Jon Solove's Books

Intelligent Document Capture with Ephesoft

By: Pat Myers,Ike Kavas,Michael Muller,Jon Solove

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Intelligent Document Capture with Ephesoft

By: Pat Myers,Ike Kavas,Michael Muller,Jon Solove

Automate the processing of scanned and digital documents by improving accuracy using web-based open and modern intelligent document capture software About This Book Learn how to implement the benefits of intelligent document capture using Ephesoft Enterprise 4 Leverage the power of the open platform to run it as a classic intake capture system to make your current portals or applications more intelligent A practical guide providing examples for optimizing document capture for your business Who This Book Is For This book is intended for information technology professionals interested in installing and configuring Ephesoft Enterprise for their organization, but it is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning about intelligent document capture. What You Will Learn Discover the benefits of using intelligent document capture in your work place Learn to capture, classify, and separate any type of document Extract important information from your documents Transfer the documents and data into your content management system Customize Ephesoft to meet your unique business requirements Understand the integration techniques using the Ephesoft web services API Convert your paper archive to electronic records efficiently Automate business processes that depend on documents in paper, fax, or email attachment format Implement distributed capture for mailroom automation In Detail Every organization, public or private, processes documents in various formats, especially paper and fax formats. Processing documents manually is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. Ephesoft Enterprise is a modern document capture solution that allows an organization to automate the business process. It uses powerful technology to classify and capture the vital information from the document's content. This helps to minimize the time your company spends on reviewing and processing any physical and electronic documents. This book teaches you about document capture in general and implementation of document capture using Ephesoft. Start by learning about document capture and how Ephesoft revolutionized the industry. Progress to a tour of key features, including operator and administrator interfaces and then learn to configure Ephesoft to process your business's specific document types and extract content from those documents. You will also get to know the advanced customization techniques that make Ephesoft accommodate your unique business needs. Finally, the book concludes by teaching you how to embed the classification and extraction functionality using Ephesoft's web services. By the end, you will learn to optimize the processing of your documents, saving your company time and money. Style and approach This is a step-by-step guide on how to configure and use Ephesoft using an accounts payable use case. The book will start with basic techniques and progress to more advanced features that allow you to leverage the power for a modern powerful capture system.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

164

Publisher

Packt Publishing Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

1785284932

ISBN 13

9781785284939

Privacy

The Lost Right

By: Jon L. Mills

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Privacy

The Lost Right

By: Jon L. Mills

Privacy: The Lost Right is an authoritative overview of privacy in today's intrusive world. By analyzing the history and context of modern common law, tort, statutory and constitutional protections for the individual, Jon L. Mills exposes the complex web of laws and policies that fail to provide privacy protection. Identifying specific violations against privacy rights, such as identity theft, tabloid journalism, closed-circuit television, blogs, and Right to Die, he also provides a comprehensive assessment of privacy and legal remedies in the United States. Mills uses his experience as a former policy maker formulating Florida's constitutional privacy provisions and as an attorney in celebrity privacy cases to provide the leader with an understanding of the increasing intrusions in privacy rights, the possible harm, and available protections."--BOOK JACKET.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

406

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195367359

ISBN 13

9780195367355

Privacy in the New Media Age

By: Jon L. Mills

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Privacy in the New Media Age

By: Jon L. Mills

Balancing personal dignity and first amendment concerns has become increasingly challenging in the new media age, when, for example, bloggers have no editors and perhaps no moral restraints. Unlimited and unrestricted internet speech has left thousands of victims in its wake, most of them silenced after the media cycle moves on. While the history of free speech and press has noble origins rooted in democratic theory, how does society protect those who are harassed, stalked, and misrepresented online while maintaining a free society? Jon Mills, one of the nation’s top privacy experts and advocates, maps out this complex problem. He discusses the need for forethought and creative remedies, looking at solutions already implemented by the European Union and comparing them to the obsolete privacy laws still extant in the United States. In his search for solutions, Mills closely examines an array of cases, some of them immediately recognizable because of their notoriety and extensive media coverage. In a context of almost instantaneous global communications, where technology moves faster than the law, Mills traces the sharp edge between freedom of expression and the individual dignity that privacy preserves.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

206

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813059313

ISBN 13

9780813059310

Padlock of Knowledge

(how) You Choose Your Destiny

By: Jon Moses

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Padlock of Knowledge

(how) You Choose Your Destiny

By: Jon Moses

Have you given any thoughts to the possibility that you might have chosen your life the way it is? And that God plays little or no role in how you operate your life daily? God made Man in His own image and breathe his breath into him. In the process, he created the best, most sophisticated, most valuable, powerful, unique, unparalleled, and delicate computer organs to guide and direct your path through life while you are here on earth for a limited time. And this gives you the absolute power to do as much or as little as you set your mind to do. This godly gift is likened to your free gift of talents from God. What you do with your talents, as an individual signifies your purpose of life and should limit how much responsibility is placed on God. It brings the focus back on you towards accountability and success in life. This is the essence of the “Padlock of Knowledge - (how) You Choose Your Destiny” from Heaven. All your life has been orchestrated from the time you were born until that time when you relinquished the spirit back to its rightful owner as your journey of life comes to an end. Afterwards you will return to “Praising and Worshiping” God in His Sanctuary among Angels. Before then, you do have a life to live, and you must factor in Destiny, and its impact upon your life. There is a biblically sound way that God can be petitioned to upgrade an unwanted destiny as only he could do. And this is what every believer should pursue relentlessly in other to thwart the adversaries relentless attempt to sabotage your life goals. The clock is ticking. Let us go on this beautiful journey of personal growth together as it is written.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

106

Publisher

Jon Moses

Published Date

ISBN 13

9798367323313

Turning Numbers Into Knowledge

Mastering the Art of Problem Solving

By: Jon Koomey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Turning Numbers Into Knowledge

Mastering the Art of Problem Solving

By: Jon Koomey

Mastering the art of problem solving takes more than proficiency with basic calculations; it requires understanding how people use information, recognizing the importance of ideology, learning the art of storytelling, and acknowledging the important distinction between facts and values. Intended for professors, managers, entrepreneurs, and students, this guide addresses these and other essential skills. With clear prose, quotations, and exercises for solving problems in the real world, this book serves as an ideal training manual for those who are new to or intimidated by quantitative analysis and an excellent refresher for those who have more experience but want to improve the quality of their data, the clarity of their graphics, and the cogency of their arguments." -- Publisher's description.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Analytics Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0970601913

ISBN 13

9780970601919

The Bluest State

How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster

By: Jon Keller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Bluest State

How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster

By: Jon Keller

What's Happened to Massachusetts? At one time, Americans thought of Massachusetts with pride. It was the place where the charge against British oppression was incubated and first battle of the Revolutionary War was fought. It was the intellectual center of the United States, the home of the country's first university – Harvard - and the birthplace of some of our most famous writers -- Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, to name just a few. What do Americans picture when they think of Massachusetts today? They think of taxes on everything that moves and a burning desire to tax what doesn't. They think of unctuous, doomed Presidential candidates from Michael Dukakis to John Kerry. And, most of all, they think of "Kennedy Country" - not the moderate politics of JFK who backed supply-side tax cuts and saber-rattling foreign policy, but a place influenced by the ideology of his little brother, Ted, a punch line for bad political jokes and the relic of a dream gone bad. Over the past thirty years, Massachusetts has been the test kitchen for the baby boom's political impulses and instincts, with devastating results: urban deterioration, failing public schools and a vanishing job base. Unfortunately, the story of Massachusetts' decline has national implications. Other states share its problems. And the cautionary tale of their mishandling in Massachusetts speaks to a broader issue. What's gone wrong with the Democratic Party? In The Bluest State, a book that echoes Tom Franks' bestseller "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Jon Keller, a veteran political commentator, shows how the collapse of the Massachusetts Miracle into the Massachusetts Miasma mirrors chronic failures within the Democratic Party and American liberalism. After an election in which Democrats elsewhere regained power in Washington by moving toward the political center, the story of how failed boomer politics ruined one of America's great liberal citadels is a timely warning to the party for the election ahead.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1466855231

ISBN 13

9781466855236

The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights

By: Redfern Jon Barrett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights

By: Redfern Jon Barrett

A compelling comedy of polyamorous romance and nonbinary adventure, this reissue of The Giddy Death of the Gays and the Strange Demise of Straights—includes a Foreword by the author and an Afterword by noted queer writer Meg-John Barker. Caroline and her Dom live out their normal lives amongst the poverty, alcoholics, and street preachers of Swansea, Wales. But when Dom and his straight roommate fall in love—a passionate, secret, non-sexual love—their lives are transformed into a queer chaos of cross-dressing, gender-bending and free love. Will Dom hold on to his relationship? Can religious fundamentalists be adopted as pets? And just what are The Lesbians up to? The ultimate battle between preachers and drag queens, skinheads and sex workers, boyfriend and girlfriend, is set to change the city forever.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

Bywater Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1612942946

ISBN 13

9781612942940

The Death of Shakespeare - Part One

As It Was Accomplisht in 1616 & The Causes Thereof

By: Jon Benson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Death of Shakespeare - Part One

As It Was Accomplisht in 1616 & The Causes Thereof

By: Jon Benson

William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon appeared in London in 1590 at the age of 26 and is believed by many to have begun writing the greatest plays the world has ever seen. There is no record of his education, if he had any. His parents, wife and children may have been illiterate. He left no books. No one reported in any diary or letter that they had met him or talked to him, or even talked about him. He left six signatures, all different. Three were on his last will and testament, which makes no mention of any plays, poems or books; two were on deeds to real property; the last was on an affidavit he gave in a court case. The records show a businessman who acquired considerable property during his lifetime, hoarded grain during a famine, and engaged in a number of lawsuits, one over as little as five pounds. He was connected with the theatre and may have been an actor, but there is nothing that independently proves he was the author of the plays attributed to him. Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Orson Welles, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Sir Derek Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and many others, including a number of United States Supreme Court justices, have all concluded that William did not write the plays. But if he didn’t, who did? And if someone else was the greatest author who ever lived, why was Shakespeare given the credit? This is how it happened, and why Shakespeare paid with his life for his part in, to use the words of Henry James, “the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

840

Publisher

Nedward LLC

Published Date

ISBN 10

0997089938

ISBN 13

9780997089936

The Dragon Lords: Bad Faith

By: Jon Hollins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Dragon Lords: Bad Faith

By: Jon Hollins

Guardians of the Galaxy meets the Hobbit in this rollicking fantasy adventure. Will and his comrades went to war to overthrow the reign of dragons, winning battle after battle, and acclaim as conquering heroes. But now they've angered the gods, and may just need the dragons to help them this time. . . "Jon Hollins is a one-of-a-kind storyteller, a master of epic fun and nonstop action." -- Nicholas Eames, author of Kings of the Wyld

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

514

Publisher

Hachette+ORM

Published Date

ISBN 10

0316308323

ISBN 13

9780316308328

Yarn

By: Jon Armstrong

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Yarn

By: Jon Armstrong

From the neo-feudalistic slubs, the corn-filled world of Tane's youth, to his apprenticeship among the deadly saleswarriors of Seattlehama—the sex-and-shopping capital of the world—to the horrors of a polluted Antarctica, Yarn tells a stylish tale of love, deceit, and memory. Tane Cedar is the master tailor, the supreme outfitter of the wealthy, the beautiful, and the powerful. When an ex-lover, on the run from the authorities, asks him to create a garment from the dangerous and illegal Xi yarn—a psychedelic opiate—to ease her final hours, Tane's world is torn apart. Armed with just his yarn pulls, scissors, Mini-Air-Juki handheld sewing machine, and his wits, Tane journeys through the shadowy underworld where he must untangle the deadly mysteries and machinations of decades of deceit. Following up on his highly acclaimed and Philip K. Dick Award-nominated Grey, Jon Armstrong explodes back on the scene with Yarn.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Start Publishing LLC

Published Date

ISBN 10

1597802867

ISBN 13

9781597802864

Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets

Meditations on Letting Go and Finding True Freedom

By: Jon M. Sweeney,Mark S. Burrows

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets

Meditations on Letting Go and Finding True Freedom

By: Jon M. Sweeney,Mark S. Burrows

The authors have translated Eckhart's original sermons and academic texts, both from Latin and German into English and from prose into poetry. They consider their work a "carrying over" of his insights for readers "for whom the style of his writings might not be easily accessible."--From the Publisher's Weekly review.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

Hampton Roads Publishing Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

1571748474

ISBN 13

9781571748478

The Trailsman #389

Outlaw Trackdown

By: Jon Sharpe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Trailsman #389

Outlaw Trackdown

By: Jon Sharpe

Fargo is on the trail of a treacherous teen... After Skye Fargo is tossed in the pokey for brawling in the town of Horse Creek, the last thing he expects is the marshal to ask for his help. The notorious Cotton gang—led by a fifteen-year-old terror—has robbed the bank, and they have to be stopped. But the Trailsman doesn’t know that the young killer has a very special reason for riding wild—revenge.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

178

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0698139933

ISBN 13

9780698139930

If Republicans Had Any Hearts

They'd Be Democrats

By: Jon Fisher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

If Republicans Had Any Hearts

They'd Be Democrats

By: Jon Fisher

This book is a response to the Ann Coulter book - If Democrats Had Brains. It is also the story of 3 mass murders, preaching to Charles Manson, thoughts on Barack Obama and Socialism, growing up in a cult, the abuse of Veterans, and lots of election year topics like immigration, racism, gays, education, foreign policy, health care and lastly, the environment. This book is a comedy, but deadly serious, and will bounce you off the wall. For more information, see www.Krishna-Venta.com, read the first chapter and see the awesome photo gallery.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

335

Publisher

Jon Fisher

Published Date

ISBN 10

1438248180

ISBN 13

9781438248189

A Dreadful Fairy Book

By: Jon Etter,Quentin Q. Quacksworth

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Dreadful Fairy Book

By: Jon Etter,Quentin Q. Quacksworth

Readers, beware: what you hold in your hands is a dreadful fairy book. I wish I were narrating almost any other fairy story, but alas, this is my lot. Whatever expectations you have of delightful and whimsical fairies are sure to be disappointed. There are certainly fairies, but most are not proper fairies. Some who are supposed to be nasty are disappointingly nice, while some who should be kind and helpful are disconcertingly surly, dishonest, and generally unpleasant company. Our heroine is, perhaps, the worst offender—a sprite more interested in books than carefree games, who insists on being called Shade. She is on a quest, albeit with rather questionable companions, to find a place her outré self can call home. A place of companionship, comfort, and, most importantly, positively filled with books.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Amberjack Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1948705273

ISBN 13

9781948705271

Bleak Spring

By: Jon Cleary

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bleak Spring

By: Jon Cleary

When local solicitor Will Rockne is found in his car by his wife—shot through the head—it seems a baffling and motiveless murder. However, Scobie Malone, newly assigned to the case, has his suspicions. Despite his daughter Claire's shy romance with young Jason Rockne, Scobie and his wife Lisa's encounters with Will and Olive Rockne at school functions have always been a little disconcerting ... Will had been determined to convince them that he was more than just a suburban lawyer. But when a huge amount of cash is found in a safe in Rockne's office, Scobie discovers that he wasn't just boasting; he would seem to have been caught up in something big—big enough to involve Bernie Bezrow, Sydney's largest bookmaker, the mysterious Shahriver offshore bank, and an elusive, undoubtedly dangerous Russian. Somewhere in this labyrinth lies the key to a ruthless murder, and Scobie is determined to pursue it to the end ... until his investigation is thwarted by an unexpected source and he is met with a wall of deceit and evasiveness. To break it down will demand all of his skills and experience and will put the lives of young Claire and Jason in terrible danger.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

403

Publisher

Blackstone Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1620648016

ISBN 13

9781620648018

The Trailsman #288

Gila River Dry-Gulchers

By: Jon Sharpe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Trailsman #288

Gila River Dry-Gulchers

By: Jon Sharpe

Fargo crosses Colts with an Arizona murderer! If it weren’t for the prospect of $300 in his pocket, Fargo wouldn’t want anything to do with the mining town of Gila Bend. But he’d promised the fetching young Clarice Hammond that he’d try to find her father, who disappeared searching for silver. Besides the usual bullies and brawlers, Gila Bend holds a mother lode of secrets and dangers—including a right unpleasant Apache known as “the Renegade” whose merciless mutilations have the entire town terrified. But the Trailsman has a job to do, and he’s going to get to the bottom of this blood-soaked boomtown…

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

136

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101166800

ISBN 13

9781101166802

Their Finest Hour

Master Therapists Share Their Great Success Stories

By: Jeffrey Kottler,Jon Carlson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Their Finest Hour

Master Therapists Share Their Great Success Stories

By: Jeffrey Kottler,Jon Carlson

In Their Finest Hour, therapists, on the cutting edge of their profession, detail their most professionally rewarding cases and share what they learnt from them. These outstanding therapists define achievement in their field, describe how therapy really works and speak frankly about how their cases shaped their ideas. Each interview was recorded and then transcribed and written into narrative prose, including re-created dialogue that was based on case notes and recordings.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

451

Publisher

Crown House Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1845906616

ISBN 13

9781845906610

Foundations of High-Energy-Density Physics

Physical Processes of Matter at Extreme Conditions

By: Jon Larsen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Foundations of High-Energy-Density Physics

Physical Processes of Matter at Extreme Conditions

By: Jon Larsen

A valuable and complete resource that brings together many of the branches of physics needed in high-energy-density physics. Targeted at research scientists and graduate students in physics and astrophysics, this book begins with basic concepts and develops a detailed explanation of the physics of hydrodynamics and energy transport in plasma.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

759

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107124115

ISBN 13

9781107124110

The Love of God

Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism

By: Jon D. Levenson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Love of God

Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism

By: Jon D. Levenson

The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism--but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an emotion be commanded? How could one ever fulfill such a requirement? The Love of God places these scholarly and existential questions in a new light. Jon Levenson traces the origins of the concept to the ancient institution of covenant, showing how covenantal love is a matter neither of sentiment nor of dry legalism. The love of God is instead a deeply personal two-way relationship that finds expression in God's mysterious love for the people of Israel, who in turn observe God's laws out of profound gratitude for his acts of deliverance. Levenson explores how this bond has survived episodes in which God's love appears to be painfully absent--as in the brutal persecutions of Talmudic times--and describes the intensely erotic portrayals of the relationship by biblical prophets and rabbinic interpreters of the Song of Songs. He examines the love of God as a spiritual discipline in the Middle Ages as well as efforts by two influential modern Jewish thinkers--Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig--to recover this vital but endangered aspect of their tradition. A breathtaking work of scholarship and spirituality alike that is certain to provoke debate, The Love of God develops fascinating insights into the foundations of religious life in the classical Jewish tradition. (Publisher).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

260

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691202508

ISBN 13

9780691202501

The Trailsman #378

Wyoming Winterkill

By: Jon Sharpe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Trailsman #378

Wyoming Winterkill

By: Jon Sharpe

Fargo rides a frozen trail to hell. At a remote trading post, Fargo almost falls victim to a lethal trap that has already claimed too many. The only survivor is little Jessie Cavanaugh—and she herself was promised a fate worse than death at the hands of the savage Blackjack Tar. The Trailsman knows what he has to do: track down the killers responsible…and give them a hot lead farewell.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

119

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101609591

ISBN 13

9781101609590

The Trailsman #343

Texas Hellions

By: Jon Sharpe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Trailsman #343

Texas Hellions

By: Jon Sharpe

The Lone Star State goes loco… Skye Fargo is in the bustling town of Dallas at the request of one Abe Broxton. Abe's stubborn son packed up and headed out west with his wife without so much as a wagon train for protection. Worse, they were last seen heading across the Staked Plain: a violent wasteland where few come out alive. And the Trailsman is the only one who can find them…

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

177

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101197714

ISBN 13

9781101197714

Franklin and Winston

An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By: Jon Meacham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Franklin and Winston

An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By: Jon Meacham

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Born in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR’s affections—which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. A man of secrets, FDR liked to keep people off balance, including his wife, Eleanor, his White House aides—and Winston Churchill. Confronting tyranny and terror, Roosevelt and Churchill built a victorious alliance amid cataclysmic events and occasionally conflicting interests. Franklin and Winston is also the story of their marriages and their families, two clans caught up in the most sweeping global conflict in history. Meacham’s new sources—including unpublished letters of FDR’ s great secret love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the papers of Pamela Churchill Harriman, and interviews with the few surviving people who were in FDR and Churchill’s joint company—shed fresh light on the characters of both men as he engagingly chronicles the hours in which they decided the course of the struggle. Hitler brought them together; later in the war, they drifted apart, but even in the autumn of their alliance, the pull of affection was always there. Charting the personal drama behind the discussions of strategy and statecraft, Meacham has written the definitive account of the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

514

Publisher

Random House

Published Date

ISBN 10

1588363295

ISBN 13

9781588363299

Trailsman (Giant): Menagerie of Malice

By: Jon Sharpe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Trailsman (Giant): Menagerie of Malice

By: Jon Sharpe

Skye Fargo takes on a circus swindler in the greatest showdown on earth… When a giant beast tramples a homestead and injures some settlers, Skye Fargo sets out to track the animal. But neither Skye nor the wilds of Utah could prepare for what they discover…an elephant! There’s only one explanation: Thaddeus Thimbletree and his traveling circus is in town. Skye returns the elephant, but his work is far from over. The too-trusting Thad has a heart of gold—and a treasure chest of gems. It’s a dangerous combination. Especially since Thad’s hired scout is a notorious backshooter. But Skye is watching his back and Thad’s. And with one hand on his gun, the Trailsman is not about to let this turn into a three-ring circus…

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

196

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101166029

ISBN 13

9781101166024

Contour

By: Jon Beattiey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Contour

By: Jon Beattiey

Andrew was living a lonely life - married, yes, but alone within himself, a common enough situation after twentyone years under the same roof. In the day-to-day routines, the mind-numbing sameness, who was the most lacklustre, he or his wife?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

323

Publisher

Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

1906221448

ISBN 13

9781906221447

The Trail

By: Jon Wilmot

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Trail

By: Jon Wilmot

People go missing for all sorts of reasons. When Scott Hunter is drawn into investigating the unexplained disappearance of Andrew Wood, a man he barely knew, he finds questions everywhere he turns. Is Andrew alive? Was he taken or did he simply leave? Why did he quit his job and leave his home in such a hurry, leaving many of his belongings behind? Why has he failed to make contact with anyone in the three months since he vanished? And why is another man searching his house, armed with a gun? As Scott gradually discovers the trail which brings him closer to the truth, he unearths a web of deceit that is bigger than he first imagined. And after a brutal murder causes shockwaves across the city, the police become very interested in Scott, so much so that he realises if he fails to find Andrew, the life he knows may be taken from him. But he's not the only one searching for Andrew. Not by a long way....

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

375

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1326042998

ISBN 13

9781326042998

The Story of Rose

A Man and His Dog

By: Jon Katz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Story of Rose

A Man and His Dog

By: Jon Katz

From the acclaimed author of A Good Dog, Dog Days, and Going Home comes this eBook original—a poignant memoir that celebrates Jon Katz’s beloved border collie, Rose, and their transformative years together on Bedlam Farm. “I like to say you get the dog you need,” Jon Katz writes, “and I don’t think any human ever needed a dog more than I needed Rose in the fall of 2003.” That year, Katz embarked on a quixotic quest, moving from the suburbs of New Jersey to a sprawling farm in upstate New York to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. And by his side was Rose, his unswervingly loyal and unflappable new dog. Whether herding sheep on the rolling hillsides, rounding up the neighbors’ stray cows, or rescuing lambs on a freezing winter night, Rose had a nimble mind and a great love for work. Never wanting to be coddled, she watched over Bedlam Farm with singular focus and efficiency, protecting Katz and his menagerie from wild coyotes and menacing storms. Yet Rose saved Katz in more ways than he ever imagined. As he struggled to manage the farm’s daily dramas—and continued to seek his true sense of purpose—Rose connected him to his deeper humanity and a more authentic life. With warmth, insight, and emotional honesty, Jon Katz has written a joyful remembrance of a one-of-a-kind dog. The Story of Rose reaffirms the profound bond people share with their pets, and the ways that animals indelibly shape our lives. “Jon Katz understands dogs as few others do, intuitively and unburdened by sentimentality. . . . With wisdom and grace, he unlocks the canine soul and the complicated wonders that lie within and offers powerful insights.”—John Grogan, author of Marley & Me Includes moving excerpts from Going Home, and from Jon Katz’s upcoming short-story collection, Dancing Dogs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

218

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0345542657

ISBN 13

9780345542656

Outlaw Trackdown

By: Jon Sharpe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Outlaw Trackdown

By: Jon Sharpe

Fargo is on the trail of a treacherous teen... After Skye Fargo is tossed in the pokey for brawling in the town of Horse Creek, the last thing he expects is the marshal to ask for his help. The notorious Cotton gang--led by a fifteen-year-old terror--has robbed the bank, and they have to be stopped. But the Trailsman doesn't know that the young killer has a very special reason for riding wild--revenge.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

178

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0451467213

ISBN 13

9780451467218

Phoenix Road

The True Story of How God Shattered All Forms and Boundaries of My Existence

By: Jon Kelly

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Phoenix Road

The True Story of How God Shattered All Forms and Boundaries of My Existence

By: Jon Kelly

TRAVEL WITH JON KELLY ON HIS ROAD TO REDEMPTION through the Postmodern Era into the nonconformity of the punk-rock eighties, rebellion, and occult worship in suburban Midwest America. Experience his transformation by Jesus Christ on Halloween of 1997, followed by a great consuming fire. Phoenix Road is a climactic personal narrative and theological discourse including over 400 footnotes and a detailed index of subject matter for quick reference on the road.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

342

Publisher

LivingStone Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0988959011

ISBN 13

9780988959019

Night Terror

By: Jon Sharpe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Night Terror

By: Jon Sharpe

The Trailsman gets ready to face off against a killer in the wilds of Arkansas swamp country who is beheading his victims in an unimaginable act of savagery that cannot go unpunished.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

178

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0451468023

ISBN 13

9780451468024

Trailsman #272, The: Nevada Nemesis

By: Jon Sharpe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Trailsman #272, The: Nevada Nemesis

By: Jon Sharpe

Fargo takes charge of a wayward wagon train! Out in the harsh Nevada Territory, a wagon train is being led into the middle of nowhere by a couple no-account pilots—until the Trailsman crosses their path. On an undercover mission for the army, Skye Fargo decides to take charge of the group and wait for trouble…and he doesn’t have to wait long. Not only has there been a recent string of disappearances in the area, but a band of Paiutes is causing a problem and Fargo is about to uncover a deadly scam as brutal as the land itself…

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

140

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101166134

ISBN 13

9781101166130

Latin for the Illiterati

A Modern Guide to an Ancient Language

By: Jon R. Stone

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Latin for the Illiterati

A Modern Guide to an Ancient Language

By: Jon R. Stone

This revised and updated edition includes a brand new foreword by Richard LaFleur and more than fifteen hundred new entries and abbreviations. Organized alphabetically within the categories of verba (common words and expressions), dicta (common phrases and familiar sayings), and abbreviations, this practical and helpful reference guide is a comprehensive compendium of more than 7,000 Latin words, expressions, phrases, and sayings taken from the world of art, music, law, philosophy, theology, medicine and the theatre, as well as witty remarks and sage advice from ancient writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, and more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

351

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135881006

ISBN 13

9781135881009

Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship

By: Jon Nixon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship

By: Jon Nixon

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane. This book explores some of the key ideas in Hannah Arendt's work through a study of four lifelong friendships -- with Heinrich Blücher, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Mary McCarthy. The book draws on correspondence from both sides, illuminating our understanding of the social contexts within which Arendt's thinking developed and was clarified. It offers a cultural history of ideas: shedding light on two core ideas in Arendt - of 'plurality' and 'promise', and on how those particular ideas emerged through a particular set of relationships, at a significant moment in the history of the West. This book offers an original and accessible 'way in' to Arendt's work for students and scholars of politics, philosophy, intellectual history and literature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472505107

ISBN 13

9781472505101

New Testament

A Rendering by Jon Madsen

By: Jon Madsen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

New Testament

A Rendering by Jon Madsen

By: Jon Madsen

Jon Madsen's translation seeks a way between the strictly literal, which might appear dry and archaic, and contemporary idiom, which risks trivializing. He has retranslated the Greek New Testament in such as way that something of the Spirit working in the early Church can also become part of our modern experience. Madsen was inspired both by the sacramental language used in his work as a priest and by Emil Bock's translation of the Gospels. Like Bock, he is convinced that the living wisdom of the Gospels needs uncovering. He seeks to recover the overtones and subtleties of the ancient language to bring out the hidden depths of meaning.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

463

Publisher

Floris Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1782504206

ISBN 13

9781782504207

The Trailsman #340

Hannibal Rising

By: Jon Sharpe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Trailsman #340

Hannibal Rising

By: Jon Sharpe

Fargo plays the most dangerous game… To survive, Fargo has hunted just about everything under the sun. Now, he's been hired to take part in a twisted contest of predator and prey that will determine which one of the Clyburns will inherit their late father's fortune. And the Trailsman knows too well that sometimes the hunter can become the hunted—and the hunted can become the dead…

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

177

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101171707

ISBN 13

9781101171707

The Psychopath Test

A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By: Jon Ronson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Psychopath Test

A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By: Jon Ronson

In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

222

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101515163

ISBN 13

9781101515167

The Spirit Photographer

A Novel

By: Jon Michael Varese

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Spirit Photographer

A Novel

By: Jon Michael Varese

A charlatan is haunted by sinister secrets and spirits from his past in this Gothic novel of the Reconstruction Era. Boston, 1870. Photographer Edward Moody has gained fame and fortune capturing the images of spirits in his photo portraits. He lures grieving widows and mourning mothers into his studio with promises of catching the ghosts of their deceased loved ones with his camera. But his elaborate hoax is about to yield shocking results . . . While attempting to capture the spirit of an abolitionist senator’s young son, a different spectral figure develops before Moody’s eyes. The camera has seemingly captured the spirit of a beautiful young woman from Moody’s past—the daughter of an escaped slave he knew long ago. He immediately sets out for the Louisiana bayou to resolve their unfinished business?and perhaps save his soul . . .

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

397

Publisher

Abrams

Published Date

ISBN 10

1468315889

ISBN 13

9781468315882

Book's by Jon Solove

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email