Jon Miller: 20 books

For many years, philosophers and other scholars have commented on the remarkable similarity between Spinoza and the Stoics, with some even going so far as to speak of 'Spinoza the Stoic'. Until now, however, no one has systematically examined the relationship between the two systems. In Spinoza and...

This book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of the mission's participants and describes the organizational structure that shaped their activities at home and abroad. He then traces some serious and...

Sometimes it seems as if business exists purely to enrich a small elite. While the world is facing unprecedented challenges, it appears that businesses are only interested in making profits or paying bonuses. Big businesses are powerful machines. We all know they have the potential to cause enormous...

FOSTER AND SUSTAIN A KAIZEN CULTURE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION FOREWORD BY JOHN TOUSSANT, CEO OF THEDACARE Transforming a culture is far more about emotional growth than technical maturity. Co-written by leaders at the Kaizen Institute, Creating a Kaizen Culture explains how to enable an adaptive,...

Jerry Seinfeld, The Beatles, Clint Eastwood, Mary Tyler Moore, The Beach Boys, Joe Namath, Barbara DeAngelis, John Gray, Doug Henning, Merv Griffin, Larry Bowa, Mia Farrow, Andy Kaufman, Jim Henson--What do they all have in common? They are, or were, part of the worldwide Transcendental Meditation...

From Dr. Jerry M. Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Kent State University: "On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University students, killing four and wounding nine. This action contributed to the first nationwide student strike in higher education...

Three people, strangers, meet. On the surface they have little in common, but they will transform each other’s lives. Pete Vogelsong, 38, breaking from a cult, returns to his old college to start a new career. Natalie Neff, 36, takes a menial job on her way back from horrendous grief. Then there...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

A collection of new and original steampunk short stories. Tommy's Game by LM Cooke A young man is drawn into an unusual - and lethal - game of chance. Celestine by Steven C Davis A sophisticated automaton awakes in a confused state in a laboratory; how did she arrive there...

It began as a hobby, a remedy for cabin fever. It became a creative obsession, a middle-age male fantasy come true. It shocked the sleepy university town of State College, PA, and turned Mullin's life upsidedown. He tried to recapture the sexual innocence of hayrides and back seats. Instead, he created...

In these offbeat short stories, "Driftwood Houses" belongs squarely in the comic tradition of Florida Fiction. It exposes and celebrates the daily ironies, heartbreaks and triumphs of ordinary people as they fumble through the challenges of everyday existence. In a Key West setting...

Rosalind Juliet Mitchell could become one of the great heroines of modern fiction. She is a Jamaican Lolita and a Caribbean cross between Huck Finn and Liza Doolittle. Dirt poor, hungry, bright-eyed and determined, she clings to her one distant hope--Glenn Webber, an aging, uncertain American photographer....

Two stories set in spectacular Negril, Jamaica. Ashanti: In this hilarious romp, Ivor Blake, a down & out beach huckster is given a tough assignment by an American tourist and does his best to complete it successfully according to the noble tradition of is imagined ancestors. Along the way we meet...

The world seems to be coming apart. Into the stew of chaos, a mix of characters are thrown together. Matthew Boyer--just back from the war; Amy St. Clair--disenchanted with her conventional marriage. From the paddies of the Mekong Delta, the classrooms of Ohio State, the teeming meadows of Woodstock,...