Johnson Books

An excellent book for graduate medical students.

This book covers quantitative physiology under the particularly stressful conditions of exercise. It is divided into five basic sections: Exercise limitations, exercise biomechanics, cardiovascular responses, respiratory responses, and thermal responses. The author has obviously done a lot of research into the vast body of literature on mathematical modeling of physiological systems. When models are not covered in detail, he gives references to many sources.

As a biomedical engineer, I have used this book regularly to obtain such things as functions describing the relationship of exercise level and oxygen consumption and references to who has done mathematical models of the thermoregulatory system. This book should be on the shelf of anyone who is interested in quantitative physiology, or of engineers designing sports equipment or other similar biomedical devices.

This is a great book about South Park and its relationship to contemporary culture. Many of the insights end up surprising. There are three parts to this book. The first part mentions the impact of South Park on culture and how it became popular and widespread. The second part is about the show itself: the dialogue, sounds, characters, and visuals. The third part deals with the issues presented in the show. There was an extensive amount of research done for this book and it shows. The author is also not a fan, so the insights come from a more neutral perspective, which makes the book an even better read.

The author also spends a lot of time on the impact and popularity of the show, which is unlike most book about tv shows and culture. The characters chapter is long but still unusually short for a tv show and culture book. Most books about TV shows and culture devote and entire unit and at least 40 pages to talk about the characters. Because she only devotes a chapter, there could have easily been more said about the characters.

All in all, if you are a fan of South Park or like reading about popular culture, then you should read this book. It is entertaining, insightful, and enjoyable.

Just when I began to despair about finding a real fan resource for South Park, along comes "Blame Canada". The various edited volumes about South Park and philosophy (Arp and Hanley) seem to be collections of scholarly opinions that I am sure are important to some obscure university lecture series on philosophy, and Anderson's "South Park Conservatives" is really only of interest to militant Log Cabin Republicans. "Blame Canada" is well constructed, well written and thought provoking. As a fan, I find it a fascinating resource, more so because the author is clearly NOT a fan herself. Neither a sycophantic piece nor a knee-jerk condemnation, "Blame Canada" is accurate and dispassionate.

My favourite chapter in "Blame Canada" is the chapter on South Park and the internet. It documents a period of internet history that had nearly been lost, in which South Park featured uniquely as a pop culture window into the infancy of the internet. I myself, who came late to the South Park phenomenon, had been unable to track down the grass roots fan information that should have been available on the internet for any pop culture icon as important as South Park. Now I know that it is a result of the engulf-and-devour policy of Comedy Central towards "unauthorized" South Park content on the web, which is somewhat ironic considering the libertarian content of the show. I am left to wonder how much more of internet history is being lost forever as technology changes, web pages are updated without being archived, and corporate America exerts more and more control over internet content.

The most interesting aspect of "Blame Canada", however, is the theoretical framework in which Johnson-woods places the show. South Park is nothing if not carnivalesque, so it is an apt analysis. But more than that, through the Baktine analysis South Park fandom becomes legitimized, and South Park becomes as much (and as normal) a pop culture influence in its time as Star Wars or I Love Lucy were in theirs. It is refreshing to know that fan attraction to fart jokes is as old as fandom itself, and not some new aberrant form of entertainment that is a result of (or even responsible for) the moral decay of our society.

I thoroughly enjoyed "Blame Canada", and I am happy to recommend it highly to any South Park fan. It is a worthy read.

Well, I first read this book about 5 years ago, when I came across it in the bookstore I managed. I was intrigued, and it was on sale, so I figured what the heck. It is, by far, one of my most favourite books, as it blends a modern fantasy borrowing heavily from catholocism, voodoo, santeria, and incorporates the mystic legends behind the Delta Blues. It's the story of Robert Johnson (real life blues legend) who, with his dying breath, endangers all of the world by breaking the Eye of the World. As the story progresses, Robert and several others band together to try to save the world from becoming Hell. Add to it a bunch of musical legends, including Elvis, and you've got a great book.

I picked up this booked based on the cover, as crazy as that sounds. While I do not know much about blues music and the mytique that surrounds New Orleans and Memphis, I was totally immersed in this amazing tale. You will find yourself reading it cover to cover before you realize it. Enjoy!

Do not miss this book if you are interested in wisdom that one seldom, gets in any world that is not Indigenous. Indigenous wisdom gives us lessons for life lived from the heart and lived in tune with our Mother Earth, particularly from elders; be they natives of Turtle Island (North America), Australia, New Zealand, South America or the African continent.
I loved this book and I love the wisdom imparted by the authors of each story. It is good to learn and it is best to learn from those who have lived long lives and learned their wisdom, not only from their own lives but also from the teachings of their ancestors.

This is a WONDERFUL collection of the real life stories of thirty elders from nineteen North American tribes. They are inspirations for us all. It has my HIGHEST recommendation--read this book, it will touch your heart and soul!

Tons of different looks and costumes, including accessories. Great fashion illustrations, including makeup, for art students, too!

Every look is named and described in detail, including face, hair, and everything you need to make "the look." For all fashionistas.

This is a fun book from the 1980s that lists a lot of different looks - from 1920s flapper to gypsy to catwoman - and then gives you detailed advice about clothing and makeup to achieve those looks. It's illustrated with fashion drawings rather than photos and it has a very 1980s feel. It's a fun book for young women who like experimenting with their look and have a taste for retro styles. (It might also be a good halloween costume resource.)

I have been trying to get a copy of The Book of the Ordre of Chyvalry or Knyghthode for over 6 months now.

