Johnston: 1395 books
Simply the Best: Insights and Strategies from Great Hockey Coaches
Insights and Strategies from Great Hockey Coaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
What makes players simply the best? That's what coach Mike Johnston and former NHL great Ryan Walter set out to discover in Simply the Best: Players on Performance. The authors interviewed Sidney Crosby, Cassie Campbell, Shane Doan, Jarome Iginla, Ed Jovanovski, Trevor Linden, Scott Niedermayer, Joe...
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
A mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. In this widely acclaimed novel, Johnston has created two of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: Joey...
by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.
Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate...
Guts
The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The New York Times bestseller—a harrowing and hysterical memoir by the two-time Emmy Award-winning actress from the hit television show 3rd Rock from the Sun.
“It felt like I was speeding on the Autobahn toward hell, trapped inside a DeLorean with no brakes. And even if I couldsomehow stop,...
by Giles Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Is Your CI Delivering Results?
Continuous Improvement, or CI, is a heavily used term that often doesn't deliver the results that are hoped for. Common approaches to CI often focus on supporting businesses to eliminate their problems and become 'OK' in terms of business performance. However, most people...
by Dean Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The Camino de Santiago - an 800 kilometre hike across Northern Spain spanning two mountain ranges, one barren wasteland, four different provinces and, most daunting of all, five weeks sharing dorm rooms with exhausted snorers, and bathrooms with enthusiastic wine drinkers. The whole concept sounds...
by Patanjali,Charles Johnston (Interpretation)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a foundational text of Yoga. It forms part of the corpus of Sutra literature dating to India's Mauryan period. In Indian philosophy, Yoga (also Raja Yoga to distinguish it from later schools) is the name of one of the six orthodox philosophical schools. Though brief,...
Lay the Mountains Low
The Flight of the Nez Perce from Idaho and the Battle of the Big Hole - August 9-10, 1877
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2000
America's bestselling frontier writer combines his unique skills as both an acknowledged historian and a consummate storyteller, blending historical fact with powerful human emotions to vividly recreate the past for his millions of readers. In his most ambitious novel to date, Terry C. Johnston combines...
Drink
The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous...
by Lieutenant Alec Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
THE purpose of this little volume is to preserve, for his friends and the many others who cared for his writings, a record of the work which Alec Johnston contributed to Punch during the War. Written under all sorts of impossible conditions, they never pretended to be more than the gay and cynical...
The Idea of Canada
Letters to a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From our present Governor General, a series of 50 (of several thousand) carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has admired and befriended over his seventy-plus years, that sets out Mr. Johnston's frank, informed, and novel thoughts about Canada.
Touching on a wide range of topics...
by Leon F Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2017
Have you ever wondered what it would be like flying over the Himalayas in winter with the plane completely covered with ice at 17,000 feet, when an updraft suddenly threw the plane up to 24,000 feet and your engines failed just as the draft dumped the plane back down to 16,000 feet? Or, what was it...
Faith Beyond Belief
Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Faith Beyond Belief gives a much-needed voice to the “good” people who have left their church but whose spirituality continues to mature. Johnston uses first-person stories as well as known spiritual authorities in describing various stages of religious growth. Some of these real-life accounts...
by Joy Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Not everyone is born a natural caregiver.
One moment, digital journalist Joy Johnston is a cynical workaholic with an underwater mortgage. The next moment, she faces the responsibility of caring for her eccentric mother who's battling colon cancer, just six months after her father's death...