Tim Johnson Boeken

Tragedy in Crimson is award-winning journalist Tim Johnson's extraordinary account of the cat-and-mouse game embroiling China and the Tibetan exile community over Tibet. Johnson reports from the front lines, trekking to nomad resettlements to speak with the people who guard Tibet's slowly vanishing culture; and he travels alongside the Dalai Lama in the campaigns for Tibetan sovereignty. Johnson unpacks how China is using its economic power around the globe to assail the Free Tibet movement. By encouraging massive Chinese migration and restricting Tibetan civil rights, the Chinese are also working to dilute Tibetan culture within Tibet itself. He also takes a sympathetic but unsentimental look at the Dalai Llama, a popular figure in the West who is regarded as a failure by many of his own people. Staggering in scope, vivid and audacious in its narrative aims, Tragedy in Crimson tells the story of a people on the brink of cultural extinction and the rising nation that is quashing them.

Study and Communication Skills for the Biosciences is an invaluable guide to getting the most out of your degree, and enhancing your employability skills. The motivational writing style is accessible to students of all levels and a wide range of skills are covered, making this essential reading for all bioscience students.

The biography of the infamous custodian of Don Revie's all-conquering Leeds United, re-establishing Sprake in the pantheon of goalkeeping greats and addressing the fall-out from the match-fixing scandal that rocked Leeds in the 1970s.

This is a shocking story of how one woman's cataclysmic past affects the life of an unsuspecting man. Her seductive nature captures his attention and before he knows it, his heart is hers. When Steven's friend mentions to him he is being deceived, he continues the relationship with caution. "I think he knows I'm talking to someone, but not actually sleeping around." This very intimate story of a modern day relationship filled with deceit and lies at every turn makes it captivating. They say lies will eventually catch up to the deceiver, is it true? Will Brenda get what she deserves or continue to be the manipulator?

Exploring the essential principles of personal finance, this book offers practical advice on saving, earning, and managing money effectively. It emphasizes the importance of financial literacy and provides strategies for budgeting, investing, and achieving financial goals. With real-world examples and actionable tips, readers will learn how to make informed financial decisions that can lead to greater financial stability and independence. The focus is on empowering individuals to take control of their financial futures.

Exploring the inadequacies of traditional attitude measurement, this work introduces an innovative representation of attitudes as intervals, defined by their midpoint (favourability) and latitude (generality). It reformulates Coombs' Theory of Unidimensional Unfolding and examines 18 distance measures, including the Minkowski r-metric and Generalised Hyperbolic Cosine Model (GHCM). Empirical tests reveal that the triangle inequality fails, indicating a non-metric judgement space, while only the GHCM meets both tests under specific conditions. Aimed at social science researchers, it offers new insights into attitude analysis.

An inspirational book with bricks, packed with more than 50 ideas and enthralling story starters to encourage children to build, play and learn all about the wonderful world of LEGO® Disney Princess. The book features five chapters, each telling the story of a different Disney Princess. Get ready to escape from Ursula with The Little Mermaid, play in the castle gardens with Belle, build a spinning wheel with Sleeping Beauty, explore the mountains with Mulan and visit the village fair with Cinderella. The book comes with a LEGO Disney Princess mini-doll and bricks to build an exclusive model that features throughout the adventure. ©2018 The LEGO Group. © 2018 Disney

Crisis Leadership explores the challenges leaders can face at each stage of a crisis 'lifecycle' and offers operational guidance in crisis management at both a personal and organisational level.

Attempts at measuring attitudes abound. Yet the standard representation of attitudes as points on a single dimension is inadequate for representing relationships of favourability and of implication between attitude statements. This book explores an alternative representation; attitudes are represented as intervals and parametized according to their midpoint and latitude. The midpoint can be understood as the ‘favourability’ of the attitude, while the latitude can be understood as its ‘generality’ or ‘latitude of acceptance’. Coombs’ Theory of Unidimensional Unfolding is reformulated using this representation and 18 possible distance measures are examined, including the Minkowski r-metric and the Generalised Hyperbolic Cosine Model (GHCM). These measures are subjected to two empirical tests, the triangle inequality test, and the aligned stimuli test. The results suggest that the triangle inequality fails, so the judgement space is not metric. Furthermore, only the GHCM (item) satisfied both tests and only if the operational function is strictly log-convex. This suggests that the latitude of acceptance is an item parameter. This book is aimed at researchers in social science.