Johnson: 6939 books
by Sybil Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“In this engrossing new addition to her Aurora Anderson Mystery series, Sybil Johnson offers readers humor, heart, and unexpected plot twists, painting a portrait of a California beach town peopled with endearing characters. With a smart, sympathetic protagonist, lots of colorful details, and even...
Too Late to Die Young
Nearly True Tales from a Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2005
With a voice as disarmingly bold, funny, and unsentimental as its author, a thoroughly unconventional memoir that shatters the myth of the tragic disabled life
Harriet McBryde Johnson isn't sure, but she thinks one of her earliest memories was learning that she will die. The message came from...
China's Hidden Children
Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It’s generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China’s approach to population control, but...
RICH JOHNSON'S GUIDE TO WILDERNESS SURVIVAL : How to Avoid Trouble and How to Live Through the Trouble You Can't Avoid: How to Avoid Trouble and How to Live Through the Trouble You Can't Avoid
How to Avoid Trouble and How to Live Through the Trouble You Can't Avoid
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2008
Expert advice on staying safe in the outdoors from one of America’s best-known survival writers
The best way to survive an extreme situation in the wilderness is to avoid it in the first place, says Rich Johnson in this refreshing new guide to outdoor survival skills. Avoiding both the rigid...
by Samuel Johnson, Manor Books
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public figure. Also included here is the best of Johnson's later journalism, including essays from the periodicals 'The Adventurer' and 'The Idler'.
Religion: the Failed Narrative
Clashing Religious Doctrine and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
God emerges like a hologram in our consciousness and is falsely presented as the champion who will save us from death. Science, with its focused methodology, tells the true story.
God is the main character in religion, but he is a figment of the imagination. Humans experience consciousness...
Nemesis
The Last Days of the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
The long-awaited final volume of Chalmers Johnson's bestselling
Blowback trilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic
In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In...
by George D. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Reverend George D. Johnsons Whats Wrong With Society and Can it Be Fixed? was written as a backdrop to the tragic events of Columbine High School in Colorado. It is a short and to the point treatise that sets a powerful stage for telling us about some of the ills of society. Whats Wrong With Society...
The Priority of Democracy
Political Consequences of Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Pragmatism and its consequences are central issues in American politics today, yet scholars rarely examine in detail the relationship between pragmatism and politics. In The Priority of Democracy, Jack Knight and James Johnson systematically explore the subject and make a strong case for adopting...
Breathing as Spiritual Practice
Experiencing the Presence of God
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
A guide to meditative breathing practices in Western religions and how these practices provide a direct experience of God
• Reveals how Western spiritual traditions, such as the Book of Genesis, the Jewish teachings of ruach, and the poetry of Rumi, contain hidden instruction for meditative...
Powerful Principles for Presenters
<P>Tips for Public Speakers Using Proven Communication Techniques from Commercials, Television, and Film Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2000
Powerful Principles for Presenters is the textbook used at New York University and Cornell University in Batt Johnson's public speaking class. It features proven communication techniques from commercials, television, and film professionals and explains their effective use for anyone. This helps you...
by Samuel Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11. by Samuel Johnson.
The Kaiser's Chemists
Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the early twentieth century, an elite group of modern-minded scientists in Germany, led by the eminent organic chemist Emil Fischer, set out to create new centers and open new sources of funding for chemical research. Their efforts led to the establishment in 1911 of the chemical institues of the...
Appropriating Blackness
Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2003
Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson’s provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed—toward widely divergent ends—both within and outside African American culture. Appropriating Blackness develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is...