Author: Nina Bangs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780505525574
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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With her trademark humor and sizzling love scenes, Nina Bangs brings us to the Scottish Highlands to meet her sexiest hero yet, a mysterious and seductive vampire.
Author: Tanith Lee
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756410940
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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In a world where demons walk among mortals, Chuz, the master of madness, manipulates an ambitious king, with disastrous results.
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374099
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.
Author: Justus Roux
Publisher: Erotictales Publications
ISBN: 1591097673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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A Fixation becomes deadly:Temptress loved Rapture from the moment she saw him. Nothing or no one will stand in her way to possess him. Not even Rapture himself When sex becomes power:Ecstasy, Master's angel, has discovered his sexual power. All women desire him and all men are driven to have him. Ecstasy becomes very good at playing sexual mind games. Wanting to wield the power Master has, Ecstasy must learn the difference between holding someone in a delicious spell versus destroying his or her very being. Curiosity leads down a road that you may not be able to come back from:Master Dante was invited to the island, mostly out of Master's curiosity to meet the man who made Wrath. However, it is Jessica who gets entangled in Dante's wicked web. Master must pull her back to the safety of his arms before Jessica becomes Dante's slave. Three plots woven together, all telling stories of different degrees of obsession
Author: Dastur Adam Daniels
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 138774447X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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The contents of this tome have been denied by every publishing company. This book is for people who are looking to gain self-knowledge and a better understanding of how to function in society in any culture.
Author: The Supreme Master Ching Hai
Publisher: The Supreme Master Ching Hai Publishing Co Ltd.
ISBN: 9868263506
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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How many people have the chance to come in direct contact with the teachings of a truly enlightened living Master? The preciousness of that opportunity is explored in the pages of I Have Come To Take You Home. Prepared originally by one practitioner from Supreme Master Ching Hai's lectures, interviews and informal talks, this book began as a collection of personal notes. With the help of many fellow practitioners who transcribed the English lecturesand translated many other, themes of Master's teachings began to emerge.
Author: Jason Z.W. Powers
Publisher: Central Recovery Press
ISBN: 1942094558
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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The definitive guide to all things related to addiction and its treatments—newly revised. The updated and revised second edition is a must-read for anyone struggling with addiction, their families, and the professionals who desire to know more about this baffling disease. Jason Powers, MD, approaches addiction from a variety of different angles, clearly and carefully attacking myths and misinformation, and bringing the reader up to date with the most current scientific and popular literature on addiction. Dr. Powers illuminates the entire spectrum of addiction-related topics, from neuroscience to treatment options, and guides the reader through the extensive material and to a more humane yet medically driven view of the true meaning of the disease of addiction. • Written with empathy and compassion by a physician specializing in addiction medicine who is in long-term recovery. • Updated with contemporary neuroscience and state-of-the-art information that includes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). • Integrates the author's vast clinical experience with a thorough review of related literature into a passionate and compelling guide for patients, loved ones, and clinicians. Jason ZW Powers, MD, DABAM, DABFM, is a board-certified addictionologist and family medicine physician. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice. Dr. Powers is the Chief Medical Officer of Chief Medical Officer of TRS Behavioral, Inc.
Author: Henk Oosterling
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739146556
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research called 'intermedialities.' The concept of intermedialities stresses the necessity of situating philosophical and political debates on social relations in the divergent contexts of media theories, avant-garde artistic practices, continental philosophy, feminism, and political theory. The 'intermedial' approach to social relations does not focus on the shared identity but instead on the epistemological, ethical, and political status of inter (being-in-between). At stake here are the political analyses of new modes of being in common that transcend national boundaries, the critique of the new forms of domination that accompany them, and the search for new emancipatory possibilities. Opening a new approach to social relations, intermedialities investigates not only engagements between already constituted positions but even more the interval, antagonism, and differences that form and decenter these positions. Consequently, in opposition to the resurgence of cultural and ethnic particularisms and to the leveling of difference produced by globalization, the political and ethical analysis of the 'in-between' enables a conception of community based on difference, exposure, and interaction with others rather than on an identification with a shared identity. Investigations of 'in-betweenness,' both as medium specific and between heterogeneous 'sites' of inquiry, range here from philosophical conceptuality to artistic practices, from the political circulation of money and power to the operation of new technologies. They inevitably invoke the crucial role of embodiment in creative thought and collective acting. As a mediating instance between the psyche and society, matter and spirit, nature and culture, and biology and technology, the body is another interval forming and informed by socio-linguistic relations. As these complex intersections between media, materiality, art, and the philosophy and politics of the in-between suggest, the project of intermedialities provides new ways of rethinking relations among arts, politics, and science.
Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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A bestsellig romance author suffers a paralyzing stroke and her philandering husband wonders how this will affect his gambling and whoring budget; two young lovers must come to terms with their chemically induced deformity; Lloyd from Leith transfigures his passion for an unhappily married woman. These three tales confirm Irvine Welsh's position as a master of the "chemical" romance genre.
Author: Ingo Swann
Publisher: Swann-Ryder Productions, LLC
ISBN: 1949214206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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The Master of Harmlessness…who came and told us something about our real selves. In April, I woke up one morning, out of the blue, and there was a sort of voice in my head, not exactly a voice, but sort of a telepathic thing, saying, “You will now write the Purple Fables, there will be four of them, and you will do one in each day and the title is to be Purple Fables,” and I said okay…they were sort of dictated from somebody else, someplace, I guess. The Purple Fables happened in April of 1993, but on Christmas morning I woke up and there were these guys again, or these whatever, saying “Okay now you are going to write a thing called the Tale of the Master of Harmlessness and it’s to be seventy-six draft pages in length,” which is actually the length of all four Purple Fables put together, “and you are to work on it for certain hours in the day, and it will all be done by New Year’s.” And in fact it was done and printed out and sit there in manuscript form on December 31st. Ingo Swann Interview with Dr. Bob Hieronimus 21st Century Radio February 5, 1995
