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2018
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**This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material.In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the white folks. They called this da...
2011
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**“THE SHARPEST AND MOST UNUSUAL STORY I READ LAST YEAR . . . [Mat] Johnson’s satirical vision roves as freely as Kurt Vonnegut’s and is colored with the same sort of passionate humanitarianism.”—Maud Newton, New York Times MagazineNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Vanity Fair • Houston Chronicle • The Seattle Times • Salon • National Post • The A.V. Club**Recently canned professor of American liter...
How Hitchens Can Save the Left
Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment
2023
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Christopher Hitchens was for many years considered one of the fiercest and most eloquent left-wing polemicists in the world. But on much of today’s left, he’s remembered as a defector, a warmonger, and a sellout—a supporter of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who traded his left-wing principles for neoconservatism after the September 11 attacks. In How Hitchens Can Save the Left, Matt Johnson argues that this easy narrative gets Hitchens exactly wrong. Hitchens was a lifelong champion of f...
Apostate
Stories of Deconversion
- by
- Seth MooreLiz TeoStephanie Moser SmithTim MatterS. D. HopkinsUrsula SchneiderFinnegan O’DellSuzanne AdamsKay WatersEd MorrisMatthew TaylorRaymond ChoTim HatcherSarah BacallerTim BlondinRonel Bakervarious authorsRose AbernatheyRaymond GilfordGretchen SpencerPhil QuagliarielloMatt OxleyJo Lloyd Johnson
- Narrated by
- Sarah Bacaller
Unabridged
10 hours 59 min
2025
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Can you feel your faith slipping away? Are you or a loved one questioning what you’ve always believed?You are not alone. Come on a journey with others who have lost their religion but have found themselves.If you’re wondering whether there’s life on the other side of deconversion, or if you’re trying desperately to understand a loved one who is losing their faith—this book is for you. Edited by philosophy of religion scholar, Sarah Bacaller, with a foreword...
Branding that Means Business
An Economist Edge Book
- Book 1 -
- Economist Edge
2022
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'The most insightful book on branding of the last 20 years' Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of OgilvyNow, more than ever, your brand is either loved - or it's noise.In a world defined by digital products and immediate gratification, how can your brand stand out? When consumers can easily have anything, how can your brand be the one thing they can't live without?To rise to this challenge, brands must shape not just what consumers buy, but how they act...
2018
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A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before.When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go "Incognegro" for the first time, using his light appearance to pass as ...
Loving Day
A Novel
2015
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[Mat Johnson’s] unrelenting examination of blackness, whiteness and everything in between is handled with ruthless candor and riotous humor.”—Los Angeles Times“Razor-sharp . . . Loving Day is that rare mélange: cerebral comedy with pathos.”—The New York Times Book ReviewNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New Y...
Blindsight
The (Mostly) Hidden Ways Marketing Reshapes Our Brains
2020
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Ever notice that all watch ads show 10:10 as the time? Or that all fast-food restaurants use red or yellow in their logos? Or that certain stores are always having a sale?You may not be aware of these details, yet they've been influencing you all along.Every time you purchase, swipe, or click, marketers are able to more accurately predict your behavior. These days, brands know more about you than you know about yourself. Blindsight is here to chang...
Invisible Things
A Novel
2022
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**A sharp allegorical novel about a hidden human civilization, a crucial election, and a mysterious invisible force that must not be named, by one of our most imaginative comic novelistsLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post**When sociologist Nalini Jackson joins the SS Delany for the first manned mission to Jupiter, all she wants is a career opportunity: the chance to conduct the first field study of...
Branding that Means Business
How to Build Enduring Bonds between Brands, Consumers and Markets
2022
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A revelatory guide on how to build, sustain and grow a brand.A brand is either beloved, or it’s noise. We live in a fast-paced world of immediate gratification where consumers can listen to any song, watch any movie, or read any article, with the touch of a few buttons. They are peppered with hyper-personalized targeting for products that can be ordered seamlessly and arrive within hours. And if your brand isn’t the first to come to mind, they’ll click that button ...
2012
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A policeman is killed in a bomb last, a second is gunned down on his own drive. The Wicked Game has started.London based, Royalty protection officer Robert Finlay has had enough of the job's not-so-glamorous demands and opts to transfer to a local police station. But fate has plans for Finlay - both the murdered officers were former Army colleagues.Finlay doesnt see himself as the hero type - just a survivor. With a famiy to protect, the Wicked Game will test those survival...
2019
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All three instalments of the action-packed, emotive Robert Finlay series of thrillersTense, grippingly authentic thrillers featuring Police Inspector Robert Finlay, who must overcome his traumatic past to mete justice and stay alive … by the number-one bestselling author and ex-police officer Matt JohnsonBOOK ONE – Wicked GameLONGLISTED for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger award...











