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Book Passion s Shadow

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  • Author : Nicole Conn
  • Publisher : Bella Books
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 1642472980
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Passion s Shadow written by Nicole Conn and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lindsay Brennan is a Portland architect whose devotion to her work takes the place of other things in her life. Sondra Pinchot, an interior designer, has always depended on the comfort of alcohol. And Samantha, Sondra’s dutiful daughter, is trapped in an affair that’s become nothing but a habit. Now fate brings the three women together and their private addictions give way to deeper passions. But sometimes love can be an addiction too. Originally published by Simon & Schuster 1995.

Book In Passion s Shadow

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  • Author : Sandra Du Bay
  • Publisher : Sphere
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780708830673
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book In Passion s Shadow written by Sandra Du Bay and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1987 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Passion s Shadow

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  • Author : Sandra DuBay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988-09-01
  • ISBN : 9780843926866
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book In Passion s Shadow written by Sandra DuBay and published by . This book was released on 1988-09-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovely Catrina Lynleigh, fleeing a planned marriage, found herself kidnapped and purchased from an infamous whoremonger. Her "owner" was handsome Flint Ashton who ignited her with white-hot flames of passion, but how could Catrina know he was actually the man she had already refused to marry?

Book The Body as Shadow

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  • Author : Eleanor Limmer
  • Publisher : Balboa Press
  • Release : 2014-04
  • ISBN : 1452594368
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book The Body as Shadow written by Eleanor Limmer and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Body is very often the personification of this shadow of the ego. Sometimes it forms the skeleton in the cupboard," wrote Carl Jung, "and everybody naturally wants to get rid of such a thing." Through the symbolism of illness and physical symptoms, our bodies reflect the darkness and the light the shadow holds for us until we are ready to accept it. It is the shadow-face of our souls that holds the light and the darkness until we are strong enough to face and heal what we have previously denied or rejected about ourselves. Our bodies and their ailments are not our enemies, and neither are our shadows. The shadow reveal the negative ego patterns we had previously rejected or denied, through the messages of our illnesses, so we can recognize, forgive, and heal them. The shadow is the ally of our true self and the enemy of our negative egos.

Book The Advocate

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996-04-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-04-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Book The Passions

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  • Author : P. M. S. Hacker
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2017-12-18
  • ISBN : 1118951875
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book The Passions written by P. M. S. Hacker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of astonishing breadth and penetration. No cognitive neuroscientist should ever conduct an experiment in the domain of the emotions without reading this book, twice. Parashkev Nachev, Institute of Neurology, UCL There is not a slack moment in the whole of this impressive work. With his remarkable facility for making fine distinctions, and his commitment to lucidity, Peter Hacker has subtly characterized those emotions such as pride, shame, envy, jealousy, love or sympathy which make up our all too human nature. This is an important book for philosophers but since most of its illustrative material comes from an astonishing range of British and European literature, it is required reading also for literary scholars, or indeed for anyone with an interest in understanding who and what we are. David Ellis, University of Kent Human beings are all subject to boundless flights of joy and delight, to flashes of anger and fear, to pangs of sadness and grief. We express our emotions in what we do, how we act, and what we say, and we can share our emotions with others and respond sympathetically to their feelings. Emotions are an intrinsic part of the human condition, and any study of human nature must investigate them. In this third volume of a major study in philosophical anthropology which has spanned nearly a decade, one of the most preeminent living philosophers examines and reflects upon the nature of the emotions, advancing the view that novelists, playwrights, and poets – rather than psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists – elaborate the most refined descriptions of their role in human life. In the book’s early chapters, the author analyses the emotions by situating them in relation to other human passions such as affections, appetites, attitudes, and agitations. While presenting a detailed connective analysis of the emotions, Hacker challenges traditional ideas about them and criticizes misconceptions held by philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists. With the help of abundant examples and illustrative quotations from the Western literary canon, later sections investigate, describe, and disentangle the individual emotions – pride, arrogance, and humility; shame, embarrassment, and guilt; envy and jealousy; and anger. The book concludes with an analysis of love, sympathy, and empathy as sources of absolute value and the roots of morality. A masterful contribution, this study of the passions is essential reading for philosophers of mind, psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, students of Western literature, and general readers interested in understanding the nature of the emotions and their place in our lives.

Book The Advocate

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997-06-24
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Book Shadows of Passion

Download or read book Shadows of Passion written by Patricia Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vehement Passions

Download or read book The Vehement Passions written by Philip Fisher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense grief at the death of someone in our life discloses the contours of that life to us. Wonder spurs scientific inquiry. The strong current of Western thought that idealizes a dispassionate world has ostracized the passions as quaint, even dangerous. Intense states have come to be seen as symptoms of pathology. A fondness for irony along with our civic ideal of tolerance lead us to prefer the diluted emotional life of feelings and moods. Demonstrating enormous intellectual originality and generosity, Philip Fisher meditates on whether this victory is permanent-and how it might diminish us. From Aristotle to Hume to contemporary biology, Fisher finds evidence that the passions have defined a core of human nature no less important than reason or desire. Traversing the Iliad, King Lear, Moby Dick, and other great works, he discerns the properties of the high-spirited states we call the passions. Are vehement states compatible with a culture that values private, selectively shared experiences? How do passions differ from emotions? Does anger have an opposite? Do the passions give scale, shape, and significance to our experience of time? Is a person incapable of anger more dangerous than someone who is irascible? In reintroducing us to our own vehemence, Fisher reminds us that it is only through our strongest passions that we feel the contours of injustice, mortality, loss, and knowledge. It is only through our personal worlds that we can know the world.

