Most Popular Books by J. Johnson

Trade Agreements and Financial Services examines the cross-border agreements that have historically been focused on the trade of merchandise goods. Increasingly, emphasis is being placed on the provision of cross-border services. Notable among these are financial services. There is a clear link between economic development and the availability of financial products. Moreover, the financial services sector is, itself, a major industry that is fueling growth. The conditions under which financial services are offered in an international context are the subject of debate in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Back to the sea, someone said, and many agreed, so they went. Forsaking the land, they stepped cautiously into the waters, like newborns opening their eyes to peer at the world for the first time. What they found was a world that itself, seemed to be alive--shifting and swaying like some gigantic animal. And it was here they found their new home among the rocks and coral, the fish and fauna. Flowing through the waters veins, they quickly became woven into the seas intricate pattern. But they never forgot those who had stayed behind. And they longed, one day, to be with them. Such gorgeous imagery is affecting and evocative... -Clarion Forward Reviews A slim but powerful debut collection of poetry... -Kirkus Reviews

This book describes experiences of Black people who lived throughout the Mississippi RiverBayou Lafourche Region of South Louisiana during the period 18751975. These writings cover four parishes (counties) including Saint James, Ascension, Assumption and Lafourche. This area of Louisiana is steeped in American history, beginning in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. The regions uniqueness is revealed as we reflect on the Great Depression and the economy, the area and its people, the cuisine, health and home remedies, folklore (customs, fads, and superstitions), homesteads and family life, the three Rs and secondhand books, the music of our lives, our hometown heroes and their participation in the defense of our country starting with the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War, and much more.

This collection of stories about life on a Minnesota farm in the 1960’s and 70’s is as homey as the quilt on Grandma’s bed and will evoke memories of a bygone era as rich as a three layer chocolate cake.

Written for fellows, practicing nephrologists, and internists who treat patients with disorders affecting the renal system, Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, 7th Edition, offers a practical approach to this complex field, supported by underlying scientific facts and pathophysiology. World leaders in nephrology provide current information on clinical procedures and conditions, covering everything from fluid and electrolyte disorders to hypertension, diabetes, dialysis, transplantation, and more-all in a single, convenient volume. Provides a "just right" amount of basic science and practical clinical guidance to help you make efficient and informed decisions. Contains new chapters on Blood Pressure Management in the Dialysis Patient, Kidney Diseases Associated with Corona Viruses, Ultrasound Imaging in Nephrology, and Radiologic and Nuclear Imaging in Nephrology. Includes more than 1,500 full-color illustrations that highlight key topics and detail pathogenesis for a full range of kidney conditions and clinical management. Covers key topics such as COVID-19, chronic kidney disease, end stage kidney disease, kidney transplantation, glomerular disease, onco-nephrology, dialysis, and much more. Features popular, color-coded algorithms that provide easy access to important content: yellow boxes for general information, green boxes for therapeutic intervention, and blue boxes for necessary investigations. Includes quick-reference boxes with links to clinical guidelines in all relevant chapters, plus self-assessment questions online. An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

This overview aims to inform the public discussion of space-based weapons by examining their characteristics, potential attributes, limitations, legality, and utility. The authors do not argue for or against space weapons, nor do they estimate the potential costs and performance of specific programs, but instead sort through the realities and myths surrounding space weapons in order to ensure that debates and discussions are based on fact.

This book provides hands-on guidance for researchers and practitioners in criminal justice and criminology to perform statistical analyses and data visualization in the free and open-source software R. It offers a step-by-step guide for beginners to become familiar with the RStudio platform and tidyverse set of packages. This volume will help users master the fundamentals of the R programming language, providing tutorials in each chapter that lay out research questions and hypotheses centering around a real criminal justice dataset, such as data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, National Crime Victimization Survey, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, The Monitoring the Future Study, and The National Youth Survey. Users will also learn how to manipulate common sources of agency data, such as calls-for-service (CFS) data. The end of each chapter includes exercises that reinforce the R tutorial examples, designed to help master the software as well as to provide practice on statistical concepts, data analysis, and interpretation of results. The text can be used as a stand-alone guide to learning R or it can be used as a companion guide to an introductory statistics textbook, such as Basic Statistics in Criminal Justice (2020).

The authors surveyed over 9,000 seventh grade students in the Houston Independent School District up to three times during their junior high school years and once as young adults between 1971 and 1980. Drawing on the extensive data gathered from this longitudinal survey, Kaplan and Johnson develop and test a comprehensive theoretical statement about the social and social psychological processes involved in the onset and course of deviant behavior.

This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

After cutting short a vacation with difficult relatives, Paul and Cindy Jason take the scenic route home to Chicago. On impulse, they stop at a farm auction where they meet the owners, Melvin and Minnie Link. Cindy admires an old, hand-carved mirror that comes with an eerie history. For a mere ten dollars, Cindy is the new owner of this unusual mirror that Melvin claims is at least 120 years old. But the Jasons quickly discover that the mirror is no bargain. From the moment the mirror is hung in the apartment, a certain pall hangs over themand soon its making them both a little crazy. With the help of Cindys sister and brother-in-law, the four are unwittingly drawn into a frightening and macabre doorway into another worldthe world of the dead, commonly referred to as purgatory. Three decades earlier, a greedy and treacherous character invaded the lives of Minnie and Melvin Link. Unexpectedly granted a supernatural power over the Jasons minds, Minnie attempts to communicate her desperate plight to them with terrifying and unforeseen consequences, and the four find themselves embroiled in an attempt to find justice for the victims of an unsolved thirty-year-old murder.

A chemistry-driven pathway to learning Python that empowers chemists to use coding as a practical tool for planning experiments, visualizing results, and interpreting chemical behavior. This approachable textbook introduces coding in Python as a tool for solving real-world problems encountered by experimental chemists and uses a narrative structure that frames coding concepts in terms of tasks common to chemical research. Readers will learn to plan experiments, automate the generation of publication-quality figures, fit experimental data to any desired model, and process data using advanced analysis techniques. By working through this book, readers with no prior knowledge of coding will learn to efficiently expand their research and data analysis skills. Introduces concepts and workflows applicable to nearly all experimental chemists Assumes no prior knowledge of coding Ensures that each concept introduced is immediately useful to the reader Tackles key pain points familiar to any advanced undergraduate chemistry student with usable code