Blood Passion

Blood Passion
Author: Scott Martelle
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 081354419X

"On April 20, 1914, in the small railroad town of Ludlow, Colorado, striking coalminers and state National Guardsmen waged a day-long battle that ended with the burning of a strikers' tent colony. The "Ludlow Massacre," as it is known, was only part of a seven-month war in which at least seventy-five people were killed. In Blood Passion, journalist Scott Martelle explores this largely forgotten American saga of coalminers rising against political and economic corruption, a fight that embraced some of the most volatile social movements of the early twentieth century."--Cover.

Blood Rites

Blood Rites
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Twelve
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1455543713

A New York Times Notable BookAn ALA Notable Book "Original and illuminating." --The Washington Post What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued in paperback, Blood Rites takes readers on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of twentieth-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place -- not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experiences of predation by stronger carnivores. Brilliant in conception and rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that continues to transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.

Blood Passion

Blood Passion
Author: J. M. Valente
Publisher: Readersmagnet LLC
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2021-04-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781954371910

Book I This engaging, and gripping story, is the memoirs of young Michael Valli; a Modern Gothic American Horror chronicle which takes place in the present-day picturesque waterfront town of Mystic; which has a folklore history of Vampires allegedly residing there, circa the late Eighteen Hundreds. This is the elegiac story of; Michael's struggle with the Gothic passions of good and the depraved horrors of evil, a 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', and 'Psycho' circumstance, in which innocence is challenged by the Vampiric thirst for human blood. How will he survive, living with this macabre inner nemesis that he denominates as... Malice Nightwing. That question is, the hypothesis of Michael's plight, which keeps the reader and would keep an audience, on the edge of their own sanity, having a love hate relationship with the main character of this tragic tale of Michael's encounter with a mutated Vampire Bat; transported to the beautiful waterfront town of Mystic, from Mexico City, Mexico unknowingly by two of his neighbours; which had been vacationing there. Try as Michael does, to adjust to this estranged way of existing, until the love for, and of, a woman, makes him realize the horror of this way of life, now becoming a 'Beauty And The Beast' scenario, which then escalates the already ongoing conflict between Michael and his alter-ego Malice, strongly endangering them to their probable destruction, and or, demise... Book II The continuing story of the BLOOD PASSION Saga; the classic modern Gothic conflict; between the untainted passions of Good and the unbearable horrors of Evil, for which the ingenuous; through no fault of their own, are compelled to deal with, because of the obstinate curse of a life sustaining thirst to ingest the Blood of living beings. How does one deal with, living a life with an iniquitous ravenous desire to consume fresh Blood? You, the reader must abide, if you so dare; This journey through the BLOOD PASSION curse to reveal, how it is endured. Book III The continuance of the Modern Gothic American Horror conflict; between the untainted Passions of Good and the unbridled Horrors of Evil, for which the ingenuous through no fault of their own are compelled to deal with, because of being endowed with the obstinate curse of a life sustaining need, to ingest fresh Blood of living beings on a regular basis. This astonishing Novel is the telling of Rachael's coming of age story, and of how she must handle her extraordinary way of life, in which, the iniquitous ravenous desire to consume the fresh Blood of a living organism must ensue to sustain her very own strange dilemma of being born from what was once the tainted Love, between a Normal Human Mother and a Living Vampire Father.

The Passions of the Soul

The Passions of the Soul
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Newcomb Livraria Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1955
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3989889982

A new 2023 translation directly from the original manuscripts into English of Descartes' famous work "The Passions of the Soul" (Les passions de l'ame). This edition contains a new introduction and afterword from the translator, as well as a timeline of Descartes' life and summaries of each of his works. Descartes explores the nature of human emotions and their relationship to the mind and body he in "the passions of the soul". This is a critical text to Psychology because it helped to establish the idea that emotions are caused by physical processes in the body, and had a significant impact on the development of the field psychology, which did not exist in Descartes' time.

The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings

The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191507075

'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.' Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But he also acknowledged the intimate union between them, and in his later writings he concentrated on understanding this aspect of human nature. The Passions of the Soul is his greatest contribution to this debate. It contains a profound discussion of the workings of the emotions and of their place in human life - a subject that increasingly engages the interest of philosophers and intellectual and cultural historians. It also sets out a view of ethics that has been seen as a radical reorientation of moral philosophy. This volume also includes both sides of the correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, one of Descartes's keenest disciples and shrewdest critics, which played a crucial role in the genesis of The Passions, as well as the first part of The Principles of Philosophy, which sets out the key positions of Descartes's philosophical system. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Passions of the Soul

Passions of the Soul
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1989-12-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 162466198X

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum

The Passion Paradox

The Passion Paradox
Author: Brad Stulberg
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1635653444

The coauthors of the bestselling Peak Performance dive into the fascinating science behind passion, showing how it can lead to a rich and meaningful life while also illuminating the ways in which it is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to cultivate a passion that will take you to great heights—while minimizing the risk of an equally great fall. Common advice is to find and follow your passion. A life of passion is a good life, or so we are told. But it's not that simple. Rarely is passion something that you just stumble upon, and the same drive that fuels breakthroughs—whether they're athletic, scientific, entrepreneurial, or artistic—can be every bit as destructive as it is productive. Yes, passion can be a wonderful gift, but only if you know how to channel it. If you're not careful, passion can become an awful curse, leading to endless seeking, suffering, and burnout. Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness once again team up, this time to demystify passion, showing readers how they can find and cultivate their passion, sustainably harness its power, and avoid its dangers. They ultimately argue that passion and balance--that other virtue touted by our culture--are incompatible, and that to find your passion, you must lose balance. And that's not always a bad thing. They show readers how to develop the right kind of passion, the kind that lets you achieve great things without ruining your life. Swift, compact, and powerful, this thought-provoking book combines captivating stories of extraordinarily passionate individuals with the latest science on the biological and psychological factors that give rise to—and every bit as important, sustain—passion.

Colors and Blood

Colors and Blood
Author: Robert E. Bonner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691091587

As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, Robert Bonner explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, he shows how the Confederacy sustained itself for as long as it did by cultivating the allegiances of countless ordinary citizens. Bonner also comments more broadly on flag passions--those intense emotional reactions to waving pieces of cloth that inflame patriots to kill and die. Colors and Blood depicts a pervasive flag culture that set the emotional tone of the Civil War in the Union as well as the Confederacy. Northerners and southerners alike devoted incredible energy to flags, but the Confederate project was unique in creating a set of national symbols from scratch. In describing the activities of white southerners who designed, sewed, celebrated, sang about, and bled for their new country's most visible symbols, the book charts the emergence of Confederate nationalism. Theatrical flag performances that cast secession in a melodramatic mode both amplified and contained patriotic emotions, contributing to a flag-centered popular patriotism that motivated true believers to defy and sacrifice. This wartime flag culture nourished Confederate nationalism for four years, but flags' martial associations ultimately eclipsed their expression of political independence. After 1865, conquered banners evoked valor and heroism while obscuring the ideology of a slaveholders' rebellion, and white southerners recast the totems of Confederate nationalism as relics of the Lost Cause. At the heart of this story is the tremendous capacity of bloodshed to infuse symbols with emotional power. Confederate flag culture, black southerners' charged relationship to the Stars and Stripes, contemporary efforts to banish the Southern Cross, and arguments over burning the Star Spangled Banner have this in common: all demonstrate Americans' passionate relationship with symbols that have been imaginatively soaked in blood.

Blood Passion

Blood Passion
Author: J.M. Valente
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2010-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456087231

"What you are about to read, if you so choose to, is the story of one young man's plight, of the struggle between the gothic passions of good and the horrors of evil, in which innocence is challenged by the thirst for blood of a Vampire. How does Michael Valli run away from his macabre inner nemesis Malice Nightwing? You, the reader must endure this journey through the Blood Passion. J. M. Valente"