Books by Daniel Brown

Achieve your weight loss and fitness goals using the diet inspired by the Mediterranean SeaAre you looking for a diet that will help you reach your weight loss goals? One that makes you healthier, boosts immunity, ensures you maintain a healthy weight, and benefits all areas of your life?Many of us are constantly looking for a diet that is not only manageable, but also fits into our lifestyle. None of us wish to spend sleepless nights, imagining the unpleasant meals or the starvation we will have to endure, just to lose a couple of pounds.The attraction of the Mediterranean Diet is not merely the glamour of the countries in which it originates, such as Italy, France, Greece, Egypt, and other neighboring provinces. This is also an eating style that allows you to feel more satisfied as you are getting whole, delicious and healthy foods. Even more importantly, is that it encouraged you to eat sustainable amounts of food, rather than restricting calories. Residents of countries, such as Italy, have been eating this way for centuries, and now we have the ability to access the same principles to use in our own lives.Look Great and Live Healthy While Enjoying the Classic Mediterranean Lifestyle!The Complete Mediterranean Diet CookbookA Complete Guide Many Americans are looking for ways to lose weight and get in better health. With the rising costs of medical care and prescriptions and all the bad health effects that can come from an unhealthy lifestyle, it is important to make the right changes. There are hundreds of diet plans out there that promise to be the best, but most of them are unhealthy or too hard to stick with for the long term.The Mediterranean Diet is different. It isn’t just about eating fewer calories and making yourself feel deprived. It is a complete lifestyle change. While you will spend some time learning how to eat foods that are healthy, such as learning the difference between good and bad fats and limiting carbs, you also need to focus on some of the other important aspects, such as eating with family and friends and getting in plenty of exercise.This diet focuses on changing your habits and lifestyle into a healthier one so that you can stick with these changes for the rest of your life. 

This book introduces Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry and prose through its wide-ranging engagements with nature, language, science, philosophy, theology, prosody and social issues.

This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term "realism" to describe representation in literature and painting.

A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first study of an oddly neglected body of work that offers a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science. Such figures as the physicist James Clerk Maxwell toy with ideas of nonsense, as through their poetry they strive to delineate the boundaries of the new professional science and discover the nature of scientific creativity. Also considering Edward Lear, Daniel Brown finds the Victorian renaissances in research science and nonsense literature to be curiously interrelated. Whereas science and literature studies have mostly focused upon canonical literary figures, this original and important book conversely explores the uses literature was put to by eminent Victorian scientists.

Many books have been published in recent years on the topic of mahamudra, or meditation on the fundamentally clear nature of the mind. This book is different in the systematic way it draws from a variety of source texts in order to construct a complete, graded path of practice informed by an understanding of the particular obstacles faced by meditators in the West. Dan Brown is a clinical psychotherapist who has also spent much time evaluating the experiences of meditators on longterm retreats. He knows the Tibetan literature on mahamudra meditation and has over thirty years of both personal meditation experience and observation of the experiences of others. He co-wrote, with Ken Wilber and Jack Engler, the book Transformations in Consciousness, and he teaches an annual seminar on mahamudra meditation at the Esalen Institute. Pointing Out the Great Way is a spiritual manual that describes the Tibetan Buddhist meditation known as mahamudra from the perspective of the 'gradual path.' The gradual path is a progressive process of training that is often contrasted to sudden realization. As such, this book contains a step-by-step description of the ways to practice, precise descriptions of the various stages and their intended realizations, and the typical problems that arise along with their remedies. Simply put, mahamudra meditation involves penetrative focus, free of conceptual elaboration, upon the very nature of conscious awareness. A unique feature of this book is its integrative approach to the stages of mahamudra meditation. A number of works on Buddhist meditation stages in general and mahamudra meditation in particular are already available in English, yet none, single text or commentary on the stages of mahamudra meditation, captures the inner experience of these stages in sufficient detail to convey its richness. This book represents the needed alternative by integrating material from a variety of root texts, practical manuals, and commentaries. Another unique feature of this book is its relational approach. It is intended as a return to the original teacher/student style of teaching meditation, which may be better suited to Western culture than the monastic or retreat style of practice. The book distills and codifies the experiences of many great masters who have traversed the path of meditation to the point of perfect mastery.