Is Shame Necessary?

Is Shame Necessary?
Author: Jennifer Jacquet
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307950131

An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform. “[Jacquet] exposes the ways shame plays into collective ideas of punishment and reward, and the social mechanisms that dictate the ways we dictate our behavior.” —The Boston Globe Examining how we can retrofit the art of shaming for the age of social media, Jennifer Jacquet shows that we can challenge corporations and even governments to change policies and behaviors that are detrimental to the environment. Urgent and illuminating, Is Shame Necessary? offers an entirely new understanding of how shame, when applied in the right way and at the right time, has the capacity to keep us from failing our planet and, ultimately, from failing ourselves.

On the Western Circuit

On the Western Circuit
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Art
ISBN:

On the Western Circuit is a novella by Thomas Hardy. Edith is a rural girl who falls in love with an older man, in this romance where the mistakes of love life are tragically explored and bared naked.

The Ballad of Laurel Springs

The Ballad of Laurel Springs
Author: Janet Beard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2023-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982151579

"A provocative new novel by the nationally bestelling author of THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS, about nine generations of one family in Eastern Tennessee whose women, in eerie echoes of the notorious Appalachian murder ballads made famous by singers, over more than a century, have been traumatized by acts of violence"--

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Author: James Gibson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Life and background - Writing, publication and initial critical reception of Tess - Summaries and critical commentary - What the novel is about.

Lucky Bunny

Lucky Bunny
Author: Jill Dawson
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062202510

"Pacy and atmospheric…wickedly good." —Marie Claire (UK) "Dawson's heroine is so fresh and spirited that she carries the day." —Sunday Times (London) Having already made waves in the United Kingdom, Lucky Bunny has come to America. Acclaimed poet and author Jill Dawson, whose previous novels have been shortlisted for England's Whitbread Award and Orange Prize, now gives us the story of vivacious and endearing thief Queenie Dove, a Moll Flanders for World War II Britain. Brilliantly recreating mid-twentieth century London, from the bustling streets to the seamy underworld, from the Depression Era through the Blitz and into the 1950s, Lucky Bunny entangles readers in the adventurous life of a truly captivating anti-heroine, a self-proclaimed genius in the art of survival. Before the Krays, there was Queenie Dove… and readers will never forget her.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Study Guide)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Study Guide)
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2020-01-25
Genre:
ISBN:

The novel is set in impoverished rural England, Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex, during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated peasants. ... He notices Tess too late to dance with her, as he is already late for his promised return to his brothers.

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791041062

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.