EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Naked Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brett Lunceford
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2012-06-14
  • ISBN : 0739177028
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Naked Politics written by Brett Lunceford and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, examines the rhetorical power of the unclothed body as it relates to protest and political action. This study explores what the disrobed body communicates, and how others are invited to make sense of this display. The actions examined range from grassroots protests to those of professionalized social movement organizations. Specifically, Lunceford examines PETA and the use of chained women and the Running of the Nudes; lactivists, or women engaging in public breastfeeding as protest action in both online and physical space; the World Naked Bike Ride’s worldwide protest against oil dependency and attempt to raise awareness of the vulnerability of cyclists; and a contest held on College Humor that invited women to write their preferred presidential candidate on their exposed breasts and send the picture to them to post on the site. Although these actions may seem to have little in common beyond their use of body exposure, they all share the notions that something can happen when you take your clothes off and that the act of disrobing can have social and political consequences. Moreover, these groups illustrate the often paradoxical views of the exposed body—by both the participants and the observers—and how such bodies operate in the public sphere. Even when the voice is silent, the body still speaks; Naked Politics considers what is being said.

Book Sex  Lies   Politics

Download or read book Sex Lies Politics written by Larry Flynt and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious pornographer and defender of the First Amendment rights, who is fed up with the current state of our government, shares his thoughts on a vast array of issues, including sex, the War on Terror, the Bush administration, religion, feminism, entrepreneurism, and privacy. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Book Naked Politics

Download or read book Naked Politics written by Brett Lunceford and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, examines the rhetorical power of the unclothed body as it relates to protest and political action. This study explores what the disrobed body communicates, and how others are invited to make sense of this display. The actions examined range from grassroots protests to those of professionalized social movement organizations. Specifically, Lunceford examines PETA and the use of chained women and the Running of the Nudes; lactivists, or women engaging in public breastfeeding as protest action in both online and physical space; the World Naked Bike Ride's worldwide protest against oil dependency and attempt to raise awareness of the vulnerability of cyclists; and a contest held on College Humor that invited women to write their preferred presidential candidate on their exposed breasts and send the picture to them to post on the site. Although these actions may seem to have little in common beyond their use of body exposure, they all share the notions that something can happen when you take your clothes off and that the act of disrobing can have social and political consequences. Moreover, these groups illustrate the often paradoxical views of the exposed body--by both the participants and the observers--and how such bodies operate in the public sphere. Even when the voice is silent, the body still speaks; Naked Politics considers what is being said.

Book The Naked Diplomat  Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age

Download or read book The Naked Diplomat Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age written by Tom Fletcher and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future?

Book Bad Language  Naked Ladies  and Other Threats to the Nation

Download or read book Bad Language Naked Ladies and Other Threats to the Nation written by Anne Rubenstein and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Mexican comic books, their readers, their producers, their critics, and their complex relations with the government and the Church that discusses cultural nationalism, popular taste, and social change.

Book Naked Republicans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shelley Lewis
  • Publisher : Villard Books
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0812976916
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Naked Republicans written by Shelley Lewis and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious collection of recent Right-wing political snafus is a liberal retort to the bestselling "Do As I Say."

Book The Naked Communist Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture

Download or read book The Naked Communist Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture written by Roland Vegso and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the "world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation. The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950s. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti-Communist "aesthetic ideology." The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950s (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.

