Jon: 3174 books
Illegals
The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
"The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive." ?Ronald Reagan
America is under siege, facing a hostile invasion on its own soil that most of its citizens know nothing about: the invaders are illegal immigrants, their battleground...
Guys Read: A Fistful of Feathers
A Short Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Sam has a problem: his dad doesn’t think he’s “man enough.” So Dad decides he’s going to toughen Sam up by getting a turkey to raise in preparation for Thanksgiving. But no one is prepared for the place Travis the turkey finds in the family, and Sam soon realizes the frightening truth: it’s...
by Pamela Rae Heath, Jon Klimo
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In Handbook to the Afterlife, two seasoned experts with decades of experience working with channeled material describe the stages that spirits go through, focusing on the details that these accounts have in common. Just as life itself has different stages of growth and development, so most accounts...
In Search of Stardust
Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Tiny pieces of space rock called micrometeorites are everywhere on Earth. In Search of Stardust shows you how to find them and keep them safe.
The solar system is a dusty place. Every day approximately 100 metric tons of cosmic dust collides with Earth, mainly in the form of micrometeorites....
I, Superorganism
Learning to love your inner ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of microorganisms living in the mouth, on the skin, in the gut. They help digest our food. They make essential vitamins. They break down toxins and metabolise drugs. They exert an invisible influence on our hormones, our immune systems, perhaps...
The Ancient Origins of Consciousness
How the Brain Created Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious.
How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which...
Almost Chimpanzee
Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The captivating story of how a band of scientists has redrawn the genetic and behavioral lines that separate humans from our nearest cousins
In the fall of 2005, a band of researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window into the differences between...
by Jon R. Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In my first book ( The 20 FOOT Tomato Plant ), I teach you how to grow an amazing amount of food in very small spaces, using LESS water, LESS chemicals, and NO toxic pesticides. I was raised on a small farm, and I’ve been gardening and inventing new ways to grow MORE food in SMALLER spaces almost...
Orchid Summer
In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embraced in one glorious and kaleidoscopic summer-long hunt by naturalist Jon Dunn
From the chalk downs of the south coast of England to the heathery moorland of the Shetland Isles, and from the holy...
Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences
Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In this important and innovative study, Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of...
by Jon Agar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
A compelling history of science from 1900 to the present day, this is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty. The scope is global.
Science's claim to access universal truths about the natural world made it an...
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
NOMINATED FOR A NEBULA AWARD. Walter Jon Williams’ classic science fantasy Metropolitan is once again available for a new generation of readers.
Aiah has fought her way from poverty and discovered a limitless source of plasm, the mysterious substance that powers the world-city. Her discovery...
Breakthrough!
How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Why are you alive right now? Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these haven’t just changed the way we treat disease, they’ve transformed how we understand...
God and Freedom
What Matters in Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
My wife and I have a plan to one Christmas ride a Midnight Express to Salt Lake City. We are Christians, not Mormons, but we will spend a few days where thousands meet in His name and hear His music. We will attend Christmas by the Tabernacle Choir. Life is like a train station where two tracks run...