Johnson: 6939 books
Dick Johnson
The autobiography of a true-blue Aussie sporting legend
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The incredible story of Dick Johnson - the Aussie battler who became an all-time V8 great.
Ford legend Johnson did not get his break in motorsport until he was famously smashed out by a rock in the 1980 Bathurst 1000. But true to his never-say-die attitude, he went on to establish one of Australia's...
You Call the Shots
Succeed Your Way-- And Live the Life You Want-- With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Why work for someone else when you can call your own shots, pursue your dreams, and find success on your terms by starting your own business? So many people end up bored with their jobs, stuck in the corporate grind, never following their true passions. As wildly successful young entrepreneur Cameron...
Fortune Smiles
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world.
“MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times
Throughout...
The Renaissance
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the...
Taming the Ox
Buddhist Stories and Reflections on Politics, Race, Culture, and Spiritual Pract ice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Renowned author and National Book Award winner Dr. Charles Johnson writes that his creative work and Buddhist practice are the two activities in his life that have reinforced each other—and have anchored him. In this wide and varied collection of essays, reviews, and short stories, Johnson offers...
by Beau Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The world has never been perfect. The world has never been all bad. But there has always been evil and men who drink of it. This ends now.
Enter Bishop Rider and people like him who have had enough and are willing to embrace what most will not. The world will never be perfect. The world will...
Eisenhower
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today
In the rousing style he’s famous for, celebrated biographer Paul Johnson offers a fascinating portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, focusing particularly on his years...
Darwin
Portrait of a Genius
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Eminent historian Paul Johnson provides a rich, succinct portrait of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all time. His Origin of Species forever changed our concept of the world’s creation.
Darwin’s revolutionary career is the perfect vehicle...
The Song and the Silence
A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In this “beautiful, evocative” (Booklist, starred review) memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to the Mississippi Delta to uncover the moving, true story of her late grandfather Booker Wright, whose extraordinary act of courage would change his and, later, her life forever.
“Have to keep that...
by E. Pauline Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Classic fiction. According to Wikipedia: "Emily Pauline Johnson (also known in Mohawk as Tekahionwake, literally: 'double-life') (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century....
Successful Small Game Hunting
Rediscovering Our Hunting Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Strategies for Today's Small Game Generation
Whether it's waiting out a fox squirrel in a northeastern Ohio hickory grove, calling from a midnight stand for red fox, or anticipating the whirlwind flush of a ruffled grouse, nothing challenges the hunter nor hones the skills quite like the pursuit of...
Turning the Wheel
Essays on Buddhism and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
"Were it not for the Buddhadharma, says Charles Johnson in his preface to Turning the Wheel, "I'm convinced that, as a black American and an artist, I would not have been able to successfully negotiate my last half century of life in this country. Or at least not with a high level of creative productivity."...
by Hugh Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
An indispensable tool of the wine enthusiast, Hugh Johnson's Pocket Encyclo- pedia of Wine 2001 is thoroughly revised to provide the most up-to-date information. This 24th edition of the world's bestselling wine book gives expert help in choosing a wine for every occasion and every budget.
With...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a revolutionary document of Afro-American culture: the first first-person novel ever written by a black, it became a powerful model for later novelists Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison.
Johnson’s resolutely candid novel gave many...