W Johnson: 152 books

They say that people go there when they're ready to die. They say Death himself is a patron. That's where the tavern gets its name. Azrael's Stop. Watering hole for the Angel of Death. Since Ceph started tending bar there, many people have come through the Stop, whether looking for some peace...

At the height ofcombat operations in Afghanistan very few people are aware there were never more than 300 Special Forces (Green Berets) in that country on any given day.Much has been written of their exploits and their training but nothing has been written about day to day life for these men.Writers...

Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties.Like Ethan Frome, the relatively brief, intense story evokes the torment possible...

A short history about the participation of the residents of the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia in the service of their country, from the birth of the nation in 1776 until the present day. It includes details of the men who lost their lives in the service of their country during war. It also...

Ideally situated about an hour from New Orleans at the conjunction of two major interstates, the city of Hammond grew from a stop on the Illinois Central Railroad to a thriving business and cultural center northwest of Lake Pontchartrain. The area known for its cypress swamps and lush pine forests...

Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide – either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic mountain chains such as the Andes. Integrating...

This book is about my experiences, observations, and opinions during my fifty year career. Also included are other essays and anecdotes of interest. We are all entitled to our own opinions and this is mine. I'm sure there are those who see things differently and have different opinions.

Expression to Share is a collection of heartfelt poems about real-life encounters. Written by a former semi-truck driver, Expressions to Share incorporates ideas from all walks of life, whether that is about life, love, and family or perhaps the newest landscape scene on the beautiful horizon. Still...

The fruit of intensive collaboration among leading international specialists on the literature, religion and culture of early modern England, this volume examines the relationship between writing and religion in England from 1558, the year of the Elizabethan Settlement, up until the Act of Toleration...

Barack Hussein Obama has been my political muse from the moment I began writing about him. He became the 2nd President of the 21st Century, an era where Presidents now must contend with the vortex of the 24-hour new cycle, the blogosphere, and all in between. This book in short is about responses,...

Men with dreams of gold flocked to the strikes in Idaho Territory in the early 1860s. Some were lucky, but only a few people managed to hang onto their fortunes. The Plummer Gang jumped claims, robbed miners, and murdered anyone who got in their way. Until Pokerface Bob Bainbridge showed up, seeking...

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Euclidean and other geometries are distinguished by the transformations that preserve their essential properties. Using linear algebra and transformation groups, this book provides a readable exposition of how these classical geometries are both differentiated and connected. Following Cayley and Klein,...

This book is aimed at providing a coherent, essentially self-contained, rigorous and comprehensive abstract theory of Feynman's operational calculus for noncommuting operators. Although it is inspired by Feynman's original heuristic suggestions and time-ordering rules in his seminal 1951 paper An...