Author: James A. Corrick
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1476577455
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"Describes the disgusting details about daily life in several historical eras, including housing, food, and sanitation"--
Disgusting History
Author: James A. Corrick
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1476577455
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"Describes the disgusting details about daily life in several historical eras, including housing, food, and sanitation"--
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1476577455
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"Describes the disgusting details about daily life in several historical eras, including housing, food, and sanitation"--
Gritty, Stinky Ancient Egypt
Author: James A. Corrick
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429654066
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
"Describes disgusting details about daily life in ancient Egypt, including housing, food, and sanitation"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429654066
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
"Describes disgusting details about daily life in ancient Egypt, including housing, food, and sanitation"--Provided by publisher.
The Wicked History of the World
Author: Terry Deary
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
ISBN: 9780439877862
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An illustrated, humorous introduction to world history with a emphasis on violence and villains.
Publisher: Scholastic Reference
ISBN: 9780439877862
Category : High interest-low vocabulary books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An illustrated, humorous introduction to world history with a emphasis on violence and villains.
Disgusting History
Author:
Publisher: Fact Finders
ISBN: 9781429664813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
From dirt pit bathrooms to homes crawling with critters, life could be pretty disgusting for people long ago. This set takes readers back to times when conditions were very different from today. Engaging text, period photos and illustrations, and primary source excerpts bring each era to life.
Publisher: Fact Finders
ISBN: 9781429664813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
From dirt pit bathrooms to homes crawling with critters, life could be pretty disgusting for people long ago. This set takes readers back to times when conditions were very different from today. Engaging text, period photos and illustrations, and primary source excerpts bring each era to life.
It's Disgusting-- and We Ate It!
Author: James Solheim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484401194
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A collection of poems, facts, statistics, and stories about unusual foods and eating habits both contemporary and historical.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484401194
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A collection of poems, facts, statistics, and stories about unusual foods and eating habits both contemporary and historical.
Disgust
Author: Winfried Menninghaus
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486311
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Disgust (Ekel, dégoût) is a state of high alert. It acutely says "no" to a variety of phenomena that seemingly threaten the integrity of the self, if not its very existence. A counterpart to the feelings of appetite, desire, and love, it allows at the same time for an acting out of hidden impulses and libidinal drives. In Disgust, Winfried Menninghaus provides a comprehensive account of the significance of this forceful emotion in philosophy, aesthetics, literature, the arts, psychoanalysis, and theory of culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics addressed include the role of disgust as both a cognitive and moral organon in Kant and Nietzsche; the history of the imagination of the rotting corpse; the counter-cathexis of the disgusting in Romantic poetics and its modernist appeal ever since; the affinities of disgust and laughter and the analogies of vomiting and writing; the foundation of Freudian psychoanalysis in a theory of disgusting pleasures and practices; the association of disgusting "otherness" with truth and the trans-symbolic "real" in Bataille, Sartre, and Kristeva; Kafka's self-representation as an "Angel" of disgusting smells and acts, concealed in a writerly stance of uncompromising "purity"; and recent debates on "Abject Art."
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791486311
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Disgust (Ekel, dégoût) is a state of high alert. It acutely says "no" to a variety of phenomena that seemingly threaten the integrity of the self, if not its very existence. A counterpart to the feelings of appetite, desire, and love, it allows at the same time for an acting out of hidden impulses and libidinal drives. In Disgust, Winfried Menninghaus provides a comprehensive account of the significance of this forceful emotion in philosophy, aesthetics, literature, the arts, psychoanalysis, and theory of culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics addressed include the role of disgust as both a cognitive and moral organon in Kant and Nietzsche; the history of the imagination of the rotting corpse; the counter-cathexis of the disgusting in Romantic poetics and its modernist appeal ever since; the affinities of disgust and laughter and the analogies of vomiting and writing; the foundation of Freudian psychoanalysis in a theory of disgusting pleasures and practices; the association of disgusting "otherness" with truth and the trans-symbolic "real" in Bataille, Sartre, and Kristeva; Kafka's self-representation as an "Angel" of disgusting smells and acts, concealed in a writerly stance of uncompromising "purity"; and recent debates on "Abject Art."
The Dreadful, Smelly Colonies
Author: Elizabeth Raum
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496656474
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
From moldy food and dirt covered clothes to poisonous pests and extreme weather, American colonists had a dreadful time in the New World. Get ready to explore the nasty side of life in the 13 American Colonies.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1496656474
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
From moldy food and dirt covered clothes to poisonous pests and extreme weather, American colonists had a dreadful time in the New World. Get ready to explore the nasty side of life in the 13 American Colonies.
The Worst Jobs in History
Author: Sir Tony Robinson
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 9781509843091
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Whether it's swilling out the crotch of a knight's soiled armor after the battle of Agincourt, risking his neck in the rigging of HMS Victory, or as "Groom of the Stool" going to places where none of Henry VIII's six wives would venture, Tony endures the worst jobs imaginable to get to the bottom (sometimes literally) of the story. From the Roman invasion to the reign of Queen Victoria, Tony has met the challenge of seeking out the worst jobs of each era. The Gunpowder Plot drew Tony to the role of the Saltpetre Man who collected human waste because its nitrate content could be turned into gunpowder. In the same vein, he has revealed some of the worst jobs behind the building of the great medieval cathedrals. With Tony we discover the dire conditions of Nelson's Victory, where the most common form of retirement was being sewn into a hammock with a couple of cannon balls and dropped over the side. Then there's the impact of the Industrial Revolution, a source of wealth and power for the few, but a cornucopia of lousy jobs for the many. Packed with disgusting yet fascinating professions, this book really gets into the grime of how life was for ordinary people, and provides a vivid alternative (and fairly disgusting) history of Britain.
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 9781509843091
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Whether it's swilling out the crotch of a knight's soiled armor after the battle of Agincourt, risking his neck in the rigging of HMS Victory, or as "Groom of the Stool" going to places where none of Henry VIII's six wives would venture, Tony endures the worst jobs imaginable to get to the bottom (sometimes literally) of the story. From the Roman invasion to the reign of Queen Victoria, Tony has met the challenge of seeking out the worst jobs of each era. The Gunpowder Plot drew Tony to the role of the Saltpetre Man who collected human waste because its nitrate content could be turned into gunpowder. In the same vein, he has revealed some of the worst jobs behind the building of the great medieval cathedrals. With Tony we discover the dire conditions of Nelson's Victory, where the most common form of retirement was being sewn into a hammock with a couple of cannon balls and dropped over the side. Then there's the impact of the Industrial Revolution, a source of wealth and power for the few, but a cornucopia of lousy jobs for the many. Packed with disgusting yet fascinating professions, this book really gets into the grime of how life was for ordinary people, and provides a vivid alternative (and fairly disgusting) history of Britain.
The Ancient Emotion of Disgust
Author: Donald Lateiner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190604115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Disgust is an essential human emotion, relatively neglected even in recent scholarship taking the "emotional turn." Fifteen essays by historians and literary scholars examine disgust in theory and practice. Topics range from medicine, drama, oratory, historiography, fiction, biography, to the status of witches, eunuch priests, and theatrical professionals."--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190604115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Disgust is an essential human emotion, relatively neglected even in recent scholarship taking the "emotional turn." Fifteen essays by historians and literary scholars examine disgust in theory and practice. Topics range from medicine, drama, oratory, historiography, fiction, biography, to the status of witches, eunuch priests, and theatrical professionals."--
History of Shit
Author: Dominique Laporte
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262621601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you speechless." Written in Paris after the heady days of student revolt in May 1968 and before the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, History of Shit is emblematic of a wild and adventurous strain of 1970s' theoretical writing that attempted to marry theory, politics, sexuality, pleasure, experimentation, and humor. Radically redefining dialectical thought and post-Marxist politics, it takes an important—and irreverent—position alongside the works of such postmodern thinkers as Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Lyotard. Laporte's eccentric style and ironic sensibility combine in an inquiry that is provocative, humorous, and intellectually exhilarating. Debunking all humanist mythology about the grandeur of civilization, History of Shit suggests instead that the management of human waste is crucial to our identities as modern individuals—including the organization of the city, the rise of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the mandate for clean and proper language. Far from rising above the muck, Laporte argues, we are thoroughly mired in it, particularly when we appear our most clean and hygienic. Laporte's style of writing is itself an attack on our desire for "clean language." Littered with lengthy quotations and obscure allusions, and adamantly refusing to follow a linear argument, History of Shit breaks the rules and challenges the conventions of "proper" academic discourse.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262621601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you speechless." Written in Paris after the heady days of student revolt in May 1968 and before the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, History of Shit is emblematic of a wild and adventurous strain of 1970s' theoretical writing that attempted to marry theory, politics, sexuality, pleasure, experimentation, and humor. Radically redefining dialectical thought and post-Marxist politics, it takes an important—and irreverent—position alongside the works of such postmodern thinkers as Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Lyotard. Laporte's eccentric style and ironic sensibility combine in an inquiry that is provocative, humorous, and intellectually exhilarating. Debunking all humanist mythology about the grandeur of civilization, History of Shit suggests instead that the management of human waste is crucial to our identities as modern individuals—including the organization of the city, the rise of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the mandate for clean and proper language. Far from rising above the muck, Laporte argues, we are thoroughly mired in it, particularly when we appear our most clean and hygienic. Laporte's style of writing is itself an attack on our desire for "clean language." Littered with lengthy quotations and obscure allusions, and adamantly refusing to follow a linear argument, History of Shit breaks the rules and challenges the conventions of "proper" academic discourse.