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  • From Counterculture to Cyberculture

    Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

    by Fred Turner ...
    "In this unique, provocative work of cultural history, Turner teases apart the visions, myths, and rhetoric that have swept us into cyberspace." — Booklist (starred review)In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Democratic Surround

    Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

    by Fred Turner ...
    A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antidemocracy in America

    Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk

    by Michelle Wilde Anderson, Lisa Wade, Thomas J. Sugrue, Victor Pickard, Saskia Sassen, Alina Das, Oona A. Hathaway, Scott J. Shapiro, Richard Sennett, Pedro Noguera, Fred Turner, Craig Calhoun, Margaret Levi, Shamus Khan, Gretchen Blake, Patrick Sharkey, Linda Gordon, Richard Shrum, Philip Gorski, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, Ashley Farmer, Douglas S. Massey, Steven Lukes, Michelle Jackson, David B. Grusky, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Professor of Sociology Michele Lamont, Jack Halberstam, Jefferson Cowie, William Julius Wilson, Harel Shapira ...
    Series series Public Books Series
    On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Think in Public

    A Public Books Reader

    by Judith Butler, Fred Turner, Lilly Irani, Stacey Balkan, Imani Perry, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Nathan Connolly, Matthew Engelke, Philip Gorski, Kim Phillips-Fein, Max Holleran, Najwa al-Qattan, Jeremy Adelman, Destin Jenkins, Andrew Perrin, Kieran Setiya, Shannon Mattern, Jill Lepore, Suzy Hansen, James Vernon, Lynn French, Salamishah Tillet, Matthew Clair, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Plotz, Christopher Schaberg, Eli Rosenblatt, Barbara Cassin, Rebecca Falkoff, Haruo Shirane, Karl Ashoka Britto, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Marah Gubar, Anne E. Fernald, Namwali Serpell, Tess McNulty, Mark McGurl, Nicholas Dames, Jan Mieszkowski, Karen Dunak, Daegan Miller, John R. McNeill ...
    Series series Public Books Series
    Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Defining the Age

    Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

    by Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...
    The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Defining the Age

    Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

    by Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...
    The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Chasing Dinosaurs

    And Life's Meaning

    by Fred Turner ...
    It is approaching 100 years since the monkey trial - July 21, 1925. The trial was about our ancestors and the monkeys. The trial defaulted but monkeys seem to be the Winner and this trial conclusion still prevails with the evolution theory dominating out science text books. I dont know anybody that really believes in the theory of evolution ; but no convincing rebuttal has yet surfaced to force ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Escape from Zion

    Mormon/Lds Zion

    by Fred Turner ...
    Western Historical Fiction Novel - (time frame) - Civil War Period of History - (event) - Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah Mormon Territory.Nanci Cameron escapes crossing the Huricane Cliffs and the Grande Canyon to THE MOUNTAIN in Northern Arizona. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood

    A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood

    by David R. Montgomery ...
    How the mystery of the Bible's greatest story shaped geology: a MacArthur Fellow presents a surprising perspective on Noah's Flood.In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah’s Flood. Intrigued, Montgomery began investigating the world’s flood stories and—drawing from historic works by theologians, natural philosophers, ... Read more

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  • The Sackett Brand

    by Louis L'Amour ...
    Series Book 12 - Sacketts
    In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer.Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa, something goes terribly wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally manages to drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate, cold, ... Read more

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  • Did Adam Have a Bellybutton?

    And Other Tough Questions About the Bible

    by Ken Ham ...
    These concise, relevant topics answer questions on the minds of Christians and seekers everywhere. Ham has discovered that multitudes of people want to know the answers to key questions like, “Where did Cain get his wife?" and “How could Noah fit all of those animals on the ark?” The Bible does have answers to tough questions such as these, so there’s no reason Christians can’t defend their faith ... Read more

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  • The Lonely Men

    by Louis L'Amour ...
    Series Book 14 - Sacketts
    In The Lonely Men, Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap—only to discover that his greatest enemy might be very close to home.Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and managed to take something of value from his battles: a deep and abiding respect. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap his nephew, forcing Tell to cross the border into the Sierra ... Read more

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