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Book Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America

Download or read book Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America written by Elizabeth Fraterrigo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched by Hugh Hefner in 1953, Playboy promoted an image of the young, affluent, single male-the man about town ensconced in a plush bachelor pad, in constant pursuit of female companionship and a good time. Spectacularly successful, this high-gloss portrait of glamorous living and sexual adventure would eventually draw some one million readers each month. Exploring the world created in the pages of America's most widely read and influential men's magazine, Elizabeth Fraterrigo sets Playboy's history in the context of a society in transition. Sexual mores, gender roles, family life, notions of consumption and national purpose-all were in flux as Americans adjusted to the prosperity that followed World War II. Initially, Playboy promised only "entertainment for men," but Fraterrigo reveals that its vision of abundance, pleasure, and individual freedom soon placed the magazine at the center of mainstream debates about sex and freedom, politics and pleasure in postwar America. She shows that for Hugh Hefner, the "good life" meant the "playboy life," in which expensive goods and sexually available women were plentiful, obligations were few, and if one worked hard enough, one could enjoy abundant leisure and consumption. In support of this view, Playboy attacked early marriage, traditional gender arrangements, and sanctions against premarital sex. The magazine also promoted private consumption as a key to economic growth and national well-being, offering tips from "The Playboy Advisor" on everything from high-end stereos and cuff-links to caviar and wine. If we want to understand post-war America, Fraterrigo shows, we must pay close attention to Playboy, its messages about pleasure and freedom, the debates it inspired, and the criticism it drew--all of which has been bound up in the popular culture and consumer society that surround us.

Book Las cuatro vidas de Steve Jobs

Download or read book Las cuatro vidas de Steve Jobs written by Daniel Ichbiah and published by Editorial Almuzara. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No existe un Steve Jobs, sino que debemos hablar de cuatro Jobs (el joven indeciso que no sabe qué hacer con su vida, el fundador de Apple, el hijo pródigo propietario de Pixar y su regreso triunfal a la marca de la manzana con el lanzamiento del iPod, el iPhone y el iPad). En todas sus vidas el éxito ha sido el denominador común, un éxito alcanzado gracias a un talento desmesurado, un carisma arrollador y una dedicación absoluta a la persecución de sus objetivos. Sin duda una obra de referencia sobre uno de los grandes genios de nuestra época.

Book The Rites of Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Varda Burstyn
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802077257
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book The Rites of Men written by Varda Burstyn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It gathers more spectators on a global basis than any other activity today. More than just a game, sport has profound political and social consequences, promoting a super-aggressive ideal of manhood and political culture.

Book The Pornography Controversy

Download or read book The Pornography Controversy written by Ray C. Rist and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses governmental responsibilities and individual liberties, ethical problems of moral judgement, and legal considerations in defining and suppressing obscene material

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2660 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 2660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jet

    Jet

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964-07-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1964-07-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

Book Playboy Annual

Download or read book Playboy Annual written by Hugh Marston Hefner and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Consumer Class Action

Download or read book Consumer Class Action written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Consumer Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Steve Jobs  The Brilliant Mind Behind Apple

Download or read book Steve Jobs The Brilliant Mind Behind Apple written by Anthony Imbimbo and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each title in this series takes an in-depth and critical look at a leading contemporary or historical figure, examining his or her early life, rise to prominence, accomplishments, and lasting influence with the help of time lines, index, and glossary.

Book The Car and the Camera

Download or read book The Car and the Camera written by David Lanier Lewis and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of information on Legionella, outlining necessary precautions to take against spread of the bacteria in hospitals and other health care facilities. Shows how to evaluate risk at a particular facility, and offers step-by-step instructions on implementing risk reduction and preventive measures for domestic water systems and cooling towers, and on water sampling and disinfection procedures. Includes discussion of estimated costs and legal issues, and appendices of handouts, sampling logs, and US and international laboratory sources, consultants, suppliers, and associations. The publisher's address is 6450 Guion Road, Indianapolis, IN 46286-2531. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Official Stud Book and Registry of the American Quarter Horse Association

Download or read book Official Stud Book and Registry of the American Quarter Horse Association written by American Quarter Horse Association and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Playboy s Illustrated History of Organized Crime

