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  • BITTER CANAAN
    CHARLES S. JOHNSON
    A neglected classic, unpublished until now, Bitter Canaan is a historical-sociological account of Liberian society. Written in 1930 and revised in 1948 by the influential, pioneering black sociologist Charles S. Johnson, it has remained talked about but unknown. Founded in 1821, Liberia was conceived as a haven for freed American slaves. Johnson traces the historical developmen...

    $1,360.00

  • SHADOW OF THE PLANTATION
    CHARLES S. JOHNSON
    Shadow of the Plantation focuses on descendants of slaves in one rural Southern community in the early part of this century. In the process, Johnson reviews the troubled history of race relations in the United /States. When reread half a century after it was first written, Shadow of the Plantation is clearly revealed as a remarkably perceptive and fresh comment on race relation...

    $1,360.00

  • SCIENCE FOR THE CURIOUS PHOTOGRAPHER
    CHARLES JOHNSON, JR.
    While there are many books that teach the "how-to" of photography, Science for the Curious Photographer is a book for those who also want to understand how photography works. Beginning with an introduction to the history and science of photography, Charles S. Johnson, Jr. addresses questions about the principles of photography, such as why a camera needs a lens, how lenses work...

    $1,380.00

  • THE LANGUAGE OF WORK
    CAROL SIRI JOHNSON / CHARLES SIDES
    Lukens Steel was an extraordinary business that spanned two centuries of American history. The firm rolled the first boiler plate in 1818 and operated the largest rolling mills in America in 1890, 1903, and 1918, Later it worked on the Manhattan Project and built the steel beams for the base of the World Trade Center. The company stayed in the family for 188 years, and they kep...

    $1,540.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF ARGUMENTATION THEORY
    FRANS H. VAN EEMEREN / ROB GROOTENDORST / RALPH H. JOHNSON / CHRISTIAN PLANTIN / CHARLES A. WILLARD
    Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions, and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology, political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of int...

    $2,420.00

  • A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE ROBBERIES AND MURDERS OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS PIRATES - FROM THEIR FIRST RISE AND SETTLEMENT IN THE ISLAND OF PROVIDENCE TO THE PRESENT YEAR
    CAPTAIN CHARLES JOHNSON
    A General History of the Pirates has long been a classic of seafaring literature and was inspiration to both Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie. Nothing is known about Captain Charles Johnson, and it is thought that the name may be assumed - there are even some who believe he may have been Daniel Defoe. All that can be stated with any certainty is that in 1724 a small octav...

    $7,400.00

  • RECRAFTING A LIFE
    CHARLES JOHNSON / DENISE WEBSTER
    Chronic illness and pain are now, more than ever, seen asas major problems in the current health care system. Because they are unresponsive to both antibiotics and surgery, theyr are seen as elusive and mysterious. The National Medical Expenditure Survey estimates that over 80 million U.S. citizens live with a chronic illness. The most prevalent are arthritis, diabetes, respir...

    $860.00

  • MRI/DTI ATLAS OF THE RAT BRAIN
    PAXINOS, GEORGE / WATSON, CHARLES / CALABRESE, EVAN / BADEA, ALEXANDRA / JOHNSON, G ALLAN
    MRI/DTI Atlas of the Rat Brain addresses the MRI/DTI resolution/contrast obtained at the Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy, which has surpassed that of any other lab by nearly 400x, with images that are satisfactory for the identification of 80%+ of structures previously labeled in Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates. This new atlas, from the best imaging/cartography team wo...

    $2,659.00

  • SOULCATCHER
    CHARLES JOHNSON
    Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage. Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award, pre...

    $159.00