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  • The Citizen Machine

    Governing by Television in 1950s America

    by Anna McCarthy ...
    The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV's potential to mold the right kind of citizen.Based on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Citizen Machine

    Governing by Television in 1950s America

    by Anna McCarthy ...
    The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television's formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals were all obsessively concerned with TV's potential to mold the right kind of citizen.Based on ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ambient Television

    Visual Culture and Public Space

    by Anna McCarthy ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pass the time in workplaces of all kinds. In Ambient Television Anna McCarthy explores the significance ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Forgiveness is Not an Option

    A Journey to Freedom and Healing

    by Anna McCarthy ...
    How do you forgive the unforgiveable? Is it possible to truly be free from what others have done to you? Each of us has a story and has experienced hurt in some area of our lives. Whether in childhood, adolescence or adulthood, we all have experienced pain and disappointment. If not dealt with, these wounds begin to impact our everyday life at a crippling rate. We live bound by fear, insecurities ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Imagining Legality

    Where Law Meets Popular Culture

    Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image—that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media.Imagining Legality argues that images of law suggested by television and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • MediaSpace

    Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age

    Media Space explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives. Essays from leading international scholars address the kinds of space created by media and the effects that spacial arrangements have on media forms. Case studies focus on a wide variety of subjects and locales, from in-flight entertainment to mobile ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Collectors: Stories

    (Printz Medal Winner)

    **MICHAEL L. PRINTZ MEDAL WINNTER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors comes an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.“An eclectic, poignant, and introspective treasure trove.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“Masterfully collected and worth slowing down to absorb.”—School Library Journal, starred review**From ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Pennyworth of Sunshine

    The Irish Sisters, Book 1

    by Anna Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Marie McCarthy ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Irish Sisters series

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    Bestselling saga author Anna Jacobs' novel of life in nineteenth-century Lancashire and Australia. A must-read for fans of Dilly Court and the Rivenshaw saga.Love can cross oceans . . .Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave her family in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless. And Theo Mullane, the man who loves her, is married, with ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Twopenny Rainbows

    The Irish Sisters, Book 2

    by Anna Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Marie McCarthy ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Irish Sisters series

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    The new Anna Jacobs saga continues the story of the younger sisters of Keara Michaels, the heroine of A PENNYWORTH OF SUNSHINE, following their fortunes from nineteenth-century Ireland to the brave new world of Australia.Three sisters. Three journeys. One destination.In 1863 the authorities send Irish orphans Ismay and Mara to Australia against their will. Just when they thought it couldn't get ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

    At her death in 1825, Anna Letitia Barbauld was considered one of the great writers of her time. Distinguished as a poet and essayist, she was also in innovator in children’s literature, an eloquent supporter of liberal politics, and a literary critic of stature. This edition includes a generous selection of her poetry and the first comprehensive body of her prose in more than a century, with ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Pippa Harding Smythe and the School for Gifted Girls

    Pippa Harding Smythe and The School for Gifted Girls is a most pleasant and entertaining read, beautifully written, very well suited for a young audience. The book's message is delivered in a very charming and effective way, allowing children to be more open and aware of the importance of truth, courage of your convictions, friendship all the while being able to enjoy such an inspiring narrative. ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Threepenny Dreams

    The Irish Sisters, Book 3

    by Anna Jacobs ...
    Narrated by Nicolette McKenzie ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The Irish Sisters series

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    The final installment in Anna Jacobs' beloved Irish Sisters series.Sometimes the worst has to happen . . .Recently widowed, Hannah Firth is still young - young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daughter-in-law uses her as an unpaid servant, Hannah tries to leave, but she is unaware of the depths that Patty's spite will lead her to.Nathaniel King's life is ruined when his landlord's ... Read more

    $24.99 USD