Lachelle Jackson appears to have it all; a husband who adores her; a job that fulfills her and friends that love her unconditionally. When Lachelle learns that she is pregnant, what should be the best experiences of her life becomes one of the darkest times she ever endured. Facing a life-threatening pregnancy, in the midst of insurmountable grief, can Lachelle find the strength to fight for her life and that of her unborn baby? Can she overcome depression and move beyond memories of her past to accept God’s greatest gift...LOVE?
In Hitting the Brakes, Ann Johnson illuminates the complex social, historical, and cultural dynamics of engineering design, in which knowledge communities come together to produce new products and knowledge. Using the development of antilock braking systems for passenger cars as a case study, Johnson shows that the path to invention is neither linear nor top-down, but highly complicated and unpredictable. Individuals, corporations, university research centers, and government organizations informally coalesce around a design problem that is continually refined and redefined as paths of development are proposed and discarded, participants come and go, and information circulates within the knowledge community. Detours, dead ends, and failures feed back into the developmental process, so that the end design represents the convergence of multiple, diverse streams of knowledge. The development of antilock braking systems (ABS) provides an ideal case study for examining the process of engineering design because it presented an array of common difficulties faced by engineers in research and development. ABS did not develop predictably. Research and development took place in both the public and private sectors and involved individuals working in different disciplines, languages, institutions, and corporations. Johnson traces ABS development from its first patents in the 1930s to the successful 1978 market introduction of integrated ABS by Daimler and Bosch. She examines how a knowledge community first formed around understanding the phenomenon of skidding, before it turned its attention to building instruments to measure, model, and prevent cars’ wheels from locking up. While corporations’ accounts of ABS development often present a simple linear story, Hitting the Brakes describes the full social and cognitive complexity and context of engineering design.
Becoming a mother is radical, powerful, shocking, redemptive, and ripe for insights. This journal is a tangible place to collect thoughts and images during the postpartum period, to help explore, work with, and record the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of each new mother's personal journey. This beautiful keepsake journal is a perfect place to be honest about the highs and lows of becoming a mother. As new mothers navigate the challenges, changes, emotional intensity, and personal growth possibilities of the postpartum period, The Fourth Trimester Journal is an invitation to anchor into the present moment and to spark inspiration and insight. It offers a structured way to record thoughts, feelings, and impressions, while also offering encouragement, grounding exercises, and warm, relatable advice to help support postpartum healing. With powerful artwork by Joanna Johnson and insights, prompts, and grounding meditations from Kimberly Ann Johnson, a certified Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and bestselling author of the Fourth Trimester, this journal is a trustworthy companion as new mothers forge and walk the path of the mundane to the sacred all at the same time.
During the 1990s and early 2000s, China became the world s largest supplier of healthy, predominantly female, children for international adoption--a veritable diaspora of 120,000 girls. We in the west have come to believe that this situation was the result of China s One-Child Policy, combined with a traditional Chinese cultural disdain for females and for adopting outside family bloodlines. While there is one truth in this account it does not nearly tell the whole story. Kay Ann Johnson should know. For the last twenty-five years she has been one of the few scholars who has done research on child abandonment and local adoption in China itself. She is also the mother of an adopted Chinese daughter. Her book paints a startlingly different picture. For Chinese parents, giving up their daughters is fraught with grief and remorse. Were it not for the punishments and threats of birth planning campaigns, they would have kept and raised the girls they gave birth to, regardless of how many daughters they had. Johnson presents parents stories about why and how they relinquished a second or third daughter in an often desperate effort to hide her birth from authorities to avoid punishment (including the threat of mandatory sterilization). As the Chinese government cracked down and increased its surveillance, the methods of relinquishing one child changed: from adopting-out a child to a known daughterless family among friends or extended kin, to secret abandonments at carefully chosen doorsteps of likely potential adopters, then finally to outright abandonment in public places. In the 21st century, the so called abandoned children of China have become stolen children. Declining fertility rates and increased seizures of illegally, but locally adopted children have made the dwindling numbers of relinquished children more vulnerable to increasing interregional child trafficking for official and unofficial adoption. Ironically, childless Chinese couples no longer can readily fin healthy young children locally to adopt. Ultimately, Johnson argues that birth planning policies and restrictive adoption regulations, including the perverse incentives these policies create, help drive current patterns of child trafficking and make its eradication difficult if not impossible.
An attempted rape of the heroine, Megan McAllister, is stopped by the hero, Joshua Jeffries. The two fall instantly in love which then gives her father, Matthew, the reason to blackmail the wealthy Jeffries' family. Elizabeth, Joshua's mother, gladly pays money to separate the two lovers. To oblige Elizabeth Jeffries in his blackmail plot Matthew has his daughter kidnapped by a pair of local thugs. Joshua's mother fabricates an intricate lie that sends her son on a journey west to help heal his broken heart. After a staged rescue by her father Megan thinks Joshua has married another, she soon learns of her pregnancy. When the death of her father forces her to search for her mother's family she meets Joshua again. At which time their lusty passion once again forces them into one another's arms. Since meeting again Joshua never learns of his child and leaves in anger brought on once more by lies told by others. Megan agrees to marry another man in her sorrow over Joshua's leaving. But as her bad luck continues Christopher is killed tragically before they are able to wed. Joshua returns only to learn Megan has a child whom he believes belongs to his friend who has died. Their meeting once more is sparked by the intense passion they feel for each other. But due to his mistrust Joshua leaves again. After the shock of Christopher's death and the injury Megan's son endures, Megan's beloved grandmother dies. That tragedy forces Megan to head west to stay with another family member. She is attacked by Indians on her journey west, but as fate would have it she is once again rescued by her hero, Joshua. Now with his passion being more than he can endure Joshua pushes aside the past to stay with his love. Happily ever after isn't in the cards for them though, she is kidnapped a third time by an Indian whom had attacked her prior. Elizabeth Jeffries gladly tells her son of the abduction, only to watch him go in search of Megan. He hunts her and eventually brings her home where they await the birth of their second child with delight.
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.
The God, Who Hears is a thought provoking overview concerning how Jehovah God hears the prayers of the ones who trust Him. The author's ability to create a conversation between her and her perspective readers is a brilliant concept. The biblical interpretations are accurate and her ability to maneuver seamlessly through the Old and the New Testament is excellent. Her opinions are biblical based and her respect for the Sh'ma and Judaism is refreshing. Teresa Ann Johnson possesses the ability to keep the reader desiring more and more.... I could not stop reading! Excellent." -Lawrence Fishman, Campus Vice President ASC Education Affiliate, Inc. Reform Jew Teresa Ann Johnson's foundational statement for life and ministry rest upon the following: For, I must be the servant-leader who defends the orphan and pleads the case of the widow; to provide justice for the poor; to lift the oppression from the down trodden and employ mercy, as I walk humbly before God. This native Baltimorean has been an outstanding speaker for general, women and youth conferences for more than two decades. She has been a Bible College and Urban Institute Instructor for over a decade. Pastoral leaders have employed her strategic leadership ability to assist with the development of church leaders, the establishment of youth departments and women's ministries. Academically, Teresa Ann attended Morgan State University where she majored in English Literature and Home Economics. Professionally, she has developed and written resource educational curriculum and workbooks in Financial Literacy for elementary through middle school students in private, charter and public education. Currently, she is a Sr. Financial Aid Administrator. Teresa Ann Johnson is a member of the Church of the Redeemed of the Lord, where Dr. Jerome Stokes is Senior Pastor.
The town of Phonicsville was bubbling over with excitement.Children dancing in the street quoting letters and making letters sounds and reading books. Until.......... their world of all things phonics came crumbling down.The town Mayor set a a decree to put an end to everything the children like to do in Phonicville.
Poetry seems to be a lost literary art form in the twenty-first century that I hope might possibly enjoy a new resurgence in modern popularity. Reading and learning is an important knowledge and enjoyable pastime for us all to value. To that end, here’s hoping the following will cause you to think, to enjoy, to possibly cry, and hopefully to laugh. These various poems were written by the author to express many different feelings she was having at the time they were written. But... as every human being knows, the journey between the cradle to the grave is filled with many emotions and situations for us to cope with and endure. Good times and bad, love, sadness, happiness, smiles, tears, and fears..., and so much more... To borrow a line from an author whose name escapes me, “into every life a little rain must fall.”, but also we all have many “moments in the sun”, to quote a phrase I’ve coined myself. To sum it up, every life is filled with comedy and tragedy. It’s always six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Mrs. Modine has retired from her official life as a schoolteacher and by a strange quirk of fate, has stumbled into her new role: amateur detective. In the first novel introducing Ellie Modine, she determines to find the killer of a friend that she had just left at the Starlite theater after the successful production of a "Labor Day Love Affair". Unfortunately, sometimes life imitates fiction, and one of the minor actresses of the play is found dead. Ellie believes that in order to bring in the killer, she will have to investigate a very tangled '"love affair". She handles her new job with humor, grace, and a lot of luck, finding love of her own along the way.
This book is about Andrew Johnson, a Swedish immigrant who came to America in 1865 at the end of the Civil War. He migrated to North Mississippi. In less than five years he became a noted architect who changed the architectural style of that region by designing intricately detailed houses, buildings, and churches. Many of these structures still grace the landscape of North Mississippi over a hundred years later. Johnson built more than 77 structures, 21 of which are on the National Register of Historic Places. These houses and buildings are a testament to the artistry and skill of this Swedish immigrant. The book features beautiful photographs of the homes, churches, and buildings on the National Register of Historic Places as well as a complete biography of Johnson.
Mary-Alice Roberts (Blondie) owns one of the busiest Marine Bars on the East Coast. Getting dumped via Text Message is just the start of her problems. She also needs an experienced Bartender who can fill in right away. Marine Staff Sargent, Jake Peterson is medically retired, and needs a job to keep his mind busy and not live in the past. The Bartending job at Teufel Hundens sounds like the perfect solution. When Blondie's Ex decides to blame Blondie and Jake for his misfortunes and retaliates against Blondie. Will Jake be the Hero Blondie needs and save her? Or will revealing his actual wealth and him being the cause of her ex's anger have Blondie doubting not only Jake but their budding love as well?
A farm girl relates stories from her folksy past, and shares how those experiences shaped her into the Christian woman, wife, mother, and friend that she became.
Rupert and Abadenego (pronounced abba-den-e-go) were conceived by the author, Dorothy Ann Johnson, while making her niece's favorite Jell-o salad. "My writing project was to describe a manual deed that day, and before I knew it I had two very mischievous leprechauns invading my reverie." Of course, the Jell-o had to be orange, since these fellows are so obviously Irish. Johnson considers the inspiration a pure gift and wants to share the antics and enjoyment that she has received from them. These two little green fellows have a lot of family connection and the Anderson children cited in the story are actually based on the author's grandniece and grandnephews. So, Rupert and pal romp through a maze and mess of orange Jell-o and encounter some great adventures and daunting obstacles. Read along and see how they finally make it back to Leprechaunland, isle of the Leppies!
As a child she felt there was something locked up inside of her, and try as she may, only few things would come from her heart. Then one day something warm and beautiful happened and like a "Dam" the words came forth and like a river the poetry flowed with great vision and wonder. She felt caught up in another time another place. Emotions ran high and the love was so deep. The spirit moved on her heart and she knew it was a miracle from God. It had been her life long dream to get it all out and look at it and feel it. Thus "Inner Expressions" was born. The book contains poems that conveys love, romance, my story, vision and warmth.
If you suffer from acne you know how it can impede your life. It can shake your confidence and even lead to hopelessness and depression. Toni Ann Johnson suffered with adult acne for years, and continued to suffer even while under the care of physicians who prescribed the requisite medications: antibiotics, Accutane and Retin A. Finally, she sought ways to control acne that were effective, affordable, and salutary for the body, rather than deleterious. After years of researching what worked and what didn't, she found a path that led to being acne free. Two types of bacteria contribute to acne: Propionibacterium Acnes and Staphylococcus Aures. These are found not only on the surface of the skin, but also within the intestines. When you take antibiotics, you kill the bacteria and your skin clears up. But antibiotics are not only expensive, they disrupt healthy intestinal flora, which can lead to other problems. The book contains information on effective, inexpensive, and healthful ways to control bacteria. Oily skin and fluctuating hormone levels do not make acne inevitable. You will learn how to achieve clear skin despite overactive oil glands. VIBRANT and CLEAR is a comprehensive, yet fun to read, and easy to follow guide that will empower readers in their ability to achieve and maintain healthy, glowing skin.
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