Jonathan: 5623 books
Time, Love , Memory
A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The story of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s circadian rhythm.
How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California...
by Jonathan Burt
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2006
The rat has been described as the shadow of the human: from ancient times through today, it has followed man via routes of commerce and conquest to eventually inhabit nearly every part of the world. Rats have a bad reputation—they spread disease, destroy agricultural produce, and thrive in the darkest...
Tides
The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide;...
by Jonathan Chester, Patrick Regan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Anyone who's ever been in love knows that this supreme emotion changes everything. When love is real, it sometimes feels like gravity itself doesn't quite apply. In To Love Is to Fly, this magical and powerful journey is told through photographer Jonathan Chester's stunning photography of penguins,...
The Dressing Station
A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In this “vividly compelling” New York Times Notable Book, a surgeon recounts his experiences in war zones (The Washington Post).
From treating the casualties of apartheid in Cape Town to operating on Kurdish guerrillas in Northern Iraq at the end of the Gulf War, Jonathan Kaplan has saved...
by Jonathan Howard
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value of Darwin's contribution to knowledge is widespread....
Not Your Mother's Morals
How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In Not Your Mothers Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald argues that todays popular music, movies, TV shows, and books are making the world a better place. For all the hand-wringing about the decline of morals and the cheapening of culture in our...
The End of Epidemics
The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
"Dr. Quick’s urgent message makes one hope that this book will reach a huge audience and that its exhortations will be acted on everywhere." - Meredith Wadman, The Wall Street Journal
A leading doctor offers answers on the one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we...
The Beak of the Finch
A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did...
The Exultant Ark
A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. In more than one hundred thirty striking images, The Exultant Ark celebrates the full range...
Private Eyes
An Alex Delaware Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven years since seven-year-old Melissa Dickinson dialed the hospital help line for comfort—and found...
by Jonathan Bergmann, Aaron Sams
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Building on their best-selling book Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, flipped education innovators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams return with a book series that supports flipped learning in the four topic areas of science, math, English and social studies as well...
by Jonathan Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding...
by Jonathan Paul
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Jonathan Paul goes behind the sensationalist headlines of 'child killers' to investigate why these crimes happen. He examines child homicide in today's violent, confusing world and contextualises it against the cruel unforgiving retribution of yesterday.
Children are increasingly experimenting...