Thomas Johnson: 86 books
by H. Thomas Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2002
Building on his pathbreaking, award-winning bestseller, Relevance Lost, H. Thomas Johnson presents a devastating critique of the top-down hierarchical accounting systems that have dominated American corporations since the 1950s.
In Relevance Regained, Johnson shows exactly how "managing by...
Profit Beyond Measure
Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Waste has plagued almost every industrial-age firm for the past century. In this powerfully argued alternative to conventional cost management thinking, experts H. Thomas Johnson and Anders Bröms assert that any company can avoid the waste that is generated through excessive operating costs in the...
Bathed in Abrasion
Poems of Midlife and Erosion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
If compromise and disappointment have a home, it is midlife. Here, suffering is like breathing. Longing is like dreaming. Standing midstream in the abrasive forces of life, author N. Thomas Johnson-Medland has learned to wade through the erosion and entropy of failure and incompleteness. And yet,...
by Thomas Johnson, Jesus Cardenas
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2019
Aedan O’Beirne’s life is about to take a painful turn.
On a frigid December day, sixty-six hours before Christmas, his wife, Ciara, and their five-year-old son, Colin disappear. He has until the first stroke of midnight on Christmas day to find them, or he will lose them forever.
In...
For the Beauty of the Earth
Poems from the CHILD-HEART About the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Having grown up in the shadow of the Bomb and having provided supportive care to post-Cold War generations of children and their parents (both in crisis), I have seen a lot of distrust and instability in people--individually and in communities. I have seen how the shadow of impending doom can rewrite...
by H. Thomas Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The articles and papers reprinted in this volume, all written after 1970, represent a departure from the earlier conventional notion of accounting history research. They approach the study of management accounting history by regarding the accounting and business records of actual organizations as...
In the Same Place
Poems of Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Space and time are not just terms and functions of the bigger/larger objects in our lives, but intricately woven into the cells that make up our spleen and the neurotransmitters that carry our sense of truth and integrity (or some other thing that carries that--which we have not yet figured out how...
by Thomas Johnson The Benevolent Tinker
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Did you ever wonder about whats out there? The one thing that religion prohibits is the right to question. In the real world we are all free to ask that we may grow. It is the relationship between the Creator and the created that is the beginning of our understanding. And this is the first step in...
Handbook of International Food and Agricultural Policies
(In 3 Volumes)Volume 1: Policies for Agricultural Markets and Rural Economic ActivityVolume 2: Policies for Food Safety and Quality, Improved Nutrition, and Food SecurityVolume 3: International Trade Rules for Food and Agricultural Products
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Handbook of International Food and Agricultural Policies is a three-volume set that aims to provide an accessible reference for those interested in the aims and implementation of food and farm policies throughout the world. The treatment is authoritative, comprehensive and forward looking. The three...
Danse Macabre
Thoughts on Death and Memento Mori from a Hospice Chaplain
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Apparently, in 1338 and well into 1339, Death showed up for a grand performance at a little village of Nestorian Christians. The village was known as Issyk-Kul; it lay south of Lake Balkhash, Russia. The cemetery headstones made clear a major work of the macabre had taken place in that short year....
Entering the Stream
Poems about Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
The notion and phrase of entering the stream has long been an image for merger and union. Most often it is meant to sum up the idea of union with the Divine Principle or God. Less often, yet still common, it is used to image the union of ideas, bodies, and movements. The sense that one thing folds...
From the Belly of the Whale
Poems of the Male Soul
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Men have been spit up onto shore by whales and great fish since the beginning of time. This has been going on for forever; perhaps, even longer than forever. This may be true. It may also be true that men have spit whales and great fish up onto shore since the beginning of time. This has also been...
Bridges, Paths, and Waters; Dirt, Sky, and Mountains
A Portable Guided Retreat on Creation, Awe, Wonder, and Radical Amazement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
When we stand in the presence of the natural world of creation, something very powerful occurs. Our heart senses a raw and vital connection between ourselves and the handiwork of God revealed in the trees and rivers. Our eye catches some small detail and we are opened up to union with the world around...
by N. Thomas Johnson-Medland, Bob Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The poems and pictures that have been collected here are prompts toward leaning into the places you have been and become. Clearly, every doorway you have crossed over and every window you have gazed yourself through have become woven into the fabric of the you that is now holding this place as here...