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 other. These two mindsets were in continual tension from the 1800s to ...

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 other. These two mindsets were in continual tension from the 1800s to the 1960s, when the adherents of the more democratic side of the struggle capitulated to the oligarchical side in response to the Civil Rights movement.Bryan Jones dra...

Understand the Cold War provides a fascinating insight into this complicated and hidden conflict, from how it began to the main characters involved and the culture it created.It will help you understand how the superpowers grew and vied for dominance, and how the balance was lost. All the important aspects of the war are covered, from what JFK and his assassin had in common to a discussion of whether the tension ended after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Give yourself the oppo...

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. I spell it out to the reader step by step from my perspective of what works and what in a wa...

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 of their time. Stripping away team success, mythology, and opi...

I suffered a massive stroke in July of 2006. This book took nine years and $3 million to write. I was one of the lucky ones. I was extremely lucky to have had excellent medical insurance through my wife's union; without it I would most likely still reside in a state run facility. Instead, I was able to spend a year and a half, following my stroke, in one of the world's finest brain injury hospitals. I was also able to work with some of the best stroke recovery therapists in the country and...

This book, Stroke Hope Stroke Prevention, which I conceived and began to write over the last seven years from early 2008 through 2014. It is an important part of what I call the 'Trinity of stroke, Awareness, prevention and recovery᾿. While these three important aspects could not defeat stroke in its deadly tracks. It goes a long way to help prevent one.It is a proven fact that strokes are 80% preventable, although the causes and triggers for stroke are complex and ever changing. I...

Foreword by Jacqueline Piepenhagen - Artist of the QuillAuthor Daniel Jones has proven that no matter what life throws at you if you have a positive attitude and the will to find purpose in your life you will move forward to live life to its fullest.Daniel Jones exceptional drive to overcome the adversities in his life has led him to not only tell his life's story of the massive stroke he suffered in 2006, but to reach out and spread the word that life is worth living. In t...

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 and budgetary analysis. The Politics of Bad Ideas examines why, over the last quarter century, ...

My 10 years as a missionary overseas in the modern mission field. Be witness to God's power and Wisdom thru-out these fourteen true stories in God's Way". From the mean streets of Amsterdam to the jungles of Nicaragua to the steamy port cities of West Africa.Learn first hand what it take to live on the edge in the Devil's playground.

As a little boy growing up in the tiny village of Booger Hollow, Arkansas, Jeremiah felt the sting of abandonment and difference—he never knew his father, looked nothing like his much older siblings, and was born into deep poverty. From an early age, he learned that food, clothing, and transportation were often scarce. He never spent a single day in school. One day, Jeremiah survived a vicious dog attack that left him badly scarred. Not long afterward, alone outside the cabin and weighed d...

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 refine their influential argument and expand it to illuminate the workings ...