Chris Jones: 50 books
by Chris Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
In one week in September of 2008, Chris Jones lost his job and then 3 days later lost his good friend Paul to cancer. What was gained in these losses, however, led him ultimately to find sources of strength in life’s moments that had previously been swirling past without much inspection.
Inspired...
Bigger, Brighter, Louder
150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
The first known *Chicago Tribune *theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements—one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the largest load of lumber ever to leave Chicago. “And thus...
by Zach Weinersmith, Chris Jones, Sean Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Twins in Time is a visual adventure written in verse. It is written with children in mind, but particularly intelligent adults are welcome to come along. Twins in Time explores the classic physics question called "The Twins Paradox" in a brisk and lighthearted style. Each page is...
by Chris Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
The Best Laid Plans is an extensive and entertaining account of a self-planned journey around Western Canada. The book begins with background on the planning stage of the holiday, and then follows the month-long journey around British Columbia and the Canadian Rockies. A journey that begins in Vancouver...
Too Far From Home
A Story of Life and Death in Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a routine enterprise—at least until the shuttle Columbia disintegrated like the Challenger before it, reminding...
His Favour on Your Life
...Beyond What You Can Imagine or Think
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
His Favour on your life
We all have times where we think to ourselves; "Is there a secret to doing life with heavens smile?"
This book is a collection of thoughts, practical steps and promises to unlock the favour of God over your life.
People want practical, down to earth...
Radical Sensibility
Literature and Ideas in the 1790s
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
First published in 1993. Radical Sensibility provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature, ideas and history in the eighteenth century’s Revolutionary decade.
The book traces a continuity of ideas from Shaftesbury to Godwin and Wollstonecraft, and sets it beside a conservative...
Sandbars, Sandlots, and City Streets
Growing up in the Old South (1957)
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Sandbars, Sandlots, and City Streets; takes its titlefrom some of the powerful influences that shaped and continue to shape our(mine and Katherine's) lives:
Sandbars (TheEastern Shore of Virginiaand its environs**)...**where Katherine was born and lived the first twelve years of her life; where...
Out of Orbit
The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above E arth When They Lost Their Ride Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
On February 1, 2003, the nation was stunned to watch the shuttle Columbia disintegrate into a blue-green sky. Despite the numerous new reports surrounding the tragedy, the public remained largely unaware that three men, U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer...
Stride for Stride
The Lions in New Zealand 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Reviewing the British Lions' tour of New Zealand in 2017, Stride for Stride covers the tour from every angle. The 2017 British and Irish Lions matched the All Blacks, stride-for-stride, point for point, until the teams could not be separated. It made for a compelling spectacle. This is the story of...
Mended Faith
A Life of Abuse, Pain and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Shows the power of God’s love even when sexual assault survivors feel unredeemable.
Demonstrates how sexual assault survivors can learn to forgive themselves and their abusers
Helps women understand God’s command to forgive and the freedom that comes with letting go
Reveals...
Site Reliability Engineering
How Google Runs Production Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems?
In this collection of essays and articles,...
by Chris Jones, Tony Novak
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
A forward-looking appraisal of the welfare state which examines issues such as poverty in Britain, demonisation of the poor in areas of social policy and other related topics.
Fossil Poetry
Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon...