Download or read book Original Bliss written by A. L. Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book Review A brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists. Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and the importance of "interior lives." Edward G. Gluck, she discovers has developed a program that guides lost souls toward contentment. Helen seeks him out, hoping to find an answer. Instead she discovers Gluck's own sadomasochistic obsession, and his profound shame and disgust. And what they both encounter, painfully, is the love each fears and both yearn to embrace. "A darkly comic tale.... [that] is hilariously funny about sexual obsession and brilliantly perceptive about the dynamics of human relationships."--The Baltimore Sun

Download or read book The Geography of Bliss written by Eric Weiner and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

Download or read book Bliss written by and published by Anurag Nath. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century undivided India, there was born a seer. A man in flesh and blood, who changed the very perception of God forever. A seer who blended the so-called opposites of Science and Religion together. He is Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra, the man who would change the very perception of Spirituality forever. This book is among the series of titles which transmits the messages and ideology of this great seer which range from politics to education, from marriage to agriculture, from science to religion, so on and so forth. The aim of this book is just to transmit His messages worldwide so that some depressed soul may find a soothing relief by reading these.

Download or read book Narrative Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women s Writing written by Tudor Balinisteanu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original interdisciplinary analysis of the relations between myth, identity and social reality, involving elements of narratology theory, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and social theory, harnessed to support an argument firmly located in the area of literary criticism. This analysis yields a fairly extensive reinterpretation of the concept of myth, which is applied to the examination of the relationship between narrative and social reality as represented in texts by contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers. The main theoretical sources are Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of heteroglossia, Jacques Derrida’s theories of citationality and Judith Butler’s theories of subjectivity. The analysis framework developed in the book uses these theories to create a new way of understanding how literary texts change readers’ worldviews by enticing them to accept alternative possibilities of cultural expression of identity and social order. The texts analysed in this book reconfigure naturalised stories that have become normative and constraining in conveying identities and visions of legitimate social orders. The book’s focus on feminine identities places it alongside feminist analyses of reconstructions of fairy tales, myths or canonical stories that establish what counts as legitimate feminine identity. Studied here for the first time together, the writers whose texts form the interest of this book continue the revisionist work begun by other women writers who engage with the male generated literary, philosophical and humanist tradition. They share a view of narratives as tools for continually negotiating our identities, social worlds and socialisation scenarios. While the high-level theoretical discourse of the first part of the book requires specialised knowledge, the second part of the book, offering close readings of the texts, is both lively and accessible and should engage the interest of the general reader and academic alike. This book is written for all those who are interested in the power words have to hold sway over our inner and outer (social) worlds.

Download or read book Comporta Bliss written by Carlos Souza and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes compared to the Saint-Tropez of Brigitte Bardot in the 1950s, Comporta, with its relaxed pace and artistic community, is the ideal destination for those looking to wander off course. It’s the newfound favorite of personalities such as Jacques Grange, Farida Khelfa, François Dumas, the Espírito Santo family, and Madonna, who shares photographs of taking her kids to the beach and horseback riding in the dunes of nearby Carvalhal on weekends. This fishing village boasts swaths of beaches, patchworks of rice paddies, and an ecosystem filled with storks and frogs, all a serene backdrop for the striking homes found there: rustic cabanas and thatched-roof huts reflecting the carefree lifestyle that has become Comporta’s hallmark. This distinctive setting challenges the minds of architects and designers, yielding unique spaces that delightfully blur the line between interior and exterior. Within these pages, the region’s characteristic cobalt blue is reflected from the sky and sea to the walls, shutters, and design pieces that adorn its homes, both picturesque and bold. Discover the beauty and joy of simplicity with Comporta Bliss

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Download or read book Rewriting Scotland written by Cristie L. March and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting Scotland examines six of the most influential and cutting-edge contemporary Scottish writers as they redefine outmoded notions of Scottish identity. From Irvine Welsh's windows into Scottish youth culture in Trainspotting to Janice Galloway's examinations of the duality of female isolation and empowerment, this unique work reveals new explorations of Scottish gender politics, sexuality, voice, and self-awareness.

Download or read book Active Spirituality written by Kent Ira Groff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993-12-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guidebook for the inquiring layperson seeking a holistic, intelligent look at the spiritual life, and for the pastor or religious professional seeking a systematic framework and spiritual practices to re-ignite the flame of faith. Groff explains what it means to believe and what to do after you say you believe-through a unique integration of spirituality and service, heart and mind, and various faith traditions. Explore five spiritual disciplines: community, solitude, learning, service, and vocation. Great for study groups.

Download or read book Bliss written by Katherine Mansfield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bliss and Other Stories is a 1920 collection of short stories by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield.

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Download or read book Bliss written by Fiona Zedde and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When You Want It All, You've Got To Give It All From the outside, Bliss Sinclair's life seems very glamorous--a high-profile job with a publishing house, a fashionable boyfriend who looks good on her arm, and ultra-chic parties where the come-ons are as hot and thrilling at night as they are empty as an air-kiss greeting the next day. It's a world Bliss wanders through with blinders on, all the while craving more. And she finds it in the most unlikely of places. Embarking on a series of carnal adventures with a notorious bad girl as her guide, Bliss opens herself to every new experience and every taboo. In abandoned warehouses, private fetish clubs, even her own office, Bliss is skating on the thin ice of desire--until her world comes crashing in. Now, broken and wanting, Bliss decides to spend a summer in her birthplace, Jamaica, where she hopes to reconcile with her estranged father and rediscover herself. There, in a land of lush ripeness, of heat, warm breezes, easy smiles, and the family she left behind, Bliss will discover what she didn't know was missing. It's a journey that will awaken every one of her senses and take her to the edge of known pleasure and far beyond it, to a love that is as sexy as it gets, as real as can be, and more surprising than she can imagine--a place of total bliss.

Download or read book Irigaray Incarnation and Contemporary Women s Fiction written by Abigail Rine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the provocative recent work of feminist theorist Luce Irigaray, Irigaray, Incarnation and Contemporary Women's Fiction illuminates the vital and subversive role of literature in rewriting notions of the sacred. Abigail Rine demonstrates through careful readings how a range of contemporary women writers - from Margaret Atwood to Michèle Roberts and Alice Walker – think beyond traditional religious discourse and masculine models of subjectivity towards a new model of the sacred: one that seeks to reconcile the schism between the human and the divine, between the body and the word. Along the way, the book argues that literature is the ideal space for rethinking religion, precisely because it is a realm that cultivates imagination, mystery and incarnation.

Download or read book Pandora s Box Is Burning written by Jenay Zapparelli and published by BookonFire Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​​​​​​There are two kinds of people in the world at the present juncture: the dreaming & awake; the sheeple & un-sheeple; the shadow keepers & the light-bringers. Many people have one foot in both worlds. If you are in limbo, awake... or want to be, this book was made to serve YOU. ***** What you have before you is a masterpiece spawn to pioneer the New Renaissance on “New Earth” in this era of the 21st century Golden Age. Despite a wee bit of irreverent sass, this book is meant to be earnestly undertaken. Bold predictions are made, for the future of our civilization. ***** The mass devastation we currently see taking place on the world stage: war, division, conflict, corruption; crime, injustice, poverty, illness, disease; pollution, wildfires, twisters, death, destruction & disaster... is all just the PURGING of a long lineage of UN-grace, if you will. There is no other way to rid the planet of it, than to draw it to the surface for release, to be transmuted to light. Any stuck pattern & program must unearth in order to be gone for good. Make sense? ***** THIS is what "Pandora's Box is Burning" means. The future of our species depends on it. The burning of Pandora's Box is the catalyst for Humanity's Final Frontier, which is… World Peace, Ahimsa & the law of the land becoming LOVE. Hence, the symbolic transformational feat of the rising phoenix portrayed on the front cover. This is the stage in human evolution where everything is coming to a head on purpose, to be cleared or burned into the fire of transmutation, so PEACE can be possible. Man's turning point, is GOD'S TURN. ***** Note: This book is the final installment of "Thee Trilogy of the Ages" series, which is more like a collection, so the books can be read in any order. ***** ”Wel--come--to--your---life, there’s no turning back.” ***** BookonFire Press~In Love We Trust Self-empowerment/Soul Mastery/Higher Learning/Social Justice/Transformation/Ahimsa/America

Download or read book A Bliss Case written by Michael Aaron Rockland and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English professor turns New Age guru. A New York Times notable book for 1989. "Rockland...scores a hit with this smoothly written first novel, which has a serious message about the virtues of selfishness. This reviewer hasn't laughed so hard since Josh Greenfield and Paul Mazursky's Harry and Tonto."--Booklist

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