Jon: 3174 books
A Portrait of an Idiot as a Young Man
Part memoir, part explanation as to why men are so rubbish
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
When Jon Holmes became a father (twice), he was asked to fill in a form detailing his family medical history. Except he couldn't, because he has no idea who his family are. Born to an unnamed, unmarried mother and an unknown father and given up for adoption at four weeks old, Jon decided to document...
The New Work of Dogs
Tending to Life, Love, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
“Sometimes human-dog relationships are simple, unrelated to the emotional lives and histories of either species. But often people acquire and love dogs with little awareness that they might have complex and revealing reasons for choosing the dog or pet they choose, loving it the way they do.”
Writing...
Constant Touch
A Global History of the Mobile Phone
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Mobile phones are a ubiquitous technology with a fascinating history. There are now as many mobile phones in the world as there are people. We carry them around with us wherever we go. And while we used to just speak into them, now mobiles are used to do all kinds of tasks, from talking to twittering,...
Them
Adventures with Extremists
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled secret room.
As a journalist and a Jew, Ronson...
by Walter Jon Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Captain Favian Markham, USN, is a man surrounded by secrets. Secrets that will be revealed when he is court-martialed for losing his ship. Secrets held by his mistress Caroline. The secrets of enemy spies signaling to British ships over the horizon. And the greatest secret of the War of 1812, a secret...
by Jon Land
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
An Israeli special-forces operative races to stop a terrorist plot against the US in this novel by “one of the best thriller writers out there” (Library Journal).
After years of being presumed dead, Palestine’s most feared terrorist emerges from hiding with a plan for utter domination...
by Jon Snow
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow’s memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs. Jon Snow is perhaps...
by Jon Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
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...
The Chaos of Empire
The British Raj and the Conquest of India
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition
A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
For everyone who was too cheap to buy the hardcover, the blockbuster, award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in ebook--with a new introduction, fully updated, and with equally unsettling nude photos of the newest Supreme Court justices, and a text corrected by the most reputable...
by Jon Clinch
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This is the 10th-Anniversary Edition of Finn—with a new introduction by Jared Leto, a new Finn short story, an essay on the writing of the novel, a Q&A with the author, and a guide for book clubs.
In this masterful debut, Jon Clinch takes us on a journey into the history and heart of...
Snow Petrel
(A father-son voyage to the windiest place on the planet)
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
When Ben Tucker and his kid brother Matt decided to sail south in search of icebergs on Ben's small home-built kiwi sloop, their father Jon was allowed to come along as their cabin-boy, on a promise of good behaviour.
The unfolding adventure took them through thick pack ice to become trapped...
by Jon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
This book takes a 'warts and all' sensible yet humorous look at the many stages of pregnancy. It explores the changes, physical and emotional, that any man can expect to see in his partner and in their relationship over the coming months. Becoming pregnant involved two people. The rearing of a child...
The Road to Assisi: The Essential Biography of St. Francis
The Essential Biography of St. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2003
He conversed with both the Pope and the sultan. He transformed a taste for fine things and troubadour poetry into greater loves for poverty and joyful devotion to God. He never intended to found a traditional religious "movement," but nevertheless, he did. As he died, his brothers had to...