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Book Don t Bet on the Prince

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gilda Carle
  • Publisher : Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 1999-01-15
  • ISBN : 9781582380247
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Don t Bet on the Prince written by Gilda Carle and published by Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1999-01-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we dream of princes, we wake up with toads. What's a woman to do when one Prince Charming after another turns out to be a frog? According to Dr. Gilda Carle, women should never bestow "princely" expectations on men because it leaves men in control of-- and women in denial about-- the fundamental nature of the relationship. Often in their desire to be swept away and protected, women fail to cultivate their own internal strength. In order to succeed in love, women need to establish their own personal power, project it, and attract partners who respect it and reflect it. A woman's primary love should be the love she gives herself-- because, ultimately, how she treats herself sends a message about how she expects others to treat her. Dr. Gilda shows you how you can find a worthy mate by using her five key tenets: * Ask for what you need and believe you deserve to get * Project a Power Image * Give from the overflow, not from the core * Know how to receive * Enjoy being alone With a colorful assortment of case histories, insightful Self-Assessments, memorable Gilda-Grams, and plenty of humor to illustrate her practical and proven advice, Dr. Gilda reveals how to achieve a self-made version of happily-ever-after.

Book Don t Bet on the Prince

Download or read book Don t Bet on the Prince written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Zipes has put together the first comprehensive anthology of feminist fairy tales and essays to appear since the women's movement gained momentum in the 1960's. He has selected works by such gifted writers as Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Tanith Lee, Jay Williams, Jane Yolen, Anne Sexton, Olga Broumas and Joanna Russ-all of whom, whether they consider themselves feminists or not, have written innovative stories which seek to break the classical tradition of fairy tales. The accompanying critical essays, by Marcia Lieberman, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar and Karen Rowe, discuss how fairy tales play an important role in early socialization, influencing the manner in which children perceive the world and their place in it even before they begin to read.

Book The Prince and the Pauper

Download or read book The Prince and the Pauper written by Jemma Kennedy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jemma Kennedy's stage adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper is a dynamic and fast-paced adaptation of Mark Twain's 1881 classic novel of confused identities.

Book The Gambling Century

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Eglin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-09-26
  • ISBN : 0192888234
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book The Gambling Century written by John Eglin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambling captures as nothing else the drama of the “long eighteenth century” between the age of religious wars and the age of revolutions. The society that was confronted with games of chance pursued as commercial ventures also came to grips with unprecedented social mobility, floated by new wealth from new sources created fortunes from trade in sugar, cotton, ivory, silk, tea, or enslaved human beings. Likewise, play for money was prominent in the public imagination as money itself, deployed through an ever expanding and ever more sophisticated range of mechanisms, increasingly invaded public awareness, as when prospective spouses in period fiction were rated in terms of annual income as if they were municipal bonds. Similarly, the archetypal figure of the gambler captured the imagination of the public in fiction, media, and politics. At the same time, new interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - encouraged and bankrolled by those in power - fostered a new and unprecedented appreciation for mathematical probability and its applications, opening the possibility that games of chance might be pursued as a profitable commercial venture. The Gambling Century focuses like no previous work on those who enabled, facilitated, and profited from gambling, as well as on efforts to regulate or outlaw it. Using extensive archival material as well as printed sources, it follows its subjects from the Court to the coffeehouse, to private clubs and “at homes” in townhouses, all of which prefigure that quintessentially modern gambling space, the casino.

Book Poor Folk   The Gambler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Poor Folk The Gambler written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gambling  or  Fortuna  her temple and shrine

Download or read book Gambling or Fortuna her temple and shrine written by James Harold Romain and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gambling; or, Fortuna, her temple and shrine: The true philosophy and ethics of gambling" by James Harold Romain looks at the history of gambling and how this vice has turned into a true philosophy. Starting withthe worship of Fortuna, the book goes on to look at the draw and ethics of gambling and how it manages to get so many men and women to succumb to its powers. Even for modern readers, this book provides fascinating insight into a topic that is still prevalent today.

Book The Gambling Impulse

Download or read book The Gambling Impulse written by Clemens James France and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book of the Princes of Wales  Heirs to the Crown of England

Download or read book Book of the Princes of Wales Heirs to the Crown of England written by Dr. Doran (John) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gambling and Survival in Native North America

Download or read book Gambling and Survival in Native North America written by Paul Pasquaretta and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cards are turned, the chips are raked. In casinos all over the country, Native Americans are making money and reclaiming power. But the games are by no means confined to the tables, as the Mashantucket Pequots can attest. Although Anglo-Americans have attempted to undermine Pequot sovereignty for centuries, these Native Americans have developed a strategy of survival in order to maintain their sense of peoplehood—a resiliency that has vexed outsiders, from English settlers to Donald Trump. The Pequots have found success at their southeastern Connecticut casino in spite of the odds. But in considering their story, Paul Pasquaretta shifts the focus from casinos to the political struggles that have marked the long history of indigenous-colonial relations. Viewing the survival of Native communities in the face of genocide and forced assimilation as a high-stakes game of chance, he examines gambling metaphors in historical and literary contexts to reveal strategies employed by several tribes as they participate in various "games" with white society--whether land re-acquisition, political positioning, or resistance to outside dominance. Through a comparative analysis of texts spanning four centuries—colonial war narratives, nineteenth-century romance fiction, tribal memorials, Native American novels—Pasquaretta provides a framework for understanding Indian-white relations and the role of "chance" in the realm of colonialism. He explores two intertwining themes: the survival of indigenous peoples in the face of the European invasion of North America and the ongoing contest of Natives and newcomers that has transpired in the marketplace, on the battlefield, and in the courts. In so doing, he considers the impact of reservation gambling on the development of contemporary tribal communities and the role of traditional Indian gambling practices and stories in the survival of indigenous cultural traditions. Gambling and Survival in Native North America is a wide-ranging book that shows how Native Americans have become active participants in their own survival despite the popular belief that Indian tribes, as "conquered peoples," have been rendered helpless for over a century. Working within a system devised to confine and even destroy them, they have found ways to remain in the game—and, against all odds, have learned to play it well.

Book The Book of the Princes of Wales  Heirs to the Crown of England

Download or read book The Book of the Princes of Wales Heirs to the Crown of England written by John Doran and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Problems and Christian Ethics

Download or read book Modern Problems and Christian Ethics written by William John Hocking and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rationality in Question

Download or read book Rationality in Question written by Biderman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Society  Politics and Diplomacy  1820 1864

Download or read book Society Politics and Diplomacy 1820 1864 written by Francis William Henry Cavendish and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bel Canto Bully

Download or read book Bel Canto Bully written by Philip Eisenbeiss and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unscrupulous, devilishly ambitious and undeniably charismatic, Domenico Barbaja was the most celebrated Italian impresario of the early 1800s and one of the most intriguing characters to dominate the operatic empire of the period. Dubbed the "Viceroy of Naples", Barbaja was the influential force behind the careers of a plethora of artists including Vincenzo Bellini, Gioachino Rossini and the great mezzo-soprano Isabella Colbran. In this book, Eisenbeiss unlocks the enigma of this eccentric and fascinating personality that has been hitherto neglected.

Book 1652

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Parrott
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020-07-30
  • ISBN : 019879746X
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book 1652 written by David Parrott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Parrott's book offers a major re-evaluation of the last year of the Fronde - the political upheaval between 1648 and 1652 - in the making of seventeenth-century France. In late December 1651, Cardinal Mazarin defied the order for his perpetual banishment, and re-entered France at the head of an army. The political and military crisis that followed convulsed the nation, and revived the ebbing fortunes of a revolt led by the cousin of the young Louis XIV, the prince de Cond�. The study follows in detail the unfolding political and military events of this year, showing how military success and failure swung between the two sides through the campaign, driving both cardinal and prince into a progressive intensification of the conflict, while simultaneously fuelling a quest for compromise and settlement which nonetheless eluded all the negotiators' efforts. The consequences were devastating for France, as civil war smashed into a fragile ecosystem that was already reeling under the impact of the global cooling of the 'Little Ice Age'. 1652 raises questions about established interpretations of French state-building, the rule of cardinal Mazarin and his predecessor, Richelieu, and their contribution to creating the 'absolutism' of Louis XIV.