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  • Traumatized

    The New Politics of Public Suffering

    by Catherine Liu ...
    How trauma became a weapon in the culture wars, by the acclaimed author of Virtue HoardersWhat happens when an idea born of genuine suffering is weaponized as a tool of social control? Traumatized is the story of how shell shock became PTSD, how Oprah turned pain into profit, and how “authenticity” became the ultimate brand. It is a history of surveillance capitalism’s greatest coup: convincing us ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Virtue Hoarders

    The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

    by Catherine Liu ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroismProfessional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity and virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways. Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Translated by Catherine Liu ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The story and characters in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame have resonated with succeeding generations since its publication in 1831. It has tempted filmmakers, and most recently animators, who have exploited its dramatic content to good effect but have inevitably lost some of the grays that make the original text so compelling.From Victor Hugo's flamboyant imagination came Quasimodo, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Oriental Girls Desire Romance

    by Catherine Liu ...
    It's 1980s New York, and though the coke flows freely, money and glamour are the more powerful intoxicants. While fortunes are being made in SoHo galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transient drag queens and dandies, club kids and strippers, artists and actors, models and waitstaff wander the streets, providing the city's background color, cheap labor and even cheaper entertainment. The ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Traumatized

    The New Politics of Public Suffering

    by Catherine Liu ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Aquino ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    How trauma became a weapon, by highly-acclaimed author of Virtue HoardersTraumatized traces the emergence and triumph of the concept of trauma in public life. From shell-shock and PTSD to the power of Oprah Winfrey and the authentic personal brand, Liu weaves together the history of this now ubiquitous idea and explains what it all means for our society. Trauma culture speaks to our current moment ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    by Harper Lee ...
    Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read"One of the most—if not the most—beloved of American novels." —The New YorkerHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into mo... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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