Download or read book Disgraceful Matters written by Janet Theiss and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity—such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century. In the first full-length study of the subject, Janet Theiss examines a vast number of laws, legal cases, regulations, and policies to illustrate the social and political processes through which female virtue was defined, enforced, and contested. Along the way, she provides rich details of social life and cultural practices among ordinary Chinese people through narratives of criminal cases of sexual assault, harassment, adultery, and domestic violence.
Download or read book The Disgraceful Mr Ravenhurst written by Louise Allen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disgraced cousin of a dowdy bookworm drags her into adventure and mystery—and out of her shell—in this Regency romance. Stumbling upon his dowdy cousin Elinor on the Continent, Theo Ravenhurst hardly believes his luck. His dangerous lifestyle appears to have finally caught up with him, and her family connections could be put to excellent use. . . . Theo is convinced Elinor’s drab exterior disguises a fiery, passionate nature. He gives her the adventure she’s been yearning for—and along the way discovers his newfound accomplice has talents beyond his wildest imagination!
Download or read book The Disgraceful Lord Gray written by Virginia Heath and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Never Wager with a Wallflower: In Regency England, a spy finds himself challenged by a spirited heiress . . . “Heath never disappoints.” —Romance Junkies Miss Theodora Cranford has learned to keep her impetuous nature locked away. She won’t be deceived by another man who can’t see past her fortune. She wants an honorable, sensible sort—not a self-assured scoundrel like her new neighbor, Lord Gray. But she suspects there’s more to him than meets the eye—and after that first captivating kiss, she’s certainly left wanting more . . . Praise for the King’s Elite miniseries “The Mysterious Lord Millcroft is a tender, sensual romance wrapped around an intriguing plot.” —All About Romance “The Uncompromising Lord Flint is yet another dazzling book . . . “[Heath’s] storytelling skills and character development are unmatched.” —Fresh Fiction
Download or read book Disgraceful Affair written by Bianca Lamblin and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intimate memoir, Bianca Lamblin tells the story of her menage a trois with Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and their abandonment of her, a Jew, at the onset of World War II.
Download or read book Disgraceful Humans in our Post Modern Society Short Stories designed to convey some truth and moral lessons written by R. Sirius Kname and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the tresses of reality there lies the unknown, which everyone sees and hears around them every day of their lives, and yet they do not know it exists. Should they look up they would find themselves in a reality so terrible and sickening that they wouldn't believe it, and would sink back into their fantasy. This book holds within its pages this truth, this reality, so vivid and crazy that it can't possibly be true, but it is. It's the things you don't see that matter. It's the things that crawl inside you and block your vision, until it's like you're inside a tunnel, and before the entrance caves in, you must realize what kind of place that this world is becoming, or in this case, has already become. Some of you don't notice, others of you do, and still remain untouched by it, living in a world devoted to yourself, a shrine to greed and evil. So, look up, see the world around you, by opening this book, and let its pages be the truth, for it is so.
Download or read book Monarch Fire and Life Assurance Company An exposure of the disgraceful scenes enacted at the late election for a Director written by John James Homer and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Disgraceful Effects of Falsehood and the Fruits of Early Indulgence Exemplified in the Histories of Percival Pembroke and Augustus Fitzhue written by Mrs. Pilkington (Mary) and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Narrative of an Assault and other disgraceful outrages lately committed on a peaceable individual by a set of military heroes at the Theatre in Lynn Regis The second edition written by William Curtis (of Lynn Regis.) and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disgraceful Archaeology written by Bill Tidy and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that all archaeology buffs have secretly been yearning for! This unique blend of text, anecdote and cartoon reveals, and revels in, those aspects of the past that have been ignored, glossed over or even suppressed — the bawdy, the scatological and the downright bizarre.Our ancestors were not always serious, downtrodden and fearful creatures. They were human like ourselves and shared our earthy sense of humour that is based on bodily functions, bawdiness and slapstick. So it’s time to take the fig leaf off the past and have a long, hard look at the real past — the world that would have had the Victorians reaching for their smelling salts. So if you want to know what your average Egyptian slave thought of pharaoh, or a Roman legionary thought of his commander, you will find the answer in Disgraceful Archaeology — in hilarious graphic detail!
Download or read book That Disgraceful Affair the Black Hawk War written by Cecil D. Eby and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1973 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Black Hawk War of 1832 resulting in the removal of the Sauk and Fox Indians of Wisconsin and Illinois.
Download or read book The Disgraceful Lady written by TM Watkins and published by TM Watkins. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carriel has always been a free spirit despite her past being rough and full of grief. A chance encounter with Kasen Aulden, the king of Metarn at the age of sixteen alters her life forever. With his help, she creates a new life that is similar to the one that had been taken from her years earlier. Her wild nature is never far away and in an attempt to keep her safe and occupied, Kasen gives Carriel a mighty gift when she becomes an adult. A ship called The Disgraceful Demon. For ten years she sails around the world with her crew, living a wild life that is far from the refined lady she used to be. Kasen has a problem. In fact, he has several. Something is making him ill, his wife barely acknowledges him, orcs are hounding the north and he's in love with Carriel. In an attempt to solve the orc problem, Kasen asks Carriel to take him to Trosian. His plan to solve the orc plague is helped by the belief that the Trosian royal family performed an act of war against the Metarnese. All he needs to do is trap the king into admitting the truth. With a little luck, the trip to Trosian will help Kasen fix more than one of his issues. Neither Carriel nor Kasen thought that the trip would be anything more than an attempt to get an admission of guilt out of the Trosian king. Kasen will admit the truth to Carriel, he will tell her everything. He knows the past. He keeps the secrets. He vowed to protect Carriel no matter what. Danger lurks in the shadows and no matter how much he tries, Kasen cannot protect Carriel all the time.
Download or read book A Disgraceful Miss written by Elaine Golden and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian Kenneway, Earl of Vinedale, has a secret: he is in love with innocent debutante Angelica Fortney. She's the one thing he desires more than the tenuous peace he has regained since returning from India. Yet everyone, including Julian, believes he's unsuitable for her—and seducing her could ruin both their lives. But when a rival for Angelica's affections arrives, Julian realizes he can't lose her—and can no longer control his passion for her.... Book two of the Fortney Follies series.
Download or read book The Disgraceful Duke written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocent and lovely Shimona BardsleyÕs father, the celebrated actor Beau Bardsley, has fallen desperately ill and yet he insists on persevering with the eveningÕs performance as Hamlet at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. A concerned Shimona accompanies him to the theatre where she overhears the notoriously disreputable Duke of Ravenstone Ð known as ÔHis DisgraceÕ Ð offering her father the huge sum of five hundred guineas to find him an actress to play Ôa partÕ for just two nights. Desperate to raise enough money to take her father to a warmer clime and thereby save his life, Shimona accepts the DukeÕs offer and finds herself reluctantly embroiled in a deception that her conscience finds hard to bear. Unchaperoned in the grand Ravenstone House in London with the devilish Duke and an imperious Clan Chieftain, Shimona is afraid, alone and in trouble Ð But soon, to her bewilderment and ecstasy, she finds that she is also in love. Ê
Download or read book Disgraceful written by Autumn Grey and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I knew falling for him was wrong. I did it anyway, his half smiles and blue eyes pulling me deeper. Blue eyes that made me soar. He wasn't mine to keep, though. And like all good and rare things, it came to an end. Then he strolls into my life, armed with dimples and gray eyes. Gray eyes that ground me. He smashes through my defenses, stealing what is left of my heart. Now my heart is a war zone, past and present battling for my forever. They say lightning doesn't strike the same place twice. I call bullshit on that theory.
Download or read book The Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cases on Torts written by Charles Albert Keigwin and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queue written by Basma Abdel Aziz and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Weird and wild.” —BookRiot “An effective critique of authoritarianism.” —NPR “Equal parts dystopia, satire, and allegory. —Los Angeles Review of Books Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising in Egypt, this chilling debut evokes Orwellian dystopia, Kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring. In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as ‘the Gate’ has risen to power in the aftermath of the ‘Disgraceful Events,’ a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer. Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughter’s health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehia’s health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet. Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehia’s case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life. Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.
