New Releases by Pamela Johnson

Reflections: Hope Revealed (Volume II) is a devotional written by thirty-one women around the globe. In this book women share intimate stories of despair that lead to hope. These thirty-one women are from all walks of life and all seasons of life; including young women just starting out, in the middle of life and in the golden years. They are stay-at-home moms, ministry leaders, and professional women. They are women are from all over the world, from different churches, and from different ethnicities; but they all have the Lord in common. The foreword for is written by Vance Pitman highlighting the powerful testimony of one woman who prayed Hope church into existence.

"Located at the intersection of performance and visual art, On Performativity examines the questions that emerge when our art experiences are framed around the presence of the human body--and its absence. This volume of the Living Collections Catalogue includes newly commissioned essays by art historians Philip Auslander, Dorothea von Hantelmann, and Shannon Jackson as well as in-depth scholarship on works by Trisha Brown, Eiko & Koma, Yves Klein, Hélio Oiticica, and Tino Sehgal from the Walker Art Center''s collections."--site web http://www.walkerart.org/collections/publications/performativity.

''Planting Design Essentials'' helps you to interpret your vision, understand growing conditions and organize information in a clear and accessible way for all styles and types of planting.

The most regular contact many people have with wildlife is the pleasure of watching birds in the garden. Increase the attraction of your garden for birds by supplementing the food, shelter, roosting and nesting sites that are available, and your garden will offer a safe haven for many species, both resident and migratory. Hazel and Pamela Johnson show the most effective means of ensuring that birds will flourish and also detail the principles of sympathetic gardening, discussing how best to enhance local habitats, whether in cities, suburbs, a village or rural setting. Even patios and balconies can be attractive and useful to birds. The authors share their experience of this, devoting a chapter to the particular concerns of small gardens. They also cover: constructing, siting and maintaining ponds; cultivating annuals, biennials, perennials and aquatic plants; organic gardening and conservation issues; avoiding potential hazards; and breeding and feeding habits.

This study investigates possible reasons why parent''s perceive that their kindergarten child complains about school. Using data in the parent questionnaires from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999, this research looks at a nationally representative sample of boys and girls and specifically targets those children whose parents indicated that they complained more than one time per week during the first two months of school. Looking at factors both from home, including socioeconomic status, maternal education levels and family structure, and from school, including length of the kindergarten day, transition practices received by the child and prior pre-school experience, Chi square tests were employed to examine the relationship between these factors and the amount of complaining. Basic findings support the premise that when good transition practices are employed by schools, parents perceive that their children complain less about going to kindergarten. The small effect sizes suggest, however, that the statistically significant relationships may be an artifact of sample size. Good transition practices, however, are key to effective transitions and if implementing these practices will help make this important transition smoother, educators should utilize this relatively easy strategy to help new students. When there were good transitioning practices done by the kindergarten program, the child experienced greater success and complained significantly less about school regardless of all other factors.

Poems by Pamela Johnson Parker; winner of the 2009 qarrtsiluni chapbook contest.

Invites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.

Based on the true life story of the legendary Anne Bonny, Heart of a Pirate traces Anne''s life, beginning with her parents and their subsequent arrival in the New World, Anne''s upbringing among the society people of Charles Town, her marriage to penniless seaman, James Bonny, and their departure to New Providence, the pirate capital of the Bahamas. As a girl of sixteen, Anne makes her way among taverns, notorious sea captains, and life aboard ship disguised as a man. Eventually leaving Bonny, she flees from New Providence with Captain Jack Rackham, to share both joy and tragedy, on land, sea, and in battle, finally meeting the woman who will become her closest friend, Mary Read.

Contains a series of poems on various topics in different forms with an introduction by the author relating the experience of poetry writing.

In the modern business world, there is a shortage of effective yet culturally diverse leadership. Most attempts to develop multicultural leaders are limited to "one-way" training, coaching, and mentoring programs. Individuals are expected to quickly fit in and adjust to the corporate culture. All too often, the result of such programs is highly qualified people who are uncomfortable and uncommitted-and who eventually leave the organization. Everyone is Multicultural: Bridging Cultural Influences for Business Success is designed to help organizational leaders, leadership candidates, and the general public gain new insight and direction into the current workplace diversity agenda. Dr. Pamela Johnson draws on more than twenty years of experience in multicultural leadership development to explain the past elements of the diversity movement, redefine the meaning of true diversity, and present a new theory of multicultural leadership development. Developmental change takes time-time to think, time to feel, and time to grow-and only an ongoing process of multicultural leadership development will produce sustainable results. Everyone is Multicultural can help anyone gain an appreciation for themselves and others and learn what it takes to succeed in the business world today. It''s the perfect guide for individuals of all cultural influences who want to improve performance, workplace relationships, and diversity initiatives.

This investigation into certain elements of critical Latin American Literature was prompted by the apparent post-1980s neglect by academics of Anglo-Saxon origin to engage with the state and social class, in the contextual framework of the political economy, as central elements of social analysis. This analytical perspective of the state was marginalised by post-modernism and post-structuralism during the 1980s and 1990s with the state re-defined by contemporary globalisation theorists according to a notion of the nation-state. This constitutes one element of an overaching configuration of power relationa and networks comprising a variety of transnational players who assume political and economic roles to pursue their interests. This designation of players detracts from the centrality of class as an analytical tool, preferring to dwell on notions of power and conflict without pursuing tha analysis to its fundamental origin in a system of control and ownership of resources by dominant transnational corporations. An abandoning of the state as a central conceptual tool has coincided with changes, in the way the role performed by the university is conceptualised, foregrounding symptoms of an ideological intrusion by neoliberal discourse concerning the role of the University, rather than locating the cause. Hence the greater struggle for ideological hegemony that occurs within society, waged by the mass media, as mouthpiece of implementation by agents of transnational financial capital, and progating a neoliberal discourse, seems overlooked.

Testimony in opposition to House Bill 2658, which would require the Secretary of Aging to appoint a panel of three persons to conduct an independent review of disputes arising from adult care home surveys.

Gabe Russell is a product of the land, where respect for the earth and family are one in the same. But life takes both from him, leaving only shattered dreams and a deathbed promise in its wake. Now the promise to his father is all he has, but even that is as tenuous as his hold on the house he calls home. With her spirit nearly broken by an abusive ex-husband, Tess Graham is given another chance--a chance to reclaim her life and find happiness. But in doing so, she risks stealing the dreams of the one man she finds herself drawn to. How can she make things right without losing her own dreams in the process? Unable to ignore the passion between them, Gabe and Tess seek the comfort of one another in a quest for fulfillment of the ultimate dream...Love

It began in 1799 with the love of Ian MacLachlan and Elizabeth Sinclair. Two lovers whom fate cast into a curse that would test their love through time. The Sinclairs and the MacLachlans will see their clans joined in peace on Christmas Day, but when Elizabeth bursts into her intended''s chambers, she is shocked to find him in the arms of another. In a moment of blinding jealousy, her doubt sets the star-crossed lovers on a journey through time with a mission. They must correct the errors of fate by bringing three lost couples back together. Only when the quest is completed can Ian and Elizabeth be together again. 1899, one hundred years later, Lucinda and Flynn must find their way back into each others arms. Lucinda, determined to make Flynn love her, refuses to be less important to him than his work building lighthouses. It is with the help of Ian and Elizabeth that this couple comes to discover that everything they have is worthless without love. One hundred years later in 1999, Maggie and Ryan face their most difficult obstacle when trust and understanding fall to the wayside. With the legacy of the Cape Christmas lighthouse, Ryan wants nothing more than to please Maggie. When Maggie''s corporate position puts her at the helm of the lighthouse''s destruction, the ghosts of their ancestors will stop at nothing to set the course of true love right. The year 2122 brings the ghosts to the final leg of their journey where they must help Duncan and Chandra past the evils of deceit and betrayal. With the law requiring she mate by her next birthday, Chandra''s partner ischosen for her. Duncan knows he is in trouble when the very woman chosen as his life mate is the prime suspect in the murder investigation he is leading. Circumstance brings them back to Cape Christmas where fate once again wreaks havoc with time and love.

A feast for your body and your spirit. Ideas and experiences shared through the age old tradition of letter writing and family recipes. Food for thought.

"Maddie is haunted by a silence that surrounds her mother. As an artist, Maddie explores the silence without using words. She begins to make work for a major exhibition but is distracted; she may be pregnant. Maddie discovers she too can be secretive. As the new work progresses, pieced together from fragments of broken glass, Maddie delves into a silence spanning three generations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved