Forever Pariah

Author : Douglas Milewski
Publisher : Elemental Pea
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Forever Pariah by Douglas Milewski Pdf

A family feud of galactic proportions threatens everyone. Windy LeGuin gets a chance to stop a galactic war before it even begins. She volunteers to deliver a critical packet, ensuring that the Royalists cannot revive the galactic throne. She fails. It’s not even close. Cherryh Pariah, her own roommate, cheerfully betrays her, shoving her into an escape pod with nothing but coffee and donuts. At least the donuts were fresh. Drifting in deep space, her air running out, Windy must find a way to rescue herself, recover that packet, and strangle Cherryh at first opportunity. From these humble beginnings, a new power will arise: the Tomato Pirates, a ragtag crew of democratic desperadoes, following Cherryh Pariah, a captain so self-serving that nobody trusts her, not even with donuts. This title collects Never Trust a Pariah, Donuts or Bust, and Grand Theft Battleship.

Author : Shyu-tu Lee,Jack F. Williams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442221437

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Taiwan's Struggle by Shyu-tu Lee,Jack F. Williams Pdf

This comprehensive book explores contemporary Taiwan from the perspective of the Taiwanese themselves. In a unique set of original essays, leading Taiwanese figures consider the country’s history, politics, society, economy, identity, and future prospects. The volume provides a forum for a diversity of local voices, who are rarely heard in the power struggle between China and the United States over Taiwan’s future. Whether it will be absorbed by China, continue in its current limbo as an unrecognized state, or seek outright independence and national sovereignty remains an open question. Reflecting the deep ethnic and political differences that are essential to understanding Taiwan today, this work provides a nuanced introduction to its role in international politics. Contributions by: Andrew C. Chang, Chang Chang-yi David, Pochih Chen, Chen Yi-shen, Chi Guo-chung, Strong C. Chuang, Frank S. T. Hsiao, Jolan Hsieh, Joseph C. C. Kuo, Lee Shiao-feng, Shyu-tu Lee, Lee Teng-hui, Marie Lin, Jay Tsu-yi Loo, Lu Hsiu-lien Annette, Peng Ming-min, George Sung, Michael M. Tsai, Tsay Ting-kuei (Aquia), Tu Kuo-ch’ing, Jack F. Williams, Wong Ming-hsien, Wu Rong-i, Wu Rwei-ren, and C. Eugene Yeh.

Author : Adam McKible
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136067860

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The Space and Place of Modernism by Adam McKible Pdf

This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and race. Re-examining interconnections among such superficially disparate phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, modernism and Leftist politics, this book rightly emphasizes the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism.

Author : Rupa Viswanath
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231537506

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The Pariah Problem by Rupa Viswanath Pdf

Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the "Problem"—with consequences that continue to be felt today. Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in the 1890s and highlights the systematic efforts made by the state and Indian elites to protect Indian slavery from public scrutiny. Protestant missionaries were the first non-Dalits to draw attention to their plight. The missionaries' vision of the Pariahs' suffering as being a result of Hindu religious prejudice, however, obscured the fact that the entire agrarian political–economic system depended on unfree Pariah labor. Both the Indian public and colonial officials came to share a view compatible with missionary explanations, which meant all subsequent welfare efforts directed at Dalits focused on religious and social transformation rather than on structural reform. Methodologically, theoretically, and empirically, this book breaks new ground to demonstrate how events in the early decades of state-sponsored welfare directed at Dalits laid the groundwork for the present day, where the postcolonial state and well-meaning social and religious reformers continue to downplay Dalits' landlessness, violent suppression, and political subordination.

Author : Jennifer Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781681191751

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Pennybaker School Is Headed for Disaster by Jennifer Brown Pdf

Thomas Fallgrout always thought of himself as a regular kid until the day he accidentally creates a little big of magic using his grandpa's old potions. Suddenly, he's pulled from public school and enrolled in Pennybaker Academy for the Uniquely Gifted, where kids are busy perfecting their chainsaw juggling, unicycling feats, and didgeridoo playing. Pennybaker is full of spirit thanks to its most beloved teacher: the late, great Helen Heirmauser. The school has even erected a statue of her head on a pedestal. Then, life is uprooted when the statue goes missing -- and everyone thinks Thomas is behind its disappearance. Now his head is on the line. As his new friends turn on him, Thomas finds himself pairing up with the only person who will associate with him: his oddball next door neighbor Chip Mason. Together they work to hunt down the missing statue . . . only to discover that maybe what they've both needed to find all along was true friendship. Featuring black-and-white illustrations, this wildly fun first book kicks off a hilarious new middle-grade series from acclaimed author Jennifer Brown.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745656854

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Postmodernity and its Discontents by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freud's analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. The regulation of desire turns from an irritating necessity into an assault against individual freedom. In the postmodern era, the liberty of the individual is the overriding value, the criterion in terms of which all social rules and regulations are assessed. Postmodernity is governed by the 'will to happiness': the result, however, is a sacrificing of security. The most prominent anxieties in our society today, Bauman shows, derive from the removal of security. The world is experienced as overwhelmingly uncertain, uncontrollable and frightening. Totalitarian politics frightened by its awesome power; the new social disorder frightens by its lack of consistency and direction. The very pursuit of individual happiness corrupts and undermines those systems of authority needed for a stable life. This book builds imaginatively upon Bauman's earlier contributions to social theory. It consolidates his reputation as the interpreter of postmodernity. The book will appeal to second-year undergraduates and above in sociology, cultural studies, philosophy and anthropology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433068291438

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The Rosary Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marilyn LaFay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137382245

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Hannah Arendt and the Specter of Totalitarianism by Marilyn LaFay Pdf

This work positions Arendt as a political writer attempting to find a way in which humanity, poised between the Holocaust and the atom bomb, might reclaim its position as the creators of a world fit for human habitation.

Author : Alyson Manda Cole
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804754616

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The Cult of True Victimhood by Alyson Manda Cole Pdf

Demonstrates how the campaign against "victim politics" and the "victim mentality" has profoundly altered Americans' understanding of victimhood, and investigates the consequences of this change in politics, law, culture, and the "war against terror."

Author : Arturo Von Vacano
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780615206059

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Freedom's Maze by Arturo Von Vacano Pdf

Nobody ever before said this harsh, cruel truth on immigration. Nobody ever before showed the suffering of these refugees (they are nothing but) who leave a South oppressed by hunger and misery for a North blind to exploitation and abuse of the weak. Carlos de Miguel Antnez. Lawyer. Illegal

Author : Werner Stark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135034542

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Soc Relign Pt3:Uni Chur Ils 81 by Werner Stark Pdf

Published in 1998, Soc Relign Pt3: Uni Chur IIs 81 is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology & Social Policy.

Author : Frank Tannenbaum
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307826558

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Slave and Citizen by Frank Tannenbaum Pdf

Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do not suffer legal or even major social disabilities on account of color, and that a long history of acceptance and miscegenation has erased the sharp line between white and colored. Professor Tannenbaum, one of our leading authorities on Latin America, asks why there has been such a sharp distinction between the United States and the other parts of the New World into which Negroes were originally brought as slaves. In the legal structure of the United States, the Negro slave became property. There has been little experience with Negro slaves in England, and the ancient and medieval traditions affecting slavery had died out. As property, the slave was without rights to marriage, to children, to the product of his work, or to freedom. In the Iberian peninsula, on the other hand, Negro slaves were common, and the laws affecting them were well developed. Therefore, in the colonies of Spain and Portugal, while the slave was the lowest person in the social order, he was still a human being, with some rights, and some means by which he might achieve freedom. Only the United States made a radical split with the tradition in which all men, even slaves, had certain inalienable rights.

Author : Matt Nixon
Publisher : Libri Publishing Limited
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781909818866

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Pariahs by Matt Nixon Pdf

In the last few years repeated scandals have rocked their worlds of many industries. Stories which have hit the headlines recently have included news of - Deliberate cheating by car makers to evade emissions tests - LIBOR and FX manipulation by bankers - Falsification of drug testing results plus allegations of bribery and corruption in major pharmaceutical corporations - Unlawful tapping of phones of the famous by newspapers - Cover-ups over high death rates in hospitals. While it is not always obvious what has gone wrong, there is no disguising the widespread impact on many stakeholders, and the catastrophic loss of trust and sense of betrayal that results. Matt Nixon has had a privileged insider seat in several of the organizations which came to suffer major crises, crises which inspired deep emotional responses.

Author : Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780262302883

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Body Sweats by Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven Pdf

The first major collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, “the first American Dada.” As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing proto-punk poet and artist, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven left in her wake a ripple that is becoming a rip—one hundred years after she exploded onto the New York art scene. As an agent provocateur within New York's modernist revolution, “the first American Dada” not only dressed and behaved with purposeful outrageousness, but she set an example that went well beyond the eccentric divas of the twenty-first century, including her conceptual descendant, Lady Gaga. Her delirious verse flabbergasted New Yorkers as much as her flamboyant persona. As a poet, she was profane and playfully obscene, imagining a farting God, and transforming her contemporary Marcel Duchamp into M'ars (my arse). With its ragged edges and atonal rhythms, her poetry echoes the noise of the metropolis itself. Her love poetry muses graphically on ejaculation, orgasm, and oral sex. When she tired of existing words, she created new ones: “phalluspistol,” “spinsterlollipop,” “kissambushed.” The Baroness's rebellious, highly sexed howls prefigured the Beats; her intensity and psychological complexity anticipates the poetic utterances of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Published more than a century after her arrival in New York, Body Sweats is the first major collection of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's poems in English. The Baroness's biographer Irene Gammel and coeditor Suzanne Zelazo have assembled 150 poems, most of them never before published. Many of the poems are themselves art objects, decorated in red and green ink, adorned with sketches and diagrams, presented with the same visceral immediacy they had when they were composed.

Author : Peter Williams
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879726709

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The Sports Immortals by Peter Williams Pdf

Explores the psychology of hero-worship in sports, covering the period from the late 19th century to the present. Offers an overview of the classic theorists, and demonstrates how the public creates heroes and villains in the same way the Greeks created archetypal deities. Topics include the archetypes of human myth, localized sports archetypes, origins of the baseball myth, the archetypes of baseball, and the sports press. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR