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California Bound and Gagged

Author : Marc Luc Carrier

Publisher : FriesenPress

Page : 173 pages

File Size : 32,45 MB

Release : 2024-08-21

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1038317738

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Doctor Nigel Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) leaves the dreary museum he curates in London for the job of a lifetime, head of works on paper in one of the world's biggest, most prestigious museums: the Algur and Elizabeth Paddocks Museum of Art and Antiquities in San-Dementia, California. But things just don't work out as well as he had expected. His ignorance of American political correctness lands him in hot water and makes him a frequent visitor to the human resources office for sensitivity training. This situation is compounded by his wife Horsey who goes full California, plastic surgery and all! She also leaves him for another man, or woman...it's hard to determine. Meanwhile, Doctor Fetherstonhaugh's secretary, Miss Cramp, introduces him to the joys of S&M. How does Doctor Nigel Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) end up being extradited from the U.S.A. for being an undesirable alien? Why does the voice on his GPS shower abuse on him in a Brooklyn accent? Why is he listed as a dangerous pervert by the San-Dementia police? Read the book and find out.



California Bound and Gagged

Author : Marc Luc Carrier

Publisher : FriesenPress

Page : 173 pages

File Size : 10,22 MB

Release : 2024-07-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1038317711

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Doctor Nigel Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) leaves the dreary museum he curates in London for the job of a lifetime, head of works on paper in one of the world's biggest, most prestigious museums: the Algur and Elizabeth Paddocks Museum of Art and Antiquities in San-Dementia, California. But things just don't work out as well as he had expected. His ignorance of American political correctness lands him in hot water and makes him a frequent visitor to the human resources office for sensitivity training. This situation is compounded by his wife Horsey who goes full California, plastic surgery and all! She also leaves him for another man, or woman...it's hard to determine. Meanwhile, Doctor Fetherstonhaugh's secretary, Miss Cramp, introduces him to the joys of S&M. How does Doctor Nigel Fetherstonhaugh (pronounced Fanshaw) end up being extradited from the U.S.A. for being an undesirable alien? Why does the voice on his GPS shower abuse on him in a Brooklyn accent? Why is he listed as a dangerous pervert by the San-Dementia police? Read the book and find out.



Bound and Gagged

Author : Laura Kipnis

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 10,87 MB

Release : 1998-12-23

Category : History

ISBN : 9780822323433

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An examination of how sexual fantasy and pornography are policed in contemporary American culture.



The Green Bag

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Page : 748 pages

File Size : 36,80 MB

Release : 1906

Category : Law

ISBN :

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Includes index. 1 v.



Death on Ocean Boulevard

Author : Caitlin Rother

Publisher : Citadel Press

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 32,77 MB

Release : 2021-04-27

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 0806540907

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“[This] is one of the great crime mysteries of modern times. It took an author of Caitlin Rother’s caliber to bring it into sharp focus. A riveting read.” —Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author “I got a girl, hung herself in the guest house.” The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharmaceutical tycoon and multimillionaire Jonah Shacknai. When authorities arrived, they found the naked body of Jonah’s girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, gagged, her ankles tied and her wrists bound behind her. Jonah’s brother, Adam, claimed to have found Rebecca hanging by a rope from the second-floor balcony. On a bedroom door in black paint were the cryptic words: SHE SAVED HIM CAN YOU SAVE HER. Was this scrawled message a suicide note or a killer’s taunt? Rebecca’s death came two days after Jonah’s six-year-old son, Max, took a devastating fall while in Rebecca’s care. Authorities deemed Rebecca’s death a suicide resulting from her guilt. But who would stage either a suicide ora murder in such a bizarre, elaborate way? Award-winning investigative journalist Caitlin Rother weaves stunning new details into a personal yet objective examination of the sensational case. She explores its many layers—including the civil suit in which a jury found Adam Shacknai responsible for Rebecca’s death, and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department bombshell decision to reconfirm its original findings. As compelling as it is troubling, this controversial real-life mystery is a classic American tragedy that evokes the same haunting fascination as the JonBenet Ramsey and O.J. Simpson cases. “Rother’s meticulous journalism shines through in this authoritative account of the Rebecca Zahau death incident. If you think you know this case, think again. And read this book.” —Katherine Ramsland, professor of forensic psychology and author of The Psychology of Death Investigations



The Flash of Capital

Author : Eric Cazdyn

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 331 pages

File Size : 47,54 MB

Release : 2002-11-04

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 0822383918

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The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan’s capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, Eric Cazdyn theorizes a cultural history that highlights the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders—where culture and capital crisscross—and, in doing so, develops a new way of understanding historical change and transformation in modern Japan and beyond. Cazdyn focuses on three key moments of historical contradiction: colonialism, post-war reconstruction, and globalization. Considering great classics of Japanese film, documentaries, works of science fiction, animation, and pornography, he brings to light cinematic attempts to come to terms with the tensions inherent in each historical moment—tensions between the colonizer and the colonized, between the individual and the collective, and between the national and the transnational. Paying close attention to political context, Cazdyn shows how formal inventions in the realms of acting, film history and theory, thematics, documentary filmmaking, and adaptation articulate a struggle to solve implacable historical problems. This innovative work of cultural history and criticism offers explanations of historical change that challenge conventional distinctions between the aesthetic and the geopolitical.



The Reluctant Metropolis

Author : William Fulton

Publisher : JHU Press

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 45,54 MB

Release : 2001-12-04

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780801865060

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A Los Angeles Times Bestseller "William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles real estate."—Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Material Dreams: Los Angeles through the 1920s A Los Angeles Times Bestseller"William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles real estate."—Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Material Dreams: Los Angeles through the 1920s In twelve engaging essays, William Fulton chronicles the history of urban planning in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, tracing the legacy of short-sighted political and financial gains that has resulted in a vast urban region on the brink of disaster. Looking at such diverse topics as shady real estate speculations, the construction of the Los Angeles subway, the battle over the future of South Central L.A. after the 1992 riots, and the emergence of Las Vegas as "the new Los Angeles," Fulton offers a fresh perspective on the city's epic sprawl. The only way to reverse the historical trends that have made Los Angeles increasingly unliveable, Fulton concludes, is to confront the prevailing "cocoon citizenship," the mind-set that prevents the city's inhabitants and leaders from recognizing Los Angeles's patchwork of communities as a single metropolis.



Sideways in Neverland

Author : William Etling

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 330 pages

File Size : 15,17 MB

Release : 2005-07

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 0595361900

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The "Neverland Valley-Welcome" sign depicts a little boy, bending over to talk to a troll. Peter Pan was playing at the packed eighty-seat, 7,000 square-foot theatre. Popcorn and drinks were dished up gratis to the mobs at the concession stand. On-screen, Captain Hook had ten wide-eyed children bound and gagged, about to be fed to the crocodile. Nearby, amid the rides, a band was taking a break. Beat It thumped loudly from hidden speakers. A circus-like tent houses the bumper cars, where jubilant lads, faces flushed with excitement, rammed each other with enthusiasm. ...I freely admitted, there was no doubt that allegations of child molestation had hurt Jackson in this community. Where wouldn't such charges resonate? Sodom and Gomorrah? *** What do Michael Jackson's neighbors really think of him, or the other famous residents of the rural California wine country made famous by Sideways? Just two hours from Los Angeles, the honorable Old West lives on, with cowboys and Indians, a Danish village, stars, surfers, Michael Jackson, and more. *** "William Etling has the soul of an explorer, and the wit of a jester. Lucky for us, he also has a pen."-Michelle Schlegel The collected "Santa Ynez Notebook" of a Santa Barbara News-Press writer. Etling's delightful bi-weekly editorial dishes on all things Santa Ynez Valley, an area of tiny towns near Santa Barbara, Calif. This compilation of almost three years of work covers a wide variety of topics, including community events, regional history, locals both famous (Michael Jackson, anyone?) and not-so, and the author's personal life. The column's buoyant tone and warm voice make for a charming read-"I still love the beach. If I had a tail, I'd wag it when I'm near the water." As a teenager, Etling moved to the area with his family, and it's clear that he has adored the area ever since. More than just a love letter to his hometown, however, Sideways provides affecting reading for all-Etling is all over the board, from what happens when a small town kid goes to war to the peril of navigating a highway crossed frequently by deer to a Hollywood invasion, when suddenly everyone's an extra on the set of Seabiscuit. Fruitful subject matter, a likable host and evocative writing make for an enjoyable guide to this nook of California. -Kirkus Discoveries



Managed Speech

Author : Gregory P. Magarian

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 31,78 MB

Release : 2017-03-07

Category : Law

ISBN : 0190466804

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Our constitutional freedom to speak out against government and corporate power is always fragile, but today it faces unprecedented hazards. In Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment, leading First Amendment scholar, Gregory Magarian, explores and critiques how the present U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has reshaped and degraded the law of expressive freedom. This timely book shows how the Roberts Court's free speech decisions embody a version of expressive freedom that Professor Magarian calls "managed speech". Managed speech empowers stable, responsible institutions, both government and private, to manage public discussion; disfavors First Amendment claims from social and political outsiders; and, above all, promotes social and political stability. Professor Magarian examines all of the more than forty free speech decisions the Supreme Court handed down between Chief Justice Roberts' ascent in 2005 and Justice Antonin Scalia's death in 2016. Those decisions, taken together, aggressively advance stability at a steep cost to robust public debate. Professor Magarian proposes a theoretical alternative to managed speech, one that would aim to increase the range of ideas and voices in public discussion: "dynamic diversity." A First Amendment doctrine based on dynamic diversity would prioritize political dissent and the rights of journalists, allow for reasonable regulations of money in politics, and work to broaden opportunities for speakers to be heard. This book offers a fresh, critical perspective on the crucial question of what the First Amendment should mean and do.