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  • MATERIALS FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION, CONVERSION, AND STORAGE
    JENITTA JOHNSON M, NISA SALIM, SABU THOMAS
    This volume provides a comprehensive review of energy production, management, and its challenges pertaining to various materials. It covers different material fabrication strategies involved in the processes such as laser-assisted fabrication, electrospinning strategy, and so forth, including a review of the different nanostructured materials and challenges in energy management...

    $1,339.00

  • LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT IN RURAL AMERICA
    THOMAS G. JOHNSON / BRADY J. DEATON / EDUARDO SEGARRA
    Originally published in 1988, this is a collection of symposium papers examining the link between public infrastructure and economic growth. Subjects covered include Economic theories of infrastructure Decision-making, Issues in the supply of Public infrastructure, Life cycle behaviour and the demand for infrastructure, limitations, financial sources and budgeting, the role of ...

    $1,039.00

  • CATALYSIS OF ORGANIC REACTIONS
    JOHN R. KOSAK / THOMAS A. JOHNSON
    This work presents a compilation of technical papers and poster synopses delivered at the 14th Conference on Catalysis of Organic Reactions. The book investigates current developments in the study of catalysis as it relates to organic synthesis, detailing industrial applications. It suggests cost-effective routes for the synthesis of valuable industrial and pharmaceutical chemi...

    $6,500.00

  • AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION IN THE 1920'S
    THOMAS H. JOHNSON
    First published in 1985. This study explores the agricultural depression in the United States of America in the 1920’s. The author examines overproduction, wartime optimism and the farm crisis, and continuity and change in agriculture during this period. This title will be of great interest to students of history, agriculture, and economics. ...

    $899.00

  • THINKING DEVELOPMENTALLY FROM CONSTRUCTIVISM TO NEUROCONSTRUCTIVISM
    ANNETTE KARMILOFF-SMITH / MICHAEL S. C. THOMAS / MARK H JOHNSON
    In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions. This influential volume of papers, chosen by Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith before she passed away, recognises her ...

    $1,039.00

  • CYBERSECURITY
    THOMAS A. JOHNSON
    The World Economic Forum regards the threat of cyber attack as one of the top five global risks confronting nations of the world today. Cyber attacks are increasingly targeting the core functions of the economies in nations throughout the world. The threat to attack critical infrastructures, disrupt critical services, and induce a wide range of dam ...

    $1,099.00

  • NEW MEDIA, CAMPAIGNING AND THE 2008 FACEBOOK ELECTION
    THOMAS J. JOHNSON
    Some political observers dubbed the 2008 presidential campaign as 'the Facebook Election'. Barack Obama, in particular, employed social media such as blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook to run a 'grassroots-style' campaign. The Obama campaign was keenly aware that voters, particularly the young, are not simply consumers of information, but conduits of in...

    $1,139.00

  • AGENDA SETTING IN A 2.0 WORLD
    THOMAS J. JOHNSON
    This volume explores agenda-setting theory in light of changes in the media environment in the 21st century. In the decades since the original Chapel Hill study that launched agenda-setting research, the theory has attracted the interest of scholars worldwide. Agenda Setting in a 2.0 World features the work of a new generation of scholars. The research provided by these young s...

    $1,439.00

  • HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
    WILLIAM K REDMON / THOMAS C MAWHINNEY / CARL MERLE JOHNSON
    Capitalize on the principles of psychology to develop more effective leadership!Whether you work in a smokestack industry, the service sector, or a high-tech information-based business, the basic principles of industrial/organizational psychology you will find in The Handbook of Organizational Performance can help you obtain better performance from your employees. This comprehe...

    $2,100.00

  • INTERNATIONAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION IN A GLOBAL AGE
    GOLAN, GUY / JOHNSON, THOMAS / WANTA, WAYNE
    This volume provides a comprehensive examination of key issues regarding global communication, focusing particularly on international news and strategic communication. It  addresses those news factors that influence the newsworthiness of international events, providing a synthesis of both theoretical and practical studies that highlight the complicated nature of the internation...

    $1,439.00

  • THE WAR ON TERRORISM
    THOMAS A. JOHNSON
    In order to eradicate terrorism, our nation must go beyond merely shoring up military strength. It must also effectively confront the fundamentalist ideology that fuels and supports the terrorists. The War on Terrorism: A Collision of Values, Strategies, and Societies operates on the premise that the violent rejection of globalization at the root o ...

    $2,800.00

  • FORENSIC COMPUTER CRIME INVESTIGATION
    THOMAS A. JOHNSON
    The Digital Age offers many far-reaching opportunities - opportunities that allow for fast global communications, efficient business transactions and stealthily executed cyber crimes. Featuring contributions from digital forensic experts, the editor of Forensic Computer Crime Investigation presents a vital resource that outlines the latest strategi ...

    $1,339.00

  • POWER, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND TRANSFORMATIONAL GLOBAL EVENTS
    THOMAS A. JOHNSON
    As the United States struggled to survive the recent recession, China quietly acquired a vast amount of U.S. Treasury bills and bonds. With China now holding so much of America‘s debt, currency valuation issues have already caused tensions between the two superpowers. Couple this with Iran‘s efforts to develop into a nuclear power in an area that l ...

    $1,299.00

  • WINDOWS AND DOORS
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    The poems and pictures that have been collected here are prompts toward leaning into the places you have been and become. Clearly, every doorway you have crossed over and every window you have gazed yourself through have become woven into the fabric of the "you" that is now holding this place as here and now. The "you" that is here has moved through immense passages. They are a...

    $302.00

  • DANSE MACABRE
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    Apparently, in 1338 and well into 1339, Death showed up for a grand performance at a little village of Nestorian Christians. The village was known as Issyk-Kul; it lay south of Lake Balkhash, Russia. The cemetery headstones made clear a major work of the macabre had taken place in that short year. Three of the stones actually told us that the THE PLAGUE killed the people buried...

    $461.00

  • FEED MY SHEEP; LEAD MY SHEEP
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    There are a lot of books about leadership out there. I wanted to stir the pot and make some suggestions that I have not heard yet.Leadership is not about sticking qualities all over yourself, like dozens of "yellow sticky notes": "Today I will learn time management. Tomorrow I will develop integrity." Mere information is not enough to change us. Data may lead to transformation,...

    $479.00

  • FROM THE BELLY OF THE WHALE
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    Men have been spit up onto shore by whales and great fish since the beginning of time. This has been going on for forever; perhaps, even longer than forever. This may be true.It may also be true that men have spit whales and great fish up onto shore since the beginning of time. This has also been going on or forever; perhaps, even longer than forever. Which of these happened fi...

    $373.00

  • ALONG THE ROAD—TALES OF THE JOURNEY
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    Along the Road-Tales from the Journey is a practical guide for patients and families going through some very serious and difficult issues. It is here to enable focus and meaning in a time that is fraught with confusion and pain. It is also for people who are not involved in hospice--people that recognize the value of keeping track of the journey for others to have "in case" the...

    $337.00

  • ENTERING THE STREAM
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    The notion and phrase of "entering the stream" has long been an image for merger and union. Most often it is meant to sum up the idea of union with the Divine Principle or God. Less often, yet still common, it is used to image the union of ideas, bodies, and movements.The sense that one thing folds into or flows into another and gets lost is still a major underpinning toward th...

    $391.00

  • CAIRN-SPACE
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    Cairns have decorated the landscapes of cultures throughout time. Piles of stone-one stone placed on top of another-are set in place all over the earth to recall battles, identify burial sites, mark trails, and spur hearts and minds to remember sacred, noble, and critical events. They are landmarks. They are sacramental presences in space and time. Our lives are littered with m...

    $373.00

  • BRIDGES, PATHS, AND WATERS; DIRT, SKY, AND MOUNTAINS
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    When we stand in the presence of the natural world of creation, something very powerful occurs. Our heart senses a raw and vital connection between ourselves and the handiwork of God revealed in the trees and rivers. Our eye catches some small detail and we are opened up to union with the world around us and to the Creator of that world. It does not take a magnificent vista; it...

    $426.00

  • DUENDE
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    "Duende is that place in us where the two halves of our life are conjoined. It is the place where we go down into the self and gather up that opposing force to our immediate nature. It involves the undoing of the 'pretending-everything-is-okay-mechanism' in us and it is an overall waking up to the forces of conflict in life and actually mustering a strength to make abiding choi...

    $391.00

  • BATHED IN ABRASION
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    If compromise and disappointment have a home, it is midlife. Here, suffering is like breathing. Longing is like dreaming. Standing midstream in the abrasive forces of life, author N. Thomas Johnson-Medland has learned to wade through the erosion and entropy of failure and incompleteness. And yet, in spite of these massive forces attempting to wear down the very vitality that su...

    $302.00

  • FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND / GLINDA G. JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    Having grown up in the shadow of the Bomb and having provided supportive care to post-Cold War generations of children and their parents (both in crisis), I have seen a lot of distrust and instability in people--individually and in communities. I have seen how the shadow of impending doom can rewrite a way that people live. This distrust and instability is not a personal issue....

    $320.00

  • IN THE SAME PLACE
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    Space and time are not just terms and functions of the bigger/larger objects in our lives, but intricately woven into the cells that make up our spleen and the neurotransmitters that carry our sense of truth and integrity (or some other thing that carries that--which we have not yet figured out how to find or name just yet). The mercurial and hermetic principle that everything ...

    $479.00

  • POWER, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND TRANSFORMATIONAL GLOBAL EVENTS
    THOMAS A. JOHNSON
    As the United States struggled to survive the recent recession, China quietly acquired a vast amount of U.S. Treasury bills and bonds. With China now holding so much of America‘s debt, currency valuation issues have already caused tensions between the two superpowers. Couple this with Iran‘s efforts to develop into a nuclear power in an area that l ...

    $1,299.00

  • HEALING CHURCH STRIFE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND TODAY
    JAMES CHRISTENSEN / DR. THOMAS F. JOHNSON
    When churches experience troubling conflicts, they are likely to be offered Matthew 18:15-17 as the only solution. This book opens our eyes to the rich variety of conflict solutions that are described throughout the New Testament. Healing Church Strife explores options for our time, and the reader receives practical suggestions that are biblically based. ...

    $231.00

  • COMING BACK HOME
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    If you have never been inside of a prison, there are things you will not know about the community there. You may guess at them, but that is not the same. What it feels like. What it sounds like. What goes on there; these all define portions of what it is. These definitions, or parameters of life inside, come to you quite viscerally. You feel them in and through your skin before...

    $284.00

  • RIVER BENDING
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    Rivers are not only about themselves and the way they curve and cut across landscapes and time, but about an overall geology of the soul that goes on in each life--all life. Carrying things into our lives and away from our lives is just one of the mysteries of rivers and the tributaries that build them. These poems of life and living in the precincts of the Delaware River and h...

    $302.00

  • WAYFARING STRANGER
    N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND
    We are nomads. We are all nomads. We are all nomad singing our lives into the night. Our lives arise, melodies and syncopated rhythms giving way to meanings and tellings. Shadows, echoes, and flickerings. Hints, mumblings, and innuendo.Some of the stanzas are whispers and others are loud, slow dirges. Some we sing alone. Others are call and response. We rarely sing together (al...

    $266.00