David Johnson

The Omnibus Edition of Tucker's Way and For Tucker After enduring a childhood of horrific abuse and crushing poverty, Tucker seeks refuge in her rural Tennessee home. The three grandchildren she is raising are her only connection to the outside, and her demeanor is purposefully rough. But her world is turned upside down when a new neighbor, Ella, moves into the old McDaniel place next door. Ella seeks solace on the same country road after overcoming cancer. Although she is Tucker’s peer agewise, she was raised in a world of privilege and opportunity. Still, Ella shares a tragic part of Tucker’s experience—she also suffered abuse. Hers was at the hands of her husband, a prominent judge in the community and Tucker’s sworn enemy. When Tucker finds herself at risk of losing custody of her beloved youngest grandchild and worse, the child’s mother is murdered, she draws support and strength from her new friendship with Ella. These two women from disparate backgrounds form a fierce bond, and they weather life’s storms together with faith, love, and determination.

This is the first comprehensive guide to cover JSP 2 and 2.1. It supplies you with the tools and techniques to develop web applications with JSP and Java servlets. You’ll learn to choose and implement the best persistence option for your web applications, and how to secure web sites against malicious attack and accidental misuse. You will improve the performance and scalability of JSP pages, as well as architect reliable, stable applications. The authors describe all of the rich JSP 2 features, and explain JSF integration with JSP. Completing the thorough package, this book examines how integration with open source projects like Ant, Struts, XDoclet, JUnit, and Cactus can make web development even easier.

This catalogue highlights one of the most significant private collections of Cypriot antiquities in the world. This handsome catalogue accompanies the opening of a new gallery at the Kykkos Monastery Museum, created to house the David Johnson Collection of Cypriot antiquities. Until it's donated to the museum, the David Johnson Collection was among the most significant private collections of Cypriot antiquities in the world. The Johnson Collection spans some 2,500 years, from the Middle Chalcolithic period to the beginning of the Classical era (c. 480 BC), with a particular strength in Early and Middle Bronze Age material. Comprising mainly pottery, it also includes bronze and stone artifacts, as well as some early coinage. Most pieces originate from tomb contexts and, like much Cypriot material in circulation, were likely removed through illicit excavation. Cyprus remains one of the most heavily looted archaeological landscapes in the world. The repatriation of the Johnson Collection represents a small but meaningful act of restitution – ensuring the collection’s integrity while returning it to its cultural home. With detailed entries and beautiful photography of every object, this catalogue serves as a permanent record of the collection.

Quarrying of limestone and converting it to quicklime was a major industry around the Irish Sea coasts for many centuries, and it is an aspect of these islands’ industrial legacy that has received little attention. David Johnson has spent years researching it in the field and in archive centres and has been amazed by its scale and geographical extent. Up to the nineteenth century, quicklime was shipped from Gower and south Pembrokeshire across the Bristol Channel to Devon, and limestone was shipped from both source areas to coastal lime kilns all along the west coast of Wales from north Pembrokeshire to the Lleyn Peninsula. Limestone was quarried and shipped from Anglesey to, for example, Harlech Castle when it was first built, and to the Mersey, as well as from North Wales to the Dee and Mersey estuaries. There was a major trade in limestone from west Cumbria to what is now Dumfries and Galloway and to and from the Isle of Man, and across the Irish Sea to and from ports all the way from Galway, round the south and east Irish coasts as far north as Ulster. Most recently, and still surviving, is the export of limestone from North Wales to southern England and Scandinavia. Thoroughly researched and with fascinating images, David Johnson reveals the little-known story of the Irish Sea lime trade.

It's 1970. Doc and Cyrano are combat medics stationed at Dong Ha combat base in Vietnam. When they decide to spend their rest and relaxation time trying to score big for their retirement and maybe learn something about the war, they hook up with a couple of wily green berets with their own plans, the sorts of plans that require combat medics. Throw in a VC soldier and some local girls, and things get wild. Ride with the team while they explore the Yellow Brick Road in the daytime, the Plain of Jars after sunset, Khe Sanh in the morning, all with the ever-present urgency and fog of war. Never slow, never restful, never relaxing. Welcome to Doc and Cyrano's R&R.

Four college students find a mythical item that sends them on a quest across the world in search for answers.

When sixteen year old April Ash joins a clandestine super-team, she receives miracle-cures and super-abilities. However the Prism device which gives these, also opens doorways to parallel dimensions She and her team are tasked with investigating other worlds and alternate realities. Yet hostile aliens from various alternative dimensions are intent on capturing the prism and use it to invade our universe. However unknown to any of them, an even greater alien threat, schemes to drain April and her team of their life-force and uncover how to dimension-travel

Ever since people began cultivating cereal crops 10,000 years ago grain had to be ground down, or milled, into flour to make bread. Up to the Roman period in Britain this could only be done using simple hand querns but, over time, technology improved by introducing circular, horizontal millstones powered by water or wind. Other trades needed the means to crush raw materials to produce their final product: vertical grindstones were used to crush bark for use in tanning, pulp softwood timber to make paper, crush apples for cider, or pulverise gorse for animal fodder. Millstones and grindstones were roughed out in small quarries and on hillsides wherever suitable stone outcropped, and the evidence of this rural industry can be teased out by examining abandoned ‘roughouts’ that litter many upland areas and by searching for tooling marks. This book explores production sites across North West England and along the Pennine chain, where millstones and grindstones were sourced from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.

