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Book Synopsis The Vice of Luxury by : David Cloutier
Download or read book The Vice of Luxury written by David Cloutier and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luxury. The word alone conjures up visions of attractive, desirable lifestyle choices, yet luxury also faces criticism as a moral vice harmful to both the self and society. Engaging ideas from business, marketing, and economics, The Vice of Luxury takes on the challenging task of naming how much is too much in today's consumer-oriented society. David Cloutier’s critique goes to the heart of a fundamental contradiction. Though overconsumption and materialism make us uneasy, they also seem inevitable in advanced economies. Current studies of economic ethics focus on the structural problems of poverty, of international trade, of workers' rights—but rarely, if ever, do such studies speak directly to the excesses of the wealthy, including the middle classes of advanced economies. Cloutier proposes a new approach to economic ethics that focuses attention on our everyday economic choices. He shows why luxury is a problem, explains how to identify what counts as the vice of luxury today, and develops an ethic of consumption that is grounded in Christian moral convictions.
Book Synopsis Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll by : Suroosh Alvi
Download or read book Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll written by Suroosh Alvi and published by Revolver. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a compilation of the best articles Vice magazine published between October 1994 to 2005.
Download or read book Vice Patrol written by Anna Lvovsky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life chronicles how local police and criminal justice systems intruded on gay individuals, criminalizing, profiling, surveilling, and prosecuting them from the 1930's through the 1960's. Anna Lvovsky details the progression of enforcement strategies through the targeting of gay-friendly bars by liquor boards, enticement of sexual overtures by plainclothes police decoys, and surveilling of public bathrooms via peepholes and two-way mirrors to catch someone "in the act." Lvovsky shows how the use of tactics indistinguishable from entrapment to criminalize homosexual men in public and private spaces produced charges brought forward and disputed by attorneys and evidence that had to stand before judges, who at times intervened against punitive policies. In Vice Patrol the author demonstrates how developments in the psychological, medical, and sociological handling of homosexuality filtered into police stations, courthouses, and the wider culture"--
Download or read book The Vice written by Jennifer R. Jensen and published by Jennifer R. Jensen. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harper’s unhealthy coping mechanisms of meaningless sex and excessive drinking is starting to catch up to her—as is her avoidance of the past. At 28, she has found herself stuck in a cycle of perpetual anger, unrelenting loneliness, and constant self-loathing—something she isn’t positive she can come back from. Her mirror reflects a girl that she no longer recognizes, and she has done everything she can to push away the ones she loves. But a sudden chain of events leads her to face the traumas she has been trying to keep buried with the vice that has kept her numb. And although the nagging voice in her head continues to poke at her insecurities and drag her down, Harper sees that there might be a light at the end of the tunnel—an end to the chaos in her life that she is desperate to reach.
Book Synopsis Providing Penalties for the Assassination of the President [or the Vice President] by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Providing Penalties for the Assassination of the President [or the Vice President] written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Vice President The Rise Of The Word-Command Killer by : Elina Salajeva
Download or read book The Vice President The Rise Of The Word-Command Killer written by Elina Salajeva and published by Touchladybirdlucky Studios. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the Magic-Word? Great advances in technology meant development of new weapons. A never seen before weapon the Word-Command, is now being executed by word of mouth to kill. Watch out who you mess-up with some can get you killed
Book Synopsis The Vice of Kings by : Jasun Horsley
Download or read book The Vice of Kings written by Jasun Horsley and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's "post-truth" world, we are becoming inundated with fantasy fictions, "alternate news," and grossly oversimplified (and wildly exaggerated) conspiracy theories that identify cryptocratic power structures ruling our fates. But suppose the truth is both stranger than any fiction and more nuanced and disturbing than any theory? Suppose it is not conspiracy but complicity that creates our world? Beginning as an investigation into the author's childhood inside a closet aristocracy of "progressive" British entrepreneurs, Vice of Kings uncovers a history both disturbingly personal and shockingly universal. By juxtaposing disc jockey Jimmy Savile's secret cultural, criminal, and political affiliations in the second half of the 20th century with the life and teachings of Aleister Crowley in the first, it uncovers an alarming body of evidence that ritual child abuse is not only the dark side of occultism, but the shadowy secret at the heart of culture, both ancient and modern. In the process, Vice of Kings reveals an invisible culture behind the one we know, a secret hierarchy that impacts our lives, in ways both subtle and profound, from birth until death. It is a cryptocratic superculture that operates via traumagenesis (intentionally traumatic child-rearing practices), secret initiation/recruitment rituals (abusive social structures), and collective cultural "inception" via mass media and the arts. By shaping our world implicitly, from the inside out, it makes us complicit with it - like the sleeping subjects of hidden monarchs.
Book Synopsis Nomination of Gerald R. Ford to be the Vice President of the United States by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Nomination of Gerald R. Ford to be the Vice President of the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of the Vice Chancellor of England ... by : Great Britain. Court of Chancery
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of the Vice Chancellor of England ... written by Great Britain. Court of Chancery and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dr. Pusey and the University of Oxford. A letter to the Vice Chancellor of the University, etc by : James GARBETT (Archdeacon of Chichester.)
Download or read book Dr. Pusey and the University of Oxford. A letter to the Vice Chancellor of the University, etc written by James GARBETT (Archdeacon of Chichester.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inherent Vice written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.
Book Synopsis The White House Vice Presidency by : Joel K. Goldstein
Download or read book The White House Vice Presidency written by Joel K. Goldstein and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am nothing, but I may be everything," John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the "nothing" part of Adams's formulation accurately captured the importance of the vice presidency, at least as long as the president had a heartbeat. But a job that once was "not worth a bucket of warm spit," according to John Nance Garner, became, in the hands of the most recent vice presidents, critical to the governing of the country on an ongoing basis. It is this dramatic development of the nation's second office that Joel K. Goldstein traces and explains in The White House Vice Presidency. The rise of the vice presidency took a sharp upward trajectory with the vice presidency of Walter Mondale. In Goldstein's work we see how Mondale and Jimmy Carter designed and implemented a new model of the office that allowed the vice president to become a close presidential adviser and representative on missions that mattered. Goldstein takes us through the vice presidents from Mondale to Joe Biden, presenting the arrangements each had with his respective president, showing elements of continuity but also variations in the office, and describing the challenges each faced and the work each did. The book also examines the vice-presidential selection process and campaigns since 1976, and shows how those activities affect and/or are affected by the newly developed White House vice presidency. The book presents a comprehensive account of the vice presidency as the office has developed from Mondale to Biden. But The White House Vice Presidency is more than that; it also shows how a constitutional office can evolve through the repetition of accumulated precedents and demonstrates the critical role of political leadership in institutional development. In doing so, the book offers lessons that go far beyond the nation's second office, important as it now has become.
Book Synopsis Trapped in a Vice by : Alexandra Cox
Download or read book Trapped in a Vice written by Alexandra Cox and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice. Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people and adults in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice.
Download or read book Tranny written by Laura Jane Grace and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME" The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self. It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a headful of anarchist politics, landed on a riff. Gabel formed Against Me! and rocketed the band from its scrappy beginnings-banging on a drum kit made of pickle buckets-to a major-label powerhouse that critics have called this generation's The Clash. Since its inception in 1997, Against Me! has been one of punk's most influential modern bands, but also one of its most divisive. With every notch the four-piece climbed in their career, they gained new fans while infuriating their old ones. They suffered legal woes, a revolving door of drummers, and a horde of angry, militant punks who called them "sellouts" and tried to sabotage their shows at every turn. But underneath the public turmoil, something much greater occupied Gabel-a secret kept for 30 years, only acknowledged in the scrawled-out pages of personal journals and hidden in lyrics. Through a troubled childhood, delinquency, and struggles with drugs, Gabel was on a punishing search for identity. Not until May of 2012 did a Rolling Stone profile finally reveal it: Gabel is a transsexual, and would from then on be living as a woman under the name Laura Jane Grace. Tranny is the intimate story of Against Me!'s enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the band's history, as well as Grace's, with dozens of never-before-seen entries from the piles of journals Grace kept. More than a typical music memoir about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-although it certainly has plenty of that-Tranny is an inside look at one of the most remarkable stories in the history of rock.
Download or read book The Vice Society written by James McCreet and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Albert Newsome is investigating a curious death in Holywell Street. But what seems like a common enough incident is complicated when the inspector discovers that his ex-colleague, George Williamson, is also pursuing the case with the aid of a shady former criminal of his acquaintance, Noah Dyson.
Book Synopsis Last Rockers: The Vice Squad Story by : Shane Baldwin
Download or read book Last Rockers: The Vice Squad Story written by Shane Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vice Cop written by Richard Deming and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Rudd is a vice cop in St. Cecilia. He's seen it all -- drugs, prostitution, gangs. But the worst were the thrill parties -- especially the one that ended in murder!