D Johnson: 250 books
A Gallant Little Army
The Mexico City Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
In 1847 General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the way to the Halls of Montezuma, routing Mexican forces at every turn while pacifying the countryside. Scott's military campaign—America's first ever in a foreign country—helped pave the way for victory...
Rediscovering Social Economics
Beyond the Neoclassical Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited human wants and finite resources. Approaching the problem through a history of economic thought, Johnson...
by Kayla D. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Broken vessels can be mended at the hand of a loving God. Why Must I Cry? seeks to touch the heart of anyone who has ever experienced abuse or knows someone who has experienced abuse. It offers hope that no matter how many trials, tribulations, and disappointments youve had, giving up is never an...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...
Controversy in Cardiology
The Practical Clinical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of this book is not to discuss in depth various topics in medicine nor to describe in detail all possible controversial subjects in car diology. The primary intention is to describe common cardiac problems with significant controversial viewpoints frequently encountered in our daily...
Visualizing Modern China
Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. With fourteen chapters of well-illustrated original scholarship and a supplemental website providing resources for hundreds of images, the book introduces key themes of modern...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants
Seen but Not Heard
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
As global societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. This book addresses this lapse by presenting interdisciplinary perspectives...
Higher Education Assessments
Leadership Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape...
Women of the 2016 Election
Voices, Views, and Values
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Women of the 2016 Election is an examination of women who played prominent roles in the 2016 US presidential election. The collection focuses on women from different parties, races, religions, and immigrant statuses who fulfill roles as candidates, staffers, first families, journalists, and grassroots...
How to Defeat Your Own Clone
And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Send in the clones! On second thought, maybe not.
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CAN IT READ MY MIND?
WILL IT BE EVIL?
HOW DO I STOP IT?
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Find out the answers to these and other burning questions in this funny, informative, and ingenious book from two bioengineering experts who show you how to survive—and thrive—in...
Norwegian Rose Socks
E-Pattern from Toe-Up Socks for Every Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Capture a traditional Norwegian rose motif with these toe-up socks. This pattern exemplifies how striking nontraditional color combinations can be--here, inspired by mint chocolate chip ice cream. Put your own wild touch on this traditional design!
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by Alan Sikes, Andrew Gibb, Nicole Berkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Volume 34 of Theatre History Studies revisits the foundations of theatre, explores the boundaries and definitions of theatre, and illuminates how writing about the history of theatre is itself a form of historiography.
The five essays are arranged chronologically, starting with Alan Sikes’s discussion...
A School Custodian's Dilemma
Trial by Water and Other Unusual Events
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Years ago, on a high school campus, built in the middle of a cornfield, a conversation transpired one day between two employees. After sharing a humorous moment, a suggestion was proposed by a secretary to record events occurring in the high school and middle school for nostalgic purposes. I thought...
Editing Lives
Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...