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  • Animal Spirits

    The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street

    by Jackson Lears ...
    "[A] master class in American cultural and intellectual history." —Sarah E. Igo, The New York Times Book Review"Jackson Lears is the preeminent cultural historian of the American empire. This book is another masterpiece in his magisterial corpus." —Cornel WestOne of Wired's best books of 2023A master historian's retrieval of the spiritual visions and vitalisms that animate American life and the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Something for Nothing

    Luck in America

    by Jackson Lears ...
    Jackson Lears has won accolades for his skill in identifying the rich and unexpected layers of meaning beneath the familiar and mundane in our lives. Now, he challenges the conventional wisdom that the Protestant ethic of perseverance, industry, and disciplined achievement is what made America great. Turning to the deep, seldom acknowledged reverence for luck that runs through our entire history ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rebirth of a Nation

    The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920

    by Jackson Lears ...
    Series series American History
    An illuminating and authoritative history of America in the years between the Civil War and World War I.One of the best books of 2009: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune , and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ."Fascinating. . . . Engaging. . . . Like the best histories, it is also a book that speaks to our own time." — The N... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fables Of Abundance

    A Cultural History Of Advertising In America

    by Jackson Lears ...
    Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Broken Toys

    by Jackson Lear ...
    Just because she disappeared twenty years ago does not mean she's been forgotten.Three friends – their lives crumbling around them – set out to solve the mystery of a girl they barely knew from school, unaware that another gruesome murder is in the works.Soon enough, Josh, Anthony, and Amanda are faced with protecting the ones they love at the cost of everything they believe in, and they must ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadows' Reach

    by Jackson Lear ...
    Series Book 2 - Chimera
    The land is in crisis.A diplomat from Tryste arrives in Moqara with the offer of an alliance, only to be arrested for treason before the day is done. As he stands trial, the only man who can speak in his defense is murdered. But did the killer strike to protect a secret or to gain leverage over one of Moqara’s most powerful families?Reina Dadario, Captain of the Prince’s Guard, hunts for an ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Allure of Fire

    by Jackson Lear ...
    Series Book 3 - Chimera
    The time has come for the Empire to strike at the heart of Moqara, and at the Prince himself.After suffering a humiliating defeat in battle, two aristocratic officers in Carcosa’s army are tasked with a do-or-die mission: sneak into Moqara by whatever means possible, rendezvous with a spy embedded within the region, and recover the godstone hidden beneath the palace.Aiding them is a bloodthirsty ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Animal Spirits

    The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street

    by Jackson Lears ...
    Narrated by Joshua Saxon ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 7 min

    In Animal Spirits, the distinguished historian Jackson Lears explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual's spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • No Place of Grace

    Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920

    A new edition of a classic work of American history that eloquently examines the rise of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century.First published in 1981, T. J. Jackson Lears's No Place of Grace is a landmark book in American studies and American history, acclaimed for both its rigorous research and the deft fluidity of its prose. A study of responses to the emergent culture of corporate ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Raritan on War

    An Anthology

    Series series Raritan Skiff Books
    We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the first time: this has been the characteristic pattern of war for more than a century. Every selection in this anthology (except for the timeless Aeneid) casts light on modern war, observed or directly ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Laughable Lyrics (Unabridged)

    by EDWARD LEAR ...
    Narrated by Clinton Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    40 min

    Hilarious, fantastic poems that I enjoyed reading to my two sons when they were little. Now I'd like to read them for anyone's children to enjoy listening to. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine

    The true story of the US Navy operation that captured Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine.Two days before D-Day, the course of World War II was forever changed. The hunters of the Atlantic Ocean had become the hunted, and US antisubmarine Task Group 22.3 seized a Nazi U-boat. Led by a nine-man boarding party and Captain Daniel Gallery, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus