Evil Paradise

Author : Jane Schwalger-Wyatt
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1631357662
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil Paradise written by Jane Schwalger-Wyatt and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil Paradise is based on the author’s unique and moving life story. Jane Schwalger-Wyatt was born the illegitimate child of a wealthy plantation owner’s nephew and a traditional village girl on the exotic Polynesian island of Samoa. Born between two cultures and classes in the turbulent post-colonial years, and unwanted by either parent, her future looked bleak. After Jane’s birth, a pact was made between her grandmother and her wealthy great aunt. Jane spent her first ten years as a village girl raised by her grandmother, with her identity kept secret. Although adored by her grandmother, she endured hardship, brutality, and sexual abuse. Upon her grandmother’s death, Jane escaped to what she thought would be paradise on earth: her rich aunt’s estate, but she discovered that it held terrible secrets. In time, Jane learned about the savage history that blighted the plantation and the bizarre secret kept hidden upstairs in the mansion. After a failed reunion with her father, she was sent to her mother in New Zealand, where she was rejected yet again. Whilst battling overwhelming obstacles to make a life for herself, Jane’s second child was diagnosed with profound disabilities. How she managed to endure proves an unparalleled feat of human endurance and faith. She clung to the few that truly loved her, striving to make a life for herself with fierce and inspirational determination.

Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595587780
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evil Paradises written by Mike Davis and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as “The World” is literally being added to the ocean. In Medellín and Kabul, drug lords—in many ways textbook capitalists—are redefining conspicuous consumption in fortified palaces. In Hong Kong, Cairo, and even the Iranian desert, burgeoning communities of nouveaux riches have taken shelter in fantasy Californias, complete with Mickey Mouse statues, while their maids sleep in rooftop chicken coops. Meanwhile, Ted Turner rides herd over his bison in 2 million acres of private parkland. Davis and Monk have assembled an extraordinary group of urbanists, architects, historians, and visionary thinkers to reflect upon the trajectory of a civilization whose deepest ethos seems to be to consume all the resources of the earth within a single lifetime.

Author : Henry Kellerman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319073923
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis of Evil written by Henry Kellerman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all our knowledge of psychopathology and sociopathology--and despite endless examinations of abuse and torture, mass murder and genocide--we still don't have a real handle on why evil exists, where it derives from, or why it is so ubiquitous. A compelling synthesis of diverse schools of thought, Psychoanalysis of Evil identifies the mental infrastructure of evil and deciphers its path from vile intent to malignant deeds. Evil is defined as manufactured in the psyche: the acting out of repressed wishes stemming from a toxic mix of harmful early experiences such as abuse and neglect, profound anger, negative personality factors, and mechanisms such as projection. This analysis brings startling clarity to seemingly familiar territory, that is, persons and events widely perceived as evil. Strongly implied in this far-reaching understanding is a call for more accurate forms of intervention and prevention as the author: Reviews representations of evil from theological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic sources. Locates the construction of evil in psychodynamic aspects of the psyche. Translates vague abstractions of evil into recognizable concepts. Exemplifies this theory with the lives and atrocities of Hitler and Stalin. Applies psychoanalytic perspective to the genocides in Turkey, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Revisits Hannah Arendt's concept of "the banality of evil." Psychoanalysis of Evil holds a unique position in the literature and will gather considerable interest among readers in social psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, and political anthropology. Historians of mass conflict should find it instructive as well.

Author : Mark S. Whorton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830857346
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peril in Paradise written by Mark S. Whorton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charge to people who believe that you must believe in a young earth to be a Christian.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212441
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Devil in Paradise written by Henry Miller and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A perfect expression of Miller's moral perspective as well as one of his outstanding demonstrations of narrative skill. It provides a wonderful cinematic view of two indomitable egotists in deadly conflict." --The Nation

Author : Charles Baudelaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979984778
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flowers of Evil written by Charles Baudelaire and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-styled 'Satanic man' Charles Baudelaire's collection The Flowers of Evil is marked by paeans to sexual degradation such as 'The Litanies of Satan' and 'Metamorphosis of the Vampire'. A new translation vivdly brings Baudelaire's masterpiece to life for the 21st century in this collection, which also includes key texts from Artificial Paradise, Baudelaire's notorious examination of the effects of alcohol and psychotropic drugs.

Author : William Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The spirit of prayer. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus written by William Law and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book The Works of the Reverend William Law, M.A. ...: The spirit of prayer ... in two parts. The way to divine knowledge. ... v. 8. The spirit of love. A short confutation of Dr. Warbuton's defense. Of justification by faith and works written by William Law and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Buckland
Publisher : London : Cassell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of English Literature written by Anna Buckland and published by London : Cassell. This book was released on 1885 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christian Doctrine of Immortality written by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: