Jan E Hogan

Gladdys Makes Peace

An Exploration of Inner City Teachers and the Shutdown Phenomenon: Examining the Difference in Burnout, Shutdown, and the Roles of Cultural Differences and Administrative Support in this Phenomenon

This study began as an attempt to integrate Fine Arts into an Inner City classroom, and spontaneously morphed into something much more powerful...the daily battle to teach children who were being raised in homes riddled with drugs, gang violence, death, and often, imprisoned parents. Is it possible ...

The Affective Ground: Possibilities for cross-cultural dialogue

The Affective Ground explores how drawing may be used as a model to have a cross-cultural dialogue about space, place and spirituality between artists in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The artist, Jan Hogan, discusses the process and development of her art practice on the site of Gundaroo Co...

Coffee, Tea or ... Murder?: A desperate hijacker. A billionaire's secret. A rare ability. (Volume 1)

Flight attendant Abbey Gaddett has a secret ability, one to which the government would love to gain access. When she's reassigned to work another flight, she walks into a life-or-death scenario, but one that might also bring her closer to her dream job - a newspaper reporter. When the hijacker wants...

Hiding in Plain Sight

From teenage lovers to young adults making their way in the world, two people set out in search of the American dream, each one battling obstacles and self-doubt, each one determined to make it big no matter the cost. But one has a secret, a debt that entwines the other. And the man who owns the deb...

Coffee, Tea or ... Striptease? (Abbey Gaddett) (Volume 2)

Flight attendant Abbey Gaddett is back, this time, working a charter full of party-happy gem dealers on their way to a convention in Las Vegas. Trouble is, two passengers are hijackers, out to steal everybody's gemstones. As a distraction, they force Abbey's fellow worker, a sexy swimsuit model, to ...

Under the Gun in Iraq: My Year Training the Iraqi Police

"One moment, I was standing there with my buddies unloading a truck. The next moment, my ears picked up the distinct `pssst' sound homing in on us...."Hit the ground!" someone yelled."Right behind the first mortar was a second, then a third, then a fourth. They each slammed into the earth with an e...

Gladdys Makes Peace

Rhyming text chronicles the lie of Gladdys Esther Muir, a college professor and advocate of world peace.