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  • Life of Charles Dickens

    by Frank Thomas Marzials ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Listen, Liberal

    Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

    by Thomas Frank ...
    A SCATHING LOOK AT THE STANDARD-BEARERS OF LIBERAL POLITICS—A BOOK THAT ASKS: WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH DEMOCRATS?“Thoroughly entertaining . . . Frank delights in skewering the sacred cows of coastal liberalism. . . . A serious political critique.”—The New York Times Book Review (front page)Now with a new afterword, The New York Times bestselling author Thomas Frank’s powerful analysis offers the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Conquest of Cool

    Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism

    by Thomas Frank ...
    The classic bestselling study of the 1960s advertising industry that makes the case that what passes for cultural radicalism isn't radical at all."[A] bristlingly intelligent work. . . . An indispensable survival guide for any modern consumer." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)While the youth counterculture remains the most evocative and best-remembered symbol of the cultural f... ... Read more

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  • Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

    The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It

    by Craig Aaron, Eric Alterman, C. Edwin Baker, Yochai Benkler, Michael J. Copps, Michael Schudson, Thomas Frank, Todd Gitlin, Chris Hedges, Janine Jackson, Pamela Newkirk, John Nichols, Clay Shirkey, David Simon, Paul Starr, Leonard Downie ...
    Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book." — Library JournalThe sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Yet, until now, we have lacked a ... Read more

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  • What's the Matter with Kansas?

    How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

    by Thomas Frank ...
    The New York Times bestsellerWinner of the Eugene V. Debs AwardNamed the Best Political Book of the Year by The New York TimesWith a New Afterword by the AuthorHailed as "dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "in a different league from most political books" (The New ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The People, No

    A Brief History of Anti-Populism

    by Thomas Frank ...
    A "brilliantly written, eye-opening" look at how elites distort the meaning of populism by the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas? ( The Washington Post).Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No, New York Times-bestselling author Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales

    by Frank Thomas Bullen, F.R.G.S. ...
    In "The Cruise of the 'Cachalot'," Bullen provides a vivid and detailed account of his experiences as a young deckhand and later as a first mate on a whaling voyage. The ship's primary mission is to hunt and harvest sperm whales for their valuable oil, a lucrative industry during the 19th century.The narrative takes readers on a journey across the world's oceans, as the "Cachalot" embarks on a ... Read more

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  • A Set Of Unsettling Stories

    by Thomas Frank ...
    Das Buch "A Set Of Unsettling Stories" ist eine Sammlung von düsteren und beunruhigenden Kurzgeschichten sowie Gedichten, die in einem Nordischen Setting spielen und sich mit den Abgründen der menschlichen Psyche befassen. ... Read more

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  • Commodify Your Dissent

    Edited by Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland ...
    From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust.In the "old" Gilded Age, the barons of business accumulated vast wealth and influence from their railroads, steel mills, and banks. But today it is culture that stands at the heart of the American enterprise, mass entertainment the economic dynamo that ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • Pity the Billionaire

    The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

    by Thomas Frank ...
    New York Times Bestseller: A "witty and highly readable" account of the wildly unexpected cultural and political reactions to the Great Recession ( Financial Times).From the author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, this is an updated and expanded edition of "a brilliant expose of the most breathtaking ruse in American political history: how the Right turned the biggest capitalist breakdown since ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rendezvous with Oblivion

    Reports from a Sinking Society

    by Thomas Frank ...
    New York Times–Bestselling Author: "Insightful analysis, moral passion, and keen satirical wit . . . both entertaining and an important commentary on the times." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, America's winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing to the rest of the country?With ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Frank Brown: Sea Apprentice

    by Frank Thomas Bullen ...
    “My dear boy, you are only feeling what I think most British boys feel at some period of their school days, a longing for an adventurous life, no matter what the outcome of it may be. Of course you can’t see one inch beyond your nose, that’s not to be expected, any more than that you should consider my feelings in the matter. You want to go to sea and that’s enough—for you; but, Frank, aren’t your ... Read more

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