Crime and Illusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crime and Illusion write by Felipe Pereda. This book was released on 2019-01-09. Crime and Illusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to an old historiographic tradition, the Spanish Golden Age placed the imitation of nature at the service of religion: its radical naturalism responded to the deep faith of that culture and moment. Crime & Illusion argues the opposite. It defends the thesis that the fundamental problem artists of the Golden Age confronted was not imitation but Truth. Moreover a large part, maybe the best part, of Spanish Baroque religious imagery is better understood as a complex exercise in addressing the spectators' doubts. Hovering on the horizon of an emerging empiricism, artists created their images as pieces of evidence, arguments for belief. Crime & Illusion reconstructs and interprets this judicial or forensic aspect of early modern visual culture at the center of a political, religious, and scientific triangle. Finally, the book explores the artists' skeptical reflection on the problematic relationship of painting and sculpture to the art of truth.
Illusion of Order
Illusion of Order - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Illusion of Order write by Bernard E. Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-02-15. Illusion of Order available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to challenge the broken-windows theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has revolutionized policing in the United States and abroad, with its emphasis on policies that crack down on disorderly conduct and aggressively enforce misdemeanor laws. The problem, argues Bernard Harcourt, is that although the broken-windows theory has been around for nearly thirty years, it has never been empirically verified. Indeed, existing data suggest that it is false. Conceptually, it rests on unexamined categories of law abiders and disorderly people and of order and disorder, which have no intrinsic reality, independent of the techniques of punishment that we implement in our society. How did the new order-maintenance approach to criminal justice--a theory without solid empirical support, a theory that is conceptually flawed and results in aggressive detentions of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens--come to be one of the leading criminal justice theories embraced by progressive reformers, policymakers, and academics throughout the world? This book explores the reasons why. It also presents a new, more thoughtful vision of criminal justice.
The Illusion of Murder
The Illusion of Murder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illusion of Murder write by Carol McCleary. This book was released on 2012-02-28. The Illusion of Murder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The intrepid Nellie Bly, the world's most famous reporter, sets sail around the world on a dazzling adventure and becomes embroiled in international intrigue with the fate of nations at stake.
Agatha Christie: Detective Novelist and Playwright
Agatha Christie: Detective Novelist and Playwright - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agatha Christie: Detective Novelist and Playwright write by Grace Hansen. This book was released on 2022-12-15. Agatha Christie: Detective Novelist and Playwright available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title looks at the life, accomplishments, and legacy of author and playwright Agatha Christie. The book is complete with sidebars, more facts, a timeline, and QR codes that lead to more information, videos, and activities. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. DiscoverRoo is an imprint of Pop!, a division of ABDO.
The Illusion of Free Markets
The Illusion of Free Markets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Illusion of Free Markets write by Bernard E. Harcourt. This book was released on 2011-05-01. The Illusion of Free Markets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and the punishment arena. This curious incendiary combination of free market efficiency and the Big Brother state has become seemingly obvious, but it hinges on the illusion of a supposedly natural order in the economic realm. The Illusion of Free Markets argues that our faith in “free markets” has severely distorted American politics and punishment practices. Bernard Harcourt traces the birth of the idea of natural order to eighteenth-century economic thought and reveals its gradual evolution through the Chicago School of economics and ultimately into today’s myth of the free market. The modern category of “liberty” emerged in reaction to an earlier, integrated vision of punishment and public economy, known in the eighteenth century as “police.” This development shaped the dominant belief today that competitive markets are inherently efficient and should be sharply demarcated from a government-run penal sphere. This modern vision rests on a simple but devastating illusion. Superimposing the political categories of “freedom” or “discipline” on forms of market organization has the unfortunate effect of obscuring rather than enlightening. It obscures by making both the free market and the prison system seem natural and necessary. In the process, it facilitated the birth of the penitentiary system in the nineteenth century and its ultimate culmination into mass incarceration today.
