Johnson: 6939 books
by Nelson Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Nelson Johnson frequently stopped working on Boardwalk Empire to wrestle with how best to handle the thorny subject of race. But he persisted, and the result was a chapter"A Plantation by the Sea"that inspired this powerful sequel. In The Northside, Johnson brings the untold story of Atlantic City's...
Mission Control
Inventing the Groundwork of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Brave astronauts, flaring rockets, and majestic launches are only one side of the story of spaceflight. Any mission to space depends on years--if not decades--of work by thousands of dedicated individuals on the ground. These are the people whose voices offer a friendly link to Earth in the void of...
Build an A-Team
Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves.
Better morale and higher performance happen through learning, argues Whitney Johnson. In over twenty years of coaching, investing,...
by Debbie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Come to the Comfort Food Café this spring for sunshine, smiles and plenty of truly scrumptious lemon drizzle cake. ‘As cosy as a buttered crumpet’ Sunday Times bestseller Milly Johnson ‘Summer wouldn’t be Summer without Debbie Johnson!’ Jenny Oliver My name is Willow Longville. I live in...
Funding Feminism
Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst,...
Peaks and Valleys
Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work An
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of *Who Moved My Cheese?*, a brilliant new parable that shows readers how to stay calm and successful, even in the most challenging of environments.
A young man lives unhappily in a valley. One day he meets an old man who lives on a mountain peak....
by Adam Johnson
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 16, 2016
'***** Met vier uitstekende en twee briljante verhalen, lijkt Adam Johnson nu al de beste verhalenbundel van het jaar te hebben geschreven.'De Volkskrant
'In zijn bekroonde, atypische verhalenbundel voert deze Amerikaan een reeks, soms abjecte, personages op die je niet zo snel zult vergeten. Elk...
Scrappy
Memoir of a U.S. Fighter Pilot in Korea and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
From World War II to high above the Earth to Vietnam, this memoir tells the story of fighter pilot Howard C. “Scrappy” Johnson. Beginning with his early years in Knoxville, Tennessee, the book follows Johnson through his career at the University of Louisville and his enlistment as an Air Force...
Cammie Up!: Memoir of a Recon Marine in Vietnam, 1967-1968
Memoir of a Recon Marine in Vietnam, 1967-1968
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
In this Marine combat memoir, Steve Johnson recounts his service in Vietnam from April 1967 to May 1968. Only 17 when he enlisted in 1964, Johnson deployed to Vietnam with the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, and his tour included such now famous locations as Phu Bai, Khe Sanh, Nha...
Combat Chaplain
A Thirty-Year Vietnam Battle
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In 1967 Chaplain James D. Johnson chose to accompany his men, unarmed, on their daily combat operations, a decision made against the recommendations of his superiors. During what would be the final days for some, he offered his ministry not from a pulpit but on the battlefields—in hot landing zones...
Being and Race
Black Writing Since 1970
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
For the first time in ebook, renowned scholar Charles Johnson’s exploration of contemporary black literature and the meaning of the black experience as expressed through the writers Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, David Bradley, and others.
Charles Johnson approaches contemporary black literature...
I'll Quit Tomorrow
A Practical Guide to Alcoholism Treatmen
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This bestselling recovery classic has helped untold thousands of alcoholics onto the road to recovery. Written by the founder of the Johnson Institute in Minneapolis, one of the country's most successful training programs for treatment providers, I'll Quit Tomorrow present the concepts and methods...
What's Tha Up To?
Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
'A wonderful slice-of-life autobiography' Daily Express
'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'
No two days were ever the same for bobby-on-the-beat Martyn Johnson. Come...
The Horrell Wars
Feuding in Texas and New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
For decades the Horrell brothers of Lampasas, Texas, have been portrayed as ruthless killers and outlaws, but author David Johnson paints a different picture of these controversial men. The Horrells were ranchers, and while folklore has encouraged the belief that they built their herds by rustling, contemporary...