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“winifred gallagher”

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  • Rapt

    Attention and the Focused Life

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience lifeAcclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty or brains, fate or coincidence, but on what you choose to pay attention to. Rapt introduces a diverse cast of characters, from researchers to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How the Post Office Created America

    A History

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    “’The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America,’ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”—Wall Street JournalA masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Working on God

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    Why do I exist? Is this all there is? What is my true nature? What is most important in life? How should I live? These are humanity's oldest spiritual questions. At the year 2000, however, many who ask them are profoundly estranged from religion. To some, religion is belief in the unbelievable--incom-patible with intelligence and learning. To others, it's just another bureaucratic institution- ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • New Women in the Old West

    From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the processBetween 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity, ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • New

    Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    Why are we attuned to the latest headline, diet craze, smartphone, fashion statement? Why do we relish a change of scene, eye attractive strangers, develop new interests?How did Homo sapiens survive near-extinction during an environmental crisis 80,000 years ago, while close cousins very like us have died out?Why is your characteristic reaction to novelty and change the key to your whole ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spiritual Genius

    The Mastery of Life's Meaning

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    In Spiritual Genius, journalist Winifred Gallagher, the acclaimed author of Working on God, asks Rabbi Lawrence Kushner to define holiness. "Standing in the presence of God," he says. "Everyone has it, but some people seem to have more of a knack for accessing it." Like holiness, the gift that Gallagher calls "spiritual genius"--which she defines as "the uniquely human ability to search for and ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    How the Post Office Created America

    A History

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 45 min

    A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development.The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important ... Read more

    $29.98 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Strengthening Your Ability To Pay Attention

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    Narrated by Justine Willis Toms ...

    Unabridged

    57 min

    How may we focus on what is important to us? How can we avoid technology overload? Why do certain things grab our attention and not others? With so many things now demanding our attention — emails, cell phones, text messages — many of us are overwhelmed by a plethora of distractions. Our lives may be described as the sum of what we focus on. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Rapt

    Attention and the Focused Life

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 45 min

    A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience lifeAcclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's Rapt makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty or brains, fate or coincidence, but on what you choose to pay attention to. Rapt introduces a diverse cast of characters, from researchers to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    New Women in the Old West

    From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    Narrated by Blair Seibert ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    A riveting history of the American West told for the first time through the pioneering women who used the challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in the processBetween 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by the prospect of adventure and opportunity, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    New

    Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change

    by Winifred Gallagher ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 42 min

    Follow a crawling baby around and you’ll see that right from the beginning, nothing excites us more than something new and different. Our unique human brains are biologically primed to engage with and even generate novelty, from our ancestors’ first bow and arrow to the latest tablet computer. This “neophilia” has enabled us to thrive in a world of cataclysmic change, but now, we confront an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    American Nightmare

    The History of Jim Crow

    by Jerrold M. Packard ...
    Narrated by Terrence Kidd ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 49 min

    For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life—and outlined draconian punishments for infractions.The purpose of Jim Crow was to keep African Americans subjugated at a level as close as ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook