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  • The Capitol

    The Surprising Biography of an American Building

    by Brian Jay Jones ...
    An in-depth exploration of history of the US Capitol building and the incredible personalities who built it, full of dramatic stories and surprising facts; a powerful testament to what the Capitol has meant to generations of Americans and how it has endured.The Capitol is a unique biography of a place, encompassing architecture, history, politics, popular culture, and race in a fascinating ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • George Lucas

    A Life

    by Brian Jay Jones ...
    "Jones' ebullient bio shows that the Force has always been with filmmaker Lucas. Packed with fun insider info . . . a whiz-bang tribute to a genius." ― PeopleOn May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theaters. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named George Lucas, the movie originally ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jim Henson

    The Biography

    by Brian Jay Jones ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim HensonHe was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination: Kermit the Frog, Bert and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Bilagáana Boy among the Navajo

    by Jay Jones ...
    How did a white kid like me come to live on the Navajo Reservation in the 1960s? In 1965, six-year-old Jay is witness to his mother's affair and mental breakdown after his father's lengthy military deployment. After his parents' divorce, Jay must unwillingly live with his mother and new stepfather, a Bureau of Indian Affairs employee, on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Arizona. From 1967 to 1971, ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Washington Irving

    The Definitive Biography of America's First Bestselling Author

    by Brian Jay Jones ...
    Brian Jay Jones crafts a deft biography of the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Rip van Winkle”: quintessential New Yorker, presidential confidant, diplomat, lawyer, and fascinating charmer. The first American writer to make his pen his primary means of support, Washington Irving rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-six. In 1809 he published A History of New York under the pseudonym ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Becoming Dr. Seuss

    Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

    by Brian Jay Jones ...
    The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. SeussDr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly, simple rhymes are a bottomless well of magic, his illustrations timeless favorites because, quite simply, he makes us laugh. The Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, Horton, and so many more, are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rockin’ Possums

    by Jay Jones ...
    Rockin Possums is a rather energetic book about life with possums cohabitating in your street and the ruckus they can make. Life with Possums around can always be interesting and noisy. This book is a look at the more humorous side of life living within the Possum communities in my local area. Please help your local injured wildlife by either calling or taking them to your local R.S.P.C.A or your ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • At the Heart of the Borderlands

    Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America

    Edited by Cameron D. Jones, Jay T. Harrison ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America. While people of African descent have formed part of most borderlands’ histories, this study recognizes and explains their critical contribution to the formation of frontier spaces. Lack of imperial control coupled with Spain’s desperation for settlers and soldiers in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Number Theory, Analysis and Geometry

    In Memory of Serge Lang

    Edited by Dorian Goldfeld, Jay Jorgenson, Peter Jones, Dinakar Ramakrishnan, Kenneth Ribet, John Tate ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Serge Lang was an iconic figure in mathematics, both for his own important work and for the indelible impact he left on the field of mathematics, on his students, and on his colleagues. Over the course of his career, Lang traversed a tremendous amount of mathematical ground. As he moved from subject to subject, he found analogies that led to important questions in such areas as number theory, ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Mascot

    by Jay J Jones ...
    "Unputdownable! - it thunders along from page one to the very last." Witty, gritty and dark humoured... perfect for fans of Fight Club and Tarantino. Drug dealers are everywhere, selling drugs to our children. The police can't control them, so who can? Since losing his wife and drug addict son in an unsolved hit and run, advertising guru, Jay Jones, is determined to find their killer. Battling ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Capitol

    The Surprising Biography of an American Building

    by Brian Jay Jones ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 45 min

    An in-depth exploration of history of the US Capitol building and the incredible personalities who built it, full of dramatic stories and surprising facts; a powerful testament to what the Capitol has meant to generations of Americans and how it has endured.The Capitol is a unique biography of a place, encompassing architecture, history, politics, popular culture, and race in a fascinating ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Higher Education

    Counternarratives for Racial Justice

    by Dianne Ramdeholl, Jaye Jones ...
    This book chronicles the experiences of faculty at predominantly white higher education institutions (PWI) by centering voices of racialized faculty across North America. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and critical, feminist, and auto-ethnographic approaches, the text analyzes those narratives, situating people’s words in a landscape of institutionalized racism within higher education. In order ... Read more

    $57.99 USD