Jon: 3174 books
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Overview
Favian Markham is a rising young American officer in the War of 1812. As commander of the small, slow brig Experiment, he must break the British blockade and take his outgunned vessel on a daring raid into the Narrow Seas of England. On his desperate journey he faces duels, rivalries, ambitious...
At The Helm: Volume 3: A Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology
At The Helm, #3
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined.
Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this third collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at...
Pick Your Advisors Well
Do They Have the Courage to Tell You No?
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times (ISBN: 9780137009039) by Jon M. Huntsman. Available in print and digital formats. How to surround yourself with the best people: those who share your values, will stand by you,...
by Jon Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Backroom dealing, cocktail scheming, triple axels, and how top skaters get screwed.
Historians in Trouble
Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Historians in Trouble is investigative journalist and historian Jon Wiener’s "incisive and entertaining" (New Statesman, UK) account of several of the most notorious history scandals of the last few years.
Focusing on a dozen key controversies ranging across the political spectrum...
by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Whether misreading sixth–grade pedagogical materials or offering visual schematics for reading Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Jon Paul Fiorentino’s sixth poetry collection asks us to reconsider our engagement with received information — but does so with a wink during detention.
Guys Read: The Bloody Souvenir
A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Jack isn’t like the Pagoda brothers. He knows the difference between fun and stupid. Launching yourself across the backyard in a makeshift Roman catapult? Fun. Smoking an entire pack of cigarettes as fast as possible? Stupid. But when it comes to emergency self-surgery…Jack still has something...
by Jon Winokur
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Jon Winokur defines and classifies irony and contrasts it with coincidence and cynicism, and other oft-confused concepts that many think are ironic.
He looks at the different forms irony can take, from an irony deficiency to visual irony to an understatement, using photographs and relate-able...
Survivors' Songs
From Maldon to the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried...
Drift
A Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
When Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick loses his mother and step-father within weeks of each other, he gains a twenty-day suspension for unprofessional behavior and instructions to lay low at the unfamiliar house he's inherited in rural Pennsylvania.
Feeling restless and out of...
The Freedom Schools
Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates,...
Who Speaks for the Carriage Horses?
The Future of Animals in Our World
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Jon Katz reveals the truth behind the controversy between the Central Park carriage trade and the politicians and organizations who call themselves supporters of animal rights. It documents a shameful failure of politics and media as it explores the reality of the lives of the carriage horses and...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand.
From Roman times to the 21st century, Londoners and visitors to the city have recounted the extraordinary events, everyday life and character of this unique and influential...
Inheriting Abraham
The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how...