Jon: 3174 books
The Love of God
Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism—but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an emotion be commanded? How could one...
Relive
Media Art Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future.
In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories...
by Jon Sindell
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In this woodland tale by the author of The Mighty Roman and Trips `n’ Trials of a Down, Beat Dad, first published in the magazine riverbabble, an estranged father and his fifteen–year–old son take to the woods. Key reference is made to Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood.
Art, Enterprise and Ethics: Essays on the Life and Work of William Morris
The Life and Works of William Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The life and works of William Morris continue to excite the imaginations of fresh generations of scholars working in many traditions, from the history of art and design to literary criticism and the history of socialism and socialist thought. This book concentrates on Morris's social and political acheivements as well as his artistic talents.
by Jon Jeter
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
A powerful, accessible, and eye-opening analysis of the global economy.
Growing up in an African American working-class family in the Midwest, Jon Jeter watched the jobs undergirding a community disappear. As a journalist for the Washington Post (twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist), he reported...
Changing Moods
A Short Book of Poems from the Heart for Every Occasion
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Born in Milaca, Minnesota and raised in Brainerd, MN, Jon M. Nelson is a seasoned writer from the heart. This is the first complete works of his poems, but not the first time he has been published. He has had a few select poems published in magazines and in newspapers for certain occasions. He has...
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 26, 2011
La consapevolezza è considerata l'elemento centrale della meditazione buddista, ma la sua essenza è universale e di profonda utilità pratica per tutti. Essenzialmente la consapevolezza è essere sempre vigili e, malgrado sia caratteristico della nostra mente innescare il pilota automatico e perdere...
by Jon Yu
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The Next 3,649 Days of Your Life Could Make or Break the Following 21,900 Days of Your Life
This is a compact, no-nonsense guide to 20 of the most crucial life lessons I learned in my twenties.
These insights and understandings enabled me to overcome tremendous adversity and persist in spite...
Søren Kierkegaard
Subjectivity, Irony, & the Crisis of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity examines the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, a unique figure, who has freeired, provoked, fascinated, and irritated people ever since he walked the streets of Copenhagen. At the end of his life, Kierkegaard said that the only model...
Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s
The Laurel of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of...
Soviet Princeton
Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners' Strike
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The winter of 1932–33 saw the small interior town of Princeton, BC divided. Charges of outside agitators and charges by mounted provincial police into picket lines of workers, Ku Klux Klan threats and a beating and cross–burning, the kidnapping of legendary labour organizer Slim Evans who was...
Blues and Bliss
The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott...
by Jon Gold
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
9/11 Truther is the story about an everyday American who saw that something was wrong with what we were told about 9/11, and tried to do something about it.
Betrayal
Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought to Bring Him Down
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
In Betrayal, renowned FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick partners with USA Today bestselling author Jon Land to present the true story of the lawman’s pursuit of James “Whitey” Bulger, Jr., the notorious crimelord of Boston, Massachusetts’s Winter Hill Gang.
The Jack Nicholson film The Departed...