Bøker av Richard Johnson

Too often, people enter the role of caregiver for an aging parent unprepared, and, as a result of exhaustion, exasperation, and guilt, fail in their objective. These are not bad, lazy, negligent people. Most of the time, they simply tried to do too much. Written for any person who is caregiving or who anticipates that they will be called upon to give some form of care to an elder, this book sets out to prepare caregivers to do the best job possible to truly honor their aging parent, relative, or friend and yet not lose themselves in the process.

In an examination of implicit sociological data in the Epistle to the Hebrews within the context of the Graeco-Roman world, Johnson argues that Hebrews' author advocates an ideal society more open to outsiders and willing to assimilate new members than was 1st-century CE hellenistic Judaism.

Provides an introduction to electrocardiographic interpretation, using tracings, summary tables, charts and diagrams. This book reviews the fundamentals of electrocardiogram interpretation and electrocardiographic tracings. The appropriate pathophysiology is included to enhance understanding of electrocardiographic abnormalities.

An Introduction to Java Programming and Object-Oriented Application Development is an introductory text intended for beginning programming students, whether in high school, junior college, or a four-year university majoring in computer science or computer information systems. This text covers what students need to know about basic Java programming in a clear, straight-forward writing style. This text spends less time on verbiage and offers more examples than other books. The key concepts are isolated and identified for easier understanding and quick review. This kind of organization will help students better understand what they are reading and enable them to find important topics for review later.

Presenting students with a how-to guide to doing research in cultural studies, The Practice of Cultural Studies is an original introduction to the field.The book combines clear introductions to the core concepts of cultural studies with a very practical sense of how research in the field actually gets done.