Bøger af Dana Johnson

In today's world there is a very small chance of people not owning more than one credit card. In such a world, there are also several sinister minds who do not feel any regret when stealing your credit card and your identity. Often we wonder what is the worse that could happen if our credit card is stolen. Well, to begin with, you should be concerned if your credit card details are leaked out and how that will not just impact your credit card bill but also your identity online. In this book, I explain how you as an online shopper can protect yourself from being made a victim of cybercrime. All you have to do is follow the essential points shared in the last chapter of the book to avoid making the same mistakes I made when using my credit card online for several purposes.

Meditation is increasingly described as a secular tool for supporting mental health; that said, it is less common to hear about the challenges involved in actually trying to do it. One challenge is that meditating can be hard. The practices themselves require training and dedication. Another challenge is that meditation often isn't very secular. Many practices were developed within more religious-minded traditions, and those influences are often quite present, even in secular environments. This book represents one person's attempts to work through those challenges. Inside you will find common instructions for four practices that the author-Chad Frisk-engages in. After presenting the instructions, Frisk details his difficulties both understanding and carrying them out, and then offers some suggestions for ways in which a secular thinker might approach the practices as tools for careful inquiry. This book does not claim to be an authority on any meditative practice or tradition; rather, it is an account of Frisk's personal efforts to develop a non-religious practice. He hopes that it will serve as a useful point of departure for any like-minded person considering a practice of their own.

"Following her prize-winning collection Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson returns with a collection of bold stories set mostly in downtown Los Angeles that examine large issues -love, class, race - and how they influence and define our most intimate moments. In "The Liberace Museum," a mixed-race couple leave the South toward the destination of Vegas, crossing miles of road and history to the promised land of consumption; in "Rogues," a young man on break from college lands in his brother's Inland Empire neighborhood during a rash of unexplained robberies; in "She Deserves Everything She Gets," a woman listens to the strict advice given to her spoiled niece about going away to college, reflecting on her own experience and the night she lost her best friend; and in the collection's title story, a man setting down roots in downtown L.A. is haunted by the specter of both gentrification and a young female tourist, whose body was found in the water tower of a neighboring building. With deep insight into character, intimate relationships, and the modern search for personal freedom, In the Not Quite Dark is powerful new work that feels both urgent and timeless. "--

This collection of stories penetrates the essential nature of human relationships. Most of the narrators are young black women whose relationships with the men in their lives are ending. While dealing indirectly with race, the stories are more about the complexities of identity and alienation.

These proceedings address benefits and risks of international air and space activities, including how they affect global and national security and interoperability among coalition partners with differing technological capabilities.

We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award–winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7–Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith.When Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her studies at USC, to her burgeoning career as a painter and artist, and into her relationship with a wealthy Italian who sequesters her in his glass–walled house in the Hollywood Hills. The past will intrude upon Avery's first gallery show, proving her mother's adage: Every goodbye aint gone. The dual–narrative of Elsewhere, California illustrates the complicated history of African Americans across the rolling basin of Los Angeles.