One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773–1833) led a life marked by controversy. The long-serving Virginia congressman and architect of southern conservatism grabbed headlines with his prescient comments, public brawls, and clashes with every president from John Adams to Andrew Jackson. The first biography of Randolph in nearly a century, John Randolph of Roanoke provides a full account of the powerful Virginia planter's hard-charging life and his impact on the formation of conservative politics.The Randolph lineage loomed large in early America, and Randolph of Roanoke emerged as one of the most visible—and certainly the most bombastic—among his clan. A colorful orator with aristocratic manners, he entertained the House of Representatives (and newspaper readers across the country) with three-hour-long speeches on subjects of political import, drawing from classical references for his analogies, and famously pausing to gain "courage" from a tumbler at his side. Adept at satire and uncensored in his verbal attacks against colleagues, he invited challenges to duel from those he offended; in 1826, he and the then-secretary of state Henry Clay exchanged gunfire on the banks of the Potomac.A small-government Jeffersonian in political tastes, Randolph first entered Congress in 1799. As chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee he memorably turned on President Jefferson, once and for all, in 1805, believing his fellow Virginian to have compromised his republican values. As a result, Randolph led the "Old Republicans," a faction that sought to restrict the role of the federal government.In this rich biography, David Johnson draws upon an impressive array of primary sources—Randolph's letters, speeches, and writings—previously unavailable to scholars. John Randolph of Roanoke tells the story of a young nation and the unique philosophy of a southern lawmaker who defended America's agrarian tradition and reveled in his own controversy.

Thinking Government examines the key roles and duties of the Canadian federal government and its public service, and the policy and program debates that revolve around these roles and duties. The fifth edition of this textbook provides students with a core awareness of major issues shaping federal policies and programs – socio-economic policy options, French-English relations, regionalism and regional policy, Canadian-American relations, immigration, environmental policy, and Indigenous relations. This book takes a close look at how prime ministers and cabinet ministers interact and discusses issues in federal, financial, and human resources management, ethics and accountability, and leadership. The new edition is revised and updated throughout and addresses the 2021 federal election and the resulting Trudeau minority government as well as the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking Government helps its readers to be smart citizens and knowledgeable critics of what governments do well, what they could be doing better, and why they, at times, fail to deliver effective policies and programs.

Twelve-year-old schoolboy James Lightwater is compelled to embark on an urgent mission to find the twelve Zodiac Crystals of ancient Atlantis. The crystals are hidden all over the world in different time periods.If he fails and his alien rivals get them first, the Earth becomes a nightmare dictatorship controlled by evil super-humans and their alien masters.However helping James are Max, a know-it-all living computer, TALON a sarcastic tracking device and a High Priest from ancient Britain PART 2 of 5: James fights for his life against a living sphinx in ancient Egypt in 2250BC, then causes the Great Fire of London in 1666AD. All the while he is pursued by the ruthless super-villains.Other novels written by David JohnsonCrystal Quest Series: Parts 1 - 5Battle for Atlantis: Atlantis Attacks: Prism Masters Series:

Twelve-year-old schoolboy James Lightwater is compelled to embark on an urgent mission to find the twelve Zodiac Crystals of ancient Atlantis. The crystals are hidden all over the world in different time periods.If he fails and his alien rivals get them first, the Earth becomes a nightmare dictatorship controlled by evil super-humans and their alien masters.However helping James are Max, a know-it-all living computer, TALON a sarcastic tracking device and a High Priest from ancient Britain PART 5 of 5: James embarks on a final dash across time to get the remaining crystals before his alien rivals He battles for his life in the Aztec empire of 1591 AD, then against the Minotaur in ancient Crete of 1640BC, then thwarting Guy Fawkes in 1605AD, then helping to win the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, fight in the battle of Mount Baydon in 500AD and Glastonbury Tor in 521AD. However the final battle returns him to present-day Britain to directly confront the alien threat Other novels written by David JohnsonCrystal Quest Series: Parts 1 - 5Battle for Atlantis: Atlantis Attacks: Prism Masters Series:

Twelve-year-old schoolboy James Lightwater is compelled to embark on an urgent mission to find the twelve Zodiac Crystals of ancient Atlantis. The crystals are hidden all over the world in different time periods.If he fails and his alien rivals get them first, the Earth becomes a nightmare dictatorship controlled by evil super-humans and their alien masters.However helping James are Max, a know-it-all living computer, TALON a sarcastic tracking device and a High Priest from ancient Britain PART 3 of 5: James travels back in time to battle Roman soldiers and is trapped in Mount Vesuvius as it erupts and destroys Pompeii in 79AD. All the while he is pursued by the ruthless super-humans to get the crystals first. Finally he finds himself in the UK's version of America's Area 51, fighting for his life against his alien opponents Other novels written by David JohnsonCrystal Quest Series: Parts 1 - 5Battle for Atlantis: Atlantis Attacks: Prism Masters Series:

Thinking Government examines the key roles and duties of the Canadian federal government and its public service, and the policy and program debates that revolve around these roles and duties. The fifth edition of this textbook provides students with a core awareness of major issues shaping federal policies and programs – socio-economic policy options, French-English relations, regionalism and regional policy, Canadian-American relations, immigration, environmental policy, and Indigenous relations. This book takes a close look at how prime ministers and cabinet ministers interact and discusses issues in federal, financial, and human resources management, ethics and accountability, and leadership. The new edition is revised and updated throughout and addresses the 2021 federal election and the resulting Trudeau minority government as well as the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thinking Government helps its readers to be smart citizens and knowledgeable critics of what governments do well, what they could be doing better, and why they, at times, fail to deliver effective policies and programs.