Author: S. A. Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781096589013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
They like their women barren in more ways than one, void of the bits that make them anything other than an object of male desire. A woman doesn't need her faculties, or her body in one piece to open her legs. Dark, brutal, and punishing - this is the world Dell was brought up in. Nothing more than a Lesser Fae female, owned by a master who sells her body to the highest bidder and takes what's left for himself. She's been through it all. She's witnessed it all. She's survived it all ... so far. Dell unwittingly binds herself to the Sun Gods - four primal, territorial High Fae males who have a taste for power, pain, and pleasure. But they want more from her than she initially expected. They can read, control and govern her body. They can see through her lies, sense the secrets she's been cowering from for years. For Dell, the only thing worse than trying to survive the darkness, is the prospect of being dragged back into the light. This is book one in the four-part Spawn of Darkness series - 38,500 words written from Dell's perspective. It is a slow burn, reverse harem romance with sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language, sex slavery, explicit sexual content and violence - particularly as the series progresses. It contains subjective content which some readers will find triggering. Intended for an audience aged eighteen years and over.
A Token's Worth
Author: S. A. Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781096589013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
They like their women barren in more ways than one, void of the bits that make them anything other than an object of male desire. A woman doesn't need her faculties, or her body in one piece to open her legs. Dark, brutal, and punishing - this is the world Dell was brought up in. Nothing more than a Lesser Fae female, owned by a master who sells her body to the highest bidder and takes what's left for himself. She's been through it all. She's witnessed it all. She's survived it all ... so far. Dell unwittingly binds herself to the Sun Gods - four primal, territorial High Fae males who have a taste for power, pain, and pleasure. But they want more from her than she initially expected. They can read, control and govern her body. They can see through her lies, sense the secrets she's been cowering from for years. For Dell, the only thing worse than trying to survive the darkness, is the prospect of being dragged back into the light. This is book one in the four-part Spawn of Darkness series - 38,500 words written from Dell's perspective. It is a slow burn, reverse harem romance with sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language, sex slavery, explicit sexual content and violence - particularly as the series progresses. It contains subjective content which some readers will find triggering. Intended for an audience aged eighteen years and over.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781096589013
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
They like their women barren in more ways than one, void of the bits that make them anything other than an object of male desire. A woman doesn't need her faculties, or her body in one piece to open her legs. Dark, brutal, and punishing - this is the world Dell was brought up in. Nothing more than a Lesser Fae female, owned by a master who sells her body to the highest bidder and takes what's left for himself. She's been through it all. She's witnessed it all. She's survived it all ... so far. Dell unwittingly binds herself to the Sun Gods - four primal, territorial High Fae males who have a taste for power, pain, and pleasure. But they want more from her than she initially expected. They can read, control and govern her body. They can see through her lies, sense the secrets she's been cowering from for years. For Dell, the only thing worse than trying to survive the darkness, is the prospect of being dragged back into the light. This is book one in the four-part Spawn of Darkness series - 38,500 words written from Dell's perspective. It is a slow burn, reverse harem romance with sensitive and taboo subjects, offensive language, sex slavery, explicit sexual content and violence - particularly as the series progresses. It contains subjective content which some readers will find triggering. Intended for an audience aged eighteen years and over.
Tokens
Author: Rachel O'Dwyer
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839768347
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Longlisted for the Financial Times Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, Wired The essential guide to this new landscape of NFTs, Web3, Crypto and DAOs and a warning of the political consequences of what happens when platform capitalism comes for the money in your pocket Wherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data—the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities? Tokens opens up this new and expanding world. Exploring the history of extra- monetary economies, Rachel O’Dwyer shows that private and grassroots tokens have always haunted the real economy. But as the large tech platforms issue new money-like instruments, tokens are suddenly everywhere. Amazon’s Turk workers are getting paid in gift cards. Online streamers trade in wishlists. Foreign remittances are sent via phone credit. Bitcoin, gift cards, NFTs, customer data, and game tokens are the new money in an evolving economy. It is a development challenging the balance of power between online empires and the state. Tokens may offer a flexible even subversive route to compensation. But for the platforms them- selves they can be a means of amassing frightening new powers. An essential read for anyone concerned with digital money, inequality, and the future of the economy.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839768347
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Longlisted for the Financial Times Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, Wired The essential guide to this new landscape of NFTs, Web3, Crypto and DAOs and a warning of the political consequences of what happens when platform capitalism comes for the money in your pocket Wherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data—the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities? Tokens opens up this new and expanding world. Exploring the history of extra- monetary economies, Rachel O’Dwyer shows that private and grassroots tokens have always haunted the real economy. But as the large tech platforms issue new money-like instruments, tokens are suddenly everywhere. Amazon’s Turk workers are getting paid in gift cards. Online streamers trade in wishlists. Foreign remittances are sent via phone credit. Bitcoin, gift cards, NFTs, customer data, and game tokens are the new money in an evolving economy. It is a development challenging the balance of power between online empires and the state. Tokens may offer a flexible even subversive route to compensation. But for the platforms them- selves they can be a means of amassing frightening new powers. An essential read for anyone concerned with digital money, inequality, and the future of the economy.
Blockchain Value
Author: Olga V. Mack
Publisher: Business Expert Press
ISBN: 1952538254
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This book focuses on the values of blockchain across industries. If you think that blockchain is everything you don’t understand about technology, finance, and law mixed together, then this book will help you appreciate its value more clearly. While it is a complex technology that is still largely experimental today, it will be transformative in the future. This book focuses on the values of blockchain across industries. Among other things, it explores how blockchain technology adds value to data management, security, and sharing as well as ownership, property, collaboration, and trust. It also explores the possibilities of the Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS), digital goods or dGoods, and the transformative power of small acts and micropayments.
Publisher: Business Expert Press
ISBN: 1952538254
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This book focuses on the values of blockchain across industries. If you think that blockchain is everything you don’t understand about technology, finance, and law mixed together, then this book will help you appreciate its value more clearly. While it is a complex technology that is still largely experimental today, it will be transformative in the future. This book focuses on the values of blockchain across industries. Among other things, it explores how blockchain technology adds value to data management, security, and sharing as well as ownership, property, collaboration, and trust. It also explores the possibilities of the Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS), digital goods or dGoods, and the transformative power of small acts and micropayments.
Propositional Content
Author: Peter Hanks
Publisher: Context & Content
ISBN: 0199684898
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. Hanks abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth-conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this traditional conception is the problem of the unity of the proposition, the problem of explaining how propositions have truth conditions and other representational properties. The new theory developed here, in its place, explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.
Publisher: Context & Content
ISBN: 0199684898
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. Hanks abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth-conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this traditional conception is the problem of the unity of the proposition, the problem of explaining how propositions have truth conditions and other representational properties. The new theory developed here, in its place, explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.
From a Nickel to a Token
Author: Andrew J. Sparberg
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823261921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Streetcars “are as dead as sailing ships,” said Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a radio speech, two days before Madison Avenue’s streetcars yielded to buses. LaGuardia was determined to eliminate streetcars, demolish pre-1900 elevated lines, and unify the subway system, a goal that became reality in 1940 when the separate IRT, BMT, and IND became one giant system under full public control. In this fascinating micro-history of New York’s transit system, Andrew Sparberg examines twenty specific events between 1940 and 1968, book ended by subway unification and the MTA’s creation. From a Nickel to a Token depicts a potpourri of well-remembered, partially forgotten, and totally obscure happenings drawn from the historical tapestry of New York mass transit. Sparberg deftly captures five boroughs of grit, chaos, and emotion grappling with a massive and unwieldy transit system. During these decades, the system morphed into today’s familiar network. The public sector absorbed most private surface lines operating within the five boroughs, and buses completely replaced streetcars. Elevated lines were demolished, replaced by subways or, along Manhattan’s Third Avenue, not at all. Beyond the unification of the IND, IRT, and BMT, strategic track connections were built between lines to allow a more flexible and unified operation. The oldest subway routes received much needed rehabilitation. Thousands of new subway cars and buses were purchased. The sacred nickel fare barrier was broken, and by 1968 a ride cost twenty cents. From LaGuardia to Lindsay, mayors devoted much energy to solving transit problems, keeping fares low, and appeasing voters, fellow elected officials, transit management, and labor leaders. Simultaneously, American society was experiencing tumultuous times, manifested by labor disputes, economic pressures, and civil rights protests. Featuring many photos never before published, From a Nickel to a Token is a historical trip back in time to a multitude of important events.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823261921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Streetcars “are as dead as sailing ships,” said Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a radio speech, two days before Madison Avenue’s streetcars yielded to buses. LaGuardia was determined to eliminate streetcars, demolish pre-1900 elevated lines, and unify the subway system, a goal that became reality in 1940 when the separate IRT, BMT, and IND became one giant system under full public control. In this fascinating micro-history of New York’s transit system, Andrew Sparberg examines twenty specific events between 1940 and 1968, book ended by subway unification and the MTA’s creation. From a Nickel to a Token depicts a potpourri of well-remembered, partially forgotten, and totally obscure happenings drawn from the historical tapestry of New York mass transit. Sparberg deftly captures five boroughs of grit, chaos, and emotion grappling with a massive and unwieldy transit system. During these decades, the system morphed into today’s familiar network. The public sector absorbed most private surface lines operating within the five boroughs, and buses completely replaced streetcars. Elevated lines were demolished, replaced by subways or, along Manhattan’s Third Avenue, not at all. Beyond the unification of the IND, IRT, and BMT, strategic track connections were built between lines to allow a more flexible and unified operation. The oldest subway routes received much needed rehabilitation. Thousands of new subway cars and buses were purchased. The sacred nickel fare barrier was broken, and by 1968 a ride cost twenty cents. From LaGuardia to Lindsay, mayors devoted much energy to solving transit problems, keeping fares low, and appeasing voters, fellow elected officials, transit management, and labor leaders. Simultaneously, American society was experiencing tumultuous times, manifested by labor disputes, economic pressures, and civil rights protests. Featuring many photos never before published, From a Nickel to a Token is a historical trip back in time to a multitude of important events.
New Essays on the Nature of Propositions
Author: David Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317510275
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility. According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so where does their structure come from? How does this structure form a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and structural properties of propositions really independent of those of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches. While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317510275
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility. According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so where does their structure come from? How does this structure form a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and structural properties of propositions really independent of those of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches. While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
British Metallic Coins and Tradesmen's Tokens with Their Value from 1600-1912
Author: G. C. Kent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
A Dictionary of the English Language; in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations ... Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. By Samuel Johnson ... Whith Numerous Corrections, and with the Addition of Several Thousand Words ... by the Rev. H.J. Todd ... In Four Volumes. Vol. 1. [-4.]
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe
Author: Peter Spufford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521375900
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This is a full-scale study that explores every aspect of money in Europe and the Middle Ages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521375900
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This is a full-scale study that explores every aspect of money in Europe and the Middle Ages.