Download or read book Seconds of Pleasure written by Neil LaBute and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the award-winning director and playwright. “Labute’s smart, edgy offering delivers pleasures well beyond the time frame his title suggests.”—Booklist In Seconds of Pleasure, Neil LaBute brings to the page his cutting humor and compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart. Best known for his controversial plays and films, his short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Playboy. Seductive and provocative, each potent and pithy tale in Seconds of Pleasure finds men and women exploiting—or at the mercy of—the hidden fault lines that separate them: In “Time Share,” a woman leaves her family at their vacation home after discovering her husband in a compromising situation; a middle-aged man obsesses over a scab on the calf of a pretty young girl in “Boo-Boo”; and a vain Hollywood actor gets his comeuppance in “Soft Target.” LaBute infuses Seconds of Pleasure with his trademark wit and black humor and unleashes his imagination in stories that offer unflinching insight into our very human shortcomings and impure urges with shocking candor. “LaBute’s usual sleazy suspects are prepared to risk family, love, career, and freedom for the momentary satisfaction of their sometimes brutal desires. It will end badly, we know, and that’s what makes each dark tale as irresistible as good gossip. Fallibility and weakness, LaBute has demonstrated once again, have their own allure.”—Black Book “Seconds captures in print both the nuanced rhythms of contemporary speech and the pitfalls of dark I-Me-Mine gratification.”—LA Weekly “LaBute is a master at crafting shocking situations and nasty characters.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Complete Plays written by Neil LaBute and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Seconds of Pleasure Neil LaBute unleashes his imagination in stories that offer unflinching insight into our very human shortcomings and impure urges with shocking candor."--Jacket.
Download or read book A T R U E written by Fadi Hassan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some authors write fiction stories with their real name. I am writing my real story with a fictional name. Everything you read in this book is true as far as I know. If you think something is not true, thats okay, because this is only a one-man opinion. If you think different or you would like to share your opinions about human behaviors, religion, soul or the life after, l would love your feedback for my next book Also, if you have any questions, please e-mail me at [email protected]. I will try my best to answer all emails. Theres no fee. Also, I will not ask you any personal information. The only thing I ask in return is some respect. I hope you will enjoy and learn from my book. Signature Truth Seeker
Download or read book Ladies and Gentlemen Boys and Girls written by Murray Pomerance and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.
Download or read book No More Doubt written by Ailia Civic and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men obsessed with the same woman both want to control her. One is filled with love, devotion, and an overpowering desire to win her mentally and physically for life. The other is possessed with an overwhelming fantasy to see her suffer, and to destroy her both mentally and physically. The novel centers on how relationships, backgrounds, and mental obsession compels, guides, and shapes the way men might view life as a result of their past experiences. It is also a tale of how intentions can become obsessive, racing on parallel paths toward a totally unexpected conclusion. Yet, the suspense is relieved by humor and a remarkable love affair guaranteed to beneficially affect virtually any man/woman relationship.
Download or read book Words from the Soul written by Stuart Sovatsky and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accepting relentless impermanence as the ground of human experience, Words from the Soul derives a spiritual psychology from the mystery and poignancy of time-passage itself. Drawing from Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Foucault, Dostoyevsky, Buddhism, kundalini yoga, and twenty-five years of clinical/mediation experience, the author's epigrammatic insights into our struggles with mortality, gratitude, apology, and forgiveness make this book relevant to psychotherapy and conflict resolution in a wide range of professional settings. In his exploration of the furthest-reaches of human development, Stuart Sovatsky reveals the deepest potentials of the ensouled body, transforming our views of language, sexuality, ecstatic spiritualities, and of the human life cycle.
Download or read book Uttama Bhakti English written by Sankarsana Dasa Adhikari and published by Golden Age Media . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book Uttama Bhakti is a compilation of the teachings of His Grace Sankarsana Dasa Adhikari, a bona fide spiritual master in the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya sampradaya. The book provides us with practical tips on cultivating pure devotional service. Also, compiled here are selected inquiries on the various doubts and challenges spiritual practitioners face while attempting to perform pure devotional service.
Download or read book Daphne s Dance written by Brigitta Olsen and published by Brigitta Olsen. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man goes first in danger because he is stronger. Woman goes first in pleasure because Nature endowed her with a radically unique and powerful sexual capacity. Daphnes Dance explores true tales in the evolution of woman's sexual awareness. With irony and insight, occasional outrage and lots of wisdom, fourteen women speak candidly, weaving stories from 602 collective years of sexual activity. This fascinating research unravels their journeys, from good girl myth to sexual revolution, from sexual capacity to authentic sexual fulfillment. These women challenge the prevailing good girl myth, clarifying for their daughters, granddaughters and lovers their transformative path from patriarchy to sexual awareness.
Download or read book Daddy s Girl written by Sylvia Hubbard and published by HubBooks/ Motown Writers Network. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an entrepreneur was all she really wanted, but even Onnilissa’s mother felt a woman needed a job and to let the dreams of owning a business go by the wayside. Matter of fact, she had just lost a boyfriend due to her determination to become an entrepreneur. To her surprise, the father she had never met left her with the majority stock to his company, which she realized she could cash in to acquire the money to start her business. In order to facilitate getting her hands on the money, Onnilissa must fly to Detroit, murder capital of the world and according to her mother where filthy men go to die. Onnilissa noticed the dark handsome stranger from the time she got on the plane until the time she was trying to find a ride to get to her hotel. “There are no rides,” he said standing next to his private car. “Not for several hours. I live here and I fly in late at night all the time. Would you like a ride?” The offer was innocent and genuine. She hadn’t had that in a long time and by the time they arrived at her hotel, she was inviting him up. It was one night, with a stranger, right? And that’s where her life starts to change. The next book in the Hearts of Detroit series is a standalone erotic thriller that readers are raving about.
Download or read book Eating to Lose written by Maryjeanne Hunt and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hopeful and empowering memoir of one woman's struggle with diabulimia, an eating disorder linked to diabetes. Diabulimia is the dangerous and often fatal practice in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need in order to lose weight. Maryjeanne Hunt started limiting her insulin intake at age 14 and spent 22 years abusing her body with sugar highs, excessive exercise, and starvation in an attempt to be skinny and "perfect." In Eating to Lose, she shares her journey to health, true healing, and hard-won wisdom: "Weight management could have been a lot easier and effective if only I'd listened to my body and given it what it really wanted all along. Our bodies want health and energy and life. They crave to be nourished and they crave to move with vigor. When we give our bodies what they really want, they reward us big-time - with wellness, happiness and you guessed it, cooperative and healthy body weight." Timely and relevant, Eating to Lose sheds light on an often ignored and misunderstood condition and offers the possibility of recovery for those battling with diabulimia and the people who love them.
Download or read book Contemporary Debates in Bioethics written by Arthur L. Caplan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century. Written in an engaging, debate-style format for accessibility to non-specialists Features general introductions to each topic that precede scholarly debates Presents the latest, cutting-edge thoughts on relevant bioethics ideas, arguments, and debates
Download or read book The Science of Pleasure written by Jacquelyn Frank and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique man gives his body to science . . . and a sexy scientist in this erotic paranormal romance novella by the bestselling author of the Nightwalker series. In the Name of Science Dr. Jenesis DeBruehl once hoped that her scientific research would have positive ramifications for humanity, only to have her work twisted by the evil Dr. Eric Paulson and used to torture innocents. Seven years later she finally has her own lab again, despite her checkered past. Kincaid “Kin” Gregory is a Morphate, one of the people mutated by Paulson. Now running the lab that Jenesis is joining, Kin is surprised by the lust he feels for the human woman. While Jenesis struggles with her guilt over the role she played in Kincaid’s mutation, he encourages her to use him as her personal test subject. No limitations. With Kin’s body all hers, Jenesis is about to make a whole new kind of discovery . . . Previously published in the anthology The Pleasure Project [Warning: contains Adult content]
Download or read book The Pursuit of Pleasure written by Lionel Tiger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasure is biologically desirable and good for physical and mental health. In The Pursuit of Pleasure, Lionel Tiger explores this aspect of human nature by focusing on the origins and forms of pleasure. Medical science has perfected a host of often astonishingly impressive methods for preventing, alleviating, or recovering from pain. Its opposite, pleasure, has not had such a well-funded and fully justified constituency. In fact, those committed to the understanding and pursuit of pleasure, are rarely accorded respect and a sense of significance. People have objected to the notion of pleasure for a variety of reasons. The most complex derive from religious convictions that the most morally admirable human life is marked by abstemiousness, suffering, even martyrdom. There is also a corresponding fear that people may pursue pleasure too avidly and with too strong a sense of entitlement, and the world's work will not get done. But just as there have been suspicions of the dangers of pleasure, there have also been its supporters who assert its vital and joyful centrality to human experience. The Pursuit of Pleasure favors an agnostic approach borrowed from natural science. In lively, witty, and eminently readable prose, Tiger identifies major forms of pleasure and explores their variations, now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. As we acknowledge our need for enjoyment, we understand the need to establish balance in our lives-our need for the pursuit of pleasure.
Download or read book The Compass of Pleasure written by David J. Linden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author comes a "hugely entertaining" (NPR.org) look at vice and virtue through cutting-edge science As he did in his award-winning book The Accidental Mind, David J. Linden—highly regarded neuroscientist, professor, and writer—weaves empirical science with entertaining anecdotes to explain how the gamut of behaviors that give us a buzz actually operates. The Compass of Pleasure makes clear why drugs like nicotine and heroin are addictive while LSD is not, how fast food restaurants ensure that diners will eat more, why some people cannot resist the appeal of a new sexual encounter, and much more. Provocative and illuminating, this is a radically new and thorough look at the desires that define us.
Download or read book Cruel to Be Kind written by Will Birch and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, best-known for "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" Described as "Britain's greatest living songwriter," Nick Lowe has made his mark as a pioneer of pub rock, power-pop, and punk rock and as a producer of Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, the Damned, and the Pretenders. He has been a pop star with his bands Brinsley Schwarz and Rockpile, a stepson-in-law to Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, and is the writer behind hits including "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding." In the past decades, however, he has distinguished himself as an artist who is equally acclaimed for the second act of his career as a tender yet sharp-tongued acoustic balladeer. Biographer Will Birch, who in addition to being a music writer was a drummer and songwriter with The Records, has known Lowe for over forty years and melds Lowe's gift as a witty raconteur with his own authoritative analysis of Lowe's background and the cultural scenes he exemplifies. Lowe's parallel fame as one of the best interviews in the business will contribute to this first look into his life and work--and likely the closest thing fans will get to an autobiography by this notoriously charming cult figure. This is not an authorized biography, but Lowe has given it his spiritual blessing and his management and label are fully on board. Cruel to Be Kind will be the colorful yet serious account of one of the world's most talented and admired musicians.
Download or read book The Sleep Over Artist Fiction written by Thomas Beller and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beller's stories trace the life of Alex Fader, New Yorker, from age six to age 30. He drifts in and out of relationships. goes to London after losing his job and meets glamorous Katrina, a soon-to-be-divorced mother, and begins a complicated long-distance affair. Each of the stories stands alone, but their cumulative effect tells the boy-to-man story of Alex's scattered life.
Download or read book The Sands of Pleasure written by FILSON YOUNG and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: