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Fifteen museum curators chronicle Eva Hesse's landmark exhibitions over the last half-century while offering a glimpse into the personal dimension of crafting an exhibition.
This volume provides a historical account…
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Helene Cooper
BEST BOOKS of 2017 SELECTION by * THE WASHINGTON POST * NEW YORK POST * The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement…
Mark Johnson
Effective risk management is as much about awareness, culture, training and organization as it is about technology. Highlighting cases from a wide range of geographies and cultures, this title is…
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Research on better, smaller, and faster ways to store and transfer information continues to grow. With its possibilities as a magnetic storage technology capable of overcoming the vulnerabilities of CMOS…
A Personal Development book using poetry to explain how we can change our everyday lives and achieve our dreams.The topics discussed include, Visualisation, Poetry, Confidence, Apathy, Jealousy, Competition, Opportunities, Encourage…
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In this book, Mark Johnson asks readers to consider, "if most of the best black basketball players in the early 50's from all around the country could not fully participate…
A Childhood Stolen. An Innocence Betrayed. A Life Redeemed A shocking and inspiring true account of addiction and recovery - in the tradition of The Kid and Ugly
Mark Johnson tells a timeless tale of the struggle to find truth in belief, faith in fact, and friendship in times of fear. It is a new survival story, one…
Mark A. Johnson
From Muscle Shoals to Mobile, Alabamians enjoy fabulous barbecue at home, at club meetings and at countless eateries. In the 1820s, however, a group of reformers wanted to eliminate the…
You Are the CEO. *God: God has a unique plan for your life. Live it. *Family: Love and protect your family unconditionally and forever. *Country: Let’s build upon our Christian…
Somehow life enticed two expressive soulmates, a struggling farmer and a high-school teacher, to regularly set aside time each week for over a year to carefully script their thoughts on…
The body of teenager Antwan Driggers is found handcuffed to a fence in a swampy area south of Mobile, Alabama. His throat has been slit. The cuffs preventing Antwan's escape…
This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and…
In Cyber Crime, Security and Digital Intelligence, his second book on high technology risks, Mark Johnson goes far beyond enumerating past cases and summarising the requirements of data protection law…
Seditious Theology explores the much analyzed British punk movement of the 1970s from a theological perspective. Introducing both a new partner for theological conversation and a fresh way of how…
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Empirical studies of metaphor have made possible detailed analyses of how metaphors actually structure conceptualization and reasoning. Researchers have also learned that metaphor is a conceptual and experiential process that…
Cyber crime is one of the main threats to the digital economy. From insider threats to complex distributed attacks and industrial worms, modern business faces unprecedented challenges. Cyber security and…
Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of…
God’s plan for Marriage and for a relationship with Himself is built upon the fundamental reality of Covenant relationships; this plan-to build the best relationships- is explored in detail.
God’s plan for Marriage is built upon the defining reality of Covenant relationships-the sharing and merger of identity; God’s plan to build the deepest love and strongest relationships is explored.
This twelve week study shows how the historic understanding of Covenant helps us build a love-for-a-lifetime Marriage. Marriage is not what our culture-or we- say it is. What is the…
Join us as we explore the historic understanding of Covenant and show how this understanding can be used to build the deepest and most powerful relationship with God.
What kind…
During an important meeting and in general in all the relations where you suspected to be lied to, manipulated or just when you’re simply wondering what is going on through…
A Minister’s Son is a personal account of one young man’s coming to terms with his strict religious upbringing. Deciding in childhood to conceal misgivings about his inherited faith, the…
Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University…
All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn’t be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have…
Examines three notable cases of Black participation in the spectacles of politics. Through these case studies, Johnson explains how white politicians and Black performers wielded and manipulated racist stereotypes and…
Mark A Johnson
A new and engaging history of the Caribbean volunteers of the Second World War; the young male pilots destined for distinguished flying careers with Bomber Command.
Mark Johnson.
What makes a fifty-year-old man quit a highly successful career in charity work to take on the low-paid, dangerous job of being a police officer? When Mark Johnson left the…
Photodetection techniques are increasingly necessary for all electronics design work – and they are not taught in standard engineering curricula. This book provides a practical rules of thumb approach to…
* A Childhood Stolen. An Innocence Betrayed. A Life Redeemed * A shocking and inspiring true account of addiction and recovery - in the tradition of The Kid and Ugly
What is the difference between right and wrong? Combining cognitive science with a pragmatist philosophical framework, this book argues that appealing solely to absolute principles and values is not only…
Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by…
Explores the connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning that first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By . This work concludes that the arts are the culmination of…
There are books–few and far between–which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and…
Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two…
Helene Johnson
Cousin of novelist Dorothy West and friend of Zora Neale Hurston, Helene Johnson (1905-1995) first gained literary prominence when James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost selected three of her poems…
Dorothy Johnson & Mark Johnson
Dorothy Johnson has created a delightful collection of children's stories for adults. These are modern fables, entertaining yet they all contain a message as fables should. The Frogger and Other…
