Download or read book When Cupid s Arrow Strikes written by Kathryn Kaleigh and published by KST Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millionaire investor Adrianna Johnson's life is soaring high, but her romantic compass seems to be stuck on turbulence. Her boyfriend, Jacques, stationed in France, is technically perfect—sort of. Adrianna, too occupied to sort out the details, is blissfully unaware of her family's disapproval of the elusive Jacques. Back home, airplane pilot Austin Fletcher is navigating the complexities of life after receiving an unexpected gift—a dog from his ex-girlfriend. Everything is flying smoothly until Adrianna, a cat owner with a penchant for serendipitous landings, literally drops into his arms. Unfortunately, Austin's attempts to secure her number result in a slip through his fingers. Fate, it seems, is a persistent wingman. Cupid, having taken a liking to Skye Travels, orchestrates three chance encounters between Adrianna and Austin. As laughter and chemistry intertwine, the duo discovers that love, much like a well-executed landing, is a perfect combination of timing and connection. In this witty, funny, and endearing contemporary romance, join Adrianna and Austin as they navigate the skies of love, discovering that sometimes the heart lands where you least expect it. Will their romance take off to new heights, or will it face unexpected turbulence along the way? Buckle up for a journey filled with laughter, surprises, and the perfect blend of sweet romance.
Download or read book Cupid s Arrow written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this absorbing book, renowned psychologist Robert J. Sternberg presents a psychological approach to human relationships that reveals how and why people fall in and out of love. Fascinating reading for anyone who wants to learn more about love, Cupid's Arrow draws on fields ranging from history to cognitive science to folklore, offering a comprehensive account of love in its many forms. Grounded in Sternberg's own 'triangular theory', the book explores the many varieties of love as diffe
Download or read book Disarming Cupid written by Scientific American Editors and published by Scientific American. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disarming Cupid: Love, Sex and Science by the Editors of Scientific American Sometimes All You Need Is Love; sometimes Love Is a Battlefield. Whether Love Hurts, Bites, Will Keep Us Together, Will Tear Us Apart or Is a Four-Letter Word, it seems we Want To Know What Love Is. Love – in both the abstract and the up-close-and-personal – has always provided limitless inspiration for artists, writers and musicians, but scientists are just as fascinated by these affairs of the heart, though they seldom sing about it. In this eBook, Disarming Cupid: Love, Sex and Science, our editors take a step back, analyzing romance using tools like fMRI studies instead of a paint brush or guitar. The writers examine a variety of topics, starting with the perceived sex differences between men and women discussed in Section 1 – are we really as different as Mars and Venus? As our opening story shows, few other questions can get at the heart of this debate like "Can heterosexual men and women ever be ‘just friends'?" (Spoiler alert: new research suggests that the answer is no.) Subsequent sections tackle other facets of love, including the implications of the drastic rise in online dating, how we choose our romantic partners and what happens in our brains when we're in love. In particular "All You Need Is Love" finds – or, perhaps for some, verifies – that romantic love stimulates the same pathways as an addictive drug. Section 5 focuses on issues of gender and sexuality. "Do Gays Have a Choice?" analyzes a wealth of scientific evidence and shows that sexual orientation is determined more by both genes and environment, rather than being a choice. We also don't shy away from darker aspects of love, such as the psychology of prostitution and sex appeal of narcissists, because to ignore these aspects of love is to trivialize it. Besides, love's paradoxes are one of the reasons why it is The Topic for cultural discourse. As Pascal said, "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." Hopefully this eBook will change the "nothing" to "at least something."
Download or read book 25 Roses written by Stephanie Faris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia moves from the shadows to the spotlight when her matchmaking plans go awry in this contemporary M!X novel from the author of 30 Days of No Gossip. Mia is used to feeling overlooked: her perfect older sister gets all the attention at home, and the popular clique at school are basically experts at ignoring her. So when it’s time for the annual Student Council chocolate rose sale, Mia is prepared to feel even worse. Because even though anyone can buy and send roses to their crushes and friends, the same (popular) people always end up with roses while everyone else gets left out. Except a twist of fate puts Mia in charge of selling the roses this year—and that means things are going to change. With a little creativity, Mia makes sure the kids who usually leave empty-handed suddenly find themselves the object of someone’s affection. But her scheme starts to unravel when she realizes that being a secret matchmaker isn’t easy—and neither is being in the spotlight.
Download or read book Love written by Barbara H. Rosenwein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments. Drawing on poetry, fiction, letters, memoirs, and art, and with the aid of a rich array of illustrations, historian Barbara H. Rosenwein explores five of our most enduring fantasies of love: like-minded union, transcendent rapture, selfless giving, obsessive longing, and insatiable desire. Each has had a long and tangled history with lasting effects on how we in the West think about love today. Yet each leads to a different conclusion about what we should strive for in our relationships. If only we could peel back the layers of love and discover its “true” essence. But love doesn’t work like that; it is constructed on the shards of experience, story, and feeling, shared over time, intertwined with other fantasies. By understanding the history of how we have loved, Rosenwein argues, we may better navigate our own tumultuous experiences and perhaps write our own scripts.
Download or read book The Starstruck Series Two Book Set written by Brenda Hiatt and published by Dolphin Star Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two complete novels plus never-before-published bonus materials! This volume contains the first two books of the Starstruck series, along with an extended preview of book 3 and additional bonus content providing additional insights into the series. The middle of nowhere is getting a lot more interesting! Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, has never been anybody special. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict “aunt,” she’s not even sure who she is. M’s dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her. As Rigel turns his back on fawning cheerleaders to spend time with M, strange things start to happen: her acne clears up, her eyesight improves to the point she can ditch her thick glasses, and when they touch, sparks fly--literally! When M digs for a reason, she discovers deep secrets that will change her formerly mundane life forever…and expose her to perils she never dreamed of. Welcome to the award-winning Starstruck series, where teen romance blends with science fiction to open a whole new world of action, adventure and discovery! Inside you’ll find the first two complete novels in the series, an extended preview of Starbound, book 3, and bonus materials including a Martian glossary and other content mentioned in the books but never before published.
Download or read book Monstrous Little Voices written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Abaddon Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mischief, Magic, Love and War. It is the Year of Our Lord 1601. The Tuscan War rages across the world, and every lord from Navarre to Illyria is embroiled in the fray. Cannon roar, pikemen clash, and witches stalk the night; even the fairy courts stand on the verge of chaos. Five stories come together at the end of the war: that of bold Miranda and sly Puck; of wise Pomona and her prisoner Vertumnus; of gentle Lucia and the shade of Prospero; of noble Don Pedro and powerful Helena; and of Anne, a glovemaker's wife. On these lovers and heroes the world itself may depend. These are the stories Shakespeare never told. Five of the most exciting names in genre fiction today – Jonathan Barnes, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Emma Newman, Foz Meadows and Kate Heartfield – delve into the world the poet created to weave together a story of courage, transformation and magic. Including an afterword by Dr. John Lavagnino, The London Shakespeare Centre, King's College London.
Download or read book The Course of True Love written by Kate Heartfield and published by Abaddon Books. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pomona, a gifted hedge-witch of advancing years in fair Illyria, is walking about her own business when she spies a fairy gentleman trapped in a secret garden. Vertumnus, King Oberon's emissary to the Duke, has been taken captive by proud Titania, and a war is in the offing... unless Pomona can prevent it. Monstrous Little Voices is a collection of five short novellas, a single long tale set in Shakespeare's fantasy world of fairies, wizards and potions, in honour of the four-hundredth anniversary of the Bard's death.
Download or read book Poetic Authority written by John Guillory and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England written by Mary Floyd-Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England gathers essays from prominent scholars of English Renaissance literature and history who have made substantial contributions to the study of early modern embodiment, historical phenomenology, affect, cognition, memory, and natural philosophy. It provides new interpretations of the geographic dimensions of early modern embodiment, emphasizing the transactional and dynamic aspects of the relationship between body and world. The geographies of embodiment encompass both cognitive processes and cosmic environments, and inner emotional states as well as affective landscapes. Rather than always being territorialized onto individual bodies, ideas about early modern embodiment are varied both in their scope and in terms of their representation. Reflecting this variety, this volume offers up a range of inquiries into how early modern writers accounted for the exchanges between the microcosm and macrocosm. It engages with Gail Kern Paster's groundbreaking scholarship on embodiment, humoralism, the passions, and historical phenomenology throughout, and offers new readings of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, John Milton, and others. Contributions consider the epistemiologies of navigation and cartography, the significance of geohumoralism, the ethics of self-mastery, theories of early modern cosmology, the construction of place memory, and perceptions of an animate spirit world.
Download or read book The 30 Day Love Detox written by Wendy Walsh and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no question the terrain has changed. We can do what we want and date who we want, but do we have the tools to navigate our hard-won sexual freedom? Now, from the dating doyenne of the Sex and the City generation comes a groundbreaking prescription for smart, savvy, slow-love. Dr. Wendy Walsh's outside-the-box approach to relationships turns traditional thinking on its head by using evolutionary psychology to offer advice that is both empowering and practical. In The 30-Day Love Detox, Walsh offers a step-by-step, five-part attachment strategy with a 30-day "detox" that helps weed out the bad boys and sets you up to meet the right guy, including: - The five sexual myths that keep women single - When to say yes to sex in a new relationship - How to use technology to bring your crush closer - How to spot a commitment-oriented man at his peak readiness Melding scientific research, anthropological truths, and proven techniques, The 30-Day Love Detox is a revolutionary road map to finding lasting love in a modern world.
Download or read book Wedding Chic written by Nina Willdorf and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A budget-conscious guide to planning the perfect wedding explains how to create a stylish ceremony without paying a fortune, offering practical advice on on everything from wedding planners and flowers to photographers, entertainment, honeymoons, and caterers. Original.
Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-11-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
Download or read book Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Volume 4 written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the dark world of Regency London with three books in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries series. The Thames River Murders Captain Lacey is called upon to solve the cold case of a young woman drowned in the Thames years ago, but to do so he must enter a closed world unfamiliar to him. The Alexandria Affair Captain Lacey travels with Grenville to Egypt with Brewster to guard him, and there finds intrigue, murder, and treasure. A Mystery at Carlton House The Prince Regent asks Grenville to have Captain Lacey look into thefts from lavish Carlton House, but James Denis threatens Lacey to have nothing to do with it. Join Captain Lacey, Grenville, Lady Breckenridge, Denis, Brewster, and more these three tales of Regency England.
Download or read book A Mystery at Carlton House written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twelfth Night Timeless Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Saddleback Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays retold will grab a student's attention from the first page. Presented in traditional play script format, each title features simplified language, easy-to-read type, and strict adherence to the tone and integrity of the original. Can true love overcome all obstacles? That's a tough question- especially when several characters are pretending to be someone else! Luckily, all this mistaken identity proves to be as comical as it is confusing.
Download or read book True Colours written by Lucy Lemay Cellucci and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Zoe prefers the company of animals. A self-professed advocate for their rights, Zoe is not above taking matters into her own hands. But the stakes are raised when she finds herself at the centre of conspiracy involving the disappearance of animals from a shelter.
