Download or read book Undateable written by Ellen Rakieten and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHIRT: SPORTS JERSEY. JEANS: EMBELLISHED. HAIR: OVERLY GELLED. STATUS: UNDATEABLE. Did your date show up wearing socks with sandals? Are tighty-whities a deal-breaker for you? Do fanny packs make you want to run for the door? Now, for the very first time, we're revealing the secret list of things that so many perfectly eligible guys manage to wear, say, or do to make themselves completely undateable. With an essential rating system that ranges from minor red-flag offenses all the way to the irreversible kiss of death, this hilarious handbook exposes the many common mistakes that can turn an otherwise acceptable man from a "maybe" into a "no way." From pleated shorts and soul patches to ordering girly drinks and owning more than one cat, the evidence is painfully funny to behold. No more double denim, corporate swag, or exclaiming "Booya!" No more jogging in place at stoplights, and definitely no more "going dutch" on the first date. This book is for every woman who's ever wondered where to draw the line, and every guy who's ever asked, "What did I do wrong?" Here's what you did.
Download or read book The Undateable written by Sarah Title and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One San Francisco librarian would rather check out a good romance than dare to experience it herself. Luckily, her own next chapter is full of surprises... Melissa “Bernie” Bernard isn’t familiar with fame. After all, she works at a college library with hardly any visitors. But when a video of a marriage proposal in her stacks goes viral, it’s not the bride and groom who capture the Internet’s attention. It’s Bernie—caught rolling her eyes. Now, just as she’s ready to go into hiding and permanently bury her nose in a book, a handsome reporter appears with a proposal of his own... If Colin Rodriguez doesn’t do something big to attract new readers, his boss will hire someone else to dole out dating advice. Determined to prove he’s an expert at romance—despite his own pitiful track record—he pitches a story: He will find dates for the undateable. Specifically, for the now-infamous, love-hating librarian at Richmond College. Even though Bernie doesn’t believe in happily-ever-afters, she’s not one to resist a good challenge. Yet with one disastrous date after another, she’s ready to give up. Until Colin proves he’ll do anything to find her the perfect match—even if it means putting himself up for the role... Praise for Sarah Title’s Southern Comfort Romance series “Sexy and made me laugh!” —Smexy Books “A fast-paced read that provided just as many smiles from the humor as it did sizzles from the romance.” —The Book Divas Reads “Wild, witty, and wonderful.” --New York Times bestselling author Jo Goodman “Quite a sexy book.” —USAToday.com
Download or read book Undateable written by Lauren Blakely and published by Lauren Blakely Books. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some guys are just undateable. Look, I’m all for romance novels, but life doesn’t always work out like it does in a book. Friends don’t usually turn into lovers, fake dates don’t often become more, and billionaires rarely have carved abs. I’m not a negative Nelly; I’m just a realist. As a friend and a co-worker to Gavin Sexy Pants Clements, I fit firmly in the “undateable category.” When he asks me to be his pretend date for his sister’s engagement party, I’m positive there’s no way this night will lead to a happy ending. But I’m his friend, so I say yes. Then I learn the secret to how friends can become lovers…
Download or read book Mediated Intimacy written by Meg-John Barker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and practices these changing forms of 'sexpertise' open up, and which they close down. The book reveals the intimate operation of power in mediated advice, how words and images, stories and sound can work to shore up social injustice. It critically engages with the ideas of choice and responsibility in sex self-help, arguing that these can obscure and/or justify oppression, even if they're sometimes experienced as empowering and/or pleasurable. This bold and incisive book provides a radical challenge to the assumptions underlying the sex advice industry, and presents a critical, collaborative and consensual vision for sex advice of the future.
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Media Sex and Sexuality written by Clarissa Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life. The 40 chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable diversification of approaches and research within the field, bringing together a wide range of scholars and researchers from around the world and from different disciplinary backgrounds including cultural studies, education, history, media studies, sexuality studies and sociology. The volume presents a broad array of global and transnational issues and intersectional perspectives, as authors address a series of important questions that have consequences for current and future thinking in the field. Topics explored include post-feminism, masculinities, media industries, queer identities, video games, media activism, music videos, sexualisation, celebrities, sport, sex-advice books, pornography and erotica, and social and mobile media. The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is an essential guide to the central ideas, concepts and debates currently shaping research in mediated sexualities and the connections between conceptions of sexual identity, bodies and media technologies.
