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Book The Other Side of Desire

Download or read book The Other Side of Desire written by Daniel Bergner and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob is a man with an overwhelming attraction to female feet. The Baroness is a clothing designer and evangelical sadist. Roy is a wedding band singer entranced by his step daughter. Ron and Laura are simply in love - only Laura lost both her legs in a car accident, and Ron is beguiled by a beauty many would be blind to. How do we deal with desire? Our own, and the desires of others? How do we comprehend desires that are extreme, or unacceptable? And how do those who have them, live with them? In A Map of Desire Daniel Bergner takes us on a journey into human passion suffered, endured, and celebrated. Desire is a sometimes anarchic, sometimes ecstatic, sometimes destructive, sometimes redeeming, and always powerful force.Immersing himself in it through the people whose lives he follows and the scientists he spends time with who are trying to understand it, slowly he exposes and illuminates layers of our humanity.

Book Pathways of Desire

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  • Author : Héctor Carrillo
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2018-01-09
  • ISBN : 022651787X
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Pathways of Desire written by Héctor Carrillo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Pathways of Desire, Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attention to the full arc of these men’s migration experiences, from their upbringing in Mexican cities and towns, to their cross-border journeys, to their incorporation into urban gay communities in American cities, and their sexual and romantic relationships with American men. These men’s diverse and fascinating stories demonstrate the intertwining of sexual, economic, and familial motivations for migration. Further, Carrillo shows that sexual globalization must be regarded as a bidirectional, albeit uneven, process of exchange between countries in the global north and the global south. With this approach, Carrillo challenges the view that gay men from countries like Mexico would logically want to migrate to a “more sexually enlightened” country like the United States—a partial and limited understanding, given the dynamic character of sexuality in countries such as Mexico, which are becoming more accepting of sexual diversity. Pathways of Desire also provides a helpful analytical framework for the simultaneous consideration of structural and cultural factors in social scientific studies of sexuality. Carrillo explains the patterns of cross-cultural interaction that sexual migration generates and—at the most practical level—shows how the intricacies of cross-cultural sexual and romantic relations may affect the sexual health and HIV risk of transnational immigrant populations.

Book Eyes of Desire

Download or read book Eyes of Desire written by Raymond Luczak and published by Alyson Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a collection of essays, deaf lesbians and gay men discuss their lives, describing how they discovered their sexual identity, overcame barriers to communication in a hearing world, and created a deaf gay and lesbian culture."--Amazon.com viewed Nov. 1, 2022.

Book The Freemason s Chronicle

Download or read book The Freemason s Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Arch

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  • Author : Bruce La Pierre
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2011-02-10
  • ISBN : 1456732161
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book The Arch written by Bruce La Pierre and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kids of Sanbornton Bridge live with the towering Arch and marble statues that accentuate the little village. Little did they know how important these things were to the survival of mankind. With the help of a lone Indian, six teenagers embark on a quest beyond their imaginations.

Book The Genesis of Desire

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  • Author : Jean-Michel Oughourlian
  • Publisher : MSU Press
  • Release : 2009-12-15
  • ISBN : 1609171268
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book The Genesis of Desire written by Jean-Michel Oughourlian and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We seem to be abandoning the codes that told previous generations who they should love. But now that many of us are free to choose whoever we want, nothing is less certain. The proliferation of divorces and separations reveal a dynamic we would rather not see: others sometimes reject us as passionately as we are attracted to them. Our desire makes us sick. The throes of rivalry are at the heart of our attraction to one another. This is the central thesis of Jean-Michel Oughourlian's The Genesis of Desire, where the war of the sexes is finally given a scientific explanation. The discovery of mirror neurons corroborates his ideas, clarifying the phenomena of empathy and the mechanisms of violent reciprocity. How can a couple be saved when they have declared war on one another? By helping them realize that desire originates not in the self but in the other. There are strategies that can help, which Dr. Oughourlian has prescribed successfully to his patients. This work, alternating between case studies and more theoretical statements, convincingly defends the possibility that breakups need not be permanent.

Book Land of Desire

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  • Author : William R. Leach
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-06-15
  • ISBN : 0307761142
  • Pages : 561 pages

Download or read book Land of Desire written by William R. Leach and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theosophist

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1044 pages

Download or read book The Theosophist written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rays from the Rose Cross

Download or read book Rays from the Rose Cross written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Master of Desire

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  • Author : Kinley MacGregor
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-03-17
  • ISBN : 0061747394
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Master of Desire written by Kinley MacGregor and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the success of Kinley MacGregor's latest New York Times Expanded and USA Today bestseller A Dark Champion, we are in the perfect position to republish her backlist gem Master of Desire. A Dream of Desire Awakened . . . Beautiful Lady Emily dreams of the rapture of love and the joys of marriage. The youngest daughter of an English lord at war, she is shaken by the arrival of a mysterious stranger to her father's castle. Could this breathtaking man be Emily's yearned-for lover? Indeed, Draven de Montague, Earl of Ravenswood, has come for Emily . . . but romance has nothing to do with it. In the Tender Embrace of an Enemy . . . Draven would never have entered the home of his most hated adversary had not the King himself ordered him to take in his foe's daughter for a year to forge bonds of peace between their two feuding houses. Worse still, here is a lass whose exquisite loveliness could tempt Draven to betray his sworn vow never to let anther close to his heart. Emily knows the searing heat of her passion could burn down the defenses of this proud warrior. But will the surrender of the sweet nectar of his lips and his bold, sensuous caress ignite a blaze so hot it consumes them both?

Book Desire s Prize

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  • Author : M. S. Laurens
  • Publisher : Savdek Management Proprietary Limited
  • Release : 2023-10-28
  • ISBN : 0992278902
  • Pages : 515 pages

Download or read book Desire s Prize written by M. S. Laurens and published by Savdek Management Proprietary Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1347. Calais has finally fallen and Alaun de Montisfryth, first Earl of Montisfryn, powerful Marcher lord and companion of Edward III, is dispatched back to England with orders to secure the Welsh border. Halfway home, pride tempts Montisfryn to attend a tournament held by his family's old foes at Versallet Castle. Eloise de Versallet, the widowed Lady de Cannar, rules her father's castle with a tongue sharper than any sword. She has no great opinion of men in general and of knights in particular. Montisfryn and Eloise meet and sparks fly. He is intrigued. She is irritated. He is under royal edict to wed. An experienced lady, well-born, still young, and exceedingly well-endowed with both wealth and beauty, Eloise is a matrimonial prize beyond compare--and has vowed to remain unwed. Potent and powerful, will Montisfryn be able to breach her walls, storm her castle, and succeed where all others have failed? Or will Eloise, haughty and defiant to the last, prevail? The gauntlet is flung, the challenge accepted. And desire enters the fray. A Novel of 140,000 words. A medieval historical romance in the classic style, this work contains multiple explicit love scenes. "When it comes to dishing up lusciously sensual, relentlessly readable historical romances, Laurens is unrivalled." Booklist "Laurens's writing shines." Publishers Weekly"One of the most talented authors on the scene today...Laurens has a real talent for writing sensuous and compelling love scenes." Romance Reviews "Stephanie Laurens never fails to entertain and charm her readers with vibrant plots, snappy dialogue, and unforgettable characters." Historical Romance Reviews "Stephanie Laurens plays into readers' fantasies like a master and claims their hearts time and again." Romantic Times Magazine

Book The Timberman

Download or read book The Timberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Restraint and Desire

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  • Author : Eva Lipman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9781942953463
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Restraint and Desire written by Eva Lipman and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Winter s Tale

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  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book The Winter s Tale written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire

Download or read book Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire written by Penelope Haralambidou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written on Marcel Duchamp - one of the twentieth century's most beguiling artists - the subject of his flirtation with architecture seems to have been largely overlooked. Yet, in the carefully arranged plans and sections organising the blueprint of desire in the Large Glass, his numerous pieces replicating architectural fragments, and his involvement in designing exhibitions, Duchamp's fascination with architectural design is clearly evident. As his unconventional architectural influences - Niceron, Lequeu and Kiesler - and diverse legacy - Tschumi, OMA, Webb, Diller + Scofidio and Nicholson - indicate, Duchamp was not as much interested in 'built' architecture as he was in the architecture of desire, re-constructing the imagination through drawing and testing the boundaries between reality and its aesthetic and philosophical possibilities. Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire examines the link between architectural thinking and Duchamp's work. By employing design, drawing and making - the tools of the architect - Haralambidou performs an architectural analysis of Duchamp’s final enigmatic work Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas... demonstrating an innovative research methodology able to grasp meaning beyond textual analysis. This novel reading of his ideas and methods adds to, but also challenges, other art-historical interpretations. Through three main themes - allegory, visuality and desire - the book defines and theorises an alternative drawing practice positioned between art and architecture that predates and includes Duchamp.

Book The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

Download or read book The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury written by Thomas Hobbes and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: