J A Johnson: 76 books
Television and the Self
Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
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,...
by Amal El-Mohtar, Susie Moloney, Claire Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
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...
Ghana
One Decade of the Liberal State
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Ghana has witnessed a 'revolution through the ballot box', since its return to constitutional rule in 1993. Yet this period of sustained democratic government in an era of globalization and liberal triumphalism has brought with it new demands. How has Ghana faced up to the problems of institution-building,...
US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy
Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
While domestic issues loom large in voters' minds during American presidential elections, matters of foreign policy have consistently shaped candidates and their campaigns. From the start of World War II through the collapse of the Soviet Union, presidential hopefuls needed to be perceived as credible...
by A.J Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
As is always said in Mathematics, which is my primary area of discipline, it is a common reframe that there are many ways to solve a question but what matters is that you are able to proof your method and of course get the answer correctly … many of such methods may be long or short but, what...
Crossing Borders
Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the...
God Loves Diversity and Justice
Progressive Scholars Speak about Faith, Politics, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Both personal and scholarly in tone, this book encourages readers to think theologically, ethically, and politically about the statement that declares: “God loves diversity and justice.” The multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary, and multi-gendered identities of the eleven contributors...
by A.J Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Are you weary of hiding your muffin top under layers of attire? You are not on your own. The truth is that about one-third of American adults are obese.
But now is the time to change all that, by transforming your soft, flabby body into the toned, sexy figure of your dreams.
Okay, you...
The Wound of Mortality
Fear, Denial, and Acceptance of Death
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in this literature on mourning or elsewhere in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Wound of Mortality brings...
by Matthew Hawkins, Michael G. Strawser, Eric C. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States, fifteen scholars from this field address the variety of forms that free, public religiosity may assume, and which rhetorical techniques are operative in a public square populated by a diversity of religious-political actors. Together they consider...
by Dale E Johnson, Noffisat Oki, David Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The network approaches of systems pharmacology and toxicology serve as early predictors of the most relevant screening approach to pursue both in drug discovery and development and ecotoxicological assessments. Computational approaches have the potential to improve toxicological experimental design,...
by Erin K. Anderson, Catherine White Berheide, Debra L. Berke
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
This volume discusses why faculty and administrators of academe should care about implementing family-friendly policies and practices, as well as how they can advocate for policy changes.
In section one, the book’s focus is on empirical studies that demonstrate the need for innovative programs...
Family Medicine
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
A comprehensive reference source providing crystal clear guidelines for diagnosing and managing the acute and chronic problems regularly encountered by all family practitioners. This expanded fifth edition includes new material on: health promotion, population based health care, genetic disorders,...
Christian Psychotherapy in Context
Theoretical and Empirical Explorations in Faith-Based Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Christian Psychotherapy in Context combines theology with the latest research in clinical psychology to equip mental health practitioners to meet the unique psychological and spiritual needs of Christian clients. Encouraging therapists to operate from within a Christian framework, the authors explore...