Land Of Desire


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Land Of Desire


Land Of Desire
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Author : William R. Leach
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-06-15

Land Of Desire written by William R. Leach and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-15 with History categories.


This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.



Land And Desire In Early Zionism


Land And Desire In Early Zionism
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Author : Boaz Neumann
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2011

Land And Desire In Early Zionism written by Boaz Neumann and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


A provocative look at the centrality of desire for "the Land" among early settlers in pre-state Israel



Methods Of Desire


Methods Of Desire
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Author : Aurora Donzelli
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2019-08-31

Methods Of Desire written by Aurora Donzelli and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-31 with Social Science categories.


Since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Indonesia has undergone a radical program of administrative decentralization and neoliberal reforms. In Methods of Desire, author Aurora Donzelli explores these changes through an innovative perspective—one that locates the production of neoliberalism in novel patterns of language use and new styles of affect display. Building on almost two decades of fieldwork, Donzelli describes how the growing influence of transnational lending agencies is transforming the ways in which people desire and voice their expectations, intentions, and entitlements within the emergent participatory democracy and restructuring of Indonesia’s political economy. She argues that a largely overlooked aspect of the Era Reformasi concerns the transition from a moral regime centered on the expectation that desires should remain hidden to a new emphasis on the public expression of individuals’ aspirations. The book examines how the large-scale institutional transformations that followed the collapse of the Suharto regime have impacted people’s lives and imaginations in the relatively remote and primarily rural Toraja highlands of Sulawesi. A novel concept of the individual as a bundle of audible and measurable desires has emerged, one that contrasts with the deep-rooted reticence toward the expression of personal preferences. The spreading of foreign discursive genres such as customer satisfaction surveys, training sessions, electoral mission statements, and fundraising auctions, and the diffusion of new textual artifacts such as checklists, flowcharts, and workflow diagrams are producing forms of citizenship, political participation, and moral agency that contrast with the longstanding epistemologies of secrecy typical of local styles of knowledge and power. Donzelli’s long-term ethnographic study examines how these foreign protocols are being received, absorbed, and readapted in a peripheral community of the Indonesian archipelago. Combining a telescopic perspective on our contemporary moment with a microscopic analysis of conversational practices, the author argues that the managerial forms of political rationality and the entrepreneurial morality underwriting neoliberal apparatuses proliferate through the working of small cogs, that is, acts of speech. By examining these concrete communicative exchanges, she sheds light on both the coherence and inconsistency underlying the worldwide diffusion of market logic to all domains of life.



The Land Of Heart S Desire


The Land Of Heart S Desire
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Author : William Butler Yeats
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903

The Land Of Heart S Desire written by William Butler Yeats and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Ireland categories.




Country Of Exiles


Country Of Exiles
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Author : William R. Leach
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-08-10

Country Of Exiles written by William R. Leach and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-10 with Social Science categories.


In Country of Exiles, William Leach, whose Land of Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the troubling effects of our national love affair with mobility. He shows us how the impulse to pull up stakes and find a new frontier has always battled with the need to put down roots, and how a new cosmopolitanism has seized our national identity. Leach takes us across a featureless America, where strip malls homogenize a once varied and majestic landscape, and where casinos displace the Native American spiritual connection to the land. He shows us a culture where everyone, from CEOs to office temps, abandons the notion of company loyalty, and where rootless academics posit a world without borders. With compelling vision and insight, Leach reveals the profound but often hidden impact of America's disintegrating sense of place on our national and individual psyche.



The Botany Of Desire


The Botany Of Desire
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Author : Michael Pollan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2001-06-12

The Botany Of Desire written by Michael Pollan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-12 with Nature categories.


The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant—though this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating effects of marijuana rather than the visual beauty of the tulip. How could flowers, of all things, become such objects of desire that they can drive men to financial ruin? In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings—and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we’ve benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. The sweetness of apples, for example, induced the early Americans to spread the species, giving the tree a whole new continent in which to blossom. So who is really domesticating whom? Weaving fascinating anecdotes and accessible science into gorgeous prose, Pollan takes us on an absorbing journey that will change the way we think about our place in nature.



Knight Of Desire


Knight Of Desire
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Author : Margaret Mallory
language : en
Publisher: Forever
Release Date : 2009-07-01

Knight Of Desire written by Margaret Mallory and has been published by Forever this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Fiction categories.


Fearless in Battle His surcoat still bloody from battle, William FitzAlan comes to claim the strategic borderlands granted to him by the king. One last prize awaits him at the castle gates: the lovely Lady Catherine Rayburn. TENDER IN BED Catherine risked everything to spy for the crown. Her reward? Her lands are declared forfeit and she is given this choice: marry FitzAlan or be taken to the Tower. Catherine agrees to give her handsome new husband her body, but she's keeping secrets, and dare not give him her heart. As passion ignites and danger closes in, Catherine and William must learn to trust in each other to save their marriage, their land, and their very lives. KNIGHT OF DESIRE



Toxic Desire


Toxic Desire
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Author : Robin Lovett
language : en
Publisher: Entangled: Scorched
Release Date : 2018-03-19

Toxic Desire written by Robin Lovett and has been published by Entangled: Scorched this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Fiction categories.


Nemona can't believe she's crashed on the planet Fyrian with the brooding, golden-skinned alien who destroyed her ship. She should want to kill him, but everything on Fyrian is an aphrodisiac so she just wants to have him. Now. Revenge. That's all commander Oten has wanted against humans for more than a century, ever since they tried to destroy his kind. He never thought he'd end up in bed with one. But the desire the sex planet stokes for this human female is eating at him. Keeping his hands, mouth, and vampiric fangs to himself proves impossible—especially when she's begging him to touch her. Nemona has no idea what endless sex with a Ssedez will do to her. But Oten knows all too well. They need to get off this planet before their coupling stirs an alien mating bond that neither of their hearts can withstand... Each book in the Planet of Desire series is STANDALONE: * Toxic Desire * Captive Desire



Trappist


Trappist
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Author : Michael Downey
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1997

Trappist written by Michael Downey and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Describes life at a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, and discusses the nature of the monastic experience.



Tropics Of Desire


Tropics Of Desire
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Author : Jose Quiroga
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2000-11

Tropics Of Desire written by Jose Quiroga and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11 with Health & Fitness categories.


From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action.