Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: people, american, history
Number of Pages: 1104
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0060930349
ISBN-13: 9780060930349

"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson’s remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." Johnson’s history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history--politics; business and economics; art, literature and science; society and customs; complex traditions and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men an

Author: Paul E. Johnson
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Keywords: jumper, famous, patch, sam
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-06-16
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0809083884
ISBN-13: 9780809083886

The true history of a legendary American folk heroIn the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn’t drinking) as a mill hand for one of America’s new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day by jumping seventy feet into the tumultuous waters below Pawtucket Falls. When in 1827 he repeated the stunt in Paterson, New Jersey, another mill town, an even larger audience gathered to cheer on the daredevil they would call the "Jersey Jumper." Inevitably, he went to Niagara Falls, where in 1829 he jumped not once but twic

Author: Paul M. Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: chomsky, sartre, tolstoy, marx, intellectuals
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1990-04-11
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0060916575
ISBN-13: 9780060916572

A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyan, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.

Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
Keywords: guide, survival, email
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 184624160X
ISBN-13: 9781846241604

WARNING! Email at work can seriously damage your health. Is email at work taking over your life? Are you overloaded with messages? Do you answer messages at home or while on holiday? Who is in charge of your working day; the computer or you? This book is for everyone who wants to take back control. It shows you how to: Get taken off pointless circulation lists Identify annoying email characteristics Write more focussed emails that get the job done Understand how personality affects the emails we send Avoid getting angry and frustrated by emails Deal with spam and so much more. Whatever kin

Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: advances, sociology, routledge, society, heterosexuality, love
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2005-06-07
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 041536485X
ISBN-13: 9780415364850

Heterosexuality is a largely ‘silent’ set of practices and identities – it is assumed to be everywhere and yet often remains unnamed and unexplored. Despite recent changes in the theoretical understanding and representation of sexuality, heterosexuality continues to be socially normative. Forging a new agenda for the study of heterosexuality, this in-depth volume, the first research monograph to focus on heterosexuality and society, presents an empirical study of the construction, negotiation and enactment of heterosexual sexuality. Using detailed interview data, it investigates how h

Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: library, chronicles, modern, history, short, renaissance
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-08-06
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0812966198
ISBN-13: 9780812966190

The Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern and producing the most astonishing outpouring of artistic creation the world has ever known. But what was it? In this masterly work, the incomparable Paul Johnson tells us. He explains the economic, technological, and social developments that provide a backdrop to the age’s achievements and focuses closely on the lives and works of its

Author: Paul M. Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: nineties, perennial, classics, twenties, world, times, revised, modern
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0060935502
ISBN-13: 9780060935504

The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.