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Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable

How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notorious Mayor

By: Mark Towhey,Johanna Schneller

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Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable

How I Tried to Help the World's Most Notorious Mayor

By: Mark Towhey,Johanna Schneller

Rob Ford—the most ridiculed and scandal-ridden mayor—is an international celebrity. When the photo of him smoking crack cocaine circulated, garnering billions of hits, it was the icing on the cake. Ford, not just the favorite buffoon of late-night comics and journalists, was also a known alcoholic and the subject of legal, political, and police investigations—stripped of his mayoral powers by Toronto’s City Council and a star subject in a murder investigation. Here for the first time, Ford’s former chief of staff Mark Towhey, who tried to wrangle Ford during his highly public meltdown, comes clean, filling in incredible behind-the-scenes details previously unknown and providing invaluable context. With this highly anticipated and much-talked-about tell-all, we go deep into Ford’s personal life, including his addictions and his rivalry with his brother; we watch him as he runs Toronto; we overhear hair-raising late-night phone calls and see private, after-hours events; and we also get the much-gossiped-about but little-known account of Towhey’s desperate struggle to protect the mayor from himself. This juicy read is, like Ford, political candy, but it doesn’t expose Ford for the sake of ridicule—it empathizes with him and explains him. It provides a fascinating portrait of twenty-first-century urban politics, as well as a character study of a larger-than-life personality, a mayor so colorful that he remains in office as a councillor and—despite it all—may one day become mayor again.

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440

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Simon and Schuster

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1634500482

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9781634500487

(Post-)colonial Archipelagos

Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

By: Hans-Jürgen Burchardt,Johanna Leinius

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(Post-)colonial Archipelagos

Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

By: Hans-Jürgen Burchardt,Johanna Leinius

The Puerto Rican debt crisis, the challenges of social, political, and economic transition in Cuba, and the populist politics of Duterte in the Philippines—these topics are typically seen as disparate experiences of social reality. Though these island territories were colonized by the same two colonial powers—by the Spanish Empire and, after 1898, by the United States—research in the fields of history and the social sciences rarely draws links between these three contexts. Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial legacies of the three island nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Instead of focusing on the legacies of US colonialism, the continuing legacies of Spanish colonialism are put center-stage. The analyses offered in the volume yield new and surprising insights into the study of colonial and postcolonial constellations that are of interest not only for experts, but also for readers interested in the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines during Spanish colonization and in the present. The empirical material profits from a rigorous and systematic analytical framework and is thus easily accessible for students, researchers, and the interested public alike.

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383

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University of Michigan Press

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ISBN 10

0472902601

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9780472902606

Frankenstein

A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

By: Mary Shelley,Johanna M. Smith

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Frankenstein

A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism

By: Mary Shelley,Johanna M. Smith

Revised to reflect critical trends of the past 15 years, the third iteration of this widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley’s English Romantic novel along with critical essays that introduce students to Frankenstein from contemporary psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural studies perspectives. The text and essays are complemented by contextual documents, introductions (with bibliographies), and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. In the third edition, three of the six essays are new, representing recent gender/queer, postcolonial, and cultural theories. The contextual documents have been significantly revised to include many images of Frankenstein from contemporary popular culture.

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610

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319035841

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9781319035846

Owned, An Ethological Jurisprudence of Property

From the Cave to the Commons

By: Johanna Gibson

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Owned, An Ethological Jurisprudence of Property

From the Cave to the Commons

By: Johanna Gibson

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property. Bringing together animal studies and legal philosophy, it articulates a critique of dominant property models and relationships from the perspective of cognitive ethology, domestication science and animal behaviour. In doing so, a radical new picture of property emerges. Focusing on the emergence of property models through prevailing ideas of human domestication and settlement, the book challenges the anthropocentrism that informs standard approaches to ownership and to authorship. Utilising a wide range of examples from ethology and animal studies, the book thus rethinks the very nature of property as uniquely human. This highly original contribution to the fields of property and intellectual property will appeal not only to legal scholars in these areas, as well as in animal law, but also to legal theorists and others working in the social sciences with interests in posthumanism and animal studies.

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375

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Routledge

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1000027201

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9781000027204

Strange Events

Incredible Canadian Monsters, Curses, Ghosts and Other Tales

By: Bertin, Johanna

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Incredible Canadian Monsters, Curses, Ghosts and Other Tales

By: Bertin, Johanna

Nicholson was shocked when a 'dazzling light and shrieking whistle' came out of nowhere and headed right for his train. Paralysed with fear, he... swore that the passengers in the ghost train's lighted cars had looked directly at him". This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: mystery or history. What are the chances of being hit by lightening three times in one lifetime? And then, being hit again after you are dead and buried? This is just one of the incredible legends in this fascinating collection. From ghosts lurking on board mystery ships to the dark and chilling secrets of Niagara's devil's playground, Canada's history has never been so thrilling.

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148

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Amazing Stories

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1551539527

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9781551539522

Born a Jew, Die a Jew

The Story of Martin Chernoff, a Pioneer in Messianic Judaism

By: Yohanna Chernoff,Johanna Chernoff,Jimi Miller

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Born a Jew, Die a Jew

The Story of Martin Chernoff, a Pioneer in Messianic Judaism

By: Yohanna Chernoff,Johanna Chernoff,Jimi Miller

This is thestory of Martin Chernoff, a pioneer in Messianic Judaism.

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274

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E B E D Publications

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1884369391

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9781884369391

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Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable

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Frankenstein

Owned, An Ethological Jurisprudence of Property

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