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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

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $8.99 CAD

  • 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

    $8.99 CAD

  • 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

    $115.99 CAD

  • Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team

    by Daniel O'Brien ...
    Illustrated by Winston Rowntree ...
    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

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $140.99 CAD

  • 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

    $51.99 CAD

  • Allotment Stories

    Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege

    Edited by Daniel Heath Justice, Jean M. O’Brien ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    More than two dozen stories of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous landsLand privatization has been a longstanding and ongoing settler colonial process separating Indigenous peoples from their traditional homelands, with devastating consequences. Allotment Stories delves into this conflict, creating a complex conversation out of narratives of Indigenous ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Urban Informatics

    Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities

    by Daniel T. O'Brien ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series
    Urban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipulation using R statistical software. Designed for undergraduate and above level courses, this book is an ideal onramp for the study of urban informatics and how to translate novel data sets into new insights and practical tools.The book follows a unique ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • 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

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Safety Officer's Concise Desk Reference

    by Daniel Patrick O'Brien ...
    As a safety manager in today's work environment, you wear hats in many different fields. Sometimes you need only a specific formula or drawing to understand the current situation. This resource supplies it. Or maybe you want to know where to find more information on a specific subject. This resource has it. The Safety Officer's Concise Desk Reference gives them the essentials to get through the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD