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Ending the French Revolution
"Filled with critical insights, Brown's revisionist study utilizes an impressive array of archival sources, some only recently cataloged, to support his thesis that the French Revolution survived until 1802 and the Consulate regime.... This volume should be a priority for all historians and serious students interested in modern French history. Summing Up: Essential."--Choice "What Brown has done is to put all historians of the French Revolution in his debt by the thoroughness with which he explores an important aspect of the complex and interrelated problems posed by any attempt to create a new social and moral order based on principles that could prove to be self-contradictory and were neit...
Variations in the Perception of Color
Sometimes creating a poem is nothing more than a rite of exorcism, a catharsis by which you cast out a demon skulking about your interior landscape, exiling it to the surface of a sheet of plain white paper ... From A Rite of Exorcism Variations in the Perception of Color is a collection of work by poet Howard Brown. The author reflects on the world, interesting people with whom he has interacted, the unique character of animals, the effect of nature on the mind, the ongoing pandemic, and the purpose of poetry. While exploring his personal experiences, he meanders deftly between the real world and that of the imagination, exploring how things might have turned out in slightly altered circumstances. His poems reveal that poetry is often akin to a dream - a means of expression that challenges the capacity of words.
The Gossamer Nature of Random Things
The Gossamer Nature of Random Things presents a collection of introspective poems composed over a twenty-eight year period by writer and poet Howard Brown. These poems are based on the random observations and internal reflections of the author on a wide range of topics: from encounters with interesting people, to special places he has visited, to the unique nature of the moon and its cycles. His poems reflect upon everyday joys and sorrows whether chronicling an enjoyable afternoon at his daughters house listening to his grandchildren at play in Alicias Backyard, or musing in Ghost over the futility of trying to hold on to the past. The Gossamer Nature of Random Things provides an intimate look into the life and emotions of one mana sort of personal journal in verse form. Kaleidoscope Sheltered by a neon sky, the mountain, a collage of red, green and gold, the magic of the landscape enhanced by its own inherent transience.
The Healing of Howard Brown
"This is your last chance to do something right, son. Don't screw it up." With these words ringing in his 60-year old ears, Howard Brown, Jr., sets out from Kentfield, California to find his wayward and possibly psychotic sister and return her to their dying father's bedside. The search leads him to the Brown family's ancestral home near St. Francisville, Louisiana, where his Southern cousins have apparently conspired with his sister to bilk him out his inherited, potentially oil-rich property. At the same time, he discovers that a long dormant birthmark in his sternum is a portal to the land of the dead. His consciousness is suddenly inundated with terrifying visions of murderous rebels, bl...
Mass Violence and the Self
Mass Violence and the Self explores the earliest visual and textual depictions of personal suffering caused by the French Wars of Religion of 1562–98, the Fronde of 1648–52, the French Revolutionary Terror of 1793–94, and the Paris Commune of 1871. The development of novel media from pamphlets and woodblock printing to colored lithographs, illustrated newspapers, and collodion photography helped to determine cultural, emotional, and psychological responses to these four episodes of mass violence. Howard G. Brown’s richly illustrated and conceptually innovative book shows how the increasingly effective communication of the suffering of others combined with interpretive bias to produce...
Before AIDS
The AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical professionals are unprepared and sometimes unwilling to care for the sick, and a national health bureaucracy is slow to invest resources in finding a cure. Yet this widely accepted narrative, while accurate, creates the impression that the gay community lacked any capacity to address AIDS. In fact, as Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first r...
Private Anguish
Rarely does one find their true soul mate. In even stranger cases does one find that special someone and then almost as quickly lose him/her again. Such is the case in Private Anguish, Howard Brown's intelligently written and utterly captivating tale of two people separated by a sudden twist of fate. Susan is having a recurring dream. Derek is in the worst slump of his tennis career. They have unalterably affected each other's lives, but neither of them knows what happened to the other. Even more ironic is that their worlds never once ceased to collide. Enter Rachel, a bright young psychotherapist who by virtue of her relationships with the two is the only hope for connecting the complex triangle of circumstances, which elucidates their pain. True love is recoverable, it just takes a few good friends.
When I Get to Heaven
This beautifully crafted memoir explores the life of the Reverend Howard William Brown, a senior pastor with the United Methodist Church, with powerful stories of one mans inner quest to grasp the very nature of eternity. When I Get to Heaven achieves a memorable portrait of Reverend Browns dynamic spiritual journey, from his early childhood memories to an enlightened vision of the great beyond. Penned in the final year of his life, the book reveals deep insights into the great spirit of expectation that captivates us while on earth and illuminates our path toward life eternal. From his last notes: I am not afraid of my journey past this life. Heaven is wonderful and I could talk forever abo...