Every web site for ancient books sends me back to Amazon, which has no copies for sale. I have been on the wait list forever.

Any suggestions on how I can obtain this book (used or new, in any condition) would be most helpful!

Knights, ladies, gallantry: these words call forth noble and righteous behaviour in the beautiful world of the high Mediaeval ages. THE BOOK OF THE ORDRE OF CHYVALRY OR KNYGHTHODE is an all-time classic, the foremost handbook on the knight's code written by a bold knight of great deeds. This Catalan knight, Ramon Llull, here paints a mystical picture of the knight's virtuous pursuit as high spirituality.

Readers may know William Caxton's famous edition of MORTE D'ARTHUR as the seed-book of English literature's rise. Here, then is another. Caxton has liberally added his own knightly meditations thereto in Arthur's spirit.

This special edition is a work you will long treasure -- if you can find it. Its prose is poetic and printed exactly as Caxton himself set it down. It will teach you the long-lost beauty of English. It will teach you the heroic beauty of Life.

For students of Middle and early Modern English, this book is an easy read and a must have. Any man who enjoys Sir Thomas Malory's MORTE D'ARTHUR and Geoffrey Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES, should keep this beside him on his night table.

This edition is written in the original and beautiful late Middle English, such as you may have read in high school. Enjoy its music and its virtue.

This edition is a devotional book. Keep it with you, ready for when you crave inspiration on how to lead your life well and timelessly.

Besides crucial information and data, the analyses are great, comments very well put. Great resource!

Johnson and Stam have compiled what is perhaps the definitive commentary on Brazilian cinema, offering thorough explications of the most important films from several different periods and styles. The book also discusses in detail tropicalism, anthropophagy, and other background elements that are integral to achieve an understanding of Brazilian cinema. Though some of the concepts may seem daunting, they are explained clearly and in a historical context, making it an excellent reference for students (either of Brazil or film in general). While some of the same articles appear in Cinema Novo X 5, Brazilian Cinema covers a wider range of subjects. If you are interested in Brazilian films, it is a must-read.

I have three bread books and this is still my favorite. It has an introductory section for beginners and a beginners recipe. The recipes are much easier to follow than those in the bread book put out by Laurel's Kitchen. The recipes are based on baking traditions from around the world and include recipes for batter breads as well as yeast breads.

This was one of my first cookbooks and still one of my favorites. (I have the first edition.) For each month of the year there are 5-6 recipes including (usually) a yeast bread, a sourdough, a quick bread, and a sweet bread--all appropriate to the season. The cheese bread (October) and pumpernickel (November) are favorites! The photos are from the first edition, published in the 70s, and are humorously appropriate to that era--lots of long-haired, peaceful looking types mixing dough out in the woods!

I can't wait until you come out with part II.....I finished this book in less than a week.

Doris Bibbs Johnson has written a moving, honest account, in novel style, of a family's struggle with their mother's mental illness, and how it impacted on each and every one of them in diverse ways. From child abuse at the hands of their grandmother, to struggling with their mother's growing paranoia and father's heavy drinking, the reader joins the narrator on an often painful journey through childhood.

Knuth said, garbage in garbage out. These three volumes are absolutely treasure of statistics, forever. The excellent papers in the past 110 years are collected and introduced. Whatever for students or researchers, they are definitely valuable to be at hand.

[1] The original papers are attached. Do you remember Abel said, Read the masters', not their pupils'?
[2] For each important paper, there is an introduction written by the real experts of this domain.
[3] This is a real awesome book that leads you to overview the history of statistics.
[4] You can find a surprise of good price somewhere on campusi.com if you need all the three volumes.

Volume I of breakthroughs in statistics covered the foundations and the schools of inference that developed. Volume II did a good job of covering further developments in methodology and distribution theory. However after the two volume were published in 1992 it became apparent that there had been some key omissions and that further developments shed light on the importance of articles that had not been considered breakthrough papers earlier but in hindsight they clearly were. So in 1997 these fine editors published Volume III to fill in the gaps.

The earliest paper that was overlooked was Galton's famous 1889 paper that introduced regression, correlation and the phenomena of regression toward the mean. It is clear from reading the book that all the added papers were worthy of the title of breakthrough. Of particular interest to me are the articles that deal with faster computing techniques and computer intensive algorithms that were made practically important as the speed of computers grew astronomically in the 1990s. So the paper by Metropolis et al. 1953 became a breakthrough when another breakthrough paper by Geman and Geman 1984 showed the these Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms were useful in a Bayesian approach to image processing or "image restoration." After this breakthrough modifications of the basic algorithms have been developed to solve many of the previously viewed as infeasible problems in Bayesian inference. The practical development of frequency domain times series owes a debt to the fundamental breakthrough paper by Cooley and Tukey in 1965 that introduced the first versions of the fast Fourier transform. I shall skip the others except for two of my favorites, Peter Hall's 1988 paper that established theoretically through the use of Edgeworth and Cornish-Fisher expansions the asymptotic accuracy of various types of bootstrap confidence intervals and the 1986 paper by Liang and Zeger that developed an approach to longitudinal data analysis via generalized linear models. In this remarkable paper they also introduced Generalized Estimating Equations that are commonly used today. this work led to a famous and popular book on longitudinal data analysis that they coauthored with Peter Diggle. The pharmaceutical industry that I work in owes a great debt to Liang and Zeger as their approach to longitudinal (or repeated measures) data has been applied to the efficacy endpoints of phase III clinical trials.