Download or read book Advertising Disability written by Ella Houston and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising Disability invites Cultural Disability Studies to consider how advertising, as one of the most ubiquitous forms of popular culture, shapes attitudes towards disability. The research presented in the book provides a much-needed examination of the ways in which disability and mental health issues are depicted in different types of advertising, including charity 'sadvertisements', direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertisements and 'pro-diversity' brand campaigns. Textual analyses of advertisements from the eighteenth century onwards reveal how advertising reinforces barriers facing disabled people, such as stigmatising attitudes, ableist beauty 'ideals', inclusionism and the unstable crutch of charity. As well as investigating how socio-cultural meanings associated with disability are influenced by multimodal forms of communication in advertising, insights from empirical research conducted with disabled women in the United Kingdom and the United States are provided. Moving beyond traditional textual approaches to analysing cultural representations, the book emphasises how disabled people and activists develop counternarratives informed by their personal experiences of disability, challenging ableist messages promoted by advertisements. From start to finish, activist concepts developed by the Disabled People's Movement and individuals' embodied knowledge surrounding disability, impairments and mental health issues inform critiques of advertisements. Its critically informed approach to analysing portrayals of disability is relevant to advertisers, scholars and students in advertising studies and media studies who are interested in portraying diversity in marketing and promotional materials as well as scholars and students of disability studies and sociology more broadly.
Download or read book Lives behind the Laws written by Serena Connolly and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exploration of the administration of law and its role in the lives of ordinary people in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire, Serena Connolly draws upon a rich but little-known legal collection from the late 3rd century known as the Codex Hermogenianus. The codex is composed of imperial responses to petitions sent to Rome, written by a team of the emperor's legal experts. These petitions and responses provide a wealth of information about provincial legal administration and the lives of the non-elite petitioners. The man who prostituted his wife, the mother whose malicious son undersold her farm, and the slaves who posed as free men to get a loan are just a few of the lives to encounter. Lives behind the Laws makes a valuable contribution to Roman social, political, and legal history.
Download or read book Main Character Energy written by Fats Timbo and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She's hilarious' - Stylist 'A social pioneer' - Glamour YOU ARE THE HERO THAT YOUR STORY NEEDS. I'm Fats/Fatima. I'm a comedian. I make jokes and videos. Sometimes I go on news programmes and tell men with bad tans what life is like for little people. I do this because I am a little person, in case you were wondering. It would be an odd thing to do if I wasn't. My life hasn't always been easy, but through the good and the bad times I've learned a few lessons which have made me fearless - how to be the hero that my story needs. Now, I want to share those lessons with you. So you can be the main character in your life, no matter what your challenges may be. So come on in. My story, like yours, is ready to begin. Love, Fats x
Download or read book The Protestant Bible Correctly Translated written by William Harwood and published by World Audience Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has long been a need for a translation of the Judaeo-Christian Bible that did not deliberately mistranslate certain words and sentences for the purpose of concealing that the biblical authors' beliefs were quite different from those of modern Jews, Christians and Muslims. For example, "The LORD" is a falsification of the proper name Yahweh, a god like Zeus or Jupiter. But the most blatant fraud has been the rendering of the Hebrew word allahiym as the male proper name, "God." Allahiym is neither a proper name nor singular nor unisexual. Al means a god. The suffix -ah is a feminine singular inflection, so that allah means "goddess." The suffix -iym is a masculine plural inflection, making allahiym a dual-sex, generic plural, "male and female gods," or, in the common gender, "gods." This translation corrects such falsifications. For extra copies contact: www.worldaudience.org
Download or read book Kentucky Home written by Sarah Title and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saddle up for a “wild, witty, and wonderful” ride with the Carson family in the first novel of the Southern Comfort series (Jo Goodman, New York Times bestselling author). In this warm and witty new series, author Sarah Title introduces readers to the down home Kentucky hospitality of the Carson family and their Wild Rose Farm and Stables. It’s a place where love is always possible—and sweeter than ever the second time around . . . Mallory Thompson and Keith Carson are far from impressed with each other when she arrives at his family’s horse farm, fleeing an abusive marriage. Mallory sees nothing but a gruff man who’s as patronizing as her soon-to-be ex-husband, and Keith has no time for a city girl who’s afraid of dogs. But the struggling Wild Rose is too small to allow anyone to keep their distance. As one by one, Mallory wins the hearts of his family, from his cranky father to his headstrong younger sister and three-legged dog, Keith finds himself more than a little attracted to her stubborn charm. And the longer Mallory stays, the more she realizes Keith is nothing like the overbearing bully she married—and the more she fantasizes about being in his strong, loving arms. Maybe some folks get a second chance to make a first impression after all . . . Praise for Sarah Title’s Southern Comfort Romance series “Quite a sexy book.”—USAToday.com “A really cute and fun story . . . It’s sexy and made me laugh!”—Smexy Books “A fast-paced read that provided just as many smiles from the humor as it did sizzles from the romance.”—The Book Diva’s Reads
Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular Television Series by Warner Bros Television written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Endlings written by Lydia Pyne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss An endling is the last known individual of a species; when that individual dies, the species becomes extinct. These “last individuals” are poignant characters in the stories that humans tell themselves about today’s Anthropocene. In this evocative work, Lydia Pyne explores how discussion about endlings—how we tell their histories—draws on deep traditions of storytelling across a variety of narrative types that go well beyond the science of these species’ biology or their evolutionary history. Endlings provides a useful and thoughtful discussion of species concepts: how species start and how (and why) they end, what it means to be a “charismatic” species, the effects of rewilding, and what makes species extinction different in this era. From Benjamin the thylacine to Celia the ibex to Lonesome George the Galápagos tortoise, endlings, Pyne shows, have the power to shape how we think about grief, mourning, and loss amid the world’s sixth mass extinction.
Download or read book Acting Cupid written by Andie M. Long and published by Andrea M. Long. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Andie M. Long returns with a further book in her hilarious supernatural dating agency series. The Withernsea gang are back! Author note: Samara's part of this storyline previously featured in Crazy, Stupid, Lazy, Cupid. However it has been re-edited and thirty thousand words added to this new story. At cupid school there are lessons in love. Tired of his representative’s reluctance to make love matches, Cupid takes drastic action. With the assistance of Fate, Samara is sent back to training school. However, Samara’s frustration that Cupid won’t listen to her gets pushed aside when she realises someone’s out to get her… but who? Back in Withernsea, Shelley is busy helping her daughter plan her wedding while looking for new premises for the dating agency. When Samara asks for her assistance with changing the future of cupiding, Shelley has an idea. But can they get Cupid to move his targets from statistics back towards hearts, and will Samara discover who’s behind the vendetta before it’s too late? SUPERNATURAL DATING AGENCY SERIES #1 The Vampire Wants a Wife #2 A Devil of a Date #3 Hate, Date, or Mate? #4 Here for the Seer #5 Didn't Sea it Coming #6 Phwoar and Peace #7 Acting Cupid #8 Cupid Fools - out April 2023 #9 Dead and Breakfast - coming 2023.
Download or read book My Great Ex Scape written by Portia MacIntosh and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if your future was somewhere in your past? Rosie Jones has been dumped by every boyfriend she’s ever had - most recently by Dinosaur Dave, live on TV, during the ‘phone-a-friend’ segment of a quiz show. After the footage goes viral Rosie receives a bunch of flowers with a message: I love you, I should have never let you go, I want you back x But who sent them? At a loose end and with £50,000 prize money in her back pocket, Rosie decides to take a trip down memory lane, visiting each of her ex-boyfriends to see not just if they are the one who sent the flowers but if they are the one. Her journey takes her back to the house she grew up in and on a transatlantic cruise to New York, but can Rosie figure out which ex-boyfriend is the love of her life, or should the past stay in the past? A laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from bestseller, Portia MacIntosh. Perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Sophie Ranald and Zara Stoneley. Praise for Portia MacIntosh: 'A hilarious, roaringly fun, feel good, sexy read. I LOVED it!' Holly Martin 'A feel good, funny and well written book. I read it in 2 days and enjoyed every second!' A.L. Michael What readers are saying about My Great Ex-Scape: 'From beginning to a delightfully surprising end, I loved it!!!' 'This book is a definite must-read! Brilliant 5+ stars.' 'Well Portia has done it again. Another absolutely wonderful read which has gripped me from the very beginning.' 'I am a huge fan of Portia, every new book makes me have a new favourite. She is an extremely talented author who has the ability to create such magical and fantastic reads.' It is definitely a must read and as always I wish I could give Portia more than five stars for this gorgeous read.' 'Five stars really does not do this wonderful read justice.' 'The perfect holiday read'
Download or read book Supernatural Dating Agency Story Collection Books 7 9 written by Andie M. Long and published by Andrea M. Long. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life should be quietening down for the residents of Withernsea after the war, but Fate has other plans! Catch up with the latest supernatural sagas in this collection of books seven to nine. Includes: Acting Cupid – After neglecting her cupiding duties, Samara is sent back to training school. However, it seems someone doesn’t want her to graduate... Cupid Fools – Cupid’s own son and ex-daughter in law find themselves both newly resident in Withernsea. Can they reunite or will Cupid suffer an embarrassing defeat? Dead and Breakfast – Theo finally opens his bed and breakfast, but a wailing ghost threatens to derail the business in its first week.
Download or read book Disability Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism written by Michael Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed ’charitable’ approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have long advocated for civil and human rights in various locations throughout the globe, yet contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as ’evidence’ of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and this concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this groundbreaking book’s contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism. It relocates disability from the margins to the center of academic and activist debates over the vexed relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. These considerations thus productively destabilize able-bodied assumptions that undergird definitions of personhood in civil rights and human rights by highlighting intersections between disability, race, gender ethnicity, and sexuality as a way to interrogate the possibilities (and limitations) of human rights as a politicized regime.
Download or read book that s Not Right written by Alex Manners and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "That's Not Right!" Alex Manners gives his own account of living his life with Asperger's syndrome, including documenting how he and his family fought to overcome ignorance and misunderstandings in the educational system, and providing not only practical, usable advice for anyone else in similar circumstances but inspiration for everyone.