Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan\"s Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellectuals of the 20th century....

Adding a new dimension to the history of mentalites and the study of popular culture, Thomas Brennan reinterprets the culture of the laboring classes in old-regime Paris through the rituals of public drinking in neighborhood taverns. He challenges the conventional depiction of lower-class debauchery and offers a reassessment of popular sociability....

Jack Dempsey was instrumental in creating the first million-dollar gate. That momentous event occurred in 1921 when he faced Georges Carpentier, the French heavyweight champion. Dempsey went on to annihilate his opponent. Four more million-dollar gates would occur over the next several years due primarily to Dempsey’s savagery in the ring....

Approximately 1 in 2 parents in Ontario, Canada, regardless of personal religious beliefs, now choose to enroll their children in a public Roman Catholic secondary school, a system that has historically struggled for recognition and independence as equally legitimate across all of Canada....

Learn how to syndicate you video on the Internet so that it goes viral and gets seen by millions of people. Written by one of the pioneers of viral video marketing who has gotten his clients\' videos to go viral and be seen by tens of millions of people on the Internet. Not a technical book....

Teresa Brennan marshalls the insights of Marx and Freud to provide a compelling and insightful analysis of the pervading modern capitalism: environmental collapse, the rising poverty levels, and the increased global economic disparity....

It has long been realized that the poorer countries of the south have paid for the unstoppable onward rush of globalization in the exploitation of their natural and human resources....

Teresa Brennan marshalls the insights of Marx and Freud to provide a compelling and insightful analysis of the pervading modern capitalism: environmental collapse, the rising poverty levels, and the increased global economic disparity....