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Journalists and Their Shadows

by Patrick Lawrence ...

Part memoir, part social history, Journalists and Their Shadows captures the deplorable state of the American media in our time—recording its deterioration, its moments of crisis and ultimately, its transformation as seen through the eyes of a journalist engaged at its very heart through all its phases. The press had a bad Cold War, Patrick Lawrence contends, and never recovered from it, having ... Read more

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Part memoir, part social history, Journalists and Their Shadows captures the deplorable state of the American media in our time—recording its deterioration, its moments of crisis and ultimately, its transformation as seen through the eyes of a journalist engaged at its very heart through all its phases. The press had a bad Cold War, Patrick Lawrence contends, and never recovered from it, having
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Swallowing the Muskellunge

Mischief Makers, #1

by Lawrence Patrick O'Brien ...

Series Book 1 - Mischief Makers
AWARDS/ACCOLADES: Reader Views (5-Star), The Coffee Pot Book Club (5-Star), Literary Titan Silver Book Award (Silver)A TALE THAT BLENDS BLACK AND INDIGENOUS HISTORIES WITH SUPERNATURAL HORROR.A free Black family. A wilderness migration. A creature that has been waiting for them for generations. London Oxford is a freed man, but freedom in 1800 is a fragile thing. When the Wright family decides to ... Read more

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AWARDS/ACCOLADES: Reader Views (5-Star), The Coffee Pot Book Club (5-Star), Literary Titan Silver Book Award (Silver)A TALE THAT BLENDS BLACK AND INDIGENOUS HISTORIES WITH SUPERNATURAL HORROR.A free Black family. A wilderness migration. A creature that has been waiting for them for generations. London Oxford is a freed man, but freedom in 1800 is a fragile thing. When the Wright family decides to
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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense

The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

by Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson ...

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast.In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry ... Read more

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One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast.In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry
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Out of the Gutters

Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics

Edited by Patrick S. Lawrence, Jorge J. Santos Jr. ...

Series series World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the politicians and parents behind today’s book-banning campaigns reserve special ire for graphic novels. What makes today’s controversies different is the content of the alleged obscenity. Instead of targeting sex as such, censors now focus on ... Read more

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Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the politicians and parents behind today’s book-banning campaigns reserve special ire for graphic novels. What makes today’s controversies different is the content of the alleged obscenity. Instead of targeting sex as such, censors now focus on
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Quality Investing

Owning the best companies for the long term

by Torkell T. Eide, Lawrence A. Cunningham, Patrick Hargreaves ...

Quality. We all make judgments about it every day. Yet articulating a clear definition of quality in an investing context is challenging. This book addresses the challenge, and distills years of practical investing experience into a definitive account of this under-explored investment philosophy.Finance theory has it that abnormal outcomes do not persist, that exceptional performance will soon ... Read more

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Quality. We all make judgments about it every day. Yet articulating a clear definition of quality in an investing context is challenging. This book addresses the challenge, and distills years of practical investing experience into a definitive account of this under-explored investment philosophy.Finance theory has it that abnormal outcomes do not persist, that exceptional performance will soon
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Obscene Gestures

Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

by Patrick S. Lawrence ...

Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner,
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How to Listen When Markets Speak

Risks, Myths, and Investment Opportunities in a Radically Reshaped Economy

by Lawrence G. McDonald ...

A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in the global economy will trigger a multi-trillion-dollar migration of wealth, outlining new rules of investing for the forward-thinking.“I can’t tell you how much I learned from How to Listen When Markets Speak. The historical perspectives and insights are something every investor needs to know. Buy ... Read more

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A New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on market risk argues that seismic shifts in the global economy will trigger a multi-trillion-dollar migration of wealth, outlining new rules of investing for the forward-thinking.“I can’t tell you how much I learned from How to Listen When Markets Speak. The historical perspectives and insights are something every investor needs to know. Buy
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Hard Worked Days

by Lawrence Patrick O'Brien ...

They Were Marked by Something Not of This World. Then the Wall Closed In.Hard Worked Days mixes visceral violence, dark humour, and genuine tenderness without flinching from any of them.It is the kind of speculative fiction that uses alien worlds and catastrophe to say something true about labour, belonging, and the peoplewe carry with us.Station Eleven meets The RoadHomegoing meets ArrivalThe ... Read more

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They Were Marked by Something Not of This World. Then the Wall Closed In.Hard Worked Days mixes visceral violence, dark humour, and genuine tenderness without flinching from any of them.It is the kind of speculative fiction that uses alien worlds and catastrophe to say something true about labour, belonging, and the peoplewe carry with us.Station Eleven meets The RoadHomegoing meets ArrivalThe
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Clochan

Mischief Makers, #2

by Lawrence Patrick O'Brien ...

Series Book 2 - Mischief Makers
KEVIN NEAL, at the foot of the Blackstairs Mountains, fails to bait a Púca to fight. In this compelling, heartrending, Irish coming-of-age story, he learns too well what it costs when monsters are unleashed.Decades before the great famine, the youngest Neal boy survives the war, but believes he has lost everyone. When he locates a childhood friend—Anastasia Kelly, he learns that she has become ... Read more

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KEVIN NEAL, at the foot of the Blackstairs Mountains, fails to bait a Púca to fight. In this compelling, heartrending, Irish coming-of-age story, he learns too well what it costs when monsters are unleashed.Decades before the great famine, the youngest Neal boy survives the war, but believes he has lost everyone. When he locates a childhood friend—Anastasia Kelly, he learns that she has become
... Read more
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Mornings in Mexico

by D. H. Lawrence ...

Narrated by Patrick Barker ...

Unabridged

3 hours 44 min

D. H. Lawrence’s homage to his travels in Mexico and the American southwest. The first four essays are products of a short visit to Oaxaca in Mexico. The following three, which include Lawrence’s classic account of the Hopi snake dance, are set in New Mexico. In the last essay, Lawrence remembers Saint Catherine’s Day at the ranch in Taos from the vantage point of his new residence in Italy. All ... Read more

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D. H. Lawrence’s homage to his travels in Mexico and the American southwest. The first four essays are products of a short visit to Oaxaca in Mexico. The following three, which include Lawrence’s classic account of the Hopi snake dance, are set in New Mexico. In the last essay, Lawrence remembers Saint Catherine’s Day at the ranch in Taos from the vantage point of his new residence in Italy. All
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The Virgin and the Gypsy

by D. H. Lawrence ...

Narrated by Patrick Barker ...

Unabridged

3 hours 35 min

Yvette, daughter of the Anglican rector of an East Midlands village, is awakened to the possibilities of life and love by an encounter with a dark, handsome gypsy. Published shortly after Lawrence’s death in 1930, this short novel was written in 1926 and was a precursor to Lady Chatterley’s Lover. ... Read more

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Yvette, daughter of the Anglican rector of an East Midlands village, is awakened to the possibilities of life and love by an encounter with a dark, handsome gypsy. Published shortly after Lawrence’s death in 1930, this short novel was written in 1926 and was a precursor to Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
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Raritan on War

An Anthology

by C. Felix Amerasinghe, Andrew J. Bacevich, Victoria De Grazia, Tamas Dobozy, David Ferry, M. Fortuna, Cai Guo-Qiang, Emma Dodge Hanson, Jochen Hellbeck, Karl Kirchwey, Ray Klimek, Peter LaBier, Patrick Lawrence, d. mark levitt, Michael Miller, Lyle Jeremy Rubin, Elizabeth D. Samet, Sherod Santos, Robert Westbrook ...

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

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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

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