L Johnson: 273 books

Book cover of Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
by Michael P. Johnson, James L. Roark
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1986

"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born...
Book cover of No Chariot Let Down

No Chariot Let Down

Charleston's Free People on the Eve of the Civil War

by Michael P Johnson, James L. Roark
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three...
Book cover of The Lovecraftian Poe

The Lovecraftian Poe

Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation

by Alissa Burger, Michael Cisco, Dan Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017

H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between...
Book cover of American Catholics, American Culture

American Catholics, American Culture

Tradition and Resistance

by Peter Steinfels, Robert Royal, J Bottum
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
Book cover of Understanding the Big Picture of the Bible

Understanding the Big Picture of the Bible

A Guide to Reading the Bible Well

by J. Julius Scott Jr., John DelHousaye, Darrell L. Bock
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

How do I get more out of my Bible reading? What was going on during the gap between the Old and New Testaments? How do all the books of the Bible fit together as a whole? This book answers these questions and puts clear, readable Bible study aids at your fingertips. It contains...
Book cover of Ask for the Rain

Ask for the Rain

Receiving Your Inheritance of Revival & Outpouring

by Larry Sparks, James W. Goll, Tommy Tenney
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

**Position Yourself to Experience Holy Spirit Outpouring! ** Ask the LORD for rainIn the time of the latter rain. (Zechariah 10:1) *God is pouring out His Spirit and revival rain is falling across the Earth. How should you respond? Ask for more! * How can revival impact your...
Book cover of Deploying and Troubleshooting Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
by Mark L. Gress, Lee Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009

  This is the only complete, all-in-one guide to deploying, running, and troubleshooting wireless networks with Cisco® Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) and Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP)/Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP). Authored by two of the most experienced...
Book cover of Collaborative Business Design: The Fundamentals
by Brian Johnson, Léon-Paul de Rouw
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

This adapted version of Collaborative Business Design for the Fundamentals Series explores the characteristics of IT-driven business services, their requirements and how to gather the right requirements to improve the service lifecycle throughout design, development and maintenance until decommissioning.By...
Book cover of Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs

Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs

Perspectives on Innovation by Faculty, Staff, and Students

by Tamsin Bolton, Marcia Jenneth Epstein, Sanjay Goel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012

Curricular peer mentoring is a programmatic approach to enrich student learning and engagement in postsecondary courses in which instructors welcome a more experienced undergraduate student into a credit course they are teaching. The student then serves as peer mentor to the students enrolled. Peer...
Book cover of Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Human Security
by Maria Bondes, Antonio Marcio Buainain, Natalia Eremina
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

This anthology of scholarly essays on climate change, sustainable development, and human security presents a comprehensive analysis of severe global warming and its potential to impact all aspects of human life and security. It has been observed that climate change will most drastically impact poor...
Book cover of Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools
by Joseph F. Johnson, Jr., Cynthia L. Uline
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017

Leadership in America’s Best Urban Schools describes and demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely on to make a difference at all levels of urban school leadership. Grounded in research, this volume reveals the multiple challenges that real urban elementary, middle, and high schools...
Book cover of Big Dreams Little Bank Account

Big Dreams Little Bank Account

For the Purpose Driven Dreamer

by Beatrice L. Howell-Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

When you can’t have it all, you must discover what matters most. This book faces the reality that dream chasing is not always as easy as following your heart. It doesn’t seem fair to be chosen by a dream that is much larger than your bank account. Every day, dreamers give up hope because they...
Book cover of Superheroes: The Crossover Alliance Anthology V3
by Kristin L. Norman, Timothy G. Huguenin, Clayton Webb
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017

Some pursue heroism, others are thrust into it. Superheroes. They live among us, some hidden in plain sight, others as well-known celebrities. All carry a burden and a purpose: to destroy the evils of this world and keep the common man safe from harm. But evil is a strong thread that...
Book cover of Dragon Writers

Dragon Writers

An Anthology

by Lisa Mangum, James A. Owen, Jody Lynn Nye
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture...
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