Download or read book A Trace of Seduction written by Heidi Riley-Ancar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Trace of Seduction is a romance novel of epic proportion. It is the story of a young woman who has been faced with tragic loss being the death of her mother which places her in foster care. This is the story of a young and vibrant woman whose life is in danger at the cunning hands of a stalker that can only be saved by her foster brother whom she secretly loves with an unspoken desire to be loved back by him. He wants to love her also but doesn't know that from the beginning of the tale. This story of forbidden and ordained love unfolds page by page, glance by glance, and kiss by kiss. This book will put you in the trance of mystery and romance that can only come from A Trace of Seduction.
Download or read book The Art Of Seduction written by Robert Greene and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.
Download or read book Seduction Surrender and Transformation written by Karen J. Maroda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seduction, Surrender, and Transformation demonstrates how interpersonal psychoanalysis obliges analysts to engage their patients with genuine emotional responsiveness, so that not only the patient but the analyst too is open to ongoing transformation through the analytic experience. In so doing, the analyst moves from the position of an "interpreting observer" to that of an "active participant and facilitator" whose affective communications enable the patient to acquire basic self-trust along with self-knowledge. Drawing on the current literature on affect, Maroda argues that psychological change occurs through affect-laden interpersonal processes. Given that most patients in psychotherapy have problems with affect management, the completing of cycles of affective communication between therapist and patient becomes a vitally important aspect of the therapeutic enterprise. Through emotionally open responses to their patients and careful use of patient-prompted self-disclosures, analysts can facilitate affect regulation responsibly and constructively, with the emphasis always remaining on the patients' experience. Moments of mutual surrender - the honest emotional giving over of patient to analyst and analyst to patient - epitomize the emotionally intense interpersonal experiences that lead to enduring intrapsychic change. Maroda's work is profoundly personal. She does not hesitate to share with the reader how her own personality affects her thinking and her work. Indeed, she believes her theoretical and clinical preferences are emblematic of the way in which the analyst's subjectivity necessarily shapes theory choice and practice preferences in general. Seduction, Surrender, and Transfomation is not only a powerful brief for emotional honesty in the analytic relationship but also a model of the personal openness that, according to Maroda, psychoanalysis demands of all its practitioners.
Download or read book Substance and Seduction written by Stacey Schwartzkopf and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Focusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters in Substance and Seduction trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy.
Download or read book The Seductive One written by Susan Mallery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seductive One is the third book in the sexy Marcelli Sisters of Pleasure Road series featuring Brenna Marcelli, who wants to take over the family winery, but has to borrow from her rival—and ex boyfriend—to do so...is all fair in love and wine? Of all the Marcelli sisters, the only one who dreams of running the family's winery is Brenna—and she's about to get her chance. But taking the helm at Marcelli Winery is tougher than she bargained for—especially when she butts heads with her grandfather, whose Old World ways dictate that a male should inherit the business. In need of some fast capital in order to prove her grandfather wrong, Brenna turns to Nic Giovanni, her family's nemesis... Years ago, she ended her secret relationship with Nic, choosing loyalty to her family over the hot passion they shared. But now he's back in her life, he's loaned her a million dollars, and their feelings for each other are stronger than ever. Brenna must find out for herself: Is Nic the love of her life? Or the schemer who could topple the Marcelli dynasty—and break her heart?
Download or read book Passes the Art of the Bullfight written by and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Passes: The Art of Bullfight, art photographer Ricardo Sanchez generously pays homage to Spain's best bullfighters. In page after page of spectacularly colorful and original photography he vividly captures the ballet of the pass. The bullfighter's subtle and precarious dance is revealed in the photographic blur of a speeding half-ton bull, dared and challenged by swirling and swooping capes, just at the critical moment that it passes mere inches from the matador. With an essay from Spain's leading authority and most respected bullfighting critic and an excerpt from Hemmingway's Death in the Afternoon, the work in Passes is poised to join that of legendary artists such as Francisco de Goya and painters Edouard Manet and Pablo Picasso in tribute to bullfighting and the ancient Spanish ritual of the corrida.
Download or read book Seducing His Fate written by E.R. Aitken and published by Elena Aitken. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's on the run. He's on the hunt. When fate entwines their lives, will their secrets be their undoing? On the run from her dangerous family, Dakota seeks shelter in the untamed town of Predator Peak, crafting a new identity to evade her father's sinister schemes. But even after over a year, is she truly safe? Konner has spent his entire life paying the debts of his father, but the bear shifter has only one job left: hunt down the elusive princess of the cougar shifter mafia to liberate his family from their shackles. But a seemingly straightforward assignment takes an unforeseen turn. They are fated mates. There's no way they can be together. A bear and a cougar don't make sense, especially when lives hang in the balance. But as their desire becomes undeniable, they have no choice but to surrender to the intoxicating pull of their destiny. Yet, beneath the surface of their passion, lies a web of secrets that could destroy everything and with the clock running out for Konner, he must face an agonizing choice—his family's salvation or the life and love of his fated mate.
Download or read book Fashion Seductive Play written by Eugen Fink and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Germany, 1969, Eugen Fink's Fashion: Seductive Play was published. This first English language edition, updated with an introduction by Stefano Marino and Giovanni Matteucci, makes available Fink's philosophical investigation into fashion to an English-speaking audience. One of the greatest figures in the phenomenological movement, Fink here investigates fashion at various philosophical levels - aesthetic, ethical, social - and in relationship to other forms of human culture, especially contemporary culture. Although there have been many transformations and changes in the world of fashion since the late 1960s, from prêt-à-porter to fast fashion, fashion's connection to both high culture and popular culture, and the new relationship between fashion and the advent of social media, Fink's insights allow wide-ranging and far-reaching inquiries into fashion's philosophical essence. Fink's extraordinary lucidity and his unique conceptual capacities have made his work crucial to the study of the philosophy of fashion today. His work, like that of Simmel's, Veblen's or Benjamin's, is as essential and important now as when it was first published.
Download or read book Seductive Ex wife written by Hua BaiBai and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bai Xiao had married two men in her life. The first was someone she had chased for sixteen years, someone she had loved for sixteen years, someone who was already the most precious part of her life. However, on the anniversary of their wedding, she told him that she had already fallen in love with another person and cruelly swore a divorce oath. Secondly, he used his utmost love to pry open her closed heart. However, when she thought that she had regained her happiness, he told her that everything was just a method to get revenge and push her into hell with his own hands ... Wounded and wounded, she fled in panic. Four years later, she, who had completely transformed, would return in a strong manner, and she would repay for all that she had suffered. Yet, she did not expect that she would be caught unprepared by one truth after another, and what she had to do, and how she had to choose ...
Download or read book Bully CEO Seduced His Wife written by Su Momo and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 1023 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uncle, do you dare to love me?" "Xu Ran, do you really want to be my woman?" I think, I don't regret it! " "Her soft little hand firmly gripped his big hand." "Dammit, I don't regret it. Even if you want to escape, I won't let you off!" Because her words of 'I don't regret' made him feel like he was on fire. It was uncontrollable ... PS: 1 vs 1, the male and female lead is physically and mentally clean!
Download or read book Seduce Me in Dreams written by Jacquelyn Frank and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightwalkers and Shadowdwellers series, Seduce Me in Dreams begins a sexy new futuristic series featuring an elite group of military heroes. Dark. Mysterious. Sensual. When Bronse Chapel, the commander of a specialized unit of the Interplanetary Militia, begins to dream about a beautiful and exotic brunette, he wants to dismiss it as being induced by lack of sleep . . . or perhaps lack of sex. But his instincts tell him it’s something different, something far more dangerous. Ravenna is the leader of the Chosen Ones, a small group of people from her village born with extraordinary powers. She doesn’t know that draws her to Bronse’s dreams night after night, but she senses that he and his team are in jeopardy. Ravenna can help him, but first Bronse must save the Chosen Ones from those who plan to use their powers for evil. Together, Bronse and Ravenna will be unstoppable. But Ravenna is hiding something that could endanger them all.
Download or read book Seduce Me at Sunrise written by Lisa Kleypas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seduce Me at Sunrise, the second book in the Hathaways series by beloved author Lisa Kleypas. Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins—and he fears that the darkness of his past could crush delicate, luminous Win. So Kev refuses to submit to temptation...and before long Win is torn from him by a devastating twist of fate. Then, Win returns to England...only to find that Kev has hardened into a man who will deny love at all costs. Meantime, an attractive, seductive suitor has set his sights on Win. It's now or never for Kev to make his move. But first, he must confront a dangerous secret about his destiny—or risk losing the only woman he has lived for.
Download or read book Seductive Forms written by Ros Ballaster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historicist and feminist accounts of the `rise of the novel' have neglected the phenomenon of the professional woman writer in England prior to the advent of the sentimental novel in the 1740s. Seductive Forms explores the means by which the three leading Tory women novelists of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries challenged and reworked both contemporary gender ideologies and generic convention. The seduction plot provided Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood with a vehicle for dramatizing their own appropriation of the `masculine' power of fiction-making. Seduction is employed in these fictions as a metaphor for both novelistic production (the seduction of the reader by the writer) and party political machination (the seduction of the public by the politician). This challenging and lively book also explores the debts early prose fiction owed to French seventeenth-century models of fiction-writing and argues that Behn, Manley, and Haywood succeed in producing a distinctively `English' and female `form' for the amatory novel.
Download or read book Seduce That Bottom written by Tao Dou and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After holding it in for 25 years, Wei Wangyang finally mustered up the courage to face his orientation and decided to start a real relationship. When he finally entered the company that he had been yearning for for for a long time, he saw the cold senior student who pretended not to know him even after he had destroyed the field. It wasn't easy for him to wait until the company went bankrupt, then he could go home and ignore the man that had tortured him for so long. However, that man once again became the landlord, allowing him to move out ... OMG! What sort of evil fate was this? Wei Wangyang slapped his hands together and bellowed: "Great! This old man is not a pushover!" You will pay me back double for bullying me!. No money? If you don't have any money, I'll use you to repay your debt!
Download or read book Seductive Resistance The Poetry of Th ophile Gautier written by Constance Gosselin Schick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gautier's poetry merits an attentive reading which respects his own essential criterion of poeticity, namely, textuality. This is a poetry which puts on display its literariness, that is, its existence as cultural artifact. In so doing, however, it also puts on display the absence of and its resistance to whatever personal or real signified it would evoke or name. Its beauty and self-indulgent pleasure reveal their hollowness and inadequacy. Its chiseled, polished surface renders its borders or limits and its play unsatisfyingly and teasingly perceptible. Its very superficiality allows, invites and seduces the reader to go entre les lignes and perceive the mystery, not of what has been symbolically buried/unburied, concealed/revealed, but of the truly absent, the abîmes superficiels. Chapter 1, focusing on texts from the Poésies of 1830, studies the intextual repetition of Gautier's poetry, the citations, imitations and transpositions which make evident the poetry's displacement of the significant and the personal into aesthetic simulacra. Chapter 2 deals with the poems of Gautier's second collection, Albertus, and analyzes the use of allegory and of humor as further markers of textual substitution. The inherent lifelessness and illusoriness of the textual artifact is revealed in the poems of La Comédie de la Mort, the collection examined in chapter 3. Chapter 4 analyzes the so-called descriptive, referential poetry of España, and finds that the monde extérieur of Gautier's poetry functions to express an absence of self and is itself always shown to be other than the Other. The dimunition of the poetic effected in Emaux et Camées is the subject of chapter 5, and chapter 6 deals with the contextuality, the fetishism, and the eroticism revealed in a miscellany of poems - in particular the libertine poems - which do not figure in Gautier's five major collections. By short-circuiting significations and transforming them into seductive appearances, Gautier reveals himself to be the acknowledged maître of both Baudelaire and Mallarmé.
Download or read book The Seductive Impostor written by Janet Chapman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a dazzling duo of romances featuring two sisters from the ruggedly beautiful Maine coast...and the men who sweep them away. Rachel Foster wishes Sub Rosa—the seaside mansion she helped her father build and the scene of a terrible tragedy—would crumble into the sea. But Keenan Oakes, Sub Rosa's new owner, is moving in and stirring up the dark secrets of the cliff-perched manor.... In the heat of a sizzling attraction, can Rachel clear her family's name while risking her heart on Keenan...and on a passionate love like nothing she's ever known?
Download or read book Marriage of Rich Seductive Ex Wife written by Man Zhushahua and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ye Tian Yu, who had waited bitterly for half a year, finally returned! However, he had already forgotten about the childhood sweetheart. She was going to get engaged and get married! Where did Ye Tian Yu go to her, Yang Jin? She was the true wife! "Or perhaps, my ex-wife?!" Let go of me, ex-husband. You and I are already divorced! " Yang Jin glared at the man that tightly gripped her wrist. Divorce?! Isn't it just the right time to remarry?! " The man said indifferently. However, the determination in his eyes was shocking. The woman took out a gun. "Are you sure you can take me?!" Her watery eyes were cold and full of pride, full of threat. The man didn't care that he had to put his chest close to the woman's ear. He spoke in an ambiguous manner and spoke with confidence, "Are you sure you can kill ..."
