John Olson: 19 books

A Quixotic Vietnam Veteran experiences outrageous fortune, criminality, love, regret and other potentially lethal outcomes when he accepts a flying job in Belize. He soon discovers the recently independent nation is not so tranquil a tropical paradise.  John Otis, aka "El Berdo",...

"You will not fear the terror of the night." —Psalm 91 A monstrous waking nightmare is pursuing graduate student Hailey Maniates across San Francisco to Golden Gate Park where she is rescued by a towering homeless man. She seems able to read her rescuer’s mind, but is it just...

Written by leading education experts and by university presidents, provosts, and other leaders nationally recognized for their innovations, the 22 original and provocative chapters in this new book comprise a wide-ranging examination of the many challenges faced in fashioning the university of tomorrow....

Table of Contents Forward, Taking MEXICO Flying Big John Comes To Valle de Bravo or, A Gringo Lands In Heaven Flight To The Heavenly Water or, A Twenty Peso Bargain Mauricio Skys Out or, Miracle At Rock Of The Devil Surviving Colimótl or, Photographers Are Made, Not Born My Kingdom For...

“Bury me standing. I must be buried standing.” Powers, the follow-up to John Olson’s Shade (“a must-read for those who enjoy Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti” —Publishers Weekly), introduces a sheltered Gypsy girl named Mariutza. Her grandfather utters a mysterious last request before...

Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in...

Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism compares and contrasts four distinct positions on the current fundamentalist-evangelical spectrum in light of the history of American fundamentalism and evangelicalism. The contributors each state their case for one of four views on the spectrum of evangelicalism:...

Perspectives on the Doctrine of God presents in counterpoint form four basic common beliefs on the doctrine of God that have developed over the course of church history with a goal of determining which view is most faithful to Scripture. Contributors to this fifth book in the PERSPECTIVES series...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Banished… for GOOD or, Busted On KT-22 Fly-on-The-Wall or, Slide Mountain Hubris A Gringo Makes The Earth Quake or, Bad Day At Puerto Peñasco Ponderosa Safety Meeting or, Rescue in the High Sierra “SHEET!” or, Communication Breakdown, Mexico Style A Taste of Valle de...

Table of Contents Desperados for México or, South With The Wind My Señor Will Be Very Angry! Or Another Mexico Welcome Sunset on Playa Paraíso or, A Gringo Gets His Gecko Slide Mountain Hazard or, Fire in the Sky ShowTime at Sun ‘N Fun or, A Splotch In the Ol’ Logbook Beto Makes His Point...

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...

History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as...

Even before publication Slaying the Sky Dragon was destined to be the benchmark for future generations of climate researchers. This is the world's first and only full volume refutation of the greenhouse gas theory of man-made global warming. Nine leading international experts methodically expose...

Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...