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Book Synopsis Bloody Versicles by : Jonathan Goodman
Download or read book Bloody Versicles written by Jonathan Goodman and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated and enlarged edition of an annotated collection originally published more than 20 years ago, Bloody Versicles serves as two books in one: an anthology of ribald, moralistic, sad, yet amusing and entertaining verse relating to specific crimes; and a small encyclopedia of select criminals and their wrongdoings.Some of the "crhymes," such as "Lizzie Borden took an axe...," are famous, but most are familiar only to students of particular cases. They have been selected from sources in the United States, England and Scotland, Australia, and France and are representative of all major categories of offenses, with murder inspiring the largest section.
Book Synopsis Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection by : Randolph Feezell
Download or read book Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection written by Randolph Feezell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In paperback for the first time, Randolph Feezell’s Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection immediately tackles two big questions about sport: “What is it?” and “Why does it attract so many people?” Feezell argues that sports participation is best described as a form of human play, and the attraction for participants and viewers alike derives from both its aesthetic richness and narrative structure. He then claims that the way in which sports encourage serious competition in trivial pursuits is fundamentally absurd, and therefore participation requires a state of irony in the participants, where seriousness and playfulness are combined. Feezell builds on these conclusions, addressing important ethical issues, arguing that sportsmanship should be seen as a kind of Aristotelian mean between the extremes of over- and under-investment in sport. Chapters on cheating, running up the score, and character building stress sport as a rule-governed, tradition-bound practice with standards of excellence and goods internal to the practice. With clear writing and numerous illuminating examples, Feezell demonstrates deep insight into both of his subjects.
Book Synopsis Culture and Difference by : Antonia Darder
Download or read book Culture and Difference written by Antonia Darder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-12-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant policies and practices of advanced capitalism and postmodern culture. Darder's introduction sets the tone by describing the formation of Warriors for Gringostroika and The New Mestizas. In the words of Anzaldua, those who cross over, pass over . . . the confines of the `normal.' Critical essays follow by Mexicanas, poets, activists, and educators of all colors and persuasions. The collection coming out of the good work of the Southern California University system relates to all locales and spectrums of the human condition and will no doubt inspire excellent creativity of knowing and remembering among all who chance to read any part thereof.
Download or read book Trivial Pursuits written by Ian Diorio and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your life is not a reality show. It's actual reality. But too many of us spend our lives on trivial pursuits--media, money, perpetual youth, and a culture of constant entertainment. We try to avoid the realities of pain, depression, loneliness, and mortality by filling our lives with diversions. Even worse, our churches that might use the reality of pain and suffering to point us to the cross instead dress the gospel up in the world's clothing so that it will seem more "relevant." With pinpoint accuracy, LA club DJ turned pastor Ian DiOrio diagnoses the problem and gives us the cure. Exposing our most common empty attempts to find meaning apart from God, DiOrio points us back to God and exhorts us to find meaning in our identities as followers of Christ, as shapers of culture, and as people who participate in communities of worship.
Book Synopsis Mingle All the Way by : Mia Heintzelman
Download or read book Mingle All the Way written by Mia Heintzelman and published by Levi Lynn Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riley Mills sells love. Or, rather dangles it like mistletoe at Lovestruck, the world’s most popular social dating app. She’s got her sights set on improving the app for others, but she doesn’t date. Period. For a Christmas bonus though, she’ll help the event planning team with the annual Holiday Mix’n’Mingle—even if it means speed dating her ridiculously hot office nemesis. Web developer Chase Campbell eats, breathes, and speaks code. With metadata that's all about romance and soul mates, maybe he’ll learn a thing or two about the love his parents shared. At the least, he’s got eight merry minutes at the company’s holiday event to decipher all the reasons maddeningly beautiful Riley Mills hates him. So what if their chemistry is undeniable, Riley doesn’t believe in messy office romances. But back at work when their family-minded boss announces a holiday party to get to know his team better and rumors spark of a promotion, she tells a teensy, tiny, white lie—she and Chase are in a serious(-ly fake) relationship. No biggie. Once she gets the job, they’ll stage a breakup… Except, silly love notes and sweet smiles turn to clock-out kisses and Secret Santa trysts. As the cold nights heat up, they begin to wonder if they were ever pretending.
