Submission

Author: Michel Houellebecq
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473523613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National’s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for our narrator François – misanthropic, middle-aged and alienated – life is set on a new course. Submission is a devastating satire, comic and melancholy by turns, and a profound meditation on faith and meaning in Western society.

Willful Submission

Author: Amanda Paxton
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813940788
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
Victorian England: a Jesuit priest writes of wrestling with God at night, limbs entangled; an Anglican sister begs Jesus, her divine lover, to end her aching anticipation of their union; a clergyman exhorts nuns to study the example of medieval women who suffered on the rack in order to become "brides" of Christ. Alongside the march of nineteenth-century progress ran a seemingly paradoxical fascination with a dark, erotically suggestive side of religious devotion: the figuration of the Christian God as a heavenly bridegroom who doles out punishment to his bride, the individual soul. Through innovative case studies of Victorian religious poetry, Amanda Paxton reveals that while the punitive model proved a convenient rhetorical tool with which to deflate burgeoning nineteenth-century campaigns for women’s rights and challenges to Church authority, in the hands of several writers it also provided a means of resisting patriarchal institutions and interrogating distinctions between science and religion. Willful Submission is the first full-length volume to examine the interplay of sex, suffering, and religion as a touchstone in Victorian culture and verse.

Purchasing Submission

Author: Philip Hamburger
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674258231
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
From a leading constitutional scholar, an important study of a powerful mode of government control: the offer of money and other privileges to secure submission to unconstitutional power. The federal government increasingly regulates by using money and other benefits to induce private parties and states to submit to its conditions. It thereby enjoys a formidable power, which sidesteps a wide range of constitutional and political limits. Conditions are conventionally understood as a somewhat technical problem of Òunconstitutional conditionsÓÑthose that threaten constitutional rightsÑbut at stake is something much broader and more interesting. With a growing ability to offer vast sums of money and invaluable privileges such as licenses and reduced sentences, the federal government increasingly regulates by placing conditions on its generosity. In this way, it departs not only from the ConstitutionÕs rights but also from its avenues of binding power, thereby securing submission to conditions that regulate, that defeat state laws, that commandeer and reconfigure state governments, that extort, and even that turn private and state institutions into regulatory agents. The problem is expansive, including almost the full range of governance. Conditions need to be recognized as a new mode of powerÑan irregular pathwayÑby which government induces Americans to submit to a wide range of unconstitutional arrangements. Purchasing Submission is the first book to recognize this problem. It explores the danger in depth and suggests how it can be redressed with familiar and practicable legal tools.

Getting It Published

Author: William P. Germano
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459606116
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Since 2001 William Germano's Getting It Published has helped thousands of scholars develop a compelling book proposal, find the right academic publisher, evaluate a contract, handle the review process, and, finally, emerge as published authors. But a lot has changed in the past seven years. With the publishing world both more competitive and mor...

The Submission

Author: Amy Waldman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446473260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner's name – and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam. The memorial's designer is Mohammad Khan, an enigmatic, ambitious architect. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the mediagenic Claire Burwell. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, Claire finds herself under pressure from outraged family members and in collision with hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself. All will bring the emotional weight of their own histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember, and understand, a national tragedy.

Sovereignty Or Submission

Author: John Fonte
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1594035296
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 476

Book Description
The International Criminal Court claims authority over Americans for actions that the United States does not define as “crimes.” In short, the Twenty-First Century is witnessing an epic struggle between the forces of global governance and American constitutional democracy. Transnational progressives and transnational pragmatists in the UN, EU, post-modern states of Europe, NGOs, corporations, prominent foundations, and most importantly, in America’s leading elites, seek to establish “global governance.” Further, they understand that in order to achieve global governance, American sovereignty must be subordinated to the “global rule of law.” The U.S. Constitution must incorporate “evolving norms of international law.”Sovereignty or Submissionexamines this process with crystalline clarity and alerts the American public to the danger ahead. Global governance seeks legitimacy not in democracy, but in a partisan interpretation of human rights. It would shift power from democracies (U.S., Israel, India) to post-democratic authorities, such as the judges of the International Criminal Court. Global governance is a new political form (a rival to liberal democracy), that is already a significant actor on the world stage. America faces serious challenges from radical Islam and a rising China. Simultaneously, it faces a third challenge (global governance) that is internal to the democratic world; is non-violent; but nonetheless threatens constitutional self-government. Although it seems unlikely that the utopian goals of the globalists could be fully achieved, if they continue to obtain a wide spread influence over mainstream elite opinion, they could disable and disarm democratic self-government at home and abroad. The result would be the slow suicide of American liberal democracy. Whichever side prevails, the existential conflict'global governance versus American sovereignty (and democratic self-government in general) will be at the heart of world politics as far as the eye can see.

Submitting to the Alpha

Author: Emilia Rose
Publisher: Emilia Rose LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
Isabella is in trouble. Big trouble. She knows that opening her curtains and touching herself while her alpha watches from the woods is wrong, but she does it anyway. And she plans on doing it again. Every night, in fact, until her alpha teaches her otherwise. Roman, alpha of the Silverclaw Pack, is tired of Isabella teasing him. Even more, he’s tired of her disobeying his every command. And he knows exactly how to fix both problems. Devour every inch of her until she’s begging for him at his feet. Will Isabella succumb to Roman’s advances? Or will she toy with him to the very end? This book includes common tropes such as: urban fantasy romance series with strong heroine, fated mates, wolf shifter romance, werewolves and shifters, enemies to lovers dark romantic fantasy, friends to enemies to lovers. Fans of KF Breene, Elizabeth Briggs, and Renee Rose will love this story.

Submission Fighting Techniques

Author: Steven S. Iverson
Publisher: Spartan Submissions
ISBN: 9780971413375
Category : Hand-to-hand fighting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Submission Fighting Techniques is a detailed book about submission fighting and full contact martial arts. All aspects of fighting are covered in detail to include stand up fighting, takedowns and counters, ground fighting, submissions and escapes, reversals and counters, and striking from all positions. Over 1500 pictures describe all moves in detail along with accompanying text. This is a hard-hitting, complete manual that addresses all aspects of Mixed Martial Arts competition.

Alpha's Submission

Author: Nora Phoenix
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781983155772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Four men, brought together by fate, connected in more powerful ways than they'd ever imagined. Lidon, Vieno, Palani, and Enar are finding their way in their complicated relationship. For Vieno, it's easy. He thrives in the care of his men, taking his place as their omega and focusing on rebuilding the ranch. For Enar, it's a lot harder to find his role...and himself. His struggles to accept himself and his place in the relationship create tension between him and his mates. Palani keeps digging into the Melloni gene and the fraud case Lidon alerted him to. His investigation reveals a conspiracy that is bigger than any of them expected, and it endangers them all. Lidon discovers powers he never knew he possessed. When his mates and his home are threatened, he steps into a legendary identity. With the help of new friends that become family, Lidon vows to protect what's his. Alpha's Submission is an MMMM mpreg romance and the second book in the Irresistible Omegas series. It is not a stand-alone but continues the story from the first book. It ends with a HFN for our four men, but their storyline will continue in the next books.

Brazilian Jiu-jitsu

Author: Royler Gracie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931229296
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
The tactics and techniques of two of the greatest competitors in the history of mixed martial arts combat, Renzo and Royler Gracie, are captured in this book. Their "grappling" style of martial arts is explained-methods that focus on holds and throws rather than kicks and punches, and come closer to the spirit and nature of real fighting than other martial arts.