Book Dark Passions Book One

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  • Author : Susan Wright
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2001-11-04
  • ISBN : 0743419421
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Dark Passions Book One written by Susan Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Klingons and Cardassians rule the Alpha Quadrant in an uneasy alliance that hides a viper's nest of backstabbing plots and counterplots. Annika Hansen has become a trained operative for the Obsidian Order. Her latest target: Kira Nerys, the duplicitous Intendant of Bajor, whose ruthless ambition has brought her to a position of power second only to the Regent himself, the fierce Klingon warrior known as Worf. To get close to her prey, Annika must worm her way into the Intendant's notoriously fickle affections. Easy enough to accomplish, perhaps, but it remains to be seen who is truly manipulating whom....

Book Binding Passions

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  • Author : Guido Ruggiero
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1993-06-10
  • ISBN : 0190282053
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Binding Passions written by Guido Ruggiero and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a strikingly new and provocative interpretation of the end of the Renaissance in Italy. In this boldly structured work, he develops five narrative accounts of individual encounters with the Inquisition that illustrate the double-edged metaphor of how passions were both bound by late Renaissance society and were seen in turn as binding people. In this way new perspectives are opened on magic, witchcraft, love, marriage, gender, and discipline at the level of the community and beyond. Witches, courtesans, prostitutes, women healers, nobles, Cardinals, and renegade priests and monks speak from these pages describing their lives, beliefs, hopes, fears, and lies. With an imaginative flair for storytelling and impeccable scholarship, Ruggiero exposes the rich complexity of the culture and poetics of the everyday at the end of the Renaissance and illuminates a previously unexplored chapter in Italian history.

Book Tame Passions of Wilde

Download or read book Tame Passions of Wilde written by Jeff Nunokawa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity to the sphere of artistic freedom? Jeff Nunokawa traces the variety of social pressures that inspired Oscar Wilde's lifelong effort to concoct forms of desire that thrill without menacing us, as well as the alchemies by which he sought to do so. Assigning Wilde a place of honor in a heady company of thinkers drawn from the ranks of philosophy, sociology, economics, psychoanalysis, and contemporary queer theory--Kant, Marx, Simmel, Weber, Freud, Hannah Arendt, Albert O. Hirschman, Erving Goffman, Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, and, of course, Michel Foucault--this is the first book to recognize Wilde not only as a blatant symptom of a familiar understanding of modern sexuality, but also as a grand theorist of the subject in his own right. The result is a wholly original portrait of the artist as a social critic who, in the midst of his humor, labored to illuminate and amend the book of love.

Book Spectacular Passions

Download or read book Spectacular Passions written by Brett Farmer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognizable element of the contemporary cultural landscape. Using psychoanalytic theory as his guide while inflecting it with insights from both film theory and queer theory, Brett Farmer moves beyond this cliché to develop an innovative exploration of gay spectatorship. The result, Spectacular Passions, reveals how cinema has been engaged by gay men as a vital forum for “fantasmatic performance”—in this case, the production of specifically queer identities, practices, and pleasures. Building on the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasmatic, Farmer works to depathologize gay male subjectivity. While discussing such films as Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Pirate, Suddenly Last Summer, and Sunset Boulevard, and stars ranging from Mae West to Montgomery Clift, Farmer argues that the particularities of gay men’s social and psychic positionings motivate unique receptions of and investments in film. The Hollywood musical, gay camp readings of the extravagant female star, and the explicit homoeroticism of the cinematic male body in gay fanzines are further proof, says Farmer, of how the shifting libidinal profiles of homosexual desire interact with the fantasy scenarios of Hollywood film to produce a range of variable queer meanings. This fascinating and provocative study makes a significant new contribution to discussions of cinema, spectatorship, and sexuality. As such, it will be welcomed by those in the fields of film theory, queer theory, and cultural studies.

Book Unearthing Passions

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  • Author : Elaine Sims
  • Publisher : Genesis Press, Inc.
  • Release : 2006-04-01
  • ISBN : 1585715190
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Unearthing Passions written by Elaine Sims and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfectly coiffed and carefully controlled Atlanta architect Kai Ellis' career, like her life, is just the way she wants it - focused and serious. When sexy archaeologist Asa Matthews slips ever so smoothly into her well-structured world, she can't deny the explosive chemistry that is ignited each time he looks her way. Asa is an expert at uncovering buried treasure, and Kai knows he has the tools to unearth passions she buried long ago.

Book Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture

Download or read book Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture written by Freya Sierhuis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical arguments, both Aristotelian and Galenic models from antiquity, and new mechanistic formations in Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. A powerful sense of paradox emerges in treatments of the passions in the early modern period, also reflected in new literary and philosophical forms in which inwardness was displayed, analysed and studied”the autobiography, the essay, the soliloquy”genres which rewrite the formation of subjectivity. At the same time, the frame of reference moves outwards, from the world of interior states to encounter the passions on a public stage, thus reconnecting literary study with the history of political thought. In between the abstract theory of political ideas and the inward selves of literary history, lies a field of intersections waiting to be explored. The passions, like human nature itself, are infinitely variable, and provoke both literary experimentation and philosophical imagination. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture thus makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the emotions in order to suggest both new models of the self and new models for interdisciplinary history.

Book Representing the Passions

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  • Author : Richard Evan Meyer
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780892366767
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Representing the Passions written by Richard Evan Meyer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an interlocking series of texts and images, this work explores how extreme sensations such as wonder, misery, ecstasy and rage have been portrayed at different moments in Western culture. Moving across multiple fields of creative endeavour and intellectual inquiry - from classical artefacts to Chicano art, political protest to operatic performance, Rene Descartes's writings on the soul to the Internet's digitised flesh - it reveals how the passions have elicited, eluded and transformed the act of representation.

Book Ruling Passions

Download or read book Ruling Passions written by Richard R. John and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Policy History (vol. 18, no. 1, 2006)"--T.p. verso.