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Fiercely Loyal
Deborah Ettinger, Tom Johnson
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"For more than 40 years, Cal Thomas had a front row seat to some of
America's most contentious public policy debates. And for more than
four decades, Cal wielded his pen to speak truth to power and to
advance traditional conservative values. Cal's stories and tales
from that front row-as the watchman-are sure to entertain!" -
Former Vice President Mike Pence "This is what I have done-and am
continuing to do-as I seek to serve God first and then my
country."-Cal Thomas Cal Thomas-one of the most popular syndicated
columnists in the country-is America's "Watchman" in the night. In
A Watchman in the Night, Cal Thomas takes the reader on a "road
trip" through over fifty years of journalism and American life,
serving as a "watchman" on culture and politics and seeking to
conform it to a standard that never changes. A watchman "keeps
guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals,
or thieves." Thomas is a believer that certain values and
principles never change and has critiqued misbehavior and
wrong-headedness by people on "his side" from the start. "If values
and Truth mean anything," Thomas says, "they must be applied
equally. Hypocrisy and heresy cannot be ignored no matter the
source." In the book, Thomas does not stigmatize labels, such as
"conservative" and "religious," because Thomas says: "It allows
people to define me and others by their perception of those labels.
Ask me a question and I will give you my answer. For over fifty
years in journalism, Thomas has offered incisive, humorous and
often corrective commentary to our social, political, and religious
conversations. An early commitment to addressing publicly what he
sees has marked Thomas' entire career. Cal has always called both
parties, both sides of the American political divide, to account,
to take the high road and to honor our civic and religious ideals
with compatible behavior to the very best of our ability. This
increasingly "radical" approach to public life has won him many
friends on both sides of the political aisle, hundreds of thousands
of faithful readers of his columns, and a continuous barrage of
accolades and "hate mail," much of it charming when it is not too
foul to repeat. Cal came to the Christian faith while a young
journalist at a dinner led by Dr. Richard Halverson, Pastor at
Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, MD, and later, Chaplain of
the United States Senate. This experience informed the rest of
Cal's life as he hosted his own private dinners for members of the
press and members of Congress from both parties leading to deep
friendships with Senator Ted Kennedy and many others, friendships
which became a hallmark of Cal's life despite wide political
differences. For over two decades, Cal has hosted the National
Prayer Breakfast Media Dinner as a continuation of his commitment
to the reality that a relationship with Jesus Christ can change a
person's life and ultimately change a nation, and that things of
such import are best discussed over dinner. The book includes tones
about faith, but focuses on American social, cultural and political
currents. A Watchman in the Night: What I've Seen Over 50 Years
Reporting on America is a living history of our times, of who we
were then and who we are now and who we might become (for better or
worse) in the future, and a remarkable chronicle of modern American
life.
In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene
Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer Stock. Despite its
riveting production history, charismatic lead actors, and classic
musical moments, the movie has not received the same attention as
other musicals from MGM’s storied dream factory. In C’mon, Get
Happy: The Making of "Summer Stock," authors David Fantle and Tom
Johnson present a comprehensive study of this 1950 motion picture,
from start to finish and after its release. The production
coincided at a critical point in the careers of Kelly and an
emotionally spent Garland. Kelly, who starred in An American in
Paris just one year later, was at the peak of his abilities. On the
other hand, Summer Stock was Garland’s final film at MGM, and she
gamely completed it despite her own personal struggles. Summer
Stock includes Kelly’s favorite solo dance routine and
Garland’s signature number "Get Happy." The authors discuss in
rich detail the contributions of the cast (which included Gloria
DeHaven, Eddie Bracken, Phil Silvers, and Marjorie Main); the
director (Charles Walters); the producer (Joe Pasternak); the
script writers (George Wells and Sy Gomberg); the songwriters
(which included Harry Warren and Mack Gordon); and top MGM
executives (Louis B. Mayer and Dore Schary). The volume features
extensive interviews, conducted by the authors, with Kelly,
Walters, Warren, and others, who shared their recollections of
making the movie. Deeply researched, C’mon, Get Happy reveals the
studio system at work during Hollywood’s Golden Era.
Additionally, the authors have written a special section called
"Taking Stock" that buttonholes numerous contemporary dancers,
singers, choreographers, musicians, and even Garland impersonators
for their take on Summer Stock, its stars, and any enduring legacy
they think the film might have. Artists from Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Ben Vereen, and Tommy Tune to Garland’s and Kelly’s daughters,
Lorna Luft and Kerry Kelly Novick, respectively, offer their unique
perspective on the film and its stars.
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Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe - Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics (Paperback)
John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel, Tom Johnson, …
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This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year,
eleven-country science-to-policy research project - Toward a Policy
Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development -
undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European
Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important
contemporary policy issue: how best to ensure that an
agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of
rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but
complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and
innovative dynamic systems model, POMMARD (a Policy Model of
Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development).
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Towards Sustainable Rural Regions in Europe - Exploring Inter-Relationships Between Rural Policies, Farming, Environment, Demographics, Regional Economies and Quality of Life Using System Dynamics (Hardcover)
John M. Bryden, Sophia Efstratoglou, Tibor Ferenczi, Karlheinz Knickel, Tom Johnson, …
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This book presents the methodology and results of a three-year,
eleven-country science-to-policy research project, Toward a Policy
Model of Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development,
undertaken between 2005 and 2008 and financed under the European
Union's Sixth Framework program. It deals with an important
contemporary policy issue, how best to ensure that an
agriculturally-based policy can contribute to the development of
rural regions. It tackles this problem in a number of different but
complementary ways, primarily by the development of a unique and
innovative dynamic systems model, POMMARD (a Policy Model of
Multifunctional Agriculture and Rural Development).
Galileo Galilei said he was reading the book of nature as he
observed pendulums swinging, but he might also simply have tried to
draw the numbers themselves as they fall into networks of
permutations or form loops that synchronize at different speeds, or
attach themselves to balls passing in and out of the hands of good
jugglers. Numbers are, after all, a part of nature. As such,
looking at and thinking about them is a way of understanding our
relationship to nature. But when we do so in a technical,
professional way, we tend to overlook their basic attributes, the
things we can understand by simply looking at numbers.
Tom Johnson is a composer who uses logic and mathematical models,
such as combinatorics of numbers, in his music. The patterns he
finds while looking at numbers can also be explored in drawings.
This book focuses on such drawings, their beauty and their
mathematical meaning. The accompanying comments were written in
collaboration with the mathematician Franck Jedrzejewski.
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Fiercely Loyal
Deborah Ettinger, Tom Johnson
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The Black Ghost is my homage to Walter B. Gibson and his famous
character The Shadow. Volume 1 contains the first four novelettes,
Murder Town, Calling The Black Ghost, The Black Ghost At Bay! And
Dark Night of The Black Ghost. Set in contemporary times, Jimmy
Malone dons a black hood and cape sending fear into the hearts of
evildoers, as he battles the underworld in the tradition of a
modern day Shadow or Spider. Volume 2 contains four novelettes,
Town of Fear, Death And The Black Ghost, Highways In Hiding &
Bullets of Terror. Set in contemporary times, Jimmy Malone dons a
black hood and cape sending fear into the hearts of evildoers, as
he battles the underworld in the tradition of a modern day Shadow
or Spider. Burning eyes, a mocking laugh, and blazing automatics
announce his entrance into an affray. Gangsters cringe when they
come up against the guns of the Black Ghost!
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The Eagle Archives (Paperback)
Norman A Daniels, E. Hoffmann Price; Introduction by Tom Johnson
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A genealogy of the southern Jacobs, Redd, Dawson and Fussell
families from South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Other surnames
include Adams, Cargill and Covington
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Betrayal (Paperback)
Tom Johnson
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Upon discovering how the VC are getting their arms and ammunition
into the Mekong Delta, Jason sets out to stop it. He is ordered by
NAVFORV Intelligence to forget about it and do his job as advisor
and go home alive.
This does not sit well with Jason and he enlists the help of some
SEALS in the Delta to blow up the Merchant ships as they are
off-loading supplies at a VC camp just across the border in
Cambodia.
During this period his girlfriend, a nurse in Saigon, is killed and
Jason is devastated. He leaves Vietnam feeling a sense of
accomplishment, but disillusioned and imbittered by circumstances
he can do nothing about, and a war that cannot be won.
The classic investigation of SECRET AGENT "X," revised and updated
by the original writers, Tom Johnson and Will Murray, including new
chapters, images and information It's the last word on this classic
character
Back for another issue, this time featuring the following stories.
DOCTOR DEATH RETURNS by Steve Mitchell: Twenty years before, a
sinister madman held the world at bay, using the twin powers of
science and sorcery to unleash a crimson tide of murder and
destruction that swept across America and Asia. Then he
disappeared-leaving no clue as to his final fate. MURDER MUSEUM
(featuring The Phantom Detective) by K.G. McAbee: The Phantom
Detective, that nemesis of all evildoers in New York City, takes on
the uncanny powers of the sinister Dr. Darkness And CRIME'S LAST
STAND (starring The Masked Avenger) by Tom Johnson: Will evil win
out? Can even The Great Masked Avenger survive the final battle
with the city's underworld when crime makes its last stand
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