P.I. Chronicles – My Heart My Home is the first book of a three part series by new author Corey Jay Johnson. In this book, the author goes into detail about his life growing up in Baltimore, Maryland with his family and friends. Lance Corporal Corey is just arriving home after being honorably discharged from the US Marines. His last duty station was in the Philippines (P.I.) where he lived a life that only a young B Company Marine can understand and appreciate. Book one ends when Corey is ...

Courageous is a story loosely based on the life of Avon "Flubber" Johnson Sr. In this story a young man from the streets of Baltimore is raised by a single mother and a family of proud hard working Carolina folk who have a lot of Faith and Pride. As he begins to stray away from the public school system at an early age, Flubber finds himself very much attracted to the street life of robbing, stealing, and drug dealing. He recruits a group of life long friends who take the journey with him a...

P.I. Chronicles - is a vivid and candid memoir about the life of a Marine stationed in the Philippines. After graduating from boot camp training (Parris Island, SC) and Infantry School (Camp Pendleton, Ca.), Corey Johnson was sent to Subic Bay, Philippines (P.I.). He was excited and ready to serve his country as a US Marine. While stationed for several months at B Company Marine Barracks near Alongapo City, Philippines, this young Marine felt outside of his element. Standing foreign posts ...

P.I. Chronicles – Brothers United is a story about the life of a Marine stationed in the Philippines. After graduating from boot camp training (Parris Island, SC) and Infantry School (Camp Pendleton, Ca.), Corey Johnson was sent to Subic Bay, Philippines (P.I.). He was excited and ready to serve his country. While stationed for several months at B Company Marine Barracks, this young Marine felt outside of his element. Standing posts on foreign soil and doing jungle patrols in a third world...

In this book, Yuxia Qian and Rukhsana Ahmed explore health acculturation, which they argue is a complex, multidimensional communication process involving concerted efforts from migrants, health professionals, researchers, community members, policymakers, and the media, rather than a unidimensional process synonymous with assimilation. Qian and Ahmed examine individual migrant health acculturation experiences, community-based culturally-centered health interventions, and cross-cultural heal...

The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research focuses on innovative approaches to youth violence prevention that utilize consistent principles found within existing best practices but are dynamic and adaptable across settings—and the sociohistorical and cultural realities of those settings. This book features scholars anchored in applied practices who can ground these forward-thinking strategies in the substantive base of research and theory...

Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, offers critical inquiry into how identity is constructed, deconstructed, performed, and perceived on social networking sites (SNSs), such as Facebook, and LinkedIn. The presentation of identity is key to success or failure in the Information Age, especially because SNSs are becoming the dominant form of communication among Internet users. The architecture of SNSs provide opportu...