Michael Peter Johnson: 10 books

Book cover of Mission Control

Mission Control

Inventing the Groundwork of Spaceflight

by Michael Peter Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015

Brave astronauts, flaring rockets, and majestic launches are only one side of the story of spaceflight. Any mission to space depends on years--if not decades--of work by thousands of dedicated individuals on the ground. These are the people whose voices offer a friendly link to Earth in the void of...
Book cover of Taking Aim

Taking Aim

Power and Pain, Teens and Guns

by Michael Cart, Marc Aronson, Edward Averett
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a Gun, and with an array of YA talent like the late...
Book cover of Best British Short Stories 2017
by Jay Barnett, Peter Bradshaw, Rosalind Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar...
Book cover of Novel Ideas

Novel Ideas

Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process

by Barbara Shoup, Margaret-Love Denman, Charles Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

Novel Ideas provides a substantial introduction to the elements of fiction followed by in-depth interviews with successful novelists who speak with candor and insight into the complex process by which a novel is made. This edition includes new and updated interviews as well as writing exercises to...
Book cover of Pursuit

Pursuit

The Balvenie Stories Collection

by Alex Preston, Eley Williams, David Szalay
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2019

What is it to pursue a goal, to strive for an ideal, to follow a dream? These are the questions explored by The Balvenie in this unique collection compiled by award-winning novelist Alex Preston. The stories - from some of the brightest and most exciting voices writing today - tell of determination,...
Book cover of Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
by David Bloom, David Brooks, Peter Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Book cover of Dragon Writers

Dragon Writers

An Anthology

by Lisa Mangum, James A. Owen, Jody Lynn Nye
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture...
Book cover of Imaginarium 2013
by Amal El-Mohtar, Susie Moloney, Claire Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013

Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology to be published annually by ChiZine Publications, collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work produced by Canadian writers. Canadian...
Book cover of Editing Lives

Editing Lives

Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.

by Matthew Brack, Leslie A. Chilton, Loren Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013

Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge...
Book cover of Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction

Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction

An Anthology for Researchers, Policy Makers, and Practitioners

by Betty Achinstein, Krista Adams, Steven Z. Athanases
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010

This anthology on teacher induction research is intended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of teacher induction both nationally and internationally. This book is the final and major project of the Association of Teacher Educators' (ATE) Commission on Teacher Induction...
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