[PDF] No Public Spectacles eBook

Author : Zeev Weiss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0674048318

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Wishing to ingratiate himself with Rome, Herod the Great built theaters, amphitheaters, and hippodromes to bring pagan entertainments of all sorts to Palestine. Zeev Weiss explores how the indigenous Jewish and Christian populations responded, as both spectators and performers, to these cultural imports, which left a lasting imprint on the region.

Author : WR Maxwell
Publisher : Pink Flamingo Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2021-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1954079478

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Planet xz345 delta was founded in 2103 as a penal colony for the galaxy’s antisocial criminals. Most prisoners are male, and while their sentences are limited, there is no way off the planet when they are released. By 2230, the non-prison population is nearly 2,000,000, 86% male. Females are highly prized, and jealously protected by their husbands. But with so many men, the crime of rape is common. Thus in order to satisfy the male libido and maintain order, prostitution is legalized and bordellos are licensed with a small number of off-world whores. A single female can satisfy the sexual desires of a dozen or more men each day. The sex workers are protected from abuse, clients are protected from diseases, and the whole industry is taxed to generate revenue. While sex between unmarried people is not a crime, sex outside of marriage, with a partner who is not a whore is strictly forbidden. Although stiff fines are imposed for offenders, it does little to curb unlawful sex.

Author : Guy Debord
Publisher : Bread and Circuses Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1617508306

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The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1107032245

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This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Author : Mark Vessey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1119025559

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A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right. Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context Presents Augustine’s life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field