Jon: 3174 books

'We're miles from anywhere, and we don't have a clue where we're going' Deep in a snow-covered forest Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa have escaped from prison. Now they're being hunted. They quickly realise they have a special talent - they can control the world around them. Now they...

The action-packed finale to Jon Robinson's debut conspiracy thriller trilogy, Nowhere. In hiding with the mysterious Guild, Alyn, Jes and their friends learn of a way to destroy the prison called Nowhere and end the Pledge's project for good. But another, far more dangerous figure, has...

When Wade McNabb, publisher of the Georgetown Pilot, exposes high-level political corruption surrounding a chemical plant on the South Carolina coast, a powerful senator, steeped in the ancient code of the state's insider politics, threatens to bring down McNabb and his newspaper. Wade turns...

What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg? Examining her contribution to radical democracy and revolutionary socialism, Jon Nixon shows why Red Rosa's legacy lives on. *BR**BR*Luxemburg's political and intellectual formation was in itself...

Being a sculptor, I have studied heads as functional objects and evolution as a creative system. What I have found is surprising, especially in the context of the contemporary scientific view. I have used my visual training to identify a series of image fallacies that have subverted scientific evolutionary...

La mindfulness nella vita quotidiana Per decenni Jon Kabat-Zinn ha mostrato a un pubblico sempre più ampio i benefici tangibili della meditazione. Oggi, milioni di persone hanno inserito nella propria vita la meditazione di consapevolezza come routine quotidiana. Ma in cosa consiste la meditazione...

A funny and observant story collection that captures the complexity of human relationships In this smart and original story collection, Heidi Jon Schmidt paints her subjects with delicate care. What emerges are characters who are both flawed and lovable—flighty women married to unbearably academic...

The much anticipated and darkly comic first novel from a prize-winning storyteller "I grew up on a farm." The year is l974, the place Sweetwater College, and Beatrice Wolfe is telling the story of her life to the glamorous young professor Philippa Sayres. So begins the achingly funny,...

The Rose Thieves gives us the Vanderwald family: flamboyant, hot-tempered Lila, who feels trapped living in a small New England town; her sentimental, eternally optimistic husband, a failed futures-market investor; and their children. An affectionate daughter steals flowers from gardens all over town...

The Sprig o’ Thyme no longer hunts whales. The captain’s enlisted his first girl, me, because he finds my singing enchanting. It seems it’s perfect for luring a new prey. Mermaids.

The Figure in Art identifies the universal, untutored human figure all people draw or sculpt as their first rendering. The rendering of the human figure exposes hidden truths and is a conduit to understanding perception. It teaches us about the structure of consciousness and the relationship between a culture’s economic base and its intellectual and artistic world view.

Dependable, current, and complete, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9th Edition is the perennially best-selling text that you’ll use long after your medical student days are behind you. A world-class author team headed by Drs. Vinay Kumar, Abul Abbas, and Jon Aster, delivers the latest,...

There is tremendous controversy across the United States (and beyond) when a police officer uses deadly force against an unarmed citizen, but often the conversation is devoid of contextual details. These details matter greatly as a matter of law and organizational legitimacy. In this short book, authors...

Rückblickend betrachtet war es vielleicht keine so gute Idee, abseits der roten Linie des Reiseführers zu flattern. Aber Jon blickt, während sein Urlaub in Echtzeit vergeht, weder zurück noch nach vorne. Indem er handelt, ohne Konsequenzen tragen zu müssen, entdeckt er, dass das wahre Leben spassiger,...