Author: Jeremy Hayward
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1570620776
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The world we inhabit is enchanted—every tree, rock, and star, and even "empty" space itself, is teeming with living energy and awareness. And it's all nearer to us than our own breath. Why, then, can't we see it? Because, according to Jeremy Hayward, we are taught not to. And because our cultural conditioning keeps us in denial about the fact that a strictly scientific worldview provides only a partial, and unsatisfactory, view of reality. Letters to Vanessa is the guidebook for a generation caught in the crunch between the hard realities of science and the genuine yearning for an experience of the sacred. In a series of letters addressed to his teenage daughter, Dr. Hayward points the way past the limits of science and shows how we can connect with the magical, multidimensional universe of soul. Along the way he presents the most recent findings of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, new biology, and physics in a most engaging and understandable way. He also provides practical meditation instructions that will enable everyone to reconnect with the joyous reality of ordinary life.
Letters to Vanessa
Author: Jeremy Hayward
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1570620776
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The world we inhabit is enchanted—every tree, rock, and star, and even "empty" space itself, is teeming with living energy and awareness. And it's all nearer to us than our own breath. Why, then, can't we see it? Because, according to Jeremy Hayward, we are taught not to. And because our cultural conditioning keeps us in denial about the fact that a strictly scientific worldview provides only a partial, and unsatisfactory, view of reality. Letters to Vanessa is the guidebook for a generation caught in the crunch between the hard realities of science and the genuine yearning for an experience of the sacred. In a series of letters addressed to his teenage daughter, Dr. Hayward points the way past the limits of science and shows how we can connect with the magical, multidimensional universe of soul. Along the way he presents the most recent findings of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, new biology, and physics in a most engaging and understandable way. He also provides practical meditation instructions that will enable everyone to reconnect with the joyous reality of ordinary life.
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1570620776
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The world we inhabit is enchanted—every tree, rock, and star, and even "empty" space itself, is teeming with living energy and awareness. And it's all nearer to us than our own breath. Why, then, can't we see it? Because, according to Jeremy Hayward, we are taught not to. And because our cultural conditioning keeps us in denial about the fact that a strictly scientific worldview provides only a partial, and unsatisfactory, view of reality. Letters to Vanessa is the guidebook for a generation caught in the crunch between the hard realities of science and the genuine yearning for an experience of the sacred. In a series of letters addressed to his teenage daughter, Dr. Hayward points the way past the limits of science and shows how we can connect with the magical, multidimensional universe of soul. Along the way he presents the most recent findings of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, new biology, and physics in a most engaging and understandable way. He also provides practical meditation instructions that will enable everyone to reconnect with the joyous reality of ordinary life.
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
Author: Vanessa Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559212618
Category : Bloomsbury group
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection contains over 300 letters of painter & decorative designer Vanessa Bell, the central figure in the Bloomsbury group.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559212618
Category : Bloomsbury group
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection contains over 300 letters of painter & decorative designer Vanessa Bell, the central figure in the Bloomsbury group.
Dear Tooth Fairy
Author: Alan Durant
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406353365
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Holly doesn't want to give up her tooth, but she doesn't expect a letter from the tooth fairy when she fails to put it under her pillow. So begins a week of correspondence between Holly and the Tooth Fairy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406353365
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Holly doesn't want to give up her tooth, but she doesn't expect a letter from the tooth fairy when she fails to put it under her pillow. So begins a week of correspondence between Holly and the Tooth Fairy.
Virginia Woolf's Women
Author: Vanessa Curtis
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299183400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This biography is to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational female friendships with the key women in her life. Curtis looks both at the effect of these relationships on her emotional life and the inspiration that each woman provided for the female protagonists in her fiction. The author begins by exposing the lesser-known details of Woolf's Victorian childhood, and continues with a study of the other unique women in Woolf's life: her sister Vanessa Bell; artist Dora Carrington; writer Katherine Mansfield; novelist Vita Sackville-West; and militant composer Ethel Smyth.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299183400
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This biography is to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational female friendships with the key women in her life. Curtis looks both at the effect of these relationships on her emotional life and the inspiration that each woman provided for the female protagonists in her fiction. The author begins by exposing the lesser-known details of Woolf's Victorian childhood, and continues with a study of the other unique women in Woolf's life: her sister Vanessa Bell; artist Dora Carrington; writer Katherine Mansfield; novelist Vita Sackville-West; and militant composer Ethel Smyth.
Cuckold Letters
Author: Vanessa Chaland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781461066644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A collection of e-mails exchanged with a man who would become my cuckold husband. My interest in a twisted fantasy becomes a journey to becoming a dominant wife. {Excerpt}...I will be leaving for my date at 6pm. There is a party to attend, & I imagine he will be taking me somewhere to "do" me after. I can't predict what time I will be home, but if I have to guess, at the very latest 11-12. I won't end my date early to accommodate you. But since I don't know yet when I will arrive home, I would like you to still be awake as I may need some "servicing" after.... {Excerpt}...I have enjoyed thoroughly knowing that my emails make you sweat, I love to say something that I know shocks you, just to try different things, different ways of making you sweat. I'm sure you understand.... _Excerpt}...You don't have to think about what to say and do and feel, I've decided for you. M is going to do me with that perfect rod for so long, and you know I will be sore and red and swollen. Your mouth will feel so soft and nice on my me after a good lay by such a man. Also, when his potent sperm is spilled across me, you'll have little time to be sure that M's seed doesn't gain access to me. His creamy sperm mustn't reach my pussy, for it would surely impregnate me. We can't have that..... You have to clean it up........ {Excerpt}...I really don't see what the problem could be. You want my lover to keep coming and enjoying himself, right? I want to make myself look pretty for my new lover, and keep him coming back to stuff his HUGE self into me. It's no different than when I do anything else for him before a date. I shower for him. I shave my legs, for him. I do a bit more with my hair.....for him. It's all for a purpose. The more I turn on my lover, the more excited he gets, ultimately, the more mess for you to deal with. I enjoy humiliating you cocky, and so the more sperm milked from my lovers means all the more time I will have to treat you like the cuckold husband you are. All giving me pleasure at your expense. So, you have to admit, it's all done for you too. You should be happy I trimmed my hair for him. You should be happy I will give you the opportunity to experience my me with all 5 of your senses, up close, after being filled by a superior man. Tonight, you will get that privilege again. ... {Excerpt}...Where it ends up never matters either, because where ever it falls, it all ends up in the same place in the end. If it is runny, thin, goopy, drippy, gloppy, chunky, sticky, tacky, or even when it smells strong and pungent, it's up to you to clean up every drop. ... {Excerpt}...It's only fair that I inform you of what I expect from you during the wedding and the honeymoon, because I do have specific plans, and instructions for you. All of this is just to establish firmly from the start what your role is as my husband, my faithful cuckold. To prepare for our honeymoon, you will be expected to make the arrangements. You will book us for a hotel suite, you know, where we occupy 2 rooms, and there is a door connecting the 2 rooms inside. You will need to book this kind of room so that I can continue cuckolding you when I like throughout our honeymoon.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781461066644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A collection of e-mails exchanged with a man who would become my cuckold husband. My interest in a twisted fantasy becomes a journey to becoming a dominant wife. {Excerpt}...I will be leaving for my date at 6pm. There is a party to attend, & I imagine he will be taking me somewhere to "do" me after. I can't predict what time I will be home, but if I have to guess, at the very latest 11-12. I won't end my date early to accommodate you. But since I don't know yet when I will arrive home, I would like you to still be awake as I may need some "servicing" after.... {Excerpt}...I have enjoyed thoroughly knowing that my emails make you sweat, I love to say something that I know shocks you, just to try different things, different ways of making you sweat. I'm sure you understand.... _Excerpt}...You don't have to think about what to say and do and feel, I've decided for you. M is going to do me with that perfect rod for so long, and you know I will be sore and red and swollen. Your mouth will feel so soft and nice on my me after a good lay by such a man. Also, when his potent sperm is spilled across me, you'll have little time to be sure that M's seed doesn't gain access to me. His creamy sperm mustn't reach my pussy, for it would surely impregnate me. We can't have that..... You have to clean it up........ {Excerpt}...I really don't see what the problem could be. You want my lover to keep coming and enjoying himself, right? I want to make myself look pretty for my new lover, and keep him coming back to stuff his HUGE self into me. It's no different than when I do anything else for him before a date. I shower for him. I shave my legs, for him. I do a bit more with my hair.....for him. It's all for a purpose. The more I turn on my lover, the more excited he gets, ultimately, the more mess for you to deal with. I enjoy humiliating you cocky, and so the more sperm milked from my lovers means all the more time I will have to treat you like the cuckold husband you are. All giving me pleasure at your expense. So, you have to admit, it's all done for you too. You should be happy I trimmed my hair for him. You should be happy I will give you the opportunity to experience my me with all 5 of your senses, up close, after being filled by a superior man. Tonight, you will get that privilege again. ... {Excerpt}...Where it ends up never matters either, because where ever it falls, it all ends up in the same place in the end. If it is runny, thin, goopy, drippy, gloppy, chunky, sticky, tacky, or even when it smells strong and pungent, it's up to you to clean up every drop. ... {Excerpt}...It's only fair that I inform you of what I expect from you during the wedding and the honeymoon, because I do have specific plans, and instructions for you. All of this is just to establish firmly from the start what your role is as my husband, my faithful cuckold. To prepare for our honeymoon, you will be expected to make the arrangements. You will book us for a hotel suite, you know, where we occupy 2 rooms, and there is a door connecting the 2 rooms inside. You will need to book this kind of room so that I can continue cuckolding you when I like throughout our honeymoon.
Consent
Author: Vanessa Springora
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063047918
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
“Consent” is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” -- The New York Times Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl’s relationship with a famous, much older male writer—a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked. Sometimes, all it takes is a single voice to shatter the silence of complicity. Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the country’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of a very influential man in the French literary world. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Vanessa, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story, offering her perspective of those events sharply known. Consent is the story of one precocious young girl’s stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessa’s painstakingly memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man who happened to be a notable writer. As she recalls the events of her childhood and her seduction by one of her country’s most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older. Drawing parallels between children’s fairy tales and French history and her personal life, Vanessa offers an intimate and absorbing look at the meaning of love and consent and the toll of trauma and the power of healing in women’s lives. Ultimately, she offers a forceful indictment of a chauvinistic literary world that has for too long accepted and helped perpetuate gender inequality and the exploitation and sexual abuse of children. Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer "...One of the belated truths that emerges from [Consent] is that Springora is a writer. [...]Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch." -- The New Yorker "Consent [is] rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity." -- The Times (London) "[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways." -- Slate "Lucid and nuanced...[Consent] will speak to trauma survivors everywhere." -- Los Angeles Review of Books ”A piercing memoir about the sexually abusive relationship she endured at age 14 with a 50-year-old writer...This chilling account will linger with readers long after the last page is turned.” -- Publishers Weekly "Springora's lucid account is a commanding discussion of sexual abuse and victimization, and a powerful act of reclamation." -- Booklist "A chilling story of child abuse and the sophisticated Parisians who looked the other way...[Springora] is an elegant and perceptive writer." -- Kirkus
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063047918
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
“Consent” is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” -- The New York Times Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl’s relationship with a famous, much older male writer—a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked. Sometimes, all it takes is a single voice to shatter the silence of complicity. Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the country’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of a very influential man in the French literary world. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Vanessa, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story, offering her perspective of those events sharply known. Consent is the story of one precocious young girl’s stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessa’s painstakingly memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man who happened to be a notable writer. As she recalls the events of her childhood and her seduction by one of her country’s most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older. Drawing parallels between children’s fairy tales and French history and her personal life, Vanessa offers an intimate and absorbing look at the meaning of love and consent and the toll of trauma and the power of healing in women’s lives. Ultimately, she offers a forceful indictment of a chauvinistic literary world that has for too long accepted and helped perpetuate gender inequality and the exploitation and sexual abuse of children. Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer "...One of the belated truths that emerges from [Consent] is that Springora is a writer. [...]Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch." -- The New Yorker "Consent [is] rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity." -- The Times (London) "[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways." -- Slate "Lucid and nuanced...[Consent] will speak to trauma survivors everywhere." -- Los Angeles Review of Books ”A piercing memoir about the sexually abusive relationship she endured at age 14 with a 50-year-old writer...This chilling account will linger with readers long after the last page is turned.” -- Publishers Weekly "Springora's lucid account is a commanding discussion of sexual abuse and victimization, and a powerful act of reclamation." -- Booklist "A chilling story of child abuse and the sophisticated Parisians who looked the other way...[Springora] is an elegant and perceptive writer." -- Kirkus
Vanessa and Her Sister
Author: Priya Parmar
Publisher: Bond Street Books
ISBN: 0385681348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
It can break your heart to have a sister like Virginia Woolf. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of bright, outrageous artistic friends who will grow into legend and come to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. And at the center of this charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and Virginia, the writer. Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success eventually, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf's book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London. But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative, and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must decide if it is finally time to protect her own happiness above all else. The work of exciting young newcomer Priya Parmar, Vanessa and Her Sister exquisitely captures the champagne-heady days of prewar London and the extraordinary lives of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
Publisher: Bond Street Books
ISBN: 0385681348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
It can break your heart to have a sister like Virginia Woolf. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of bright, outrageous artistic friends who will grow into legend and come to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. And at the center of this charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and Virginia, the writer. Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success eventually, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf's book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London. But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative, and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa's constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must decide if it is finally time to protect her own happiness above all else. The work of exciting young newcomer Priya Parmar, Vanessa and Her Sister exquisitely captures the champagne-heady days of prewar London and the extraordinary lives of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
The Three-Body Problem
Author: Catherine Shaw
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 074901444X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Cambridge, 1888. When schoolmistress Vanessa Duncan learns of a murder at St John's College, little does she know that she will become deeply entangled in the mystery. Dr Geoffrey Akers, Fellow in Pure Mathematics, has been found dead, struck down by a violent blow to the head. What could provoke such a brutal act? Vanessa, finding herself in amongst Cambridge's brightest scholarly minds, discovers that the motive may lie in mathematics itself. Drawn closer to the case by a blossoming friendship with mathematician Arthur Weatherburn, Vanessa begins to investigate. When she learns of Sir Isaac Newton's elusive 'n-body problem' and the prestigious prize offered to anyone with a solution, things begin to make sense. But with further deaths occurring and the threat of an innocent man being condemned, Vanessa must hurry with her calculations . . .
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 074901444X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Cambridge, 1888. When schoolmistress Vanessa Duncan learns of a murder at St John's College, little does she know that she will become deeply entangled in the mystery. Dr Geoffrey Akers, Fellow in Pure Mathematics, has been found dead, struck down by a violent blow to the head. What could provoke such a brutal act? Vanessa, finding herself in amongst Cambridge's brightest scholarly minds, discovers that the motive may lie in mathematics itself. Drawn closer to the case by a blossoming friendship with mathematician Arthur Weatherburn, Vanessa begins to investigate. When she learns of Sir Isaac Newton's elusive 'n-body problem' and the prestigious prize offered to anyone with a solution, things begin to make sense. But with further deaths occurring and the threat of an innocent man being condemned, Vanessa must hurry with her calculations . . .
The Stolen Ones
Author: Vanessa Curtis
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474963765
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live with Mama and Papa in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents. I think they are hiding something from me, too. Letters arrive every year on my birthday, but they are not addressed to me. They are for a girl named Kasia. This is her story.
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1474963765
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live with Mama and Papa in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents. I think they are hiding something from me, too. Letters arrive every year on my birthday, but they are not addressed to me. They are for a girl named Kasia. This is her story.
Dear Mom
Author: Pam Murray
Publisher: Inspiredbyvanessa
ISBN: 9780999424681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Dear Mom, who is called the heart of the home. Who wakes up at the crack of dawn to prepare for the day, regardless, of how they feel. Makes sure everybody else is taken care of first and always the last to make time for herself.The multitasker who juggles multiple things throughout the day and the last to fall asleep at night. Mothers are celebrated worldwide and given passes due to being a mom. The prayer warrior when it's time for war and the clean-up woman when there's a mess to clean.However, what happens to the mothers who left their child but still want to receive the recognition for the everyday mom? What happens when the relationship goes astray due to their absence? Or when the children struggle to connect with the reality of a broken relationship?Sharing these stories from the children perspective can provide hopes and even answers on how we can grow and heal together. Passing the baton is vital not only in this generation but generations to come. These authors share the light and dark moments in this book in hopes to provide hope to many.Join us in making a difference with our stories in Dear Mom. Enjoy!
Publisher: Inspiredbyvanessa
ISBN: 9780999424681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Dear Mom, who is called the heart of the home. Who wakes up at the crack of dawn to prepare for the day, regardless, of how they feel. Makes sure everybody else is taken care of first and always the last to make time for herself.The multitasker who juggles multiple things throughout the day and the last to fall asleep at night. Mothers are celebrated worldwide and given passes due to being a mom. The prayer warrior when it's time for war and the clean-up woman when there's a mess to clean.However, what happens to the mothers who left their child but still want to receive the recognition for the everyday mom? What happens when the relationship goes astray due to their absence? Or when the children struggle to connect with the reality of a broken relationship?Sharing these stories from the children perspective can provide hopes and even answers on how we can grow and heal together. Passing the baton is vital not only in this generation but generations to come. These authors share the light and dark moments in this book in hopes to provide hope to many.Join us in making a difference with our stories in Dear Mom. Enjoy!