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  • Dark Borders

    Film Noir and American Citizenship

    by Jonathan Auerbach ...
    Dark Borders connects anxieties about citizenship and national belonging in midcentury America to the sense of alienation conveyed by American film noir. Jonathan Auerbach provides in-depth interpretations of more than a dozen of these dark crime thrillers, considering them in relation to U.S. national security measures enacted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. The growth of a domestic ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Weapons of Democracy

    Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion

    by Jonathan Auerbach ...
    Series series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    How and why did public opinion—long cherished as a foundation of democratic government—become an increasing source of concern for American Progressives?Following World War I, political commentator Walter Lippmann worried that citizens increasingly held inaccurate and misinformed beliefs because of the way information was produced, circulated, and received in a mass-mediated society. Lippmann ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Male Call

    Becoming Jack London

    by Jonathan Auerbach ...
    Series series New Americanists
    When Jack London died in 1916 at age forty, he was one of the most famous writers of his time. Eighty years later he remains one of the most widely read American authors in the world. The first major critical study of London to appear in a decade, Male Call analyzes the nature of his appeal by closely examining how the struggling young writer sought to promote himself in his early work as a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Iron Heel

    by Jack London, Jordan Schugar ...
    Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the rise of fascism, the emergence of domestic terrorism, and the growth of centralized government ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences

    South/African Perspectives

    Edited by Jonathan Jansen, Jess Auerbach ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In the wake of the decolonization movement in South Africa and around the world, this edited work presents fresh evidence and advances new arguments on the politics and economics of colonial biomedical knowledge in South Africa and other parts of the African continent. Covering a richly diverse set of fields---including human genetics, obstetrics, occupational therapy, medical photography and the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Northland Stories

    by Jack London ...
    Like the characters in the popular dime novels of the time, London's heroes display such manly virtues as courage, loyalty, and steadfastness as they conftont the merciless frozen expanses of the north. Yet London breaks free of stereotypical figures and one-dimensional plots to explore deeper psychological and social questions of self-mastery, masculinity, and racial domination. The uneasy ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    The Big Bet

    Prediction Markets and the Future of Democracy

    by Michael Auerbach ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    A riveting narrative account of how prediction markets are changing our world and transforming the very nature of democracy.“In The Big Bet**, Michael Auerbach explores the past, present, and future of the prediction market ... This is a dazzling and entertaining book ... But it is also an urgent warning about what we might gamble away if we become a society that wagers on everything.” —Patrick ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • The Scarlet Plague

    A Universal Plague that Nearly Wipes Out Humanity

    by Jack London ...
    Series Book 13 - Jack London Collection
    The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London.The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death,Smith recounts the story of his life before the plague, when he was an English professor. In 2013, the year after "Morgan the Fifth was appointed President of the United States by the Board of Magnates", the disease came about and ... Read more

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  • The Star Rover

    A Tale of Past Lives

    by Jack London ...
    Series Book 29 - Jack London Collection
    A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a ... Read more

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  • A Daughter Of The Snows_ Jack London'S First Nove) Is Jack London'S First Novel

    by Jack London ...
    "A Daughter Of The Snows_ Jack London'S First Nove) Is Jack London'S First Novel" by Jack London is a classic work that represents the essence of its genre. This book offers readers an engaging experience, reflecting the author’s distinctive style, depth, and vision. ... Read more

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  • Night and Day

    by Virginia Woolf, GP Editors ...
    Night and Day' is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1919. Woolf, one of the foremost figures of modernist literature, is celebrated for her innovative narrative techniques, psychological insight, and exploration of gender and identity. Written soon after World War I, Night and Day belongs to her early period and reflects a more traditional style before she developed the experimental ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • The Plague

    by Albert Camus ...
    "The Plague" (French: "La Peste") is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. Set in the Algerian coastal town of Oran, the story revolves around a sudden and inexplicable outbreak of bubonic plague, isolating the town from the rest of the world. This event plunges the citizens into a state of fear, confusion, and uncertainty as they grapple with the escalating crisis. The narrative primarily ... Read more

    $0.99 USD