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  • The Farming Game

    by Bryan L. Jones ...
    In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging sketches of real farmers, Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels the pull of the land. He accepts the emotional appeal of “going back to the land” and then takes the unconventional stand that, above all, farming can be a good way to make money. Against the grain of public policy that, he maintains, encourages big agriculture, Jones ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Southern Fault Line

    How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History

    by Bryan Jones ...
    A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines. The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of plantation owners and industrialists on the one hand, and the more democratic mindset of the mountain-dwelling small farmers on the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • Adventures In The Teaching Trade

    by Bryan L Jones ...
    Memorable teaching memoirs exist-Frank McCourt's Teacher Man and Pat Conroy's The Water Is Wide come to mind. Adventures in the Teaching Trade represents a worthy addition to the list. Jones revisits High Plains schools at a time when public schools reflected the values and aspirations of the communities they served. Interrelated essays follow a 1960s graduate school refugee blessed with an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The New American Politics

    Reflections On Political Change And The Clinton Administration

    by Bryan D Jones ...
    Was 1992 a realigning election? Did the midterm elections of 1994 realign the realignment? Will 1996 carry the United States forward on yet another changed trajectory? In this volume of original essays, leading political scientists examine key components of the American agenda and assess the current administration's position in light of historical precedents and future trends. Each conclusion is ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Politics of Information

    Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America

    by Frank R. Baumgartner, Bryan D. Jones ...
    How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the "paradox of search." If policy makers don't look for problems, they won't find those that need to be addressed. But if they carry out a thorough search, they will almost certainly find new problems—and with the definition of each new problem ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Broadening

    How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

    by Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, Michelle Whyman ...
    Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society or state and local governments.With The Great Broadening, Bryan D. Jones, Sean M. Theriault, and Michelle Whyman examine in detail the causes, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Stroke Hope Stroke Awareness

    by Daniel Bryan Jones ...
    The first edition of "Stroke Hope Stroke Awareness" was not edited. This 2nd edition has been edited. How to reduce your chance of having a Stroke. this book is written by me, a stroke survivor of seven years. I was lucky to have had excellent medical insurance and was able to live and receive World class cutting edge post stroke therapy and care at one of the world's finest brain injury hospitals ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sustaining Hand

    Community Leadership and Corporate Power

    by Bryan D. Jones, Lynn W. Bachelor ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    As the recent shake-up at GM underscores, the new global economy has widened the cracks and stresses in the American auto industry. But, as this new edition of the highly regarded Sustaining Hand reminds us, the auto industry remains a central if volatile player in American urban politics.In this significantly revised update, Bryan Jones and Lynn Bachelor have extended and refined their analysis ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Politics of Bad Ideas

    The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America

    by Bryan Jones, Walter Williams ...
    This highly anticipated addition to the "Great Questions in Politics" series offers a provocative argument about the persistence of bad ideas in shaping American economic policy. The result of a collaboration between political scientist Bryan D. Jones and economist Walter Williams, The Politics of Bad Ideas is indispensable reading for any study of American government, public policy, or economic ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • THE REAL GOAT SCORING SYSTEM

    The most comprehensive analysis of a quarterback's career ever created

    by Bryan Jones, Artisan Publishing's ...
    Who is the greatest quarterback of all time?For decades, the answer has been driven by rings, reputation, and media narrative. This book challenges all of that.In this groundbreaking statistical study, Bryan Jones introduces The Real GOAT Scoring System, a data-driven method designed to compare quarterbacks across eras by measuring how much better or worse, they were than the average quarterback ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Agendas and Instability in American Politics

    by Frank R. Baumgartner, Bryan D. Jones ...
    When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the Journal of Politics predicted that it would "become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics." That prediction proved true and, in this long-awaited second edition, Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures

    by Bryan L. Jones ...
    Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures is a collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. Anecdotes on small-town baseball and the polio epidemic of 1952 provide a historic backdrop to the story of a wide-eyed boy exploring the limits of his universe.The adventures of a Twain-inspired raft trip down the South Platte and Sputnik-inspired ... Read more

    $14.99 USD