Author: William Thomas Stead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The Review of Reviews
Author: William Thomas Stead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Relentless (Mills & Boon Temptation)
Author: Leslie Kelly
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472083431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Wealthy Pamela Bradford is determined to lose her virginity, one way or another. Only, when her plan to seduce her faithless fianc? backfires, she figures she might as well enjoy the sensual, decadent honeymoon she'd arranged–even if she has to go alone.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472083431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Wealthy Pamela Bradford is determined to lose her virginity, one way or another. Only, when her plan to seduce her faithless fianc? backfires, she figures she might as well enjoy the sensual, decadent honeymoon she'd arranged–even if she has to go alone.
Desert Passions
Author: Hsu-Ming Teo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292739389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292739389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.
Australian National Bibliography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Author: Steven Levy
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 073521316X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
One of the Best Technology Books of 2020—Financial Times “Levy’s all-access Facebook reflects the reputational swan dive of its subject. . . . The result is evenhanded and devastating.”—San Francisco Chronicle “[Levy’s] evenhanded conclusions are still damning.”—Reason “[He] doesn’t shy from asking the tough questions.”—The Washington Post “Reminds you the HBO show Silicon Valley did not have to reach far for its satire.”—NPR.org The definitive history, packed with untold stories, of one of America’s most controversial and powerful companies: Facebook As a college sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from its first, modest iteration. In light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO—who has enormous power over what the world sees and says—never has a company been more central to the national conversation. Millions of words have been written about Facebook, but no one has told the complete story, documenting its ascendancy and missteps. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life, or the imperative of this book to document the unchecked power and shocking techniques of the company, from growing at all costs to outmaneuvering its biggest rivals to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram, to developing a platform so addictive even some of its own are now beginning to realize its dangers. Based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, Levy’s sweeping narrative of incredible entrepreneurial success and failure digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 073521316X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
One of the Best Technology Books of 2020—Financial Times “Levy’s all-access Facebook reflects the reputational swan dive of its subject. . . . The result is evenhanded and devastating.”—San Francisco Chronicle “[Levy’s] evenhanded conclusions are still damning.”—Reason “[He] doesn’t shy from asking the tough questions.”—The Washington Post “Reminds you the HBO show Silicon Valley did not have to reach far for its satire.”—NPR.org The definitive history, packed with untold stories, of one of America’s most controversial and powerful companies: Facebook As a college sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from its first, modest iteration. In light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO—who has enormous power over what the world sees and says—never has a company been more central to the national conversation. Millions of words have been written about Facebook, but no one has told the complete story, documenting its ascendancy and missteps. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life, or the imperative of this book to document the unchecked power and shocking techniques of the company, from growing at all costs to outmaneuvering its biggest rivals to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram, to developing a platform so addictive even some of its own are now beginning to realize its dangers. Based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, Levy’s sweeping narrative of incredible entrepreneurial success and failure digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
Ruthless Greek Boss, Secretary Mistress
Author: Abby Green
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460346432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
A Greek mogul mixes big business with irresistible pleasure when he takes his shy secretary on a trip to Athens in this international romance. Lucy Proctor watches the women who come and go in Aristotle Levakis’ life. As his prim and plump secretary, she knows she could never be one of them. And despite Ari’s devastating good looks, she has no desire to. Or at least that’s what she keeps telling herself! Ari shouldn’t find his own secretary attractive, but something about her calls to him. He knows there is only one way to overcome this desire—and that is to sate it. Three weeks in Athens should be enough time to get to know his sensible secretary better . . . !
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460346432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
A Greek mogul mixes big business with irresistible pleasure when he takes his shy secretary on a trip to Athens in this international romance. Lucy Proctor watches the women who come and go in Aristotle Levakis’ life. As his prim and plump secretary, she knows she could never be one of them. And despite Ari’s devastating good looks, she has no desire to. Or at least that’s what she keeps telling herself! Ari shouldn’t find his own secretary attractive, but something about her calls to him. He knows there is only one way to overcome this desire—and that is to sate it. Three weeks in Athens should be enough time to get to know his sensible secretary better . . . !
Surrender to the Past
Author: Carole Mortimer
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459219236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Mia Burton thinks she's seen the last of Ethan Black—the man who haunts her heart. She's wanted to forget him, but can you really dismiss from your mind the most magnificent man you've ever met? He's a painful reminder of her troubled past and she needs him to stay just a memory.… But Ethan's returned in all his very real glory! Mia wonders what his motive is, because it's clear he'll do whatever it takes to win her back, including whisking her off to his luxury villa in the South of France!
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459219236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Mia Burton thinks she's seen the last of Ethan Black—the man who haunts her heart. She's wanted to forget him, but can you really dismiss from your mind the most magnificent man you've ever met? He's a painful reminder of her troubled past and she needs him to stay just a memory.… But Ethan's returned in all his very real glory! Mia wonders what his motive is, because it's clear he'll do whatever it takes to win her back, including whisking her off to his luxury villa in the South of France!
Taming the Notorious Sicilian
Author: Michelle Smart
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373132697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Harlequin Presents author Michelle Smart's fabulous trilogy will delight, entice and enthrall Meet three dark-hearted men with devastating appeal and the women who prove more than a match for them in The Irresistible Sicilians Francesco Calvetti. He has the face of a god and a body made for sin Francesco doesn't do nice, and he doesn't do damsels in distress. Apart from that one time. He never thought he'd see Hannah Chapman again. A woman like her, pure and untouched, has no place in his world. Ever since losing her sister, Hannah has sheltered herself from the world, but being knocked from her bike is a wake-up call. A call she's ready to accept. There's one thing left on her to-do list and there's only one man who can help her. But will the dangerous, devastatingly gorgeous Sicilian oblige her?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373132697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Harlequin Presents author Michelle Smart's fabulous trilogy will delight, entice and enthrall Meet three dark-hearted men with devastating appeal and the women who prove more than a match for them in The Irresistible Sicilians Francesco Calvetti. He has the face of a god and a body made for sin Francesco doesn't do nice, and he doesn't do damsels in distress. Apart from that one time. He never thought he'd see Hannah Chapman again. A woman like her, pure and untouched, has no place in his world. Ever since losing her sister, Hannah has sheltered herself from the world, but being knocked from her bike is a wake-up call. A call she's ready to accept. There's one thing left on her to-do list and there's only one man who can help her. But will the dangerous, devastatingly gorgeous Sicilian oblige her?
American Protestant Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Protestantism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Historical Notices of Doncaster ... Reprinted from the “Doncaster Gazette,” Etc
Author: Charles William Hatfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description