Download or read book Immoral Times written by Peter Nell and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel starts with an episode in the youth of three South African kids. Adrian McNeill, his younger brother Johnny and two other childhood friends are engaged in a prank. Adrian is the leader and a fount of monkey tricks. His brother and friends warn him that his inconsiderate shenanigans will someday have dire consequences for him and his loved ones. Adrian ignores them. The story moves forward approximately thirty years. During this time, Adrian has worked for government in Parliament as Legal Adviser. A broken marriage and lovely daughter Zeta follows. He is introduced to Mr. Niedermeyer, a boat-builder who has a civil action against an unscrupulous partner. Adrian lives with the stunning psychologist Minette in Gauteng where he unsuccessfully practises law. Niedermeyer summons him to Cape Town to pursue the litigation against his erstwhile partner. This leads to a High Court case. Adrian reacquaints himself with an old friend from his Parliament days and an angling cruise follows. They experience a hair raising and nearly fatal fishing trip. Adrian next seeks out his Cape Town flame Alicia who wants Adrian back in her life. Her dad is an immensely rich shadowy figure. A dishonest erstwhile business partner of his dad meets Adrian on the flight back to Johannesburg, and lures Adrian into the shadowy world of immoral international finance. Their business partners experience a financial setback and vow to kill Adrian and everyone dear to him. Adrian’s brother, John hosts a party that culminates in a farewell lunch at the Bush Pub. Our friends are ambushed. The first part of the prediction against Adrian comes true. The contract killer proves to be hired by one of the groups Adrian tried to do business with. Adrian and friends extract their revenge on the killer. Our little group retreats to a bushveld farm where they try to get over the foul deed that Adrian has once again perpetrated. Minette and Alicia, get in contact with each other and surprisingly like each other. Adrian and Minette relocate to Llandudno in Cape Town where the well-to-do Alicia lives. Adrian mopes around and develops a passion for flying. Adrian’s friend Krish is a highly talented banker/broker and suggests to Adrian that they perpetrate a gigantic fraud on a bank. Colin is Alicia’s father and a NIA double agent. He is involved with the Islamic Fundamentalist Freedom Fighters of the Cape. Colin is murdered and Adrian and his brood find themselves in dire peril. They decide to flee South Africa, especially as Krish’s swindle seems poised to cause a major upheaval in the international banking sector. Adrian is left wondering whether Krish is a good or evil being. Adrian’s family, is now again exposed to danger in the idyllic Madeira. Will the childhood prediction come true and who will save him? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter Nell was a Legal Adviser to Parliament from 1986 up to 2000. He is involved in private enterprise.

Download or read book Immoral written by Brian Freeman and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a riveting debut thriller, Brian Freeman's Immoral weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first page to the last. Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an ugly case of déjà vu. For the second time in a year, a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota—gone without a trace, like a bitter gust off Lake Superior. The two victims couldn't be more different. First it was Kerry McGrath, bubbly, sweet sixteen. And now Rachel Deese, strange, sexually charged, a wild child. The media hounds Stride to catch a serial killer, and as the search carries him from the icy stillness of the northern woods to the erotic heat of Las Vegas, he must decide which facts are real and which are illusions. And Stride finds his own life changed forever by the secrets he uncovers. Secrets that stretch across time in a web of lies, death, and illicit desire. Secrets that are chillingly...immoral.

Download or read book What Money Can t Buy written by Michael J. Sandel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?

Download or read book The Expository Times written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Obscene Indecent Immoral Offensive written by Stephen Tropiano and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to the films that have earned a special place in motion picture history by pushing the “cinematic envelope” with their treatment of provocative subjects and themes. Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years of Controversial Cinema chronicles the history of Hollywood censorship and the films that were banned, censored, and condemned by the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency. Stephen Tropiano offers readers insightful and accessible analysis of films that were branded “controversial” at the time of their release due to explicit language, nudity, graphic sex, violence, and their treatment of “adult” subject matter and themes. The films profiled include The Birth of a Nation, Anatomy of a Murder, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Baby Doll, Blackboard Jungle, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Caligula, Rosemary's Baby, Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, and The Passion of the Christ.

Download or read book The Law Times Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Utterly Immoral written by Simon Keable-Elliott and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Keable’s First World War novel Simon Called Peter was published, critics called it ‘offensive’, ‘a libel’ and reeking of ‘drink and lust’. Scott Fitzgerald suggested it was ‘utterly immoral’ and referenced it in The Great Gatsby.

Download or read book Immoral Code written by Lillian Clark and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ocean's 8 meets The Breakfast Club in this fast-paced, multi-perspective story about five teens determined to hack into one billionaire absentee father's company to steal tuition money. For Nari, aka Narioka Diane, aka hacker digital alter ego "d0l0s," it's college and then a career at "one of the big ones," like Google or Apple. Keagan, her sweet, sensitive boyfriend, is happy to follow her wherever she may lead. Reese is an ace/aro visual artist with plans to travel the world. Santiago is off to Stanford on a diving scholarship, with very real Olympic hopes. And Bellamy? Physics genius Bellamy is admitted to MIT--but the student loan she'd been counting on is denied when it turns out her estranged father--one Robert Foster--is loaded. Nari isn't about to let her friend's dreams be squashed by a deadbeat billionaire, so she hatches a plan to steal just enough from Foster to allow Bellamy to achieve her goals. Fast-paced and banter-filled, Lillian Clark's debut is a hilarious and thought-provoking Robin Hood story for the 21st century. "This well-paced debut follows exceptionally smart, thoughtful, and loyal friends navigating the morally ambiguous areas of life."--Kirkus "A smart and fast-paced debut that will intrigue heist aficionados and modern-minded Robin Hoods."--Booklist "Gleefully engrossing."--The Bulletin

Download or read book The Immoral Bible written by Eryl W. Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eryl W. Davies discusses the ethically problematic passages of the Hebrew Bible and the way scholars have addressed aspects of the bible generally regarded as offensive and unacceptable.

Download or read book The Immoral Reverend written by Robert H. Rimmer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CHURCH OF MODERN MORALITITES! In the city of Adamsport, Massachusetts—very similar to Quincy, where Bob Rimmer has lived most of his life—Matt Godwin, with both an MBA and a Doctor of Divinity degree from Harvard—after fifteen years in the business world, is about to be elected president of a multi billion dollar conglomerate created by his father. But defying both his wife and his father, Matt returns to the Unitarian/Universalist pulpit. He has a vision of a church that offers an entirely new approach to Christian morality. Inspired by the never ending mystery and wonder of procreation, life and death, his religion will preach the exaltation of the human body and mind—and human sexuality will have a joyous, laughing, sacramental quality. Matt's religious humanism is portrayed amidst a background of obsession and adventure. Attempting to build a new style church. Matt's need for funds, leads him on a search for millions of dollars in gold bullion dumped by an American transport plane during World War II in the Himalayas, when we were at war with the Japanese. With the help of an Islamic, Arab oil billionaire he rebuilds and recreates a former Unitarian Universalist church and offers a sexual religious agenda that shocks the conservative Christian community. Originally published in 1985—Bob Rimmer has elaborated the Church of Modern Moralities with a new, 21st century, franchised religion in his novel, —published by toExcel in 1998. It's called Wondering and has churches called Love Dromes. Don't miss it! After you've read it, you'll become a Wonderer, too!

Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Wrong Place Wrong Time written by John A. Rich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of the Top 20 Books of 2009 by Cleveland Plain Dealer Medical school taught John Rich how to deal with physical trauma in a big city hospital but not with the disturbing fact that young black men were daily shot, stabbed, and beaten. This is Rich's account of his personal search to find sense in the juxtaposition of his life and theirs. Young black men in cities are overwhelmingly the victims—and perpetrators—of violent crime in the United States. Troubled by this tragedy—and by his medical colleagues' apparent numbness in the face of it—Rich, a black man who grew up in relative safety and comfort, reached out to many of these young crime victims to learn why they lived in a seemingly endless cycle of violence and how it affected them. The stories they told him are unsettling—and revealing about the reality of life in American cities. Mixing his own perspective with their seldom-heard voices, Rich relates the stories of young black men whose lives were violently disrupted—and of their struggles to heal and remain safe in an environment that both denied their trauma and blamed them for their injuries. He tells us of people such as Roy, a former drug dealer who fought to turn his life around and found himself torn between the ease of returning to the familiarity of life on the violent streets of Boston and the tenuous promise of accepting a new, less dangerous one. Rich's poignant portrait humanizes young black men and illustrates the complexity of a situation that defies easy answers and solutions.

Download or read book Moral Man and Immoral Society written by Reinhold Niebuhr and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the theological classics of the twentieth century, Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society argues that using moral persuasion and shaming to affect the behavior of such collectives as corporations and nation states is fruitless, as these groups will inevitably seek to promote only their self-interest. He calls for a realistic assessment of group behavior and enumerates how individual morality can mitigate social immorality. This edition includes a foreword by Cornel West that explores the continued interest in Niebuhr’s thought and its contemporary relevance.

Download or read book Immoral Certainty written by Robert K. Tanenbaum and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling master with over one million copies in print: Prosecutor Butch Karp hunts a psychopath targeting the innocent. He is the Bogeyman: a remorseless monster stalking the streets of New York in search of fresh victims—his chosen prey being children. The killings are ghastly enough to shock lawyer Butch Karp, who thought he’d already seen the absolute worst of humanity in his work. So when a child abuse case and a homicide case seem to be connected, Karp and his colleague Marlene Ciampi find themselves delving into the darkest corners of New York’s underworld. Their chosen prey? A cold-blooded predator whose twisted work has only just begun—and whose true motives will force Karp to decide how far he is truly willing to go to stop the horror. Known to his fans as “one hell of a writer,” (New York Post) Robert K. Tanenbaum lends truthful, gritty authenticity to his legal thrillers as one of the most successful prosecuting attorneys in America, having convicted hundreds of violent criminals. This is one of the most intense and haunting of the popular series that includes Infamy, Tragic, and No Lesser Plea. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert K. Tanenbaum including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

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