Christine Johnson: 42 books
The Crows of Beara
A novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Along the windswept coast of Ireland, a woman discovers the landscape of her own heart
When Annie Crowe travels from Seattle to a small Irish village to promote a new copper mine, her public relations career is hanging in the balance. Struggling to overcome her troubled past and a failing...
Once Upon A Star
14 SF-Inspired Faerie Tales
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
* Special release-week pricing!* From the bestselling authors of the award-winning Once Upon Anthologies, the next fabulous volume is here! Revisit your favorite faerie tales, masterfully retold in science fiction settings with delightful, and sometimes chilling, twists. What if the Twelve Dancing...
by Rhonda Parrish, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Beth Cato
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Meet Robin Goodfellow as you've never seen him before, watch damsels in distress rescue themselves, get swept away with the selkies and enjoy tales of hobs, green men, pixies and phookas. One thing is for certain, these are not your grandmother’s fairy tales.
Fairies have been both mischievous...
Once Upon A Curse
17 Dark Faerie Tales
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Seventeen short stories from NY Times and USA Today bestsellers and award-winning authors that will lure you to the darker side of faerie tales. More Grimm than Disney, in this collection you’ll find twists on Snow White, Hansel & Gretel, Rumpelstilstskin, The Snow Queen, Cinderella, The Pied...
In Principle, In Practice
Museums as Learning Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice...
Play and Performance
Play and Culture Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is. This volume showcases the work of programs from early childhood through adulthood, in a variety of educational and therapeutic settings, and from...
by Lawrence M. Schoen (Editor), Beth Cato, Mae Empson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Cucurbital 3 continues the series of of anthologies that provide a peek into the writing process itself. Authors are always asked two questions: "where do you get the idea for your story?" and "how do you go from idea to finished work?" This series offers insight into the second...
Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money
The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This completely revised and updated edition of Don't Tell Me What To Do, Just Send Money prepares parents for the issues that they will encounter during their children's college years. Since our original publication over ten years ago, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of cell phone and...
Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families
Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering
Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...
Deinstitutionalization and People with Intellectual Disabilities
In and Out of Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization. It addresses the key steps towards deinstitutionalization as they have been experienced by people with intellectual disabilities: living inside total institutions, moving out, living...
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change
Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This volume brings together cutting-edge research on modern Spanish women as writers, activists, and embodiments of cultural change, and simultaneously honors Maryellen Bieder’s invaluable scholarly contribution to the field. The essays are innovative in their consideration of lesser-known women...
by Erin K. Anderson, Catherine White Berheide, Debra L. Berke
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This volume discusses why faculty and administrators of academe should care about implementing family-friendly policies and practices, as well as how they can advocate for policy changes.
In section one, the book’s focus is on empirical studies that demonstrate the need for innovative programs...
Understanding Family Change and Variation
Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged behind. At the same time, our...