New Releases by Jay Johnson

About the book - The War Years World War II was a time of chaos and fear throughout the world. This is a narrative of one family''s experience, as seen through the eyes of a child during the trials and tribulations of World War II. This war was so devastating to most of the world, but it held a much different significance for a few kids living in the middle of a military base during the world''s struggle between nations. As the world moved around their little community preparing for this terrible war, they lived in the safest place in the world, a military post in the middle of the United States of America. They were close to the tenseness of the soldiers preparing for war, but, in reality, they were only dealing with their own day-to-day experiences. They experienced daily contact with the "frontline" soldiers, moving throughout a military post soon to be in harm''s way. This book is how the Author remembers growing up with a military family, and not what he knows now.

This colorful preschool-to-kindergarten workbook introduces 3 "BIG idea" math and science concepts about Patterns. Children practice new skills and build enthusiasm for reading, math, and science. The companion CD contains an outstanding patterns picture book to help kick off the games, crafts, and interactive learning fun with the family.

Concerns about increasing student persistence through understanding engagement led to a study based on the identification of NSSE socialization clusters that predict private Midwestern college persistence. Looking at engagement in context of social constructivism, supportive literature highlights relationships among engagement, persistence, and demographic variables. Archival data were retrieved from the college under study for this quantitative, pre-experimental, post-post comparison. The dependent variable is engagement measured by two NSSE Benchmarks; 1) Student-Faculty Interaction and 2) Supportive Campus Environment. The independent variables are persistence, gender, athletic status, and legacy status. Covariates for the study are ACT or SAT standardized test scores and high school grade point averages. Descriptive summary analysis, four-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), and discriminant analysis found main and interaction effects of engagement and NSSE variable clusters within the four independent variables. Student interaction with faculty was found to be an indicator of engagement and persistence. The college under study must provide opportunities for faculty to be more socially involved with students.

NOTE: The SHORT BOOK ($8.50) just means soft cover. It is the entire book. S&H is $5.60 when you select Media Mail. JAY JOHNSON: Once every thousand years a powerful rogue zen spirit inhabits a human being. It chose me. I´m living with an uncapped fire hydrant in my head, an impulsive torrent of words and images. First I had to learn not to drown. BREAK TIME is learning to swim. POET JOHN KICKER: I thank Jay for naming me and nurturing me and I thank you for coming this far. Now buy the book. Check out BREAKTIMEBOOK.COM for more info

Introduces various kinds of dinosaurs, and discusses what is known about their habitat, groups, food, communications, defenses, and life cycles; includes a read-along compact disc.

Building on the cool ideal, this IBM® IBM Redbooks publication describes V5 enhancements to many of the TCP/IP applications. The two book predecessors, combined, have been downloaded over 97,000 times: for V3, Cool Title About the AS/400 and Internet, SG24-4815-01, and V4 TCP/IP for AS/400: More Cool Things Than Ever, SG24-5190-00. Both of these extremely popular books are "aggregators" - a place to bring together many different technologies all in one place to have a common theme; teach the basics. That is, teach what the functions can do, define scenarios, and then implement the scenarios in a how-to fashion. Many of the topics covered in those earlier books, such as HTTP, Digital Certificates, and even TCP/IP have grown to the point now that they require their own RedbooksTM . In this book, we cover Telnet, FTP, IPP, NTP, SMTP, and making VPN connections with the iSeriesTM , to and from the Internet. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Combine high-interest subjects, challenging puzzles and games, and plenty of stickers -- and what do you get? A Powerhouse of fun and learning! Young dinosaur fans find out about dinosaur anatomy-from teeth and claws to spikes and horns-eating habits, predators and prey, fossils, habitats and more.

Now professional software developers working in highly complex distributed environments can learn how to create agents for client/server environments. This book clearly explains the programming of agents for improving user interfaces, for improving performance and usability of LANS and WANS, for managing mail, and even for assisting in the development of other software.

This book/disk package helps programmers write better code in less time using the latest software development techniques. The authors include tools and code samples in C++ and Ada. Programmers will learn to boost their productivity with less than half the effort required by traditional programming methods.

This illustrated guide to American folk artists and their work spans a century of painters from Grandma Moses to Kathy Jakobsen and covers such media as sculpture, pottery, and textile creations.