Books with author Jill Jones

The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed.In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation’s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world’s first direct current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it. Edison struggled to introduce his radical new direct current (DC) technology into the hurly-burly of New York City as Tesla and Westinghouse challenged his dominance with their alternating current (AC), thus setting the stage for one of the eeriest feuds in American corporate history, the War of the Electric Currents. The battlegrounds: Wall Street, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Niagara Falls, and, finally, the death chamber—Jonnes takes us on the tense walk down a prison hallway and into the sunlit room where William Kemmler, convicted ax murderer, became the first man to die in the electric chair.

Luke is a sweet boy, but he doesn't like to brush his teeth. So one day his teeth decide to look for a new mouth, one that would take care of them. Where did they go? Who did they meet? Did they find the perfect mouth? This pre bath-time children's story revolves around the tale of Luke's teeth and their journey to find a new mouth... Get a free GIFT inside "10 Fun ways to engage your children to brush their teeth" Pick up your copy today!

BRUNO is a friendly & funny dog. He knows that some children are afraid of dogs... That's why he decided to teach you how to understand dog behavior. This book is dedicated to my 3½-year-old daughter Nika, who courageously overcame her fear of dogs. This book was created so that you too can teach the 'Dogs Behavior Knowledge Tool' to your children in a fun and enjoyable way. I hope you enjoy it. "Good book on teaching your children how not to fear dogs." (~Elizabeth) "Valuable Lessons About Dogs Behavior" (~M. McDonald) This Children's book is also great for early readers and is a great tool for how to overcome fear of dogs. Pick up your copy today!

BRUNO is a friendly & funny dog. He knows that some children are afraid of dogs... That's why he decided to teach you how to understand dog behavior. This book is dedicated to my 3½-year-old daughter Nika, who courageously overcame her fear of dogs. This book was created so that you too can teach the 'Dogs Behavior Knowledge Tool' to your children in a fun and enjoyable way. I hope you enjoy it. "Good book on teaching your children how not to fear dogs." (~Elizabeth) "Valuable Lessons About Dogs Behavior" (~M. McDonald) This Children's book is also great for early readers and is a great tool for how to overcome fear of dogs. Pick up your copy today!

Luke is a sweet boy, but he doesn't like to brush his teeth. So one day his teeth decide to look for a new mouth, one that would take care of them. Where did they go? Who did they meet? Did they find the perfect mouth? This pre bath-time children's story revolves around the tale of Luke's teeth and their journey to find a new mouth... Get a free GIFT inside "10 Fun ways to engage your children to brush their teeth" Pick up your copy today!

Eiffel's Tower for Young People is a vivid, lively pageant of people and cultures meeting—and competing—on the world stage at the dawn of the modern era.The 1889 World's Fair was a worldwide event showcasing the cutting-edge cultural and technological accomplishments of the world's most powerful nations on the verge of a new century. France, with its long history of sophistication and cultivation and a new republican government, presented the Eiffel Tower, the world's tallest structure, crafted from eighteen thousand pieces of wrought iron and 2.5 million rivets, as a symbol of national pride and engineering superiority. The United States, with its brash, can-do spirit, full of pride in its frontier and its ingenuity, presented the rollicking Wild West show of Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley, and the marvelous new phonograph of Thomas Edison.With historical photos throughout, outsized personalities, squabbling artists, and a sprinkling of royalty, this dramatic history opens a window to a piece of the past that, in its passions and politics, is an unforgettable portrait of a unique moment in history.

Humans have tried to understand the nature of diseases forthousands of years. Knowledge about a disease can inspiremethods for treating the illness and measures for avoiding the illness.For a long time, doctors thought that some unseen thing inthe air brought disease. The invention of the microscope revealedthe existence of bacteria. The presence of the tiny life forms suggesteda cause of diseases that spread from one person to another.Then, scientists proposed that some infectious diseases were causedby agents smaller than bacteria. These agents were too small for themicroscope. They were almost invisible.

No one knows the origins of viruses. They have been on Earth for so long that it is believed that they may predate the first living cells. Today, viruses are found around the world, infecting bacteria and the cells of plants, fungi, animals, and humans. Viruses are parasites that cannot copy themselves and must invade other forms of life to reproduce. As they invade, viruses can inflict fatal diseases and transform normal cells into tumor cells. In Viruses, examine the life cycles of these tiny parasites, the ways they affect their hosts, and the ways that their ability to mutate present an ongoing challenge to the medical community.