Pleasure In Profit

Author : Laura Moretti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231552059

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Pleasure in Profit by Laura Moretti Pdf

In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers’ hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge. However, traditional literary histories of this period position the writings of Ihara Saikaku at center stage, largely neglecting the breadth of popular prose. In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres. Moretti explores how booksellers sparked interest among readers across the spectrum of literacies and demonstrates how they tantalized consumers with vital ethical, religious, societal, and interpersonal knowledge. She recasts books as tools for knowledge making, arguing that popular prose engaged its audience cognitively as well as aesthetically and emotionally to satisfy a burgeoning curiosity about the world. Crucially, Moretti shows, readers experienced entertainment within the didactic, finding pleasure in the profit gained from acquiring knowledge by interacting with transformative literature. Drawing on a rich variety of archival materials to present a vivid portrait of seventeenth-century Japanese publishing, Pleasure in Profit also speaks to broader conversations about the category of the literary by offering a new view of popular prose that celebrates plurality.

Author : David Wootton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674989900

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Power, Pleasure, and Profit by David Wootton Pdf

David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore.

Author : Rosemary Hennessy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135960988

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Profit and Pleasure by Rosemary Hennessy Pdf

Drawing on an international range of examples, from Che Guevarra to "The Crying Game," Profit and Pleasure leads the discussion of sexuality to a consideration of material reality and the substance of men and women's everyday lives.

Author : Lorena S. Walsh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807895924

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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit by Lorena S. Walsh Pdf

Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture. Walsh focuses on the operation of more than thirty individual plantations and on the decisions that large planters made about how they would run their farms. She argues that, in the mid-seventeenth century, Chesapeake planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Prior to 1763 the primary reason for large planters' debt was their purchase of capital assets--especially slaves--early in their careers. In the later stages of their careers, chronic indebtedness was rare. Walsh's narrative incorporates stories about the planters themselves, including family dynamics and relationships with enslaved workers. Accounts of personal and family fortunes among the privileged minority and the less well documented accounts of the suffering, resistance, and occasional minor victories of the enslaved workers add a personal dimension to more concrete measures of planter success or failure.

Author : John Hannigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134747016

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Fantasy City by John Hannigan Pdf

Fantasy City analyses the post-industrialist city as a site of entertainment. By discussing examples from a wide variety of venues, including casinos, malls, heritage developments and theme parks, Hannigan questions urban entertainments economic foundations and historical background. He asks whether such areas of fantasy destroy communities or instead create new groupings of shared identities and experiences. The book is written in a student friendly way with boxed case studies for class discussion.

Author : Lorena Seebach Walsh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807832349

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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit by Lorena Seebach Walsh Pdf

Lorena Walsh offers an enlightening history of plantation management in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland, ranging from the founding of Jamestown to the close of the Seven Years' War and the end of the "Golden Age" of colonial Chesapeake agriculture. She argues that, in the mid-17th century, planter elites deliberately chose to embrace slavery. Accounts of personal and family fortunes among the privileged minority and the less well documented accounts of the lives of the enslaved workers add a personal dimension to more concrete measures of planter success or failure.

Author : Dwight L. Moody
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802488565

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Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study by Dwight L. Moody Pdf

The Word of God. It is undoubtedly the key resource for a faithful, fulfilling Christian life. Has your study of the Bible been consistent and fruitful or do you struggle to be energized and disciplined? Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study gives you a unique opportunity to be encouraged, challenged, and inspired by Dwight L. Moody, one of the most renowned evangelists and Bible teachers of all time. He recognized the common struggle people have to regularly and thoroughly study the Bible. He passionately addresses fundamental topics such as: How to Deepen Your Love for the Bible The Inspired Word of God How to Study the Bible Studying Great Bible Doctrines and Topics Knowing God's Word is essential for you to have a vibrant, growing Christian life. This classic work, refreshed and updated, will renew your enthusiasm to discover the life-changing truths contained in the precious Word of God.

Author : Dwight Lyman Moody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Bible
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50320569

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Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study by Dwight Lyman Moody Pdf

We cannot overestimate the importance of a thorough familiarity with the Bible. I try to lose no opportunity of urging people by every means in my power to the constant study of this wonderful Book. If through the pages that follow, I can reach still others and rouse them to read their Bibles, not at random but with a plan and purpose, I shall be indeed thankful. - Preface.

Author : Anon
Publisher : Sigaud Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781447411239

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Build a Boat for Pleasure Or Profit by Anon Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Corey McEleney
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823272679

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Futile Pleasures by Corey McEleney Pdf

Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the current conversation by returning to the literary culture of early modern England, a culture whose defensive posture toward literature rivals and shapes our own. During the Renaissance, poets justified the value of their work on the basis of the notion that the purpose of poetry is to please and instruct, that it must be both delightful and useful. At the same time, many of these writers faced the possibility that the pleasures of literature may be in conflict with the demand to be useful and valuable. Analyzing the rhetoric of pleasure and the pleasure of rhetoric in texts by William Shakespeare, Roger Ascham, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton, McEleney explores the ambivalence these writers display toward literature’s potential for useless, frivolous vanity. Tracing that ambivalence forward to the modern era, this book also shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for the redemptive utility of literature, Futile Pleasures both theorizes and performs the queer pleasures of futility. Without ever losing sight of the costs of those pleasures, McEleney argues that playing with futility may be one way of moving beyond the impasses that modern humanists, like their early modern counterparts, have always faced.

Author : Margaret Shepherd
Publisher : Perigee Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : PSU:000016156401

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Margaret Shepherd's Calligraphy Projects for Pleasure and Profit by Margaret Shepherd Pdf

Contains two dozen lettering projects, numerous 'how-to' illustrations, and over a hundred examples of finished designs as an idea source - plus 800 monograms for every combination of initials.

Author : Sue Weaver
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781935484806

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Goats by Sue Weaver Pdf

Hobby Farms GOATS: Small-Scale Herding, written by hobby farmer and prolific author and columnist Sue Weaver, is an essential guide to the wonderful world of goats, the fastest growing new area of the US agricultural meat market. This colorful guide discusses goats of all types, including dairy goats, used for milk and cheese; meat goats; fiber goats, prized for their mohair and cashmere; recreational goats, beloved by children for their great personalities and silliness; and brush goats, the lawnmowers of creative hobby farmers and suburbanites. Weaver offers excellent advice on how to purchase a goat: sensible and direct, she advises newcomers that while goats can be profitable, they should not rush in. Before the reader fills his backyard with a herd of goats, the author warns him or her to consider that while goats are "cute, personable, charming, and imminently entertaining;[they] are also destructive;mischievous, sometimes ornery, and often exasperating." The book lists the various breeds of goats commonly available as meat and dairy producers, carefully spelling out their advantages and drawbacks. In the chapter on selecting a goat, the author instructs the reader to be aware of the overall health and soundness, and to consider such the animals' horns and teeth. The book also covers general care for a small herd of goats, including outdoor housing and feeding, general health care, and maintenance. For hobby farmers ready to dive into the world of reproducing their goats, there are chapters on breeding, mating, and "Bringing Kids into the World." All goat keepers will be enlightened by the information in the chapter on behavior and solving everyday problems with their often capricious caprines. Since the focus of the book is for hobby farmers, Goats also addresses how to make money from the small-scale herd, offering advice on managing, selling, and marketing goat-derived products. The book concludes with an extensive glossary of over 150 terms, an appendix of common goat diseases, and a resource section of useful goat-relevant books, websites, and associations. Fully indexed.

Author : Cherie Langlois
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781935484790

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Ducks by Cherie Langlois Pdf

Written by hobby farmer Cherie Langlois from Washington state, Ducks is a fantastic overview of these entertaining and adaptable waterfowl. The author begins by asking "What do these water-crazy birds have that make them as much an asset to farms as landlubbing poultry?" She provides many answers that defend the virtues and versatility of ducks and argues that the duck is superior to the ubiquitous chicken in many ways. As a zoologist, Langlois has a gift for elucidating the details of the waterfowl's anatomy, traits and behavior, all revealed in the first chapter "Meet the Duck." She proceeds by leading readers through the process of choosing the right ducks for their hobby farm, considering the various domestic breeds (from bantams to heavyweights) as well as the sex of the birds and number of birds/breeds ideal for beginning a hobby-farm flock.The book offers advice on housing these very adaptable birds that thrive in various climates and regions throughout the world: space requirements, ventilation, flooring, feeders, and fencing. Naturally, ducks need water to thrive in the form of an existing lake, a manmade pond or simple duck pools, all discussed in the housing chapter. "The Duck Diet" chapter discusses the nutritional needs of the flock and various feeding options farmers and ranchers can consider. Seasoned duck aficionados interested in getting into the business of ducklings will find much information in the breeding chapter, which catalogs methods for hatching, incubators, mama duck and baby care, and more. The health of livestock is always a major consideration for the hobby farmer, and the chapter "Flock Health and Handling" offers a mini course in disease prevention, proper hygiene, recognizing symptoms of illnesses, and dealing with common maladies.The advantages of duck farming;the superior quality of duck eggs, down, and meat--are the focal point of the final chapter "Harvesting the Rewards," likely the first chapter the dubious duck farmer will read prior to taking the dive into ducks. The book concludes with appendices of endangered duck breeds and duck diseases, resources, a glossary of terms, and a complete index.

Author : Harvey Considine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Goat breeds
ISBN : WISC:89066587700

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Dairy Goats for Pleasure and Profit by Harvey Considine Pdf

Author : Sue Weaver
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781935484912

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Chickens, 2nd Edition by Sue Weaver Pdf

Hobby Farms Chickens: Tending a Small-Scale Flock for Pleasure and Profit is geared toward the hobby farmer looking to begin his or her own flock of chickens on a small farm or even backyard. Author Sue Weaver, who keeps various exotic breeds and countless barnies on her farm, is an expert on all things livestock and an avowed chicken fanatic. This photo-filled guide begins with "Chickens 101" and details the physiology of chickens, members of the Phasianidea family, providing beginning hobby farmers with a basic education in the chicken's unique physical makeup (from wings and feathers to beaks and digestive tracts), behavior, mating, and its unexpected high intelligence. The author offers advice on choosing the right types of chickens to get started: meat, egg, or dual purpose, or maybe even "just for pets." The book is an excellent resource for selecting which breed of chicken is best for the hobby farmer, based on the birds' traits, such as aggression, personality, noise factor, tolerance for heat, confinement, cold, etc. Chickens also provides information on selecting or building a suitable chicken coop for the hobby farmer's brood, outlining the basic requirements (lighting, ventilation, flooring, waterers, insulation, safety, and so forth). A detailed chapter on feeding chickens offers essential guidance on nutrition, commercial feeds, supplements, and water requirements. For the chicken hobby farmer looking to start with a clutch of baby chicks (from his own hen or an outside source), the author provides excellent info on incubators and hatching as well as all of the accommodations and preparation required for hens in the nest box. A chapter on selling eggs and broilers provides timetables, requirements, and dos and don'ts to get a hobby farmer's business off on the right foot. All chicken keepers will find the chapter on health of particular value, with expert advice on preventing common problems and dealing various maladies and diseases. Much detailed information about all of the topics in the book is encapsulated in sidebars. A glossary of over 125 terms plus a detailed resource section of chicken and poultry associations, books, and websites complete the volume. Fully indexed.