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Author : Collette Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955259989
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Scandal's Splendor written by Collette Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Loewen
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1682357597
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Scandal of Thought written by Gregory Loewen and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy/Criticism “Any institution that centers itself by reproduction is immediately suspect. Criticism, if directed at the unpolished edges of an organization, edges which either sabotage or yet defeat the institution’s ability to reproduce itself, can certainly be found in abundance. But critique, authentic and reflexive, that which calls into question not merely the goals of government or like edifices but indeed their very existence, is something surpassingly rare in our day. Even so, its improbability does not necessitate our own retreat into the impossible. The human imagination is more resilient than any political force. That it is more than impolite to pursue this other course gives a validity to the ‘impolitical’; at once uncouth and impolitic as it must be.” (From the book’s Introduction.) The author’s third collection of critical essays points to the political crises of our times. His understanding of politics is more expansive than our general reaction to it. It is at once what we are, the “political animal,” the being who is only what we are through the historical consciousness of what constitutes culture and humanity, as well as one who acts within that history and toward a better self-understanding of that same consciousness, often immersed in ideology and submerged in popular consumption of both media and commodity. With titles ranging from “Mein Banff” to “Why I am not an Olympian” to “Old World Mind, New World Machine” and others, it is clear that not a single word has been minced in this very pointed, yet highly thematic set of papers, essays, editorials, as well as an interview that offers a more personal insight into the author as a thinker and a human being.
Author : Janet Gleeson
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307394271
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Privilege and Scandal written by Janet Gleeson and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping and scandalous, rich and compellingly readable, here is the first biography of Lady Harriet Spencer, ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales, and devoted sister of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Harriet Spencer was without a doubt one of the most glamorous, influential, and notorious aristocrats of the Regency period. The second daughter of the prestigious Spencer family, Harriet was born into wealth and privilege. Intelligent, attractive, and exceedingly eager to please, at nineteen years of age she married Frederick, Viscount Duncannon, an aloof, distant relative. Unfortunately, it was not a happy union; the only trait they shared was an unhealthy love of gambling. The marriage produced four children, yet Harriet followed in the footsteps of her older sister and began a series of illicit dalliances, including one with the prominent and charismatic playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Then she met Lord Granville Leveson Gower, handsome and twelve years her junior. Their years-long affair resulted in the birth of two children, and all but consumed Harriet: concealing both pregnancies from her husband required great skill. Had the children been discovered, it surely would have resulted in divorce—which would have been disastrous. Harriet’s life was dramatic, and the history-making events she observed were equally fascinating. She was an eyewitness to the French Revolution; she participated in both the euphoria following Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar and the outpouring of grief at his spectacular funeral; she was privy to the debauchery of the Prince Regent’s wife, Princess Caroline. She quarreled bitterly with Lord Byron when he pursued her young daughter (rumor had it that he was truly interested in Harriet herself). She traveled through war-torn Europe during both the rise and the fall of Napoleon and saw the devastating aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, where her son was gravely injured. Harriet, along with her sister, was one of the leading female political activists of her day; her charm allowed her to campaign noisily for Charles James Fox—while still retaining influence over supporters of his rival, William Pitt the Younger. Harriet survived Georgiana by fifteen years, living to see the coronation of George IV. Janet Gleeson’s elegant, page-turning style brings Harriet’s story vividly to life. Based on painstaking archival research, Privilege and Scandal gives readers an inside look at the lives of the British aristocracy during the decadent eighteenth century—while at the same time shining the spotlight on one of the era’s most fascinating women.
Author : Anna Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849543
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Scandal written by Anna Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are sex scandals simply trivial distractions from serious issues or can they help democratize politics? In 1820, George IV's "royal gambols" with his mistresses endangered the Old Oak of the constitution. When he tried to divorce Queen Caroline for adultery, the resulting scandal enabled activists to overcome state censorship and revitalize reform. Looking at six major British scandals between 1763 and 1820, this book demonstrates that scandals brought people into politics because they evoked familiar stories of sex and betrayal. In vibrant prose woven with vivid character sketches and illustrations, Anna Clark explains that activists used these stories to illustrate constitutional issues concerning the Crown, Parliament, and public opinion. Clark argues that sex scandals grew out of the tension between aristocratic patronage and efficiency in government. For instance, in 1809 Mary Ann Clarke testified that she took bribes to persuade her royal lover, the army's commander-in-chief, to promote officers, buy government offices, and sway votes. Could women overcome scandals to participate in politics? This book also explains the real reason why the glamorous Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, became so controversial for campaigning in a 1784 election. Sex scandal also discredited Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the first feminists, after her death. Why do some scandals change politics while others fizzle? Edmund Burke tried to stir up scandal about the British empire in India, but his lurid, sexual language led many to think he was insane. A unique blend of the history of sexuality and women's history with political and constitutional history, Scandal opens a revealing new window onto some of the greatest sex scandals of the past. In doing so, it allows us to more fully appreciate the sometimes shocking ways democracy has become what it is today.
Author : R. A. Scotti
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110115781X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Basilica written by R. A. Scotti and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peter's Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two tumultuous centuries, challenge the greatest Renaissance masters—Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante—and enrage Martin Luther. By the time it was completed, Shakespeare had written all of his plays, the Mayflower had reached Plymouth—and Rome had risen with its astounding basilica to become Europe's holy metropolis. A dazzling portrait of human achievement and excess, Basilica is a triumph of historical writing.
Author : Carole Nelson Douglas
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765343253
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Another Scandal In Bohemia written by Carole Nelson Douglas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-01-20 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irene Adler--the American diva who is the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes--her barrister husband Godfrey Norton, and their companion, Nell Huxleigh, come home to Paris. But rest is fleeting, for Irene is approached by a royal princess who is faced with a loveless husband--and a puzzling dilemma that could destroy several European nations. Original.
Author : Manfred Lütz
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1642291137
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Scandal of The Scandals written by Manfred Lütz and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahatma Gandhi once chided a Christian friend, "All you Christians, missionaries and all, must begin to live more like Jesus Christ." And what Christian among us would disagree with him? After the holy wars and witch-hunts, after persecutions and political machinations, there is a broad sense today that the Church, however well-meaning, is on the wrong side of history. But do we really know our history? In this collaboration with historian Arnold Angenendt, best-selling German author Manfred Lütz dares to show us what contemporary historians actually say about Christianity's track record over the ages. This detailed overview begins with the ancient pagans, passing through Israel, the early Church martyrs, Constantine's Rome, the reign of Charlemagne, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Reformation, the Borgia popes, the Galileo affair, the conquistadores, the French Revolution, the slave trade, the Holocaust, the sex abuse crisis, and more. The Scandal of the Scandals separates myth from fact, giving us a candid portrait of Christendom with its scars and all. Prepare to be amazed at how little you really knew about Christianity.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book First Things written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Collette Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781955259095
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Scandal's Splendor written by Collette Cameron and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She can see the future. But she never saw him coming... Seonaid Ferguson gave up on the Marriage Mart long ago. Spinsterhood is far preferable to allowing the haut ton to exploit her second sight. But thankfully, she has a plan to rid herself of her accursed abilities-a plan she'd be well on her way to enacting if a snowstorm hadn't stranded her with the very last man she ever wanted to see again. It's just her misfortune that she might actually need the handsome devil. Jacques, Monsieur le baron de Devaux-Rousset, is running out of time. If his Scottish silver mine doesn't turn a profit sizable enough to save his estate, he'll be forced to search for an heiress to wed. And unfortunately, the mine seems doomed to fail. The last thing he needs is to fall for the lovely and spirited Seonaid. He mustn't even consider helping her with her risqué plan-even though he'd love nothing more... Is it chance or dark design that brought these opposites together? Only time will tell. But if they want their happily ever after, Seonaid and Jacques better get ready to fight for it... Historical romance at its sizzling best! This tantalizing Scottish Regency by a USA Today bestselling author will have you eagerly flipping the pages! As you escape into this Highland adventure, you'll cheer as Seonaid and Jacques, at last, find their hard-won happily-ever-after. If you enjoy reading arranged marriages and enemies to lovers stories packed with suspense, a dash of humor, and heartwarming emotion, then you'll adore Collette Cameron's passionate HIGHLAND HEATHER ROMANCING A SCOT Series. Get your copy of SCANDAL'S SPLENDOR today and settle into your favorite reading nook for an unforgettable historical romance escapade you can't put down. Though this book can easily be read as a stand-alone, most readers prefer to read the series in order. HIGHLAND HEATHER ROMANCING A SCOT: Triumph and Treasure Virtue and Valor Heartbreak and Honor Scandal's Splendor Passion and Plunder Seductive Surrender A Yuletide Highlander CHECK OUT COLLETTE'S OTHER SERIES: Castle Brides Daughters of Desire Heart of a Scot Seductive Surrender The Blue Rose Regency Romances: The Culpepper Misses The Honorable Rogues(R) Wicked Earls' Club
Author : John N. King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521771986
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Milton and Religious Controversy written by John N. King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious satire and polemic constitute an elusive presence in Paradise Lost. John N. King shows how Milton's poem takes on new meaning when understood as part of a strategy of protest against ecclesiastical formalism and clericalism. The experience of Adam and Eve before the Fall recalls many Puritan devotional habits. After the Fall, they are prone to 'idolatrous' ritual and ceremony that anticipate the religious 'error' of Milton's own age. Vituperative sermons, broadsides and pamphlets, notably Milton's own tracts, afford a valuable context for recovering the poem's engagement with the violent history of the Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Restoration, while contemporary visual satires help to clarify Miltonic practice. Eighteenth-century critics who attacked breaches of decorum and sublimity in Paradise Lost alternately deplored and ignored a literary and polemical tradition deployed by Milton's contemporaries. This important study, first published in 2000, sheds light on Milton's epic and its literary and religious contexts.
Author : Miro Roman
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035624054
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Play Among Books written by Miro Roman and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.
Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674034260
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Scandal of Empire written by Nicholas B. Dirks and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.
Author : E.J. Fleming
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147661850X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites written by E.J. Fleming and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino’s grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the “O.J. murders” condo, the hotel where John Belushi overdosed, a myriad of haunted mansions. In its extensively researched and enlarged second edition, this book tells the stories of these locations and makes finding them simple. Seventeen driving tours include more than 650 sites. Each tour covers a specific area, from Hollywood and the Sunset Strip to Brentwood and Malibu, covering the entire Los Angeles basin. Concise, easy-to-follow directions are given to each location with 145 photos and the fascinating story behind each stop.
Author : Marc E Vargo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317766091
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Scandal written by Marc E Vargo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examine the cornerstone incidents of modern gay political history! Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century is a compelling and thorough examination of same-sex controversies that range from accusations of obscenity and libel to espionage, treason, murder, and political dissent, with penalties that included censorship, imprisonment, deportation, and death. In each case, scandal brought the subject of homosexuality into public view in an explosive, sensational manner, stalling (and sometimes reversing) any progress made by the gay and lesbian community in mainstream society. Author Marc E. Vargo details the dignity, courage, and wisdom displayed by the gay men and women under attack in the face of public judgment. A unique blend of biography and gay political history, Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century recounts seven international incidents that tally the cost of being homosexual in a heterosexual society. In each episode, gay men or lesbians are targeted for legal persecution, subjected to sensationalized media coverage, and publicly condemned. The book examines the short- and long-term consequences of each controversy for those involved and the impact each scandal had on gay and mainstream society. Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century documents the stories of: Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini--his 1975 murder and its subsequent cover-up British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean--their defection to Russia at the height of the Cold War Cuban political dissident Reinaldo Arenas--his imprisonment in the 1960s that led to the exposure of the violent homophobia of the Castro regime Irish consul Roger Casement--his execution on treason charges and the later accusation that crucial evidence had been forged South African human rights activist Simon Nkoli--his persecution by his country's all-white, pro-apartheid government British writer Radclyffe Hall--the obscenity trial in the 1920s surrounding her novel, The Well of Loneliness German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II--the exposé of his relationship with Prince Eulenburg A scholarly work of historical significance, Scandal: Infamous Gay Controversies of the Twentieth Century is written in a straightforward tone that appeals to academics, students, and interested readers, gay or straight. The book stands alone as a record of the role played by public opinion in modern gay history.
Author : Sophie Jordan
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0358206219
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Sixteen Scandals written by Sophie Jordan and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The youngest of four daughters, Primrose Ainsworth is used to getting lost in the shuffle. When her parents decide to delay her debut into English society, Prim hatches a plan to go rogue on the night of her sixteenth birthday. She dons a mask and escapes to Vauxhall Gardens for one wild night-- and finds a masked stranger who becomes her partner in mischief and romance. -- adapted from jacket
Author : John Henry Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book "The End of Controversy," Controverted written by John Henry Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Cullman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150401006X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Scandal written by Heather Cullman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a man searching for his brother uncovers a secret that could destroy a powerful nobleman’s life, he is offered the man’s daughter in exchange for his silence—but could their marriage of convenience turn into a love more powerful than the secrets keeping them apart? When Gideon Harwood returns to his home in Regency-era England after a trip to India makes him an immensely rich man, he is driven by two unrelenting quests: to raise his station in life for the sake of his young sisters and to find his missing brother. What he uncovers is a damning secret about Lord Stanwell, one of London’s most powerful noblemen. Desperate to avoid a ruinous scandal, Lord Stanwell buys Gideon’s silence by offering the one thing that will guarantee Gideon’s entry into the beau monde’s inner sanctum: his daughter, Julia. Now in her third insufferable social season, beautiful Lady Julia Barham has yet to meet a man deserving of her devotion. Rumors swirl about the towering, immensely wealthy Gideon Harwood, but he is a commoner, beneath her consideration—and yet, as she learns, he is to be her husband. Julia comes to find that Gideon awakens passion in her that she didn’t know she had. But dangerous secrets lie between them. Can they overcome the sins of the past and surrender to a once-in-a-lifetime love?
