Bøker av Jason Johnson

Jason Johnson follows up his first two novels, Woundlicker and Alina, with the tale of Baker, a promising newcomer to the world's newest sport: professional drinking

Learn how to play hanafuda! An in-depth collection of 37 great games, including popular games such as Koi-Koi, Go-Stop, and Hachi-Hachi. Organized into categories by type and difficulty, this step-by-step rulebook includes intuitive scoring samples, visual references, numerous variants, gameplay samples, and quick reference charts.This book features the art of the Sensu hanafuda deck series!*Note: The Sensu Edition of the Hanafuda Games rulebook has the same text content as the Hanami Edition.Rulebook Includes the following games:Capture Games are the most popular hanafuda games. Capture games involve capturing cards from a field and creating yaku (special combinations of cards) to score points. Simplified Game for Beginners (Absolute Beginner, 2-4 players) Matching Flowers (Beginner, 2-3 players) Hana-Awase 1 (Beginner, 3-4 players) Hana-Awase 2 (Beginner, 3 players) Mushi (Beginner, 2 players) Six Hundred (Beginner, 2-3 players) Hachi-juu Hana (Beginner, 2-3 players) Min-Hwatu (Intermediate, 2-3 players) Koi-Koi (Intermediate, 2 players) Oni Koi-Koi (Intermediate, 2 players) Higo-Bana (Intermediate, 2-7 players) Tensho, simplified (Intermediate, 2 players) Go-Stop (Expert, 2-7 players) Hachi-Hachi (Expert, 2-7 players) Sudaoshi (Expert, 3 players) Hachi, simplified (Expert, 2 players) Hachi (Expert, 2 players) Tensho (Expert, 2 players)Sequence Games involve playing cards from your hand in sequential order with the objective to empty your hand. Sequence games are a great way to learn hanafuda month order. Poka (Beginner, 2 players) Hiyoko, simplified (Beginner, 2-4 players) Isuri, simplified (Beginner, 2-3 players) Kage (Beginner, 2 players) Hiyoko (Intermediate, 2-4 players) Isuri (Intermediate, 2-3 players)Luck Games are simple, fast-paced, gambling-oriented games. Many of the games in this section were traditionally played with Kabufuda decks. Sutda, simplified (Beginner, 2-10 players) Hiki-Kabu (Beginner, 2-10 players) Oicho-Kabu (Beginner, 2-10 players) Kyo-Kabu (Beginner, 2-10 players) Kingo (Beginner, 2-10 players) Sota (Intermediate, 2-6 players) Sutda (Intermediate, 2-10 players)Fusion Games are a collection of Western-inspired games that we reinterpreted and designed for gameplay with a hanafuda deck. These games provide a familiar platform for Western players to become more comfortable with the hanafuda deck. Seasons (Beginner, 1-4 players) Pyramid (Beginner, 1 players) Solitaire (Intermediate, 1 players) Eight Off (Intermediate, 1 players) Hana-Rumi (Intermediate, 2-4 players) Hana-Gin (Intermediate, 2-4 players)

This new collection of Jason Johnson’s satirical essays include “Your Baby Is Ugly,” “Profiles in Douchery,” “Lies, Damn Lies, and Fake Boobies,” “The NRA Is Full of Spit,” “Just Being Insane Doesn’t Make You a Libertarian,” and the truly magical “69 Is a Magic Number.” Johnson targets a wide range of American embarrassments, including Hollywood (“Let Jason Pick the Oscars!”), corporate greed (“Shove Massey up His Assey”), his Christmas dinner with former House Speaker John Boehner (“My Republican Holiday”), and of course, farts. Many of these essays appear here unexpurgated for the first time, with nary a fart joke cut for the sake of space, taste, or quality. 

Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell examines the differences between how political science theory suggests campaigns should be run and how political consultants actually run campaigns. This book provides a clearer understanding of modern-day political campaigns by revealing what is on the minds of the people who run them.

Attention all patriotic Americans! Read the one book that has liberal America outraged. Jason Johnson is rapidly becoming the new warrior for the Right His controversial, new book Wake up America! is one of the most "talked about" books in the nation. This book will literally blow you away America!Wake up America! is destined to become one of the most controversial books ever written about the hypocrisy of the American Left. You wanted the truth America. Well now yon got it! If you're an anti-Bush, America-hater you better look out because this U.S. Army vet is coming for you and he doesn't look happy.Are you tired of the disgraceful, vulgar shows your kids are watching on T. V. these days? Are you tired of overpaid, spoiled, Hollywood celebrities telling your kids to hate their President and their country? Are you concerned about the illiteracy rate in America?Most young Americans can't even name our Vice President but they can tell you all about the latest rap star or shallow, Bush-hating actor.America has serious problems folks. Jason Johnson exposes them! If you're thinking it, Johnson says it! This book is hot! Get it today!

Living in Amsterdam as an unarmed assassin-for-hire, Aloysius finds himself being encouraged to return to Ireland. He soon learns he is about to become the Irish government's first paid assassin and take part in the most extraordinary PR operation in history.

A unique empirical and theoretical analysis of political consultants and how they achieve electoral success for their candidates