Matthew J. Donovan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Rittenhouse: The Saga of an American Family, Volume 2
J. D. Rittenhouse
Think about #Rittenhouse going free in the context of julius Jones. Rittenhouse was captured on TV shooting someone. Jones was only connected by a murder weapon placed at his house by a friend who admitted to cell mates he had both placed it and murded the victim.
Hardcover, 2019
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Avidly Reads Making Out
Kathryn Bond Stockton
Avidly Reads Making Out: Stockton, Kathryn Bond
Paperback, 2019
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
Profit-driven technological advances are highly unlikely to overcome human drudgery as such, at least on their own, especially where labor remains cheap, plentiful, and easily exploited.” Aaron Benanav from Automation and the Future of Work (2020)
Hardcover, 2020
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price
From Laziness Does Not Exist, Devon Price PhD
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
David McNally
As early as 1580 BCE, a large-scale trade in enslaved people had developed across the Indian Ocean—a case that prompted Patterson to remark, “Slavery was intricately tied up with the origins of trade itself.” David McNally, Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire (5/5)
Paperback, 2020
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Paul B. Preciado
Just in case you were wondering, it will cost you 3ETH to buy the Aaron Carter signed version of Paul Preciado’s Testo Junkie.
Paperback, 2013
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How To Observe: Morals and Manners
Harriet Martineau
"The grand secret of wise inquiry into Morals and Manners is to begin with the study of things." Harriet Martineau
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