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How to Fight Presidents

Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country

by Daniel O'Brien ...

Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea.As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first ... Read more

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Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea.As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first
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How to Fight Presidents

Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country

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Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea.As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first ... Read more

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Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea.As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first
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Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team

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Draft your own presidential fantasy team, based on these hilarious-but-true profiles of our past leaders, in this fun and funny illustrated book perfect for fans of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous and Kid Presidents!What if a zombie apocalypse or a robot uprising threatened the nation and you had the power to recruit some of the nation’s finest presidents to help save the ... Read more

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Draft your own presidential fantasy team, based on these hilarious-but-true profiles of our past leaders, in this fun and funny illustrated book perfect for fans of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous and Kid Presidents!What if a zombie apocalypse or a robot uprising threatened the nation and you had the power to recruit some of the nation’s finest presidents to help save the
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Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team

by Daniel O'Brien ...

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Draft your own presidential fantasy team, based on these hilarious-but-true profiles of our past leaders, in this fun and funny illustrated book perfect for fans of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous and Kid Presidents!What if a zombie apocalypse or a robot uprising threatened the nation and you had the power to recruit some of the nation’s finest presidents to help save the ... Read more

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Draft your own presidential fantasy team, based on these hilarious-but-true profiles of our past leaders, in this fun and funny illustrated book perfect for fans of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous and Kid Presidents!What if a zombie apocalypse or a robot uprising threatened the nation and you had the power to recruit some of the nation’s finest presidents to help save the
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Muslim Heroes on Screen

by Daniel O'Brien ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
If films drawing on Middle East tropes often highlight white Westerners, figures such as Sinbad and the Thief of Bagdad embody a counter-tradition of protagonists, derived from Islamic folklore and history, who are portrayed as ‘Other’ to Western audiences. In Muslim Heroes on Screen, Daniel O’Brien explores the depiction of these characters in Euro-American cinema from the silent era to the ... Read more

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If films drawing on Middle East tropes often highlight white Westerners, figures such as Sinbad and the Thief of Bagdad embody a counter-tradition of protagonists, derived from Islamic folklore and history, who are portrayed as ‘Other’ to Western audiences. In Muslim Heroes on Screen, Daniel O’Brien explores the depiction of these characters in Euro-American cinema from the silent era to the
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Pilgrimage

by Daniel O'Brien ...

Pilgrimage features Jimmy Swenson of Japanese Ghost in America. Jimmy, a high school teacher in Minnesota, is sideswiped by the emotional void left from Saori the Ghost's return to Heian Japan. He has been bitten by the self-development bug. As one who meditates, Jimmy has insight into what his personal issues are. However, he goes on a pilgrimage in Japan to figure out his purpose in life. Along ... Read more

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Pilgrimage features Jimmy Swenson of Japanese Ghost in America. Jimmy, a high school teacher in Minnesota, is sideswiped by the emotional void left from Saori the Ghost's return to Heian Japan. He has been bitten by the self-development bug. As one who meditates, Jimmy has insight into what his personal issues are. However, he goes on a pilgrimage in Japan to figure out his purpose in life. Along
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Pilgrimage

by Daniel O’Brien ...

Daniel O'Brien, with a degree in Advanced Japanese studies, writes novels infused with Japanese cultural points that incorporate both history and mystery. He lives in Minnesota and is grateful for how well Japanese Ghost in America has been received, including his college friend who bought it thinking she would not like it and had to admit that she did like the book. Daniel teaches Eastern Studies ... Read more

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Daniel O'Brien, with a degree in Advanced Japanese studies, writes novels infused with Japanese cultural points that incorporate both history and mystery. He lives in Minnesota and is grateful for how well Japanese Ghost in America has been received, including his college friend who bought it thinking she would not like it and had to admit that she did like the book. Daniel teaches Eastern Studies
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Black Masculinity on Film

Native Sons and White Lies

by Daniel O'Brien ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book provides wide-ranging commentary on depictions of the black male in mainstream cinema. O’Brien explores the extent to which counter-representations of black masculinity have been achieved within a predominately white industry, with an emphasis on agency, the negotiation and malleability of racial status, and the inherent instability of imposed racial categories. Focusing on American and ... Read more

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This book provides wide-ranging commentary on depictions of the black male in mainstream cinema. O’Brien explores the extent to which counter-representations of black masculinity have been achieved within a predominately white industry, with an emphasis on agency, the negotiation and malleability of racial status, and the inherent instability of imposed racial categories. Focusing on American and
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The Frank Sinatra Film Guide

by Daniel O'Brien ...

On The Town... High Society... From Here To Eternity... The Man With The Golden Arm... Guys and Dolls... The Manchurian Candidate... Van Ryan's Express... The films of Frank Sinatra are startling in their diversity and sheer range. Musicals, comedies, thrillers, war films, intense dramas, sagas of small town America. In The Frank Sinatra Film Guide, Daniel O'Brien provides detailed information on ... Read more

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On The Town... High Society... From Here To Eternity... The Man With The Golden Arm... Guys and Dolls... The Manchurian Candidate... Van Ryan's Express... The films of Frank Sinatra are startling in their diversity and sheer range. Musicals, comedies, thrillers, war films, intense dramas, sagas of small town America. In The Frank Sinatra Film Guide, Daniel O'Brien provides detailed information on
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Van Helsing and His Kin

by Daniel O'Brien ...

Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula was first published in 1897. Ever since, the book’s vampire hunter, Van Helsing, has been often overshadowed by the Count in terms of recognition. For more recent generations, Van Helsing is rivalled by Buffy Summers as the preeminent vampire slayer. Yet Stoker’s Dutch professor has proved resilient. Van Helsing’s ongoing screen career suggests there is more at play ... Read more

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Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula was first published in 1897. Ever since, the book’s vampire hunter, Van Helsing, has been often overshadowed by the Count in terms of recognition. For more recent generations, Van Helsing is rivalled by Buffy Summers as the preeminent vampire slayer. Yet Stoker’s Dutch professor has proved resilient. Van Helsing’s ongoing screen career suggests there is more at play
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The Urban Commons

How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities

by Daniel T. O'Brien ...

The future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, Daniel T. O’Brien explains the transformative insights gleaned from years researching Boston’s 311 reporting system, a sophisticated city management tool that has revolutionized how ordinary Bostonians use and maintain public spaces. Through its phone service, mobile app, website, and Twitter account, 311 ... Read more

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The future of smart cities has arrived, courtesy of citizens and their phones. To prove it, Daniel T. O’Brien explains the transformative insights gleaned from years researching Boston’s 311 reporting system, a sophisticated city management tool that has revolutionized how ordinary Bostonians use and maintain public spaces. Through its phone service, mobile app, website, and Twitter account, 311
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The Pointillistic City

How Microspatial Inequities Affect Well-Being in Our Communities, and What We Can Do about It

by Daniel T. O'Brien ...

A new paradigm of research, policy, and practice that acknowledges the multiple scales at which we live every day.The Pointillistic City explores the multilayer geography of our daily lives—specifically, how we simultaneously live at the scales of addresses, streets, and neighborhoods and how each can be relevant for our well-being. Not unlike the way in which we look at a pointillistic painting, ... Read more

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A new paradigm of research, policy, and practice that acknowledges the multiple scales at which we live every day.The Pointillistic City explores the multilayer geography of our daily lives—specifically, how we simultaneously live at the scales of addresses, streets, and neighborhoods and how each can be relevant for our well-being. Not unlike the way in which we look at a pointillistic painting,
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