Book Synopsis Intellectual Property and the Common Law by : Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Download or read book Intellectual Property and the Common Law written by Shyamkrishna Balganesh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, leading scholars of intellectual property and information policy examine what the common law - a method of reasoning, an approach to rule making, and a body of substantive law - can contribute to discussions about the scope, structure and function of intellectual property. The book presents an array of methodologies, substantive areas and normative positions, tying these concepts together by looking to the common law for guidance. Drawing on interdisciplinary ideas and principles that are embedded within the working of common law, it shows that the answers to many of modern intellectual property law's most puzzling questions may be found in the wisdom, versatility and adaptability of the common law. The book argues that despite the degree of interdisciplinary specialization in the field, intellectual property is fundamentally a creation of the law; therefore, the basic building blocks of the law can shed important light on what intellectual property can and should (and was perhaps meant to) be.
Book Synopsis For the Love of Beauty by : Arthur Pontynen
Download or read book For the Love of Beauty written by Arthur Pontynen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the last century the methodology of art history has followed a positivist approach, emphasizing form and style, fact and history as the means of studying works of art. By contrast the philosophical pursuit of truth, once central to the fine arts and humanities has largely been abandoned. In For The Love of Beauty, Arthur Pontynen offers a searching and ambitious critique of modern aesthetic practice that aims to restore the pursuit of the knowledge of reality--Being--to its rightful place.Pontynen begins by addressing the question of why the pursuit of truth (be it called Dao, Dharma, God, Logos, Ideal, etc.) is no longer acceptable in academic circles even though it has been intrinsic to the purpose of art at most times and in most cultures. Lacking the pursuit of truth, of some degree of knowledge of what is true and good, the humanities necessarily lack intellectual and cultural grounding and purpose. Fields of study such as philosophy, music, art, and history are therefore trivialized and brutalized. Pontynen's focus on the study of the visual arts details the how the denial of purpose and quality in modernist and postmodernist aesthetics has denied art any possibility of transcending entertainment, therapy, or propaganda.In place of the established narratives, Pontynen offers a counter-narrative based on a cross-cultural pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful. He recognizes that substantively different cultural traditions exist and that the truth claims of each may be valid in whole or in part. He shows how the history of art parallels the intellectual history of Western culture and how these parallels affect both aesthetics and ethics. Pontynen engages with those elements of modernist and postmodernist thought that might be true. His purpose is not simply to deny their validity but to engage a viewpoint that does not privilege the notion of a purposeless cosmos. For the Love of Beauty will be of interest
Book Synopsis Last Christmas Crush by : Mia Heintzelman
Download or read book Last Christmas Crush written by Mia Heintzelman and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiara Fortemani is home for the holidays—technically, her family’s tiny villa—where she’ll explore post-breakup digs and grow their vineyard’s brand during Napa’s annual Christmas food and wine festival. But as she interviews local wood craftsmen to curate custom gifts, she’s shocked to run into Jameson West… her ex’s best friend. Jameson has loved Chiara since he carved her a birdhouse in woodshop. She’s everything he ever wanted: beautiful, funny, loyal… but thanks to the bro code, off-limits. Now a rising investment banking star, Jameson’s in town temporarily to help the family business tackle seasonal contracts. West Woodworks has been making Fortemani casks for ages, so the job will be easy. It’s the unexpected reunion with newly single Chiara that has him on shaky ground. As they design together, days in the lumberyard and nights on steamy calls create magic. When Jameson confesses his feelings, Chiara is amazed by this sweet, attentive man who always should’ve been her first choice. But Jameson is still her ex’s best friend. Is uprooting her life for a man again a huge mistake…or a Christmas miracle?
Book Synopsis Advancing Folkloristics by : Jesse A. Fivecoate
Download or read book Advancing Folkloristics written by Jesse A. Fivecoate and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in the US, raising the question: How can folklorists contribute to these contemporary political affairs? Since the nature of folkloristics transcends binaries, can it help others develop critical personal narratives? Advancing Folkloristics covers topics such as queer, feminist, and postcolonial scholarship in folkloristics. Contributors investigate how to apply folkloristic approaches in nonfolklore classrooms, how to maintain a folklorist identity without a "folklorist" job title, and how to use folkloristic knowledge to interact with others outside of the discipline. The chapters, which range from theoretical reorientations to personal experiences of folklore work, all demonstrate the kinds of work folklorists are well-suited to and promote the areas in which folkloristics is poised to expand and excel. Advancing Folkloristics presents a clear picture of folklore studies today and articulates how it must adapt in the future.
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Book Synopsis Trivialized Pursuit by : Mia Heintzelman
Download or read book Trivialized Pursuit written by Mia Heintzelman and published by Tule Publishing Group, LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trivia (n.) 1) little-known facts. 2) a quiz game that has Roxanne Sloane questioning everything. Roxanne Sloane's life runs on checklists. As co-owner of a game store fresh off the brink of closing, she's focused on spreadsheets, market research, and keeping Love & Games in the public eye. When Rox agrees to a televised interview, she doesn't expect to learn the store's crowd-funding account was compromised or that the news station has arranged a complimentary audit. She definitely doesn't expect comfort from her co-owner's player brother. Murphy Sikes is many things-a handsome doctor, an overprotective brother, and a serial dater. Beyond casual hookups, he can't separate settling from settling down. So, when he visits the store and finds Rox with a smooth-talking auditor, Murph's confused-his inconvenient attraction for his sister's friend is joined by a not-at-all-brotherly tenderness. It's definitely not jealousy when he invites her to trivia night... With each battle of wits, their undeniable chemistry weakens their willpower to remain platonic. But Murph's unconvinced he'll check all her boxes, and Rox questions if he'll ever settle down. Can they overcome their trivial hang-ups and finally win at love?
Book Synopsis Science, Culture, and the Reconciliation of Knowledge and Understanding by : Arthur Pontynen
Download or read book Science, Culture, and the Reconciliation of Knowledge and Understanding written by Arthur Pontynen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In daily life we consciously attempt to reconcile what with why, factual knowledge with understanding. Currently, it is commonplace to presume that understanding is limited to the production of facts, which we place into narratives of understanding. We exist in a world of facts with no why to find, living in a culture that vacillates between identity and tolerance, authoritarianism and anarchism. Neglected is the importance of seeking good judgments in daily life, that is, of being wise. This book analyzes the millennial shift from seeking Truth to asserting subjective meanings, so that we can escape that sordid condition. It is necessary to challenge current dominant modes of thought and interpretation in order to live intelligently and peacefully. Western Civilization and the Enlightenment are historically associated with seeking to understand, with the goal of being right with an intelligible and therefore meaningful reality. That goal remains worthy of our efforts.
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Book Synopsis Corporate Takeovers by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance
Download or read book Corporate Takeovers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Making Sense of Anarchism by : Davide Turcato
Download or read book Making Sense of Anarchism written by Davide Turcato and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we make sense of anarchism or is that an oxymoron? Guided by the principle that someone else's rationality is not an empirical finding but a methodological presumption, this book addresses that question as it investigates the ideas and action of one of the most prominent and underrated anarchists of all times: the Italian, Errico Malatesta.
Book Synopsis Negotiating Toward Truth by : George David Miller
Download or read book Negotiating Toward Truth written by George David Miller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For far too many people for far too many years, schooling has been a debilitating, demoralizing, and ultimately dehumanizing experience. Make-shift, half-hearted, and watered-down reform measures have proved ineffective. Reform throws out the bath water, but keeps the baby. Radicalism recognizes not a baby but a beast lurks in the bath water and throws both out. This dramatic redefinition of schooling examines four models of dynamism as provided by Nietzsche, Whitehead, Dewey, and Freire. Nietzsche's af-firmation of dynamism is marred by his elitism. Whitehead understands that inert cripple schooling. Without dialogue, ideas remain inert. Dewey misunderstands thinking and does not grasp its inherent double movement: toward order and disorder. Freire's pedagogy is transcended, with emphasis on negotiation between prime values. The final chapter expounds a radical pedagogy of dynamism. Miller argues that teaching and learning are not separate acts, but form a continuum. Within the teaching-learning continuum, all participants are spontaneous and receptive and seek to overcome fear of process, ambiguity, and doubt. The key to radical schooling is a pro-active stance toward creativity that allows for a dynamic integration of difference in dialogue. Negotiating Toward Truth is a call to arms for all educators. The book asks us to look closely what is in the bath water and to have the courage to throw the beast out with the bath water.
