Matt Brown

Turn Your Dream of Living in a Tiny House Into RealityThis book is your definitive guide to realizing the dream of one day moving into your own tiny house.With the recent global downturn in the real estate market and the desire for minimalism, tiny home culture has grown exponentially and become a tangible alternative for those living on a budget or choosing to keep material possessions to a minimum. A number of people want to live in tiny houses because they view the smaller floorplan as environmentally friendly, practical and more ethically responsible.Tiny Houses: An Essential Guide to Tiny Houses with Examples and Ideas of Designs is your ultimate guide to the ins and outs of planning the best tiny house for your budget. Whether you plan to purchase or build your house from the ground up, this book will be your guide every step of the way. Full of advice and recommendations to guarantee your success, this is the book you need to read before you get started building your own tiny house.Within this book, you'll find the answers to these questions and more. Just some of the questions and topics covered include A Few Basics About Tiny Homes Global Trends How Much Does it Cost? Different Types of Tiny Houses Benefits and Drawbacks of a Tiny House Deciding on a Foundation Framing Options What about Building Codes? A Word about Expenses Protecting your Tiny Home from the Elements What about Windows and Doors? Put a Roof on it Utilities And much more Buy the book now and learn more about Tiny Houses

A humorous and informative book, debunking a range of commonly held myths about animals. Camels store water in their humps and magpies love to steal shiny objects. Or do they? A must-read in the Everything you Know series, this book debunks a range of old-cod stories about animals in author Matt Brown's inimitable humorous and fascinating style. Covering everything from the myth that lemmings throw themselves off cliffs in suicide (they don't, but on occasion some just fall off) to the one about bats being blind (they're not, and they can see but use the more sophisticated echolocation for certain hunting). From head in the sand ostriches to cats landing on their feet, a wealth of information on our beloved pets to creepy crawlies and wild giants, this book will set the marvel of the animal word straight. Plus, there are special features on the odd diets of animals and how wrongly they are portrayed in the movies. All the old stories and myths about animals we've had since childhood are gleefully debunked in a hugely entertaining book.

Your Ultimate Guide to Living in a Tiny House with Example and Ideas of DesignsThis book is a comprehensive guide that will help you to move into your own tiny house.Because tiny living has a way of keeping you focused on what really matters to you, your life becomes richer, fuller and more meaningful. While you may own fewer possessions, your relationships, and quality of life improve dramatically. One of the results of tiny house living is the emergence of a group of people succeeding in life because they are having fun doing what they love to do.Out of this view and belief, this comprehensive guide on tiny houses was birthed. It is a means of teaching people what they need to get started in pursuing the life of tiny house living. A life where you can live fully. Leaving the past behind you to start a lifelong adventure of living the life you have always wanted to live but never knew you could.By reading this comprehensive guide to tiny houses, you will be able to get started on your journey to living in an amazing tiny house. From exploring tiny house living to the types of tiny houses available and getting ready to live in your own tiny house, we will cover the essential areas.Within this book, you'll find the answers to these questions and more. Just some of the questions and topics covered include Tiny Houses and the Tiny House Movement Debunking 7 myths surrounding tiny living Financing your Tiny House Meeting the legal requirements Designing your tiny house Moving into your tiny house Tiny House Space Hacks And much more Buy the book now and discover more about Tiny Houses

Discover How Shipping Containers Can Become HomesThe trend to make shipping containers into fantastic homes has been a concept that's been used for almost two decades now. They are a convenient design concept that works well with the tiny home movement. The idea of minimizing and having pre-made deliverable homes that fit easily onto the back of a standard truck has a lot of appeals. There's a lot of flexibility when it comes to designing one of these homes, whether you are going for the tiny home or a unique modern design concept.This Book Will Tell It Like It Is: This book is not a positive mumbo jumbo letter that is here to sell you on the idea of shipping container homes. Instead, this book expects that you are an adult who can make your own decisions as long as you are given the correct facts. Therefore, this book will start out by giving you the good and the bad of shipping container homes so you can be aware of the potential challenges that can arise when building with this material. After that, the book will give you a great deal of useful and practical information in regards to building shipping container homes.Here are just some of the questions and topics that are covered within this book: Pros and Cons Designing Your Home Your Containers Inspecting the Container Where to Purchase Preparing the Land Crafting the Container Connecting Containers Interior Considerations Windows and Doors Insulation And much more Buy the Book Now and Discover the Ins and Outs of Home Construction Using Shipping Containers

Is it better to prove our point? Or just try to love?Christians today are facing a crisis of influence. In our rush to speak truth to today’s tensions, cultural issues, and trending controversies, it becomes all too easy for us to focus on proving our points rather than extending God’s grace. Conversely, when we seek only to love but never proclaim a better way, we short-circuit God’s plan. As believers in Christ, we need to be known for both truth and love.In this video Bible study, evangelist Matt Brown draws on the example of the apostle Paul to show how believers can influence their world with the truth while living in a way that reveals their love. By developing the fruit of the Spirit, we naturally begin to draw others to the love of Christ within us . . . and to the truth found in God’s Word. Truth plus love is the formula for transforming our lives and influencing the world for Christ.The Truth Plus Love Study Guide includes video teaching notes, discussion questions, Bible exploration, and weekly personal study and reflection materials.Sessions include:Truth Plus JoyTruth Plus PeaceTruth Plus GentlenessTruth Plus FaithfulnessTruth Plus PatienceTruth Plus LoveDesigned for use with the Truth Plus Love Video Study (9780310112358), sold separately. Streaming video also available.

Is it better to prove our point? Or just try to love?Christians today are facing a crisis of influence. In our rush to speak truth to today’s tensions, cultural issues, and trending controversies, it becomes all too easy for us to focus on proving our points rather than extending God’s grace. Conversely, when we seek only to love but never proclaim a better way, we short-circuit God’s plan. As believers in Christ, we need to be known for both truth and love.In this video Bible study, evangelist Matt Brown draws on the example of the apostle Paul to show how believers can influence their world with the truth while living in a way that reveals their love. By developing the fruit of the Spirit, we naturally begin to draw others to the love of Christ within us . . . and to the truth found in God’s Word. Truth plus love is the formula for transforming our lives and influencing the world for Christ.Sessions include:Truth Plus JoyTruth Plus PeaceTruth Plus GentlenessTruth Plus FaithfulnessTruth Plus PatienceTruth Plus LoveThis pack contains one study guide and one DVD. Streaming video also available.

When Dreary Inkling Primary School's headmistress buys some new vending machines, she never imagined that a freak electrical storm would turn them into killer robots... Suddenly, the vending machines are on the rampage! Can whizz-girl Drishya Samode step in to save the day - and unite the Tech-Heads and the Cool Girls at the same time?

Imagine what our world might look like if Christians became known for remarkable love, as well as life-giving truth. The stakes are high and the need is great for Christians to represent Jesus to a watching world. And today, we have more influence than ever before--for better and for worse. We are among the first generations to have access to a global megaphone through social media. But it's not enough to speak truth louder to a noisy culture. To counter the reputation Christians have earned, our love must be just as loud. Ask evangelist Matt Brown, and he will tell you Christians today are facing a crisis of influence. In our rush to speak truth to today's tensions, cultural issues, and trending controversies, it becomes all too easy to focus on proving our points rather than extending God's grace. Conversely, when we seek only to love yet never proclaim a better way, we short-circuit God's plan.Truth Plus Love invites you to rediscover the biblical framework for engaging culture as ambassadors of Christ. Through biblical insight, cultural analysis, and practical principles, Matt Brown outlines how to champion truth without compromise, how to love unconditionally, and ultimately, how to step into this great adventure of representing God to the world. It's hard, it's messy, and it's the unfinished project of a lifetime, yet here we find our great adventure: representing God to a watching world.

A highly entertaining read for anyone interested in English history and culture, this great myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through history and the national character. Think we're the land of Punch and Judy and Morris Dancing? Think again as both traditions started in southern Europe. Love Winston Churchill's wartime speeches? Well, they were recorded by an actor.Packed with details on real English history, the book explodes a range of national myths from bluebirds in Dover (they are not indigenous European birds) to the origin of the Cornish pasty (they might have been invented in London), from our stiff upper lip (an Americanism) to where you can spend a Scottish bank note. English arts, entertainment, food, drink, kings and queens, traditions as well as politics are all covered to give you a fascinating insight into the true England.Includes an additional chapter on Scottish, Welsh and Irish myths that we've been peddling in England for decades and need to be laid to rest.

Ian Iansson is a bit worried about his school trip. Firstly, Ian doesn�t have any friends, plus, his mum has packed him ten pairs of pants for a two-day trip. But as it turns out, these are the least of his problems� Because when Ian�s class arrives at the spooky old house, he notices something that looks awfully like zombies...

A fascinating and humorous read that debunks the surprising myths about the world we always believed. The latest addition to the popular Everything You Know series, this book will blow apart your beliefs in the world’s physical and social landscape, leaving you staggered by astounding facts about our planet's geography, nature, countries and cities. Indulge your curiosity and you’ll find a plethora of myths, legends and misquotes that have shaped the way we view the world today. Convinced the world is round? Think again! It’s actually flatter at the poles. Have the Sahara down as the world’s biggest desert? It’s actually Antarctica. Brimming with facts about the world, how it works and the way we live in it, this illuminating book will guide you through the minefield of misinformation to set the record straight on everything from the location of Mexico to the correct way of measuring earthquakes. Discovering untruths about people and places, geography and the environment, Everything You Know About Planet Earth Is Wrong provides a hugely entertaining insight into the world we live in.

An engaging and witty puzzle book for science fans all over the world. The Astounding Science Puzzle Book features a series of mini quizzes of 10–15 questions on quirky topics, including 'Marvellous maths and peculiar patterns', 'Wonderful wordplay' and 'Wonders and fragilities of the body'. This handsome book makes exploring maths, physics, chemistry and biology exciting and challenging, and is perfect for any quiz lover. The trivia is based on science but also extends to popular culture, history and language – with Nobel Prize winners alongside Elvis Presley, and the moons of Mars alongside Jurassic Park. The book is interweaved with puzzles, including witty anagrams, logic puzzles, crosswords, dingbats and other illustrated puzzles. Aspiring code-breakers should keep their eyes peeled for hidden puzzles as well. From the Big Bang to Beatles lyrics – this book is perfect for any trivia lover.

A highly entertaining book debunking the many myths about the human body. Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong debunks the scientific myths we all take for granted. Written by author Matt Brown in his trademark humourous style, this book takes you through all the facts we thought true, from bodily blunders, medical mis-quotes and curious cures. Does giving kids sugar make them go hyper-active? Not at all – there is no proven link! Is there such a thing as being 'double-jointed'? And is it dangerous to swim after eating? Covering everything from pseudoscience to recent research, Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong shatters a range of illusions we have accepted unquestioningly since childhood and demystifies this most puzzling of subjects.

Eric Doomsday loves doing magic tricks, but they always seem to go a bit wrong. When School Inspectors threaten to close down Eric's school, his headmistress decides to put on a talent show. Thank goodness the Earth isn't being inspected by aliens at the same time! Because magic, aliens and talent shows are sure to be a horrible mix... Aren't they?

Indulge your curiosity with this humorous and fascinating book that demystifies the surprising myths about space. In the latest book from the Everything You Know is Wrong series, Matt Brown brings you a compendium of amazing facts about our planet, the universe, and everything in between! Thanks to popular sci-fi films and TV shows, there have been many misconceptions about the cosmos – from travelling through worm-holes to blowing up asteroids. In Everything You Know About Space is Wrong, you'll find a plethora of myths, legends and misquotes that have shaped the way you view the universe today. Think that the vacuum of space would make your blood boil and your head explode? It won't, and there have been people who have survived without wearing a suit in space. Think that astronauts float in space because there is zero-gravity? They're actually constantly falling towards the Earth. Think that the colour of space is black? It's actually predominantly green. Chock-full of facts about the cosmos, how it works (and how it doesn't!), this illuminating book will guide you through the mine of misinformation to answer such questions as whether we will meet aliens in our lifetime (SETI predicts we'll find evidence of ET by 2040!), what happens in the centre of the black hole, and why Mercury is not the hottest planet in the solar system. Discovering untruths about popular science, Everthing You Know About Space is Wrong provides a hugely entertaining insight into our universe.

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history. This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through the lives of starving (and not so starving) artists, unusual exhibitions and painting blunders throughout history. In the intriguing, outrageous and often provoking world of the visual arts, nothing is quite as it seems. From the world’s first intance of photobombing in 1843 to the Damien Hirst spot painting that landed on Mars, the destruction of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers during World War II and the £3,500 sheet of paper crumpled into a ball, Everything You Know About Art is Wrong will confound your assumptions about the world of art – and perhaps even the place of art in the world.