A charming story book about the deep friendship between a little boy and a tree. It addresses issues of love, loss, loneliness and friendship.
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Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for Aiding Slaves to Escape from Bondage
Jonathan Walker
Library Press at UF
2017
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The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
Jonathan's Journey: Bonding Science and Spirituality
Jayaraman Krishnan
Notion Press, Inc
2017
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"A book that will change your imagination." - Murali Sunderarajan, mywritingworld.com "This book explains the practical implication of ethics, moral reasoning, and how people get trapped in a cognitive tunnel." - Chandrasekar Chatterjee, former professor at Paris Univesity "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." These words of Albert Einstein sound true of most of us. Most of us are alive but are as good as dead. Jonathan is not. His guru, the old man is not, . Jonathan's Journey is all about pausing to wonder about this enigmatic and ever elusive universe. While science has answers, Jonathan has more and more questions. The answers he gets from his guru and his own research leaves him spellbound.
Every student new to the college must take a class in 'Orientation' on his first semester at the college. In the 'Orientation Class', the new student will be introduced to the college and what the college can provide. He will be provided with information on the majors and courses that will be available to him, the facilities that will be available to him for his studies, and the resources that will be available on campus and off-campus. The students are encouraged to choose their major and classes wisely, and use all the facilities and resources productively. The journal 'Jonathan's Venture' is an orientation to introduce the reader to the mechanics of non-organic autonomy, the mechanics of bio-organic autonomy, and the mechanics of social autonomy. This journal will give only a brief perspective on these subjects. Hypotheses and speculations to it will be brought up in different places on the journal to encourage the reader to search further on the subject(s) that bring interest to the mind. The reader is encouraged to prove the speculations and share what he has found.
This is the story of Jonathan Broxton who is a forty-something sexually ambivalent man who finds that he has accomplished everything in life that he strove to attain. He is wealthy beyond belief, has an unmeasurable intellect, and is bored. He sits down with his father to discuss his situation, and they outline several alternatives that may re-engage his interests and bring back his enthusiasm for life. Father and son finally settle upon declaring war against illegal arms dealers. They intend to do this by creating an opportunity for dealers to participate in a competitive auction to sell a wide range of illegal weapons and explosives. When as many of the illegal arms dealers they could convince to participate have collected the desired weaponry, they are invited to participate in a bidding auction to see which one offers the best price. But at the exact time of the planned auction--and unbeknown to the bidders--Jonathan plans to explode all of the weapons, dealers, and their warehouses in which the weaponry is stored. Hopefully the successful execution of this plan will help restore Jonathans feelings of accomplishment and self-respect. Ride with Jonathan, his father and a beautiful ex-CIA black ops operative Dani as they set about executing their plan and overcoming the many obstacles they encounter. Will they succeed thwarting the arms dealers? How will they deal with the uncertainties of their opponents countermoves? Whether they are successful or get thwarted hangs in the balance until the bitter end, when Jonathan reveals his painful secret.
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Hat Beard
2024
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A culmination of nearly six decades of writing from the mind of iconoclastic film, literary, and music critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.Looking back at his more than 50 years of writing, where many flights of fancy and fantasy prove to suggest certain duties as well as privileges, Jonathan Rosenbaum has teased out three threads in particular: the film criticism he is mainly known for (especially during his 20-year stint at the Chicago Reader), the literary criticism he has also been publishing over the past half-century, and the jazz criticism he has been writing during the same period.Believing that these three art forms are interrelated and have often been intertwined in his perceptions of them, he builds a manifesto out of a hundred of his best pieces, arranged chronologically, taking on such disparate figures as Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Pynchon, Sonny Rollins, Michael Snow, Philip Roth, Duke Ellington, Spike Lee, Roland Barthes, Keith Jarrett, Jean-Luc Godard, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ahmad Jamal, and such diverse subjects as Adam Curtis documentaries, Mad, Peanuts, Louis Armstrong, Italo Calvino, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Shoah, Johnny Guitar, PlayTime, Chantal Akerman, Kelly Reichardt, Kira Muratova, William Faulkner's Light in August, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, and, in a final essay dealing with all three art forms, a film of a jazz cantata by Andr Hodeir derived from a passage in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Every student new to the college must take a class in 'Orientation' on his first semester at the college. In the 'Orientation Class', the new student will be introduced to the college and what the college can provide. He will be provided with information on the majors and courses that will be available to him, the facilities that will be available to him for his studies, and the resources that will be available on campus and off campus. The students are encouraged to choose their major and classes wisely, and use all the facilities and resources productively. The journal 'Jonathan's Venture' is an orientation to introduce the reader to the mechanics of non-organic autonomy, the mechanics of bio-organic autonomy, and the mechanics of social autonomy. This journal will give only a brief perspective on these subjects. Hypotheses and speculations to it will be brought up in different places on the journal to encourage the reader to search further on the subject(s) that bring interest to the mind. The reader is encouraged to prove the speculations and share what he has found.
Every student new to the college must take a class in 'Orientation' on his first semester at the college. In the 'Orientation Class', the new student will be introduced to the college and what the college can provide. He will be provided with information on the majors and courses that will be available to him, the facilities that will be available to him for his studies, and the resources that will be available on campus and off campus. The students are encouraged to choose their major and classes wisely, and use all the facilities and resources productively. The journal 'Jonathan's Venture' is an orientation to introduce the reader to the mechanics of non-organic autonomy, the mechanics of bio-organic autonomy, and the mechanics of social autonomy. This journal will give only a brief perspective on these subjects. Hypotheses and speculations to it will be brought up in different places on the journal to encourage the reader to search further on the subject(s) that bring interest to the mind. The reader is encouraged to prove the speculations and share what he has found.
Jonathan, who is turning six, wonders what changes this might bring. Will his eyes remain the same color? Will his teeth fall out, as his sister's had at that age? Will his nose grow different or his ears? While he ponders these mysteries of growing up, little does he know that his parents have a host of surprises waiting for his discovery on this momentous occasion.
Jonathan's Gift, takes young readers on a journey with a shepherd boy as he experiences angel visitations, skeptical shepherds, a grouchy uncle, playful care of his sheep, and his perfect gift that he takes to Baby Jesus. Jonathan and the older shepherds visit the Christ Child, which leads to love and forgiveness between Jonathan and his uncle. Children will identify with Jonathan as he experiences the adventures and miraculous events of that blessed night.
Jonathan in the Kingdom of Mood Balloons (Chinese edition)
Netanel Semrik
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Jonathan's Dinosaur department: A coloring book
Jonathan Jay Brandstater
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Jonathan's Dastardly Dinosaurs: A Spot the Differences Book
Jonathan Jay Brandstater
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards By Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan's Brainy birds: A Coloring Book
Jonathan Jay Brandstater
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Jonathan Brothers was a retired insurance company executive whose defining characteristic as a public person was his note-taking on steno pads at political meetings and the town zoning board of appeals hearings, of which he would become the presiding member. Nathaniel Simpson, one of the county's leading lawyers, was Jonathan's attorney, as well as general counsel for a major bank. A steno pad of Jonathan's that dealt with zoning board hearings, which came to the attention of Nathaniel and the bank for which he was general counsel following Jonathan's passing, contained notations that could be viewed as evidence of Jonathan's having taken bribes in zoning board matters, which encompassed the various zoning issues that arose following World War II.
Jonathan Brothers was a retired insurance company executive whose defining characteristic as a public person was his note-taking on steno pads at political meetings and the town zoning board of appeals hearings, of which he would become the presiding member. Nathaniel Simpson, one of the county's leading lawyers, was Jonathan's attorney, as well as general counsel for a major bank. A steno pad of Jonathan's that dealt with zoning board hearings, which came to the attention of Nathaniel and the bank for which he was general counsel following Jonathan's passing, contained notations that could be viewed as evidence of Jonathan's having taken bribes in zoning board matters, which encompassed the various zoning issues that arose following World War II.
The Return of Jonathan's Brainy Birds: A Spot the Differences Book
Jonathan Jay Brandstater
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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The Return of Jonathan's Brainy Birds is a Spot the Differences Book. The content of the book includes thirty seven pairs of matching illustrations. Each illustration shows a cartoon bird or group of birds engaged in some activity such as dancing, playing ball or flying. A humorous caption accompanies each illustration. The humor consists of word play, such as puns and alliteration. In addition, there are five differences between each pair of illustrations. The reader is encouraged to spot the differences. Pages with solutions follow each pair. Solutions consist of pictures with the differences circled. Books of this type are popular with children between the ages of seven and eleven years old. In addition, readers in this age range may find the cartoon characters in this book appealing.
Jonathan's Cute Critters: Kawaii-style Drawings for Coloring
Jonathan Jay Brandstater
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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Jonathan's Cute Critters: Kawaii-style drawings for Coloring is thirty-two pages long and consists of twenty-eight illustrations drawn in the Kawaii (Japanese: "cute") style. Each illustration shows one or more characters, including little boys, girls, cats, dogs and fish. This book may be appropriate for children between the ages of four and eight years, as well as for people who find the Kawaii style appealing.