Download or read book Mogador written by Alberto Ruy Sanchez and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an imaginary walled city off the coast of Morocco, Mogador traces the days and nights of Fatma, a young woman who finds herself suddenly seized by desire. As she wanders the city's maze of erotic pleasures, she encounters other desiring bodies...
Download or read book Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth century Paris written by comtesse Cäleste Vänard de Chabrillan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cäleste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more forgiving times, this extraordinary document offers not only a portrait of the early life of an intelligent, courageous, and infinitely intriguing Frenchwoman but also an exceedingly rare inside look at the world of the courtesans and prostitutes of nineteenth-century France. ø Writing to conciliate judges and creditors, Mogador (born Cäleste Venard in 1824) explains how with tenacity, wit, and audacity, she managed to escape a difficult childhood and subsequent life of prostitution to become, successively, a darling of the dance halls, a circus rider, and an actress, all the while attracting wealthy young men who vied for her favor. Although her account gives readers a peek into the rakish demimonde made famous by Verdi's opera La Traviata, its greatest value lies in its candid picture of a spunky, self-educated woman who doggedly transformed herself into an esteemed and prolific novelist and playwright, who fell in love with a count and married him, and who made her name synonymous with the bohemian life of the 1840s and 1850s in Paris.
Download or read book A Complete Set of Nautical Tables Containing All that are Requisite with the Nautical Almanac in Keeping a Ship s Reckoning at Sea and in Ascertaining the Latitude and Longitude by Celestial Observations to which is Prefixed written by John William Norie and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Complete Set of Nautical Tables written by John William Norie and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Electro Worlds written by Edward Kurcina and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This techno-thriller has it all; A.I. gods, mad scientists, horror, destructive armies, cyberpunk and nanopunk environment, dystopian social structure and aggressive conscious robots. The story is interlaced with dark humor and social satire. Mogador is stuffed below its crust with opulent items stolen from a thousand outer-rim museums. In vast underground store-rooms are armies of killer robots, assassin androids, battle-droids, unreplaceable treasures and wondrous gadgetry. They are in storage waiting for the chosen people to use. This artificial world has access to billions of multidimensional sensors to harvest news about the quadrant of space surrounding its location. It has been set up as flypaper to attract inquisitive entities. These adventurers obsessed with greed believe they can steal the antiquities. Upon arrival, they are inspected by the planet's controlling Artilect. If they are not members of the chosen people, their minds are wiped clean during this process. A few are permitted to escape with fragmented memories and some loot to continue the myth of a lost treasure planet to entice similar soldiers of fortune. Tesla surface waves pump energy continuously into the artificial planet's atmosphere as a keep-alive voltage to maintain an environment impregnated with nanites that fill land, sea, and air. This digital substance can assemble and dissemble upon receiving psionic orders issued by enhanced individuals with unique DNA. For a million years, Mogador lacked a population of thinking flesh and blood beings. Today things are different. Topside live backward decedents of humans kidnapped from the Earth by an indifferent robot. They were measured, categorized, and deposited in a protected zone along with a menagerie of Earth animals and assorted plant life. When a global catastrophe destroyed the planet's core computer, they were left to fend for themselves. Since then, humans have eked out a subsistence existence for over twenty centuries, unaware of hidden entrances leading to a wonderland beneath their feet. Things changed recently when a young woman known as Adora, not yet 20 years of age, encountered the ghost of the cyber-guardian of the planet. Lacking physical form, the spirit requires assistance from those living in the real world. That entity and her race are imprisoned within the mainframe of a Matriashka Brain and prevented by that A.I. from returning to their bodies waiting in cold storage. By the induction of dream sequences and visions, Adora is tasked with helping the spirit escape. Additionally, she needs to eliminate a bio-techno-parasite that recently arrived upon Mogador. It can reformat informational energy and has already begun eating away at recorded existence with a ravenous appetite. It is replacing reality with an upside-down universe of horror. A gang of vicious mountain tribesmen kidnaped the maiden. Breaking free from captivity, she accidentally discovered a route leading to the underground cities and stumbled upon amazing machines and high-tech weapons. During her journey, she becomes an enhanced human. Adora must depend upon her wits to eradicate the reality rearranging psychic parasite before she is murdered by the attacking star-race that unleashed this demonic virus or made a mindless sex-toy by the human leader of the Servo-men. Adora is helped by three obsolete and malfunctioning robots of questionable skill. General Balak is a quixotic military guardian who cannot lead. Namtar is a feckless philosopher who believes in nothing, and ZaDa is a bumbling empathy robot afraid of everything. Spying on all is the living Spectral Tapestry that reports to a cosmic entity with God-like abilities. It is forever growing as it expands throughout the universe, attempting to connect every part of existence to all others.
Download or read book The Secret Gardens of Mogador written by Alberto Ruy Sánchez and published by Companions for the Journey. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An erotic painter of dreams, who fuses the most unblemished sensuality with the most transparent spirituality.
Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by J. Scott-Keltie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Download or read book The Book of the Courtesans written by Susan Griffin and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-02-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Pulitzer-Prize-nominated author Susan Griffin comes an unprecedented, provocative look at the dazzling world of the West’s first independent women, whose lively liaisons brought them unspoken influence, wealth, and freedom. While they charmed some of Europe’s most illustrious men honing their social skills as well as their sexual ones, the great courtesans gained riches, power, education, and sexual freedom in a time when other women were denied all of these. From Imperia of sixteenth-century Rome, who personified the Renaissance ideal of beauty; Mme. de Pompadour, the arbiter of all things fashionable in eighteenth-century Paris and Versailles; Liane de Pougy, known in France during the Belle Epoque as “Our National Courtesan”; to Sarah Bernhardt, who, following in her mother’s footsteps, supported herself in her early career with a second profession, The Book of the Courtesans tells the life stories and intricacies of the lavish lifestyles of these women. Unlike their geisha counterparts, courtesans neither lived in brothels nor bent their wills to suit their suitors. They were strong- willed, autonomous, and plucky. An open secret, their presence can be felt throughout our culture. The muses who enflamed the hearts and imaginations of our most celebrated artists, they were also artists in their own right. They wrote poetry and novels, invented the cancan at the Moulin Rouge, and presented celebrated acts at the Folies Bergères. They helped to influence and shape the sensibility of modern literature, painting, and fashion. When Greek sculptor Praxiteles wanted to depict Venus he used a famous courtesan as a model, as in later centuries Titian, Veronese, Raphael, Giorgione, and Boucher did when they painted goddesses. When Marcel Proust was a young man it was the courtesan Laure Hayman who took him under her wing, introducing him to the right people, and providing inspiration for one of literature’s greatest masterpieces. And they often had considerable political influence too. When King Louis XV needed advice on foreign affairs or appointments of state he turned to Jeanne du Barry as well as Pompadour. In her witty and insightful prose, as Griffin celebrates these alluring and fascinating women, she restores a lost legacy of women’s history. She gives us the stories of these amazing women who, starting from impoverished or unimpressive beginnings, garnered chateaux, fine coaches, fabulous collections of jewelry, and even aristocratic titles along the way. And through a brilliant exploration of their extraordinary abilities, skills, and talents which Griffin playfully categorizes as their virtues "Timing, Beauty, Cheek, Brilliance, Gaiety, Grace, and Charm" her book explains how, while helping themselves, through their often outrageous, always entertaining examples, the great courtesans not only enriched our cultural heritage but helped to liberate women from the social, sexual, and economic strictures that confined them. Intensively researched and beautifully crafted, The Book of the Courtesans delves into scintillating but often hidden worlds, telling stories gleaned from many sources, including courtesans’ memoirs, presented along with stunning rare photographs to create memorable portraits of some of the most pivotal figures in women’s history.
Download or read book On the Ocean written by Barry W. Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the contest between humans and the sea, played out in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from early prehistory until AD 1500.
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Download or read book The Paris Architect written by Charles Belfoure and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "A gripping page-turner...a riveting reminder of sacrifices made by history's most unlikely heroes." —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris. In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money – and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it while World War II rages on. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. Soon Lucien is hiding more souls and saving lives. But when one of his hideouts fails horribly, and the problem of where to conceal a Jew becomes much more personal, and he can no longer ignore what's at stake. Book clubs will pore over the questions Charles Belfoure raises about justice, resistance, and just how far we'll go to make things right. Also by Charles Belfoure: The Fallen Architect House of Thieves
Download or read book Writing with a Vengeance written by Carol A. Mossman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-10-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute exceptional literary and historical documents, particularly as very few sex workers before the twentieth century have left written records of their lives. Writing with a Vengeance intertwines the courtesan's autobiographical account of the horrors of her life on the streets with that era's political, medical, and cultural discourses surrounding prostitution. Though French society both silenced and refused to pardon the prostitute, Carol Mossman's literary analysis of Chabrillan's novels contends that it is through the process of writing itself that she arrived at self-forgiveness and ultimately refashioned for her damaged self a new identity and narrative.
Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by F. Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
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