Author: Gene Quarrick
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786467143
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The phenomenon of "absorption" or the intense focusing of attention that results in a sense of escape and diversion is examined here. In this context, the principal areas of adult recreation are examined: stories, shows, intoxication, sex, music, dancing, art, and meditation. The issues discussed in this book have generally been overlooked by psychology, which is primarily concerned with the everyday business of living (self, anxiety, learning, etc.). This study will promote the understanding of the tremendous attractiveness of these modern diversions that are extremely absorbing and hypnotic.
Our Sweetest Hours
Author: Gene Quarrick
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786467143
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The phenomenon of "absorption" or the intense focusing of attention that results in a sense of escape and diversion is examined here. In this context, the principal areas of adult recreation are examined: stories, shows, intoxication, sex, music, dancing, art, and meditation. The issues discussed in this book have generally been overlooked by psychology, which is primarily concerned with the everyday business of living (self, anxiety, learning, etc.). This study will promote the understanding of the tremendous attractiveness of these modern diversions that are extremely absorbing and hypnotic.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786467143
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The phenomenon of "absorption" or the intense focusing of attention that results in a sense of escape and diversion is examined here. In this context, the principal areas of adult recreation are examined: stories, shows, intoxication, sex, music, dancing, art, and meditation. The issues discussed in this book have generally been overlooked by psychology, which is primarily concerned with the everyday business of living (self, anxiety, learning, etc.). This study will promote the understanding of the tremendous attractiveness of these modern diversions that are extremely absorbing and hypnotic.
Beginner's Luck
Author: Laura Pedersen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739432884
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"There could be no doubt left in anyone's mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song." The second of seven children (with another on the way), Hallie Palmer has one dream: to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with an uncanny gift for winning at games of chance, she's just hit a losing streak. She's been kicked out of the casino she frequents during school hours, lost all her money for a car on a bad bet at the track, and has been grounded by her parents. Hallie decides the time as come to cut her losses. Answering an ad in the local paper, she lands a job as yard person at the elegant home of the sixty-ish Mrs. Olivia Stockton, a wonderfully eccentric rebel who scribes acclaimed poetry along with the occasional soft-core porn story. Under the same wild roof is Olivia's son, Bernard, an antiques dealer and gourmet cook who turns out mouthwatering cuisine and scathing witticisms, and Gil, Bernard's lover, whose down-to-earth sensibilities provide a perfect foil to the Stocktons' outrageous joie de vivre. Here, in this anything-goes household, Hallie has found a new family. And she's about to receive the education of her life. From a wonderful new voice in fiction comes the freshest and funniest novel to barrel down the pike since Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. In Beginner's Luck, Laura Pedersen introduces us to the endearing oddballs and eccentrics of Cosgrove County, Ohio, who burst to life and steal our hearts-and none more so than Hallie Palmer, sixteen, savvy, and wise beyond her years, a young woman who knows life is a gamble ... and sometimes you have to bet the house.
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ISBN: 9780739432884
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"There could be no doubt left in anyone's mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song." The second of seven children (with another on the way), Hallie Palmer has one dream: to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with an uncanny gift for winning at games of chance, she's just hit a losing streak. She's been kicked out of the casino she frequents during school hours, lost all her money for a car on a bad bet at the track, and has been grounded by her parents. Hallie decides the time as come to cut her losses. Answering an ad in the local paper, she lands a job as yard person at the elegant home of the sixty-ish Mrs. Olivia Stockton, a wonderfully eccentric rebel who scribes acclaimed poetry along with the occasional soft-core porn story. Under the same wild roof is Olivia's son, Bernard, an antiques dealer and gourmet cook who turns out mouthwatering cuisine and scathing witticisms, and Gil, Bernard's lover, whose down-to-earth sensibilities provide a perfect foil to the Stocktons' outrageous joie de vivre. Here, in this anything-goes household, Hallie has found a new family. And she's about to receive the education of her life. From a wonderful new voice in fiction comes the freshest and funniest novel to barrel down the pike since Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. In Beginner's Luck, Laura Pedersen introduces us to the endearing oddballs and eccentrics of Cosgrove County, Ohio, who burst to life and steal our hearts-and none more so than Hallie Palmer, sixteen, savvy, and wise beyond her years, a young woman who knows life is a gamble ... and sometimes you have to bet the house.
Collected Poems
Author: Donald Davie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226137612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s. Taken together, the poems display that reverence for the distinctive qualities of the English language which has earned him a name as one of Britain's finest living poets. "Davie's voice—judgemental, ironic, epigrammatic, humorous, self-lacerating—speaks always with reference to an unhuman perpendicular standard that itself goes unquestioned. It is not a standard of Beauty or Truth; Davie is a poet of the third member of the Platonic triad, Justice."—Helen Vendler, The New Yorker "[Davie's poems] are on the quiet side, often casual and musing in mood and tone; determined to resist large gestures of assent or denial. . .Donald Davie may just be the best English poet-critic of our time."—William Pritchard, The New Republic "Donald Davie's Collected Poems does more than mark the culmination of one of the most distinguished careers in post-war British poetry; it is the autobiographical journey of a living poet at the height of his creative powers and the mastery of his craft. Davie is considered the most important and valuable contemporary link between poetry in England and America."—Sarah E. McNeil, Little Rock Free Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226137612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Donald Davie's poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s. Taken together, the poems display that reverence for the distinctive qualities of the English language which has earned him a name as one of Britain's finest living poets. "Davie's voice—judgemental, ironic, epigrammatic, humorous, self-lacerating—speaks always with reference to an unhuman perpendicular standard that itself goes unquestioned. It is not a standard of Beauty or Truth; Davie is a poet of the third member of the Platonic triad, Justice."—Helen Vendler, The New Yorker "[Davie's poems] are on the quiet side, often casual and musing in mood and tone; determined to resist large gestures of assent or denial. . .Donald Davie may just be the best English poet-critic of our time."—William Pritchard, The New Republic "Donald Davie's Collected Poems does more than mark the culmination of one of the most distinguished careers in post-war British poetry; it is the autobiographical journey of a living poet at the height of his creative powers and the mastery of his craft. Davie is considered the most important and valuable contemporary link between poetry in England and America."—Sarah E. McNeil, Little Rock Free Press
The Sweetest Hour - Tikkun Chatzot
Author: Avraham Greenbaum
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540343826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In Jewish tradition, the wee hours of the night are especially propitious for contemplation of the Jewish exile and yearning for redemption, both collective and personal. This book explains the meaning and purpose of Tikkun Chatzot (the Midnight Lament) and contains the first complete English translation of this inspiring service, together with detailed instructions for when and how to say it.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540343826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In Jewish tradition, the wee hours of the night are especially propitious for contemplation of the Jewish exile and yearning for redemption, both collective and personal. This book explains the meaning and purpose of Tikkun Chatzot (the Midnight Lament) and contains the first complete English translation of this inspiring service, together with detailed instructions for when and how to say it.
A select collection of original Scotish airs
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Pages : 118
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: James Anthony Froude
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Languages : en
Pages : 776
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A Selection of New and Popular Dramas and Farces, ...
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Pages : 112
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The Works of Lord Byron, Including the Suppressed Poems. Also a Sketch of His Life. By J. W. Lake, Etc
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Languages : en
Pages : 840
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The Complete Works Of Lord Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Languages : en
Pages : 774
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The Works of Lord Byron, Including His Suppressed Poems, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Facsimile Letter.]
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Languages : en
Pages : 782
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