Download or read book The Bluffer s Seduction Collection written by Jonathan Goodall and published by Bluffer's Guides. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for the Casanova or Cleopatra in your life. Instantly acquire all the knowledge needed to pass as an expert in the worlds of poetry, sex and wine. Never again confuse your vintage with your viticulture, a haiku with someone clearing their throat or a flying wallenda with an inverted wheelbarrow. But above all, learn how to hold your own against even the most intimidating of suitors.
Download or read book The Bluffer s Guide to Seduction written by Yves Chebran and published by . This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most areas of human endeavor, bluffing is an easy way of getting by -- a method of artificially appearing knowledgeable. The Bluffer's Guides are a three million-copy best-selling series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and inside information -- all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.
Download or read book The Bluffer s Guide to Seduction written by Yves Chebran and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seductees The two obvious players in any seduction are the Seductor and the Seductee. The word “seducer” should be avoided since it is only ever used in a mildly insulting context, referring to someone who tries hard but without much success. Seductors and Seductees can also be divided into the Professional and the Amateur, whereas the seducer is merely incorrigible. Amateur seductors It is a mistake to use hackneyed opening lines. If you can't think of anything outstanding to say, it doesn't matter. Leave witty remarks to those Amateur Seductors who buy books on the subject and practice while doing their teeth. Remember the rule of the art is that seductions should never look as if they started out that way. A Seductee has to be allowed some measure of self-respect. Professional seductors Professionals are never surprised when the seduction succeeds. Amateurs always are. Professionals are surprised when the seduction doesn't succeed. Amateurs console themselves with the fact that they and the other person involved can still be friends.
Download or read book David Mamet s Glengarry Glen Ross written by Leslie Kane and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve original and two classic essays present provocative and timely thinking on Mamet's play and screenplay and offer a dialectic on performance and structure. The commentaries take diverse critical approaches to such subjects as feminism, pernicious nostalgia, ethnicity, the mythological land motif, the discourse of anxiety, gendered language, and Mamet's vision of America, providing insights and perpectives on the theatricality, originality, and universality of the work. Also includes an interview with Sam Mendes. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Biggest Bluff written by Maria Konnikova and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.
Download or read book Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Monica Flegel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the family’s dependents, and to the common familial "outcasts" who populate Victorian literature and culture: the orphan, the spinster, the bachelor, and the same-sex couple. Drawing upon both animal studies and queer theory, this study stresses the importance of the domestic pet in elucidating normative sexuality and (re)productivity within the familial home, and reveals how the family pet operates as a means of identifying aberrant, failed, or perverse familial and gender performances. The family pet, that is, was an important signifier in Victorian familial ideology of the individual family unit’s ability to support or threaten the health and morality of the nation in the Victorian period. Texts by authors such as Clara Balfour, Juliana Horatia Ewing, E. Burrows, Bessie Rayner Parkes, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Frederick Marryat, and Charles Dickens speak to the centrality of the domestic pet to negotiations of gender, power, and sexuality within the home that both reify and challenge the imaginary structure known as the natural family in the Victorian period. This book highlights the possibilities for a familial elsewhere outside of normative and restrictive models of heterosexuality, reproduction, and the natural family, and will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and culture, animal studies, queer studies, and beyond.
Download or read book Worldmaking written by Tom Clark and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of “worlds” to language and literature, formulating the term, “worldmaking” to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the “world” we know right now. We cannot catch or know “the world” as such: all we can catch are the world versions - descriptions, views or workings of the world – that are expressed in symbolic systems (words, music, dancing, visual representations). Over the twenty-five years since then, creative works have played a crucial role in realigning, reshaping and renegotiating our understandings of how worlds can be made and preserved in the face of globalizing trends. The volume is divided into three sections, each engaging with worlds as malleable constructs. Central to all of the contributions is the question: how can we understand the relationships between natural, political, cultural, fictional, literary, linguistic and virtual worlds, and why does this matter?
Download or read book The Smart Set written by George Jean Nathan and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Through the Buffer State written by John MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walker s Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language written by John Walker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a long-established standard work of reference for poets and rhymesters.
Download or read book The Modernity Bluff written by Sasha Newell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Côte d’Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand name clothing, accessories, technology, and a robust nightlife. Such imitation, however, is not primarily meant to deceive—rather, as Sasha Newell argues in The Modernity Bluff, it is an explicit performance so valued in Côte d’Ivoire it has become a matter of national pride. Called bluffeurs, these young urban men operate in a system of cultural economy where reputation is essential for financial success. That reputation is measured by familiarity with and access to the fashionable and expensive, which leads to a paradoxical state of affairs in which the wasting of wealth is essential to its accumulation. Using the consumption of Western goods to express their cultural mastery over Western taste, Newell argues, bluffeurs engage a global hierarchy that is profoundly modern, one that values performance over authenticity—highlighting the counterfeit nature of modernity itself.
Download or read book The Big Bluff written by G. William Ryan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible is one of our best sources of history, especially when it comes to morality and civility. The Bible has story after story and gives many parables referring to the reason for the downfall of men and woman. This degradation obviously creates problems not only in families and organizations. But in society. The basis for the problems can best be classified as spirits which seems to be contrary to a homogeneous or peaceful relationship.
Download or read book Bluffer s Guide to Sex written by Rebecca Newman and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of sex, seduction, and the sensual arts with Bluffer's Guide to Sex. Never again confuse a Flying Wallenda with an Inverted Wheelbarrow, food sex with vanilla sex, or a banjo string with a cupid stunt. Bask in the admiration of your fellow enthusiasts as you pronounce confidently on the comparative pleasures of identifying and arousing ‘P-spots’, ‘E-spots’ and ‘G-spots’, and effortlessly learn how to hold your own (figuratively speaking) against keen devotees of ‘frottage’. DO SAY: ‘A cursory look at the design and anatomical positioning of the male and female sexual organs shows that when God designed Homo sapiens, aestheticism and ease of access were not high on the job description. The human genitalia are not exactly user-friendly.’ DON’T SAY: ‘I feel that it’s time for our sex life to move on to the next stage. You don’t have a fear of rodents, do you?’
Download or read book The Lesley Glaister Collection Volume One written by Lesley Glaister and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three dark and mesmerizing novels from an award-winning writer with the “ability to pull terror and suspense from just about anywhere” (Kirkus Reviews). In Lesley Glaister’s world, the domestic and the bizarre walk hand-in-hand. This haunting collection is a testament to the visionary powers of “a natural storyteller who knows how to keep the reader turning the pages” (The Independent). Limestone and Clay: Nadia is a sculptor driven by a single obsession: to conceive a child. When she learns that her geographer husband has donated his sperm to his former lover, who is now pregnant with his child, it is the ultimate betrayal—and warrants the ultimate payback. “Terrifying . . . Glaister truffles her way down to the grim heart, where we find out what makes people tick like time-bombs.” —The Daily Telegraph Digging to Australia: Twelve-year-old Jennifer Maybee spends most of her time alone with her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland. But a revelation from her parents and an encounter with a strange-eyed man set her hurtling into a “topsy-turvy land” of sinister secrets not even Lewis Carroll could have imagined. “Dangerous secrets and sinister undertones power this uncommon coming-of-age tale. . . . Masterful.” —Publishers Weekly Honour Thy Father: In a decaying house in the lowlands of England, four spinster sisters live in self-imposed isolation. For more than sixty years, Milly, Agatha, and the identical twins Ellen and Esther—“Ellenanesther”—have been trapped together, haunted by the specter of their father. As eighty-year-old Milly reminisces, a gothic mystery takes shape: Why is Milly always counting the knives? How did their mother drown under the dyke? And who is baby George, locked away in the cellar? Honour Thy Father is the winner of the Somerset Maugham and Betty Trask Awards. “Eerie and satisfying—a horror story told with tenderness.” —The Sunday Times
Download or read book Bluff Your Way in Seduction written by Yves Chébran and published by Ravette Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaches the bluffer the art of seduction, the importance of recognizing professional and amateur seducers and an assortment of seduction techniques.
