Basic Research Press Logo | Book Layout | Cover Art

Basic Research Press is the pet project of Dr. Joseph M. Brown. During the 50's & 60's Dr. Brown worked for McDonnell Douglas developing aircraft, missiles, & satellites. In the 70's he taught Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University. Soon after, he opened up a chain of textbook store throughout the State of Mississippi. During all of that, for the past 50 years, he has self published over 20 books based around the continued development of his own Kinetic Particle Theory of Physics.


My contributions to Basic Research Press involved typing, creating layouts, scientific illustrations & MathType for the books: Photons and the Elementary Particles, The Mechanical Theory of Everything, The Fundamental Particles of Physics, & The Unified Theory of Physics. My InDesign templates were even used on other books I didn't directly work on. I also worked directly with the printing company, packaging & sending of resources, approved proofs, & created advertisements for Magazines such as, Scientific America, Discover, & Nexus Magazine.


Bellow are examples from the most recent project, The Unified Theory of Physics.

Dust Jacket

Hard Cover Foil Press

Full Dust Jacket

Inside Layout


Equations were built in MathType, Illustrations drawn in Illustrator, then layout in InDesign.


All text, edits, & corrections were handwritten by Dr. Brown. Given the amount of revisions involved, the editing & correcting phase would usually outlast the original typing & development phase.

Dispaly with other books I've made for Basic Research Press.


Photons and the Elementary Particles

2011 | ISBN: 978-0-9712944-5-5


The Mechanical Theory of Everything

2015 | ISBN: 978-0-9712944-9-3


The Fundamental Particles of Physics

2018 | ISBN: 978-0-9883180-4-5


The Unified Theory of Physics

2020 | ISBN: 978-0-9883190-3-9