Jonathan: 5623 books

Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s flipped Major League Baseball on its head by questioning widely accepted narratives and approaching roster construction from a scientific, data-driven viewpoint. “Moneyball” revolutionized baseball, and now it’s your turn to be the GM. Fantasy Baseball...

An English professor begins training in the sport of mixed martial arts and explores the science and history behind the violence of men When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge, and an opportunity. Pushing forty, out...

This book is designed to accompany my NRA Defensive Pistol course. I start with the basics, because much of what people know is false. I describe tactics and techniques for self-defense with the pistol. This is not a target shooting book though marksmanship is covered. Competence with the pistol is a survival skill as is swimming or first aid. So, we take a serious tone and go into detail.

For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an Englishman transplanted in Seattle, about what it means to feel rooted in America....

Jonathan Gold has eaten it all. Counter Intelligence collects over 200 of Gold's best restaurant discoveries--from inexpensive lunch counters you won't find on your own to the perfect undiscovered dish at a beaten-path establishment. He reveals the hidden kitchens where Los Angeles' ethnic communities...

Mischief, Magic, Love and War. It is the Year of Our Lord 1601. The Tuscan War rages across the world, and every lord from Navarre to Illyria is embroiled in the fray. Cannon roar, pikemen clash, and witches stalk the night; even the fairy courts stand on the verge of chaos. Five stories come together...

If your version of Dawn of Wonder has 66 chapters, you have the third edition, and you don’t need to read this. If you are one of the first 15 000 (or thereabouts) readers whose versions have only 62 chapters, you are missing this addition which has some important elements that will reappear in...

Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before....

Johannes Cabal has faced down the undead, ghosts, monsters, and Satan himself. But before all that, he fought the terrifying Bonewind, a supernatural being that devours life itself, and he did it all without leaving his house."Johannes Cabal and the Blustery Day" was the story that first introduced...

Jason Corvair donned a uniform and left Earth with the hope of saving the world. Fifteen years later, the survivor of an alien war and wretched imprisonment, he returns, a disfigured veteran. Now a genuine war hero, he’s offered an opportunity he can hardly refuse: a chance to be returned to normal. But that could be the most dangerous thing of all…

Modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of Grand Tradition science fiction writers. Smart, readable, and engaging stories that take us back to a time when science fiction was fun and informative, pithy and piquant—when speculative fiction transported us from the everyday grind and left...

Home is behind, the world ahead. - J.R.R. Tolkien Old gods outwitted by heroes. Magical weapons that bring good and evil. Dragons winging over the city or walking upon the earth. A wizard witnessing endless battles. These stories and more explore the theme of Re-Quest. Leave home behind...

Manchester is an old city with many shadows in its history. Most lie quiet, but now and then, one is stirred from its rest by the actions of foolish men.Pomona Island is a curiosity -- a backwater of the city left to nature for generations. Development reveals an old secret from which a fool...

If David Lynch crashed into Franz Kafka in a dark alley, the result might look like The Politics of Knives. Moving from shattered surrealism to disembowelled films, these poems land us in a limbo between the intellectual and the visceral, between speaking and screaming. Finding the language of violence and the violence in language, Jonathan Ball becomes the Stephen King of verse.