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Butts on Things 2025 Day-to-Day Calendar

Brian Cook

Get ready to laugh your butt off. From cheeky tacos to booty-ful household objects, each page of the Butts on Things 2025 Day-to-Day Calendar features a hilariously immature drawing of…

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The Corsairs

Brian Cook

When Alec MacKay escapes his Ayrshire mining town to join the police he discovers there are some things from which you just can't run.

It is 1987 and breaking ranks…

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Brian’s Cooking

Brian Leonard

Whether you're deciding to try your hand in the kitchen for the first time or are a seasoned chef, Brian's Cooking has you covered. The author, Brian Leonard, takes you…

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Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing

Michael Ruhlman,Brian Polcyn (SchoolCraft College)

An essential update of the perennial bestseller.

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Hands Across The Sea

Brian Cook

What happens when real talk gets a little too real?

This character-driven saga puts the Office of the Sheriff, known as the Agency, in the crosshairs as Hands Across the…

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Hands Across The Sea

Brian Cook

What happens when real talk gets a little too real?

This character-driven saga puts the Office of the Sheriff, known as the Agency, in the crosshairs as Hands Across the…

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Suctioncup

Brian Cook

This true story of two little boys going fishing and catching something completely different will warm your heart. Their excitement, their family, their prayer and their success will bring a…

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Bureaucratic Politics and Regulatory Reform: The EPA and Emissions Trading

Brian Cook

Based on interviews with key EPA decision makers and an analysis of the public record, this informative case study demonstrates how the contemporary movement for regulatory reform has actually affected…

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Home Ground

Brian Cook

Tom Keardon has been estranged from his father since turning his back on the family sheep farm to go to university. After working as a roving reporter in the Far…

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Hands Across the Sea

What happens when real talk gets a little too real?

That’s the 800-lb. gorilla confronting the Office of the Sheriff.

This character-driven saga puts the rear echelon in the crosshairs…

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The Thin Blue Li(n)e

Brian Cook

The Thin Blue Li(n)e picks up the saga of the Office of the Sheriff where Hands Across The Sea left off.

As the real talk grows contentious, the characters and…

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Brian Cook’s Landscapes of Britain: a guide to Britain in beautiful book illustration, mini edition

Brian Cook

An exploration of the iconic book-cover designs created by Brian Cook for Batsford in the mid-twentieth century.

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Writing Comedy for Television

Brian Cooke

Writing Comedy for Television (1983) is a practical, step-by-step manual about how and what to write. It contains many examples from the scripts of various sitcoms and sketch shows. It…

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Butts on Things: 200+ Fun Doodles of Derrieres

Brian Cook

Because Everything Looks Better with a Butt

In Brian Cook’s debut collection of fun, offbeat illustrations, beers have rears, Tetris ® becomes Butris and balloons bear backsides. Hot dog buns…

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Relief Sculpture of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Brian Cook

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. This is a catalogue of its friezes and other decorative reliefs. Detailed descriptions are illustrated by hundreds…

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The Butts on Things Activity Book: Coloring and Fun for All Ages

Brian Cook

The Activity Book Bound to Have Everyone Cracking Up

Calling all butt-lovers and cheeky bums-the wait is finally over! The highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling doodle book Butts on…

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Construction Practice

Brian Cooke

Construction site visits are a popular way for undergraduate students to become acquainted with the practical aspects of construction, but these visits only show students a small proportion of the…

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The Recipe for Student Well-Being

Brian H Smith, Clayton R Cook, Aria E Fiat

What are the five essential ingredients for ensuring all students succeed academically, socially, and behaviorally? This practical guide details each ingredient, why it matters, and how to implement it. The…

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Brian Cook’s Cathedrals of England Jigsaw Puzzle

B T Batsford

1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of an iconic book cover featuring Gloucester cathedral from B T Batsford by book designer and artist Brian Cook.

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Brian Cook’s Landscape of England Jigsaw Puzzle

B T Batsford

1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of an iconic book cover from B T Batsford by book designer and artist Brian Cook.

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Management of Construction Projects

B Cooke

Construction Management is a wide ranging discipline, but ultimately it is a demanding, hands-on discipline concerned with the management of people, plant and materials, all mobilised to complete a building…

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Situation Comedy

Johnnie Mortimer,Brian Cooke

Messrs. Mortimer and Cooke, the top writers of British television sitcoms, have turned their delightful senses of humor loose on the stage. This live sitcom is about two authors of…

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Physics of Materials

Brian Cooke,David Sang

Bath Advanced Science topic books provide detailed coverage to support both options for AS and A Level as well as other advanced courses. The clear format of these texts will…

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New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective

Douglas Morgan,Brian Cook

Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and…

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New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective

Douglas Morgan,Brian Cook

Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and…

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Construction Planning, Programming and Control

Brian Cooke,Peter Williams

updated information on procurement, standard contract forms and health and safety, together with the trend away from traditional sub-contracting more information on value and risk management, as well as collaborative…

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Construction Planning, Programming and Control

Brian Cooke,Peter Williams

updated information on procurement, standard contract forms and health and safety, together with the trend away from traditional sub-contracting more information on value and risk management, as well as collaborative…

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Bureaucracy and Self-government: Re-considering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics

Brian J. Cook

Brian J. Cook argues that for more than two centuries there have been two views of American politics: the instrumental and the constitutive . Through an examination of key moments…

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Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson’s Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management

Brian J. Cook

Woodrow Wilson anticipated the need for new ideas to address the effects of modern economic and social forces on the United States. This work synthesizes the former world leader’s thought…

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The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic

Brian J. Cook

Confronts head-on the accumulating derangements in the American constitutional system and how the administrative state has contributed to the problems, how it has been a key force in addressing the…

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Australia’s War Against Rabbits: The Story of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease

Brian Douglas Cooke

Provides up-to-date information on the use of biological control agents to manage wild rabbit populations.

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Hands Across The Sea

Brian Cook (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University USA)

What happens when real talk gets a little too real? That’s the 800-lb. gorilla confronting the Office of the Sheriff. This character-driven saga puts the rear echelon in the crosshairs…

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The Thin Blue Li(n)e

Brian Cook (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University USA)

The Thin Blue Li(n)e picks up the saga of the Office of the Sheriff where Hands Across The Sea left off.

As the real talk grows contentious, the characters and…

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The Spirit of London Jigsaw Puzzle

B T Batsford

1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of an iconic London illustration from book designer and artist Brian Cook.

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Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics

Brian J. Cook (Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech)

Revisiting his historical exploration of competing conceptions of politics, government, and public administration, the author offers a novel way of thinking constitutionally about public administration that transcends debates about big…

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When the Cat’s Away

Johnnie Mortimer,Brian Cooke (Former Principal Lecturer Liverpool John Moores University)

Comedy

Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke

Characters: 2 male, 4 female

Interior Set

Based on a very popular British sit com, this riotously funny play is classic British sex farce…

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The Fourth Branch Lib/E: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic

Brian J Cook

In The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic Brian J. Cook confronts head-on the accumulating derangements in the American constitutional system and how the administrative state…

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The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic

Brian J Cook

In The Fourth Branch: Reconstructing the Administrative State for the Commercial Republic Brian J. Cook confronts head-on the accumulating derangements in the American constitutional system and how the administrative state…

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