Advance Praise for Rose Bowl Dreams: "No true football fan should miss Adam Jones' Rose Bowl Dreams. It's more than a football book; it's an inspiring commentary on life itself." --Winston Groom "Adam Jones had the good sense to be born into the middle of four generations of a football-lovin' Texas family, and now that I think about it, that's probably redundant. Rose Bowl Dreams reads as if Jones just pulled up a chair, popped open a cold one and started telling stories. He's good company, and you don't have to be able to name the starting lineup of the 2006 Longhorns to enjoy him. Rose Bowl Dreams may not be for Aggies, but the rest of us could learn something about faith, family and football." --Ivan Maisel, senior writer, ESPN.com, co-author of A War in Dixie “The best football book since Frederick Exley’s classic A Fan’s Notes. Adam Jones’ Rose Bowl Dreams delves deeply into everything that made this country great—mother, God, football and drinking. Even if you can’t stand any of those things, Rose Bowl Dreams will almost certainly change your mind.” --Kinky Friedman, author of What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World "Much like Adam Jones, my parents took me to my first football game at age six. As a result, I never stopped playing the game or writing about it. This is a remarkable story about football and family. It provides a wonderful message about how sports, if handled in the proper context, will forever keep humans together. Rose Bowl Dreams made my spine tingle.'' --Jim Dent, New York Times bestselling author of The Junction Boys and Twelve Mighty Orphans "Rose Bowl Dreams reveals what lies at the heart of the hardcore college football fan better than any other book I've read. This story of faith and faith rewarded will move all readers, even those who scarcely know the difference between a punt and a pass." --W. K. Stratton, author of Backyard Brawl: Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&amp;M God created college football as a grand gift to an imperfect world. I learned this as a very small boy living in the middle of the Texas Panhandle. In time I would come to believe that college football contained all of the joy, faith, pageantry, feeling, failure, and renewal that any person could hope for out of life. It taught me about patience and commitment, about enthusiasm and exasperation, about fatherhood and faith. Like Norman Maclean’s classic, A River Runs Through It, Rose Bowl Dreams is a memoir that transcends the limits of the sports genre to contemplate faith, love, grief and the challenges of fatherhood. Rose Bowl Dreams is the story of a family whose passion for college football begins at a small stadium in the remote Texas Panhandle and leads to college football’s most famous venue, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Rose Bowl Dreams develops parallel stories of a son and his mother, a crisis of faith, and three fraught football seasons that end in bittersweet triumph as the author follows the story of the University of Texas Longhorns between the time he discovers his mother has inoperable cancer and Texas triumphs in the National Championship Game over USC in what might well be the greatest college football game ever played. Along the way Jones lays bare the heart and passionate soul of the college football fan. To millions, college football is the essence of life. It is, yes, religious in intensity. And its impact on families and its greater meaning possesses tremendous resonance. Rose Bowl Dreams reveals the growth and evolution of a college football fan with the humor and poignancy only personal experience could provide: kitchen table conversations with Panhandle football legend “Bulldog” Jones, good-byes to a mother who taught her son about unconditional love and unconditional fandom, the wise counsel of a psychiatrist father, the love of a beautiful woman, raising three boys, Mennonites singing, night games in Lubbock, a scrappy gamer of a quarterback, a man with a golden left arm, and finally, redemptively, a small boy from the south side of Houston named Vince. He would change everything. Rose Bowl Dreams is an artfully rendered portrait of a Texas family bound by a game, and an inspiring account of how redemption flows through the contests on the field and into the lives of its fans. It’s a portrait of divine will realized on the college football gridiron. A narrative that is like no football book you’ve ever read, Rose Bowl Dreams reminds us all that the good life moves ever forward.

Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Football

Sports & Outdoors

Jones, Adam

Football (American)

Thomas Dunne Books

Praise for Rose Bowl Dreams:
"No true football fan should miss Adam Jones' Rose Bowl Dreams. It's more than a football book; it's an inspiring commentary on life itself." --Winston Groom
"Adam Jones had the good sense to be born into the middle of four generations of a football-lovin' Texas family, and now that I think about it, that's probably redundant. Rose Bowl Dreams reads as if Jones just pulled up a chair, popped open a cold one and started telling stories. He's good company, and you don't have to be able to name the starting lineup of the 2006 Longhorns to enjoy him. Rose Bowl Dreams may not be for Aggies, but the rest of us could learn something about faith, family and football." --Ivan Maisel, senior writer, ESPN.com, co-author of A War in Dixie "The best football book since Frederick Exley's classic A Fan's Notes. Adam Jones' Rose Bowl Dreams delves deeply into everything that made this country great-mother, God, football and drinking. Even if you can't stand any of those things, Rose Bowl Dreams will almost certainly change your mind." --Kinky Friedman, author of What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World
"Much like Adam Jones, my parents took me to my first football game at age six. As a result, I never stopped playing the game or writing about it. This is a remarkable story about football and family. It provides a wonderful message about how sports, if handled in the proper context, will forever keep humans together. Rose Bowl Dreams made my spine tingle.'' --Jim Dent, New York Times bestselling author of The Junction Boys and Twelve Mighty Orphans "Rose Bowl Dreams reveals what lies at the heart of the hardcore college football fan better than any other book I've read. This story of faith and faith rewarded will move all readers, even those who scarcely know the difference between a punt and a pass." --W. K. Stratton, author of Backyard Brawl: Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&amp;M God created college football as a grand gift to an imperfect world. I learned this as a very small boy living in the middle of the Texas Panhandle. In time I would come to believe that college football contained all of the joy, faith, pageantry, feeling, failure, and renewal that any person could hope for out of life. It taught me about patience and commitment, about enthusiasm and exasperation, about fatherhood and faith. Like Norman Maclean's classic, A River Runs Through It, Rose Bowl Dreams is a memoir that transcends the limits of the sports genre to contemplate faith, love, grief and the challenges of fatherhood.
Rose Bowl Dreams is the story of a family whose passion for college football begins at a small stadium in the remote Texas Panhandle and leads to college football's most famous venue, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Rose Bowl Dreams develops parallel stories of a son and his mother, a crisis of faith, and three fraught football seasons that end in bittersweet triumph as the author follows the story of the University of Texas Longhorns between the time he discovers his mother has inoperable cancer and Texas triumphs in the National Championship Game over USC in what might well be the greatest college football game ever played. 
Along the way Jones lays bare the heart and passionate soul of the college football fan. To millions, college football is the essence of life. It is, yes, religious in intensity. And its impact on families and its greater meaning possesses tremendous resonance. Rose Bowl Dreams reveals the growth and evolution of a college football fan with the humor and poignancy only personal experience could provide: kitchen table conversations with Panhandle football legend "Bulldog" Jones, good-byes to a mother who taught her son about unconditional love and unconditional fandom, the wise counsel of a psychiatrist father, the love of a beautiful woman, raising three boys, Mennonites singing, night games in Lubbock, a scrappy gamer of a quarterback, a man with a golden left arm, and finally, redemptively, a small boy from the south side of Houston named Vince. 
He would change everything. 
Rose Bowl Dreams is an artfully rendered portrait of a Texas family bound by a game, and an inspiring account of how redemption flows through the contests on the field and into the lives of its fans. It's a portrait of divine will realized on the college football gridiron. A narrative that is like no football book you've ever read, Rose Bowl Dreams reminds us all that the good life moves ever forward.

Biographies

St. Martin's: Griffin

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction

An invaluable introduction to the subject of genocide, explaining its history from pre-modern times to the present day, with a wide variety of case studies. Recent events in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, East Timor and Iraq have demonstrated with appalling clarity that the threat of genocide is still a major issue within world politics. The book examines the differing interpretations of genocide from psychology, sociology, anthropology and political science and analyzes the influence of race, ethnicity, nationalism and gender on genocides. In the final section, the author examines how we punish those responsible for waging genocide and how the international community can prevent further bloodshed.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

An invaluable introduction to the subject of genocide, explaining its history from pre-modern times to the present day, with a wide variety of case studies. Recent events in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, East Timor and Iraq have demonstrated with appalling clarity that the threat of genocide is still a major issue within world politics. The book examines the differing interpretations of genocide from psychology, sociology, anthropology and political science and analyzes the influence of race, ethnicity, nationalism and gender on genocides. In the final section, the author examines how we punish those responsible for waging genocide and how the international community can prevent further bloodshed.

Politics & Government

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity’s enduring blights. Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field, this new edition: <ul>
<li>provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept, including an extended discussion of the concept of genocidal intent, and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes</li> <li>discusses the role of state-building, imperialism, war, and social revolution in fueling genocide</li> <li>supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocides worldwide, each with an accompanying box-text</li> <li>explores perspectives on genocide from the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science/international relations, and gender studies</li> <li>considers "The Future of Genocide," with attention to historical memory and genocide denial; initiatives for truth, justice, and redress; and strategies of intervention and prevention.</li>
</ul>
Written in clear and lively prose, liberally sprinkled with over 100 illustrations and maps, and including personal testimonies from genocide survivors, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction has established itself as the core textbook of the new generation of genocide scholarship. An accompanying website (www.genocidetext.net) features a broad selection of supplementary materials, teaching aids, and Internet resources.

Gender Inclusive: Essays on Violence, Men, and Feminist International Relations (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Gender Inclusive offers a challenging and unconventional reinterpretation of gender and mass violence.   Compiling essays and excerpts drawn from nearly two decades of Adam Jones’s writing on gender and politics, this stimulating and diverse collection of essays explores vital issues surrounding ‘gendercide’ (gender-selective mass killing) including:       How gender shapes men and women as victims and perpetrators of mass violence, including genocide.    The range of gender-selective atrocities inflicted upon males, especially the gendercidal killing of civilian men of "battle age."   The victimization of women and girls worldwide, including the structural forms of violence ("gendercidal institutions") directed against them.   Genocidal violence throughout modern history, with a particular focus on the Balkans and Rwanda.   In-depth critiques of prevailing gender framings in academic scholarship, mass media, and the policy sphere.      Adam Jones – recently selected as "one of fifty key thinkers in Holocaust and genocide studies" – contests prevailing interpretations of gender and violence, arguing that they fail to capture the broad range of gendered experience. His global-historical treatment is essential reading for anyone with an interest in genocide, human rights and gender studies.

Gender Inclusive: Essays on violence, men, and feminist international relations (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

The Scourge of Genocide (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

The Scourge of Genocide collects essays, reviews, and reportage on the subjects of genocide and crimes against humanity by Adam Jones, recently selected as one of "Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide." The volume includes a number of previously-unpublished essays, and explores a range of debates and approaches in comparative genocide studies, such as: <ul>
<li>Genocide, pedagogy, and visual representation.</li> <li>Gender and "gendercide."</li> <li>The role of media and communications in genocide.</li> <li>The historiography of genocide studies.</li> <li>"Subaltern genocide," or genocides by the oppressed.</li> <li>Strategies of genocide prevention and intervention.</li>
</ul> Covering a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives, as well as case studies from the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Guatemala, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine, this book is essential reading for all scholars and students of genocide studies, political violence, and international relations.

The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Gender Inclusive offers a challenging and unconventional reinterpretation of gender and mass violence. 
Compiling essays and excerpts drawn from nearly two decades of Adam Jones’s writing on gender and politics, this stimulating and diverse collection of essays explores vital issues surrounding ‘gendercide’ (gender-selective mass killing) including: 
<ul>
<li>How gender shapes men and women as victims and perpetrators of mass violence, including genocide. </li> <li>The range of gender-selective atrocities inflicted upon males, especially the gendercidal killing of civilian men of "battle age."</li> <li>The victimization of women and girls worldwide, including the structural forms of violence ("gendercidal institutions") directed against them.</li> <li>Genocidal violence throughout modern history, with a particular focus on the Balkans and Rwanda.</li> <li>In-depth critiques of prevailing gender framings in academic scholarship, mass media, and the policy sphere. </li> </ul>
Adam Jones – recently selected as "one of fifty key thinkers in Holocaust and genocide studies" – contests prevailing interpretations of gender and violence, arguing that they fail to capture the broad range of gendered experience. His global-historical treatment is essential reading for anyone with an interest in genocide, human rights and gender studies.

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Business & Money

Ashton, Adam

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

What You Will Learn

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Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Football

Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Football

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction

Gender Inclusive: Essays on violence, men, and feminist international relations (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Gender Inclusive: Essays on Violence, Men, and Feminist International Relations (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

The Sh*t They Never Taught You: What You Can Learn From Books