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  • Eating on Cruise Control

    Hassle Free Weight Loss

    by Robert Mann ...
    Hinger Free, Hassel Free Weight Loss ... Read more

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  • Forensic Detective

    How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases

    Death. It’s not only inevitable and frightening, it’s intriguing and fascinating–especially today, when science continues to make ever more stunning advances in the investigation of the oldest and darkest of mysteries. To discover the how and why of death, unearth its roots, and expose the mechanics of its grim handiwork is, at least in some sense, to master it. And in the process, if a criminal ... Read more

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  • The Weaponeer's Daughter

    by Robert Mann ...
    Series Book 1 - Empire of Manel
    Locked beneath Manel's crumbling empire, Catelan Vanstrom labours in secret. She builds a new breed of weaponry for a war anticipated since before she was born. As the eldest daughter of the empire's greatest weaponeer, she masters a craft no lady is meant to touch. Society's segregation, a trusted friend, and a charming spy each keep her away from the marksman she loves most. Catelan and her ... Read more

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  • The Swan That Slept

    A Play

    by Robert Manns ...
    After the American Revolution, Scottish immigrant James Swan entered the businesses of real estate and shipping. Becoming friends with many of the luminaries of the times, his businesses expanded to France, where he was accused of a two million franc debt owed to the government of Napoleon, perhaps in taxes, which he refused. Swan, although he could easily afford the payment, refused to pay "on ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Robert Manne

    A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars

    by Robert Manne ...
    The recollections of Australia's leading public intellectualRobert Manne is one of Australia's most profound political analysts. His memoir traces his intellectual roots, revealing how his family background and early years informed the questions he would spend his life trying to answer. It also provides a fascinating portrait of key political controversies, including intellectual combat over ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kingfish U

    Huey Long and LSU

    by Robert Mann ...
    No political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguished state school into an academic and football powerhouse. From 1931, when Long declared himself the “official thief” for LSU, to his death in 1935, the school’s budget mushroomed, its physical plant ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Wasp

    And Other One-Act Plays

    by Robert Manns ...
    In an age of miniaturization, the one-act play should find itself at home.People do attend concertized etudes, most often for the piano, and that is precisely what a one-act play is-an etude. Sometimes it's a character study, others a piece of action, still others a complete little story, and several strung together selectively can make a program. ... Read more

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  • The Smithson Matter

    by Robert Manns ...
    The Smithson Matter, together with its one-act Introduction, recounts the personal and political maneuvers behind the creation of the great Smithsonian Institute. The Introduction presents James Smithson, n Macie, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Northumberland and the fashionable Elizabeth Macie. Frustrated by the English class society that stigmatizes him and inspired by the equality of the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Yorktown

    A Play

    by Robert Manns ...
    "You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something that is all your own. It wasn't imposed on the characters: it spoke for them."-Christopher Fry"I consider Robert Manns one of the most talented playwrights in the generation not yet recognized by the commercial theater His choice of style is unique; his imagination boundless; and his dedication intense. And I believe he has a real ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century

    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    Black Identities and Media in the Twenty-First Century presents original scholarly essays, drawn from a range of theory-based applications and methodologies, that analyze media representations, effects, and practices relating to Black communities and their varying identities, with particular attention to attributes such as gender, sexuality, class, and ability status. By surveying newsprint, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Against the Klan

    A Newspaper Publisher in South Louisiana during the 1960s

    Series series Media and Public Affairs
    In 1964, less than one year into his tenure as publisher of the Bogalusa Daily News, New Orleans native Lou Major found himself guiding the newspaper through a turbulent period in the history of American civil rights. Bogalusa, Louisiana, became a flashpoint for clashes between African Americans advocating for equal treatment and white residents who resisted this change, a conflict that generated ... Read more

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  • Mind of the Islamic State

    ISIS and the Ideology of the Caliphate

    by Robert Manne ...
    Award-winning Australian intellectual Robert Manne presents an incisive analysis of the historical background and current ideology that motivates ISIS and their quest for domination in the Middle East and beyond. In the ongoing conflict with ISIS, military observers and regional experts have noted that it is just as important to understand its motivating ideology as to win battles on the ground. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD