Most Popular Books by Ian Johnson

''Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China''s reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain'' The Times Literary Supplement In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recounts the stories of three ordinary people who find themselves finding oppression and government corruption, risking imprisonment and even death. A young architecture student, a bereaved daughter, and a peasant legal clerk are the unlikely heroes of these stories, private citizens cast by unexpected circumstances into surprising roles.

Amazing portraits of iconic jazz musicians of the 40s, 50s and 60s by San Francisco based artist Ian M. Johnson. These are people who were cultural innovators as well as true artists, and whose music truly embodied notions of freedom, dignity and respect. Ian Johnson paints to their music and his portraits capture the visages of jazz greats such as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Billie Holliday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker perfectly. More than simply an aural experience, jazz, with its enthusiastic blend of compositional structure and improvisation, is an exercise in imagination and visualization. These portraits are as vibrant as the music itself, full of color, rhythm and melodic flights of fantasy. Ian Johnson''s work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Skateboard Journal and Chaser magazine.

The walk into intimacy with Christ is a journey. It starts when we first turn our lives over to Him and learn how to navigate the courts of heaven in this life. The division between heaven and earth is seamless because the veil between the realms has been forever torn by the Lord. The earthly journey is the bit where we get to know the Lord and his ways, where we go beyond knowing about Him through His word, to living embraced under the shadow of His wings. Into the place where we learn to head His call to "Come up Here" and come boldly before His throne of grace. It is a true journey, because every day is a new day in the Lord and the dawn of each new day brings change and new understandings of his ways as we fall into His heart and discover His love, His nature and His character.

Who was Thomas Watson? Famous in his day, he was the epitome of Renaissance man: classical scholar, linguist, poet, playwright, musician, scientist, thinker, traveller, cosmologist, a man of intense curiosity. "A very learned man that could tell strange things". His book of 100 love poems still intrigues, and musicologists admire his deft translations of Italian madrigals. He was a sociable companion, too, a loyal friend of poets and playwrights, and a wit--"witty Tom Watson". Watson mixed with the highest in the land, including the Earl of Oxford''s literary clique and the rival house of Philip and Mary Sidney. He was a close friend of the atheist Christopher Marlowe, and colleague of the Roman Catholic composer William Byrd. Yet, Watson also mingled with the basest in society. He was a government agent, an acquaintance of the spy master "Mr Secretary" Walsingham and a loved companion of his nephew. Scrapes and scandals dogged his life and even his death in 1592 aged 37 is blemished by a question mark. History has neglected Tom Watson. By examining his works and the culture in which he mixed, Ian Johnson attempts to get a measure of the man.

Literary Nonfiction. Sports Memoir. Edited by Michael Shields. THE BOUNCE AND THE ECHO is a memoir enriched by the enthralling history of the sport of basketball, from its inception unto its current state. It is the story of one person''s attempt to discover himself anew while on a venture to find peace with a game he so desperately wanted to love. THE BOUNCE AND THE ECHO is a story for every athlete who has ever picked up a ball and wondered why, and a book for anyone who has ever wanted to know what happens to a star athlete once the spotlight fades away.

Welcome to the Heaven''s sons revealed on earth. This book is designed to get you on the road to a supernatural lifestyle that will see the process of transformation from Christian to son of the Kingdom. All Sons and Daughters are called to walk with God and to enjoy the realms of heaven, but most importantly, we are all called to release heaven on earth. This just won''t happen while we remain committed to a system that prevents the maturating of sons and daughters. The worlds are groaning for the revelation of the Sons of God and a system that acts as a gate keeper and not as a gate opener for the King won''t enable us to see the need to walk where we are all called to walk. The Church is called to be that gate opener, and Fathers and Mothers in the Church are called to show the Sons and Daughters the gates. This book is an invitation to revolution and reformation in the body of Christ. It is not to dismiss the Church, but to lift her up as the true gate opener, so that the King of glory may come in.

This book is an inspiring and historical look at the amazing life of Francis Xavier, missionary and pioneer to India, Sri Lanka, Malacca, Indonesia, the Islands of the Philippines and Japan. which includes a challenge to us to return to the supernatural ministry of Christ as outworked in ordinary men and women of God. In the brief years between 1541 and his death in 1552 Francis saw hundreds of thousands turn to Jesus; the miracles that followed his preaching of the gospel, included twenty eight people recorded as being raised from the dead and countless healings, and unusual signs and wonders, just like the book of Acts. King John 3rd of Portugal was the sender who mostly financed Francis mission, Francis was the one who went and encouraged countless hundreds of others to do the same. My hope is that this book will inspire your heart to the supernatural mission of the body of Christ, either as someone who goes, or as someone who sends. There are still millions who wait for the next Francis Xavier and you carry the same Holy Spirit as Francis did. May this book inspire you in your supernatural journey with Christ.

Victoria Featherstone is still mourning the mysterious death of her mother when tragedy strikes again and a failed kidnap attempt leaves her baby sister Elspeth in a coma. But these are no ordinary intruders, and a hideous calling card reveals their despicable nature.

This publication offers invaluable tax planning help for the tax specialist and with its easy to use subject index and cross-referencing, it is a highly practical publication, ideal for the busy tax practitioner and lawyer. Debt and Treasury management occupies an increasing proportion of the work of tax practitioners. With considerable legislation to get to grips with, this publication, updated twice per annum, offers a concise and comprehensive version of the law in this area. This publication examines, in detail, each of the regimes involved.

East Africa is to be the focus of Africa Geographic''s third book in the highly successful and acclaimed Safari in Style series. It will combine the aspirational and inspirational elements of enticing travel experiences, wildlife, landscapes, architecture, decor and the individual ambience found at some 30 prime game and country lodges throughout Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. In order to ensure that only unique, intimate destinations are selected, each of the establishments to be included in Safari in Style will be chosen with great care by an editorial committee comprising the authors and Africa Geographic''s editors and travel consultants. The book is organised into eight chapters, each of which captures the spirit and sense of place as well as the scenic and wildlife diversity of southern Africa.

Axle, a smart and energetic 8 year old kid. He begged his dad for months for a tablet. Little did he know that the tablet came with rules and responsibility. Lets see what happens.

Axle is a kid who begged for a tablet. He soon finds out that it comes with responsibility.

ABSTRACT: Advances in computational power have lead to many developments in science and entertainment. Powerful simulations which required expensive supercomputers can now be carried out on a consumer personal computer and many children and young adults spend countless hours playing sophisticated computer games. The focus of this research is the development of tools which can help bring the entertaining and appealing traits of video games to scientific education. Video game developers use many tools and programming languages to build their games, for example the Blender 3D content creation suite. Blender includes a Game Engine that can be used to design and develop sophisticated interactive experiences. One important tool in computer graphics and animation is the particle system, which makes simulated effects such as fire, smoke and fluids possible. The particle system available in Blender is unfortunately not available in the Blender Game Engine because it is not fast enough to run in real-time. One of the main factors contributing to the rise in computational power and the increasing sophistication of video games is the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Many consumer personal computers are equipped with powerful GPUs which can be harnassed for general purpose computation. This thesis presents a particle system library is accelerated by the GPU using the OpenCL programming language. The library integrated into the Blender Game Engine providing an interactive platform for exploring fluid dynamics and creating video games with realistic water effects. The primary system implemented in this research is a fluid simulator using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics technique for simulating incompressible fluids such as water. The library created for this thesis can simulate water using SPH at 40fps with upwards of 100,000 particles on an NVIDIA GTX480 GPU. The fluid system has interactive features such as object collision, and the ability to add and remove particles dynamically. These features as well as phsyical properties of the simulation can be controlled intuitively from the user interface of Blender.

Details of system specifications and capabilities.