Download or read book Erotique Chic written by Thijs Demeulemeester and published by Lannoo Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home is where the glam is. A sexy interior design book with glamorous, cinematic houses from the seventies, eighties, nineties and nillies. Houses with an erotic tension that make you fantasise. Houses that could just as well be a movie set. Houses that make you dream of a wild party rather than a cosy family breakfast. Houses where the shade of Hamilton still wanders around. All of them characteristic and iconic, and top of their architectural class, selected by Thijs Demeulemeester. AUTHOR: Thijs Demeulemeester is a Belgian lifestyle journalist, specialising in interiors, contemporary art and architecture. Athos Burez creates storytelling images with a mix of portraits, still lives and landscapes. He works with staged settings and suggests with huge imagination. Burez balances on the thin line between kitsch and classic. A combination of blurred photography and sharp images results in a perfect composition. Louise Mertens runs her own design studio in Antwerp. She focuses on visual concepts, creative & art direction, brand communication, artwork and design. Her attention to detail and the use of different materials and her interest in the mysterious are some of her trademarks. SELLING POINTS: * Delve into a sensual world of villainous style with these intriguing, sleek houses * This book, designed by Louise Mertens who is the sensation of the moment because of her work with theKardashians, offers a unique look inside glamorous and never before photographed houses. In cooperation with style photographer Athos Burez 260 colour illustrations
Download or read book For the Love of Design written by Steven Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prolific author and co-chair of the MFA Design School of Visual Arts Steven Heller shares his love of design with the world through essays, interviews, and profiles. Design is a living. But to live passion is essential. For the Love of Design is an anthology of Steven Heller's essays that are underscored by the essence that makes designers do what they do, Whether it is to make the environ a better place or communicate important messages or simply enliven the quotidian world, design is everywhere and everything. It is a life force made and appreciated with love. The focus of the anthology is graphic design and typography but these disciplines impact so many other forms of design that it is impossible to ignore them. Through essays, interviews and profiles, Heller captures the essence of what makes artists into designers and what makes design and its makers tick. From the design director of the New York Times discussing how during the pandemic he created the most effective front pages to a collage artist talking about why cutting and pasting scraps of material into dynamic compositions, each story and narrative brings to light ambitions and aspirations they are couched in love for the thinking, making, and doing of design. For the Love of Design is here to show that graphic and other design activities are not just ways of making a living, but living a life.
Download or read book Danger in the Path of Chic written by Lucy Moyse Ferreira and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and destroyed. Danger in the Path of Chic brings this disturbing imagery to light for the first time, proposing new directions for historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years. Concentrating on London, Paris and New York as fashion centres and political allies, the volume explores why horror manifested itself in this way, at this time, and in a sphere that is usually perceived as being built on fantasy and escape. In doing so, Danger in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the very real social, psychological, economic and political traumas of the period.
Download or read book Histoires rotiques Le deuxi me dix written by Vitaly Mushkin and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les dix dernières histoires du maître des romans érotiques de Vitaly Mushkin ont été publiées. Le second diffère des dix premiers non parce que c’est pire, c’est-à-dire qu’il prend la deuxième place. Et ce qui est écrit plus tard. Toutes les œuvres de l’auteur sont classées par ordre chronologique, telles qu’elles sont écrites. Par conséquent, la deuxième dix en qualité peut être meilleure que la première. Bien sûr, c’est à vous de juger, cher lecteur.
Download or read book The London Trilogy written by Edward St. Boniface and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a trilogy about three young men finding the fulfillment of their youthful ambitions, from the late 1980s onwards, in rock music and journalism, up to the present day and middle age. As middle age comes on, each must accept a wider responsibility for their past sins. Having either emigrated to or been born in London, all of them become caught up in tantalising opportunities in the capital to fulfill their ambitions of success and fame. Each of them also finds that success comes with an immense price for them personally, and private failures that unmercifully torment them. Their hopeful idealism and dreams become tainted by ruthlessness, opportunism and betrayal of their principles. As each character grows older, he realises he wants to redeem himself and somehow resolve the worst things he has perpetrated in his life – but true redemption requires genuine sacrifice; one even more intense and difficult than their hard-won successes of the past. It may be more than any of them can endure. All of this happens against the background of London’s fantastic, fabulous variety and wealth and exoticism, opportunity and glamour, corruption and poverty and loneliness and harshness. Its pitfalls, rewards and insatiable demands as a fast-moving cultural and media capital are a significant part of the novel’s tone, with an intensified sense of time and place. Edward St. Boniface takes inspiration from a wide range of authors, including Ray Bradbury, Mark Z. Danielewski and David Foster Wallace. The London Trilogy is a work of adult contemporary fiction that will appeal to fans of highbrow and literary novels, bildungsromans and satire.
Download or read book Erotic Bible to Europe written by Erika Lust and published by La Femme Fatale. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An erotic guide to Europe, where Erika Lust shows the best places: nudist beaches, aphrodisiac restaurants, erotic boutiques, luxury lingerie stores, cabarets, fetish parties, love hotels, swingers' clubs, and many more secrets. A journey through Europe from kinky to chic.
Download or read book Luda written by Grant Morrison and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drag queen initiates her protégée into the magical arts in this phantasmagoric epic, the first novel from the legendary comics writer and New York Times bestselling author. “Grant Morrison is a modern mythmaker.”—Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR Luci LaBang is a star: For decades this flamboyant drag artist has cast a spell over screen and stage. Now she’s the leading lady in a smash hit musical. But as time takes its toll, Luci fears her star is beginning to dim. When Luci’s co-star meets with a mysterious accident, a new ingenue shimmers onto the scene: Luda, whose fantastical beauty and sinister charm infatuate Luci immediately . . . and who bears a striking resemblance to Luci herself at a much younger age. Luda begs Luci to share the secrets of her stardom and to reveal the hidden tricks of her trade. For Luci LaBang is a mistress of the Glamour, a mysterious discipline that draws on sex, drugs, and the occult for its trancelike, transformative effects. But as Luci tutors her young protégée, their fellow actors and crew members begin meeting with untimely ends. Now Luci wonders if Luda has mastered the Glamour all too well . . . and exploited it to achieve her dark ambitions. What follows is an intoxicating descent into the demimonde of Gasglow, a fantastical city of dreams, and into the nightmarish heart of Luda herself: a femme fatale, a phenomenon, a monster, and, perhaps, the brightest star of them all.
Download or read book Burlesque West written by Becki Ross and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-07-25 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West,the first critical history of this notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the North-South route from Los Angeles to Vancouver that provided rotating work for dancers and variety for club clientele. Drawing on extensive archival materials and fifty first-person accounts of former dancers, strip-club owners, booking agents, choreographers, and musicians, Ross reveals stories that are deeply flavoured with an era before "striptease fell from grace because the world stopped dreaming," in the words of ex-dancer Lindalee Tracey. Though jobs in this particular industry are often perceived as having little in common with other sorts of work, retired dancers' accounts resonate surprisingly with those of contemporary service workers, including perceptions of unionization and workplace benefits and hazards. Ross also traces the sanitization and subsequent integration of striptease style and neo-burlesque trends into mass culture, examining continuity and change to ultimately demonstrate that Vancouver's glitzy nightclub scene, often condemned as a quasi-legal strain of urban blight, in fact greased the economic engine of the post-war city. Provocative and challenging, Burlesque West combines the economic, the social, the sexual, and the personal, and is sure to intellectually tantalize.
Download or read book The Flirt written by Kathleen Tessaro and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector comes this charming, witty novel about a “professional” flirt. “Unique situation for an attractive, well-mannered, morally flexible young man. Hours irregular. Pay generous. Discretion a must…” When struggling, out-of-work actor, Hughie Venables-Smythe sees the mysterious job description in the classifieds, he’s convinced he’s found his destiny. For, though he’s become accustomed to running out of credit on his cell phone, sleeping on his sister’s sofa, and begging the waitress at the local café to let him slide yet again on his bill, he longs to treat his lover—the sexy, sophisticated, and amorously ruthless lingerie designer, Leticia Vane, to the finer things in life. But how is he to win her heart if he can’t even pay for dinner? When he learns that his lucrative new position means flirting with married women who have been neglected by their spouses, he can’t believe his luck. Soon initiated into the extraordinary secret fraternity of the Professional Flirt, Hughie promises to have an exceptional career ahead of him. However, the life of a Flirt is a curiously lonely calling and there’s one absolute rule his new employer has: he must remain single. Only—how can he live without the delicious Leticia Vane? Surely, there’s nothing wrong with using a few of his newly polished romantic skills on the side to quietly seduce the woman he loves . . . is there? As clueless as he is handsome, Hughie gamely decides to throw his already complicated life into utter chaos . . . and discovers exactly why a Flirt’s professional and personal life should never mix.
Download or read book The Clarksons written by J. Hayes Hurley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rural New Hampshire and on to New York, Paris, and London, The Clarksons is a panoramic tale of a multi-generational family of novelists and publishers, who play out sometimes loving, sometimes parasitic relationships with one another. J. Hayes Hurley is a novelist and a philosopher. He is the author of sixteen novels including "Diary of the Attending Rays" and "Those Brownsville Blues." He holds a Ph.D in philosophy from Yale University.
Download or read book Nobody s Perfect written by Anthony Lane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Lane on Con Air— “Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about as dangerous as balloons.” Anthony Lane on The Bridges of Madison County— “I got my copy at the airport, behind a guy who was buying Playboy’s Book of Lingerie, and I think he had the better deal. He certainly looked happy with his purchase, whereas I had to ask for a paper bag.” Anthony Lane on Martha Stewart— “Super-skilled, free of fear, the last word in human efficiency, Martha Stewart is the woman who convinced a million Americans that they have the time, the means, the right, and—damn it—the duty to pipe a little squirt of soft cheese into the middle of a snow pea, and to continue piping until there are ‘fifty to sixty’ stuffed peas raring to go.” For ten years, Anthony Lane has delighted New Yorker readers with his film reviews, book reviews, and profiles that range from Buster Keaton to Vladimir Nabokov to Ernest Shackleton. Nobody’s Perfect is an unforgettable collection of Lane’s trademark wit, satire, and insight that will satisfy both the long addicted and the not so familiar.
Download or read book End of Days written by J. A. Bouma and published by EmmausWay Press. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Secret Past. A Hopeless Future. A Prophet with the Promise to Save. Silas Grey is finished fighting the good fight. Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt — for both Uncle Sam and Christ's Church. He's got the scars to prove it — personal ones and physical ones that go deep. So he has taken leave of the Order of Thaddeus, handing his Master reins over to his wife, Celeste Bourne. He's also returned back to his first love: the classroom. That's when everything changes — in the world, in his world. Which ignites a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma that forces him to do the one thing he left behind — the one thing that brought so much personal pain. Fight to protect the Church. Not only that, a series of events rock the world that force him to fight for humanity itself. Confusing events that provoke him and his SEPIO agents along with the rest of the world to ask the unthinkable: Is this the end of days? Stepping up to the plate to offer an answer is a charismatic figure with an enigmatic past who promises humanity their salvation — joining his hopeful message with signs and wonders that threaten to lead the world astray. In a race against time, Silas and SEPIO must not only discover what this rising power means for the Church — for the very souls of humanity. They must also stop it before it fully manifests itself and drags those souls to hell. Long time fans will discover a surprising family secret long buried. New readers will devour this briskly paced action-adventure page-turner leveraging the familiar conspiracy suspense of Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child and Steve Berry, wrapped in the special-ops thrill of Clive Cussler and James Rollins. Join SEPIO in this harrowing mystery fighting for the Church's faith and humanity's soul!
Download or read book My Escape written by Benoîte Groult and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groult chronicles her growth through successive phases--as an obedient little girl, a troubled adolescent, a submissive wife--until finally becoming a liberated novelist. Here she recounts her choices, her friendships, her marriages, motherhood, and her fights for women's rights. At ninety-one years old, she concludes that she has been, and still is, a happy woman--lucky to have conquered her freedoms, one by one, paying for them, delighting in them, and loving them. Sexy, chatty, and full of shrewd insight, "My Escape" covers her years of struggle and success--as a daughter, lover, writer, wife, mother, and reluctant socialite--and draws a portrait of the role of French women in the twentieth century.
Download or read book Youth Fantasies The Perverse Landscape of the Media written by jan jagodzinski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy'; as manifested through the media of TV, film, and computer games. Unlike other media studies and education books, the authors employ both Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalytic concepts to attempt to make sense of teen culture and the influence of mass media. The collection includes case studies of X-Files fans, the influence of computer games and the 'Lara Croft' phenomenon, and the reception of Western television by Tanzanian youth. The authors see this book as a much needed reconciliation between cultural studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and attempt to highlight why Lacan is important to note when exploring youth fantasy and interest in the media, especially in shows like X-Files .
Download or read book Sex Work in Contemporary Russia written by Emily Schuckman Matthews and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex Work in Russia weaves together a wide range of materials to examine the figure of the female sex worker in Russia from the early twentieth century to the present day. This book offers readers both an expansive and nuanced discussion of the significance of this archetypal female who appears with remarkable frequency in literature, film, and other cultural productions. Emily Schuckman Matthews explores the ways in which the fictional sex worker (and her real-life counterpart) has become a symbolic representative of social and moral instability, economic volatility, political, social, and ideological revolutions, and changing concepts of gender, sexuality, and the nation itself. Focus is given to the movement of the female sex worker from marginal foil to a hero in her own right, even finding a voice of her own in recent years. Works featuring this alluring and complex figure reveal critical insights into the changing position of women and other marginalized people in a volatile Russia.
Download or read book All of the People All of the Time written by Jarol B. Manheim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the uses and abuses of political communication in contemporary American society, employing numerous anecdotes and examples and drawings upon the latest research and theories of communication and political science in America.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-08-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
