Author: Harlan D D Hayman
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1641389869
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Adventures of Mark Johnson was written for parents and young children. It places focus on our society and how to deal with social issues. This book is about a child who grows up in a good environment with loving parents and a caring teacher who tries to impact their values of what is important and good.
The Adventures of Mark Johnson
Author: Harlan D D Hayman
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1641389869
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Adventures of Mark Johnson was written for parents and young children. It places focus on our society and how to deal with social issues. This book is about a child who grows up in a good environment with loving parents and a caring teacher who tries to impact their values of what is important and good.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1641389869
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Adventures of Mark Johnson was written for parents and young children. It places focus on our society and how to deal with social issues. This book is about a child who grows up in a good environment with loving parents and a caring teacher who tries to impact their values of what is important and good.
Spitting in the Soup
Author: Mark Johnson
Publisher: VeloPress
ISBN: 1937716821
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage. Today, though, athletes are vilified for using performance-enhancing drugs. Damned as moral deviants who shred the fair-play fabric, dopers are an affront to the athletes who don’t take shortcuts. But this tidy view swindles sports fans. While we may want the world sorted into villains and victims, putting the blame on athletes alone ignores decades of history in which teams, coaches, governments, the media, scientists, sponsors, sports federations, and even spectators have played a role. The truth about doping in sports is messy and shocking because it holds a mirror to our own reluctance to spit in the soupthat is, to tell the truth about the spectacle we crave. In Spitting in the Soup, sports journalist Mark Johnson explores how the deals made behind closed doors keep drugs in sports. Johnson unwinds the doping culture from the early days, when pills meant progress, and uncovers the complex relationships that underlie elite sports culturethe essence of which is not to play fair but to push the boundaries of human performance. It’s easy to assume that drugs in sports have always been frowned upon, but that’s not true. Drugs in sports are old. It’s banning drugs in sports that is new. Spitting in the Soup offers a bitingly honest, clear-eyed look at why that’s so, and what it will take to kick pills out of the locker room once and for all.
Publisher: VeloPress
ISBN: 1937716821
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage. Today, though, athletes are vilified for using performance-enhancing drugs. Damned as moral deviants who shred the fair-play fabric, dopers are an affront to the athletes who don’t take shortcuts. But this tidy view swindles sports fans. While we may want the world sorted into villains and victims, putting the blame on athletes alone ignores decades of history in which teams, coaches, governments, the media, scientists, sponsors, sports federations, and even spectators have played a role. The truth about doping in sports is messy and shocking because it holds a mirror to our own reluctance to spit in the soupthat is, to tell the truth about the spectacle we crave. In Spitting in the Soup, sports journalist Mark Johnson explores how the deals made behind closed doors keep drugs in sports. Johnson unwinds the doping culture from the early days, when pills meant progress, and uncovers the complex relationships that underlie elite sports culturethe essence of which is not to play fair but to push the boundaries of human performance. It’s easy to assume that drugs in sports have always been frowned upon, but that’s not true. Drugs in sports are old. It’s banning drugs in sports that is new. Spitting in the Soup offers a bitingly honest, clear-eyed look at why that’s so, and what it will take to kick pills out of the locker room once and for all.
I Married Adventure
Author: Osa Johnson
Publisher: Vertical Inc
ISBN: 1568366000
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a ‘round-the-world cruise with Jack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene’s big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions and often heart-stopping anecdotes. Illustrated with scores of the dramatic photos that made the Johnsons famous, it’s a book sure to delight every lover of true adventure.
Publisher: Vertical Inc
ISBN: 1568366000
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A CLASSIC MEMOIR OF TWO PIONEERING ADVENTURERS Before Joy Adamson went to Africa, before Margaret Mead sailed to Samoa, before Dian Fossey was even born, a Kansas teenager named Osa Leighty married Martin Johnson, a pioneering photographer just back from a ‘round-the-world cruise with Jack London. Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene’s big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions and often heart-stopping anecdotes. Illustrated with scores of the dramatic photos that made the Johnsons famous, it’s a book sure to delight every lover of true adventure.
The Mark of the Dragonfly
Author: Jaleigh Johnson
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385376472
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
For fans of Wrinkle in Time and The School of Good and Evil, the New York Times bestseller The Mark of the Dragonfly is a fast-paced adventure story about a mysterious girl and a fearless boy, set in a magical world that is both exciting and dangerous. Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid the wreckage of a caravan in the Meteor Fields. The girl doesn’t remember a thing about her life, but the intricate tattoo on her arm is proof that she’s from the Dragonfly Territories and that she’s protected by the king. Which means a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home. The one sure way to the Territories is the 401, a great old beauty of a train. But a ticket costs more coin than Piper could make in a year. And stowing away is a difficult prospect—everyone knows that getting past the peculiar green-eyed boy who stands guard is nearly impossible. Life for Piper just turned dangerous. A little bit magical. And very exciting, if she can manage to survive the journey. Praise for The Mark of the Dragonfly: ★ “This magnetic middle-grade debut…[is] a page-turner that defies easy categorization and ought to have broad appeal.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred ★ “Heart, brains, and courage find a home in a steampunk fantasy worthy of a nod from Baum.”-- Kirkus Reviews, Starred ★ “A fantastic and original tale of adventure and magic...Piper is a heroine to fall in love with: smart, brave, kind, and mechanically inclined to boot.”—School Library Journal, Starred “A complex and impeccably developed plot—there is plenty to recommend in this novel.”—The Bulletin “Appealing characters and lots of action make it a good choice for young adventure readers.”—Booklist
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385376472
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
For fans of Wrinkle in Time and The School of Good and Evil, the New York Times bestseller The Mark of the Dragonfly is a fast-paced adventure story about a mysterious girl and a fearless boy, set in a magical world that is both exciting and dangerous. Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid the wreckage of a caravan in the Meteor Fields. The girl doesn’t remember a thing about her life, but the intricate tattoo on her arm is proof that she’s from the Dragonfly Territories and that she’s protected by the king. Which means a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home. The one sure way to the Territories is the 401, a great old beauty of a train. But a ticket costs more coin than Piper could make in a year. And stowing away is a difficult prospect—everyone knows that getting past the peculiar green-eyed boy who stands guard is nearly impossible. Life for Piper just turned dangerous. A little bit magical. And very exciting, if she can manage to survive the journey. Praise for The Mark of the Dragonfly: ★ “This magnetic middle-grade debut…[is] a page-turner that defies easy categorization and ought to have broad appeal.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred ★ “Heart, brains, and courage find a home in a steampunk fantasy worthy of a nod from Baum.”-- Kirkus Reviews, Starred ★ “A fantastic and original tale of adventure and magic...Piper is a heroine to fall in love with: smart, brave, kind, and mechanically inclined to boot.”—School Library Journal, Starred “A complex and impeccably developed plot—there is plenty to recommend in this novel.”—The Bulletin “Appealing characters and lots of action make it a good choice for young adventure readers.”—Booklist
Can of Human Heat
Author: Mark Francis Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999431306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Mark Francis Johnson's CAN OF HUMAN HEAT takes the traditional worldbuilding function of speculative writing and distorts it around its most far-flung, self-reflexive poles. It isn't a book about a fantasy world or alternative timeline; it reads instead like the appendical traces of one sent back across dimensions--back-stories, info-dumps, and other explanatory narrative niceties are dispensed with. At times hazily suggesting the romance involutions of Sidney's Old Arcadia, at times refashioning tropes of the fantasy or nautical adventure novel into a kind of absurdist underclass siege diary, CAN OF HUMAN HEAT presents a landscape that is neither utopian nor dystopian but instead something queerly sketched by an alien phenomenology. And yet within this damaged environment, Johnson has created a cast of characters that are part lumpen Candide and part Beckettian tramp--strangely likeable lifeforms manifesting an utter desensitization to the biological and ecological degradation whose consequences have totally altered them. In its paralogical epiphanies, Johnson's poem refashions classic modernist lyricism as high farce in which the comic intransigence of everyday objects extends even to the body--and to consciousness--itself.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999431306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Mark Francis Johnson's CAN OF HUMAN HEAT takes the traditional worldbuilding function of speculative writing and distorts it around its most far-flung, self-reflexive poles. It isn't a book about a fantasy world or alternative timeline; it reads instead like the appendical traces of one sent back across dimensions--back-stories, info-dumps, and other explanatory narrative niceties are dispensed with. At times hazily suggesting the romance involutions of Sidney's Old Arcadia, at times refashioning tropes of the fantasy or nautical adventure novel into a kind of absurdist underclass siege diary, CAN OF HUMAN HEAT presents a landscape that is neither utopian nor dystopian but instead something queerly sketched by an alien phenomenology. And yet within this damaged environment, Johnson has created a cast of characters that are part lumpen Candide and part Beckettian tramp--strangely likeable lifeforms manifesting an utter desensitization to the biological and ecological degradation whose consequences have totally altered them. In its paralogical epiphanies, Johnson's poem refashions classic modernist lyricism as high farce in which the comic intransigence of everyday objects extends even to the body--and to consciousness--itself.
The Adventures of Billy Blue Jay
Author: Larry G. McMillan
Publisher: BookCountry
ISBN: 1463002769
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
I would like to introduce the main character in this story. Children, ladies, and gentleman this is Billy Blue Jay. As strange as it may seem he is not only the main character but also the town hero. He single handed takes on the bad guy and saves a young girl from a terrible fate but sings songs like no one else can. Now come with me as we watch this amazing little bird do his magic. You will also meet Nancy, her mom and her dad who will demonstrate the way love, caring, and admiration to one another the way it should be. The family and Billy will intrigue you in a special way as they venture along the path to a happy conclusion. This is about a small blue jay who is a brave and courageous little bird. He is a talented singer and loves making people happy. He finds a friend in Nancy and eventually saves her from a predator. You will find love and happiness in her family and a deep caring for Billy. Nancy falls in love with Billy's singing and they form a bond that will last all of Billy's life. You will find her mom warm and caring and her dad understanding and a loving father. The book also includes information about blue jay's and their life along with pictures and information about their habitat. So far the children who have read it have given it raving reviews. One such five year old went as far as having his mom read it several times then had her get him a frame so he could put it on his wall. It also inspired me to write a book just for him and it is called Zion The New Hero. It is also available at your favorite bookseller shelf or on their page.
Publisher: BookCountry
ISBN: 1463002769
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
I would like to introduce the main character in this story. Children, ladies, and gentleman this is Billy Blue Jay. As strange as it may seem he is not only the main character but also the town hero. He single handed takes on the bad guy and saves a young girl from a terrible fate but sings songs like no one else can. Now come with me as we watch this amazing little bird do his magic. You will also meet Nancy, her mom and her dad who will demonstrate the way love, caring, and admiration to one another the way it should be. The family and Billy will intrigue you in a special way as they venture along the path to a happy conclusion. This is about a small blue jay who is a brave and courageous little bird. He is a talented singer and loves making people happy. He finds a friend in Nancy and eventually saves her from a predator. You will find love and happiness in her family and a deep caring for Billy. Nancy falls in love with Billy's singing and they form a bond that will last all of Billy's life. You will find her mom warm and caring and her dad understanding and a loving father. The book also includes information about blue jay's and their life along with pictures and information about their habitat. So far the children who have read it have given it raving reviews. One such five year old went as far as having his mom read it several times then had her get him a frame so he could put it on his wall. It also inspired me to write a book just for him and it is called Zion The New Hero. It is also available at your favorite bookseller shelf or on their page.
Changing Trains
Author: Mark Johnson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983982002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A chance encounter boarding a Eurostar train propels news editor Sam back to 1985, and a journey he took across Europe by train. Young and inexperienced he discovers a world away from his smalltown upbringing and starts to wonder about his place in life and well as his own sexual identity. This gentle coming-of-age story, set in some of Europe's greatest cities, will take you on a nostalgia trip across an emerging European Union.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983982002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A chance encounter boarding a Eurostar train propels news editor Sam back to 1985, and a journey he took across Europe by train. Young and inexperienced he discovers a world away from his smalltown upbringing and starts to wonder about his place in life and well as his own sexual identity. This gentle coming-of-age story, set in some of Europe's greatest cities, will take you on a nostalgia trip across an emerging European Union.
The Cronicles of Mark Johnson
Author: Alan Place
Publisher: Alan Place
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This sereis of short stories won an award in 2012. When photographer Mark Johnson tires of the world of being a celebrity photographer, he retires to the coast with only his close friend, and agent as his contact with society. His retirement is interupted when he decides to investigate his sighting of a mysterious ghostly figure in the window of a derelict house by the cliffs. This leads him into a series of encounters with ghosts, and demons, while fighting his demons.
Publisher: Alan Place
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
This sereis of short stories won an award in 2012. When photographer Mark Johnson tires of the world of being a celebrity photographer, he retires to the coast with only his close friend, and agent as his contact with society. His retirement is interupted when he decides to investigate his sighting of a mysterious ghostly figure in the window of a derelict house by the cliffs. This leads him into a series of encounters with ghosts, and demons, while fighting his demons.
Mark Johnson's Tales from the Miracle on Ice
Author: Mark Johnson
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781582617756
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Many people consider the United States hockey team's gold medal win in the 1980 Winter Olympics to be the greatest sports event of the 20th century. In Tales from the Miracle on Ice, former Olympic hero Mark Johnson talks about how 20 college players from around the country came together under the leadership of legendary coach Herb Brooks. He gives inside details on everything from those early moments during tryouts to the long exhibition schedule of games that took the team across North America and Europe, along with the bitter loss to the powerful Soviet Union team just a week before the start of the Olympics. The main focus of Tales from the Miracle on Ice, however, are the events that occurred over 10 days in Lake Placid, New York, including the opening game of the Olympics for Team USA. It is the story of a hockey team that went from huge underdog to the best hockey team in the world with an astounding upset victory over the Soviets, which included a key goal by Johnson himself. Tales from the Miracle on Ice provides insight about other members of the American team, including Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, Mike Ramsey, Ken Morrow, Bill Baker, and Dave Christian, among others. These are tales about a team that nobody gave a chance to do anything. No one thought the United States could beat the Soviets and then go on to win the gold medal, but the team believed it could happen. Johnson takes readers back to that time in 1980 when Americans, who had hit an all-time low, were once again proud to be Americans after their victory. He also tells what the gold medal team members did after the Olympics, including their visit to the White House and the other celebrations that followed. It is hardto believe that a quarter of a century has gone by since that Sunday back in late February of 1980 when the American public fell in love with a bunch of kids playing hockey.
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781582617756
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Many people consider the United States hockey team's gold medal win in the 1980 Winter Olympics to be the greatest sports event of the 20th century. In Tales from the Miracle on Ice, former Olympic hero Mark Johnson talks about how 20 college players from around the country came together under the leadership of legendary coach Herb Brooks. He gives inside details on everything from those early moments during tryouts to the long exhibition schedule of games that took the team across North America and Europe, along with the bitter loss to the powerful Soviet Union team just a week before the start of the Olympics. The main focus of Tales from the Miracle on Ice, however, are the events that occurred over 10 days in Lake Placid, New York, including the opening game of the Olympics for Team USA. It is the story of a hockey team that went from huge underdog to the best hockey team in the world with an astounding upset victory over the Soviets, which included a key goal by Johnson himself. Tales from the Miracle on Ice provides insight about other members of the American team, including Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, Mike Ramsey, Ken Morrow, Bill Baker, and Dave Christian, among others. These are tales about a team that nobody gave a chance to do anything. No one thought the United States could beat the Soviets and then go on to win the gold medal, but the team believed it could happen. Johnson takes readers back to that time in 1980 when Americans, who had hit an all-time low, were once again proud to be Americans after their victory. He also tells what the gold medal team members did after the Olympics, including their visit to the White House and the other celebrations that followed. It is hardto believe that a quarter of a century has gone by since that Sunday back in late February of 1980 when the American public fell in love with a bunch of kids playing hockey.
The Girl with the Red Bandana
Author: Trixie Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is a story about a young lady wearing a red bandana and her sailing adventures who discovers life's ups and downs. Through her world travels and acquaintances, she navigates and succeeds. From San Francisco, Beijing, China, Europe, Mexico, Hawaii, New York City, Colombia, South America, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, this is one exciting drama you don't want to miss. It has adventure, romance and mystery all packed into one great story.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is a story about a young lady wearing a red bandana and her sailing adventures who discovers life's ups and downs. Through her world travels and acquaintances, she navigates and succeeds. From San Francisco, Beijing, China, Europe, Mexico, Hawaii, New York City, Colombia, South America, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, this is one exciting drama you don't want to miss. It has adventure, romance and mystery all packed into one great story.