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  • Vodka and Apple Juice

    Travels of an Undiplomatic Wife in Poland

    by Jay Martin ...
    When Jay's husband lands a diplomatic job in Warsaw, she jumps at the chance to escape a predictable life in Canberra for adventure in the heart of central Europe. From glamorous cocktail parties and dining with presidents, to snowy sleigh rides and drinking vodka in smoky bars, Jay is thrown into all that embassy life has to offer. She comes to realize that three things in Poland are certain: ... Read more

    $17.66 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Second Son

    by Martin Jay Weiss ...
    Narrated by Andrew Eiden ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 19 min

    Twin brothers Ethan and Jack Stone have built the ultimate transparency app―Stalker―and it’s going to make them rich. But when Ethan’s girlfriend dumps him and his brother bails for their biggest competitor, Ethan is convinced they’ve run off together. Using Stalker to find out, he tracks them from Silicon Beach to Silicon Valley, and the secret it reveals is even more twisted than he imagined, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yellow

    by Jay Martin ...
    Set in an alternate future amid a Second Civil War, wounded infantryman Nick Carson flees the battlefield and escapes across the wasteland of war-torn America.Branded a coward and marked for death, Nick’s only hope is to get to the other side. His route takes him through a strange, ravaged country where power plants lay destroyed and once great cities have gone dark. An America at war with itself ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Dialectical Imagination

    A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950

    by Martin Jay ...
    Series Book 10 - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
    Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Immanent Critiques

    The Frankfurt School under Pressure

    by Martin Jay ...
    The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By distinguishing between what is still and what is no longer alive in Critical Theory, these essays seek to demonstrate its continuing relevance in the 21st century.Fifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Virtues of Mendacity

    On Lying in Politics

    by Martin Jay ...
    Series series Richard Lectures
    When Michael Dukakis accused George H. W. Bush of being the "Joe Isuzu of American Politics" during the 1988 presidential campaign, he asserted in a particularly American tenor the near-ancient idea that lying and politics (and perhaps advertising, too) are inseparable, or at least intertwined. Our response to this phenomenon, writes the renowned intellectual historian Martin Jay, tends to ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Breakneck

    by Jason Cannon, Joslyn Chase, James Dain, Steve Dickinson, Tom Fowler, Trudey Martin, Sharon A Mitchell, Jay Tinsiano, Ben Westerham ...
    Strap in and hang on!Diverse, entertaining, and wonderfully fast-paced! These thrilling tales showcase the talents of nine superb suspense writers you'll love meeting.A lone man braves the wilds of Alaska to save a town from brutal annihilation.A grocery shopper intervenes in a store shooting and gets more than he bargained for.A retired Army cop goes up against a cold-blooded killer to exonerate ... Read more

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  • Splinters in Your Eye

    Essays on the Frankfurt School

    by Martin Jay ...
    Assessing the legacy of the Frankfurt School in the twenty-first centuryAlthough successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the School's history and reading its ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Education of John Dewey

    A Biography

    by Jay Martin ...
    During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Bible, The Basketball, and The Briefcase

    How An Arkansas Lawyer Also Became An Inner City Pastor

    by Jay Martin ...
    As a promising new lawyer, Jay Martin would have seem like a guy out of place in the projects of Little Rock, Arkansas, shooting hoops, befriending fatherless kids, and introducing them to Jesus. Since then, Jay has enjoyed a prominent career in law and politics. Yet, despite his vocational demands, Jay continued his outreach. Today it has grown into a vital ministry that is reaching hundreds of ... Read more

    $16.43 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Live All You Can

    Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball

    by Jay Martin ...
    Laying waste to the notion that Abner Doubleday established the modern game of baseball, acclaimed biographer Jay Martin makes a bold case for A. J. Cartwright (1820-1892), an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and avid ballplayer whose keen perception and restless spirit codified the rules of the sport and engineered its rapid spread throughout the country.Consulting Cartwright's personal ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Lessons From the Best Coach

    by Jay Martin ...
    With more than 750 wins, Dr. Jay Martin is the winningest men’s soccer coach in all NCAA divisions. His excellence over four decades is second to none, and he offers the secret to his success in this book. He suggests that coaches do not make players better; only players make players better. So then, what is the job of the coach? According to Dr. Martin, a coach’s job is to create an environment ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD