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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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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

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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
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The Virtues of Mendacity

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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
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The Dialectical Imagination

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There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or values transcend their temporal origins and overcome the sin of their original context, and in so doing earn abiding respect for their intrinsic merit? Or do they inevitably reflect them in ways that ... Read more

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