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  • 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

    $12.99 USD 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

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bible, The Basketball, and The Briefcase

    How An Arkansas Lawyer Also Became An Inner City Pastor

    by Jay Martin ...
    As a promising new lawyer, Jay Martin would have seem like a guy out of place in the projects of Little Rock, Arkansas, shooting hoops, befriending fatherless kids, and introducing them to Jesus. Since then, Jay has enjoyed a prominent career in law and politics. Yet, despite his vocational demands, Jay continued his outreach. Today it has grown into a vital ministry that is reaching hundreds of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • Building Your Business

    by Martin Jay ...
    The steps that you need to succeed are right here in this book. Everything you want and everything you wished you could do in the business world is now obtainable. Don't look at this as a book. Look at it as a path to your amazing future. ... Read more

    $15.96 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boom Town Snap

    by Jay Martin ...
    Ambition, betrayal, and environmental reckoning in the oilfields of Alberta and the mining towns of Western Australia.When Georgie's boss-turned-lover, Nico, offers her a high-stakes job in Canada, she wants to say no. But burdened by debt and swayed by Nico's promises that the gig will be quick and lucrative, Georgie feels she has no choice – even though it means leaving behind the people she ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • Lost Boy

    by Jay Martin ...
    **The comics debut of accomplished music video director Jay Martin in a beautiful and heartwarming tale of adversity and survival.In the aftermath of a deadly car accident in the remote Wyoming wilderness, a young boy escapes as the sole survivor.**Stranded, freezing and without anyone around to help him, he struggles to stay alive as he attempts to find his way back to civilization. Along the way ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $21.89 USD

  • 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

    $21.99 USD

  • 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

    $35.09 USD