Download or read book Playboy s Illustrated History of Organized Crime written by Richard Hammer and published by Chicago : Playboy Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marilyn Monroe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michelle Vogel
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-05-08
  • ISBN : 0786470860
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Marilyn Monroe written by Michelle Vogel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is essentially a filmography interlaced with a complex biographical account of Marilyn Monroe's life and loves throughout her career. A lengthy introduction explains her traumatic early life and mysterious, unexpected, much talked about death. Behind the scenes information, cast and crew lists, box office grosses and photographs are given for each film. There is a Foreword by Academy Award-winning actor (West Side Story) George Chakiris, who worked as a chorus dancer in two of Monroe's biggest productions, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and There's No Business Like Show Business (1954). This is a definitive summation of the Hollywood icon's career.

Book Entrepreneurial Genius

Download or read book Entrepreneurial Genius written by Gene N. Landrum and published by Brendan Kelly Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Landrum begins with biographical overviews of a dozen of the most interesting and powerful entrepreneurs of recent vintage. He identifies their unique eccentricities and then shows the personality traits that they all have in common. These are the attributes that constitute the genius of the great entrepreneur. To enable you to compare your personality attributes with those of the great entrepreneurs who have achieved billionaire status, Professor Landrum has included in this book a self-assessment exercise. Book jacket.

Book Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart

Download or read book Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart written by Elizabeth T. Groppe and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era in which the internet has made pornography readily accessible, Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart offers a theological critique of pornography and retrieves from the Christian tradition an alternative visual culture. This visual culture is constituted by both the character of the images we behold and the manner in which we see. Contributors include psychologists William M. Struthers and Jill Manning, who address the neurological effects of pornography and its influences on personal, familial, and social life. Their professional analysis is complemented by the testimony of a young man in recovery from pornography addiction. In an exposition of Christian visual culture, Orthodox iconographer Randi Sider-Rose describes the spiritual discipline of icon writing, Danielle M. Peters, S.T.D., surveys the iconography and art of Marian traditions, and art historian Dianne Phillips elucidates the meaning of divine desire as evident in Catholic visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods. Catholic theologians Ann W. Astell, Nathanial Peters, Boyd Taylor Coolman, and Nicolas Ogle discuss specific practices and dimensions of the Catholic tradition that can contribute to the cultivation of sacramental vision, and David W. Fagerberg, Kimberly Hope Belcher, Jennifer Newsome Martin, and John C. Cavadini offer reflections on sacramental imagination and the healing of vision. Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart is a work of scholarship composed with pastoral care and concern, and it will be serviceable to both classroom teachers and pastoral ministers. A special feature of the book is an inset of seventy-two full-color plates featuring both classic and contemporary works of Christian iconography and art. The essays and images invite readers to behold in beauty the truth that we are created by the triune God not for sexual objectification but with a sacramental vocation to deification through Christ and the Holy Spirit of love.

Book Consistency in Cognitive Social Behaviour

Download or read book Consistency in Cognitive Social Behaviour written by C.J. Mower White and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social psychology remains unbalanced as long as we study human behaviour exclusively ‘from the outside’, leaving out of account people’s own reasons for acting as they do. Originally published in 1982, the result of the author’s emphasis on the cognitive dimension is a much more complete and well-rounded textbook of social psychology than had previously been available. Beginning with an exploration of the various models that have been suggested to explain the whole range of social behaviour, the book goes on to argue that consistency – comparability, similarity, congruity – is the principle by which social behaviour can best be explained. It goes into the cognitive processes that determine social attitudes, ascription of certain characteristics to individuals, and the attraction we feel to some people but not others. It also shows how these processes can be extended and affected by group membership. Consistency is important, the author believes, because it allows the maximum prediction of others’ behaviour and guidance of our own. These functions are demonstrated by observing failures of consistency, such as occur in humour and in negative self-esteem, and the author examines these inconsistencies in a final chapter.

Book Ad   Summary

Download or read book Ad Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising expenditure data across ten media: consumer magazines, Sunday magazines, newspapers, outdoor, network television, spot television, syndicated television, cable television, network radio, and national spot radio. Lists brands alphabetically and shows total ten media expenditures, media used, parent company and PIB classification for each brand. Also included in this report are industry class totals and rankings of the top 100 companies of the ten media.