Christopher Johnson: 46 books
by Christopher Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
“A work of pop linguistics . . . [that] synthesizes . . . grammar, branding, cognitive science and Web theory . . . with intelligence and friendly wit.”—New York Times
Welcome to the age of the incredible shrinking message. Your guide to this new landscape, Christopher Johnson reveals...
by Christopher Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
We, the American family, have a problem. By our own hands, we kill as many of our own kind every month as the hijackers did just once back on 9/11. That’s thousands every single month! And the vast majority of these deaths come at the hands of family, friends, neighbors and coworkers. Not strangers....
The Great Philosophers: Derrida
Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.
Jacques Derrida 1930-2004
As critics investigate the 'death of the author', they find Derrida's prints all over the murder weapon. No other recent philosopher has aroused so much suspicion - or been so badly misrepresented.
His every idea...
Ekklesia
Three Inquiries in Church and State
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has not been one of freedom or separation but one of unstable...
Forests for the People
The Story of America's Eastern National Forests
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Forests for the People tells one of the mextraordinary stories of environmental protection in our nation’s history: how a diverse coalition of citizens, organizations, and business and political leaders worked to create a system of national forests in the Eastern United States. It offers an insightful...
No Reflection
Are You Who You Thought You Were?
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
God is capable of creating such perfection and splendor and must have a great plan and a purpose for us. Well, he does; he wants to reveal that purpose to us and to show us the way out of the pain, the sorrow we have brought on ourselves (self-inflected wounds) from rejecting his ways. Perception...
by Christopher D. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the...
Becoming Bourgeois
Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670–1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany—Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant—who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
by Christopher J Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Mountain West Poetry Series
In his first collection of poems, &luckier, Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to which we can know our most intimate friends, habits, and—even more so—selves. From a mosaic of...
Reconsidering Biography
Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over...
Keeping Your Kids Out of the Emergency Room
A Guide to Childhood Injuries and Illnesses
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Last year America’s 76 million children made 27 million trips to hospital emergency departments—one for every three children. That represents a lot of fevers, coughs, sore ears, twisted ankles, and broken bones, plus the wide gamut of other illnesses and injuries children can experience. Whether...
by Michael F. Johnson, Lisa D. O'Steen, Dena F. Dincauze
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data....
Beyond Sense and Sensibility
Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, the essays in Beyond Sense and Sensibility examine moral formation as represented in or implicitly produced by literary works of later eighteenth-century British authors...
New Wine, New Wineskins
A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic Moral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2005
The growing shift in Catholic moral theology from reflecting on rules alone to focusing on the identity and formation of persons as moral agents prompts a further question: What impact do recent changes in the identity and formation of Catholic moral theologians themselves have on how that discipline...