Download or read book Savage Pastimes written by Harold Schechter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cogent and well-researched book, Harold Schechter argues that, unlike the popular conception of the media inciting violence through displaying it, without these outlets of violence in the media a basic human need would not be met and would have to be acted out in much more destructive ways. Schechter demonstrates how violent images saturated the earliest newspaper, how art and disturbing images are not incompatible and how the demoaisation of comic books in the 1950s det up a pattern of equating testosterone fuelled entertainment with aggression.
Download or read book The Constant Lovers Being an Entertaining History of the Amours and Adventures of Solenus and Perrigonia Alexis and Sylvia Etc written by John Littleton COSTEKER and published by . This book was released on 1731 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The True and Entertaining History of Miss Charlotte Lorrain Afterwards Mrs H e Etc written by afterwards H******E LORRAIN (Charlotte) and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pleasant and Entertaining History of Reynard the Fox Represented in a Moral Light Embellished with 17 Copper Plates Elegantly Engraved written by and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gumal and Lina or the African Children An instructive and entertaining history designed chiefly for the use of young people Translated from the French of J L A Dumas by S B Moens written by Caspar Friedrich LOSSIUS and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Entertaining History of King Philip s War which Began in the Month of June 1675 As Also of Expeditions More Lately Made Against the Common Enemy and Indian Rebels in the Eastern Parts of New England with Some Account of the Divine Providence Towards Col Benjamin Church The Second Edition With a Portrait written by Thomas CHURCH (of Massachusetts.) and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Curiosities of Ale Beer An Entertaining History written by John Bickerdyke and published by SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & Co.. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the history and curiosities of Ale and Beer should fill a bulky volume, may be a subject for surprise to the unthinking reader; and that surprise will probably be intensified, on his learning that great difficulty has been experienced in keeping this book within reasonable limits, and at the same time doing anything like justice to the subject. Since the dawn of our history Barley-wine has been the “naturall drinke” for an “Englysshe man,” and has had no unimportant influence on English life and manners. It is, therefore, somewhat curious that up to the present, among the thousands of books published annually, no comprehensive work on the antiquities of ale and beer has found place. Some years ago this strange neglect of so excellent a theme was observed by the late John Greville Fennell, best known as a contributor to The Field, and who, like “John of the Dale,” was a “lover of ale.” With him probably originated the idea of filling this void in our literature. As occasion offered he made extracts from works bearing on the subject, and in time amassed a considerable amount of material, which was, however, devoid of arrangement. Old age overtaking him before he was able to commence writing his proposed book, he asked me to undertake that which from failing health he was unable to accomplish. To this I assented, and at the end of some months had prepared a complete scheme of the book, with the materials for each chapter carefully grouped. That arrangement, for which I am responsible, has, with a few slight modifications, been carefully adhered to. The work did not then proceed further, as to carry out my scheme a large amount of additional matter, from sources not then available, was required. A few months later my friend was taken seriously ill, and, finding his end approaching, directed that on his decease all papers connected with the book should be placed at my disposal. His death seems to render a statement of our respective shares in the book desirable. When able to resume work on the book, with the object of hastening its publication, I obtained the assistance of my friend, Mr. J. M. D——. By the collection of fresh matter, in amplification of that already arranged, and the addition of several new features, we have considerably increased the scope of the work, and, it is to be hoped, added to its attractiveness. To my friend’s researches in the City of London and other Records is due the bringing to light of many curious facts, so far as I am aware, never before noticed. He has also rendered me great assistance in those portions of the book in which the antiquities of the subject are specially treated. The illustrations have been in most part taken from rare old works. As any smoothing away of defects in such relics of the past would be deemed by many an offence against the antiquarian code of morality, they have been reproduced in exact fac-simile, and will no doubt appeal to those interested in the art of the early engraver, and amuse many with their quaintness. As aptly terminating the chapter devoted to an account of the medicinal qualities of ale and beer, I have ventured to enter upon a short consideration of the leading teetotal arguments. In extending their denunciations to ale and beer drinkers, the total abstainers are, in my opinion, working a very grievous injury on the labouring classes, who for centuries have found the greatest benefit from the use of malt liquors. Barley-broth should be looked upon as the temperance drink of the people or, in other words, the drink of the temperate.
Download or read book The Mental Floss History of the United States written by Erik Sass and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smarter than your old history teacher, funnier than the founding fathers, and more American than apple pie, The Mental Floss History of the United States is an almost (but not entirely) comprehensive primer on American history (or at least, the good stuff). From the editors of MentalFloss.com and mental_floss magazine—with its tagline: “Feel smart again”—comes an American History text packed with hilarious (but true!) trivia written in the smart-aleck tradition of The Mental Floss History of the World, Mental Floss Presents In the Beginning, and the first mental_floss book, Condensed Knowledge. Perfect for trivia buffs, history lovers, college students, and anyone who likes to laugh and learn. United States history has never been so fun.
Download or read book The Entertaining History of Jobson Nell written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Entertaining History of Jobson & Nell" by Anonymous is a short book that will make you wish you had a few more chapters with the characters. The story keeps you on the edge of your seat in a fun romp. It's a book that has managed to entice readers from all sorts of backgrounds and has for years.
Download or read book The Portfolio of Entertaining Instructive Varieties in History Literature Fine Arts Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A new history of England in verse or The entertaining British memorialist Containing the annals of Great Britain from the Roman invasion to the present time Designed more particularly for the use of youth With an introduction concerning the nature and study of history written by Esq. Charles EGERTON and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Duke de Ripperda Being an entertaining and secret history of the reign of Philip V Interspers d throughout with several curious particulars relating to the Cardinals del Guidice sic and Alberoni and other persons of distinction in the Spanish Court The third edition corrected with additions To which is annexed an appendix by John Campbell LL D containing some papers on the balance of Europe etc written by Duke Jan Willem RIPPERDA and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For Fun and Profit written by Christopher Tozzi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today. In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences—a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades of making source code available with programs, most programmers ceased sharing code freely. A band of revolutionaries, self-described “hackers,” challenged this new norm by building operating systems with source code that could be freely shared. In For Fun and Profit, Christopher Tozzi offers an account of the free and open source software (FOSS) revolution, from its origins as an obscure, marginal effort by a small group of programmers to the widespread commercial use of open source software today. Tozzi explains FOSS's historical trajectory, shaped by eccentric personalities—including Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds—and driven both by ideology and pragmatism, by fun and profit. Tozzi examines hacker culture and its influence on the Unix operating system, the reaction to Unix's commercialization, and the history of early Linux development. He describes the commercial boom that followed, when companies invested billions of dollars in products using FOSS operating systems; the subsequent tensions within the FOSS movement; and the battles with closed source software companies (especially Microsoft) that saw FOSS as a threat. Finally, Tozzi describes FOSS's current dominance in embedded computing, mobile devices, and the cloud, as well as its cultural and intellectual influence.
