Jon: 3174 books
Adventures in the Bone Trade
The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
As co-founder of the expedition that discovered Lucy, and leader of most of the first site-surveys in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, Jon Kalb has years of experience with the region, its politics, and the scientists involved in the excavations. A participant himself in the "bone wars"...
Lethal Injection
Capital Punishment in Texas during the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Few state issues have attracted as much controversy and national attention as the application of the death penalty in Texas. In the years since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Texas has led the nation in passing death sentences and executing prisoners. The vigor with which Texas has implemented...
Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream
A Qualitative Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream is a collaborative effort to tell the life story of Jon A. Feucht, a man who was born with a form of cerebral palsy that left him reliant on a wheelchair for mobility, with limited use of his arms and an inability to speak without an assistive...
by Richard N Mitchell, MD, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
This Pocket Companion to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 8th Edition offers rapid, portable access to the most important pathology facts and concepts. Richard Mitchell, MD, PhD, Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD, FRCPath, Nelson Fausto, MD, Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, and Jon Aster, MD assemble all of...
by Jon Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Complete Gay Guide to West Hollywood and L.A., including lodgings, restaurants, attractions, outdoor sports, tours and excursions, shopping and everything else you'd want to do in the area - edited with an emphasis on the gay traveler."One good thing about this handy guide is that it’s...
by Jon Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Complete Gay Guide to MIAMI and SOUTH BEACH, including lodgings, restaurants, attractions, casinos, outdoor sports, tours and excursions, shopping and everything else you'd want to do in the area - edited with an emphasis on the gay traveler."One good thing about this handy guide is that...
The Embodied Analyst
From Freud and Reich to relationality
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
2015 Gradiva Award Winner
The Embodied Analyst brings together the history of embodied analysis found in the work of Freud and Reich and contemporary relational analysis, particularly as influenced by infant research. By integrating the ‘old’ embodied and the ‘new’ relational traditions,...
Coping With Depression
From Catch-22 to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Distilling years of experience in educating psychiatric patients and their families about depression, Jon Allen has written a practical book that addresses the challenges depressed patients face on the road to recovery. Allen advocates approaching depression by focusing on the importance of hope,...
Light a Candle or Curse the Darkness
How to Connect with America's Youth
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
This book has been a project that has been inspired out of a need to share some concepts that Jon has created while working with the young people who have had trouble in the past making connections with significant adults in their lives. All around us we hear people talking about how our teenagers...
Things Not Seen
A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Trusting God's Promises
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
God is doing far more than we can see in our pain.
We plead for God’s deliverance from our pain and wonder why he keeps letting it go on. We are not alone. A cloud of witnesses surrounds us and they help us understand. In these 35 creative retellings of Bible stories, Jon Bloom explores the...
Life on the Malecón
Children and Youth on the Streets of Santo Domingo
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Life on the Malecón is a narrative ethnography of the lives of street children and youth living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the non-governmental organizations that provide social services for them. Writing from the perspective of an anthropologist working as a street educator with a...
by Jon Liechty
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The life story of Jon Liechty is a fascinating drama. Testimony of God’s faithfulness is evident in the lives of Liechty generations. Home life and raising of children centers in their commitment. The result is realized in the lives of many people who have a strong faith today. This book should...
by Jon Peasey
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In Christ! What does it mean to you and me? What does it signify for you and me? In the Apostle Paul's writings, as you read through his various epistles, these words "in Christ", or "in Christ Jesus" appear much more often than is realised. Why is there such an emphasis on them? What is Paul...
by Alan Cross, Alison Borthwick, Karen Beswick
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Whether it is in the National Curriculum or the Teachers' Standards, promotion of children's curiosity is highlighted as a key part of effective teaching. Curiosity has the potential to enhance learning in all curriculum subjects but it has a special connection with scientific thinking. A curious...