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Book THIRTY DAYS NAKED

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. Sembera
  • Publisher : M. Sembera
  • Release : 2020-08-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 105 pages

Download or read book THIRTY DAYS NAKED written by M. Sembera and published by M. Sembera. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a free-spirited Winnie Quinn bunks up with the relentlessly cynical Logan Hatcher? Find out in THIRTY DAYS NAKED! When the test subject for Logan Hatcher’s thesis argument ditches him at the last minute, he thinks he’s stumbled upon the perfect substitute, Winnie Quinn. Fresh of the heels of a breakup, she accepts. It seems like a win-win. Logan stays on track with his thesis and Winnie gets a thousand dollars, plus room and board for the summer. As personalities collide and his thesis statement is put to the test, what Winnie and Logan discover just might turn everything inside out.

Book The Astronomical Calculations and Ramadan

Download or read book The Astronomical Calculations and Ramadan written by Zulfiqar Ali Shah and published by IIIT. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shatters the myth that naked-eye sighting of the new moon and completing thirty days in the case of weather-related or other obscurities are the only two valid methods of determining the month of Ramadan. The author explains that certainty, not actual sighting, is the real objective of the Shariah and that the Qur'an does not mandate physical sighting. A careful analysis shows that those hadiths that seemingly require sighting actually require certainty. The assertion that all Muslim scholars prohibit the use of astronomical calculations, both in affirming or negating the month of Ramadan, is not correct. As calculation is now more accurate than naked-eye sighting, due to certain astronomical and scientific advancements, the use of calculation is the closest to the real objective of the Shari'ah and to the spirit of the hadiths.

Book The New Damascus Document

Download or read book The New Damascus Document written by Ben Zion Wacholder and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This composite edition of the Damascus Document and scrolls from Khirbet Qumran (with translation and commentary) presents a new understanding of the relationship of these texts, time and purpose; shedding additional light on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Book Naked

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  • Author : Brian Hoffman
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2015-05-01
  • ISBN : 0814790542
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Naked written by Brian Hoffman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had long enjoyed the pleasures of skinny dipping or nude sunbathing, nudists were the first to organize a movement around the idea that exposing the body corrected the ills of modern society and produced profound benefits for the body as well as the mind. Despite hostility and skepticism, American nudists enlisted the support of health enthusiasts, homemakers, sex radicals, and even ministers, and in the process, redefined what could be seen, experienced, and consumed in twentieth-century America. Naked gives a vibrant, detailed account of the American nudist movement and the larger cultural phenomenon of public nudity in the United States. Brian S. Hoffman reflects on the idea of nakedness itself in the context of a culture that wrestles with an inherent sense of shame and conflicting moral attitudes about the body. In exploring the social and legal history of nudism, Hoffman reveals how anxieties about gender, race, sexuality, and age inform our conceptions of nakedness. The book traces the debates about distinguishing deviant sexualities from morally acceptable display, the legal processes that helped bring about the dramatic changes in sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the explosion in eroticism that has increasingly defined the modern American consumer economy. Drawing on a colorful collection of nudist materials, films, and magazines, Naked exposes the social, cultural, and moral assumptions about nakedness and the body normally hidden from view and behind closed doors.

Book This Naked Mind

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  • Author : Annie Grace
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2018-01-02
  • ISBN : 0525537236
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book This Naked Mind written by Annie Grace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Naked Mind has ignited a movement across the country, helping thousands of people forever change their relationship with alcohol. Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But, they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and stress-relief associated with alcohol, and assume giving it up will involve deprivation and misery. This Naked Mind offers a new, positive solution. Here, Annie Grace clearly presents the psychological and neurological components of alcohol use based on the latest science, and reveals the cultural, social, and industry factors that support alcohol dependence in all of us. Packed with surprising insight into the reasons we drink, this book will open your eyes to the startling role of alcohol in our culture, and how the stigma of alcoholism and recovery keeps people from getting the help they need. With Annie’s own extraordinary and candid personal story at its heart, this book is a must-read for anyone who drinks. This Naked Mind will give you freedom from alcohol. It removes the psychological dependence so that you will not crave alcohol, allowing you to easily drink less (or stop drinking). With clarity, humor, and a unique blend of science and storytelling, This Naked Mind will open the door to the life you have been waiting for. “You have given me my live back.” —Katy F., Albuquerque, New Mexico “This is an inspiring and groundbreaking must-read. I am forever inspired and changed.” —Kate S., Los Angeles, California “The most selfless and amazing book that I have ever read.” —Bernie M., Dublin, Ireland

