Johnson: 6939 books
Becoming Bourgeois
Love, Kinship, and Power in Provincial France, 1670–1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Becoming Bourgeois traces the fortunes of three French families in the municipality of Vannes, in Brittany—Galles, Jollivet, and Le Ridant—who rose to prominence in publishing, law, the military, public administration, and intellectual pursuits over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
Combat Trauma
A Personal Look at Long-Term Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Much has been written of the short-term experience of combat trauma. Almost nothing has been documented about how that trauma impacts individuals years after their first conflict experiences and into later life. Here, Johnson relates the stories of fifteen of his combat brothers to share with the...
by Matt Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Age is catching up with Robert Finlay, a police officer on the Royalty Protection team based in London. He's looking forward to returning to uniform policing and a less stressful life with his new family. But fate has other plans. Finlay's deeply traumatic, carefully concealed past is about to return...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. With his bi-racial heritage, the Ex-Colored Man is faced with the choice of embracing his black culture and its ragtime music,...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
One of the most prominent African-Americans of his time, James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) was a successful lawyer, educator, social reformer, songwriter, and critic. But it was as a poet and novelist that he achieved lasting fame.Among his most famous works, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man...
The Next Frontier
National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent of executions now occur? Do Asian values and traditions...
by Michael Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
For the past twenty years, Michael Johnson has lived and worked up and down Australia's east coast, in almost every industry you could name, gathering experience and studying topics from eastern philosophy to personal finance on his path to becoming an entrepreneur, personal trainer, martial...
Harvard Classics Volume 27
English Essays: Sidney To Macaulay
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Contents: 1. The Defense Of Poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney 2. On Shakespeare and On Bacon, by Ben Jonson 3. Of Agriculture, by Abraham Cowley 4. The Vision Of Mirza and Westminster Abbey, by Joseph Addison 5. The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele 6. Hints Towards An Essay On Conversation, A Treatise...
by Samuel Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
'What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve.' Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the 'happy valley' in order to make their 'choice of life'. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they may come to understand the nature of happiness,...
Ireland
A History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Drawing from a wealth of historical and scholarly sources, Johnson traces the important social, religious and political development of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country. Johnson describes with accurate detail Ireland's barbarous beginnings, Oliver Cromwell's religious "crusade,"...
This Child Will Be Great
Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
“The first thing to be said about Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s This Child Will Be Great is that it is exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely book, essential for anyone who hopes to understand West...
South Sudan
The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General...
by Victoria Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction
A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection
The untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—personal physician, whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic.
On a clear morning in...
by Paul Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Why did the Suez War ever come to pass? Why did Eden, against public opinion and without sufficient military capability, decide to invade Egypt? When Gamal Abdel Nasser decided to nationalize the Suez Canal, Britain and France reacted dramatically, beginning a chain of events that ultimately led to...