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Book For Desire Alone

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  • Author : Jess Michaels
  • Publisher : The Passionate Pen
  • Release : 2012-10-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book For Desire Alone written by Jess Michaels and published by The Passionate Pen. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second sensual historical romance in the Mistress Matchmaker series from USA Today Bestselling Author Jess Michaels. A mistress should never be foolish enough to fall in love with her protector, nor trust him with her financial future. Mariah Desmond did both, and now her dearly departed protector has left her with nothing. Forced to seek another protector, she's determined that this time, she'll lead with her survival instinct-not her heart. But when she attends one of Vivien Manning's infamous parties, the familiar face of her late lover's best friend throws her for a loop. A painful past taught John Rycroft that he's not fit to be anyone's knight in shining armor. His soft spot-make that a hard spot-for Mariah is precisely why he's kept his distance. Yet the sight of her flirting with a bevy of men vying to become her next lover makes something inside him snap. As John hauls her bodily away from her suitors, Mariah's indignation melts away in the heat of the sizzling sexual chemistry. She quickly finds it isn't easy to navigate John's stormy emotional waters. Especially when his abusive father's quest to get his son back under his thumb puts her life in danger. Length: Full Length Novel Heat Level: Lots. This book is the second book in the Mistress Matchmaker series.

Book My Heart s Desire

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  • Author : David Jeremiah
  • Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 1591450004
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book My Heart s Desire written by David Jeremiah and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God desires for us to live every moment in this type of wonder. But for many of us, the wide-eyed astonishment we once experienced in God's presence has all but vanished. We may genuinely worship God on Sunday mornings, but then we spend the rest of the week yearning to rediscover that sense of awe. --back cover.

Book Desire

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  • Author : Timo Airaksinen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-02-06
  • ISBN : 135152254X
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Desire written by Timo Airaksinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desire is a rich term meaning wish and want, willingness and relish, appetite and lust. This volume is an effort to analyse the concept of desire and its different practical contexts from a morally philosophic point of view. By analysing multiple definitions and studying underlying motivations, the authors offer a variety of explanations and interpretations. The volume consists of three main parts. The first part, "Desire and Practice," examines desire as a mental state that seeks personal satisfaction. The second part of the volume, "Desire and Moral Life," explores social, cultural, and literary facets of desire. Finally, in the third part, "Business Ethics and Other Contexts," the authors apply PR axiological principles to the business world, examining the conflict between frugality and consumerist ideology, the role of intuition in decision-making, and the need for design education as the basis of effective planning. The contributors to this, the newest volume in Transaction's Praxeology series, seek to explore desire in PR axiological terms, with an eye toward the three E's of praxeology: ethics, effectiveness, and efficiency. In doing so, they demonstrate that desire is central for practical activity in general and work in particular.

Book The Decision of Desire

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  • Author : Silvia Lippi
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2020-04-14
  • ISBN : 145296291X
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book The Decision of Desire written by Silvia Lippi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissance Of all of Lacan’s reconceptualizations of Freudian psychoanalytic discourse, the most misunderstood are those concerning human beings’ relation to the unconscious play of desire and the neurosis stemming from their attachment to the phallic function. An interpretive tour de force that engages works by surrealists such as André Breton, canonical writers like William Faulkner and James Joyce, and the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, and Baruch Spinoza, The Decision of Desire is groundbreaking in its proposal that each of us can seek out and reimagine our relation to the infinite aporias of desire and thereby detach from its destructive, repetitive forms in favor of joy and affirmation. Providing insight to the lay reader of psychoanalytic theory as much as to practicing psychoanalysts, The Decision of Desire is a bold reengagement with the legacy of the notion of desire within psychoanalysis and the quandary of how to assume responsibility for desires. For if desire is always already that of the Other and the unconscious, and also a decision that escapes our consciousness of ourselves, how can we assume an ethical relation to it that avoids the vicious circle of disappointment, neurosis, and destruction? Such is the decision of desire attempted within Silvia Lippi’s profound development of a contemporary psychoanalytic thought.

Book Transforming Desire

Download or read book Transforming Desire written by Lauren Silberman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century. In these books, Spenser exposes fictions of total control for what they are—fictions. The text affirms the value of risk and improvisation over the temptation to seek guarantees. The books examine the role of desire in moving us to function in an uncertain world and tempting us to foreclose that uncertainty by strategies that seek to frame knowledge through total mastery of it.

Book Divided Desire

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  • Author : Kenny Damara
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2013-12-17
  • ISBN : 1625642113
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Divided Desire written by Kenny Damara and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can your ultimate desire ever be fulfilled? Everywhere you look, every time you listen, with each click and tap, there's something you desire. How do you know if what you desire will satisfy, or if you are seeing a "desire mirage"? The global village presents countless ways to connect to all kinds of information. We think we can scarcely live without these connections. Do we realize, however, that these connections often block or slow down connections to God, self, and others? Divided Desire is a journey along the road of desire--a road everyone travels. Along the journey, Kenny Damara explores why we desire what we desire in the global village today. What role does God have in fulfilling the ultimate desire of the heart? And how should we respond?

Book Unveiling Desire

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  • Author : Devaleena Das
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-16
  • ISBN : 0813587867
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Unveiling Desire written by Devaleena Das and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists the temptation to then focus on the veil, geisha, sati, or Muslim women’s oppression without exploring Eastern women’s sexuality beyond these contexts. The chapters cover instead mind/body sexual politics, patriarchal cultural constructs, the anatomy of sex and power in relation to myth and culture, denigration of female anatomy, and gender performativity. From Persepolis to Bollywood, and from fairy tales to crime fiction, the contributors to Unveiling Desire show how the struggle for women’s liberation is truly global.

Book Manifesting Your Heart s Desire

Download or read book Manifesting Your Heart s Desire written by Fred Fengler and published by Heartlight Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Manifesting Your Heart's Desire, Book 1" relates experiences of personal growth, told in the words of a group of travelers who went after their dreams: their challenges, joys, disappointments, surprises, insights, and inspirations.

Book Hegel s Dialectic of Desire and Recognition

Download or read book Hegel s Dialectic of Desire and Recognition written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents three generations of German, French, and Anglo-American thinking on the Hegelian narrative of desire, recognition, and alienation in life, labor, and language--a narrative that has been subject to extensive commentary in philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and feminist thought. The texts focus on a central topos in Western thought, the story of self-consciousness awakened in nature and in history. John O'Neill argues that current postmodern rejections of the Hegelian-Marxist narrative demand an understanding of the texts included here. Without Hegel and Marx in our toolbox, he argues, we will flounder in a world marked by the split between postmodern indifference and premodern passion. The book makes a strong selection from the history of Hegelian-Marxist debate, hermeneutical and critical theory, and Freudian/Lacanian and feminist commentary on the dialectic of desire and recognition, on the levels of social psychology and political economy. Included are articles by Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Alexandre Kojève, Jean Hyppolite, Jean-Paul Sarte, Georg Lukács, Jürgen Habermas, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Howard Adelman, Shlomo Avineri, Jessica Benjamin, Edward S. Casey and J. Melvin Woody, Henry S. Harris, George Armstrong Kelly, Ludwig Siep, Judith N. Shklar, and Henry Sussman. The texts and commentaries show how the Hegelian-Maxist narrative of desire, recognition, and alienation is a contested story, one in which class, race, and gender issues are drawn into a historical romance that is being rewritten in contemporary cultural politics.

Book Life of Desire

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  • Author : Sara A.
  • Publisher : BlueRose Publishers
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9387923002
  • Pages : 111 pages

Download or read book Life of Desire written by Sara A. and published by BlueRose Publishers. This book was released on with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These moments are based around dreams - the process of falling asleep, and turning into a character in the subconscious mind. The characters and stories that come to me in dreams are often the inspiration behind the experiences, but more in the sense that everything is hazy, nostalgic, and tinged with colors and déjà vu. Through each strange incident of our lives, we can often look back, through specific moments to our happy and sad times when our young, thoughtless hearts were free and unbound. We thought of the future as some bright and sunny landscape, and as youth advanced we began to build castles in the air, little did we know then that those were just delusional visions. Now, these moments are etched within us like a diary that peaks into our souls, wherein, is penned all the happiness, pain, trials and troubles of growing up, a chart on which our track is marked, pointing out all the dangers we have safely traveled through, on our voyage of life.

Book Desire and Love in Henry James

Download or read book Desire and Love in Henry James written by David Bruce McWhirter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-05-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With painful consistency, Henry James denied his characters the experience of fulfilled love. Yet in the final pages of The Golden Bowl, James affirms and celebrates the renewal of Maggie Verver's marriage and the consummation of her passion. McWhirter argues that James' last three novels in fact embody a radical refashioning of his vision.

Book Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy

Download or read book Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy written by Christopher G. Framarin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances an original interpretation of the orthodox Indian theories of motivation in light of the Indian prohibition on desire and evaluates its consequences for Indian ethics and soteriology.

Book The Eclectic Medical Journal

Download or read book The Eclectic Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Desire   Sacred Romance 2 in 1

Download or read book Desire Sacred Romance 2 in 1 written by John Eldredge and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desire. We all share the same dilemma--we long for life, and we're not sure where to find it. We must journey to find the life we prize. And the guide we have been given is the desire set deep within, the desire we often overlook or even choose to ignore. But God is calling to you through the desires of your heart. How you respond will set the course for the rest of your life.

Book Desire Study Guide

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Eldredge
  • Publisher : HarperChristian Resources
  • Release : 2007-10-14
  • ISBN : 1418566101
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Desire Study Guide written by John Eldredge and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2007-10-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Above all else," Scripture urges, "guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life" -Proverbs 4:23 But how? How do we follow this warning? How do we protect our hearts in this dangerous story in which we live? It all depends, says John Eldredge, on how you handle desire. "How you handle your heart's desire is how you handle your heart. And how you handle desire also reeals what you think of God. We've been told to kill desire and call it sanctification. But there is another way." In this companion to the book Desire, Craig McConnell and John Eldredge show you the path to a deeper, more passionate, and more fulfilling walk with God by helping you recover and navigate the deep desires of your heart. Designed for personal use and for study groups, this guide will help you: Uncover the desires God has placed in your heart when he made you. Resurrect your heart from disappointment and unmet desire, so you can hope and dream again. Expose the impostors that cheat our desires and trap our hearts in addiction. Embrace desire as an act of faith. Walk with God in the journey of desire.

Book Closer and Closer Apart

Download or read book Closer and Closer Apart written by Rosemary H. Lloyd and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envy, Rosemary Lloyd says, involves what one would like to have but does not; jealousy, what one has but fears losing. Lloyd demonstrates in Closer and Closer Apart how the passion unleashed by jealousy can illuminate such concepts as self and other, gender and society. Jealousy, in her view, exerts a powerful attraction in literature, partly because it distorts the individual's perceptions of the other in highly productive ways, and partly because it serves as paradigms for reading and for storytelling. In this accessible and elegantly crafted book, Lloyd explores sexual jealousy more as a literary devise than as a literary theme. She draws her examples from novels, plays, and poetry spanning many years and from many countries, mainly nineteenth- and twentieth-century France and England but also Russia, Poland, Germany, Italy, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Among the writers she treats are Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Charlotte Brontë, Trollope, Barthes, and Baudelaire. After discussing various portraits of the jealous lover, Lloyd asks to what extent the literary experience of jealousy has been colored by conventional images of male and female roles. She also examines the ways in which the jealous lover deals with the "other"—whether beloved or rival. Finally, she looks at jealousy as a desire for control, represented through images of incorporation and possession.

Book believe in yourself

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  • Author : rex gamble
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book believe in yourself written by rex gamble and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: