An Average Man
Author : Robert Hugh Benson
Publisher :
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 1913
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
The Screwing of the Average Man
Author : David Hapgood
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Consumer protection
ISBN : 9780553143898
Book Description
The Affective Life of the Average Man
Author : Audrey Jaffe
Publisher : Victorian Critical Interventio
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814211151
Book Description
1What do the Victorian novel and the stock-market graph have in common? In The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph, ,,Audrey Jaffe explores the influence on modern subjectivity of an economic and emotional discourse constructed by both the Victorian novel and the stock market. The book shows how the novel and the market define character as fundamentally vicarious, and how the graphs, tickers, and pulses that represent the stock market function for us, as the novel did for the Victorians, as both representation and source of collective expectations and emotions. A rereading of key Victorian texts, this volume is also a rereading of the relation between Victorian and contemporary culture, describing the way contemporary accounts of such phenomena as frauds, bubbles, and the economics of happiness reproduce Victorian narratives and assumptions about character. Jaffe draws on the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century economic and political theorists, popular discourse about the stock market, and novelistic representations of emotion and identity to offer new readings of George Eliot's Middlemarch, Anthony Trollope's The Prime Minister, and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and Little Dorrit. Charting a new understanding of the relation between money, emotions, and identity, The Affective Life of the Average Man makes a significant contribution to Victorian studies, economic criticism, and the study of the history and representation of emotion.
Jason Edwards
Author : Hamlin Garland
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1892
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
How an Average Man Lived an Adventurous Life
Author : John Linnemeier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 143891279X
Book Description
The stories in this book are all true. Its author has been held up at gunpoint at night on a road in Guatemala and shot with a machine gun in the chest and shoulder in Vietnam.He's come close to dying of thirst in the Sahara and freezing to death in the Himalayas.He's contracted malaria and typhoid fever in Ethiopia and hepatitis in India There have been accidents involving motorcycles and automobiles. He's had close calls involving lions (twice), elephants (three times) and a rhino (once). He's visited over a hundred countries, seen revolutions, famines, wars, and panty raids, feasted in palaces and fasted in caves. He's discovered paradises, been saved by dolphins, hopped freight trains, danced with an 108-year-old woman, swam with sharks, frequented whore houses and opium dens, and met a man capable of revealing God. In the pages of this book you'll meet the queen of the Ecuadorian prison system, the Dalai Lama, Dick Cheney, a swami from Katmandu who makes his living picking up large stones with his penis, yak herders, tunnel rats, 300 pound go-go girls, deep sea divers, drug dealers, stock car drivers, Indonesian princes, Bolivian miners, beanheads, powder monkeys, hookers and saints.Between the stories the author gives advice to would-be travelers, describes six tropical paradises where you can live comfortably on five hundred dollars a month, and includes his personal lists of the best things in the world. Mr. Linnemeier hails from the Hoosier state. Today he treads the path of moderation, living contentedly in a small town, surrounded by friends and family. He claims to have abandoned most of his previous vices, and has the stated aim of dying peacefully in bed at ninety five. In his own words, "I'm not the kind of person that men automatically defer to.I don't usually make women's hearts beat faster when they see me across a crowded room
Ordinary Men
Author : Christopher R. Browning
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0062037757
Book Description
The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.
Your Average Nigga
Author : Vershawn Ashanti Young
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814335764
Book Description
An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance. In Your Average Nigga, Vershawn Ashanti Young disputes the belief that speaking Standard English and giving up Black English Vernacular helps black students succeed academically. Young argues that this assumption not only exaggerates the differences between two compatible varieties of English but forces black males to choose between an education and their masculinity, by choosing to act either white or black. As one would expect from a scholar who is subject to the very circumstances he studies, Young shares his own experiences as he exposes the factors that make black racial identity irreconcilable with literacy for blacks, especially black males. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary scholarship in performance theory and African American literary and cultural studies, Young shows that the linguistic conflict that exists between black and white language styles harms black students from the inner city the most. If these students choose to speak Standard English they risk alienating themselves from their families and communities, and if they choose to retain their customary speech and behavior they may isolate themselves from mainstream society. Young argues that this conflict leaves blacks in the impossible position of either trying to be white or forever struggling to prove that they are black enough. For men, this also becomes an endless struggle to prove that they are masculine enough. Young calls this constant effort to display proper masculine and racial identity the burden of racial performance. Ultimately, Young argues that racial and verbal performances are a burden because they cannot reduce the causes or effects of racism, nor can they denaturalize supposedly fixed identity categories, as many theorists contend. On the contrary, racial and verbal performances only reinscribe the essentialism that they are believed to subvert. Scholars and teachers of rhetoric, performance studies, and African American studies will enjoy this insightful volume.
Dataclysm
Author : Christian Rudder
Publisher : Crown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0385347383
Book Description
A New York Times Bestseller An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are. For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Today, a new approach is possible. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters. Data scientists have become the new demographers. In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook "likes" can predict, with surprising accuracy, a person’s sexual orientation and even intelligence; how attractive women receive exponentially more interview requests; and why you must have haters to be hot. He charts the rise and fall of America’s most reviled word through Google Search and examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter. He shows how people express themselves, both privately and publicly. What is the least Asian thing you can say? Do people bathe more in Vermont or New Jersey? What do black women think about Simon & Garfunkel? (Hint: they don’t think about Simon & Garfunkel.) Rudder also traces human migration over time, showing how groups of people move from certain small towns to the same big cities across the globe. And he grapples with the challenge of maintaining privacy in a world where these explorations are possible. Visually arresting and full of wit and insight, Dataclysm is a new way of seeing ourselves—a brilliant alchemy, in which math is made human and numbers become the narrative of our time.
Waking The Core Of Man
Author : Selna Kim
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781716562211
Book Description
Club Promoting - The shady organization that lies behind the scenes of the world's biggest nightclubs where men, who are chosen, go to transform themselves from loser and reject to undoubtedly irresistible with the opposite sex. Waking up at 21 years old, Connor (Selna Kim) McCanless realized he would be a failure forever with the opposite sex unless he did something about it. In less than 2 years, he was able to turn his life completely around, starting with discovering a secret organization. One that laid in the shadows, pulling the strings behind the success of the Midwest's most famous clubs. 'Letter-Jay' was a codename for a member that had all of the secrets behind meeting, attracting, dating, and winning the heart of the women he's always dreamed of. They met as kids when they both were living broke and next to an Indianapolis train yard, but Jay had weaseled his way from poverty to riches in 18 months using only his attraction, seduction, and networking skills. The Midwest recruited him to pack the clubs with people; beginning to make most people's monthly income in just a few nights. Learning under Letter-Jay for a few months, he unlocked the secrets to spark desire with any woman. When Letter-Jay began to notice his rapid acceleration in success with the opposite sex, he was introduced by Letter-Jay to the top dog - the leader of the industry. They quickly witnessed Kim's potential, classifying him a permanent spot in this community as 'Letter-C'. Discovering the other members, who were on par if not better than Letter-Jay, including Letter-H, X, Z and more, Letter-C sapped their skills and knowledge with the opposite sex. These skills catastrophically impacted the clubbing industry, bringing finer women into the clubs and more men that followed them in there. With that, it became a lifestyle of private jets, raves, VIP, models, and celebrities. Clubs across the Midwest hired them to turn their gasping-for-air clubs into region hot spots. He joined the community to find love, but he became addicted, cold, and dark. Power created greed, and it was rotting him. Either he would relearn what it takes to love, or dive so deep into greed that he would lose himself forever. "This stuff is powerful material," Selna Kim quotes. "It's the gateway to becoming the man all men want to be and all women desire. Use this power for good, for if you let it use you then it will consume you, it will hurt others, and it will leave you with nothing."
Men Without Work
Author : Nicholas Eberstadt
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1599474700
Book Description
By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession—lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work—most especially among America’s men. Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, shows that while “unemployment” has gone down, America’s work rate is also lower today than a generation ago—and that the work rate for US men has been spiraling downward for half a century. Astonishingly, the work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four—or “men of prime working age”—was actually slightly lower in 2015 than it had been in 1940: before the War, and at the tail end of the Great Depression. Today, nearly one in six prime working age men has no paid work at all—and nearly one in eight is out of the labor force entirely, neither working nor even looking for work. This new normal of “men without work,” argues Eberstadt, is “America’s invisible crisis.” So who are these men? How did they get there? What are they doing with their time? And what are the implications of this exit from work for American society? Nicholas Eberstadt lays out the issue and Jared Bernstein from the left and Henry Olsen from the right offer their responses to this national crisis. For more information, please visit http://menwithoutwork.com.
