Portfolio

Published indexes

My indexes appear in the following published books. See also sample indexes.

Business

Remarkable Retail (LifeTree Media)
Secrets to Succession (LifeTree Media)
Mindful Business Leadership
(Routledge)
From Conflict to Courage (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Practical Innovation in Government
(Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Ownership
(Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
How to Be an Inclusive Leader
(Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Conscious Conversations
(Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Long Distance Teams
(Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Breakthrough Community Change
(Berrett-Koehler Publishers)

Biography and History

The Dillon Era
(McGill-Queens Press)

A wonderful job! Not just thorough, but so intuitive and a genuinely helpful index for readers.

Richard Aldous, The Dillon Era
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
Third Eye Spies (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)
The Heroic Memory Vol II (Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society)

It was a pleasure to work with JoAnne. Ron and I will be recommending her services to others at every opportunity.

Robert Dunn with Ronald I. Cohen, Editor, The Heroic Memory Vol 2
In Dreams Together (Azrieli Foundation)
Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus
(Hampton Roads Publishing)
Here’s Looking at You, Kids: Michael Curtiz and His Hidden Families
(PageMaster Publishing)
The Little Community That Could (Kingsley Press)
A Stop Along the Way (Kingsley Press)

A Life

Personal memoirs and essays in two volumes, 800 pages, privately published

(LifeTree Media)

Computers and Technology

Go Hack Yourself (No Starch Press)
Real-World Bug Hunting (No Starch Press)
Functional Design
(Pearson Education)
The Secret Life of Programs
(No Starch Press)
Arduino Workshop (2nd ed.)
(No Starch Press)
Linux Basics for Hackers (No Starch Press)
Dead Simple Python
(No Starch Press)
Python One-Liners
(No Starch Press)
Make Python Talk
(No Starch Press)
Make Your Own Twine Games
(No Starch Press)
Make Your Own Scratch Games
(No Starch Press)
Make Your Own PuzzleScript Games
(No Starch Press0
High Tech LEGO Projects
(No Starch Press)
Understanding Photography
(No Starch Press)

Cookbooks

The Fair Trade Ingredient Cookbook
(Fitzhenry & Whitside)
The Acadian Kitchen
(Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Happy Nomming
(Partridge)
Fish For You
(Whitecap Books Ltd.)
Irresistibly Vegan

To JoAnne Burek, who went above and beyond proofreading/indexing with detail, precision and easy solutions.

– Elvira Rodríguez Alonso (Irresistibly Vegan)
The Artful Pie Project (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Vegetarian Arab Cuisine
(Fitzhenry & Whiteside)

Trade Press

60 Years of Fluevog
(LifeTree Media)
Human Kind
(No Starch Press)
Brilliance
(LifeTree Media)
Dai Manuel’s Whole Life Fitness Manifesto (LifeTree Media)
Enoch and the Return of the Gods (Red Wheel/Weiser)
The Gods Were Astronauts (Red Wheel/Weiser)

Scholarly and Academic

Human-Centered AI
(CRC Press)
Mining and Communities in Northern Canada
(University of Calgary Press)

[We] looked over the index carefully. We are really happy with it, impressed by the level of detail, the thematic content that was brought out, and the really great cross-referencing.
Thanks to JoAnne for taking this on!

John Sandlos and Arn Keeling, Memorial University
Creative Tourism in Smaller Communities
(University of Calgary Press)
Adventures in Small Tourism
(University of Calgary Press)

[The press] is DELIGHTED you are on board; my editor praised your other indexes!

Kathleen Scherf, Professor of Communications, Thompson Rivers University
Who Pays for Canada
(McGill-Queens University Press)
Canadian Countercultures and the Environment (University of Calgary Press)
Animal Metropolis
(University of Calgary Press)
Environmental Activism on the Ground
(University of Calgary Press)
Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin
(University of Athabasca Press)
Feminist Acts
(University of Alberta Press)
Government Information in Canada
(University of Alberta Press)
Neither in Dark Speeches Nor in Similitudes
(Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Epidemiology
(Brush Education)
Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity
(Routledge)
Public Sociology Capstones (Routledge)
Strengthening the Connections Between Leadership and Learning (Routledge)
Feminist Perspectives on Art
(Routledge)
Beyond Failure
(Routledge)
Collaborative Consultation in Mental Health
(Routledge)
Designing Quality Authentic Assessments
(Routledge)
Profiting from Integrity
(Routledge)
Natural Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood
(Routledge)
Poverty and Inclusion in Early Years Education
(Routledge)

Sample Indexes

Following are some indexes I have written for materials on my bookshelf.