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  • The Trouble with Brunch

    Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure

    podle Shawn Micallef ...
    Série série Exploded Views
    One of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced, increasingly outré food by hungover waitstaff. For some, the ritual we call brunch is a beloved pastime; for others, a bedeviling waste of time. But what does its popularity say about shifting attitudes towards social status and leisure? In ... Přečtěte si více

    176,79 Kč

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  • The Gift of Ford

    Rob Ford: How Toronto's Unlikeliest Man Became its Most Notorious Mayor

    podle Ivor Tossell ...
    Following widespread news that Toronto Police are in possession of the alleged Rob Ford crack cocaine video, there has never been a better time to read the essential backgrounder to Rob Ford's increasingly wild and erratic mayoralty.When people talk about recalling politicians, it's usually because the politician delivered something other than what they advertised, and the voters voted for--lies, ... Přečtěte si více

    40,84 Kč

  • Some Great Idea

    Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

    podle Edward Keenan ...
    Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly ... Přečtěte si více

    176,79 Kč

  • How Rob Ford Happened

    A History of the Toronto Mayor from the Pages of the National Post

    podle The National Post ...
    Drawing on a wealth of articles written by by National Post journalists including Christie Blatchford, Jonathan Kay, Andrew Coyne, Chris Selley and more, How Rob Ford Happened examines the precipitous rise and calamitous fall of one of the most controversial public figures in Canadian political history. From his early days as a crusading suburban city councillor to his reign as Mayor of Toronto ... Přečtěte si více

    194,79 Kč

  • Duffy

    Stardom to Senate to Scandal

    podle Dan Leger ...
    He cast himself as the ultimate insider, Parliament Hill’s man in the know. It made him a household name and one of the Canada’s bestpaid journalists. But Duffy wanted to get even closer and lobbied his way into the Canadian Senate, with dire results. Veteran journalist Dan Leger tells the story of Duffy’s rise to the top in Canadian media, his entanglement with the Harper Conservatives, and the ... Přečtěte si více

    195,29 Kč

  • Rob Ford - The inside story of the weirdest mayoralty in Toronto

    podle Toronto Life ...
    Rob Ford - The inside story of the weirdest mayoralty in Torontopublished in Toronto Life magazine as:The Incredible Shrinking Mayorby Marci McDonald ... Přečtěte si více

    40,63 Kč

  • Tragedy in the Commons

    Former Members of Parliament Speak Out About Canada's Failing Democracy

    In Tragedy in the Commons, Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, founders of the non-partisan think tank Samara, draw on an astonishing eighty exit interviews with former Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum to unearth surprising observations about the practice of politics in Canada.Though Canada is at the top of international rankings of democracies, Canadians themselves ... Přečtěte si více

    264,69 Kč

  • Straphanger

    Surviving the End of the Automobile Age

    podle Taras Grescoe ...
    Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering—a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford ... Přečtěte si více

    65,22 Kč

  • Shafia Trial

    From the pages of The Kingston Whig-Standard

    Three members of a Montreal family of Afghan descent are convicted in January 2012 of first-degree murder in the so-called "honour killing" drowning deaths of four members of their family -- three teenage girls and an adult woman -- in June 2009 at the Kingston Mills locks on the Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ont. ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Last Man in Tower

    podle Aravind Adiga ...
    The magnificent new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger:LONGLISTED FOR THE 2013 IMPAC AWARD.Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it is unimpeachably pucca. Despite its location close to the airport, under the flight path of 747s and bordered by slums, it has... ... Přečtěte si více

    161,09 Kč

  • Another Day in the Death of America

    A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

    podle Gary Younge ...
    Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism****Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non FictionOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary ... Přečtěte si více

    153,09 Kč

  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    podle Richard Florida ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Přečtěte si více

    199,09 Kč