Jean Johnson: 59 books

This volume contains the notes from five lecture courses devoted to nonautonomous differential systems, in which appropriate topological and dynamical techniques were described and applied to a variety of problems. The courses took place during the C.I.M.E. Session "Stability and Bifurcation...

People across Canada’s North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network...

Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...

When I lost my mother, I was advised to write letters to her. When I found this too difficult to do, the poetry about grief and my sadness over losing my mother just came naturally to me - almost as if Mom was working through me somehow. I wrote many poems during the first year after losing Mom, and...

Quite a while ago, I asked my mother to fill out a store-bought book about her life. You know, the ones that are called, "Mother's Remembrances" or some such thing? Several years before Mom died, she surprised me with a huge scrapbook of her life from birth through adulthood and into her retirement...

It may well now be the time to look for new ways of diagnosing, planning, building team cohesion, fostering innovation and implementing changes and strategies. The classic management models have been used and reused, but they have now reached their limits, unable to keep pace with today’s corporate...

Une inquiétante disparition, Janice Kay Johnson Dix minutes. Dix ridicules petites minutes durant lesquelles elle s’est assoupie sur la plage, et voilà que sa nièce de dix ans a disparu. Beth est effondrée : c’est certain, Sicily a été kidnappée. Jamais cette petite fille si sage et obéissante,...

“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review) “[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review) Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson,...

Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...

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...

Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and...

Paul Ricoeur’s first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature...

Prominent Sherlockians have collected all of the facts, trivia, and quotes that remind readers why Sherlock Holmes is such an important literary creationExploring the fascinating and enigmatic world of Sherlock Holmes, this miscellany examines his place in literary history, his popularity, and how...

Journey through Faith is a collection of poetry written during the period of the author's adolescence through young adulthood. It is based on non-fiction which depicts real life circumstances of the struggles that many people experience during the course of life. The collection of poetry includes...