Victims of the Book - 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 Victims of the Book write by Francois Proulx. This book was released on 2019-11-04. Victims of the Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen’s masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie stérile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen’s reading habits. Fin-de-siècle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, paradoxically proposing their own novels as potential cures. In the early twentieth century, this corpus was critically revisited by a new generation of writers. Victims of the Book shows how André Gide and Marcel Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-siècle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader.
Victims
Victims - 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 Victims write by Travis Jeppesen. This book was released on 2003-05-01. Victims available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These are the final days of The Overcomers, a small group of lost souls guided by the teachings of charismatic leader, Martin Jones. As they prepare for the cosmic event that will signal the end of their time on earth, their struggles to reconcile their faith in Jones's teachings with the emotional ups and downs of their everyday lives form the subject of this exquisitely written and highly original novel. In the tradition of Magic Mountain and The Plague, this novel of ideas ponders the conepts of friendship, love and manipulation with skill and humour.
Criminals and Victims
Criminals and Victims - 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 Criminals and Victims write by W. David Allen. This book was released on 2011-05-13. Criminals and Victims available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Criminals and Victims presents an economic analysis of decisions made by criminals and victims of crime before, during, and after a crime or victimization occurs. Its main purpose is to illustrate how the application of analytical tools from economics can help us to understand the causes and consequences of criminal and victim choices, aiding efforts to deter or reduce the consequences of crime. By examining these decisions along a logical timeline over which crimes take place, we can begin to think more clearly about how policy effects change when it is targeted at specific decisions within the body of a crime. This book differs from others by recognizing the timeline of a crime, paying particular attention to victim decisions, and examining each step in the crime cycle at the micro-level. It demonstrates that criminals plan their crimes in systematic, economically logical ways; that deterring the destruction of criminal evidence may deter crime in general; and that white-collar criminals exhibit recidivism patterns not unlike those of street criminals. It further shows that the degree of criminality in a society motivates a variety of self-protection behaviors by potential victims; that not all victim resistance makes matters worse (and some may help); and that victims who report their crimes do not receive high returns for going to the police, helping to explain why some crimes ultimately go unreported.
The Crime Victim's Book
The Crime Victim's Book - 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 Crime Victim's Book write by Morton Bard. This book was released on 1986. The Crime Victim's Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Victims
Victims - 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 Victims write by Jonathan Kellerman. This book was released on 2012. Victims available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. LAPD detective Milo Sturgis calls on psychologist Alex Delaware to assist in a homicide investigation to catch a brutal serial killer.
