John Burnham: 13 books

Book cover of The Red Daughter
by John Burnham Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019

Running from her father’s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin’s daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana...
Book cover of Northwest Corner
by John Burnham Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011

“Nuanced and moving . . . [a] story about the indestructible bonds of family.”—The New York Times From John Burnham Schwartz, one of the our most compelling and compassionate writers, comes a riveting novel about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the...
Book cover of Claire Marvel

Claire Marvel

A Novel

by John Burnham Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009

A young man and woman meet, love each other, and are consumed. It’s a story as old as romance itself, but in this enthralling novel John Burnham Schwartz tells it with heart-stopping new immediacy. In the middle of a rainstorm Julian Rose, a self-effacing Harvard graduate student, takes refuge beneath...
Book cover of Bicycle Days
by John Burnham Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011

When Alec Stern arrives in Japan, he discovers a land of opportunity. For only in Tokyo could an impressionable young man fresh out of college find, in one stroke, a new job, a new family, and a society that lavishes attention on Japanese-speaking gaijin. Yet, even as Alec claims a place in this new...
Book cover of They Call Her Petal
by John Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018

The action tale has a long history in fiction, examples include Mickey Spilane, Bulldog Drummond and James Bond. Heroines of such tales were few till recently, when film and tv has brought us, amongst others, Xena, Dark Angel, Geena Davis in The Long Kiss Goodnight, and of course Wonder Woman. But...
Book cover of Reservation Road
by John Burnham Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

A cycle of violence and retribution is set in motion as two haunted men are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death.Ethan, a respected professor at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession for revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight, fleeing...
Book cover of The Commoner
by John Burnham Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009

In this national bestseller from the author of Reservation Road, a young woman, Haruko, becomes the first nonaristocratic woman to penetrate the Japanese monarchy. When she marries the Crown Prince of Japan in 1959, Haruko is met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress, and controlled at...
Book cover of Health Care in America
by John C. Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health...
Book cover of Understanding Leadership

Understanding Leadership

Challenges and Reflections

by Libby Nicholas, John West-Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016

Are current leadership roles and relationships appropriate in a rapidly changing world? Do we need to rethink key assumptions about leaders and leadership? Are you confident about the appropriateness and effectiveness of your chosen leadership styles and behaviours? These are questions facing leaders...
Book cover of Leadership for Tomorrow

Leadership for Tomorrow

Beyond the school improvement horizon

by Malcolm Groves, John West-Burnham, Andrew Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017

In Leadership for Tomorrow: Beyond the School Improvement Horizon Malcolm Groves, Andrew Hobbs, and John West-Burnham present a vision-led analysis of what needs to change if schools are really to equip children and young people to thrive in our ever-changing world.Continually adding improvements...
Book cover of Leadership Dialogues II

Leadership Dialogues II

Leadership in times of change

by Dave Harris, John West-Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018

Following on from their bestselling title Leadership Dialogues, Dave Harris and John West-Burnham’s Leadership Dialogues II: Leadership in times of change examines eight more themes crucial to the effective education of our young people in schools. We are living in times in which school leaders...
Book cover of Rethinking Educational Leadership

Rethinking Educational Leadership

From improvement to transformation

by Professor John West-Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009

John West-Burnham offers a radical critique of prevailing models of leadership in education, particularly models of school leadership, notably the British view of headship. For almost a generation, school leadership has been focused on the concept of improvement, within a policy context of improvement...
Book cover of Family Therapy

Family Therapy

First Steps Towards a Systemic Approach

by John B Burnham
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002

Family therapy is a rapidly expanding field. This book introduces a range of concepts, skills and applications from a systemic approach. The first part sets out the theory and examines relationship types, the family life cycle, interactional sequences and different models of change. The next...
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