Download or read book Fateful Encounters written by B. Wild and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Central Park, New York, a young woman asks a tourist for help. The meeting sparks off a series of other encounters, and a dangerous hide and seek game ensues. He can run, he can hide, he can outwit his pursuers, but in the process the Tourist loses everything, including his identity and control over his own fate. Is he a pawn in a political game of international relations? Is he at the mercy of a powerful and ruthless megalomaniac businessman-the controlling father of the young woman? Or is he simply a very insecure, passive man who becomes a victim of his own self-fulfilling prophecy?
Download or read book Fateful Encounters written by J. Weck and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of fateful encounters between lovers and rivals, friends and strangers. Tales of love, hate, vengeance, romance, family love and loss and abuse, social issues, and bit of fantasy. A collection of short stories originally published separately in literary journals and includes several plays produced in NJ and Pa theaters.
Download or read book Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters written by Ethel S. Person and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study has been widely hailed for its focus on a human emotion generally considered impervious to rational analysis: romantic, passionate love. Ethel Person views romantic love as a powerful agent of change, arguing that it is as central to human culture as it is to human existence. This new edition of Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters emphasizes the relevance of passion not only to lovers but also to mental health professionals whose patients often enter treatment because of love-related issues -- from the inability to love or make a commitment to the perils of extramarital love to love sickness or loss of love. She forthrightly addresses not only the power of love to unlock the soul but also its inherent paradoxes and conflicts. Employing a philosophical perspective in order to understand the existential dilemmas posed by love, and a cultural perspective in order to understand its cultural variability, Dr. Person breaks with contemporary intellectual and philosophical dismissive assumptions about romantic love. She acknowledges love's vital importance and power, proposing that passion serves an important function not only for the individual but also for the culture while charging psychoanalysis with a reductionist emphasis on sexuality and psychopathology that has narrowed the focus of inquiry into love. Among the issues she discusses are: romantic love's sources in our early lives, its relationship to imagination and creativity, and its capacity to enable the lover to transcend the self how romantic love often demands a reordering of values and promotes personal growth by exposing the self to new risks and possibilities the transformational potential of transference love in the therapy process flaws in the common misperception that women are more influenced by romantic love than men considerations of homosexual love, love across generations, and love triangles, focusing on the individual growth that can result from such relationships Citing accounts of love drawn from literature, film, and real life, Person focuses on the lover's internal soliloquy and external dialogue with the beloved that can develop over an individual's life. An uplifting resource for people experiencing failing or unorthodox romances, Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters boldly takes on issues pertinent to lovers, to professionals who encounter patients for whom key conflicts revolve around romantic love, and to anyone who has struggled to understand the importance of romantic love in his or her own life.
Download or read book Dangerous Encounters written by Daniel Touro Linger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Luis. It describes how people think about and negotiate dangerous encounters - vital and disturbing experiences that, when they go wrong, yield moral failure, humiliation, and death. Brazilians, like people elsewhere, worry about the perils of coming face-to-face with the wrong person, at the wrong time, under the wrong circumstances. The book discusses two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-face encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. When playing becomes fighting, Carnival's samba, fueled by the controlled venting of dangerous passions, gives way to the explosive pas de deux of the street fight. Sao-luisenses tell vivid, sometimes terrifying, stories of verbal and physical confrontations. Their narratives, based on cultural models of Carnivals and brigas, highlight the vulnerability of the self to humiliation by others and the vulnerability of moral controls to one's own hostile emotions. The book argues that this double sense of social and psychological vulnerability is a product of Brazilian interpersonal relations, which are profoundly marked by the arbitrary exercise of power and the stifling of resentment in subordinates. Culture here consists not of shared symbols but of shared quandaries. The author suggests that Brazilian street fighting is an alarm bell - an inarticulate representation of pressing but poorly understood social and psychological dilemmas. Violence in Sao Luis may therefore be a desperate attempt to understand and come to grips with the very resentment, rooted in the city's harsh social transactions, that engenders it.
Download or read book Fateful Encounters Life is a Story story one written by Nana Rice and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maybe we'll run into each other again." He added before he left. But Neo could only watch him leave, having missed his chance to talk to him more. It was only a brief encounter, yet it changed Neo's life entirely but what made matters even more confusing, it was also the start of a long one-sided love without any chance of meeting that special someone ever again. Or perhaps fate had other plans?
Download or read book Red Velvet written by JP Roth and published by Melange Books, LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic is sacred, but real love is divine. To save them from the Guillotine a spell is cast, and Marie-Thérèse Charlotte of France, daughter of Marie Antoinette, is changed into an owl, her brother, the young dauphin, into a golden stag. The old gypsy witch who repaid a blood debt by saving their lives, takes the princess’s memories and names her Velvet. For eight years Velvet exists safely wrapped in the spell. On her eighteenth year, rumors of her life reach the ears of King George III. In a bout of fearful madness, he orders the death of the French heirs. When soldiers torch their camp, Velvet and her brother, are forced to run for their lives. Nora Hardington, a young woman on a mission into the dangerous underbelly of London, finds Velvet wounded and dying. Risking her own life, she rescues Velvet. Together, they enlist the help of the dark stranger sent to carry out the king’s command. As they search for the spell to return her brother’s humanity, Velvet lives all the sides of life she was previously denied. Her adventures are fraught with assassins, pirates, ancient enchantments, bloody battle, mythical lore, and all manner of dastardly love.
Download or read book Fateful Encounters written by Alan Van Dine and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brief Flights written by Frederic Alling and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcendent experiences have been extensively written about, from a psychological perspective by Freud, William James, Maslow and others. However in recent years, advances in identifying a "self-transcendent" personality trait, a "God Gene" and some of the neurochemical brain activities which occur during transcendent states, have opened up a new depth of understanding about this inside dimension of transcendent phenomena. They also offer science's newest challenge to traditional religious experience and belief. In this book transcendent experiences are described by those in a variety of arenas, including traditional religious practices, close encounters with death and other natural phenomena, creativity and the arts, competitive sports, romantic love, and other areas. Those interested in religion and science, as well many general readers, may come to recognize experiences of their own, which they may not have considered religious or transcendent. They may also find comfort from developing a stronger and deeper foundation for their religious beliefs.
Download or read book Ninja Rising written by Daniel Zaborowski and published by Daniel Zaborowski. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ninja Rising: A Life Dedicated to Ninjutsu" is an immersive exploration of the world of ninjas, offering a captivating journey into their history, combat skills, and life philosophy. This book follows the transformational path of a dedicated ninja, from their early origins and ancestral influences to their initiation rituals and rigorous training. Readers are introduced to the art of embracing shadows, learning about the ninja's stealth and camouflage techniques, as well as their extensive arsenal of tools and equipment. Tales of espionage, surveillance, and counterintelligence showcase the ninja's exceptional ability to gather information unnoticed. The book delves into the intense physical and mental training that shapes a ninja into a master, unveiling their remarkable physical prowess, mental focus, and expertise in weaponry, particularly the sword. The connection between ninjas and the natural world is explored through elemental techniques. Throughout the book, readers encounter stories of the ninja's trials and triumphs, facing adversity, and seeking personal growth. Legends and historical figures are revealed, alongside the enduring impact of ninjas on popular culture. "Ninja Rising" concludes by summarizing the transformative journey of a life dedicated to ninjutsu, inspiring readers to embrace their own paths of discipline, perseverance, and self-discovery.
Download or read book As Time Goes By written by Abigail Trafford and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring book, best-selling author Abigail Trafford describes how people over fifty are rewriting the script of love and in the process redefining the institution of marriage for future generations. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of men and women, married and single, gay and straight, Trafford explores what it means to love and be loved in the decades after midlife - and offers solutions to the most common problems that define this period, such as ''retired spouse syndrome'' and divorce. Wise and compassionate, As Time Goes By is an essential guide to the pursuit of love and happiness in this dynamic stage of life.
Download or read book Trinity written by Frank Close and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times "Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR. Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the Second World War and the following Cold War, the book traces how Peierls brought Fuchs into his family and his laboratory, only to be betrayed. It describes in unprecedented detail how Fuchs became a spy, his motivations and the information he passed to his Soviet contacts, both in the UK and after he went with Peierls to join the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1944. Frank Close is himself a distinguished nuclear physicist: uniquely, the book explains the science as well as the spying. Fuchs returned to Britain in August 1946 still undetected and became central to the UK's independent effort to develop nuclear weapons. Close describes the febrile atmosphere at Harwell, the nuclear physics laboratory near Oxford, where many of the key players were quartered, and the charged relationships which developed there. He uncovers fresh evidence about the role of the crucial VENONA signals decryptions, and shows how, despite mistakes made by both MI5 and the FBI, the net gradually closed around Fuchs, building an intolerable pressure which finally cracked him. The Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear device in August 1949, far earlier than the US or UK expected. In 1951, the US Congressional Committee on Atomic Espionage concluded, 'Fuchs alone has influenced the safety of more people and accomplished greater damage than any other spy not only in the history of the United States, but in the history of nations'. This book is the most comprehensive account yet published of these events, and of the tragic figure at their centre.
Download or read book Samara Around written by Omar Hussein Siraj and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this novel argues that the Ancient Egyptian witches from more than three thousand years realized the thin thread that binds all things and melts all beings into a cosmic unity. They used the human emotions with the practice of witchcraft as means to communicate with the spiritual entities which live in the world of Haven since both are of one origin.
Download or read book For the Love of Spirit written by Liz Winter and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Love of Spirit was created to inspire, uplift, and entertain. This is a true story of an average girl, Liz, who became a psychic medium and went on to inspire many. Based in Australia, the story tells of synchronistic events from the 1960s to the present time, from the authors first psychic experience at the age of four to learning and later teaching psychic development, giving private readings and public demonstrations. For the Love of Spirit includes not only memoir but offers insights and wisdom to further ones knowledge about spirit communication, spiritual protection, angels, and spirit guides. Liz struggles with love, with parenting and basic survival, and yet all along has the support of Spirit and her personal spirit guide, White Owl. An enchanting memoir, creatively woven with insight and wisdom.
Download or read book Optimal Experience written by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes enjoyment of life? Optimal Experience offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical and empirical investigations of the 'flow' experience, a desirable or optimal state of consciousness that enhances a person's psychic state. The authors show the diverse contexts and circumstances in which flow is reported in different cultures, and describe its positive emotional impacts. They reflect on ways in which the ability to experience flow affects work satisfaction, academic success, and the overall quality of life
Download or read book Re ZERO Starting Life in Another World Vol 8 light novel written by Tappei Nagatsuki and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SAVE POINTS ARE NO EXCUSE FOR SLOTH.The harrowing battle against the White Whale has finally been won, meaning Subaru can focus on returning to the Mathers domain. This time, with soldiers from the expeditionary force as well as Julius at his back, he is ready to fight the Witch Cult raiders who are under the command of the Archbishop of Sloth, Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti! In order to thwart the madman's plot to inflict unspeakable tragedy upon Emilia and everyone else Subaru cares about, Subaru uses what little he has learned from Return by Death. Realizing that he can't save them alone, Subaru will beg, plead, and cooperate with whomever it takes to defy fate itself!
Download or read book World Light written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet’s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this extraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf’s ambition drives him onward—and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women—World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.
Download or read book The Management of Mergers and Acquisitions written by Philippe Very and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Management of Mergers and Acquisitions is far away from the perfect, polished presentations of the merchant bankers in which value creation is all too often just the result of a well-executed PowerPoint presentation. Philippe Very takes us into the real world where management is the key word - management of the expected and the unexpected, of rationality and emotions, of processes and people. He combines the expertise of the researcher with live business cases. This makes his book extremely easy and enjoyable to read and at the same time builds the knowledge and the understanding of the reader quickly and effectively. A perfect vade mecum that every stakeholder in a merger and acquisition should read: bankers, consultants, buyers, sellers, CEO’s and management." Richard Simonin, Chief Executive Officer, Harrods Ltd "Having worked with Philippe on a number of research projects, I have the highest respect for his abilities, motivation, and character. What he writes, I want to read." Mike Lubatkin, Professor of Management and Wolf Family Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship, University of Connecticut, Professor of Management at EM Lyon "Philippe Very delivers a detailed guide to the entire merger and acquisition process – from identifying a target to completing the integration phase. His highly original style, combines cliffhanger fictional stories with authoritative research results. Both M&A professionals and business students will take away a deeper understanding of the M&A process along with action points based on real-life problems." Dr Stephen Gates, Principal Researcher, The Conference Board "At last, a lively and entertaining management book. With little or no business experience, the case studies will give you a feel for the complexity of M&A situations. With more experience, you will quickly identify with challenges that you have faced yourself. In all cases, however good your planning and anticipation skills, expect to face the unknown. You are dealing with organizations and people: each one has expectations, frustrations, and an ego." Eric Bonnot, CEO, Audax – Basic System
