Johnston: 1395 books

Book cover of Beard Fetish in Early Modern England

Beard Fetish in Early Modern England

Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value

by Mark Albert Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers. Providing detailed discussions of not only bearded men but also beardless boys, bearded women,...
Book cover of Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870
by Judith Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016

Both travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with literal and metaphorical dimensions. Judith Johnston brings together these two richly resonant modes of getting from here to there as she explores their impact on culture with respect to the work of Victorian women. Using the metaphor...
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Free Lunch

How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)

by David Cay Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007

The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposé How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing...
Book cover of Crafting Story - A Guide for the Emerging Writer
by Kate Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019

Navigate common pitfalls on your writing journey with provocative strategies such as natural writing forces, making (not finding) time to write, and nurturing your writer self.   Learn the importance of owning your writer identity, and why embracing your identity can make all the difference...
Book cover of The Hive
by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War. Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars—the alien invasions...
Book cover of Prisoners of Hope: A Tale of Colonial Virginia
by Mary Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate. The daughter of an American Civil War soldier who became a successful lawyer, Mary Johnston was born in the small town of Buchanan, Virginia. A small and frail girl, she was educated...
Book cover of Works of Mary Johnston
by Mary Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

9 works of Mary Johnston American novelist and women's rights advocate (1870-1936) This ebook presents a collection of 9 works of Mary Johnston. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: 1492 Audrey Foes Lewis Rand Pioneers of the Old South Prisoners of Hope Sir Mortimer The Long Roll To Have and To Hold
Book cover of Making Ends Meet

Making Ends Meet

For Better or For Worse 3rd Treasury

by Lynn Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

As creator Lynn Johnston illustrates inside this special treasury of America's most popular family comic strip, For Better or For Worse, life moves quickly in the Patterson household. From car pools and coffee klatches to life lessons for all, Johnston combines strips from her fifth, sixth, and seventh...
Book cover of Text and Supertext in Ibsen’s Drama
by Brian Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990

Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays as a single cyclical work, the "realist" method of which hides a much larger poetic intention than has previously been suspected. He believes that the cycle constitutes one...
Book cover of The Little Colonel's Holidays - The Original Classic Edition
by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Little Colonel's Holidays. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Annie...
Book cover of In League with Israel - A Tale of the Chattanooga Conference - The Original Classic Edition
by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of In League with Israel - A Tale of the Chattanooga Conference. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this...
Book cover of The Hat

The Hat

A Novel about the Acadian Deportation

by A. J. B. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018

Praise for The Hat “Wonderful story! Sure to be a favorite of all who read it.” – Hugh R. MacDonald, author of Trapper Boy and Us and Them “It’s a great novel that should be translated into French.” Claude DeGrâce, Managing Director, Société Promotion Grand-Pré. "It's...
Book cover of Confucianism and Modern China
by Reginald Fleming Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012

In these lectures Johnston  endeavours to justify the faith that is in him and to explain the grounds on which he bases  his belief that Confucianism is still a living force among the Chinese people and has a message of great value for the China of the present and future and provide and...
Book cover of A New German Idealism

A New German Idealism

Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism

by Adrian Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. A sizable sequel appeared in 2014, Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism....
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