn’t very old. A couple of days. But he was restless, feeling he needed to do something. Anything. He had so many brothers and sisters, he lost count. Plus, they were always in the way. Stealing bites off the pink blob as it moved by. Stumblebum barely got a nibble. There were a lot of blobs. A lot of brothers and sisters. And just one Stumblebum.If that wasn’t bad enough, much of his day was spent buzzing away from sloppy Toadies and their whip like tongues always trying to turn him into lunch. Some fun? They would thunder/burp at him and slap him with that quick wet thing as they slurped. So far, they had missed. But they were always there.

Lucky, lucky you to find a four-leaf clover, to wish on a star, to see the new moon over your shoulder, to have the first robin of spring fly up, up into the sky. But no walking under a ladder or stepping on a spider: that's bad. Stir up some good fortune and good times with this attractively illustrated and lighthearted look at popular superstitions.

“How tall is this hill? How many leaves are on that tree? Who made this path? Are there bears in this forest? Have you ever slept on a bed of moss? Are ground pines baby trees? What kinds of fish are in that creek? Are there any caves in this valley? Which do you like best, teaberries or huckleberries? Are those mushrooms good to eat? Why do raspberry and blackberry bushes have thorns? How long did it take those ants to make that anthill? How many bees are in that honey tree? Are groundhogs furry little pigs? Why do squirrels like acorns so much when they taste so bad? Is fog really just clouds coming down to the ground for a rest?”Zoe questions her grandfather about everything she sees, hears and even smells. She will ask her grandfather an amazing question this afternoon, beginning a conversation that will change her life forever.

Functions, Graphs, Applications, Polynomial Functions, Inequalities, Exponents and Logarithms, Analytic Geometry, Trigonometry, Trigonometric Equations and Applications, Triangly Trigonometry, Trigonometric Addition Formulas, Polar Coordinates and Complex Numbers, Vectors and Determinants, Sequences and Series, Matrices, Combinatorics, Probability, Statistics, Curve Fitting and Models, Limits, Series and Iterated Functions, An Introduction to Calculus

He wasn’t very old. A couple of days. But he was restless, feeling he needed to do something. Anything. He had so many brothers and sisters, he lost count. Plus, they were always in the way. Stealing bites off the pink blob as it moved by. Stumblebum barely got a nibble. There were a lot of blobs. A lot of brothers and sisters. And just one Stumblebum.If that wasn’t bad enough, much of his day was spent buzzing away from sloppy Toadies and their whip like tongues always trying to turn him into lunch. Some fun? They would thunder/burp at him and slap him with that quick wet thing as they slurped. So far, they had missed. But they were always there.

This supremely challenging cryptic collection contains 50 jumbo-sized puzzles, conceived to really challenge your word skills. Selected by The Times' Crossword Editor, Richard Browne, this original collection will challenge even the most experienced crossword buff. The ultimate and only jumbo cryptic crosswords available, these puzzles will allow you to give the grey matter a real workout. With unique grids of 23 x 23 squares (in comparison to the standard 15 x 15 grid), they require serious word power and cryptic puzzling skill. Put your linguistic prowess to the test with these quality puzzles from the Times’ crossword writers.