Author: Hilary Grossman
Publisher: Hilary Grossman
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Could anything be worse than your husband forgetting you? Yes. Of course… He could remember you as the young girl who made his childhood unbearable. After years of putting love on the back burner in exchange for career success, I let my guard down. I fell head over heels for the hot policeman who pulled me over late one night for speeding. At the time, I didn’t realize we had a past. After all, he changed a lot since graduation… Now, newly married and expecting our first child, our lives are perfect until Pete suffers a severe brain injury while chasing a robber. When he finally regains consciousness, the last few years of his life are missing, including all recent memories of me! As Pete mourns the death of his first wife for the second time and tries to come to terms with living with his high school nemesis, I keep wondering…. What happens if he never remembers me? Will our love be strong enough to bring us together twice? If you like engaging characters, second chance romance, and laughing out loud, then you’ll adore Cop A Plea!
Cop A Plea: An Unlawfully Tender Second Chance, Amnesia Romantic Comedy
Author: Hilary Grossman
Publisher: Hilary Grossman
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Could anything be worse than your husband forgetting you? Yes. Of course… He could remember you as the young girl who made his childhood unbearable. After years of putting love on the back burner in exchange for career success, I let my guard down. I fell head over heels for the hot policeman who pulled me over late one night for speeding. At the time, I didn’t realize we had a past. After all, he changed a lot since graduation… Now, newly married and expecting our first child, our lives are perfect until Pete suffers a severe brain injury while chasing a robber. When he finally regains consciousness, the last few years of his life are missing, including all recent memories of me! As Pete mourns the death of his first wife for the second time and tries to come to terms with living with his high school nemesis, I keep wondering…. What happens if he never remembers me? Will our love be strong enough to bring us together twice? If you like engaging characters, second chance romance, and laughing out loud, then you’ll adore Cop A Plea!
Publisher: Hilary Grossman
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Could anything be worse than your husband forgetting you? Yes. Of course… He could remember you as the young girl who made his childhood unbearable. After years of putting love on the back burner in exchange for career success, I let my guard down. I fell head over heels for the hot policeman who pulled me over late one night for speeding. At the time, I didn’t realize we had a past. After all, he changed a lot since graduation… Now, newly married and expecting our first child, our lives are perfect until Pete suffers a severe brain injury while chasing a robber. When he finally regains consciousness, the last few years of his life are missing, including all recent memories of me! As Pete mourns the death of his first wife for the second time and tries to come to terms with living with his high school nemesis, I keep wondering…. What happens if he never remembers me? Will our love be strong enough to bring us together twice? If you like engaging characters, second chance romance, and laughing out loud, then you’ll adore Cop A Plea!
Dangled Carat
Author: Hilary Grossman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692708125
Category : Commitment (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
" ... For anyone who has ever dated a commitment-phobe, who has found their patience wearing thin with the one they love, or who has sat around wondering if he is ever going to pop the question while trying to remain the very picture of patience and grace, Hilary's humorous and honest story will hit home."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692708125
Category : Commitment (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
" ... For anyone who has ever dated a commitment-phobe, who has found their patience wearing thin with the one they love, or who has sat around wondering if he is ever going to pop the question while trying to remain the very picture of patience and grace, Hilary's humorous and honest story will hit home."--P. [4] of cover.
Against Love
Author: Laura Kipnis
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307510743
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A polemic against love that is “engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose” (The New Yorker). Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307510743
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A polemic against love that is “engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose” (The New Yorker). Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love. Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.
Freud and the Scene of Trauma
Author: John Fletcher
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823254623
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book argues that Freud’s mapping of trauma as a scene is central to both his clinical interpretation of his patients’ symptoms and his construction of successive theoretical models and concepts to explain the power of such scenes in his patients’ lives. This attention to the scenic form of trauma and its power in determining symptoms leads to Freud’s break from the neurological model of trauma he inherited from Charcot. It also helps to explain the affinity that Freud and many since him have felt between psychoanalysis and literature (and artistic production more generally), and the privileged role of literature at certain turning points in the development of his thought. It is Freud’s scenography of trauma and fantasy that speaks to the student of literature and painting. Overall, the book develops the thesis of Jean Laplanche that in Freud’s shift from a traumatic to a developmental model, along with the undoubted gains embodied in the theory of infantile sexuality, there were crucial losses: specifically, the recognition of the role of the adult other and the traumatic encounter with adult sexuality that is entailed in the ordinary nurture and formation of the infantile subject.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823254623
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book argues that Freud’s mapping of trauma as a scene is central to both his clinical interpretation of his patients’ symptoms and his construction of successive theoretical models and concepts to explain the power of such scenes in his patients’ lives. This attention to the scenic form of trauma and its power in determining symptoms leads to Freud’s break from the neurological model of trauma he inherited from Charcot. It also helps to explain the affinity that Freud and many since him have felt between psychoanalysis and literature (and artistic production more generally), and the privileged role of literature at certain turning points in the development of his thought. It is Freud’s scenography of trauma and fantasy that speaks to the student of literature and painting. Overall, the book develops the thesis of Jean Laplanche that in Freud’s shift from a traumatic to a developmental model, along with the undoubted gains embodied in the theory of infantile sexuality, there were crucial losses: specifically, the recognition of the role of the adult other and the traumatic encounter with adult sexuality that is entailed in the ordinary nurture and formation of the infantile subject.
Accelerando
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101208473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber’s son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity. For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101208473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber’s son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity. For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form...
Guantánamo Diary
Author: Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316517881
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The acclaimed national bestseller, the first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored. When GUANTÁNAMO DIARY was first published--heavily redacted by the U.S. government--in 2015, Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ruling ordering his release, and it was unclear when or if he would ever see freedom. In October 2016, he was finally released and reunited with his family. During his 14-year imprisonment, the United States never charged him with a crime. Now for the first time, he is able to tell his story in full, with previously censored material restored. This searing diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir---terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. GUANTÁNAMO DIARY is a document of immense emotional power and historical importance.
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316517881
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The acclaimed national bestseller, the first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored. When GUANTÁNAMO DIARY was first published--heavily redacted by the U.S. government--in 2015, Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ruling ordering his release, and it was unclear when or if he would ever see freedom. In October 2016, he was finally released and reunited with his family. During his 14-year imprisonment, the United States never charged him with a crime. Now for the first time, he is able to tell his story in full, with previously censored material restored. This searing diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir---terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. GUANTÁNAMO DIARY is a document of immense emotional power and historical importance.
From Caligari to Hitler
Author: Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691191344
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691191344
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic. Prominent film critic Siegfried Kracauer examines German society from 1921 to 1933, in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel. He explores the connections among film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer makes a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. With a critical introduction by Leonardo Quaresima which provides context for Kracauer’s scholarship and his contributions to film studies, this Princeton Classics edition makes an influential work available to new generations of cinema enthusiasts.
After the Deportation
Author: Philip Nord
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.
Libidinal Economy
Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826477002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Is regarded as the most important response to the philosophies of desire, as expounded by thinkers such as de Sade, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. It is a major work not only of philosophy, but of sexual politics, semiotics and literary theory, that signals the passage to postmodern philosophy.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826477002
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Is regarded as the most important response to the philosophies of desire, as expounded by thinkers such as de Sade, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. It is a major work not only of philosophy, but of sexual politics, semiotics and literary theory, that signals the passage to postmodern philosophy.
Deconstructing Development Discourse
Author: Andrea Cornwall
Publisher: Practical Action Pub
ISBN: 9781853397066
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. --
Publisher: Practical Action Pub
ISBN: 9781853397066
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and Development in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. --