Books with author Stewart Johnson

"I'll fight you till my final breath!"Momma Ruth has Alzheimer's but she's not giving up. She doesn't think there's anything wrong with her. "God knows, not all those know-it-all doctors," she says. She dreams of escaping from Oak Hill - and one day she does. Her sons are terrified, thinking she might get killed; but their mother isn't one bit afraid, charging boldly into the unknown on one last adventure.Ruth meets a compassionate bus driver, a helpful trucker, a protective airman, a large black woman heartbroken over a breakup with her babies' daddy, a thieving online whore, a kind-hearted Latino contractor and Ruthie Columbus, a lonely young lady In pigtails, round wire-rim glasses and an old-style flower-print dress who reminds her a lot of herself when she was younger.She sees Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore - or does she? She's got photos in her scrapbook to prove it, she says. Her destinations are debatable but one thing is for sure - Ruth's last adventure is her greatest adventure. With just one click, you can read all about it.

Excerpt from The Stable Book: Being a Treatise on the Management of Horses, in Relation to Stabling, Grooming, Feeding, Watering and Working; Construction of Stables, Ventilation, Stable Appendages, Management of the FeetThe horse, both theoretically and practically, has been a favorite study with me from childhood and for the past ten years, I have been more or less engaged in breeding and rearing them on my farm, and in breaking and fitting them for market. I also had in early life, during a residence of nearly two years in the north of Europe, the advantage of studying the stable economy of large military establishments and in my recent trip to England, I took every opportunity to inform myself, by personal inspection, on the subject Of the horse in general, and particularly his rearing and stable treat ment; and in so doing, examined alike the thorough-bred, the hunter, the roadster, the farm, and the dray horse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Christmas activity and coloring book with 50 pages and 24 fun designs printed on one side that are safe for markers, colored pencils, or crayons. This coloring book has cute and easy designs that are suitable for children ages 2-6 years old with varying degrees of difficulty but simple enough for younger toddlers that are just learning to color. This fun coloring book allows for pages to be torn out after use to showcase your little ones more creative side to the whole family. Each page has a name and date area allowing your children to easily get noticed for their creative skills for years to come. Kids of all ages will have a blast this Xmas holiday season with this children's activity book. Get this fun gift for the holidays for a family member or a loved one.

'Light bulbs, sound recordings, air-conditioning, a glass of clean tap water, a wristwatch, a glass lens': these everyday things are the subjects of Johnson's book. In six chapters on glass, cold, sound, clean, time and light he traces the histories of problems and the attempts to solve them - from Galileo's watching a pendulum swing in Pisa cathedral to atomic clocks keeping time in microseconds - and he considers how these scientific innovations have set in motion social change.

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The Full Flight series of reading books are for children and young adults aged 8 to 14 and over who are struggling to read. Each book has been carefully written for those with a reading age of approximately 7 to 8, but are packed full of adventure and brilliant illustrations to really grab the reader interest.White Water - Connor and Bek have been sent away to Wales to stay with their Uncle. What they thought would be a boring trip to the country turns out to be the adventure of a lifetime.

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