Louis Menand

Louis Menand

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The Free World
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The Free World
  • By: Louis Menand
  • Narrator: David Colacci
  • Length: 34 hours 55 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: April 20, 2021
  • Language: English
  • (652 ratings)
(652 ratings)
“Narrator David Colacci approaches this opinionated, engrossing audiobook with a practiced voice that lets its numerous stories tell themselves without fanfare…this audiobook is a monumental work.” — AudioFile MagazineIn his... Read more
The Marketplace of Ideas
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The Marketplace of Ideas
  • By: Louis Menand
  • Length: 4 hours 4 minutes
  • Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
  • Publish date: February 01, 2010
  • Language: English
  • (329 ratings)
(329 ratings)
Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Why do professors all tend to think alike? What makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects should be required? Why do teachers and scholars find it so difficult to transcend the limits of... Read more
The Metaphysical Club
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The Metaphysical Club
  • By: Louis Menand
  • Length: 17 hours 26 minutes
  • Publisher: Highbridge Company
  • Publish date: December 19, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (4964 ratings)
(4964 ratings)
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father... Read more

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Subversive Jesus When Jesus left the most exclusive gated community in the universe to come live with the people he loved and gave his life for, he turned everything we know and believe about life on its head. Jesus said that he came to bring good news to the poor, but most Western Christians remain disconnected and isolated from the poor and their contexts of injustice. Even our churches echo society’s ... Read Book
Final Theory A science professor on the run must find a lost Einstein theory—and keep it from those who might use it to destroy the universe. Don’t miss the “riveting” (Publishers Weekly) doomsday thriller that Booklist calls “a strikingly sweet-natured yet satisfyingly barbed high-tech, high-stakes adventure” in a starred review. David Swift is called to the hospital to ... Read Book
Graveyard of the Pacific Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it’s nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific. Two thousand ships have been wrecked on the bar since the first European ship dared to try to cross it. Since then, the commercial importance of the Columbia River has only grown, but despite the ... Read Book
Enemy Women As lyrical and poignant as Ahab’s Wife and Cold Mountain, here is a wondrous tale set against the tragedy of the American Civil War. . . . “Jiles carries her gifts with deft precision.”–New York Times Book Review The Colley family are modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. Although Southerners, the Colleys try to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia who confiscate ... Read Book
WarMage: Unrelenting Raven Alby is graduating from her first year at Fowler Academy. There are parties and dates with William and a long summer with friends, just like any other teenager with a large dragon. But then a letter arrives from her grandfather. Magic is returning to Brighton, but not everyone is ready to handle it. It’s a race against the fear spreading through Lomberdoon. Can Raven and her friends keep ... Read Book
The AMA Handbook of Project Management An essential resource presenting state-of-the-art theory and process of project management, The AMA Handbook of Project Management has long been considered the authoritative guide. Managing complex projects can stretch you to the limits. But with a book full of experts coaching you each step of the way, you’ll never be baffled, blocked, or misdirected again. Packed with essays and insights from ... Read Book
At Last Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * One of TIME‘s Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year * Named One of the best books of the Year by The Telegraph and Esquire Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as “our purest living prose stylist” and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called “the most ... Read Book
Create Your Yes! Are you tired of hearing “No”? Then create your “Yes!”When you are faced with rejection, do you cringe or thrive? While it may seem that we are out of options when we try something and fail, there is almost a way to make your dreams a reality ― in the face of ANY adversary! Angela Marie Hutchinson has a fairly simple motto: dreams don’t happen, dreams are made. Rather than admit ... Read Book
Poemsia Award-winning Author Lang Leav presents Poemsia, an inspiring YA novel that will make you laugh, cry, and want to share with all your friends! VERITY WOLF dreams of being a poet–not that she’d ever admit it to anyone. Her best friend, Jess, thinks she’s definitely got what it takes, while her cat, Zorro, is characteristically indifferent. As for the cute boy she’s just met, he’s about ... Read Book
FRAUD Until death do us part. That was what I promised him and I meant every word.Mark wasn’t perfect but perfection doesn’t exist. They say an omission is not a lie but when my husband’s secrets spin out of control, I don’t know where to turn. Then he arrives . . . my best friend’s cousin, Hayes. He’s young and beautiful, and broken-just like me. As a former sailor with the British Navy, ... Read Book
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