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Morally Decadent

Author : Veronica Lancet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Morally Decadent written by Veronica Lancet and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternate Paperback Cover A Resolute Playboy Groomed from a young age to become the leader of a mafia empire, Enzo Agosti's life has been nothing but a series of luxurious one-stops around the globe in search of hedonistic gratification. Cold and domineering, his dazzling looks are his secret weapon--women fall at his feet; and men want to be him. But behind the mask of opulence lay the ruins of a cynic, a man used to the dark solitude of the flashy public life, and a misanthrope weaned on bloody, depraved lullabies. A Caged Tiger Timid and meek, Allegra Marchesi has always played the dutiful daughter. Though locked in a cage designed to stifle her knowledge and keep her in ignorant bliss, Allegra is every jailor's nightmare--she can think and act for herself. And like every prisoner, she has one goal--freedom. Yet she is but a woman in a man's world, and she is quick to find out that far from absolute, there are degrees to freedom. And love might not be part of the equation.Is she willing to trade one cage for another? Intrigue. Obsession. Decadence. A hate that bubbles just beneath the surface, it takes one woman to bring Enzo to his boiling point. Yet the intensity of his explosive emotions might very well prove to be the end of them both. Morally Decadent is an enemies-to-lovers dark mafia romance that spans over a decade. There is NO cheating and the book ends with a HEA for the couple but with a cliffhanger for the series. It is best enjoyed if Morally Corrupt and Morally Blasphemous are read first. Please check the triggers before proceeding!

Decadent Orientalisms

Author : David Fieni
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823286428
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Decadent Orientalisms written by David Fieni and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Attentive to historical and literary configurations of language, race, religion, and power, Fieni shows the importance of understanding Western discourses of Eastern decline and obsolescence together with Arab and Islamic responses in which the language of decadence returns as a characteristic of the West. Taking seriously Edward Said’s claim that Orientalism is a “style of having power,” Fieni works historically through the aesthetic and ideological effects of Orientalist style, showing how it is at once comparative, descriptive, and performative. Orientalism, the book argues, relies upon decadence as the figure through which its positivist scientific claims become redistributed as speech acts—“truths” that establish dominance. Rather than attending to Orientalism as a repertoire of clichés and stereotypes, Decadent Orientalisms considers the systemic epistemological consequences of the diffuse, yet coherent network of institutions that have constituted Orientalism’s power.

Morally Questionable Special Edition: Morally Decadent and Morally Ambiguous

Author : Veronica Lancet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Morally Questionable Special Edition: Morally Decadent and Morally Ambiguous written by Veronica Lancet and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Contains Morally Decadent and Morally Ambiguous for a total of 386k words. Please note the books are not standalones and should be read after Morally Corrupt and Morally Blasphemous. Morally Decadent She just wants to be free... in a world that thrives on her oppression. He just wants control... of the one woman who would never submit. A RESOLUTE PLAYBOY Groomed from a young age to become the leader of a mafia empire, Enzo Agosti's life has been nothing but a series of luxurious one-stops around the globe in search of hedonistic gratification. Cold and domineering, his dazzling looks are his secret weapon - women fall at his feet; and men want to be him. But behind the mask of opulence lay the ruins of a cynic, a man used to the dark solitude of the flashy public life, and a misanthrope weaned on bloody, depraved lullabies. A CAGED TIGER Timid and meek, Allegra Marchesi has always played the dutiful daughter. Though locked in a cage designed to stifle her knowledge and keep her in ignorant bliss, Allegra is every jailor's nightmare--she can think and act for herself. And like every prisoner, she has one goal--freedom. Yet she is but a woman in a man's world, and she is quick to find out that far from absolute, there are degrees to freedom. And love might not be part of the equation. Is she willing to trade one cage for another? Intrigue. Obsession. Decadence. A hate that bubbles just beneath the surface, it takes one woman to bring Enzo to his boiling point. Yet the intensity of his explosive emotions might very well prove to be the end of them both. Morally Ambiguous She just wants to be loved... by the one man who is not capable of feeling it. A CUTE PSYCHO Charming and unpredictable, Vlad Kuznetsov is known as the joker of the underground world. Known to many yet known by none, he is a true social chameleon. His feigned affability might present him as inoffensive but his inner demons could unleash a bloodbath at any time. With a past shrouded in mystery, and even more secretive intentions, Vlad's journey can only end one way - in blood. A MISBEHAVING NUN Assisi Lastra might be named after a saint, but her disposition is anything but saintly. Years of cold discipline in the convent she called home embittered her towards the world. Conditioned to strive for goodness, Sisi struggles between her natural wicked inclinations and the unnatural expectations placed upon her. One chance encounter with an unusual man, and all her inhibitions are thrown out the window. Two unlikely people tangled together in the waltz of death; they are one step away from falling off the precipice. And each choice they make brings them closer to the edge. But in the end, only they can decide - to stop or to jump? BLOOD LOST. BLOOD SPILLED. BLOOD WON. For blood is the beginning, and blood is the end.

The Dedalus Book of Decadence (moral Ruins)

Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dedalus Book of Decadence (moral Ruins) written by Brian M. Stableford and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence

Author : Peter Higbie Van Ness
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791412053
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence written by Peter Higbie Van Ness and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, and it provides an innovative case for their contemporary importance. Spiritual discipline is especially effective at combatting Pascalian diversion, the pursuit of activities that occupy the mind just enough to avoid thinking about important things; and Nietzschean decadence, the proclivity for extirpating instinctive drives instead of satisfying or sublimating them. In addition to overcoming diversion and decadence in contemporary consumerist culture, VanNess recommends spiritual discipline as a means of political resistance to powerful institutions which seek to exercise social control in democratic societies by promulgating addictive patterns of consumption. Finally, he argues that regimens of spiritual discipline can serve healthful and liberating purposes, and generally promote fullness of life, only insofar as they are shaped by an ethos of intellectual criticism and aesthetic experimentation.

The Workshop for Morality

Author : Dindin Solahudin
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921313684
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book The Workshop for Morality written by Dindin Solahudin and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This ethnographic study attempts to portray Pesantren Daarut Tauhid in Bandung, Java, in terms of its emergence, its nature and structure, and the role it plays in the reinforcement of Islamic morality in a Muslim community. The initial stages and the foundation of the pesantren are first discussed in order to understand a number of events which were crucial to the emergence of the pesantren. The thesis then examines the nature of the leader and his followers and the structure of interrelationships between them. Next, the practice of Islam at the pesantren is discussed in order to consider its creativity in expressing Islam. Finally, the thesis discusses the ways by which the pesantren reinforces religious morality."--Provided by publisher.

Humanity

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanity written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Moral Art of Philip Massinger

Author : Ira Clark
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838752258
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Art of Philip Massinger written by Ira Clark and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Moral Art of Philip Massinger views the successor of Shakespeare and Fletcher in a new sociopolitical position: one of accommodation based on a moderate reformation of the tradition of the old hierarchy of inherited degree, patriarchy, and patronage. In addition, author Ira Clark claims a superior aesthetic position for tragicomedy as a sophisticated, elaborate synthesis of dramatic conventions in complex multiple plots filled with reversals, recognitions, miraculous conversations, and reconciliations after clashes of absolutes. The genre's complex testing of characters, discovery of their failures, and reintegration of them into a reformed society focuses central sociopolitical and moral issues for an allegedly decadent but actually deeply troubled society. Finally, the study takes into its account Massinger's many collaborations with John Fletcher, which are generally ignored. In sum, this work attempts to revise obsolete views of the dominant playwright just before the closing of the theaters and the opening of the English Civil War." ""A Case for Massinger" presents a critical history of why Massinger is unappreciated, traces his life with an eye to his ideal of patronage and his emphasis on gratitude, and outlines the rest of the work. "Models for Massinger the Apprentice" focuses on the techniques of tragicomedy as Massinger learned them from his three masters. The Queen of Corinth, written with Fletcher, serves as an exemplum of what this master collaborator taught him about tragicomedy. The City Madam. which obviously alludes to Volpone, serves as an example of the traditions of the estates morality play, satiric style, and metadrama, which Jonson transmitted to Massinger. The Duke of Milan and The Emperor of the East, with motifs borrowed from Othello, serve as exempla of how Massinger used traditional dramatic allusions to present social issues." ""Massinger's Political Plays in their Time" focuses on the sociopolitical inclinations that Massinger consistently presented through his collaborations and solo plays. Primarily the issues revolved around the relative value of court and country, monarchism and parliamentary balance, hereditary degree and social mobility, and conspicuous consumption and martial maintenance. "Massinger's Tragedies and Satiric Tragicomedies in their Social and Family Settings" focuses on the social, family, and personal preferences that Massinger presented in his work: a concerned patriarchy, a greater voice for women, and the rights of inheritance by younger sons. "Massinger's Tragicomedy" circles around to view all of Massinger's artistic and sociopolitical themes by way of readings of a collaborative tragicomedy and a solo tragicomedy: The Elder Brother (with Fletcher) and The Guardian."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Dedalus Book of Decadence

Author : STABLEFORD Brian[Ed]
Publisher : Dedalus
ISBN 13 : 9781912868681
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book The Dedalus Book of Decadence written by STABLEFORD Brian[Ed] and published by Dedalus. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination. The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor. --Andrew St George in The Independent

Ethical Legal

Author : ''EL'' Lee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450043488
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Ethical Legal written by ''EL'' Lee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about legality in its relation with morality. It is to explore dialectical dynamics in-between the two subject matters, i.e., legality and morality. It is because, in reality, the ethical foundation of legality is getting weaker and more ineffectual. That is why the authority of the law is getting weaker and less effective, as time goes on. That is consequently why there are more violence and crimes in American society, if not in the entire global community. This book is by no means to teach you the law. Legality has its own rich history and tradition, formal and informal conventions, and profound and diverse theories and doctrines. This book is simply geared to highlight the ethical dimension in the nature and function of the law. In brief, it is to “ethicalize” the law in its legislation, interpretation, and execution. Instead of discussing in detailed theories and doctrines of the law being entertained by its complexities and diversities, this book is to investigate philosophically major themes of the law, mainly in order to reveal their inherent connections with ethics and ultimately to emphasize the crucial necessity of ethics in legality. Unless we radically increase the ethical implication in legality, the humanity may not be able to entertain the twenty-second century.

Personality Cult and Politics in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000095657
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personality Cult and Politics in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe written by Ezra Chitando and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches perceptions of Robert Gabriel Mugabe within Zimbabwe and beyond during his period in power and towards the end of his time in government. The book examines how Mugabe became the focus of a thriving personality cult, studying the argument that Mugabe could be regarded as the founder of a new religious movement in Zimbabwe and the Global South. The contributors analyse the use of ideology and mythology in promoting Mugabe’s hegemony in Zimbabwe, looking at the appropriation of religious ideas by the Mugabe government and the impact this had on perceptions of Mugabe both within Zimbabwe and beyond. Focusing on the final years of Mugabe’s rule, the chapters provide new insights into how different actors, including politicians, African Traditional Religions, African Independent/Initiated Churches, Pentecostal churches, the media and others deployed religious idioms to support or critique Mugabe at a time when his tenure was coming under serious threat. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Southern African politics and religion.

Who Gets to Narrate the World?

Author : Robert E. Webber
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830877711
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Who Gets to Narrate the World? written by Robert E. Webber and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity in America will not survive in our age unless it is fully rooted in the Gospel. Convinced that American evangelicals are facing the demise of their entire way of life and faith, the late Robert Webber challenges his readers to rise up and engage both the external and internal challenges confronting the church today.

Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction

Author : Christopher Britt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319707841
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction written by Christopher Britt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. The main intellectual aims of this title are the following: the analysis of spectacle, the criticism of providential enlightenment, and the examination of positive dialectics. The spectacle, in this case, is the apotheosis of the culture industries, a total inversion of reality and of our existences. Providential enlightenment is not only a critique of the failure of enlightenment, but of the mutilation of historical enlightenments. Positive dialectics signal a new era of intellectual engagement in the construction of our historical future. During a time in which national democracies seem an imperial farce, it is not enough for intellectuals faced with all this destruction to blithely recommend resistance. The book thus ties American, British, French and German theoretical traditions into a reflexive challenge to the notion of intellectual as critic, and argues instead for a trespassive tradition of cultural leadership.

The Japanese American Monthly Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese American Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taking Wrongs Seriously

Author : Elazar Barkan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804752251
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Taking Wrongs Seriously written by Elazar Barkan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary collection examines the recent wave of political apologies for acts of past injustice.

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199726752
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the most popular of Hemingway's books, The Sun also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britons in Paris after World War I. The text provides a way for discussions of war, sexuality, personal angst, and national identity to be linked inextricably with the stylistic traits of modern writing. This Casebook, edited by one of Hemingway's most eminent scholars, presents the best critical essays on the novel to be published in the last half century. These essays address topics as diverse as sexuality, religion, alcoholism, gender, Spanish culture, economics, and humor. The volume also includes an interview with Hemingway conducted by George Plimpton.

Fitzgerald and Hemingway

Author : Scott Donaldson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231519788
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Fitzgerald and Hemingway written by Scott Donaldson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway might have been contemporaries, but our understanding of their work often rests on simple differences. Hemingway wrestled with war, fraternity, and the violence of nature. Fitzgerald satirized money and class and the never-ending pursuit of a material tomorrow. Through the provocative arguments of Scott Donaldson, however, the affinities between these two authors become brilliantly clear. The result is a reorientation of how we read twentieth-century American literature. Known for his penetrating studies of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Donaldson traces the creative genius of these authors and the surprising overlaps among their works. Fitzgerald and Hemingway both wrote fiction out of their experiences rather than about them. Therefore Donaldson pursues both biography and criticism in these essays, with a deep commitment to close reading. He traces the influence of celebrity culture on the legacies of both writers, matches an analysis of Hemingway's Spanish Civil War writings to a treatment of Fitzgerald's left-leaning tendencies, and contrasts the averted gaze in Hemingway's fiction with the role of possessions in The Great Gatsby. He devotes several essays to four novels, Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms, and others to lesser-known short stories. Based on years of research in the Fitzgerald and Hemingway archives and brimming with Donaldson's trademark wit and insight, this irresistible anthology moves the study of American literature in bold new directions.