Book The Naked Communist

Download or read book The Naked Communist written by W. Cleon Skousen and published by Izzard Ink. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller. Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist exploded in popularity, selling almost two million copies to date and finding its way into the libraries of the CIA, the FBI, the White House, and homes all across the United States. From the tragic falls of China, Korea, Russia, and the UN, to the fascinating histories of Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, and General MacArthur, The Naked Communist lays out the entire graphic story of communism, its past, present, and future. After searching unsuccessfully for a concise literature on the communist threat, W. Cleon Skousen saw the urgent need for a comprehensive book that could guide the American conversation. So he distilled his FBI experience, decades of research, and more than one hundred communist books and treatises into one clarifying, readable volume that became a touchstone of American values and earned praise from the likes of President Ronald Reagan, Glenn Beck, and Ben Carson. Lauded by one reviewer as “the most powerful book on communism since J. Edgar Hoover’s Masters of Deceit,” this text draws a detailed picture of the communist as he sees himself: stripped of propaganda and pretense. Readers gain a unique insight into the inner workings of communism—its appeal, its history, its basic and unchanging concepts, even its secret timetable of conquest. Among the many questions The Naked Communist answers are: * Who gave the United States’ nuclear secrets to the Russians? * How did the FBI fight communism after it was forced underground in 1918? * Why did the West lose 600 million allies after World War II? * What really happened in Korea? * What is communism’s great secret weapon? * What lies ahead? * What can I do to stop communism? * How can we fight communism without a major war? Now updated for 2017, this edition includes a chapter on the forty-five Communist Goals, detailing how forty-four of those goals have been achieved in the U.S. already, as well as a chapter on the making of The Naked Communist, shedding light on how this book has sold almost two million copies. As relevant now as it was sixty years ago, Skousen’s groundbreaking work provides a renewed understanding of one of the greatest threats facing America today. Praise for W. Cleon Skousen: “No one is better qualified to discuss the threat to this nation from communism. You will be alarmed, you will be informed, and you’ll be glad you heard him.”—President Ronald Reagan “I have never given any volume such an unqualified endorsement.”—CBS national broadcaster Paul Harvey “I went back and I read The Naked Communist, and at the end of that, Skousen predicted [that] someday soon you won’t be able to find the truth in schools or in libraries or anywhere else because it won’t be in print anymore. So you must collect those books. It’s an idea I read from Cleon Skousen from his book in the 1950s, The Naked Communist, where he talked about [how] someday the history of this country’s going to be lost because it’s going to be hijacked by intellectuals and communists and everything else. And I think we’re there.”—Glenn Beck, host of the nationally syndicated Glenn Beck Radio Program “The Naked Communist lays out the whole progressive plan. It is unbelievable how fast it has been achieved.”—Dr. Ben Carson (The Sean Hannity Show; May 23, 2014) “I feel certain that your efforts on this important subject will receive widespread attention and consideration.”—J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation “We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist ‘has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.’ This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.”—Ezra Taft Benson, United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Eisenhower

Book The Naked President

Download or read book The Naked President written by Roger Boyes and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emperor is Naked

Download or read book The Emperor is Naked written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invention of the nation-state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes–Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916. As a geostrategic move to divide, defeat, and dismantle the Ottoman Empire during World War I, it was a great success and the modern colonial borders of the Arab nation-states eventually emerged in the course of World War II. Today, as nations are reconceiving their own postcolonial interpolated histories, Arab and Muslim states are becoming total states on the model of ISIS with Iran, Syria, Turkey and Egypt, among others, violently manufacturing their legitimacy. And yet simultaneously, examples such as the Nobel Peace Prize winning formation of a civil society 'Quartet' in Tunisia allude to a growing transnational public sphere across the Arab and Muslim world. In The Emperor is Naked, Hamid Dabashi boldly argues that the category of nation-state has failed to produce a legitimate and enduring unit of post-colonial polity. Considering what this liberation of nations and denial of legitimacy to ruling states will actually unfurl, Dabashi asks: What will replace the nation-state, what are the implications of this deconstruction on global politics and, crucially, what is the meaning of the post-colonial subject within this moment?

Book The Naked Public Square Reconsidered

Download or read book The Naked Public Square Reconsidered written by Christopher Wolfe and published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Richard John Neuhaus's landmark book The Naked Public Square, ten of today's leading scholars-including Mary Ann Glendon, William Galston, Gerard Bradley, and Hadley Arkes-weigh in on the always impassioned church-state debate.

Book Naked Diplomacy

Download or read book Naked Diplomacy written by Tom Fletcher and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future?

Book Naked Presidents

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Silver
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2000-08-17
  • ISBN : 9781469781822
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Naked Presidents written by James Silver and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the political destinies of John Kennedy and Bill Clinton were reversed? What if Kennedy was the President who was impeached because of a sex scandal, and what if Clinton was the one struck down after only a thousand days in the White House? In this quirky, yet fascinating book, James Silver turns History inside out to show what might have happened. More than a work of fiction, Naked Presidents is a philosophical novel which explodes conventional wisdom and destroys some of our most cherished myths. The shocking surprise ending will leave the reader wondering just what is reality and what is fantasy after all.

Book Naked at the Mic

Download or read book Naked at the Mic written by L.A. Steel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naked at the Mic / The Survival of a Liberal in a Time of Peril Is a work of exhaustive research and remembrance as a historic account of the politics and social upheaval during the Conservative Revolution, that took place during the first decade of the 21st Century, as I witnessed and reported it on my television and radio programs during the years of 2000 to 2009. This book is also a personal account and compliment to the many people who fought so valiantly to broadcast truth and liberal commentary, while the entire broadcast media was dominated and censored by the Conservative right wing, the G.W Bush administration and the cabal of Muslim hating warmongers, famously known as the NeoCons. Naked at the Mic also commemorates the many people who stood up against the G.W Bush administration,and their nightmare of genocide and slaughter in the Middle East, and the cruel, corrupt and oppressive government they imposed on the American people during their reign of terror and torture from 2000 to 2008. I also speak honestly about the 2008 presidential candidates and the election of Barack Obama, and why I voted for him, and my great disappointment, after his horrific betrayal of all who elected him. The research for Naked at the Mic entailed over 5000 news articles that I have personally archived and preserved on paper, to verify every quote and reference I make, and over 100 books and interviews of authors, activists and politicians on 400 archived radio shows and ten televised documentaries I had produced up to 2009, when I completed writing this book. It is an honest look back through time at people and events, that have been at the forefront of national and world changing events. Naked at the Mic is a historical record of one of the most volatile decades in American and world history. It discusses many of the most important national and international issues from 2000 2009, the corrupt 2000 presidential election, 911, the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, Katrina, and exposes the massive corporate, financial and political corruption and mass media coverups up to the end of 2009. I honestly discuss and expose left and right wing politics, and give a unique front line perspective of the massive sea change of American Society, that caused G.W Bush's 75 percent approval rating in 2001, to his final approval rating of 24% in 2008. Naked at the Mic is honest,fast moving,highly informative and well researched, and is an accurate, historical account of one of the most politically conservative, and most destructive periods in American history, that has led to the current economic, military and moral demise of America. Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated in his famous essay The Oversoul Oh, Believe that every word that was meant for thine ear to hear will come to thee . I believe a lot of people are meant to hear what this book has to say. L.A.Steel

Book Naked Civics

Download or read book Naked Civics written by Nate Garvis and published by . This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety, Good Health, Productivity, Compensation, Innovation, Preserved and Constructed Infrastructure, Passing on Knowledge, and Justice. These eight community imperatives, what Garvis dubs the "Naked 8," are things communities almost never argue about. Civic design acknowledges that the most pressing issues facing our communities are full of complexity and lie beyond the capabilities of any one institutional form. Institutions such as governments, businesses, non-profits, and non-governmental organizations are all built to excel at certain goals and none of them are designed to do everything well. It is only when we weave those tools together that we gain the capacity to sustain a forward movement.

Book Sexual Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Millett
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2016-02-16
  • ISBN : 0231541724
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Sexual Politics written by Kate Millett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. This new edition features the scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon and the New Yorker correspondent Rebecca Mead on the importance of Millett's work to challenging the complacency that sidelines feminism.

Book Naked Economics  Undressing the Dismal Science  Fully Revised and Updated

Download or read book Naked Economics Undressing the Dismal Science Fully Revised and Updated written by Charles Wheelan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeks to provide an engaging and comprehensive primer to economics that explains key concepts without technical jargon and using common-sense examples.