Jon: 3174 books
by Jon Huntsman
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times (ISBN: 9780137009039) by Jon M. Huntsman. Available in print and digital formats. Play tough, play hard, play fair: returning to the simple values that made American business great. Growing up poor in rural Idaho, I was...
Georgia High School Football
Peach State Pigskin History
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Georgia is known as one of the most competitive proving grounds in America for high school football. The league that began as a few city teams in the late nineteenth century blossomed to the four hundred-plus schools that put teams on the field today. These teams have given college football and the professional...
A History of College Football in Georgia
Glory on the Gridiron
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
When teams meet on football fields across Georgia, it's more than a game--it's a battle for bragging rights and dominance in a state that prizes football above all other sports. Join seasoned Georgia sports journalist Jon Nelson as he tracks the history of college football statewide. Whether it's Georgia...
by Jon Boilard
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Settright Road is a collection of 20 short stories and one longer piece of fiction, all set in and around a string of busted Massachusetts mill towns during the cocaine-fueled 1980s.
Its pages are colored by unforgettable characters: a teenage lothario whose plans to escape his one-horse town...
by Jon Helminiak
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
In the summer of 1940, the German Luftwaffe was preparing to destroy London by bombing it for fifty-six consecutive days and nights.
To spare British children from witnessing the carnage and from possible death, millions of youth were evacuated from their London homes and sent away to safe...
Inventing Los Alamos
The Growth of an Atomic Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
A social history of New Mexico’s “Atomic City”
Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An “instant city,” created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand people—scientists and experts...
Why Most Investors Fail and Why You Don’T Have To
Simple, Tax-Efficient Strategies That Control Risk, Eliminate Confusion, and Turn the Odds of Success in Your Favor
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Many sophisticated investors will tell you it is neither necessary nor possible to time the market. In Why Most Investors Fail and Why You Dont Have To, author Michael Jon Allen shows you why they are wrong and then outlines an investment strategy that works.
Allen, who bridges the gap between...
Into the Wild
Voyage au bout de la solitude
Language: French
Release Date: November 14, 2013
En 1992, le cadavre d'un jeune homme est découvert dans un bus abandonné en Alaska, au pied du mont McKinley, loin de tout lieu habité.
Fils de bonne famille, Chris McCandless aurait dû en toute logique devenir un Américain bien tranquille à l'avenir sans surprise. Mais, dès l'obtention...
by Jon Yu
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
In ancient times, before the invention of GPS devices, radar systems and radio communications, a sailor lost at sea would look for lighthouses that guide him to safety. As he ventures towards his destination, he will come across many lighthouses or Beacons along the way that confirms his current location....
The Pop-up Gym
How to Keep Fit Wherever You Are
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Fitness trainer to a host of busy people including actors, TV presenters and politicians, Jon Denoris has created a series of exercises and routines, most of which can be carried out almost anywhere: in the home, at work or outdoors. Hardly any of them require any equipment. Dumbbells and a medicine...
Online Activism in the Middle East
Political Power and Authoritarian Governments from Egypt to Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Does the internet facilitate social and political change, or even democratization, in the Middle East? Despite existing research on this subject, there is still no consensus on the importance of social media and online platforms, or on how we are to understand their influence. This book provides empirical...
The Healing Power of Mindfulness
A New Way of Being
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Discover how mindfulness can help you with healing.
More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn showed us the value of cultivating greater awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Now, in The Healing Power of Mindfulness, he...
Mindfulness for All
The Wisdom to Transform the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. He followed that up with 2005's Coming to Our Senses, the definitive book for our time on the connection between...
by Jon Sindell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The eleven–year–old son of newly–separated parents spends the day with his folks. First published in Many Mountains Moving.