Download or read book The Art Of Seduction written by Robert Greene and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War.

Download or read book Seduction Becomes Her written by Shirlee Busbee and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “entertaining mix of gothic romance and suspense is a pleasure to read” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Scandal Becomes Her (Booklist). As guardian to her two young siblings after her parents’ death, Daphne Beaumont struggles to keep the family together. But when Daphne’s brother suddenly inherits a sizable estate from a distant relative, they are able to leave London behind for a prosperous new life in Cornwall. Devoted to her charges, Daphne doesn’t believe marriage is in her future, despite her newfound wealth and striking beauty—until she meets the intriguing Charles Weston . . . A long-buried secret brings Charles to Cornwall, where he encounters the alluring Daphne while walking on the beach. When a sudden rockslide strands the two in a cave, their shared captivity is sure to invite scandal. Charles knows he must act honorably and propose to Daphne—an easy prospect for him considering he has fallen for her. The real challenge now lies in Charles winning Daphne’s heart—and showing her how wonderful love’s spell can be . . . Praise for Shirlee Busbee and Scandal Becomes Her “A delightful romance—altogether a wonderful book.” —Roberta Gellis “A scandalously delicious read that left me wanting more!” —Bertrice Small “One of the best romantic writers of our time.” —Affaire de Coeur “Busbee is back and better than ever!” —Julia Quinn

Download or read book Seduction written by Clement Knox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of remarkable women and men throughout history. If sex has generally been a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-page tabloid news, the scandal of nineteenth-century American courts, or the stuff of literature across the eras, we are fascinated by stories of seduction and sex. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox explores seduction in all its historical and cultural incarnations. Moving from the Garden of Eden to the carnivals of eighteenth-century Venice, and from the bawdy world of Georgian London to the saloons and speakeasies of the Jazz Age, this is an exploration of timeless themes of power, desire, and free will. Along the way we meet Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Mary Shelley, and her friend Caroline Norton, and reckon with their fight for women’s rights and freedoms. We encounter Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, who became entangled in America's labyrinthine and racialized seduction laws. We discover how tall tales of predatory vampires, hypnotists, and immigrants were mobilized by Nazis and nativists to help propel them to power. We consider how after seduction seemingly vanished from view during the Sexual Revolution, it exploded back into our lives as The Game became a multi-million bestseller, online dating swept the world, and the ongoing male fascinating with manipulating women was exposed. In a big-thinking cultural history told through an extraordinary range of stories and sources, Knox explores how our ideas about desire and pursuit have developed in step with the modern world. This is a bold, modern charter of seduction, from the birth of the Enlightenment to the explosion of romantic literature and right up to our contemporary moments of reckoning around “incel” culture and #MeToo.

Download or read book The Seductions of Quantification written by Sally Engle Merry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning—and risk hiding or distorting as much as we reveal. With The Seductions of Quantification, leading legal anthropologist Sally Engle Merry investigates the techniques by which information is gathered and analyzed in the production of global indicators on human rights, gender violence, and sex trafficking. Although such numbers convey an aura of objective truth and scientific validity, Merry argues persuasively that measurement systems constitute a form of power by incorporating theories about social change in their design but rarely explicitly acknowledging them. For instance, the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report, which ranks countries in terms of their compliance with antitrafficking activities, assumes that prosecuting traffickers as criminals is an effective corrective strategy—overlooking cultures where women and children are frequently sold by their own families. As Merry shows, indicators are indeed seductive in their promise of providing concrete knowledge about how the world works, but they are implemented most successfully when paired with context-rich qualitative accounts grounded in local knowledge.

Download or read book Scenes of Seduction written by Jann Matlock and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jann Matlock's study of prostitution, hysteria, and the novel in nineteenth-century France considers, for the first time, the three topics together with their links to constructions of female marginality and desire. Made increasingly accessible to a large public by inexpensive printing methods, new forms of circulation like the roman-feuilleton, and rising literacy rates among women and workers, the novel became the medium for exchanges over women's bodies and desires. Matlock reveals the coincident traffic of the novel in the subjects of women on the fringe of society - prostitutes, hysterics, and madwomen- and the invitations extended to its new readers to explore new worlds of sexuality and intrigue. In addition, Matlock examines debates on the tolerance of prostitution, sexual continence, the relationship between female sexuality and madness, and the "dangers" of literature by incorporating into her study material from a myriad of archives, including medical case studies, police reports, newspaper editorials, and memoirs. Against this rich background, she discusses the novels of Balzac, Dumas fils, Sand, Soulié, and Sue, many of which were directed at a female audience.

Download or read book La Seduction written by Elaine Sciolino and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. But Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more than a game to the French: it is the key to understanding France. Seduction plays a crucial role in how the French relate to one another—not just in romantic relationships but also in how they conduct business, enjoy food and drink, define style, engage in intellectual debate, elect politicians, and project power around the world. While sexual repartee and conquest remain at the heart of seduction, for the French seduction has become a philosophy of life, even an ideology, that can confuse outsiders. In La Seduction, Sciolino gives us an inside view of how seduction works in all areas, analyzing its limits as well as its power. She demystifies the French way of life in an entertaining and personal narrative that carries us from the neighborhood shops of Paris to the halls of government, from the gardens of Versailles to the agricultural heartland. La Seduction will charm you and encourage you to lower your defenses about the French. Pull up a chair and let Elaine Sciolino seduce you.

Download or read book Support and Seduction written by Béatrice Fontanel and published by Abradale Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughout the ages, women's breasts have been subjected to the endless whims of fashion. From the ancient Greeks to Mae West and Madonna, this light-hearted book charts the changing shapes of female beauty. The elegant and amusing images - including fashion drawings, paintings, photographs, and film stills - illustrate the often surprising history of the garments women have worn for support - and seduction.

Download or read book The Ultimate Seduction written by Janelle Denison and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.I. Noah Sommers has finally met his match. He wants sexy Natalie Hastings so badly, he'll do anything to have her...including taking her in after a car accident leaves her with short-term memory loss. And protecting her when he learns she's acquired a stalker. And harder still, keeping his hands off her until she can remember. Only, he hadn't counted on Natalie making his job so difficult.... Natalie's world has been turned upside down. Her only constant is her sexy "fiancé," Noah. And she wants him...constantly. Only, all of a sudden, he's acting noble. But not for long. Because Natalie's planning a seduction he'll never forget! Before long, Natalie has Noah right where she wants him—in her bed and her heart. If only Noah was the man Natalie thought he was....

Download or read book The Italian s Ruthless Seduction written by Miranda Lee and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What his billions can't buy… If Sergio Mancini wants something, he only has to snap his fingers to get it. Except for Bella Williams. No matter how much his stunning stepsister once drove him wild with lust, he never allowed himself to have her, believing she was a gold digger like her mother. Now, when Bella calls unexpectedly seeking refuge at their secluded family home by Lake Como, their unfulfilled desire resurfaces. No longer able to resist, Sergio ruthlessly decides it's finally time to quench the fire. But their one night together only inflames their passion—and now he wants more!

Download or read book Undercover Seduction written by Sierra Cartwright and published by Sierra Cartwright. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing you to the Hawkeye Protectors world by offering readers the first to each Hawkeye series in one captivating collection with an exclusive bonus Stay with Me. Come to Me Wolf Stone is their commander, and three hearts are on the line. Things are going to get…complicated. When Nate Davidson learns there's a bounty on commander Wolf Stone's head, he buries his feelings of rejection and volunteers to serve as protector for the man he admires…and still craves. Trouble is, their well-respected leader doesn't want any help, in the streets or the sheets. Their first angry kiss reignites a passion that time has not diminished, and the past refuses to stay buried as they give in to temptation and up the stakes with the stunning addition of the beautifully submissive Kayla Fagan. The dynamic shifts and the rules bend, in ways neither man could have imagined. With a hitman closing in, time is running out. Kayla and Nate demand more from Wolf, but he isn’t ready to share his deepest secrets...or his heart. His wounds run deep, and love is the one thing he's incapable of offering— his body will have to do. Initiation Falling in love was never an option… Hardened Hawkeye agent Logan Powell does women a favor by avoiding emotional entanglements. They deserve to be cherished—something he’s not capable of…until he meets gorgeous Jennifer Berklee. But her innocence is his undoing, and not even his elite military training is enough to lock down his jaded heart. After Jennifer’s engagement ended in an embarrassing abandonment at the altar, she vows to protect her wounded heart. The impossibly dangerous warrior who makes her shiver with a single glance is the last man she should want…but everything about him makes her ache to surrender. When they’re stranded at a secluded mountain property during a storm, Logan can’t stop himself from tearing down her emotional walls. Jennifer can’t resist giving him her all. Neither imagines they’ll fall desperately in love. But then Logan’s job intrudes, and his life soon hangs in the balance. Is giving her trust in his dangerous world too high a cost for his love? Stay with Me : Exclusive Bonus Rekindling an old flame, Brant Gibson has returned... Not just to protect, but to reclaim a love never truly lost.

Download or read book The Seduction of Shamus O Rourke written by N.J. Walters and published by Entangled: Select Contemporary. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her father’s death has brought Cyndi Marks back to Jamesville, and she’s determined to settle back in her hometown and lay her ghosts to rest once and for all. But not everyone is happy to see her. Every small town has secrets, and Jamesville has secrets some would kill to protect. When Cyndi needs help, there’s only one person in town she can trust. Shamus O’Rourke is happy living in Jamesville. He loves his job, his family, and small town living. All that’s missing is someone to share it with. When he runs in to Cyndi and helps her with a flat tire, he’s drawn to the reserved, wary woman. He’s pretty sure the feeling is mutual, even though she tries to deny it. When Cyndi’s life is threatened, just about everyone in town is a suspect, and she’s not sure her fledgling relationship with Shamus can stand up to the town and his family’s concerns. The only things she is sure of is that she can’t see herself surviving in Jamesville without the younger man. Each book in the Jamesville series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed in any order. Book #1: Discovering Dani Book #2: The Way Home Book #3: The Return of Patrick O’Rourke Book #4: The Seduction of Shamus O'Rourke Book #5: A Legal Affair Book #6: By the Book Book #7: Past Promises

Download or read book THE ROGUE S SEDUCTION written by Georgina Devon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured For Revenge—Kept For Passion Ten years ago Lillith, Lady de Lisle, was forced to stand up the man she loved at the altar in favor of a richer husband. Now a widow, she suddenly finds herself the target of her thwarted lover’s revenge. In return for Lillith’s cruel rejection of him, Jason Beaumair, Earl of Perth, planned to abduct and seduce the beautiful woman who’d haunted his dreams for so long. He’d certainly never fall for her again. But nothing can prepare him when their night of passion turns into an all-consuming desire….

Download or read book Recipe For Seduction written by Gina Gordon and published by Entangled: Brazen. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica Whitfield feels like a frumpy old maid. After ten years of raising her younger siblings, she's desperate to get her sexy back. And why not find it with the man she's been in lust with since she was twelve years old—her brother's best friend, Finn O'Reilly? Finn is looking for love. And not any love—true love. Complete with the white picket fence, two children, and a dog. He's just been a little unlucky finding it, and he sure as hell isn't about to consider his best friend's little sister for the job, no matter how badly he wants her in his bed. But then Veronica propositions him with a game of dark, delicious seduction. Finn is tempted to indulge his hidden need for kink, but at what cost? Following through could very well ruin their friendship, but maybe—just maybe—helping Veronica rediscover her sexy side is exactly what he needs to find love at last... Each book in the Madewood Brothers series is STANDALONE: * Recipe for Satisfaction * Recipe for Attraction * Recipe For Seduction * Recipe for Temptation

Download or read book Her Secret Seduction written by Brenda Jackson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience off-the-charts chemistry with two hot summer reads! Private Arrangements by Brenda Jackson Nikki Cartwright can’t believe Jonas Steele has chosen her for a high-profile marketing position. But when she remembers the blazing kiss they once shared, Nikki knows she must guard her heart. Jonas thinks by having the talented photographer within reach, he can erase her from his system once and for all. But now he wants Nikki heart and soul—as the woman of his most passionate fantasies… Savannah’s Secrets by Reese Ryan Savannah Carlisle had the perfect plan. By infiltrating the Abbott family’s Tennessee bourbon empire as their events manager, she’d be one step closer to claiming half of the business they stole from her grandfather. Now she’s having doubts. Because sexy Blake Abbott, heir to it all, is simply intoxicating. He’s supposed to be the enemy. But after one long, stormy weekend, she’s pregnant with his child…

Download or read book Miss Molly Robbins Designs a Seduction written by Jayne Fresina and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for The Wicked Wedding of Miss Ellie Vyne: "[The characters] banter and quibble with comic perfection."—Publishers Weekly "Wickedly funny, fast and sassy romance."—RT Book Reviews She Designs Dresses for London's Leading Ladies Molly Robbins is finally stepping into the spotlight. Her unique dress designs have caught the eye of London's elite. And if it means her own dress shop, proper Molly will make a deal with the devil himself—the notoriously naughty Earl of Everscham. But becoming his mistress is not a part of their arrangement. It's right there in the contract's fine print: No Tomfoolery. He's an Expert at Taking Them Off Carver Danforthe has a reputation for beautiful mistresses, cutting remarks, and shirking his responsibilities—not for indulging the ambitions of his sister's maid. He must have been drunk when he signed that blasted contract. The stubborn female may thing she's gotten the best of him, but what this situation calls for is a little hands-on negotiating... All's Fair in Love and Fashion

Download or read book An Artful Seduction written by Tina Gabrielle and published by Entangled: Scandalous. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1815. Eliza Somerton has a dangerous secret. As the daughter of the infamous art forger who duped half the ton, she’s rebuilt her life under a new name. But when an old forgery goes up for auction, her father’s enemy, Grayson Montgomery, outbids her and presents her with an unimaginable choice: help him find her father or he’ll ruin her. For years, Grayson, the Earl of Huntingdon and one of London’s top art critics, has sought justice. His well-laid plans finally come to fruition when he learns of his enemy’s beautiful daughter. But Eliza possesses a sensuality and independent spirit that weakens his resolve, and as the heat between them sizzles, what started as revenge soon blossoms into something sinful... Each book in the Infamous Somertons series is STANDALONE: * An Artful Seduction * Real Earls Break the Rules * The Duke Meets His Match

Download or read book The Seduction of Christianity written by Jill Shannon and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Revelation offers rewards to those who have overcome demonic activity, trials, and temptations. The Seduction of Christianity equips the Church to overcome the battles, deceptions, and seductions that will assail her in the final hours of this age.Subjects covered in depth include: Knowing your Destiny False Prophets True and False Revival Fear of the Lord Martyrdom Righteous Judgments Strange Fire Sexual Brokenness Seduction Preparation of the Bride The Seduction of Christianity is a mandate to the end-times Church, combining mature biblical teaching with revelatory encounters. The onslaughts and upheavals that will confront you require the Church to move quickly into a new level of resolve, discipline, and authority.You will be ready to face down the seducer and take your rightful place beside the King of kings and Lord of lords!