Michael Johnson: 153 books

A bankrupt circus means death or zoos for the menagerie.The owner secretes his beloved animals in a world famous NationalPark.The ecology, the politics, the enmeshed passions of the park's humansand their impact on the animals; circus, native and feral, make for acontemporary and slyly provocative fable.

From the monk who sets himself on fire in a crowded intersection of Saigon (“the familiar corded tendons of his hands, become / a bracken of ashes, a carbon twine of burnt”), to the salmon run in British Columbia (“The salmon word / for home is glacierdust and once-tall trees unlimbed, / a taste,...

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...

When Michael starts his new job at Topman Industries, he has no idea what he's supposed to do, or even why he was hired. It all becomes clear when his new boss, the multi-millionaire Mark Pierce, convinces him to try a new pharmaceutical drug that has an incredible effect.... Soon he finds...

In a quiet corner of England, a young boy visits the cinema for the first time. Overwhelmed by the experience, he returns to see a movie which will ignite his imagination, fill his head with fantasy and change the course of his life. That enthusiasm carries him though to his adolescence, when...

Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...

Sunderland is largely a product of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when coal-mining and shipbuilding fuelled rapid expansion. Once the largest shipbuilding town in the world, Sunderland has a proud and distinctive identity embodied in its historic buildings and its changing urban form. Sunderland...

Twort's Water Supply, Seventh Edition, has been expanded to provide the latest tools and techniques to meet engineering challenges over dwindling natural resources. Approximately 1.1 billion people in rural and peri-urban communities of developing countries do not have access to safe drinking water....

Do you remember getting up on a Saturday morning to watch Going Live? A time when scrunchies and curtains were the height of cool? Playing Sonic the Hedgehog on your Gameboy? Then the chances are you were a child in the nineties. This trip down memory lane will jog the memory of even the coolest 30-year-old,...

This study examines France's determination to remain aloof and unaffected as the world economy threatens the French way of doing business. Describing the difficulty in initiating change in French organizations, the author tells of the obstacles he encountered in attempting to modernize the working...

Victorian Sunderland developed a unique form of housing to accommodate its hardworking population. Resembling a terraced bungalow, the distinctive ‘Sunderland cottage’ became the town’s dominant housing type during the nineteenth century. Early examples were built for Sunderland’s many shipyard...

A significant barrier to successful juvenile intervention is misconduct committed against juveniles by the persons employed to help them. Professional Misconduct with Juveniles explores the nature of employee-on-youth misconduct, its extent, its consequences, factors that increase its occurrence,...

This is the story of Darnel and his boyfriend deciding to try a very kinky - and public - act.

When Matt decides to finally act on his long time crush on his Professor, Paul Mills, he's expecting a quick let down. To his suprise not only does Professor Mills take him seriously, he invites him to his cabin for the weekend. Meanwhile, Professor Mills is concerned with something far more...