Jon: 3174 books
Search Inside Yourself
The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
With Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google’s earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intelligence in life and work.
Meng’s job is to teach Google’s best and brightest how to apply mindfulness techniques...
Abraham's Children
Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming increasingly unclear. Now in ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN bestselling author Jon Entine vividly brings to life the profound human implications of the Age of Genetics while illuminating...
Katz on Dogs
A Commonsense Guide to Training and Living with Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In a nation where our love of dogs keeps growing and dog ownership has reached an all-time high, confusion about dogs and their behavioral problems is skyrocketing. Many dogs are out of control, untrained, chewing up furniture, taking medication for anxiety, and biting millions of people a year.
Now,...
Missoula
Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana — stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape
Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly...
by Jon C. Thompson, MD
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Netter’s Concise Orthopaedic Anatomy is a best-selling, portable, full-color resource excellent to have on hand during your orthopaedic rotation, residency, or as a quick look-up in practice. Jon C. Thompson presents the latest data in thoroughly updated diagnostic and treatment algorithms for all...
Scorecasting
The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played,...
Brain Storms
The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2015 - Publishers Weekly
A star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease
Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue to hunt for a cure. In Brain...
Listening to Dogs
How to Be Your Own Training Guru
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Jon Katz, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dogs of Bedlam Farm, takes a bracing look at the booming industry of dog training, which he dubs "a catastrophe in America." Listening to Dogs is not a training book; it is an empowerment book. In it, Katz asks dog owners to stop before...
Atom Land
A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Journey into an unseen world—and to the frontiers of human knowledge
Welcome to Atom Land, a subatomic realm governed by the laws of particle physics. Here, electromagnetism is a highway system; the strong force, a railway; the weak force, an airline. With award-winning physicist Jon Butterworth...
Wild Ones
A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
"Intelligent and highly nuanced… This book may bring tears to your eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls—while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into...
Post-Mortem
Justice at Last for Yvette Budram
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A jogger running in a field near the perimeter of the African Lion Safari theme park in southern Ontario stumbles across a near-mummified skeleton. The remains are studied at a hospital morgue by a forensic pathologist, a forensic anthropologist and a forensic entomologist (known as "the bug lady")....
American Desperado
My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
**The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary *Cocaine Cowboys. ***
American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York...
Do You Love Football?!
Winning with Heart, Passion, and Not Much Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
When Jon Gruden asks his Tampa Bay Bucs, "Do you love football?!" it's to remind them why they pull on their shoulder pads every Sunday morning. It's not about the money or the fame; it's about their passion for what they do.
And passion is something that has fueled Gruden's entire...
Eiger Dreams
Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he explores the subject from the unique and memorable perspective of one...