Katherine D. Johnston's Books

Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood

The Impacts of New Freedoms and New Responsibilities

By: Jerald G. Bachman,Katherine N. Wadsworth,Patrick M. O'Malley,Lloyd D. Johnston,John E. Schulenberg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood

The Impacts of New Freedoms and New Responsibilities

By: Jerald G. Bachman,Katherine N. Wadsworth,Patrick M. O'Malley,Lloyd D. Johnston,John E. Schulenberg

Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high school? In this book, the authors show that leaving high school and leaving home create new freedoms that are linked to increases in the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. They also show that marriage, pregnancy, and parenthood create new responsibilities that are linked to decreases in drug use. The research is based on more than 33,000 young people followed from high school through young adulthood by the nationwide Monitoring the Future project. Every two years, participants reported on their drug use, as well as their schooling, employment, military service, living arrangements, marriages, pregnancies, parenthood, and even their divorces. The unique qualities of this research--large nationally representative samples, follow-ups extending up to 14 years beyond high school, and multiple approaches to analysis and data presentation--allowed the examination of several important influences simultaneously, while retaining much of the rich detail encountered in the real world. On the whole, the results are encouraging, suggesting that the potentials for change and improvement during the transition to adulthood are as important as the detrimental effects of problem behavior in adolescence. This research is a "must" read for anyone concerned with how new freedoms and responsibilities impact adolescents, young adults, and the use of licit and illicit drugs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

113480346X

ISBN 13

9781134803460

Profiles and Plotlines

Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature

By: Katherine D. Johnston

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Profiles and Plotlines

Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature

By: Katherine D. Johnston

Algorithmic data profiling is not merely an important topic in contemporary fiction, it is an increasingly dominant form of storytelling and characterization in our society. In Profiles and Plotlines, Katherine Johnston engages this energetic reformation of contemporary literature to account for a society and economy of frenetic counting. Johnston analyzes prescient work by contemporary authors such as Jennifer Egan, Claudia Rankine, Mohsin Hamid, and William Gibson to probe how the claims of data surveillance serve to make lives seem legible, intelligible, and sometimes even expendable.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

227

Publisher

University of Iowa Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1609388933

ISBN 13

9781609388935

Amish Women and the Great Depression

By: Katherine Jellison,Steven D. Reschly

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Amish Women and the Great Depression

By: Katherine Jellison,Steven D. Reschly

This book examines the role that Amish women played in their community's successful survival of the Great Depression"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

201

Publisher

JHU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1421447975

ISBN 13

9781421447971

Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World

By: Katherine M. D. Dunbabin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World

By: Katherine M. D. Dunbabin

This book provides a comprehensive account of mosaics in the ancient world from the early pebble mosaics of Greece to the pavements of Christian churches in the East. Separate chapters in Part I cover the principal regions of the Roman Empire in turn, in order to bring out the distinctive characteristics of their mosaic workshops. Questions of technique and production, of the role of mosaics in architecture, and of their social functions and implications are treated in Part II. The book discusses both well-known works and recent finds, and balances consideration of exceptional masterpieces against standard workshop production. Two main lines of approach are followed throughout: first, the role of mosaics as a significant art form, which over an unbroken span illuminates the evolution of pictorial style better than any comparable surviving medium; and secondly, their character as works of artisan production closely linked to their architectural context.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

412

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521002303

ISBN 13

9780521002301

Freedom's Teacher, Enhanced Ebook

The Life of Septima Clark

By: Katherine Mellen Charron

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Freedom's Teacher, Enhanced Ebook

The Life of Septima Clark

By: Katherine Mellen Charron

Civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) developed a citizenship education program that enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to register to vote and to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. Clark, who began her own teaching career in 1916, grounded her approach in the philosophy and practice of southern black activist educators in the decades leading up to the 1950s and 1960s, and then trained a committed cadre of grassroots black women to lead this literacy revolution in community stores, beauty shops, and churches throughout the South. In this engaging biography, Katherine Charron tells the story of Clark, from her coming of age in the South Carolina lowcountry to her activism with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the movement's heyday. The enhanced electronic version of the book draws from archives, libraries, and the author's personal collection and includes nearly 100 letters, documents, photographs, newspaper articles, and interview excerpts, embedding each in the text where it will be most meaningful. Featuring more than 60 audio clips (more than 2.5 hours total) from oral history interviews with 15 individuals, including Clark herself, the enhanced e-book redefines the idea of the "talking book." Watch the video below to see a demonstration of the enhanced ebook:

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

481

Publisher

Univ of North Carolina Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807837601

ISBN 13

9780807837603

The Profession of Widowhood

Widows, Pastoral Care, and Medieval Models of Holiness

By: Katherine Clark Walter

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Profession of Widowhood

Widows, Pastoral Care, and Medieval Models of Holiness

By: Katherine Clark Walter

The Profession of Widowhood explores how the idea of ‘true’ widowhood was central to pre-modern ideas concerning marriage and of female identity more generally. The medieval figure of the Christian vere vidua or “good” widow evolved from and reinforced ancient social and religious sensibilities of chastity, loyalty and grief as gendered ‘work.’ The ideal widow was a virtuous woman who mourned her dead husband in chastity, solitude, and most importantly, in perpetuity, marking her as “a widow indeed” (1 Tim 5:5). The widow who failed to display adequate grief fulfilled the stereotype of the ‘merry widow’ who forgot her departed spouse and abused her sexual and social freedom. Stereotypes of widows ‘good’ and ‘bad’ served highly-charged ideological functions in pre-modern culture, and have remained durable even in modern times, even as Western secular society now focuses more on a woman’s recovery from grief and possible re-coupling than the expectation that she remain forever widowed. The widow represented not only the powerful bond created by love and marriage, but also embodied the conventions of grief that ordered the response when those bonds were broken by premature death. This notion of the widow as both a passive memorial to her husband and as an active ‘rememberer’ was rooted in ancient traditions, and appropriated by early Christian and medieval authors who used “good” widowhood to describe the varieties of female celibacy and to define the social and gender order. A tradition of widowhood characterized by chastity, solitude, and permanent bereavement affirmed both the sexual mores and political agenda of the medieval Church. Medieval widows—both holy women recognized as saints and ‘ordinary women’ in medieval daily life—recognized this tradition of professed chastity in widowhood not only as a valuable strategy for avoiding remarriage and protecting their independence, but as a state with inherent dignity that afforded opportunities for spiritual development in this world and eternal merit in the next.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

447

Publisher

Catholic University of America Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813230195

ISBN 13

9780813230191

Freedom's Teacher

The Life of Septima Clark

By: Katherine Mellen Charron

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Freedom's Teacher

The Life of Septima Clark

By: Katherine Mellen Charron

Septima Poinsette Clark's gift to the civil rights movement was education. In the mid-1950s, this former public school teacher developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the po

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

482

Publisher

Univ of North Carolina Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807833320

ISBN 13

9780807833322

Profiles and Plotlines

Data Surveillance in Twenty-first Century Literature

By: Katherine D. Johnston

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Profiles and Plotlines

Data Surveillance in Twenty-first Century Literature

By: Katherine D. Johnston

Algorithmic data profiling is not merely an important topic in contemporary fiction, it is an increasingly dominant form of storytelling and characterization in our society. These stories are being told inside boardrooms, banks, presidential briefings, police stations, advertising agencies, and technology companies. And so, to the extent that data has taken up storytelling, literature must take up data. After all, profiling coincides with character development; surveillance reflects point of view; and data points track as plot points in tales of the political economy. In Profiles and Plotlines, Katherine Johnston engages this energetic reformation of contemporary literature to account for a society and economy of frenetic counting. Fiction and poetry are capable of addressing precisely that for which algorithms cannot or do not account: the effects of profile culture; the ideologies and supposed truth-power of data; the gendered and racialized dynamics of watching and being watched; and the politics of who counts and what gets counted. Johnston analyzes prescient work by contemporary authors such as Jennifer Egan, Claudia Rankine, Mohsin Hamid, and William Gibson to probe how the claims of data surveillance serve to make lives seem legible, intelligible, and sometimes even expendable.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

227

Publisher

University of Iowa Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1609388941

ISBN 13

9781609388942

Book's by Katherine D. Johnston

Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood

Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood

Profiles and Plotlines

Profiles and Plotlines

Amish Women and the Great Depression

Amish Women and the Great Depression

Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World

Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World

Freedom's Teacher, Enhanced Ebook

Freedom's Teacher, Enhanced Ebook

The Profession of Widowhood

The Profession of Widowhood

Freedom's Teacher

Freedom's Teacher

Profiles and Plotlines

Profiles and Plotlines

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email