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Dangerous Intimacy

Author : Karen Lystra
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940377
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Intimacy written by Karen Lystra and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were—lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the light of the author's unflagging energy and enthusiasm. Dangerous Intimacy relates the story of how, shortly after his wife's death in 1904, Twain basked in the attentions of Isabel Lyon, his flirtatious—and calculating—secretary. Lyon desperately wanted to marry her boss, who was almost thirty years her senior. She managed to exile Twain's youngest daughter, Jean, who had epilepsy. With the help of Twain's assistant, Ralph Ashcroft, who fraudulently acquired power of attorney over the author's finances, Lyon nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over Twain's life and estate. Fortunately, Twain recognized the plot being woven around him just in time. So rife with twists and turns as to defy belief, the story nonetheless comes to undeniable, vibrant life in the letters and diaries of those who witnessed it firsthand: Katy the housekeeper, Jean, Lyon, and others whose own distinctive, perceptive, often amusing voices take us straight into the heart of the Clemens household. Just as Twain extricated himself from the lies, prejudice, and self-delusion that almost turned him into an American Lear, so Karen Lystra liberates the author's last decade from a century of popular misunderstanding. In this gripping book we at last see how, late in life, this American icon discovered a deep kinship with his youngest child and continued to explore the precarious balance of love and pain that is one of the trademarks of his work.

Dangerous Intimacy

Author : Karen Lystra
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520250000
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Intimacy written by Karen Lystra and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reflective volume, breakthrough scholarship revises the biography of Mark Twain and presents important new information and new interpretations about the last decade of his life.

Out of Touch

Author : Michelle Drouin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262545993
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Out of Touch written by Michelle Drouin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behavioral scientist explores love, belongingness, and fulfillment, focusing on how modern technology can both help and hinder our need to connect. A Next Big Idea Club nominee. Millions of people around the world are not getting the physical, emotional, and intellectual intimacy they crave. Through the wonders of modern technology, we are connecting with more people more often than ever before, but are these connections what we long for? Pandemic isolation has made us even more alone. In Out of Touch, Professor of Psychology Michelle Drouin investigates what she calls our intimacy famine, exploring love, belongingness, and fulfillment and considering why relationships carried out on technological platforms may leave us starving for physical connection. Drouin puts it this way: when most of our interactions are through social media, we are taking tiny hits of dopamine rather than the huge shots of oxytocin that an intimate in-person relationship would provide. Drouin explains that intimacy is not just sex—although of course sex is an important part of intimacy. But how important? Drouin reports on surveys that millennials (perhaps distracted by constant Tinder-swiping) have less sex than previous generations. She discusses pandemic puppies, professional cuddlers, the importance of touch, “desire discrepancy” in marriage, and the value of friendships. Online dating, she suggests, might give users too many options; and the internet facilitates “infidelity-related behaviors.” Some technological advances will help us develop and maintain intimate relationships—our phones, for example, can be bridges to emotional support. Some, on the other hand, might leave us out of touch. Drouin explores both of these possibilities.

Leading for Change

Author : Jonathan Jansen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317495160
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Leading for Change written by Jonathan Jansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new theoretical ground for thinking about, and transforming, leadership and higher education worldwide. Through an examination of the construct of intimacy and ‘nearness’, including emotional, spiritual, psychic, intellectual, and physical closeness, Jonathan Jansen demonstrates its power to influence positive leadership in young people. He argues that sensory leadership, which includes but extends beyond the power of touch, represents a fresh and effective approach to progressive transformation of long divided institutions. Considering richly textured narratives, chapters explore complex intimacies among Black and White university students in South Africa, post-apartheid and in the aftermath of a major racial atrocity. The stories reveal the students’ transformation in the process of ‘leadership for change’, interweaving concepts of racism, human relationships and intimacy, and in turn expanding the knowledge base of social and institutional improvement. This book explores how, when different kinds of nearness come together in leadership change, young people respond in ways that would not be possible through conventional instruments such as policy, legislation and the appeal to moral sensibilities alone. Leading for Change will be critical reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of education, educational justice, higher education, educational leadership and change, social and/or racial justice. This book will also be of interest to those working in the fields of anthropology, social psychology, and South African contemporary politics, policy and institutional practices.

The Eastern Front

Author : Lloyd Clark
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908696559
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Eastern Front written by Lloyd Clark and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by three leading military historians, the Eastern Front is a superb history of the cataclysmic struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

The House on Smith Square

Author : Anna Robeson Brown Burr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The House on Smith Square written by Anna Robeson Brown Burr and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem

Author : Peter Murphy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503609294
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem written by Peter Murphy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Meticulously maps the eddies and currents that have defined this vexing poem’s vexed history of neglect, rediscovery, and canonization . . . grippingly unusual.” —Renaissance Quarterly Thomas Wyatt didn’t publish “They Flee from Me.” It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in countless poetry anthologies. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across five hundred turbulent years. Wyatt’s poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider why anyone would write such a thing in the first place, and why anyone would care to read or remember the person who wrote it. From the deadly, fascinating circles of Henry VIII’s court to the contemporary classroom, The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem also introduces us to a series of worlds. We meet antiquaries, editors, publishers, anthologizers, and critics whose own life stories beckon. And we learn how the poem came to be considered, after many centuries of neglect, a model of the “best” English has to offer and an ideal object of literary study. The result is an exploration of literature in the fine grain of the everyday and its needs: in the classroom, in society, and in the life of nations.

