George Johnson Bücher

What is an activist? Why do we need them? Join Hope as she discovers how to make positive change on issues that matter from clothes made in fair trade to refugee aid - and to have fun at the same time! Even if you are small you can still stand tall andhelp out to make the world a better place for all.

A New York Times Bestseller! Optioned for television by Gabrielle Union Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories Velshi Banned Book Club Amazon Best Book of the Year Indie Bestseller Teen Vogue Recommended Read Buzzfeed Recommended Read People Magazine Best Book of the Summer A New York Library Best Book of 2020 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 ... and more! In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults.

In this intimate first-person story, Sophia confides how she shares a variety of secrets from sneaky to toothy to hopeful, in unusual ways, including whispering a secret to the breeze and dropping another into a puddle, but the best way is to share one with her brother Ben. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association Literary Contest, picture book category. One of the judges wrote, "It's one of the best I've judged in several years!... This one should be in bookstores."

"No scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner considered by many colleagues to be the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discovery of the quark and the Eightfold Way were cornerstones for all that followed in particle physics, the effort to understand the very stuff of creation, In this, the first biography of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkable life."

Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at the heart of George Johnson's audacious exploration of the border between science and religion, cosmic accident and timeless law. Northern New Mexico is home both to the most provocative new enterprises in quantum physics, information science, and the evolution of complexity and to the cosmologies of the Tewa Indians and the Catholic Penitentes. As it draws the reader into this landscape, juxtaposing the systems of belief that have taken root there, Fire in the Mind into a gripping intellectual adventure story that compels us to ask where science ends and religion begins. "A must for all those seriously interested in the key ideas at the frontier of scientific discourse."--Paul Davies

First paperback edition of the illustrated history of the hundred greatest American football players of all time who have captivated millions of fans of the National Football League worldwide.

Jak Henrietta Leavittová a Edwin Hubble bilionkrát zvětšili vesmír. Běžně dnes uvádíme, že ta a ta hvězda či mlhovina je od nás vzdálena tolik a tolik světelných let. Jak jsme ale na tato čísla přišli? Kniha nás provede od prvních pokusů o určování vzdáleností Slunce a Měsíce, které podnikli antičtí astronomové, až po moderní velikány astronomie, jako byl Edwin Hubble. V jejím centru ovšem stojí téměř zapomenutý příběh ženy, která na počátku 20. století objevila jeden z významných zákonů umožňujících měřit vesmír – Henrietty Swan Leavittové.