Scandalous Truths

Author : Susan Howatch,Bruce Johnson,Charles Adolph Huttar
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575910969

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Scandalous Truths by Susan Howatch,Bruce Johnson,Charles Adolph Huttar Pdf

Susan Howatch's global bestsellers have appeared regularly since the 1970s, but a radical shift in her subject matter in the 1980s and especially the 1990s made reviewers and then academics adjust their glasses and stare hard at her pages. Howatch began to take her loyal following of gothic and family-saga readers into unexpected psychological and theological depths, while taking to an extreme, with a serious-novel format, the experiments begun in her family sagas. She also introduced to her readers a character only half-alive in Trollope, the Anglican Church.

Author : Monica P. Carter
Publisher : Urban Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781622861057

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Scandalous Truth by Monica P. Carter Pdf

Nikki Broussard hasn't always been saved, but she is now, and that's what counts. Happily married and raising an active young daughter, her past is tucked safely away—until a tragic turn of events threatens to unravel her idyllic life. When their daughter is diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, Nikki and William worry about how they will afford her treatment. Nikki's faith is tested as she considers returning to her old ways in order to pay for it. To add to their stress, William is thrust into the spotlight when he decides to run for mayor after a candidate—his pastor and mentor—winds up dead. Suddenly, every detail of their life is under scrutiny. As William struggles to live out the commitment he feels to his dead pastor, Nikki wonders if the details of her past will emerge and damage their relationship. When life spins out of control, the scandalous truth can be too much for anyone—even a Christian family—to bear.

Author : Alex Ling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350068575

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Scandalous Times by Alex Ling Pdf

We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in 'revelatory' terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, 'truth'. Otherswill be recognized as calculated marketing exercises that simply present the strategic face of contemporary capitalism. Yet these 'ordinary' scandals can themselves be seen to be largely derivative of another, altogether more fundamental-and fundamentally rare-form of disruption. Such is the real scandal that accompanies instances of authentic creation. Building on the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Scandalous Times not only argues the case for such 'real scandal', but also shows how it is today being abrogated and substituted through the increasing production of novel forms of state-sanctioned controversy. From Duchamp to Donald Trump, Scandalous Times explores the ways in which areas from art and advertising to politics and social media have come to actively contribute to this 'static' fabrication of controversy, all the while arguing for the need to rethink creativity as a radical exception to the state, and not its proxy.

Author : Lynda M. Thompson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719055733

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The 'scandalous Memoirists' by Lynda M. Thompson Pdf

Thompson presents a re-appraisal of the 'scandalous memoirists' Costantia Phillips and Laetitia Pilkington, who feature with a cast of other 18th century apologists, and overturns scholarship's traditional discrediting of them.

Author : Mark D. Jordan
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807010553

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Telling Truths in Church by Mark D. Jordan Pdf

Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional religion, Mark D. Jordan's eloquent meditations on what truths about sexuality need to be told in church-and the difficulty of telling any truths-will be a balm and a revelation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433095211136

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Truth by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Le Queux
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465557070

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The Great Court Scandal by William Le Queux Pdf

Author : Vijaya Suvarna,Amol Muley
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789386348487

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5 Break-Free Truths by Vijaya Suvarna,Amol Muley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057119687

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493050994

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Good Time Girls of Nevada and Utah by Jan MacKell Collins Pdf

As settlements and civilization moved West to follow the lure of mineral wealth and the trade of the Santa Fe Trail, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities the nineteenth-century Nevada and Utah. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the other hazards of their profession. Some dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, and some became infamous and even successful, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Nevada and Utah each had their share of working girls and madams who remain notorious celebrities in the annals of history, like Kate Flint and Dora Topham, but Collins also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose roles in this illicit trade help shape our understanding of the American West.

Author : John Churton Collins
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547565345

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Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature by John Churton Collins Pdf

"Ephemera Critica; Or, Plain Truths About Current Literature" by John Churton Collins. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780748626342

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Scandalous Knowledge by Barbara Herrnstein Smith Pdf

This book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science. Smith reviews the key issues involved in the twentieth-century critiques of traditional views of human knowledge and scientific truth and gives an extensively informed explanation of the alternative accounts developed by Fleck, Kuhn, Foucault, Latour, and others. She also addresses the various anxieties (e.g., over 'relativism') and 'wars' occasioned by these developments, placing them in their historical contexts and arguing that they are largely misplaced or spurious. Smith then examines the currently perplexed relations between the natural and human sciences, the grandiose claims and dubious methods of evolutionary psychology, and the complex play of naturalist, humanist, and posthumanist ideologies in contemporary views of the relation between humans and animals.

Author : Antoine Lilti
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509508778

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The Invention of Celebrity by Antoine Lilti Pdf

Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Figures from across the arts like Voltaire, Garrick, and Liszt were all veritable celebrities in their time, arousing curiosity and passionate loyalty from their “fans.” The rise of the press, new advertising techniques, and the marketing of leisure brought a profound transformation in the visibility of celebrities: private lives were now very much on public show. Nor was politics spared this cultural upheaval: Marie-Antoinette, George Washington, and Napoleon all experienced a political world transformed by the new demands of celebrity. And when the people suddenly appeared on the revolutionary scene, it was no longer enough to be legitimate; it was crucial to be popular too. Lilti retraces the profound social upheaval precipitated by the rise of celebrity and explores the ambivalence felt toward this new phenomenon. Both sought after and denounced, celebrity evolved as the modern form of personal prestige, assuming the role that glory played in the aristocratic world in a new age of democracy and evolving forms of media. While uncovering the birth of celebrity in the eighteenth century, Lilti's perceptive history at the same time shines light on the continuing importance of this phenomenon in today’s world.

Author : Russell Shorto
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781453265925

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Gospel Truth by Russell Shorto Pdf

Russell Shorto meticulously investigates Christian history and the Bible’s New Testament to reveal the true, historical Jesus Christ. For roughly two thousand years, the world has known only the biblical depiction of Jesus: the virgin birth, miraculous life, and resurrection. Recently, scholars have pursued the historical Jesus Christ by poring through texts, examining ancient documents, and even holding votes. They make a fresh attempt to answer some of history’s greatest questions: Who was he? Where did he live? What did he think? And was the Bible’s account true? In Gospel Truth, bestselling author Russell Shorto (The Island at the Center of the World) brings a journalist’s eye to the life of Jesus Christ. Shorto looks into the Jesus Seminar, where historians seek and analyze evidence of the world’s most famous carpenter’s son. He compiles their research and ideas to create a composite biographical portrait of Yeshu, a man of ordinary beginnings who changed the world in extraordinary ways. A skillfully compiled biblical interpretation, Shorto shows “a Jesus stripped of the unhistorical” (Library Journal). The result will fascinate believers and nonbelievers alike.

Author : Richard Hildreth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:HWB3F1

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The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth Pdf