92 Results for : obscenity
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Andy Weir's The Martian Summary & Review , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 30min
The novel The Martian very skillfully captures the attention of science fiction lovers as well as young adults. Andy Weir's ability is showcased by the exquisite portrayal of a story woven around a person who is stranded on Mars. The story covers the hurdles faced by Mark Watney when he is deserted accidentally on the surface of Mars during a space mission. He has to utilize the limited resources available and needs to reach a place from where he can be recovered. To rescue Mark, a mission is proposed by his previous crewmates and the administration at NASA. The end of the book is positive, as it results in Mark's recovery and emphasizes the progress in humans' interplanetary future. The book contains some content that might offend secondary listeners like teachers and parents. They might find sentences like "I'm pretty much f--ked" obscene. The same pattern is followed throughout the book, which might create a political and social environment that might obscure the book's objective. Some challenges might also be proposed against the text and, in extreme cases, banning of the book might occur. But the hype against the book cannot diminish its purpose and appeal. The text that might appear obscene to some teachers and parents is not included to promote vulgarity. It is included just to highlight a person's reactions when he faces difficulties. Any person facing the hardships that are faced by Watney may say similar sentences. In fact, bans will only promote the book, as listeners will be curious to know the reason for the ban. The text contains specific details and facts that were provided when the book was written. The text glorifies the story contained and does not encourage obscenity, as some listeners worry. The thoughts during the narration of the story flow freely, making it a good script. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles B. Burrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/055533/bk_acx0_055533_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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House of Nutter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 701min
The strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men’s fashion - and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film. From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up in an austere apartment above a café catering to truck drivers, both boys seemed destined to lead rather humble lives in postwar London - Tommy as a civil servant, David as a darkroom technician. Yet the strength of their imagination (plus a little help from their friends) transformed them instead into unlikely protagonists of a swinging cultural revolution. In 1969, at the age of 26, Tommy opened an unusual new boutique on the “golden mile” of bespoke tailoring, Savile Row. While shocking a haughty establishment resistant to change, Nutters of Savile Row became an immediate sensation among the young, rich, and beautiful, beguiling everyone from Bianca Jagger to the Beatles - who immortalized Tommy’s designs on the album cover of Abbey Road. Meanwhile, David’s innate talent with a camera vaulted him across the Atlantic to New York City, where he found himself in a parallel constellation of stars (Yoko Ono, Elton John) who enjoyed his dry wit almost as much as his photography. House of Nutter tells the stunning true story of two gay men who influenced some of the most iconic styles and pop images of the 20th century. Drawing on interviews with more than 70 people - and taking advantage of unparalleled access to never-before-seen pictures, letters, sketches, and diaries - journalist Lance Richardson presents a dual portrait of brothers improvising their way through five decades of extraordinary events, their personal struggles playing out against vivid backdrops of the Blitz, an obscenity trial, the birth of disco, and the devastation of the AIDS crisis. A propulsive, deftly plotted narrative filled with surprising details and near-operati ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006129/bk_rand_006129_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 862min
For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel in the English language was illegal to own, sell, advertise or purchase in most of the English-speaking world. James Joyce's big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. All of the minutiae of Leopold Bloom's day, including its unspeakable details, unfold with careful precision in its pages. The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice immediately banned the novel as "obscene, lewd, and lascivious". Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce's inspiration in 1904 to its landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933. Literary historian Kevin Birmingham follows Joyce's years as a young writer, his feverish work on his literary masterpiece, and his ardent love affair with Nora Barnacle, the model for Molly Bloom. Joyce and Nora socialized with literary greats like Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Beach. Their support helped Joyce fight an array of anti-vice crusaders while his book was disguised and smuggled, pirated and burned in the United States and Britain. The long struggle for publication added to the growing pressures of Joyce's deteriorating eyesight, finances and home life. Birmingham's archival work brings to light new information about both Joyce and the story surrounding Ulysses. Written for ardent Joyceans as well as novices who want to get to the heart of the greatest novel of the 20th century, The Most Dangerous Book is a gripping examination of how the world came to say yes to Ulysses. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Keating. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002390/bk_peng_002390_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 645min
Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two-year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. Whether they express anger or exhilaration, are meant to insult or to commend, swear words perform a crucial role in language. But swearing is also a uniquely well-suited lens through which to look at history, offering a fascinating record of what people care about on the deepest levels of a culture - what's divine, what's terrifying, and what's taboo. Holy Sh*t tells the story of two kinds of swearing - obscenities and oaths - from ancient Rome and the Bible to today. With humor and insight, Melissa Mohr takes listeners on a journey to discover how "swearing" has come to include both testifying with your hand on the Bible and calling someone a *#$&!* when they cut you off on the highway. She explores obscenities in ancient Rome - which were remarkably similar to our own - and unearths the history of religious oaths in the Middle Ages, when swearing (or not swearing) an oath was often a matter of life and death. Holy Sh*t also explains the advancement of civility and corresponding censorship of language in the 18th century, considers the rise of racial slurs after World War II, examines the physiological effects of swearing (increased heart rate and greater pain tolerance), and answers a question that preoccupies the FCC, the US Senate, and anyone who has recently overheard little kids at a playground: are we swearing more now than people did in the past? A gem of lexicography and cultural history, Holy Sh*t is a serious exploration of obscenity - and it also just might expand your repertoire of words to choose from the next time you shut your finger in the car door. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Napoleon Ryan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018785/bk_adbl_018785_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Antiracist Business Book: An Equity Centered Approach to Work, Wealth, and Leadership
The Antiracist Business Book is the first of its kind, as DEI business coach Trudi Lebrón offers business owners real-life lessons on how to build, reshape, and re-envision their work to support and repair the wealth of all people. The Antiracist Business Book: An Equity Centered Approach to Work, Wealth, and Leadership is the business book for the modern world. Trudi Lebrón has spent the last decade working as a DEI and impact coach for businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs. And what she learned over that time was that making a lasting change wasn't about fixing old systems; it was about building a new one. In this seminal work, Trudi lays out a plan for all businesses, leaders, entrepreneurs, and coaches to remix business, so that equity and impact become synonymous with profit and power. Trudi provides lessons on understanding the long-term impacts of living in a hyper-capitalist, post-colonial world (aka White People Sh*t) and an examination of the way we have viewed wealth (whether as an obsession or an obscenity). She will compel business owners and leaders to rethink how they do business. Trudi shares ways to create an antiracist business in a capitalist system, showing readers: How to make the shift from toxic capitalism to justice-based commerce - Trudi has spent years working with corporate leaders, online entrepreneurs, and mid-level managers on understanding how to build profitable businesses based on ethical transparency, justice-based leadership, and equitable business practices. She explains how justice can be found in a system that places profit above all else, re-imagining our economic systems not just in theory but in practice. How to move from the streets to the suites ("-isms" in business) - Trudi identifies the new form of leadership, which isn't from above but is built from the trust, creativity, and community usually found in the streets. As younger generations demand a new world order, the old one is dying and is being replaced with something remarkably more dynamic, equitable, and wealth-generating for all. How to make friends with money - This is for all you activists in the back row. Money is not the devil. In fact, without embracing and creating wealth generation, antiracism will always struggle at the corners of the conversation. In this work, Trudi will help readers heal their business journey, inviting them to redefine and re-envision their relationship to wealth. Unlike any other book on the market, The Antiracist Business Book takes an antiracist perspective. It applies it to how we are doing business-at the top, in the middle, and at the bottom, offering tools for advancement in how we work, earn, and lead. The wisdom inside this timely and essential book advocates for a new order of business that creates transparency, opportunity, and disruption. Businesses can no longer be successful while operating as tools of the status quo.- Shop: buecher
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Now, Voyager: Femmes Fatales , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min
Don’t let’s ask for the moon! We have the stars!” The film that concludes with Bette Davis’s famous word reaffirmed Davis’s own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked cigarettes. But few contemporary fans of this story of a woman’s self-realization know its source. Olive Higgins Prouty’s 1941 novel Now, Voyager provides an even richer, deeper portrait of the inner life of its protagonist and the society she inhabits. Viewed from a distance of more than 60 years, it also offers fresh and quietly radical takes on psychiatric treatment, traditional family life, female desire, and women’s agency. Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself. While Now, Voyager is a tear-jerking romance, it is at the same time the empowering story of a woman who finds the strength to chart her own course in life; who discovers love, sex, and even motherhood outside of marriage; and who learns that men are, ultimately, dispensable in the quest for happiness and fulfillment. UNKNOWN N N ©2004 Olive Higgins Prout;(P)2012 Audible, Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AM1T8LE?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AM1T8LE?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Bedelia (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE Bedelia (Unabridged) Bedelia (Unabridged) Vera Caspary Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and adoring as a kitten.... Nicole Vilencia Audible Studios 2012-11-16 08:00:00 459 B00A7DAIW0 English - Mysteries & Thrillers English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/adbl/005755de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005755/bk_adbl_005755_sample.mp3 The Bright List, Femme Fatale, 1940s, Mystery, Film Noir, Pulp Fiction, Serial Killer, Bright List Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and adoring as a kitten. A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can’t believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a kitten with claws of steel a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake. Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard. The true Bedelia, the woman who chose murder over a life on the street, reveals how she turns male fantasies of superiority into a deadly con. UNKNOWN N N ©2005 Vera Caspary;(P)2012 Audible, Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B00A7DAIW0?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B00A7DAIW0?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true By Cecile: Femmes Fatales (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE By Cecile: Femmes Fatales (Unabridged) By Cecile (Unabridged) Tereska Torres By Cecile depicts post-World War II France as it reels from war and recovery.... Xe Sands Audible Studios 2012-12-04 15:44:27 365 B00AI9HQ5A English - Fiction English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/adbl/005756de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005756/bk_adbl_005756_sample.mp3 The Bright List, Post Word War II, World War II, Paris, France, Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Polygamy, Trysts, Orphans, Bright List By Cecile depicts post-World War II France as it reels from war and recovery. In Paris, an orphan girl, Cecile, finds refuge with an older man. He introduces her to nightclubs, intellectuals, artists (Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eartha Kitt!), and non-monogamy. When she falls for his mistress, she begins to live a life she deems worthy of writing about...but only under the pseudonym of her husband. UNKNOWN N N ©2012 Tereska Torres;(P)2012 Audible, Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AI9HQ5A?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AI9HQ5A?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true The Girls in 3-B (Unabridged) 22.95 AVAILABLE The Girls in 3-B (Unabridged) The Girls in 3-B (Unabridged) Valerie Taylor Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self - expression, and sexual freedom.... Julie McKay Audible Studios 2012-12-24 08:00:00 347 B00AFK6QCG English - Fiction English 2012-11-27 05:00:00 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/adbl/005757de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005757/bk_adbl_005757_sample.mp3 The Bright List, Lesbian Pulp, Gay & Lesbian, 1950s, Bohemian, Romance, Feminism, Sexism, Pop Culture, Bright List Annice, Pat, and Barby are best friends from Iowa, freshly arrived in booming 1950s Chicago to explore different paths toward independence, self - expression, and sexual freedom. From the hip-hang of a bohemian lifestyle to the sophisticated lure of romance with a handsome, wealthy, married boss to the happier security of a lesbian relationship, these three experience firsthand the dangers and limitations of women’s economic -reliance on men. Well-known lesbian pulp author Valerie Taylor skillfully paints a sociological portrait of the emotional and economic pitfalls of heterosexuality in 1950s America and then offers a defiantly subversive alternative. A classic pulp tale showcasing predatory beatnik men, drug hallucinations, and secret lesbian trysts, The Girls in 3-B approaches the theme of sex from the stiffened vantage point of 1950s psychology. UNKNOWN N N ©2003 Valerie Taylor;(P)2012 Audible, Inc. http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AFK6QCG?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B00AFK6QCG?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Women’s Barracks: Femmes Fatales (Unabridged) 20.95 AVAILABLE Women’s Barracks: Femmes Fatales (Unabridged) Women’s Barracks (Unabridged) Tereska Torres Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more millions worldwide.... Heather Wilds Audible Studios 2012-11-16 08:00:00 384 B00A3ET08Q English - Fiction English 2012-11-14 05:00:00 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/adbl/005758de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005758/bk_adbl_005758_sample.mp3 The Bright List, Gay & Lesbian, Free French Forces, London, World War II, Military, Military Barracks, Lesbian Pulp, Bright List Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more millions worldwide. The novel is based on the real-life experiences of the author, Tereska Torres, who escaped from occupied France. She arrived as a refugee in London and joined other exiles enlisting in Charles de Gaulle’s army, then stationed in Britain awaiting an invasion of their homeland by Allied forces. But Women’s Barracks is no ordinary war story. As the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop and hearts are won and lost. Women’s Barracks was banned for obscenity in several states. It was also denounced by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952 as an example of how the paperback industry was promoting moral degeneracy". But in spite of such efforts - or perhaps, in part, because of them - the novel became a record-breaking best seller and inspired a whole new genre: lesbian pulp. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Coleen Marlo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005754/bk_adbl_005754_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Obscenity and Film Censorship
Obscenity and Film Censorship - An Abridgement of the Williams Report: ab 16.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Purifying Empire
Purifying Empire - Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain India and Australia: ab 42.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Purifying Empire
Purifying Empire - Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain India and Australia: ab 33.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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