Tag: Innocence

The Temptation of Innocence – Living in the Age of Entitlement


Free Download Pascal Bruckner, "The Temptation of Innocence – Living in the Age of Entitlement"
English | 2000 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 1892941562 | PDF | 1,3 mb
A highly insightful essay on the culture of dependency and its damaging effects on the moral fiber of society; from corporate welfare to affirmative action, the author takes on the culture of copping out. A book against depression, existential angst, cry-babies and whining "victims," either acting as a child in a candy store or as a martyr of one’s own fears. Men against women, women against men, isn’t it time to grow up and take charge of our own destiny?

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Erotic Innocence The Culture of Child Molesting


Free Download James Kincaid, "Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting"
English | ISBN: 0822321939 | 2000 | 368 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
In Erotic Innocence James R. Kincaid explores contemporary America’s preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children. Claiming that our culture has yet to come to terms with the bungled legacy of Victorian sexuality, Kincaid examines how children and images of youth are idealized, fetishized, and eroticized in everyday culture. Evoking the cyclic elements of Gothic narrative, he thoughtfully and convincingly concludes that the only way to break this cycle is to acknowledge-and confront-not only the sensuality of children but the eroticism loaded onto them.

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Stolen Innocence


Free Download Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall, Lisa Pulitzer
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0061734969 | 464 Pages | EPUB | 1.9 MB
Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007.

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