Download or read book The Dangerous Edge written by Michael J. Apter and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do many people enjoy risky activities--skydiving, bullfighting, or fast driving--that cause fear in others? Every normal human being seems to need excitement at times, yet for years this need remained largely unstudied. Now a professor of psychology explains why we experience the need for excitement at various times and what happens when excitement-seeking goes wrong.
Download or read book Adrenaline Excitement and Fear written by Jack Holder and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Holder was at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. This his story of his adventures during WWII. He served in the Navy in the Pacific as well as the Atlantic during the war.
Download or read book Pure Excitement written by Joe White and published by Focus on the Family. This book was released on 2019 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that premarital sex is harmful to young adults, drawing on the author's experience as a youth pastor and work with teenagers, and letters and comments from actual teens of peer pressure, date rape, long-term guilt, and unplanned pregnancies.
Download or read book Danger written by Michael J. Apter and published by ONEWorld. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we slow down to look at car accidents? Why would rich people shoplift? What draws people to parachuting, hooliganism, or sadistic sex? These are just some of the questions and conundrums Apter investigates in a fascinating study of our paradoxial appetite for danger and risk-taking. Danger: Our Quest for Excitement explains how even in dangerous situations (often because of them!) anxiety becomes excitement and fear, exhilaration--transforming the horrifying into the heavenly. An intellectual tour de force, Danger throws light on a critically important but often neglected force of human nature and culture.
Download or read book Feeling Excited written by Kirsty Holmes and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young learners are introduced to the colorful and charismatic Can't-Wait A-Gator in this age-appropriate and accessible book about experiencing feelings of excitement. Through this essential material they learn how to connect with and embrace their own feelings of excitement and express themselves in a healthy manner. This fun look at feelings features a unique comic book design, vibrant photographs, and adorable illustrations, that draw in readers to relate to the important subject matter. Readers recognize how to understand and express their own feelings through this exciting text.
Download or read book Excitement Adventure and Really Wild Things written by Dana Hughes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Raikes wants to escape. Her whole life, she expected something important to happen, but she has a dead end job, lives in Texas, and is transgender to boot. Things are not going well. When the sun goes out, her first response is: "Finally." Five minutes later, the sun switches back on, and everybody acts like nothing happened. Only Alice and her friends remember the Five Minute Darkness, but they cannot explain it. When Alice discovers a mysterious silver sphere, it turns out to be an Artifact of Doom that puts her and her friends on a collision course with the mysterious Five, who have manipulated history and have a grudge against them -- for reasons Alice and her friends are unaware. Complicating things is a madwoman named Katherine who wants to kill every version of herself in existence, because reasons. Little does anyone realize the Five Minute Darkness is symptomatic of a bigger problem created by the Five, which threatens to tear their universes apart. It figures Alice's One Great Thing would be the End of the World. "Excitement, Adventure, and Really Wild Things" is Book One in the Navigator series, a sci-fi superhero space opera fantasy. (Phew!) Starting from a world similar (but not identical) to our own, it introduces our luckless "heroes" and shoves them face first into a cosmos where time travel, gender-bending, and parallel universes are par for the course. It also has an unhealthy obsession with the number five. It is anti-authoritarian, a little bit queer, and laced with geek humor.
Download or read book Engineer Enthusiast Excitement written by Scott Hoag and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how Scott T. Hoag, former Team Mustang Customization Manager, marshaled resources within the Ford Motor Company to produce two legendary nameplates, the 2001 Bullitt and 2003/04 Mach 1 Mustangs. This narrative represents the passion, vision, and focus that a long-time enthusiast engineer brought to the table. The end results are two special feature cars that gained strong followings among the Ford Mustang faithful.
Download or read book A Little Excitement written by Marc Harshman and published by Dodd Mead. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of the winter, Jimmy wishes for a little excitement and, to his dismay, gets it.
Download or read book Excited Delirium Syndrome written by Theresa G. DiMaio and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a routine investigation, a suspect turns hostile. The officers on the scene spring into action and get the suspect under control by handcuffing him. Though the suspect has been successfully subdued he dies shortly thereafter A psychiatric patient suddenly becomes violent. The hospital staff struggles to control the patient
Download or read book Exciting Times written by Naoise Dolan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living—and guaranteed to please.” —Vogue A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM: The New York Times Book Review * Vogue * TIME * Marie Claire * Elle * O, the Oprah Magazine * The Washington Post * Esquire * Harper's Bazaar * Bustle * PopSugar * Refinery 29 * LitHub * Debutiful An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled in a love triangle with a male banker and a female lawyer Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than "I like you a great deal." Enter Edith. A Hong Kong–born lawyer, striking and ambitious, Edith takes Ava to the theater and leaves her tulips in the hallway. Ava wants to be her—and wants her. And then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong... Should Ava return to the easy compatibility of her life with Julian or take a leap into the unknown with Edith? Politically alert, heartbreakingly raw, and dryly funny, Exciting Times is thrillingly attuned to the great freedoms and greater uncertainties of modern love. In stylish, uncluttered prose, Naoise Dolan dissects the personal and financial transactions that make up a life—and announces herself as a singular new voice.
Download or read book The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers And Other Gruesome Tales written by Jen Campbell and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jen Campbell's collection of terrifyingly gruesome tales lends a modern edge to fairy tale collections for young readers. Drawing on her extensive knowledge of fairy tale history, Campbell's stories undo the censoring, gender stereotyping and twee endings of more modern children's fairy tales, to return both classic and little-known stories to their grim versions, whilst celebrating a diverse range of characters. Featuring 14 short stories from around the globe, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers is illustrated in a contemporary style by Canadian comic artist Adam de Souza. De Souza's brooding illustrations are a highly original blend of 19th-century Gothic engravings and moody film noir graphic novels. Beautifully produced in a hardback format with a rose gold ribbon marker, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers is a truly thrilling gift.
Download or read book Active Learning written by Charles C. Bonwell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the nature of active learning at the higher education level, the empirical research on its use, the common obstacles and barriers that give rise to faculty resistance, and how faculty and staff can implement active learning techniques. A preliminary section defines active learning and looks at the current climate surrounding the concept. A second section, entitled "The Modified Lecture" offers ways that teachers can incorporate active learning into their most frequently used format: the lecture. The following section on classroom discussion explains the conditions and techniques needed for the most useful type of exchange. Other ways to promote active learning are also described including: visual learning, writing in class, problem solving, computer-based instruction, cooperative learning, debates, drama, role playing, simulations, games, and peer teaching. A section on obstacles to implementing active learning techniques leads naturally to the final section, "Conclusions and Recommendations," which outlines the roles that each group within the university can play in order to encourage the implementation of active learning strategies. The text includes over 200 references and an index. (JB)
Download or read book Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process written by Eric Dunning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do figurational sociologists approach the subjects of sport and leisure? How does their approach differ from other approaches in the field? This major collection, edited by leading writers on sport and leisure, offers a superb introduction to the figurational sociology of sport and leisure. The distinctive features of the approach are clearly explained and contributors show how figurational sociology is applied in the analysis of concrete problems. However, the collection also gives space to critics of the figurational approach. Included here are contributions which claim that the approach is inaccurate, blinkered and irrelevant.
Download or read book Firebird written by James M. Flammang and published by Publications International. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sexual Excitement written by Robert J. Stoller, M.D. and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual excitement is as individual as a fingerprint and as complex as a psychological life-history, For most people it is a melodrama composed of the past and present, building on tensions of risk, mystery, illusion, hostility, and revenge. Consciously or unconsciously, we relive our earliest experiences and become aroused when we can turn the traumas of early life into the triumph of sexual pleasure. Through the story of Belle, a young woman in psychoanalysis, Professor Robert Stoller advances the theory that sexual excitement, from the most aberrant to the relatively normal, is related to hostility, the desire to harm. At the center of Belle’s character is a key erotic fantasy that contains in symbolic language, her sexual autobiography. In fantasy, Belle rewrites the story of her life, exacting mastery over and revenge on the important figures who caused her pain in the distant past. Her adult erotic pleasure is a literal, though hidden and ritualized, victory over the inevitable defeats of childhood.
Download or read book Rational sex ethics written by Walter Franklin Robie and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Action written by Robert McKee and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master of Story, Dialogue, and Character, ACTION offers writers the keys to propulsive storytelling. ACTION explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but wins the war on clichés. Teaming up with the former co-host of The Story Toolkit, Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality by deconstructing the action genre, illuminating the challenges, and, more importantly, demonstrating how to master the demands of plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity. Topics include: Understanding the Four Core Elements of Action Creating the Action Cast Hook, Hold, Pay Off: Design in Action The Action Macguffin Action Set Pieces The Sixteen Action Subgenres A must-add to the McKee storytelling library, ACTION illustrates the principles of narrative drive with precision and clarity by referencing the most popular action movies of our time including: Die Hard, The Star Wars Saga, Dark Knight, The Matrix, and Avengers: Endgame.
