Johnson: 6939 books
Spirituality in Counseling and Psychotherapy
An Integrative Approach that Empowers Clients
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
"Written with great clarity and intelligence, this book will be of benefit to all mental health practitioners, students of psychology, and those seeking a better understanding of their own process of psychological and spiritual transformation."
—Tara Brach, PhD, Author of Radical Acceptance and...
Why Not Do What You Love? An Invitation to Calling and Contribution in a World Hungry for Your Gifts
Why Not Do What You Love? An Invitation to Calling and Contribution in a World Hungry for Your Gifts
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This is a book for those of any age who are ready to reevaluate, refresh and renew their possibilities, their purpose, and their choices. A gentle guide, and a prompt for reflection. A book to read over and over, with real life examples, many from the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts.The author,...
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason
How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
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 decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain...
Morality for Humans
Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to some hidden cache of cut-and-dried absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. Combining cognitive science with a pragmatist...
Moral Imagination
Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
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 reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying...
by Marysia Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How does a person learn a second language? In this provocative book, Marysia Johnson proposes a new model of second language acquisition (SLA)-a model that shifts the focus from language competence (the ability to pass a language exam) to language performance (using language competently in real-life...
Keeping a Princess Heart in a Not-So-Fairy-Tale World
A Conversation Guide for Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2004
Well-known for her speaking and dramatic sketches at the popular Women of Faith® conferences, author Nicole Johnson explores the tension and differences between what women long for and what they live with. By exploring these two worlds with her one-of-a-kind, thoroughly engaging storytelling, Johnson...
My Badass Book of Saints
Courageous Women Who Showed Me How to Live
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Winner of a 2016 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award: Inspirational Books (First Place).
In this edgy, honest, and often audacious book of Catholic spirituality, blogger and popular podcaster Maria Morera Johnson explores the qualities of twenty-four holy women...
New York Amish
Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In a book that highlights the existence and diversity of Amish communities in New York State, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on twenty-five years of observation, participation, interviews, and archival research to emphasize the contribution of the Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage.
While...
by Pauline Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
For Johnson, feminism must recognize itself as a humanism in order to avoid certain theoretical quagmires. [The argument] is extremely provocative, and even, I would say, necessary. This book is sure to be controversial and of interest to a wide audience in feminist theory. I know of no other treatment...
Assertive Community Treatment
Evidence-based Practice or Managed Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion in studies on comparative health studies, but mental health remains virtually ignored. Unlike the well researched topic of health policy, there is a gap in the marketplace covering mental health policy and health care policymaking. This book fills...
by Howard Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
What’s the connection between Monty Python and Game of Thrones? Was Elvis Presley a Python fan? Who was the only Python to take acting lessons?
If you think you know everything there is to know about Monty Python, then wait till you read "Monty Python from the Inside Out." Python historian...
by RMark Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
In this wry, understated, illustrated novelette, RMark Johnson claims that God was originally a small Dog bobbing in a row boat on a Cosmic Lake, speaking in fluent Sunfish. Sometimes God is a He, sometimes a She. The Serpent isn't evil (He's Mexican, usually). The Forbidden Tree has poisonous almonds....
by Jeremy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
This second collection of work by Jeremy Johnson contains a selection of his plays written between 1994 and 2012 refl ecting his versatility with his American plays: Direct From Broadway and The Palace of Mention, and his return to Australia with The Sheltered Workshop and Better Than Death.