Download or read book Dark Desires at Dawn written by Stephanie Julian and published by Moonlit Night Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barbarian and the Goddess… Tessa is the Etruscan Goddess of the Dawn, worshipped by an entire civilization. At least, she used to be. Now her powers are weakening, and she’s been targeted by a malicious god who wants to consume her remaining magic. She needs a hero and fast…preferably one who’s good in bed because sexual energy boosts her magic. She seeks out Caligo, a barbarian whose sexual prowess is legendary... Caligo is a fabled Cimmerian warrior determined to stay out of the affairs of the deities. He thought he’d learned his lesson after his last affair with a goddess left him barely breathing. But there's something irresistible about Tessa, something that draws him in. Now they’re on the run from the God of the Underworld, and Caligo is Tessa’s only chance to escape the encroaching darkness...

Download or read book The Dark Desires of the Druids 4 written by Isabel Roman and published by Literary Partners Group Inc. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Venus and Aphrodite written by Bettany Hughes and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian. Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the shores of Cyprus -- and thousands of years before that, as a ferocious warrior-goddess in the Middle East. Proving that this fabled figure is so much more than an avatar of commercialized romance, historian Bettany Hughes reveals the remarkable lifestory of one of antiquity's most potent myths. Venus and Aphrodite brings together ancient art, mythology, and archaeological revelations to tell the story of human desire. From Mesopotamia to modern-day London, from Botticelli to Beyoncé, Hughes explains why this immortal goddess continues to entrance us today -- and how we trivialize her power at our peril.

Download or read book The Islands of Desire written by Desemea Newman Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Captive of Desire written by Becky Lee Weyrich and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Crete, one woman’s beauty and spirit will outmatch those who try to tame her in this thrilling historical romance from “a master storyteller” (Romantic Times). When beautiful Zephromae watched her brother get taken away as a tribute slave, she knew she must rescue him. Her childhood sweetheart, the noble and courageous Alexander, followed to protect her. But he couldn’t save her from a ruthless king, the lust of a savage prince, or the fury of a spiteful queen who had power over them all. But Zephromae possessed a secret strength that no one could have possibly imagined—and she would not hesitate to use it. Set in Crete in the heart of the Minoan culture, Captive of Desire sweeps the reader into an ancient world of adventure and romance.

Download or read book Domestic Allegories of Political Desire written by Claudia Tate and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all black Americans? Such stories now seem like apolitical fantasies to contemporary readers. This is the question at the center of Tate's examination of the novels of Pauline Hopkins, Emma Kelley, Amelia Johnson, Katherine Tillman, and Frances Harper. Domestic Allegories of Political Desire is more than a literary study; it is also a social and intellectual history--a cultural critique of a period that historian Rayford W. Logan called "the Dark Ages of recent American history." Against a rich contextual framework, extending from abolitionist protest to the Black Aesthetic, Tate argues that the idealized marriage plot in these novels does not merely depict the heroine's happiness and economic prosperity. More importantly, that plot encodes a resonant cultural narrative--a domestic allegory--about the political ambitions of an emancipated people. Once this domestic allegory of political desire is unmasked in these novels, it can be seen as a significant discourse of the post-Reconstruction era for representing African-Americans' collective dreams about freedom and for reconstructing those contested dreams into consummations of civil liberty.

Download or read book Vital Body Desire Body Archetype written by Max Heindel and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains three books - 1. Vital Body 2.Desire Body 3. Archetype or Concrete Mental Body The above boos are written by Max Heindel, the founder, and messenger of The Rosicrucian Fellowship.

Download or read book Dream Works written by Kay Stockholder and published by University of Toronto. This book was released on 1987 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Flight from Desire written by R. Edwards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reformulates the master narrative of erotic discourse in medieval literature. Individual chapters offer fresh readings of the nature and claims of erotic attachments in Abelard and Heloise, Marie de France, Jean de Meun, Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer - writers profoundly influenced by Augustine and Ovid.

Download or read book Shakespeare in Theory and Practice written by Catherine Belsey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, collected here for the first time, renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, she demonstrates the possibilities of an attention to textuality that also draws on the archive. A reading of the Sonnets, written specially for this book, analyses their intricate and ambivalent inscription of desire. Between them, these essays trace the progress of theory in the course of three decades, while a new introduction offers a narrative and analytical overview, from a participant's perspective, of some of its key implications. Written with verve and conviction, this book shows how texts can offer access to the dissonances of the past when theory finds an outcome in practice.

Download or read book Who Wants to Kill Bonaparte written by Philippe Bornet and published by GLM LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Tom Clancy meets Napoleon Philippe Bornet, the brilliant author of this historical novel, a story of military strategy and written in true Clancy style, tells everything about the historical event that lead to Napoleon’s epic destiny. With a perfect balance of suspense and historical accuracy, the author gives an astonishing account of the siege of Toulon, the battle during which Bonaparte displayed his military genius for the first time and offered the young French Republic a decisive success against the enemies of the French revolution. To this day, this was considered to be the first act of his legend.

Download or read book Piero Di Cosimo written by Dennis Geronimus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) is known today—as he was in his own time—for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. In this book, Dennis Geronimus overcomes the scarcity of information about the artist’s life and works—only one of the nearly sixty known works by Piero is actually signed and dated—and pieces together from extensive archival research the most complete and accurate account of Piero’s life and career ever written. Unfettered imagination was the sign under which Piero exercised his pictorial invention, and yet the complicated artist was also a product of his culture. The book fills gaps in the artist’s biography and provides intensive analysis of Piero’s protean imagery, discusses his various patrons and commissions, and lists his extant, lost, and uncertainly attributed works.

Download or read book James Joyce and the Politics of Desire written by Suzette A. Henke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, first published in 1990, offers a feminist and psychoanalytic reassessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva. The author centres her discussion of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist, Finnegans Wake, and Exiles around questions of desire and language and the politics of sexual difference. Suzette Henke’s radical "re-vision" of Joyce’s work is a striking example of the crucial role feminist theory can play in contemporary evaluation of canonical texts. As such it will be welcomed by feminists and students of literature alike.

Download or read book Vulcan written by Tim McLelland and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vulcan: God of Fire' is a historical account of Britain's nuclear deterrent force, the development of atomic/thermonuclear weapons and the bombers. It includes a description of the design, development and manufacture of the Vulcan, the flight testing programme and entry into RAF service. There is also a full account of the Vulcan's career, including its primary role as a nuclear bomber and as a key participant in the 1982 Falklands conflict. Further coverage includes the use of the Vulcan as a refuelling tanker and reconnaissance platform, and the recent project to restore a Vulcan to flying condition, funded by the National Lottery Fund. Historical information is combined with first-hand accounts from former air and ground crews, and a full description of the service history/disposal of every Vulcan aircraft manufactured.

Download or read book Black Firefighters and the FDNY written by David Goldberg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY). For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1898 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism. An important chapter in the histories of both Black social movements and independent workplace organizing, this book demonstrates how Black firefighters in New York helped to create affirmative action from the "bottom up," while simultaneously revealing how white resistance to these efforts shaped white working-class conservatism and myths of American meritocracy. Full of colorful characters and rousing stories drawn from oral histories, discrimination suits, and the archives of the Vulcan Society (the fraternal society of Black firefighters in New York), this book sheds new light on the impact of Black firefighters in the fight for civil rights.

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Download or read book Trek Fail written by Robert T. Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Robert T. Jeschonek knows his Star Trek. Now he invites you to explore the vast realm of published and unpublished Trek. Can you guess which pitches or proposals deserved a FAIL? Which ones scored an UNFAIL? You be the judge in this book that's also a game. Compare your verdict to history's outcome as you voyage through one man's personal Trek universe.