Jeff Johnson: 44 books
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...
Let's Play
(Un)Curriculum Early Learning Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Let children experience the learning power of play! Let’s Play is a handbook full of child-led, open-ended learning adventures. The 39 fresh, fun, and budget-friendly activities (plus more than 225 play variations) are packed with learning that helps children develop important motor, cognitive,...
by Shaun McNiff, Christopher Belkofer, Kristin Belkofer
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Interest in the use of digital technology in art therapy has grown significantly in recent years. This book provides an authoritative overview of the applications of digital art therapy with different client groups and considers the implications for practice.
Alongside Cathy Malchiodi, the...
Finding Your Smile Again
A Child Care Professional's Guide to Reducing Stress and Avoiding Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Using warmth and humor, this book offers techniques for dealing with the everyday stress of being a childcare professional. Written by a caregiver who’s been there, it describes the symptoms and causes of burnout, with advice to get through each challenge.
by John Russon, Galen A. Johnson, John Lysaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors...
Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse, The
Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
In a breakthrough book first published in 1991, the authors address the dynamics in churches that can ensnare people in legalism, guilt, and begrudging service, keeping them from the grace and joy of God's kingdom.Written for both those who feel abused and those who may be causing it, The Subtle Power...
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Documents on Government and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
This volume includes archival documents and essays exploring the inter-relationship between the government and the economy. In the first piece, Levy, Peart, and Albert examine the one-sided controversy generated by Rose Wilder Lane and V. Orval Watts against a new generation of Keynes-influenced textbooks...
A Long Crazy Burn
A Darby Holland Crime Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Thrilling sequel to LUCKY SUPREME.
Time is up in Old Town. As the pace of gentrification reaches frenzy in Portland, Oregon, Darby Holland’s beloved tattoo parlor, Lucky Supreme, is destroyed by a bomb that ripped through an entire city block. Only a warning call from his favorite prostitute...
Chimpanzee Rights
The Philosophers’ Brief
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Since 2013, an organization called the Nonhuman Rights Project has brought before the New York State courts an unusual request—asking for habeas corpus hearings to determine whether Kiko and Tommy, two captive chimpanzees, should be considered legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty.
While...
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...
Keeping Your Smile
Caring for Children with Joy, Love, and Intention
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Directed at all branches of child care including family child care, center care, preschools, and parents 2. Has connection to Finding Your Smile Again but is able to stand on its own for people who did not read it 3. Three sections address stress and burnout, how to act with intention, and how to take...
by Clay Spinuzzi, Carl G. Herndl, S. Scott Graham
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, Bruno Latour has inspired scholarship across many disciplines. In the past few years, the fields of rhetoric and composition have witnessed an explosion of interest in Latour’s work. Editors Paul Lynch and...
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
A Research Annual
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays of recently published books in the history of economic thought and methodology. The articles highlight the work of Warren J. Samuels (founding editor of the research annual), American economists' role in the creation of federal trade...
Everyday Early Learning
Easy and Fun Activities and Toys Made from Stuff You Can Find Around the House
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Children can pluck an elastic band to learn about the vibrations that create music, or they can bake a cake to learn measurement and reading skills.
Everyday Early Learning provides a myriad of ways to use everyday items for great early learning opportunities. For each activity, the book lists...