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  • I'll make you laugh

    by Martin Jay ...
    This book is about a comedian that cannot seem to get it right. All he wants to do is be funny but just isn't. He tries and tries his best, but it gets to the point where he starts to turn into someone else and doesn't even know it. A horror story based on the life of a maniacal comedian. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $11.19 CAD

  • 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

    $11.19 CAD

  • 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

    $17.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magical Nominalism

    The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, & the Photograph

    by Martin Jay ...
    A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between "conventional" and "magical" nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, and photography.In this magisterial new book, intellectual historian Martin Jay traces the long-standing competition between two versions of nominalism—the "conventional" and the "magical." Since at least William of Ockham, ... Read more

    $31.99 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

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $25.29 CAD

  • The Great Barrington Declaration

    Documents, Defenses, and Disputations

    Edited by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff ...
    Most of the world was in lockdown from March 2020 under the spurious theory that wrecking small businesses, closing schools, and compromising every civil liberty could somehow be a pathway to controlling a respiratory virus. Media censorship of alternative approaches began immediately, thus silencing credible critics.Eight months in, and before the release of the pharmaceutical products pushed as ... Read more

    $24.64 CAD

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  • 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

    $25.29 CAD

  • Force Fields

    Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique

    by Martin Jay ...
    Force Fields collects the recent essays of Martin Jay, an intellectual historian and cultural critic internationally known for his extensive work on the history of Western Marxism and the intellectual migration from Germany to America. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Magic of Gratitude, The

    Memoir of a True Story

    by Jay Pacheco ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Uncover the Life-Changing Power of GratitudeThe Magic of Gratitude: Memoir of a True Story takes you on a transformative journey through the captivating life of Jay Pacheco, a psychology student, devoted worker, and visionary thinker. After a life-altering car accident, Jay discovers how gratitude can heal, inspire, and elevate the human spirit. In ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Downcast Eyes

    The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought

    by Martin Jay ...
    Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD