The Temptations Of Pleasure Island

Author : Gilbert L Morris
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781575677873
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temptations of Pleasure Island written by Gilbert L Morris and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Sleepers get to take a much-needed vacation. Traveling to a place called Pleasure Island they find a virtual paradise where games and parties are constantly happening. Gambling is the norm and if some unlucky person loses everything they have, they are forced to work as slaves in the mines. Watch Josh and Sarah and your other Sleeper friends figure out the best way to handle situations involving behavior they know is wrong.

Author : Gilbert Morris
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613869331
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temptations Of Pleasure Island written by Gilbert Morris and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Sleepers visit Pleasure Island and find that everything is not pleasure there, as a mysterious new friend may have more in mind for them than a vacation.

Author : Rosalie Schwartz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803292659
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pleasure Island written by Rosalie Schwartz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasure Island explores the tourism industry in Cuba between 1920 and 1960, as international travel ceased to be primarily a privilege of the wealthy, and incorporated the world's growing middle class. Rosalie Schwartz examines tourists' changing ideas of leisure and recreation, as well as the response of a colonial-era Spanish city turned fleshpot and endless cabaret. The tourism industry mushroomed in and around Havana after 1920, as hundreds of thousands of North Americans transformed the city in collaboration with a local business and political elite. The Depression, exacerbated by a bloody revolution in 1933, plunged the tourism industry into a downward spiral; its steady comeback after World War II, and Mafia-influenced 1950s heyday, ended abruptly when Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. The tourist stream was diverted to Cuba's Caribbean neighbors, where it remains. This work is a history of a very idiosyncratic industry, as well as a study of mass tourism's influence on the behavior, attitudes, and cultures of two politically linked but diverse nations. Rosalie Schwartz is a former lecturer in the Department of History at San Diego State University. She is the author of Across the Rio to Freedom and Lawless Liberators: Political Banditry and Cuban Independence, which won the 1990 Hubert B. Herring Book Award of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies.

Author : Gary S. Cross
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231144308
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men to Boys written by Gary S. Cross and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did maturity become the ultimate taboo? Men have gone from idolizing Cary Grant to aping Hugh Grant, shunning marriage and responsibility well into their twenties and thirties. Gary Cross, renowned cultural historian, identifies the boy-man and his habits, examining the attitudes and practices of three generations to make sense of this gradual but profound shift in American masculinity. Cross matches the rise of the American boy-man to trends in twentieth-century advertising, popular culture, and consumerism, and he locates the roots of our present crisis in the vague call for a new model of leadership that, ultimately, failed to offer a better concept of maturity.

Author : Dennis Krebs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197629482
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survival of the Virtuous written by Dennis Krebs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how virtuous behaviors evolved in humans and other species. The book argues that the key to solving puzzles of morality lies in figuring out what adaptive functions moral traits served in early human environments and how they are influenced by social learning, culture, and strategic social interactions in the modern world. In examining virtuous behaviors that enable individuals to advance their interests and the moral decision-making mechanisms that evolved with them, this book illuminates how "new brain" mechanisms work in conjunction with "old brain" mechanisms as we make moral choices in more emotionally intuitive ways. Survival of the Virtuous is accessibly written for academic, scholarly, and some educated lay readers interested in understanding how we retain the capacity to make mora judgments in primitive ways, via codes of ethics that emerged as a function of survival. Book jacket.

Author : Patricia H. Rushford
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802482597
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Max and Me Mysteries Set written by Patricia H. Rushford and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set includes all three books of the Max and Me Mysteries series: The Trouble with Max, Danger at Lakeside Farm, and The Secret's of Ghost Island. In The Trouble with Max, Jessie and her best friend, Max, do everything together. Jessie tries to keep Max out of trouble, which is not easy since her friend is wild and adventurous. Soon Jessie begins to notice things Max has tried to keep hidden: like that her stepparents are drug dealers. At the risk of losing their friendship, Jessie decides to confront Max with the truth. In Danger at Lakeside Farm, Max lived with Jessie for a while following her stepparents' arrest. Then she moved in with an elderly neighbor, Amelia, on her farm by the lake. Soon strange things start happening: Amelia's tires are slashed and there is a break-in at the house. Is someone trying to make Amelia leave the farm? What will happen to Max? In The Secret's of Ghost Island, Max and Jessie get involved in a new adventure involving a trio of recently-orphaned children, who set up camp on nearby Ghost Island trying to escape deportation back to Mexico. In the meantime, a series of burglaries in town has police concerned that a gang of professional thieves is involved. When the girls get involved to help the orphans, they stumble upon the thieves' camp and are trapped.

Author : Gilbert L Morris
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781575677897
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Terrible Beast of Zor written by Gilbert L Morris and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King of Madria is dying and the armies of Zor have surrounded the kingdom. Some people in the kingdom have even started to follow the Dark Lord. Losing ground, the armies of Madria need a leader. The Prince, who only cares for himself and what makes him happy, is not interested in this role. Goel instructs the Seven Sleepers to try and save Madria by teaching the Prince some of the lessons they have learned, and helping him realize to be a great leader is to be a servant.

Author : Gilbert L Morris
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781575676548
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of the Cyborgs written by Gilbert L Morris and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Sleepers agree to help their new friend Rainor rescue his sweetheart from cyborgs. But the city of the cyborgs is totally bizarre. The Sleepers get in, but they can't get out. Watch Josh and Sarah and your other Sleeper friends tackle their rescue mission. And see them get the advice they need from Goel, their good leader, at just the right time.

Author : Gilbert L Morris
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 080247750X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empress of the Underworld written by Gilbert L Morris and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 1996-02-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm not going!" Abbey declared, "And that's final!" Their spiritual leader, God, has issued another assignment, and the Seven Sleepers are off and running. Well, most of them are, but not Abbey- not this time. How can Abbey know that she is about to make the biggest mistake of her life? Even now the mysterious Empress of the Underworld is plotting to destroy both Abbey and her unsuspecting friends. How can she know that the wicked Empress makes slaves of all who enter her underground kingdom? How can she know that even she will soon come under the Empress's magic spell? And how can she know that her disobedience will endanger not only her life, but the lives of the other Sleepers as well? Through some difficult experiences, Abbey learns that God can be trusted and that His lessons are worth learning.

Author : Patricia H. Rushford
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1575674378
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Danger at Lakeside Farm written by Patricia H. Rushford and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her stepparents' arrest, Max lived with Jessie for a while. Then she moved in with an elderly neighbor, Amelia, on her farm by the lake. Soon strange things start happening: Amelia's tires are slashed and there is a break-in at the house. Is someone trying to make Amelia leave the farm? What will happen to Max?