Best Selling Books by Scott Johnson

Everyone has a dream and a desire to make a difference. Unfortunately, life all too often comes crashing in and we end up forfeiting our dreams for a variety of reasons, some financial. Crowdfund 2.0 provides a pathway to recapturing that passion with the knowledge and tools to create all the money you need for whatever is important to you. Not only will you be introduced to the potential of crowdfunding you will also be introduced to a new and exciting approach that changes the focus. Typically, projects are very much self focused but the new 2.0 method is revolutionary because it is now about empowering others. Crowdfunding is a global phenomenon! The big names in Crowdfunding have been GoFundme, Kickstarter, and Indegogo, and there are hundreds of others. While these have all been proven to work, there are some very real drawbacks. One drawback is that they only use one method of raising funds. A method known as Direct Funding which places you in the the role of a beggar were you are asking for help from others, or like a peddler who sells candy bars or cookies. Crowdfund 2.0 introduces an entirely new approach that makes you a solution provider. It is revolutionary in that it focuses on the needs, wants and desires of others rather than yourself. And as a result, your needs, wants and desires are funded. This book opens a world of new opportunities that will impact your life as well as others in your community.

Are you currently following a Sirtfood Diet or planning to in the near future? Are you concerned about the food you'll be allowed to eat and how to keep it interesting? This book, The Sirtfood Diet Cookbook: Delicious and Healthy Sirtfood Diet Recipes to Help You Burn Fat, Get Lean and Feel Great, has been created with you in mind, so that finding success with the Sirtfood Diet comes easy. Inside, you'll find a range of mouth-watering dishes that are quick and easy to prepare, but offer amazing taste at the same time, including: ● Pomegranate and Strawberry Juice ● Chocolate Cupcakeѕ with Green Tea Icing ● Chicken, Spinach, and Kale Curry ● Mediterranean-Inѕpired Skewerѕ ● Date Ballѕ with Chocolate and Nutѕ ● Baked Potato with Fragrant Chickpea Stew ● And many more... Also inside the book, you'll find all the information you'll need on Sirtfood Diet, and with this book, you can make your life easier, while cutting down the chances of failure into the bargain! Get your copy NOW!

While out walking his dog one evening during a terrible storm, Robert Harris finds a half-drowned figure lying at the edge of the sea. The strangely dressed man has no recollection of who he is, or how he came to be there. When Robert's ward, Mary, takes him to the nearby town, it soon becomes clear that others know of the man's identity and they will stop at nothing to get to him. As the details of the man's past are slowly discovered, he becomes embroiled in a battle of politics and power as the search for his identity leads him, and those willing to help, on a fast-paced and dangerous journey across Victorian England. When the truth about the man's past is finally unearthed, the shocking discovery has far wider reaching consequences.

In recent years, contemporary architectural theory and practice have shifted from a focus on how a building appears to how it performs. Nowhere are these performative properties more evident than in the field of skyscraper design, where the emergence of ultra-performing materials, interactive processing systems, and digital design and fabrication techniques are making remarkable new structures possible. In Performative Skyscraper, acclaimed skyscraper architect Scott Johnson describes how the combination of sophisticated modeling software and demands for ever-increasing environmental sustainability have led to an overwhelming emphasis on high performance. From advanced window-walls to vertical mixed-use towers, Johnson captures the breadth and immediacy of skyscraper design now.

" ... a few years ago, I went through the task of digitizing sketchbooks filled with drawings both personal and professional, and was surprised at what a large amount of material had ended up as ink on paper. Then, scouring the contents of long-forgotten folders on my Mac, the mountainous nature of the art files that had piled up became oh so clear. Man oh man, a whole lot of drawing has been going on! That is what you'll find within [this book], the lion's share of the commercial art committed to the 'johnson!' (or, often, simply "j!") signature over the decades. Though the visual look of these pages tends toward the dangerous congestion of the fondly-remembered clip-art books of the 1970's, there is hopefully enough of interest in here to bring a smile, a nod of appreciation, and the occasional belly-laugh."--Page 5.

"The skyscraper, whatever it may be as physical fact, looms large in our lives and as a figment of our imaginations carries with it ideas of wealth, ambition, and dominance. The image of the skyscraper has been made and remade in the news, in literature and film, and now in all forms of our now global media. Paradoxically, as the building type continues to become more complex and is designed to address fundamentally different cultural conditions, the image, that is to say, the idea, of the skyscraper in the public mind seems to become simpler, more omnipresent, and more consumable. all Building explores what the skyscraper evokes in us as a curious and complex technical achievement and also as a powerful image that has inspired artists for over 100 years. Johnson’s readable text and his intimate knowledge of tall building brings the skyscraper to life both technically and emotionally. Numerous rarely seen images of landmarks of architecture make this book a visual treat." --

Victory is based on a well-known baseball legend about Charles Victor Faust, a more-or-less madman who showed up at pre-game practice for the New York Giants in 1911.

"7 tales of xmas, eight little reindeer, a miracle christmas thingie, and a whole housetop full of santas make up this caring collection of yuletide goodies for grownups who've had it with holiday hoo-hah but are still passionate enough to harbor a holiday heart. You'll want to pull out this keepsake year after year after year, but don't stop there! Buy several copies for that loved one on your list ... share with all your friends and relatives ... hand them out to perfect strangers ... take the whole blessed stack to the checkout counter, now!"--Back cover.

"I begin with an analysis of the missionary ideals of Francis of Assisi in the context of earlier Christian missionary traditions and encounters with Islam. In my second chapter I examine the ways in which Franciscan hagiographers, including Thomas of Celano and Bonaventure, elaborated upon Francis's missionary experience, linking his mission and exposure to martyrdom with his reception of the wounds of the stigmata, establishing an enduring motif linking Francis with martyrdom. I then look at the missions of the early Franciscans martyred in North Africa in the 1220s, tracing the legacy of the Franciscan 'Protomartys' through the figure of St. Anthony of Padua, who converted to the order through their example. I show how thirteenth-century Franciscan martyrology intersected with crusading interests. Next I examine missions across Mongol Asia, c. 1290-1340. Focusing on the martyrdom of four Franciscans at Thana, India, I show how Franciscans translated this experience from India to Italy, noting the important role of the famous travelogue of Odorico da Pordenone, while distinguishing the different ways that the disputing factions of Spiritual and Conventual Franciscans appropriated these ideas at this time. In my last chapter I discuss missionary activities in Mamluk Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land, c. 1350-1440, charting the formation of a more aggressive promotion of voluntary martyrdom as demonstrated in the martyrdom of Nikola Taveliae and companions at Jerusalem in 1391, and in later reiterations of this approach by figures such as Alberto da Sarteano and those behind an anonymous Tractatus de martyrio, c. 1437. In an epilogue I trace out implications of this Franciscan martyrial tradition in two formal canonizations of Franciscan martyrs in 1481 and in 1970"--Pages ix-x.