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  • The Last Spirits of Manhattan

    A Novel

    by John A McDermott ...
    **“**Pure storytelling magic.” —Diane C. McPhail, USA TODAY bestselling authorMad Men meets The Gilded Age in this witty and enchanting novel about a young woman in 1950s Manhattan who resists the conventional future planned for her, spurred on by a group of ghostly relatives who are the unexpected guests at a star-studded party thrown by Alfred Hitchcock in the family townhouse.After fleeing her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Last Spirits of Manhattan

    A Novel

    by John A McDermott ...
    Narrated by Eileen Stevens ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 1 min

    **“**Pure storytelling magic.” —Diane C. McPhail, USA TODAY bestselling authorMad Men meets The Gilded Age in this witty and enchanting novel about a young woman in 1950s Manhattan who resists the conventional future planned for her, spurred on by a group of ghostly relatives who are the unexpected guests at a star-studded party thrown by Alfred Hitchcock in the family townhouse.After fleeing her ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • John McDermott: It's Not All Black and White

    It's Not All Black & White

    by John McDermott, Simon Ashberry ...
    When John McDermott received the annual PFA Merit Award, in recognition of his record-breaking career at Grimsby Town, he joined an elite group of footballers made up of the likes of Sir Bobby Charlton, Pelé and George Best. McDermott was added to the distinguished list of recipients in recognition of his record-breaking career at Grimsby Town. He played an incredible 754 games overall for the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Individual Rights over Economic Equality

    How Individual Rights and Property Stand in Opposition to Working Conditions and Equality

    by John F. M. McDermott, Steven Colatrella, Frances Maher, Michael Meeropol ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Since the mid-1960s, citizens' rights in the United States have improved across many areas, including race, gender, sexuality, physical disabilities, age, consumption of goods, voting, and more. During this time, there has also been a degradation in economic rights, such as economic inequality. Is there a reason for this contradiction? Is it possible for American citizens to experience rights and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • In Tender Consideration

    Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois

    by Daniel W. Stowell, Dennis E. Suttles, Stacy P. McDermott, John A. Lupton, Christopher A. Schnell, Susan Krause ...
    From debt to divorce, from adultery to slander, cases with women as plaintiffs, defendants, or both appeared regularly on docket books in antebellum Illinois. Nearly one-fifth of Abraham Lincoln's cases involved women as litigants, and during the twenty-five years of his legal career thousands of women appeared in Illinois courts, as litigants, criminal defendants, witnesses, and spectators ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Divine Promise and Human Freedom in Contemporary Catholic Thought

    by Kevin A. McMahon, John S. Grabowski, Montague Brown, Roger Duncan, Lawrence J. Welch, Richard A. Nicholas, Daniel C. Hauser, Robert P. George, Sister Sara Butler, Rev. Joseph T. Lienhard0, John M. McDermott1, Rev. David Meconi2, Rev. Earl Muller3 ...
    It has always been understood that the central claim of Christianity—that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God—is as much a declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the Christ who restores, and more, transforms, the created order, intensifies the mystery of the human even further. When the age of revolution was ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Restoring Democracy to America

    How to Free Markets and Politics from the Corporate Culture of Business and Government

    by John F. M. McDermott ...
    If the current economic malaise accomplishes nothing else, it should help awaken us all to the realization that our country has been on a path of self-destructive behavior for several decades—a reversal of the progressive path that had made major gains in economic and political equality for a large majority of the U.S. population starting in the 1870s. It is John McDermott’s purpose in this ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Technology and Values

    by Danny M. Cohen, Richard DeGeorge, Hubert Dreyfus, Stacey Edgar, Rachelle Hollander, Deborah Mayo, John D. McDermott, Robert McGinn, Emmanuel Mesthene, Carl Mitcham, Thomas Murray, David Parnas, David Pimentel, Louis Pojman, Jesse Tatum, Langdon Winner ...
    Technology and Values provides a highly useful collection of essays organized around issues related to science, technology, public health, economics, the environment, and ethical theory. The editors present effective introductions that provide background information as well as philosophical tools and case studies to facilitate understanding of the variety of issues emanating from the most ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Corporate Society

    "Class, Property, and Contemporary Capitalism"

    by John McDermott ...
    The modem corporation, praised and condemned by thinkers from Weber to Bell and Dahrendorf, is the institution of modern society. Its enormous success has made it our premier social, as well as economic, institution, and modern society is increasingly coming to reflect the social structure, values, priorities, and hierarchies that have evolved within the corporation. So argues John McDermott in ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Called and Chosen

    Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders

    by Regina Bechtle, Margaret Benefiel, Michael Downey, H Richard McCord, Elinor Ford, Doris Gottemoeller, Monika K. Hellwig, Dolores Leckey, Sean Peters, Mary Daniel Turner0, Zeni Fox1, Msgr. Richard M. Liddy3, Brian McDermott4, John Nelson5 ...
    That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry. Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders is designed especially for women and men who, in collaboration with vowed religious and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy

    How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector

    by John F. M. McDermott ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research demonstrates that public investment in the workforce through education and training far outweighs the private ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Circle of Fire

    The Indian War of 1865

    by John D. McDermott ...
    Series series Stackpole Classics
    The year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought revenge for the 1864 massacre at Sand Creek, when John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers nearly wiped out a village of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho. The violence in eastern Colorado spread ... Read more

    $12.99 USD