This is an exploration of the malaise of our time, the wounded-feeling function, through the mystic stories of "The Fisher King" and "The Handless Maiden". Johnson looks to the heightened, magical language of myth for an analysis of, and a prescription for curing, this contemporary malaise. The "Fisher King" story can be seen as an experience of ...
A must-have for all blues guitarists, this exciting publication is the most complete Robert Johnson collection ever! It includes note-for-note transcriptions in notes and tab for all 29 songs ever recorded by this elusive legend, plus two alternate takes. Newly discovered authentic tunings and capo placements are also part of the package. Songs ...
Focusing on episodes from ordinary people's lives, this book looks at coincidences, chance meetings, and chronological significances that defy explanation and have changed peoples lives.
Robert Johnson and Hans Toch's "Crime and Punishment: Inside Views" is an edited volume of original essays written by offenders "in their own words." The book provides a unique, inside view of crime, prisoners, and the experience of punishment. These essays represent the worldviews of 52 offenders, introducing the reader to the forces that shaped ...
A seminal work, this is a unique book in that it provides personal accounts from prisoners telling what it is really like to live in prison as well as historical and contextual information. It is the personal stories, which provide a realistic and poignant look at what life is like as a prisoner, that are the strength of this book.
A very frank insiders look at the use of the death penalty in modern America. Johnson has done a great deal of reasearch on the process and use of the death penalty, including the witnessing of an electrocution. Exploring both the emotional and empirical controversy surrounding the use of the death penalty, he promotes the idea that death row and ...
In an African folk tale, the otherwordly enchantment of a heavenly woman nearly destroys a young man, but he is saved by the love of a plain girl from his village. Acclaimed author Robert A. Johnson discusses the manifestation of feminine archetypes in men's lives and illuminates men's relationship to femininity through myths, stories, and ...
Why has CompTIA (the high-profile Computer Technology Industry Association behind the wildly popular A+ and Network+ certifications) targeted security for its latest credential? Thanks to soaring e-business initiatives and worldwide Internet connectivity, recent survey stats from the Computer Security Institute (CSI) show we need more network ...
"The Network+ Study Guide" covers all the objectives on the CompTIA exam, including the features and functions of networking components, and ensuring that readers have the knowledge and skills needed to install, configure and troubleshoot basic networking hardware, protocols and services. It covers exam topics such as media and topologies, ...
The Parthenon Code reveals, for the first time in 2,000 years, the meaning of the seven sculptural themes on Athena's temple. A simple, but hidden artists' code expressed on vase-paintings and the Parthenon sculptures, leads to the astonishing truth that Greek myth/art chronicles in great detail the reestablishment of the way of Kain (Cain) after ...
From Dagwood to Dilbert, the past fifty years haven't seen much evolution in our attitudes toward work. Too many of us still believe that our work selves and our real selves, our professional and personal lives, are separate entities. This book is about how that concept is slowly, but surely, changing. It is about why it is changing. And, most ...
Describes the psychological case of a woman who dreamed about the sacrifice of a hare, discusses the mythological meaning of hares, and looks at dream therapy.
This Sixth Edition of Johnson and Lee's popular book on public budgeting surveys the state-of-the-art across all levels of government in the United States, emphasizing methods by which financial decisions are reached and different types of information are used in budgetary decision-making.
This volume collects the most important statements on the English language by Samuel Johnson, one of its greatest expositors and speakers. The book includes scholarly, fully annotated editions of Johnson's main writings on the history, structure, and cultural importance of the English language as well as his reflections on lexicography. These ...
"Nantucket's People of Color" is a fascinating study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. This anthology, which represents more than ten years of research by James Bradford Ames Scholars from the University of Massachusetts Boston, examines the relationships between Africans, Quakers, others of ...
In this business guide for managers, two experts offer ways to navigate the everyday situations that sometimes may lead to misunderstanding based on race. They offer ways to identify strengths and vulnerabilities and suggest ways that effective communication can bring about more positive relationships. (Useful for non-managers as well.)
As consumers become more aware of health and environmental hazards in agriculture, the wine industry is devoting increased time and effort to the cultivation of organic grapes with the long term goal of healthier wine, consumers and profits. This book is a useful reference for environmentally conscious drinkers. The authors, two organic wine ...
Explore the music of one of the greatest acoustic bluesmen of all time with this fascinating book/CD pack. Blues expert Dave Rubin provides an introduction on Johnson's place in musical history, and extensive notes on his tunings, arrangements, fingerstyle technique and guitars. Features in-depth lessons and audio examples of 15 of his most famous ...
Accompanied by detailed text, this brand-new photo-based book covers the equipment, weapons, and accessories used by the German Wehrmacht from 1935 to 1945, with an emphasis on support weapons like mortars and nebelwerfers as well as personal weapons including the hand grenade, panzerfaust, and the heavy demolition remote-controlled Goliath.
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