On mountains

Jerome, John.

McGraw=Hill

From John Jerome, the critically acclaimed author of Staying With It, comes this story of a year he spent building a stone wall on his property in the Massachusetts Berkshires. A vision of extraordinary grace and beauty that will challenge readers to examine the possibilities inherent in stillness.

Stone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Penguin Group USA

On Mountains

Earth Sciences

Harcourt

Truck: On Rebuilding a Worn-out Pickup, and Other Post-technological Adventures

Technology

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

On Turning Sixty-Five: Notes from the Field

"Personally, I've got a lot invested in reaching my stunning current age, and I'm damned if I'm going to hang on to that youthful crap. (I liked the idea of being a sixty-year-old so much I started claiming that age before I turned fifty-nine.) Parts of it, I don't like--the loss of energy that seems its inevitable accompaniment, for example--but when I consider how I used to boil that energy away as a younger man, and the things I boiled it away on, I am happy to accept a shorter tether and a more reflective way of going at things." John Jerome, author of such beloved books as Truck and Stone Work, entered his sixty-fifth year with a number of goals in mind: to battle the debilities of age, to master them through understanding when he could not physically defeat them, and to keep a journal of these efforts. As he puts it, "It was time to start planning an endgame." The result is a warm, compassionate, and honest look at the twelve months that led him to the gateway of old age--a survey of this time of life which ranges from strict physiology to expansive philosophy, from delicate neurosurgery to rough weather on a Canadian canoeing trip, from the despair and isolation of illness to the love and comfort of a sound marriage. The writing, in its clarity, grace, and humor, matches its author's spirit. "The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our time," Jerome reminds us. Reading this wise and funny chronicle of one man's--and everyman's--journey toward citizenship, senior division, will be time well spent, for young and old alike. It is that rare kind of book which comes to life as a companion, and even a friend.

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Random House]

The twenty-sixth edition of this classic, beloved log and calendar, the only one tailored just for runners, includes:•space for logging daily and weekly mileage and other data: time, body weight, route, temperature, improvements•photographs of runners from all over the world•a race record, with spaces for date, place, distance, time, pace, and “comments and excuses”•a quick reference chart for split times, from one mile to the marathon•training tips and eloquent monthly essays by John Jerome and Marty Jerome•aphorisms from a variety of thinkers, from Plato to Dave Barry

The Complete Runner's Day-By-Day Log and Calendar 1999

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

The Complete Runner's Day-by-Day Log and Calendar, 2000

Random House Inc (Cal)

This classic, beloved log and calendar, the only one tailored just for runners, includes:• space for logging daily and weekly mileage and other data: time, body weight, route, temperature, improvements• photographs of runners from all over the world• a race record, with spaces for date, place, distance, time, pace, and comments and excuses• a quick reference chart for split times, from one mile to the marathon• training tips and eloquent monthly essays by John Jerome• aphorisms from a variety of thinkers, from Aristotle to George Carlin

The Complete Runner's Day-by-Day Log and Calendar 2003

Health, Fitness & Dieting

“Know thy gadgets; first step in restoring some kind of wholeness to one’s life.” So observes John Jerome about his purpose for rebuilding a 1950 Dodge pickup. Yes, he needs the truck to haul manure, but Jerome also hopes that “by knowing every nut, lockwasher, and cotter pin I could have a machine that had some meaning to me.” Thus his year-long odyssey under the hood, among the brake shoes and valves, becomes more than a mechanic’s memoir; it is a meditation on machines, metaphysics, and the moral universe. Long after its publication in 1977, the essential dilemma of Truck still rings true: as Jerome dismantles the aged straight six, he also disassembles our reliance on “two-hundred-dollar appliances that sport flaws in thirty-five-cent parts” and decries the “deliberate encapsulation, impenetrability, of the overtechnologized things with which we furnish our lives.” Despite gouged knuckles, a frigid New Hampshire winter, frustrating and inexplicable assemblies, and a close call when the truck rolls off its jacks, he perseveres. In the end, he admits, “I did not find God out there in the barn among the cans of nuts and bolts.” What he does find, however, is that he must make peace with technology; it’s a mistake, he says, to “assume there is a point on that line between the caveman’s club and the moon shot that marks the moral turnaround, before which technology was somehow benign, after which it is malign.” While Jerome gains a truck that runs—sometimes—we gain new insight into a technology that continues to encroach upon our lives.

Truck: Rebuilding a worn-out pickup, and other posttechnological adventures

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Houghton/Mifflin

Truck

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

BANTAM BOOKS

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Jerome, John.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Jerome, John.