Jonathan: 5623 books
Midnight in America
Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night. Sleeplessness plagued the Union and Confederate armies, and dreams of war glided through the minds of Americans in both the North and South. Sometimes their nightly visions brought the...
Stay Cool: A Polar Bear's Guide to Life
A Polar Bear's Guide to Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
What does it mean to be cool? The quality has always been hard to define, but easy to identify. James Dean. Miles Davis. They were cool. Joe Montana scrambling in the pocket. Steve McQueen riding a motorcycle. Very cool. To that list, you can now add another towering paragon of cool: the mighty polar...
by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
A witty and informative look at classic American murder cases
On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prizewinning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where...
by Jonathan Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Daniel Sullivan arrived on the docks of St.John's, in the summer of 1913, a timid young man. But after a chance encounter with Charlie Pittman, and the dogged pursuits of the determined Evelyn Parsons, Daniel realizes that there is much more to life than he had previously experienced. As the...
by Jonathan Clements
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The Silk Road is not a place, but a journey, a route from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central plains of China, through high mountains and inhospitable deserts. For thousands of years its history has been a traveler’s history, of brief encounters in desert towns, snowbound passes and nameless...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coast. His...
Passage to Juneau
A Sea and Its Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. The physical distance is 1,000 miles of difficult-and...
Cosmic Ordering
How to Make Your Dreams Come True
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Cosmic Ordering is about wishing, about asking, and about making the impossible, possible. You can fill your life with more of what you want—and less of what you don’t. However big or small, your wishes are attainable. But how do you know what you really want? From order to delivery, Jonathan...
A Brief History of Japan
Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.
First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles...
Christian America?
Perspectives on Our Religious Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Throughout her history America has possessed a rich religious component largely comprised of different traditions of the Christian faith. This tide of personal religious devotion connected to government observances and policies has ebbed and flowed through time, but it has always been a part of American...
The Body Emblazoned
Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid...
300 Pounds of Attitude
The Wildest Stories And Craziest Characters The NFL Has Ever Seen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
One fall night in TK, Steve Sabol of NFL Films answered the door to see his friend, Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Tim “Rosso” Rossovich, standing there literally on fire. After Sabol knocked Rossovich to the ground and put out the fire, Rosso stood up and (without missing a beat) said, “Sorry,...
Baseball's Most Notorious Personalities
A Gallery of Rogues
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Of the 17,000-plus players who have donned major league uniforms over the years, not all were particularly nice or ethical. In fact, the actions of a handful were so heinous, they left an indelible mark on the sport. In Baseball’s Most Notorious Personalities: A Gallery of Rogues, Jonathan Weeks...
An Ambulance Is on the Way
Stories of Men in Trouble
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
National Jewish Book Award finalist Jonathan Wilson’s uproariously funny stories showcase the neuroses of suburban men as they ruminate, self-medicate, and acclimate to the rhythms of middle age.
From the slacker husband who spends his day running household errands, chatting up the local...