Download or read book Sanctity Seduction written by Megan Ruth and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I closed my eyes hoping this was all a dream and when I woke up again, I'd be in my own bed alone. No married supervisor, no infidelity. I heard him move beside me, and before I could open my eyes, I felt his lips press against mine. They were soft, contrasting the coarseness of his beard. This was definitely not a dream." Elijah is bewitched by Elena the moment she walks into his bar to apply for a job. The problem? He's been recently married to Erin whom he's been with for almost a decade. Elena prides herself in her strong moral compass, so why are her thoughts consumed by her married boss? Erin starts suspecting her perfect marital fantasy may be falling apart as she struggles to accept the realities around her. Will her love for Elijah blind her, or will she finally see the truth? Mind games, manipulation, marriage. A classic story of an affair with a twist - told through the perspectives of all three parties: the husband, wife and mistress. Who is the villain? You decide.
Download or read book Hollywood on Stage written by Kimball King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the period from the 1920s to the present but concentrates on such contempory playwrights as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Arthur Kopit, and Adrienne Kennedy. A substantial proportion of the volume is devoted to a discussion of the way in which these authors deconstruct Hollywood myths to reveal painful social and psychological issues in American life, providing a deeper and darker picture than the simple satires of movie-making in the 1920s and 1930s or Odets's comparison of the commercially debased Hollywood with the higher, purer art of the theatre. To complete and further complicate the picture, the volume concludes with essays on the African American experience, gay writers, and feminist writing as seen through the lens of Marlane Myer's ETTA JENKS. It is obvious that the legitimate stage remains a watchdog and constant critic of what is possibly the world's most powerful cultural phenomenon This book will be eargerly read by all students of film, theatre, and 20th century literature.
Download or read book The Seductions of Pilgrimage written by Michael A. Di Giovine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seductions of Pilgrimage explores the simultaneously attractive and repellent, beguiling and alluring forms of seduction in pilgrimage. It focuses on the varied discursive, imaginative, and practical mechanisms of seduction that draw individual pilgrims to a pilgrimage site; the objects, places, and paradigms that pilgrims leave behind as they embark on their hyper-meaningful travel experience; and the often unforeseen elements that lead pilgrims off their desired course. Presenting the first comprehensive study of the role of seduction on individual pilgrims in the study of pilgrimage and tourism, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, cultural geography, tourism, heritage, and religious studies.
Download or read book Divine Enticement Theological Seductions written by Karmen Mackendrick and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine Enticement argues for a reconception of theology and it subject matter as modes of seduction, of both body and mind. Theological language as evocation opens onto rereadings of faith, sacrament, ethics, prayer and scripture. The conclusion argues for a sense of theology as calling upon infinite possibility.
Download or read book Seduced written by Virginia Henley and published by Island Books. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shorn of her glorious raven tresses and dressed as a man, Lady Antonia Lamb became Lord Anthony Lamb, desperate to keep the property entailed to her twin brother, who is missing at sea. Trapped—and liberated—by her masquerade, Tony meets her new guardian, the devastatingly dangerous Adam Savage, who has returned from his plantation in Ceylon, determined to turn the innocent “boy” into a worldly man. A rake whose scarred face and ice-blue eyes made strong women weak, Adam Savage, legendary adventurer, vowed to take young Tony to the fleshpots of London; to teach him everything a young heir should know. But not even Savage guesses Tony's deepest secret, a masquerade destined to erupt in passionate abandon on one scorching, unforgettable night.
Download or read book Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity written by K. Bayertz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Sanctity of life' and `human dignity' are two bioethical concepts that play an important role in bioethical discussions. Despite their separate history and content, they have similar functions in these discussions. In many cases they are used to bring a difficult or controversial debate to an end. They serve as unquestionable cornerstones of morality, as rocks able to weather the storms of moral pluralism. This book provides the reader with analyses of these two concepts from different philosophical, professional and cultural points of view. Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity presents a comparative analysis of both concepts.
Download or read book Artful Seduction written by Karl Posso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The controversial works of Brazilian authors Silviano Santiago(1936-) and Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-96) offer distinctive but complementary explorations of male homosexual subjectivities formulated through displacement, exile and the abject. Posso examines the innovative ways in which these writers stage-manage Western poststructuralist thought to critique heterosexist exclusion in Brazil and in globalized popular and folk culture, and he explains how they draw on diverse cultural productions and art works to extend a general undermining of oppositional logic and psychoanalytic theory."
Download or read book Sacred Secrets written by Rabbi Gershon D. Winkler and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By returning to primary source material, including the Torah and ancient and medieval rabbinic literature, Rabbi Gershon Winkler illustrates the often uninhibited and celebrative attitudes towards sexuality and sensual pleasure found in Jewish teachings. Unfortunately, Judaism's healthy outlook on human desires and physical enjoyment has been nearly lost after centuries of subjection to host religions and cultures that have all but squelched the notion of sensuality. In this fascinating and often surprising volume, the myth of a 'Judeo-Christian' approach to sex is shattered.
Download or read book Shelley s Textual Seductions written by Samuel Lyndon Gladden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This book surveys how and to what effect Shelley uses erotic narratives to mask political rhetoric within his attempts to describe and bring forth utopia. Posing erotic relationships as both an exemplar of the inequities of power and a paradigm for alternative social orders that dismantle oppressive structures, it argues Shelley’s work imagines a space where the rigidity of tyranny succumbs to the liberation of ecstatic union. From the Romantics to the Aesthetes, it argues that this model contributed to a counter-tradition in British literature which situates the erotic as a trope for political discourse. This work will be of interest to students of literature.
Download or read book Sacred Seduction written by Ember Winters and published by Ember Winters. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the ancient art of Sex Magick with "Sacred Seduction" by Ember Winters, a captivating guide to unlocking desires and manifesting change. Explore rituals, spells, and techniques to harness sexual energy for manifestation. Learn the history, principles, and practices of Sex Magick, and awaken divine energies within. With practical insights and enchanting storytelling, Ember Winters empowers readers to embrace sensuality and transform their lives. Dive into "Sacred Seduction" and embark on a journey of empowerment and magickal transformation. (Note: Contains mature themes. Reader discretion advised.) Grab your copy now!
Download or read book Angels of Light Sanctity and the Discernment of Spirits in the Early Modern Period written by Clare Copeland and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." (2 Corinthians 11:14) Paul's warning of false apostles and false righteousness struck a special chord in the period of the European Reformations. At no other time was the need for the discernment of spirits felt as strongly as in this newly confessional age. More than ever, the ability to discern was a mark of holiness and failure the product of demonic temptation. The contributions to this volume chart individual responses to a problem at the heart of religious identity. They show that the problem of discernment was not solely a Catholic concern and was an issue for authors and artists as much as for prophets and visionaries.
Download or read book Three Seductive Ideas written by Jerome Kagan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the first two years of life really determine a childÕs future development? Are human beings, like other primates, only motivated by pleasure? And do people actually have stable traits, like intelligence, fear, anxiety, and temperament? This book, the product of a lifetime of research by one of the founders of developmental psychology, takes on the powerful assumptions behind these questionsÑand proves them mistaken. Ranging with impressive ease from cultural history to philosophy to psychological research literature, Jerome Kagan weaves an argument that will rock the social sciences and the foundations of public policy. Scientists, as well as lay people, tend to think of abstract processesÑlike intelligence or fearÑas measurable entities, of which someone might have more or less. This approach, in KaganÕs analysis, shows a blindness to the power of context and to the great variability within any individual subject to different emotions and circumstances. ÒInfant determinismÓ is another widespread and dearly held conviction that Kagan contests. This theoryÑwith its claim that early relationships determine lifelong patternsÑunderestimates human resiliency and adaptiveness, both emotional and cognitive (and, of course, fails to account for the happy products of miserable childhoods and vice versa). The last of KaganÕs targets is the vastly overrated pleasure principle, which, he argues, can hardly make sense of unselfish behavior impelled by the desire for virtue and self-respectÑthe wish to do the right thing. Written in a lively style that uses fables and fairy tales, history and science to make philosophical points, this book challenges some of our most cherished notions about human nature.
Download or read book A biblical cyclopaedia or Dictionary of Eastern antiquities geography natural history sacred annals and biography theology and biblical literature illustrative of the Old and New Testaments written by John Eadie and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MAGA Seduction written by Patrick Kahnke and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did we begin by serving a man who hung naked on a cross, but end by serving Donald Trump?"Written by Patrick Kahnke, a retired evangelical pastor, life-long Republican, and pro-life activist, MAGA Seduction presents a compelling case for why Christians must reject our association with President Donald Trump."I weep when I look upon the landscape I once pastored. I see countless confused sheep wandering about, frightened, angry, growing a little less emotionally healthy by the day, following after wolves."While the shepherds watch Fox News."
Download or read book Mexploitation Cinema written by Doyle Greene and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-08-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks in large part to an exploitation film producer and distributor named K. Gordon Murray, a unique collection of horror films from Mexico began to appear on American late-night television and drive-in screens in the 1960s. Ranging from monster movies clearly owing to the heyday of Universal Studios to the lucha libre horror films featuring El Santo and the "Wrestling Women," these low-budget "Mexploitation" films offer plenty of campy fun and still inspire cult devotion, yet they also reward close study in surprising ways. This work places Mexploitation films in their historical and cultural context and provides close textual readings of a representative sample, showing how they can be seen as important documents in the cultural debate over Mexico's past, present and future. Stills accompany the text, and a selected filmography and bibliography complete the volume.
Download or read book Messenger of the Sacred Heart of Jesus written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World of the American Revolution 2 volumes written by Merril D. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set brings to life the daily thoughts and routines of men and women—rich and poor, of various cultures, religions, races, and beliefs—during a time of great political, social, economic, and legal turmoil. What was life really like for ordinary people during the American Revolution? What did they eat, wear, believe in, and think about? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia explores the lives of men, women, and children—of European, Native American, and African descent—through the window of social, cultural, and material history. The two-volume set spans the period from 1774 to 1800, drawing on the most current research to illuminate people's emotional lives, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, and intimate relationships, as well as connections between the individual and the greater world. The encyclopedia features more than 200 entries divided into topical sections, each dealing with a different aspect of cultural life—for example, Arts, Food and Drink, and Politics and Warfare. Each section opens with an introductory essay, followed by A–Z entries on various aspects of the subject area. Sidebars and primary documents enhance the learning experience. Targeting high school and college students, the title supports the American history core curriculum and the current emphasis on social history. Most importantly, its focus on the realities of daily life, rather than on dates and battles, will help students identify with and learn about this formative period of American history.
