Ann Johnson: 74 books
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...
Hitting the Brakes
Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
In Hitting the Brakes, Ann Johnson illuminates the complex social, historical, and cultural dynamics of engineering design, in which knowledge communities come together to produce new products and knowledge. Using the development of antilock braking systems for passenger cars as a case study, Johnson...
The Fourth Trimester
A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
A guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels.
This holistic guide offers practical advice to support women through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels—and provides women with...
by Terri Ann Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Lachelle Jackson appears to have it all; a husband who adores her; a job that fulfills her and friends that love her unconditionally. When Lachelle learns that she is pregnant, what should be the best experiences of her life becomes one of the darkest times she ever endured. Facing a life-threatening...
The Mixed Member Proportional System: Providing Greater Representation for Women?
A Case Study of the New Zealand Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This Brief discusses the adoption of the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand and its subsequent effect on representation for women. Concerns about the homogeneity of the legislature under the Single Member Plurality electoral system and the need for increased representativeness...
by Sherred Ann Johnson Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book deals with the inner man how we have spiritual battles to fight everyday of our lives. It expresses how we truly may feel at times when we are happy, depressed, angry, sad, or whatever emotions we feel. The word of God can help us deal with life and the different seasons that we are going...
Waves of Protest
Social Movements Since the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999
This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Cultivating Communication in the Classroom
Future-Ready Skills for Secondary Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
***Building 21st Century communication skills ***
Students are expected to be innovators, creative thinkers, and problem solvers. But what if they can't communicate their ideas persuasively? Knowing how to share ideas is as crucial as the ideas themselves. Unfortunately, many students don’t...
by Joy C. Levy, Carol Ann Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
An impressive solid white dog covered by a mass of heavy cords, the Komondor is a courageous flock guardian breed of the Magyar herdsmen, whose ancestry goes back a millennium. The Komondor’s principal role was to protect flocks of large animals on the open plains of Hungary: this vigilant giant...
Things I'll Never Say
Stories About Our Secret Selves
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Fifteen top young-adult authors let us in on provocative secrets in a fascinating collection that will have readers talking.
A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Off-limits hookups. A parent whose problems your friends won’t understand. Everyone keeps secrets—from themselves,...
Maya Angelou
A Glorious Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Beautifully designed and featuring over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters from the life of one of the world’s most beloved and admired artists, this moving biography will appeal to all fans of the poet laureate, phenomenal bestselling author, and scribe for the people, Dr. Maya...
DIY Citizenship
Critical Making and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
by Carol Ann Culbert Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Flower and Phillip, the happy interracial couple, had it all, until a tragedy entered their lives, and took the most precious gift away from them. Will their marriage survive?
by Carol Ann Culbert Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Betty is searching for a roommate and she finds Serena. Little did she know that Serena was the roommate from hell.