Capricious

Author : Gabrielle Prendergast
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459802698

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Capricious by Gabrielle Prendergast Pdf

Ella’s grade-eleven year was a disaster (Audacious), but as summer approaches, things are looking up. She’s back together with her brooding boyfriend, Samir, although they both want to keep that a secret. She’s also best buddies with David and still not entirely sure about making him boyfriend number two. Though part of her wants to conform to high school norms, the temptation to be radical is just too great. Managing two secret boyfriends proves harder than Ella expected, especially when Samir and David face separate family crises, and Ella finds herself at the center of an emotional maelstrom. Someone will get hurt. Someone risks losing true love. Someone might finally learn that self-serving actions can have public consequences. And that someone is Ella.

Author : Olga Demetriou
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857458995

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Capricious Borders by Olga Demetriou Pdf

Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps become ditches in the ground and roaming barriers in the air, a complex state apparatus is set up to regulate the lives of those who cannot be expelled, yet who have never been properly ‘rooted’. This study explores the mechanisms employed at the interstices of two opposing views on the presence of minority populations in western Thrace: the legalization of their status as établis (established) and the failure to incorporate the minority in the Greek national imaginary. Revealing the logic of government bureaucracy shows how they replicate difference from the inter-state level to the communal and the personal.

Author : Michael A. Foley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313057113

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Arbitrary and Capricious by Michael A. Foley Pdf

Justice Marshall once remarked that if people knew what he knew about the death penalty, they would reject it overwhelmingly. Foley elucidates Marshall's claim that fundamental flaws exist in the implementation of the death penalty. He guides us through the history of the Supreme Court's death penalty decisions, revealing a constitutional quagmire the Court must navigate to avoid violating the fundamental tenant of equal justice for all. Nearly 100 influential Supreme Court capital punishment-related cases from 1878-2002 are examined, beginning with Wilkerson v. Utah, which question not the legitimacy of capital punishment, but the methods of execution. Over time, focus shifted from the constitutionality of certain methods to the fairness of who was being sentenced for capital crimes—and why. The watershed 1972 ruling Furman v. Georgia reversed the Court's stand on capital punishment, holding that the arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore unconstitutional. Furman clarified that any new death penalty legislation must contain sentencing procedures that avoid the arbitrary infliction of a life-ending verdict, which led to the current complex tangle of issues surrounding the death penalty and its constitutional viability.

Author : Gary Elvin Marchant,Kenneth L. Mossman
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0844741892

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Arbitrary and Capricious by Gary Elvin Marchant,Kenneth L. Mossman Pdf

This study examines how the European Union has used the precautionary principle in legal decisions.

Author : Steven J. Cann
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412913966

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Administrative Law by Steven J. Cann Pdf

In this new edition, author Steven J. Cann once again enlivens the topic of United States administrative law through the use of recent and "classic" legal cases to make it accessible and interesting to students. Administrative Law, Fourth Edition is an engaging casebook that presents a unique problem-solving framework that contrasts democracy with the administrative state. This novel approach places the often complex subject matter of U.S. administrative law into a more comprehensible context. The Fourth Edition has been completely updated and revised and includes many new cases to reflect changes in the law since the year 2000.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781435700536

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Capricious Corgi Capers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gail Caskey Winkler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0812243226

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Capricious Fancy by Gail Caskey Winkler Pdf

The materials that decorate our homes and protect us from cold, light, and prying eyes reveal as well as conceal. Drapery and curtain designs tell the story of great shifts in home and work life that accompanied innovations in textile manufacturing technology and the fashion industry over the course of the nineteenth century. Capricious Fancy chronicles the changes in fashionable curtain and drapery styles in the United States and Europe during the Industrial Revolution. This unique compilation contains hundreds of illustrations, most in full color, reproduced from more than one hundred rare pattern books, workroom manuals, trade catalogues, and examples of design literature selected from the collections of The Athenæum of Philadelphia, including the Samuel J. Dornsife Collection of The Victorian Society in America. Each design is annotated with a description of its source and significance. Gail Caskey Winkler's research confirms the mastery of French upholsterers in the art of draping windows, bedsteads, and doorways. The book follows the transmission of high styles from Paris to London to North America before the middle of the nineteenth century and the development of the retail home fashion business, including the mail-order trade. Even as wealth spread, disparity continued between the upper and middle classes in adopting the newest fashions. Meanwhile, the audience for interior fashion publications switched from male building professionals and artisans to female homemakers. With 325 images and historical commentary from a leading educator and historic preservation practitioner, Capricious Fancy is a source of authentic inspiration for preservation professionals, interior designers, set designers, museum curators, and anyone with a passion for period décor.

Author : John Chr Knudsen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 3825881083

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Capricious Worlds by John Chr Knudsen Pdf

Capricious Worlds covers a period of 20 years of exile. Through the life journeys of Vietnamese refugees, the book presents a world rich in experience and wisdom, where the will to survive is complemented by the skills to do so. Individuals must learn to conquer systems that transform human beings into numbers, and men, women and children into de-personalized figures. The transformations render an unsettling peace that refugees struggle against, inspired by a search for recognition, a search not only for what is lost, but also for what might yet be. The book is about refugees en route to, and in, Norway. It also speaks to the challenges of being exiled in general: a reality for 40 million refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Capricious Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : ART
ISBN : 1734656220

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Hello Future by Anonim Pdf

A beautifully produced monograph on a rising star exploring postcolonialism and gender in photography Shortlisted for the Aperture-Paris Photo Photobook of the Year 2021, Hello Future is a culmination of Farah Al Qasimi's (born 1991) photographic, performance and film practice, unified within her keen focus on surface and texture, and the revealing visual influences of the splashy and florid. Al Qasimi examines postcolonial structures of power, gender and aesthetics in the Persian Gulf states and global cultural confluence and migration at large.

Author : Andi Buchanan,Lauren Mitchell,A. E. Prevost,Rem Wigmore,Cameron Van Sant
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 198181776X

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Capricious by Andi Buchanan,Lauren Mitchell,A. E. Prevost,Rem Wigmore,Cameron Van Sant Pdf

"It was odd, being friends with one of the fae. Pronoun sets were the least of it, of course; Jeb even had human friends who rotated theirs, though not with the seasons, not as spring bloomed into summer mellowed into autumn crept slowly into winter's sleep. This thing, the plants Jeb grew having odd properties and growing too fast, that had never happened before ey met Nederene. No one else seemed able to find the garden, either." - Rem Wigmore, Grow Green These ten stories (all of which use gender diverse pronouns) are stories of love, fear, transformation, and the journeys we must sometimes take. Stories of those whose gender changes, whose gender is undecided, whose gender does not exist, or whose gender is pivotal to their self. Stories set in our own world, in far-away galaxies, or in worlds of fairy tale and myth, and stories which introduce us to ghosts, merfolk, dragons, and aliens, to strangers, to communities, and to ourselves. Featuring short fiction by Nino Cipri, Bogi Takacs, Lauren E. Mitchell, A.E. Prevost, Cameron Van Sant, Rem Wigmore, Penny Stirling, Hazel Gold, SL Byrne, and Rae White, edited by A.C. Buchanan, with cover art by Laya Rose.

Author : K. Rogers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230625198

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Modern Science and the Capriciousness of Nature by K. Rogers Pdf

This book questions the way that modern science and technology are considered able to liberate society from the erratic forces of nature. Modern science is implicated in a gamble on a technological society that will replace the natural world with a 'better' one. The author questions the rationality of this gamble and its implications for our lives.

Author : Robert Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100036730

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The Encyclopædic Dictionary by Robert Hunter Pdf

Author : Kim Cooper,David Smay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135879211

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Lost in the Grooves by Kim Cooper,David Smay Pdf

Do you remember these great pop stars and their hits? Deerhoof's The Man, The King, The Girl Butch Hancock's West Texas Waltzes and Dust Blown Tractor Tunes, Swamp Dogg's Cuffed, Collared and Tagged, Michael Head's The Magical World Of The Strands, John Trubee's The Communists Are Coming to Kill Us, John Phillips's Wolf King of L.A., and Michel Magne's Moshe Mouse Crucifiction? You will when you read Lost in the Grooves, a fascinating guide to the back alleys off the pop music superhighway. Pop music history is full of little-known musicians, whose work stands defiantly alone, too quirky, distinctive, or demented to appeal to a mass audience. This book explores the nooks and crannies of the pop music world, unearthing lost gems from should-have-been major artists (Sugarpie DeSanto, Judee Sill), revisiting lesser known works by established icons (Marvin Gaye's post-divorce kissoff album, Here My Dear; The Ramones' Subterranean Jungle), and spotlighting musicians who simply don't fit into neat categories (k. mccarty, Exuma). The book's encyclopedic alphabetical structure throws off strange sparks as disparate genres and eras rub against each other: folk-psych iconoclasts face louche pop crooners; outsider artists set their odd masterpieces down next to obscurities from the stars; lo-fi garage rock cuddles up with the French avant-garde; and roots rock weirdoes trip over bubblegum. This book will delight any jukebox junkie or pop culture fan.

Author : Sachi Schmidt-Hori
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824888930

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Tales of Idolized Boys by Sachi Schmidt-Hori Pdf

In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent coming-of-age rites, others entered the priesthood, and several extended their education, becoming chigo, or Buddhist acolytes. Chigo served their masters as personal attendants and as sexual partners. During religious ceremonies—adorned in colorful robes, their faces made up and hair styled in long ponytails—they entertained local donors and pilgrims with music and dance. Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of the present volume, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts. Sachi Schmidt-Hori begins by delineating various dimensions of chigo (the chigo “title,” personal names, gender, sexuality, class, politics, and religiosity) to show the complexity of this cultural construct—the chigo as a triply liminal figure who is neither male nor female, child nor adult, human nor deity. A modern reception history of chigo monogatari follows, revealing, not surprisingly, that the tales have often been interpreted through cultural paradigms rooted in historical moments and worldviews far removed from the original. From the 1950s to 1980s, research on chigo was hindered by widespread homophobic prejudice. More recently, aversion to the age gap in historical master-acolyte relations has prevented scholars from analyzing the religious and political messages underlying the genre. Schmidt-Hori’s work calls for a shift in the hermeneutic strategies applied to chigo and chigo monogatari and puts forth both a nuanced historicization of social constructs such as gender, sexuality, age, and agency, and a mode of reading propelled by curiosity and introspection.

Author : Ari Martin Samsky
Publisher : Seismicity Editions
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0979617766

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The Capricious Critic by Ari Martin Samsky Pdf

Fiction. THE CAPRICIOUS CRITIC is a satirical look at our society through the distorted lens of the absurd. Chronicling the author's forays into bizarre worlds, Samsky is part cultural anthropologist, part reluctant wayfarer. Originally under assignment for the web museum Smyles & Fish, Samsky rates and reviews fantastic places, products, and activities that reflect upon current society. He spares no detail. With wit and humor, Samsky leaves no exhortatory stone unturned, from reviewing fountain pens to describing the various subsets of Hell. Iris Smyles's provocative afterword concludes this collection of critical essays. THE CAPRICIOUS CRITIC is the newest addition to the canon of cult literature.