Bob Johnston

Uncle David and Simon are going to get married! There’s lots to do, from making the invitations to arranging the decorations, but when the wedding rings go missing just before the ceremony, Bear the dog has to use all of his special skills to help save the day! A fun and engaging picture book and a heart-warming celebration of love, family, weddings and marriage equality.

Charlie lives close to the normally placid Humber River. And while his fascination belies his paralyzing fear of water, he is drawn both to its shores and to the lissome young girl who becomes his first love. As their feelings grow, they must navigate the universal and sometimes painful challenges of teen years. For Charlie, that means struggles with body-image, sexual awakening, and the bewilderment of entering high school. On the home front, he witnesses his grandparents' lose their beloved Downsview farm to the encroaching suburbs of North York; his father struggles with traumatic memories of his war years; his mother carries the burden of a secret sin; and his young sister questions the nature of God. For Marie, it means finding a way to reconcile the old-world village traditions and values of her Italian immigrant parents and values with Canada's more permissive freedoms and expectations and her own desires. Until finally, the Humber escapes its banks to create havoc on that terrible night, requiring Charlie and Maria to deal with a flood of emotions as they face the tenuous link between life and death and their own mortality

"War of Water" is a 2018 Scars Publications' cc&d magazine (v282) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1993, but since 2014 cc&d has been released every other month (with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1068-5154, Internet ISSN# 1555-1555), but also an ISBN#. With ISBN#s for issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design. Writers and artists in this book include Allen F. McNair, Bob Johnston, CEE, Corey Cook, DA Gray, David J. Thompson, Dr. (Ms.) Michael S. Whitt, Elizabeth Krop, Erren Kelly, I. B. Rad, Janet Kuypers, Joe Follansbee, John Carter, Joshua Copeland, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Kilmo, Linda M. Crate, M. C. Rydel, Michael Ceraolo, Nicole Brissette, Norm Hudson, Patrick Fealey, Roger N. Taber, Stephanie Mada, Xanadu, Aaron Wilder, Cheryl Townsend, David M Jackson, Daniel S. Weinberg, David Russell, Eric Bonholtzer, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Kyle Hemmings, Peter LaBerge, Rose E. Grier, and Westley Heine.

Bob Johnston is a retired petroleum engineer and translator. His published works include a number of papers in the scientific press and eight books translated from Russian. He waited until his sixtieth year to begin writing serious poetry, and over the next thirty years he has been trying to catch up. His poetry and short stories have been published in twenty-odd literary journals. He lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico with his wife and some hope of completing his memoirs and The Great American Novel.

Christians all over the world even today, who, in spite of the availability of the knowledge of God's grace, continue to live their lives without a real understanding of the marvel of that Grace. Many continue to struggle in every area of their lives even though some time ago they audibly invited Jesus into their lives to save their souls. Sam presents some well-thought out reasons that happens. Sam dearly wants his readers to encounter the eternal loving and all-powerful God in a new living way and then to lead productive and joyful lives in Christ. Through stories of people in the Bible, his own encounter and of others all over the world who have discovered the deeper well of God's grace and personal involvement in their lives Sam leads us through a simple process so we are brought to a new level of peace, love and joy we have not known. Sam compares his encounter to being "arrested by God's grace.

Operations Management in Service Industries and the Public Sector Text and Cases Christopher Voss, School of Industrial and Business Studies, University of Warwick Colin Armistead, The European School of Management Studies, Oxford Bob Johnston, School of Industrial and Business Studies, University of Warwick Barbara Morris, Department of Management Studies, Sheffield City Polytechnic Aimed at teachers and students on business and management courses teaching and studying Operations as well as those concerned with the management of specific service industries, this book brings together concepts found in the wider literature as well as presenting some new concepts. Written from the standpoint of operations management specialists?rather than marketing managers?the book examines the operational aspects of service operations and includes vital links with marketing, organization and business policy by using a wide range of case studies from both the public and the private sector. Suitable as a teaching text at both graduate and postgraduate levels the book will also be of value to practitioners in service organizations, the public sector and those concerned with the management of internal services in manufacturing.