Download or read book For Business and Pleasure written by Mara Laura Keire and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mara L. Keire’s history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s through the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Anti-vice reformers in the late nineteenth century accepted that complete eradication of disreputable pleasure was impossible. Seeking a way to regulate rather than eliminate prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and gambling, urban reformers confined sites of disreputable pleasure to red-light districts in cities throughout the United States. They dismissed the extremes of prohibitory law and instead sought to limit the impact of vice on city life through realistic restrictive measures. Keire’s thoughtful work examines the popular culture that developed within red-light districts, as well as efforts to contain vice in such cities as New Orleans; Hartford, Connecticut; New York City; Macon, Georgia; San Francisco; and El Paso, Texas. Keire describes the people and practices in red-light districts, reformers' efforts to limit their impact on city life, and the successful closure of the districts during World War I. Her study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.

Download or read book Business or Pleasure written by Rachel Lynn Solomon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! An Indie Next Pick A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick One of Amazon's Best Romances of July Named a Most Anticipated Summer Read by Buzzfeed, Glamour, Town & Country, BookRiot, and more! A ghostwriter and a struggling actor help each other on the page and in the bedroom in this steamy romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk. Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in "ghostwriter" until she attends a signing for a book she wrote—and the author doesn’t even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man at the bar and immediately connects with him. But when all their sexual tension culminates in a spectacularly awkward hookup, she decides this is one night better off forgotten. Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done. Her next project is ghostwriting a memoir for Finn Walsh, a C-list actor best known for playing a lovable nerd on a cult classic werewolf show who now makes a living appearing at fan conventions across the country. Chandler knows him better from their one-night stand of hilarious mishaps. Chandler’s determined to keep their partnership as professional as possible, but when she admits to Finn their night together wasn’t as mind-blowing as he thought it was, he’s distraught. He intrigues her enough that they strike a deal: when they’re not working on his book, Chandler will school Finn in the art of satisfaction. As they grow closer both in and out of the bedroom, they must figure out which is more important, business or pleasure—or if there's a way for them to have both.

Download or read book Off Limits written by M S Parker and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alec: I'm in my thirties and life is...well not boring, but uneventful despite being CEO of the family company. Just how I like it. Then I meet Lumen, a woman who challenges everything in such an irresistible way. For once in my life I can see myself in a relationship. There's one problem though, she's off limits. Lumen: Growing up in foster care wasn't the nightmare for me as it was for some, but life hasn't been easy. I work hard, focus on my goals, and I never let things distract me, specifically men and relationships. Until one rainy Seattle night when a gorgeous hunk walks into the spa where I work.When billionaire Alec McCrae mistakes Lumen Browne's workplace for a "happy ending" massage parlor, things get more complicated than he prefers. Especially when their lives become entwined in ways never imagined. Don't miss Off Limits, the first book in The Scottish Billionaire, M. S. Parker's latest romance series.

Download or read book Asses and Angels in Business written by Gail L. Black and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail Black is an agri-tourism pioneer who realizes that the asses and angels who have peppered her existence throughout her business and personal journeys, have provided her with opportunities to learn, become stronger, overcome obstacles and embrace life to the fullest.

Download or read book Tea and Etiquette written by Dorothea Johnson and published by Capital Books. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of the best-seller, with a new chapter and new recipes on Tea Parties for Children - the authoritative guide to the etiquette of taking tea for business or pleasure.

Download or read book BUSINESS OR PLEASURE written by Julie Hogan and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy has secret unrequited feelings of love for her playboy boss. She knows that a plain, reserved secretary like her can never be his lover, but it’s too much when Alec asks for her help arranging his dates with other women. Daisy can't take anymore and hands in her letter of resignation, determined to make a fresh start. But a few days later, Alec comes to beg for Daisy’s return. He says he needs her back on the job, but does he need her heart, too?

Download or read book With Bonus Episode BUSINESS OR PLEASURE written by Julie Hogan and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [With Bonus Episode !] Including 4 special pages of additional story.Daisy has secret unrequited feelings of love for her playboy boss. She knows that a plain, reserved secretary like her can never be his lover, but it’s too much when Alec asks for her help arranging his dates with other women. Daisy can't take anymore and hands in her letter of resignation, determined to make a fresh start. But a few days later, Alec comes to beg for Daisy’s return. He says he needs her back on the job, but does he need her heart, too?

Download or read book It s My Pleasure written by Dee Ann Turner and published by Elevate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Businesses are built by growing relationships with customers. Culture is created by the stories those relationships tell. Two of the most important differentiators of a business are its talent and its culture. Talent energized by a compelling culture will drive organizational success and provide innovative growth opportunities for both the business and the individual. Based on her more than thirty years at Chick-fil-A, most of which have been spent as Vice President, Corporate Talent, Dee Ann Turner shares how Chick-fil-A has built a devoted talent and fan base that spans generations. It's My Pleasure tells powerful stories and provides practical applications on how to develop extraordinary talent able to build and/or stimulate a company's culture.

Download or read book Pleasure and Purpose written by Megan Hart and published by Chaos. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three women, bound to serve so that they might bring their patrons absolute solace. Stillness, Honesty and Determinata, all Handmaidens in the Order of Solace, and all women in their own regard. Edward, Cillian and Alaric, three best friends torn apart by the tragedies of their youth, each unable to find the solace they crave. Each Handmaiden must do her best to provide peace, passion and optimism to the man she’s been sent to soothe – no matter how they are fought or discouraged or refused. Love is not the endgame in this war for solace, yet it’s entirely possible that in the end, love might be the only real victory.

Download or read book Shopping for Pleasure written by Erika Rappaport and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shopping for Pleasure, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, and spacious parks and squares, a dramatic transformation unfolded that ultimately changed the meaning of femininity and the lives of women, shaping their experience of modernity. Rappaport illuminates the various forces of the period that encouraged and discouraged women's enjoyment of public life and particularly shows how shopping came to be seen as the quintessential leisure activity for middle- and upper-class women. Through extensive histories of department stores, women's magazines, clubs, teashops, restaurants, and the theater as interwoven sites of consumption, Shopping for Pleasure uncovers how a new female urban culture emerged before and after the turn of the twentieth century. Moving beyond the question of whether shopping promoted or limited women's freedom, the author draws on diverse sources to explore how business practices, legal decisions, and cultural changes affected women in the market. In particular, she focuses on how and why stores presented themselves as pleasurable, secure places for the urban woman, in some cases defining themselves as instrumental to civic improvement and women's emancipation. Rappaport also considers such influences as merchandizing strategies, credit policies, changes in public transportation, feminism, and the financial balance of power within the home. Shopping for Pleasure is thus both a social and cultural history of the West End, but on a broader scale it reveals the essential interplay between the rise of consumer society, the birth of modern femininity, and the making of contemporary London.

Download or read book It s Been A Business Doing Pleasure With You written by Jeff Snyder and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2016-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT'S BEEN A BUSINESS DOING PLEASURE WITH YOU is my autobiography of being a high profile gay escort, from early military upbringing and its clashes with my young gay identity, to tales of leaving home under threat of shotgun. Going out into the world I made my way to find a niche of survival, only to discover soon afterwards that I had something far harder to survive, a virus called HIV. With the lost lives of friends, lovers, and dogs, I met many in my Hollywood movie like life, famous and not so famous. In my pursuit of happiness I often found myself as shaman to many souls, some lost. Sometimes sex was the last thing required, instead many needed to be held or touched, and to be reassured of their humanity. This was not lost to me, I embraced it, as kindness was healing. Rounding out my years in the oldest profession are some bits of wisdom, folly, and finally closure with my father after years of distance with his gay son.

Download or read book Business and Pleasure written by Nicole Highland and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-14 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by success, Sasha Harding has a simple plan: learn as much as possible, be the best graphic artist she can be, and leave her heart at home. And with a strict no-dating policy at Brinkman Advertising, it's a piece of cake until Nathan Brenner arrives. Thanks to a mishap on the stairwell, they quickly find their passion for hard work isn't the only passion they share in common. Will Sasha be forced to choose between Nathan and her work, or will she be able to enjoy business and pleasure?*This sensual bedside read is approximately an hour long with plenty of steam, no cheating, and a HEA.*

Download or read book This Is Pleasure written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.

Download or read book Captive written by Jex Lane and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Callahan has spent seven years struggling against the insatiable hunger for blood consuming him. Unable to stop the vampire inside from preying on humans, he keeps himself confined to a lonely existence. Everything changes the night he is lured into a trap and taken prisoner by High Lord General Tarrick-a seductive incubus who feeds off sexual energy. Forced into the middle of a war between vampires and incubi, Matthew is used as a weapon against his own kind. Although he's desperate for freedom, he is unable to deny the burning desire drawing him to the incubus general he now calls Master.

Download or read book Why I Read written by Wendy Lesser and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished literary magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe her love of literature. As Lesser writes in her prologue, "Reading can result in boredom or transcendence, rage or enthusiasm, depression or hilarity, empathy or contempt, depending on who you are and what the book is and how your life is shaping up at the moment you encounter it." Here the reader will discover a definition of literature that is as broad as it is broad-minded. In addition to novels and stories, Lesser explores plays, poems, and essays along with mysteries, science fiction, and memoirs. As she examines these works from such perspectives as "Character and Plot," "Novelty," "Grandeur and Intimacy," and "Authority," Why I Read sparks an overwhelming desire to put aside quotidian tasks in favor of reading. Lesser's passion for this pursuit resonates on every page, whether she is discussing the book as a physical object or a particular work's influence. "Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different," she writes. "It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can help you realize that your present will someday be someone else's past. This may be disheartening, but it can also be strangely consoling at times." A book in the spirit of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Elizabeth Hardwick's A View of My Own, Why I Read is iconoclastic, conversational, and full of insight. It will delight those who are already avid readers as well as neophytes in search of sheer literary fun.

Download or read book Lost in a Book written by V. Nell and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social forces that have shaped reading, discusses the nature of reading skills, and suggests connections between reading and dreaming and hypnotic trance

Download or read book See You Yesterday written by Rachel Lynn Solomon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After reliving the same day for months, eighteen-year-old Barrett reluctantly teams up with her nemesis Miles to escape the time loop, and soon finds herself falling for him, but what she does not know is what they will mean to each other if they finally make it to tomorrow.