Jon: 3174 books
Eternal Life and A Course in Miracles
A Path to Eternity in the Essential Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
You do not live here. We are trying to reach your real home. We are trying to reach the place where you are truly welcome. We are trying to reach God. —A Course in Miracles W-49.4:5 There is no bigger mystery, nothing more compelling than the desire to know about “life after life.” Jon Mundy,...
Lesson 101: Perfect Happiness
A Path to Joy from A Course in Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Although it may require a lifetime of study to grasp, the bestselling A Course in Miracles has inspired millions. Perhaps its most essential lesson is 101: the belief that there is no sin and that God's will for us is perfect happiness. Longtime teacher Jon Mundy digs deeply into this concept, providing...
The Healing Power of Meditation
Leading Experts on Buddhism, Psychology, and Medicine Explore the Health Benefit s of Contemplative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Regular meditation practice has a powerful impact on the mind and body, rewiring the brain and bringing us all kinds of benefits: contentment and well-being, resilience and focus, better mental and physical health, and greater empathy and compassion. This wide-ranging anthology brings together pioneering...
Coping With Trauma, Second Edition: Hope Through Understanding
Hope Through Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Combining years of research, teaching, and experience treating trauma survivors, Dr. Jon G. Allen offers compassionate and practical guidance to understanding trauma and its effects on the self and relationships. Coping With Trauma is based on more than a decade of Dr. Allen's experience conducting...
Explaining Social Behavior
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms...
The Twentieth-Century American City
Problem, Promise, and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the social and economic fragmentation of the nation. Race,...
by Jon H. Pammett, Christopher Dornan
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2011
The Canadian Federal Election of 2011 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters, written by leading academics, examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties the Conservatives (Faron Ellis and Peter Woolstencroft),...
Impeachment
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked—against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton—and explain what it means today.
Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called...
Contesting the Borderlands
Interviews on the Early Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later, Spaniards, French, and Anglo-Americans met, fought, and collaborated with one another in this border area stretching from Texas through southern California. To explore the...
After Snowden
Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Was Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor?
Just how far do American privacy rights extend?
And how far is too far when it comes to government secrecy in the name of security?
These are just a few of the questions that have dominated American consciousness since Edward Snowden exposed the breath of...
Geeks
How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2000
“A story of triumph, friendship, love, and above all, about being human and reaching for dreams in a hard-wired world.”—Seattle Times
“Too often, writing about the online world lacks emotional punch, but Katz’s obvious love for his ‘lost boys’ gives his narrative a rich taste.”—The...
by Martin Rees, Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #2: January 2019
Featuring Ideas by:
Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, Noah Charney, David Wengrow, Kimberley Brownlee, Tali Sharot, Robert Simpson, Thea Bechshoft, Martin Rees, Jon Butterworth, Bill Nye, Huw Price, and Henry Cowles
by Roman Dial, Jon Krakauer
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Packrafting! is about exploring wilderness and whitewater by packraft, a lightweight, portable boat usually weighing less than five pounds. Readers will learn about packrafting gear and technique as well as the many applications for packrafting. Packrafting can be combined with mountaineering, backcountry...
by Vinay Kumar, MBBS, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Dependable, current, and complete, Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 9th Edition is the perennially best-selling text that you’ll use long after your medical student days are behind you. A world-class author team headed by Drs. Vinay Kumar, Abul Abbas, and Jon Aster, delivers the latest,...