Jonathan Lewis: 44 books

Book cover of Reification and the Aesthetics of Music
by Jonathan Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the...
Book cover of The Chicago Freedom Movement

The Chicago Freedom Movement

Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North

by Mary Lou Finley, Bernard LaFayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016

Six months after the Selma to Montgomery marches and just weeks after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a group from Martin Luther King Jr.'s staff arrived in Chicago, eager to apply his nonviolent approach to social change in a northern city. Once there, King's Southern Christian Leadership...
Book cover of Into Dust
by Jonathan Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011

The Minister for Defence is blown to smithereens in his car on a lonely road in the Brecon Beacons, where he has a weekend hideaway. DI Ned Bale is on the crime scene within seconds, but neither he nor forensics can work out how on earth the crime was committed, let alone who did it, or with what...
Book cover of The Algerian War in French/Algerian Writing
by Jonathan Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018

This is the first book-length study to analyse and problematize the notion of literary texts as ‘sites of memory’ with regard to the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62), and memories of it, in the work of French authors of Algerian origin. The book considers a primary...
Book cover of Locomotives of the Western United States
by Jonathan Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

The first transcontinental railroad in the USA was completed in 1869. In the following years, until the turn of the twentieth century, many more railroads were built by different companies. Passenger trains declined from the 1950s and today there is only a minimal long-distance passenger service operated...
Book cover of Into Darkness
by Jonathan Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010

In the stinking mud of a great tidal river, a body lies half submerged. Sir Tommy Best, adored British actor, has fallen to his death through a hole in the walkway above. The saintly Sir Tommy was friend to the starving and penniless, to kings and stars. He was also totally blind and reliant on his...
Book cover of The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter: Selections to Inspire, Educate, & Provoke

The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter: Selections to Inspire, Educate, & Provoke

Excerpts from new and classic titles by bestselling authors in the field, with an Introduction by James Martin, SJ.

by James Martin, Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

With an Introduction by New York Times bestselling author James Martin, SJ, HarperOne presents The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter. This free sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and classic titles from leading authors in the field, including C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, Desmond Tutu, Ann...
Book cover of Spy Capitalism

Spy Capitalism

ITEK and the CIA

by Professor Jonathan E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

What happens when the world of venture capital collides with the world of espionage? To find the answer, Jonathan E. Lewis takes us inside the executive suite at Itek Corporation during the Cold War years from 1957 to 1965. Itek was manufacturing the world’s most sophisticated satellite reconnaissance...
Book cover of The Greatest British Classics Ever Written

The Greatest British Classics Ever Written

Diary of a Nobody, Sons and Lovers, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, Arms and the Man, The War of the Worlds, Howards End, Jude the Obscure, Hamlet…

by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018

This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of...
Book cover of 50 Meisterwerke Musst Du Lesen, Bevor Du Stirbst: Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)
by Voltaire, Golden Deer Classics, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2019

50 Meisterwerke Musst Du Lesen, Bevor Du Stirbst: Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics) Inhalt: Voltaire - Kandide oder Die beste aller Welten (1759) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Joseph von Eichendorff - Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) Mary Shelley - Frankenstein oder Der...
Book cover of Cyberpunk
by William Gibson, Mark Teppo, Bruce Sterling
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019

Before email, before the world wide web, before hackers, Before sexting, before always-on GPS, before titanium implants, before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri, before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon, there was cyberpunk. And science fiction...
Book cover of The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 2 (Dream Classics)
by Emily Brontë, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 2 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll *Anna Karenina *- Leo Tolstoy Great Expectations - Charles Dickens *Gulliver's Travels *- Jonathan Swift Heart...
Book cover of Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)

Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)

Das Herz der Finsternis, Moby-Dick, Sturmhöhe, Sherlock Holmes, Stolz und Vorurteil, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Alice im Wunderland, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit, Adam Bede, Robinson Crusoe, Walden...

by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë
Language: German
Release Date: April 4, 2016

Dieses eBook: "Die großen Klassiker der englischen Literatur (40+ Titel in einem Buch)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Stolz und Vorurteil (Jane Austen) Sturmhöhe...
Book cover of Die beliebtesten Abenteuer-Klassiker für Jugendliche (35 Romane in einem Band)

Die beliebtesten Abenteuer-Klassiker für Jugendliche (35 Romane in einem Band)

Ein Kapitän von 15 Jahren, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde, Der letzte Mohikaner, Die drei Musketiere, Robinson Crusoe, Oliver Twist...

by Mark Twain, Jules Verne, James Fenimore Cooper
Language: German
Release Date: July 17, 2017

Diese illustrierte Sammlung ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers (Mark Twain) Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde (Jules Verne) Die geheimnisvolle...
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