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Created just eight years ago, Airbnb has become hugely disruptive in the long‑standing hotel business and in entire urban economies. Drawing upon extensive research and years of interviews with Brian Chesky, the youthful CEO of Airbnb, Leigh Gallagher will present a thorough and objective account of this unusual company, examining its meteoric and colorful rise, its nagging troubles, its popularity around the world, and the concerns regarding its growth and potential pitfalls. It's meant to appeal to both general business readers as well as anyone who has used or been tempted by Airbnb..

Front Cover -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: 'Uncrowned Queen of Slumland' -- 1: A Wayward Girl -- 2: Frog Hollow Thieves -- 3: Serving the Community -- 4: Sex and Snow -- 5: Razors and Rivals -- 6: Eileen Leigh -- 7: Surry Hills Matriarch -- 8: 'Underworld Romance of the Century' -- 9: Remembering Kate Leigh -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

The article aims, first, to map out the broad lines in the establishment case law of the European courts and its impact on the "supply side" of healthcare provision. It is apparent that the development of this line of case law so far is relatively (e.g. compared to the services case law) slow and fragmented. On the one hand, recent cases such as DocMorris show an advance with regard to the earlier Sodemare case because non-discriminatory rules are now caught by the prohibition. This can be seen as "one step beyond". However, the exceptions to the prohibition of obstacles to freedom of establishment are being liberally applied based on the Gebhard test. In this manner systems based on public provision and/or self-regulation remain on the whole shielded from market access and competitive entry. The main exception are those cases where the applicable national regulation is self-evidently incoherent and can be attacked on that basis as part of the proportionality test (necessity or appropriateness) of the measures. The article then looks at the possible contribution of a more integrated law and economics based approach to achieve both a more coherent framework for deciding such cases and an improved result in terms of controlling expenditure and universal provision of a high standard of care. Finally, the article identifies the development of the principle of proportionality in this context as part of the future research agenda

Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors propelled the call for sexual justice beyond courts and high-profile cases. She reframes #MeToo as a breakthrough moment within a longer history of feminist thought and activism.

"A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism--to protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system. Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. Imperfect Victims argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end. Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As Imperfect Victims shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can unwind the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them."--

"The sense of estrangement felt by men during the nineteenth century has been called many things - a crisis in masculinity, the mal de siècle, even a psychological disorder known as neurasthenia - but as a phenomenon, such masculine discontent has gone largely unexplored outside of the western European and American contexts. In this ground-breaking new investigation, Allison Leigh explores how Russian painters sought to depict the new psychological struggles associated with modernity and the implications such visual manifestations of anxiety had for masculinity at the time. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including previously untranslated letters, journals, and contemporary criticism, Leigh investigates how men's lives changed as they experienced the cultural upheavals of the nineteenth century. In so doing, she introduces readers to Russian artists such as Pavel Fedotov, Karl Briullov, Il'ia Repin, and Ivan Kramskoi, all of whom produced masterpieces of realist art in dialogue with paintings made in European artistic centers at the time. The result is a more culturally discursive account of art-making in the nineteenth century, one that challenges some of the enduring myths of masculinity and provides a fresh interpretive history of what constitutes modernism in the history of art"--

What did independence mean during the age of empires? How did independent governments balance different interests when they made policies about trade, money and access to foreign capital? Sovereignty without Power tells the story of Liberia, one of the few African countries to maintain independence through the colonial period. Established in 1822 as a colony for freed slaves from the United States, Liberia's history illustrates how the government's efforts to exercise its economic sovereignty and engage with the global economy shaped Liberia's economic and political development over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing together a wide range of archival sources, Leigh A. Gardner presents the first quantitative estimates of Liberian's economic performance and uses these to compare it to its colonized neighbors and other independent countries. Liberia's history anticipated challenges still faced by developing countries today, and offers a new perspective on the role of power and power relationships in shaping Africa's economic history.

Every year, Australians break sporting world records through a combination of ingenuity, grit and teamwork. Sport is a source of personal and national pride for millions. In this book, Andrew Leigh argues that sport can embody both achievement and egalitarianism. On the starting line, what matters isn't athletes' wealth or connections but their hard work. In a fair tournament, the last-placed team starts the next year with a fighting chance to win the grand final. Yet, over the past generation, the Australian economy hasn't matched the performances of our top sports people. The nation that brought home a glittering haul of medals from the Tokyo Olympics, and the urn from the last three Ashes series, has an economy that's unfit for the challenges of the future. Productivity is in the doldrums, and student test scores are falling. The business startup rate has dropped, and markets aren't as competitive as they should be. Leigh argues that we don't have a shared national story about the kind of economy we want to build, or the kind of society we want to live in, and that this is where sport can provide the necessary inspiration. Sport isn't just about winning - it's about how we play the game. Sport provides the most powerful rebuttal to the myth that we have to choose between fairness and excellence. Sport reminds us that we can celebrate the underdog and cheer the champion. Sport demonstrates that innovation and equality can go together --

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1.Introduction. Texas and the Performance of Regionality -- 2. "Deep in the Heart". The Architectural Landscapes of Texan Cultural Memory -- 3. Teaching "Texan". The Pedagogical Function of the Texas Revolution -- 4. "What's the Matter with you People?" The Performance of Authentic Behavior in Small-Town Texan Plays -- 5. Selling Texas: Th e Political Branding of Texan Cultural Identity -- 6. Conclusion "Our Flag Still Waves Proudly from the Walls" -- Notes -- Index

"I was bored, angry, tired and sad. I felt all alone yet I had nothing to complain about. I had a good job, a husband who wasn't shagging his assistant, three children who apart from being the occasional assholes were pretty good kids; a house, a dog and everything else we are told as little girls we should aspire to. But inside, I was growing restless. I didn't want to be looked at as just a 'mom'. I wanted to be desired, to make someone's hair stand on end and go crazy for me. I didn't want to live by some label that didn't represent me. I looked at my messy minivan one morning and I wanted to vomit on it all. I panicked, thinking about how I am slowly approaching middle age and menopause and I wondered how many years do I have left of being 'f**ckable' before everything starts going downhill?" In her first book Tova takes the reader on her journey of rediscovering who she is after motherhood and beyond the norms society forces upon women, whilst encouraging them to break free and just be themselves. "When you find authenticity it's hard to go back. It's like opening a door to the truth and starting to breathe a new type of air. This discovery is what prompted me to write. It's my way of saying HERE I AM"