Jon: 3174 books
Designing Gotham
West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. With this rapid commercial growth and cultural development, New York came to epitomize a nineteenth-century metropolis. Although this important urban transformation is well...
by Jon May
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Salvage, the long-awaited follow up to Jon May’s first book, Divers, tells of his time with the truly extraordinary South China Sea Ocean Salvage And Towing Company, from dealing with the devastating consequences of a typhoon in the South China Sea, searching for missing explosives and going to...
by Jon Van Loon
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Despite being Bipolar and having a severe Learning Disability I earned a PhD in Environmental Chemistry and became a Full Professor at The University of Toronto. This book, Memoirs of a Manic, consists of 61 mainly humorous short stories related to events that occurred during my improbably successful...
Empire of Sacrifice
The Religious Origins of American Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since9/11, United States...
Man Versus Ball
One Ordinary Guy and His Extraordinary Sports Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Jon Hart is not a professional athlete. His one major sports victory is a world championship in roller basketball, which is basketball on in-line skates. More than ten years ago, he started pursuing his own bucket list and embarked on a hilarious and insightful journey into the furthest reaches of the sports world.
by Jon Bell
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
3ds max 6 Killer Tips features 275 hot tips--all illustrated, all in full color, for all levels of 3ds max users, from newbie to advanced. Get instant help on UI customization, modeling, animation, lighting, materials and texturing, rendering (including mental ray 3 secrets), the Reactor dynamics system,...
by Jon Liebman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
(Bass Builders). Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book with audio by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique. Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales & arpeggios;...
Taming the Leviathan
The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640–1700
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Originally published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's ideas. In the first book-length treatment of the topic for over forty years,...
by Jon Huntsman
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
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. The surprisingly simple reminder that can keep people honest when they’re tempted to stray....
3 R's of Leadership
Risk, Responsibility, and Reliability, The
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
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. Return to the wellspring: how to tap the deepest roots of effective, respected leadership. I have always loved the biblical passage, “Whatsoever...
Art and Faith
Reclaiming the Artistic Essence of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Should being a Christian encompass all of life? Or only part of life? For hundreds of years the church has taught that in order to live fully a personmust have right belief (orthodoxy) and right practice (orthopraxy), and yet this is an insufficient theology. By failing to consider the importance of...
by Prof Jon Spence
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired...
by Jon Sindell
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
What does it mean to be a man and a dad in America today? Climb up in the treehouse for a look.
by Roger Frie, Bruce Ries, M Guy Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005
This volume is the first concentrated effort to offer a philosophical critique of relational and intersubjective perspectives in contemporary psychoanalytic thought. The distinguished group of scholars and clinicians assembled here are largely preoccupied with tracing the theoretical underpinnings...