Author: Albert Richard Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Natural History Of The Flirt
Author: Albert Richard Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Natural History
Author: Carlos Fonseca
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator’s fascination with the secrets of the animal kingdom—with camouflage and subterfuge—and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the nature of which remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the designer’s death, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. During a long night of insomnia, he finds within the archive a series of clues about the true history of the designer’s family, a mind-bending puzzle that winds from Haifa, Israel, to bohemian 1970s New York to the Latin American jungles. As he follows this trail, the curator discovers a cast of characters whose own fixations interrogate the unstable frontiers between art, science, politics, and religion. An aging photographer, living nearly alone in an abandoned mining town where subterranean fires rage without end, creates miniature replicas of ruined cities. A former model turned conceptual artist becomes the star defendant in a trial over the very soul and purpose of art. A young indigenous boy receives a vision of the end of the world. Reality is a curtain, the curator realizes, and to draw it back is to reveal the theater of the obsessed. Natural History is a portrait of a world trapped between faith and irony, tragedy and farce. An urgent and impressively ambitious novel in the tradition of Italo Calvino and Ricardo Piglia, it confirms Carlos Fonseca as one of the most daring writers of his generation.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator’s fascination with the secrets of the animal kingdom—with camouflage and subterfuge—and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the nature of which remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the designer’s death, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. During a long night of insomnia, he finds within the archive a series of clues about the true history of the designer’s family, a mind-bending puzzle that winds from Haifa, Israel, to bohemian 1970s New York to the Latin American jungles. As he follows this trail, the curator discovers a cast of characters whose own fixations interrogate the unstable frontiers between art, science, politics, and religion. An aging photographer, living nearly alone in an abandoned mining town where subterranean fires rage without end, creates miniature replicas of ruined cities. A former model turned conceptual artist becomes the star defendant in a trial over the very soul and purpose of art. A young indigenous boy receives a vision of the end of the world. Reality is a curtain, the curator realizes, and to draw it back is to reveal the theater of the obsessed. Natural History is a portrait of a world trapped between faith and irony, tragedy and farce. An urgent and impressively ambitious novel in the tradition of Italo Calvino and Ricardo Piglia, it confirms Carlos Fonseca as one of the most daring writers of his generation.
Flirt Fearlessly
Author: Rachel DeAlto
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1614483744
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Flirting comes naturally to some, but others often need a little practice before they feel confident approaching and engaging people they find attractive. "Flirt Fearlessly" provides a little pick me up, and reminds readers that they have all they need to attract and connect with others already inside of them. "Flirt Fearlessly" covers the pre-flirt preparation, to the must-go flirting locations, the five steps to super flirt, and the post-flirt followup. In a nutshell, "Flirt Fearlessly" provides an A to Z guide on getting your flirt on!
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1614483744
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Flirting comes naturally to some, but others often need a little practice before they feel confident approaching and engaging people they find attractive. "Flirt Fearlessly" provides a little pick me up, and reminds readers that they have all they need to attract and connect with others already inside of them. "Flirt Fearlessly" covers the pre-flirt preparation, to the must-go flirting locations, the five steps to super flirt, and the post-flirt followup. In a nutshell, "Flirt Fearlessly" provides an A to Z guide on getting your flirt on!
Anatomy of Love
Author: Helen E. Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN: 0449908976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
An exploration of human behavior examines the innate aspects of love, sex, and marriage, discussing flirting behavior, courting postures, the brain chemistry of attraction, divorce and adultery in societies around the world, and more. Reprint.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0449908976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
An exploration of human behavior examines the innate aspects of love, sex, and marriage, discussing flirting behavior, courting postures, the brain chemistry of attraction, divorce and adultery in societies around the world, and more. Reprint.
Fine Art of Flirting
Author: Joyce Jillson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067162752X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Joyce Jillson, popular TV personality and outrageous flirt, shows you how to spice up the game of love -- and intrigue everyone you meet -- by finding and flaunting your most bewitching self. Sharpen up your flirting skills by discovering: * 25 ways to be a great flirt * how to create an alluring first impression * how to overcome the fear of flirting * how to flirt anywhere -- at parties, on the job, while traveling, on the phone, in the car, at the health club * how to dress fetchingly * where to go, what to do, and with whom to flirt * and many more tantalizing secrets Whether you're a shy beginner or an advanced coquette or Casanova, Joyce Jillson's perfected flirting tips and secrets will soon have you charming the socks off everyone.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067162752X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Joyce Jillson, popular TV personality and outrageous flirt, shows you how to spice up the game of love -- and intrigue everyone you meet -- by finding and flaunting your most bewitching self. Sharpen up your flirting skills by discovering: * 25 ways to be a great flirt * how to create an alluring first impression * how to overcome the fear of flirting * how to flirt anywhere -- at parties, on the job, while traveling, on the phone, in the car, at the health club * how to dress fetchingly * where to go, what to do, and with whom to flirt * and many more tantalizing secrets Whether you're a shy beginner or an advanced coquette or Casanova, Joyce Jillson's perfected flirting tips and secrets will soon have you charming the socks off everyone.
Flirtations
Author: Barbara Natalie Nagel
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823264912
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and the critique of seduction are unified by their shared obsession with a very determinate end: power. In contrast, flirtation is the game in which no one seems to gain the upper hand and no one seems to surrender. The counter-concept of flirtation has thus stood quietly to the side, never quite achieving the same prominence as that of seduction. It is this elusive (and largely ignored) territory of playing for play’s sake that is the subject of this anthology. The essays in this volume address the under-theorized terrain of flirtation not as a subgenre of seduction but rather as a phenomenon in its own right. Drawing on the interdisciplinary history of scholarship on flirtation even as it re-approaches the question from a distinctly aesthetic and literary-theoretical point of view, the contributors to Flirtations thus give an account of the practice of flirtation and of the figure of the flirt, taking up the act’s relationship to issues of mimesis, poetic ambiguity, and aesthetic pleasure. The art of this poetic playfulness—often read or misread as flirtation’s “empty gesture”—becomes suddenly legible as the wielding of a particular and subtle form of nonteleological power.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823264912
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction? In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and the critique of seduction are unified by their shared obsession with a very determinate end: power. In contrast, flirtation is the game in which no one seems to gain the upper hand and no one seems to surrender. The counter-concept of flirtation has thus stood quietly to the side, never quite achieving the same prominence as that of seduction. It is this elusive (and largely ignored) territory of playing for play’s sake that is the subject of this anthology. The essays in this volume address the under-theorized terrain of flirtation not as a subgenre of seduction but rather as a phenomenon in its own right. Drawing on the interdisciplinary history of scholarship on flirtation even as it re-approaches the question from a distinctly aesthetic and literary-theoretical point of view, the contributors to Flirtations thus give an account of the practice of flirtation and of the figure of the flirt, taking up the act’s relationship to issues of mimesis, poetic ambiguity, and aesthetic pleasure. The art of this poetic playfulness—often read or misread as flirtation’s “empty gesture”—becomes suddenly legible as the wielding of a particular and subtle form of nonteleological power.
Flirtation and Courtship in Nineteenth-Century British Culture
Author: Ghislaine McDayter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000550117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This is volume two of a three-volume set that brings together a rich collection of primary source materials on flirtation and courtship in the nineteenth-century. Introductory essays and extensive editorial apparatus offer historical and cultural contexts of the materials included Throughout the long nineteenth-century, a woman’s life was commonly thought to fall into three discrete developmental stages; personal formation and a gendered education; a young woman’s entrance onto the marriage market; and finally her emergence at the apogee of normative femininity as wife and mother. In all three stages of development, there was an unspoken awareness of the duplicity at the heart of this carefully cultivated femininity. What women were taught, no matter their age, was that if you desired anything in life, it behooved you to perform indifference. This meant that for women, the art of flirtation and feigning indifference were viewed as essential survival skills that could guarantee success in life. These three volumes document the many ways in which nineteenth-century women were educated in this seemingly universal wisdom, but just as frequently managed to manipulate, subvert, and navigate their way through such proscribed norms to achieve their own desires. Presenting a wide range of documents from novels, memoirs, literary journals, newspapers, plays, poetry, songs, parlour games, and legal documents, this collection will illuminate a far more diverse set of options available to women in their quest for happiness, and a new understanding of the operations of courtship and flirtation, the "central" concerns of a nineteenth-century woman’s life. The volumes will be of interest to scholars of history, literature, gender and cultural studies, with an interest in the nineteenth-century.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000550117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This is volume two of a three-volume set that brings together a rich collection of primary source materials on flirtation and courtship in the nineteenth-century. Introductory essays and extensive editorial apparatus offer historical and cultural contexts of the materials included Throughout the long nineteenth-century, a woman’s life was commonly thought to fall into three discrete developmental stages; personal formation and a gendered education; a young woman’s entrance onto the marriage market; and finally her emergence at the apogee of normative femininity as wife and mother. In all three stages of development, there was an unspoken awareness of the duplicity at the heart of this carefully cultivated femininity. What women were taught, no matter their age, was that if you desired anything in life, it behooved you to perform indifference. This meant that for women, the art of flirtation and feigning indifference were viewed as essential survival skills that could guarantee success in life. These three volumes document the many ways in which nineteenth-century women were educated in this seemingly universal wisdom, but just as frequently managed to manipulate, subvert, and navigate their way through such proscribed norms to achieve their own desires. Presenting a wide range of documents from novels, memoirs, literary journals, newspapers, plays, poetry, songs, parlour games, and legal documents, this collection will illuminate a far more diverse set of options available to women in their quest for happiness, and a new understanding of the operations of courtship and flirtation, the "central" concerns of a nineteenth-century woman’s life. The volumes will be of interest to scholars of history, literature, gender and cultural studies, with an interest in the nineteenth-century.
Catalogue
Author: Johnson, George P., bookseller, Edinburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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The Natural History of the Gent
Author: Albert Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Book Collector's Guide
Author: Seymour de Ricci
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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