Vice

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594674

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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.

Author : Jake Adelstein
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307378941

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Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein Pdf

NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San Francisco Examiner). Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo to the polished Halls of the FBI and resulted in a death threat for him and his family, Adelstein decided to step down. Then, he fought back. In Tokyo Vice he delivers an unprecedented look at Japanese culture and searing memoir about his rise from cub reporter to seasoned journalist with a price on his head.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045471120

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Presidential Inability and Vacancies in the Office of Vice-President by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Joel K. Goldstein
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700624836

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The White House Vice Presidency by Joel K. Goldstein Pdf

"I am nothing, but I may be everything," John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the "nothing" part of Adams's formulation accurately captured the importance of the vice presidency, at least as long as the president had a heartbeat. But a job that once was "not worth a bucket of warm spit," according to John Nance Garner, became, in the hands of the most recent vice presidents, critical to the governing of the country on an ongoing basis. It is this dramatic development of the nation's second office that Joel K. Goldstein traces and explains in The White House Vice Presidency. The rise of the vice presidency took a sharp upward trajectory with the vice presidency of Walter Mondale. In Goldstein's work we see how Mondale and Jimmy Carter designed and implemented a new model of the office that allowed the vice president to become a close presidential adviser and representative on missions that mattered. Goldstein takes us through the vice presidents from Mondale to Joe Biden, presenting the arrangements each had with his respective president, showing elements of continuity but also variations in the office, and describing the challenges each faced and the work each did. The book also examines the vice-presidential selection process and campaigns since 1976, and shows how those activities affect and/or are affected by the newly developed White House vice presidency. The book presents a comprehensive account of the vice presidency as the office has developed from Mondale to Biden. But The White House Vice Presidency is more than that; it also shows how a constitutional office can evolve through the repetition of accumulated precedents and demonstrates the critical role of political leadership in institutional development. In doing so, the book offers lessons that go far beyond the nation's second office, important as it now has become.

Author : Mark Stein
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612348940

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Vice Capades by Mark Stein Pdf

"From the founding of Plymouth Colony to the present day, "Vice Capades" looks at our relationship with the actions, attitudes, and antics that have separated morality from depravity"--

Author : James Lyons
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1444319043

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Miami Vice by James Lyons Pdf

Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. Explores Miami Vice’s combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, ‘high concept’ action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrial moments when it burst onto the network Introduces readers to major components of televisual analysis--style, storytelling, the television show as commodity and ideological critique-- that illustrate the show’s unique features Provides a model for students’ own assessment of other shows, and confirms precisely how--and on what terms--Miami Vice redefined the police drama and an era

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Rules and Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119597206

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Nomination of Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to be Vice President of the United States, Hearings..., 93-1, on ..., November 1, 5, 7, and 14, 1973 by United States. Congress. Senate. Rules and Administration Pdf

Author : Bruce P. Montgomery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313356216

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Richard B. Cheney and the Rise of the Imperial Vice Presidency by Bruce P. Montgomery Pdf

On taking office in 2001, Dick Cheney crowned himself the first imperial vice president in the nation's history, transforming a traditionally inconsequential office into a de facto fourth branch of government. Taking a less journalistic and personal approach to Cheney than previous biographers, this critical new biography shows exactly how Cheney engineered his arrogation of vast executive powers—and the dire consequences his power grab has had and will long continue to have for the office of the vice presidency, the balance of powers, the Constitution, geopolitics, and America's security, strength, and prestige. Taking advantage of the administration's global war on terrorism, a president inexperienced in matters of war and peace, and a Republican Congress that rated party power above institutional prerogatives, Vice President Cheney moved with astonishing speed and energy to assume a dominant role on the national and international stage as the effective president-in-proxy of the United States. Cheney asserted that all constitutional checks and balances and all individual liberties under the Bill of Rights are subservient to the president's powers as commander-in-chief in confronting international terrorism. Although former administrations had made power grabs in the past in times of national crisis, no president-and certainly no vice president-has ever exerted such sweeping claims of executive power on so many fronts in violation of the bedrock principles of the Constitution.

Author : John Braithwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Competition
ISBN : 0195222016

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Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue by John Braithwaite Pdf

This sweeping, comparative study of taxation in the United States and Australia shows that even as governments in the Western world have become increasingly sophisticated tax collectors, a competitive and ruthless market in advice on tax avoidance has developed. The same competitive forces in the late twentieth century which have driven down prices and sparked efficiencies in the production of fast food or computer parts have helped stimulate the markets for "bads" like tax shelters and problem gambling. Braithwaite draws the surprising conclusion that effective regulation could actually flip markets in vice to markets of virtue. Essential reading for anyone involved in policy, governance, and regulation, Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue provides a blueprint for restoring the equity of Western tax systems and a breakthrough theory of how regulators can support markets in virtue and curtail markets in vice.

Author : James Mallery
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496230263

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City of Vice by James Mallery Pdf

James Mallery explores the implications of such social constructs as gender, race, and class for the development of San Francisco from the gold rush through World War I.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary,United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Assassination
ISBN : LOC:00183859912

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Providing Penalties for the Assassination of the President [or the Vice President] by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary,United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 Pdf

Author : Diana S. Kim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691172408

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Empires of Vice by Diana S. Kim Pdf

A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition -- The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies -- "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s -- Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s-1920s -- Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s-1940s -- Colonial Legacies.

Author : Horatio Nelson (1st visct.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600024131

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The dispatches and letters of vice admiral ... Nelson, with notes by sir N.H. Nicolas by Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Election law
ISBN : UIUC:30112071980053

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Nomination and Election of the President and Vice President of the United States, Including the Manner of Selecting Delegates to National Political Conventions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elina Salajeva,Elinadeivid
Publisher : Touchladybirdlucky Studios
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Vice President The Rise Of The Word-Command Killer by Elina Salajeva,Elinadeivid Pdf

What is the Magic-Word? Great advances in technology meant development of new weapons. A never seen before weapon the Word-Command, is now being executed by word of mouth to kill. Watch out who you mess-up with some can get you killed