Joan Johnson: 16 books

Book cover of Space as a Strategic Asset
by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007

Joan Johnson-Freese argues that the race for space weapons and the U.S. quest for exclusive or at least dominant ownership of strategic space assets have alienated the very allies that the United States needs in order to maintain its leading role in space exploration. Taking a balanced look at the...
Book cover of Heavenly Ambitions

Heavenly Ambitions

America's Quest to Dominate Space

by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012

In the popular imagination, space is the final frontier. Will that frontier be a wild west, or will it instead be treated as the oceans are: as a global commons, where commerce is allowed to flourish and no one country dominates? At this moment, nations are free to send missions to Mars or launch...
Book cover of A Blue-Ribbon Elizabeth Olsen Guide - 73 Success Secrets
by Joan Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015

Elizabeth Olsen is here! This book is your ultimate resource for Elizabeth Olsen. Here you will find the most up-to-date 73 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Elizabeth Olsen's Early...
Book cover of Educating America's Military
by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013

This book offers a detailed examination of the professional military education system in the United States, from a critical, insider's perspective. The mission of America’s war colleges is to educate senior military officers in both the ways of war and the defence of peace. But are these...
Book cover of Space Warfare in the 21st Century
by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

This book examines the recent shift in US space policy and the forces that continually draw the US back into a space-technology security dilemma. The dual-use nature of the vast majority of space technology, meaning of value to both civilian and military communities and being unable to differentiate...
Book cover of Women, Peace and Security

Women, Peace and Security

An Introduction

by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018

This book offers an accessible overview of the multiple, interdependent issues related to the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) global agenda. The first introductory overview of the WPS agenda as articulated in multiple national and international resolutions, statements, and initiatives, the...
Book cover of Funding Feminism

Funding Feminism

Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967

by Joan Marie Johnson
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,...
Book cover of Imaginarium 3

Imaginarium 3

The Best Canadian Speculative Writing

by Robert Priest, Catherine MacLeod, Amal El-Mohtar
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015

Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work published by Canadian writers in the 2013 calendar year. Featuring Colleen Anderson,...
Book cover of The Stranger Horror Anthology
by Jessica Cale, Denise A. Agnew, Joan Blackheart
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017

Get into the Halloween spirit with twelve new horror novellas from the twisted minds of our favorite authors. With demons, serial killers, cursed objects, fallen angels, and Death himself, there’s a spooky treat for every taste in this delicious mix. Dig in and see what The Stranger has in store...
Book cover of Gaze Upon Jesus

Gaze Upon Jesus

Experiencing Christ's Childhood through the Eyes of Women

by Alyssa Bormes, Sarah Christmyer, Mary Healy
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018

What if you had walked beside the Virgin Mary from the Annunciation to the point at which she and Joseph found Jesus in the temple? How might seeing Christ as a child impact you and your faith? WINE: Women In the New Evangelization offers its second, six-week scripture study, this time following...
Book cover of Toward a 21st-Century School Library Media Program
by Doug Achterman, Marlene Asselin, Steven M. Baule
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007

This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...
Book cover of South Carolina Women

South Carolina Women

Their Lives and Times

by Jennifer Black, Carol Botsch, W. Lewis Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world...
Book cover of Sexperts & Sexpots: The Playboy Interview

Sexperts & Sexpots: The Playboy Interview

50 Years of the Playboy Interview

by Playboy, Ralph Ginzburg, Raquel Welch
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The revolutionaries who proved sex could be a legitimate topic of scientific inquiry and the women who have fueled endless male fantasies are revealed in wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From big-screen bombshells Raquel Welch and Sharon Stone to carnal...
Book cover of Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds

Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds

The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part I

by Gadi Alexander, Kevin Cloninger, Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010

Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes...
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