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  • The History Of The Freak show

    by Paul Murphy ...
    For centuries, crowds gathered beneath painted banners, inside travelling tents, outside fairground booths, and along the noisy midways of circuses and dime museums to stare at human beings advertised as wonders, marvels, monsters, curiosities, living miracles, and strange mistakes of nature. Behind the bright posters and theatrical promises stood a darker and far more complicated history: one ... Read more

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  • The Extended Mind

    The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

    **A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2021A New York Times Notable BookA bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains—in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships**Use your head.That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Origins

    How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives

    What makes us the w***ay*** w***e are?*** Some say it’s the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it’s the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics—our health, our intelligence, our temperaments—are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth?That’s the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal ... Read more

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  • The Sins of Mandatory Celibacy

    The History and Consequences of Mandatory Celibacy Within Catholicism

    This book investigates the origins of the Catholic hierarchy’s decision to mandate celibacy and the effects this has had on Catholic culture and wider society. In part 1, Debra Maria Flint examines the history and theology of mandatory celibacy and demonstrates that this practice has no roots in Judaism or the teachings of Jesus. Flint then discusses the effects of enforced celibacy and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cult of Personality Testing

    How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves

    Award-winning psychology writer Annie Paul delivers a scathing exposé on the history and effects of personality tests.Millions of people worldwide take personality tests each year to direct their education, to decide on a career, to determine if they'll be hired, to join the armed forces, and to settle legal disputes. Yet, according to award-winning psychology writer Annie Murphy Paul, the sheer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Useless Eaters: Understanding the Socialist Delusion

    by Paul Murphy ...
    Most democrats are fine people, people just like you, who are genuinely committed to American values like free speech and equal justice for all, but refuse to see voting fraud, secretly think that Charlie Kirk deserved it, quietly support those who want climate deniers jailed or executed, and absolutely insist on the right to abort children, castrate boys, and submit teenage girls to "top surgery" ... Read more

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  • Frames

    by Paul Murphy ...
    Frames is a simple sci-fi story with fictional physics, silly math, donnish puns, and characters who march along to their fates with the inevitability of a Bach fugue.Frames is not fantasy; it's not space opera; there's no magic, no superheros, no politics - just geeks who love their work, love each other, do what's next, and save the world - twice.There are some complications: a fully ... Read more

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  • Socceroos in Scotland

    by Paul Murphy ...
    From Glasgow to the Highlands, Aussies have left their mark in Scotland.Socceroos in Scotland is the untold story of how Australian footballers have gone from fringe curiosities to key players in Scottish football. With roots tracing back to the early influence of Scottish immigrants on the Australian game, the dynamic flipped in the 1980s as a wave of adventurous Aussies crossed the globe in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winter's Edge: An Anthology of Historical Fiction

    Three daggers with wolf-head pommels, forged in the Roman Era.Initially awarded to three women for heroic service to the Empire, the daggers are separated for over two thousand years.They cross intriguing paths with Richard the Lionheart in Medieval France, Leonardo DaVinci leaving Renaissance Italy, spies in Rococo Austria, Misters Darcy & Bingley in Georgian England, and courageous farmers in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paul Murphy

    Peacemaker

    by Paul Murphy ...
    Born into a traditional Welsh valley community, Paul Murphy has been a member of the Labour Party for more than 55 years. In this book, he describes how the socialist beliefs of that community, and of his parents especially, helped to develop his own very early political consciousness. After three years studying at Oxford, and alongside work as a lecturer in History and Government, he went on to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 13th Apostle

    A Novel

    by Paul Murphy ...
    In the streets of an ancient city, a young beggar emerges as...The 13th Apostle!The year is 33 A.D. Amid the political unrest of ancient Jerusalem, a young street beggar becomes a voice for truth in his community. Schooled in Judaism by a kindly old baker, Gamaliel embraces the teachings of Jesus. He wins his opponents over with his uncanny knack of applying Jesus' parables to everyday life. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Dividing of the American Mind

    Humanism and Intellectual Life in the Early Twentieth Century

    by Paul Murphy ...
    Series series Intellectual History of the Modern Age
    Paul V. Murphy is Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. He is the author of The New Era: American Thought and Culture in the 1920s. ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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