Book The Alcohol Experiment  Expanded Edition

Download or read book The Alcohol Experiment Expanded Edition written by Annie Grace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now complete with daily prompts to reflect on each day of a month-long, alcohol-free plan, the author of This Naked Mind helps readers challenge their thinking, find clarity, and form new habits. Changing your habits can be hard without the right tools. This is especially true for alcohol because habits are, by definition, subconscious thought processes. Through her methodical research of the latest neuroscience and her own journey, Annie Grace has cracked the code on habit change by addressing the specific ways habits form. This unique and unprecedented method has now helped thousands redefine their relationship to drinking painlessly and without misery. In The Alcohol Experiment, Annie offers a judgment-free action plan for anyone who's ever wondered what life without alcohol is like. The rules are simple: Abstain from drinking for 30 days and just see how you feel. Annie arms her readers with the science-backed information to address the cultural and emotional conditioning we experience around alcohol. The result is a mindful approach that puts you back in control and permanently stops cravings. With a chapter and journal prompt devoted to each day of the experiment, Annie presents wisdom, tested strategies, and thought-provoking information to supplement the plan and support your step-by-step success as you learn what feels good for you. It's your body, your mind, and your choice.

Book Cosmopolitan

Download or read book Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thirty Days

Download or read book Thirty Days written by Paul Mariani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-01-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the day Paul Mariani arrives at Eastern Point Retreat House to take part in the five-hundred-year-old Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, he realizes that his expectations and assumptions about who he is, what he knows, and what he believes are about to change radically. In this profound memoir Mariani blends a brief life of St. Ignatius and meditations on the life of Jesus with the day-to-day unfolding of thirty days of silence at the retreat house. His journey of introspection, self-revelation, and spiritual renewal leads him to a new understanding of his relationship with God and of what it truly means to put others before oneself.

Book Naked Truth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Lynne Hanna
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN : 0292744986
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Naked Truth written by Judith Lynne Hanna and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across America, strip clubs have come under attack by a politically aggressive segment of the Christian Right. Using plausible-sounding but factually untrue arguments about the harmful effects of strip clubs on their communities, the Christian Right has stoked public outrage and incited local and state governments to impose onerous restrictions on the clubs with the intent of dismantling the exotic dance industry. But an even larger agenda is at work, according to Judith Lynne Hanna. In Naked Truth, she builds a convincing case that the attack on exotic dance is part of the activist Christian Right’s “grand design” to supplant constitutional democracy in America with a Bible-based theocracy. Hanna takes readers onstage, backstage, and into the community and courts to reveal the conflicts, charges, and realities that are playing out at the intersection of erotic fantasy, religion, politics, and law. She explains why exotic dance is a legitimate form of artistic communication and debunks the many myths and untruths that the Christian Right uses to fight strip clubs. Hanna also demonstrates that while the fight happens at the local level, it is part of a national campaign to regulate sexuality and punish those who do not adhere to Scripture-based moral values. Ultimately, she argues, the naked truth is that the separation of church and state is under siege and our civil liberties—free speech, women’s rights, and free enterprise—are at stake.

Book The Road

Download or read book The Road written by Jack London and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1907 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to explain. Unfortunately, I do not know her name, much less her present address. If her eyes should chance upon these lines, I hope she will write to me. It was in Reno, Nevada, in the summer of 1892. Also, it was fair-time, and the town was filled with petty crooks and tin-horns, to say nothing of a vast and hungry horde of hoboes. It was the hungry hoboes that made the town a "hungry" town. They "battered" the back doors of the homes of the citizens until the back doors became unresponsive. A hard town for "scoffings," was what the hoboes called it at that time. I know that I missed many a meal, in spite of the fact that I could "throw my feet" with the next one when it came to "slamming a gate" for a "poke-out" or a "set-down," or hitting for a "light piece" on the street. Why, I was so hard put in that town, one day, that I gave the porter the slip and invaded the private car of some itinerant millionnaire.

Book A Friend of the Earth

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  • Author : T. C. Boyle
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2011-08-01
  • ISBN : 1408826836
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book A Friend of the Earth written by T. C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________________ 'A comedy with teeth ... razor sharp and darkly funny' (TIMES) 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' (TELEGRAPH) 'Surreal, daring and compassionate. Easily one of the best books of the year' (MAIL) 'Superb ... if Boyle was from this side of the pond, this is the book they'd all have to beat for the Booker Prize' (SUNDAY TIMES) It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist and retired eco-terrorist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak living managing a pop star's private zoo. It is the last one in southern California, and vital for the cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as a radical activist committed to Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea re-enters his life. Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle's story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future.

Book The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Atlanta

Download or read book The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Atlanta written by Atlanta (Ga.). and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thirty Days to a Good Job

Download or read book Thirty Days to a Good Job written by Hal Gieseking and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-04-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This positive, highly focused program provides you with an accelerated schedule that reduces the conventional six- to twelve-month job-search "sleepwalk" into a well-thought-out blitz. In what is the first really fresh job-hunting idea since What Color is Your Parachute?, 30 Days to a Good Job puts you on a strategic, systematic 30-day program that leaves you no time to become discouraged. This positive, highly focused program provides you with an accelerated schedule that reduces the conventional six- to twelve-month job-search "sleepwalk" into a well-thought-out blitz that gets you not one but a half-dozen contacts in each of your prospective companies and up to 150 job contacts in a single month. 30 Days to a Good Job will show you: How to arm yourself with the most effective self-marketing techniques to beat out the competition; How to use a highly structured 30-Day Job Planning Calendar, complete with specific assignments to perform daily; How to speed up your job search by employing Job Prospect Cards (listing company names and key decision-makers within the organization), Life Experience Cards (documenting work, education, and social experiences to help individualize resumes and cover letters), and a Contact Notebook (featuring pertinent information for follow-up letters and phone calls); How to develop your own original, hand-tailored letters and resumes as adjuncts to the all-important and decisive job interviews; How to computerize your job search.

Book Painting St  Feoc

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  • Author : Philip Radmall
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2003-05-22
  • ISBN : 059527823X
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Painting St Feoc written by Philip Radmall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Urquhart is an artist obsessed with numbers and with counting. Traditionally a painter of nudes, he travels to a remote part of south-west England to paint three ancient burial mounds. He arrives at a secluded village comprising fourteen old and disfigured men, a Catholic priest, and the priest's sister and her three daughters, all of whom have their own obsessions and their own stories of how they come to be there. Within this dour, unchanging community, evoked by its smells and its frugality and set against a bleak, stagnant landscape where the old men live out their dismal struggle with the earth, each character travels their own path of understanding and contrives a different interpretation of events, plying the depths of their various obsessions - Michael Urquhart's incessant counting, the old men's resounding faith in a redeeming afterlife, the Priest's search for absolution from the incestuous sins of his past, and the private ruminations of the Priest's sister and her daughters. When Michael Urquhart changes the subject of his painting for one of grander vision, the outcome of all their disparate beliefs and convictions rests in its design.

Book The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated

Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated written by Florentino García Martínez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated comprises an extensive preface outlining the origin of the manuscripts and the aims of the translation. This is followed by an introduction offering a survey of the discoveries and their publication, a brief sketch of the characteristics of the Qumran library, and several interesting remarks on the sect's identity, origins and history. The translation of the manuscripts is organized into nine chapters, each with one or two pages of introduction. It concludes with an exhaustive list of all manuscripts discovered at Qumran. This list is a very useful reference tool and forms a scientific publication in its own right. Originally published in Spanish (1992) the present authorized translation has been prepared by Wilfred G.E. Watson of the University of Newcastle, a renowned scholar of Biblical Hebrew poetry. Please note that this title is available to customers in North America exclusively through Eerdmans Publishing Company (www.eerdmans.com).

Book To Sight or To Calculate

Download or read book To Sight or To Calculate written by Iwan Achmad Adjie and published by CV Jejak (Jejak Publisher). This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One thing that is rare here from a general point of view; all the 'clashes' of sighting vs. calculations are presented here as sighting vs. sighting. Calculations actually becomes inseparable from sighting and vice versa.

Book McGilloway s Ireland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olly McGilloway
  • Publisher : Dufour Editions
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780856405402
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book McGilloway s Ireland written by Olly McGilloway and published by Dufour Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative account of Irish wildlife by one of Ireland's leading naturalists combines his expert information on animals and the Irish countryside with lively personal observations. Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs. Readers will follow the annual cycle of nature, noting the characteristic behavior of Ireland's wildlife from wild goats, feral cats and badgers to eels, seals, and otters and discover delightful versions of the folklore, myths and legends associated with each animal.