Dangerous Intimacy

Author : Christopher A. Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607970392
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Intimacy written by Christopher A. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wild Materialism

Author : Jacques Lezra
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823232352
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Wild Materialism written by Jacques Lezra and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blends a discussion of terror with radical democracy in a way that is thoroughly original ... an important book on a large and crucial topic."--Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate University.

Intimate Deception

Author : Dr. Sheri Keffer
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493412639
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Deception written by Dr. Sheri Keffer and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing destroys trust like sexual betrayal. Beyond broken vows, a woman who discovers that the man she loves has been viewing pornography or having an affair must deal with devastating blows to her self-image and self-worth. She must grapple with the fact that the man she thought she knew has lied and deceived her. She may even bear the brunt of shame and judgment when the people around her find out. Drawing from her experience both as a marriage and family therapist and a woman who personally experienced the devastation of sexual betrayal, Dr. Sheri Keffer walks women impacted by betrayal through the pain and toward recovery. She explains how the trauma of betrayal affects our minds, bodies, spirits, and sexuality. She offers practical tools for dealing with emotional triggers and helps women understand the realities of sexual addiction. And she shows women how to practice self-care, develop healthy boundaries, protect themselves from abuse or manipulation, and find freedom from the burden of shame and guilt.

The Collected Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum

Author : Stanley G. Weinbaum
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 963 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum written by Stanley G. Weinbaum and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited Stanley G. Weinbaum collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels: The Black Flame The Dark Other The New Adam Short Stories: A Martian Odyssey Valley of Dreams Flight on Titan Parasite Planet The Lotus Eaters Pygmalion's Spectacles The Worlds of If The Ideal The Planet of Doubt The Adaptive Ultimate The Red Peri The Mad Moon The Point of View Redemption Cairn The Circle of Zero Proteus Island Graph The Brink of Infinity Shifting Seas Dawn of Flame Green Glow of Death Poems The Last Martian Autobiography

Walled Life

Author : Jenny Stümer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501380389
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Walled Life written by Jenny Stümer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond a discussion of political architecture, Walled Life investigates the mediation of material and imagined border walls through cinema and art practices. The book reads political walls as more than physical obstruction, instead treating the wall as an affective screen, capable of negotiating the messy feelings, personal conflicts, and haunting legacies that make up “walled life” as an evolving signpost in the current global border regime. By exploring the wall as an emotional and visceral presence, the book shows that if we read political walls as forms of affective media, they become legible not simply as shields, impositions, or monuments, but as projective surfaces that negotiate the interaction of psychological barriers with political structures through cinema, art, and, of course, the wall itself. Drawing on the Berlin Wall, the West Bank Separation barrier, and the U.S.-Mexico border, Walled Life discovers each wall through the films and artworks it has inspired, examining a wide array of graffiti, murals, art installations, movies, photography, and paintings. Remediating the silent barriers, we erect between, and often within ourselves, these interventions tell us about the political fantasies and traumatic histories that undergird the politics of walls as they rework the affective settings of political boundaries.

A Praying Life

Author : Paul Miller
Publisher : Tyndale House
ISBN 13 : 1615215190
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book A Praying Life written by Paul Miller and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Paul Miller shares his insights and conclusions about how to connect the broken pieces of your life and allow prayer—even poorly delivered—to fill the gaps with meaning and substance. Miller’s down-to-earth approach and practical nature will help you see that your relationship with God can grow and your communication with Him can get better. Parents will find Miller’s family-life experiences especially helpful.

Music from a Speeding Train

Author : Harriet Murav
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804774439
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Music from a Speeding Train written by Harriet Murav and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music from a Speeding Train challenges the view that there was no Jewish culture in the Soviet Union by exploring over one hundred Russian and Yiddish works from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century.

The Miracle Years

Author : Hanna Schissler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122255X
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Miracle Years written by Hanna Schissler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stereotypical descriptions showcase West Germany as an "economic miracle" or cast it in the narrow terms of Cold War politics. Such depictions neglect how material hardship preceded success and how a fascist past and communist sibling complicated the country's image as a bastion of democracy. Even more disappointing, they brush over a rich and variegated cultural history. That history is told here by leading scholars of German history, literature, and film in what is destined to become the volume on postwar West German culture and society. In it, we read about the lives of real people--from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from surviving Jews to Turkish "guest" workers, from young hoodlums to middle-class mothers. We learn how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture. We see how two generations of West Germans came to terms not only with war guilt, division from East Germany, and the Angst of nuclear threat, but also with changing gender relations, the Americanization of popular culture, and the rise of conspicuous consumption. Individually, these essays peer into fascinating, overlooked corners of German life. Together, they tell what it really meant to live in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Volker R. Berghahn, Frank Biess, Heide Fehrenbach, Michael Geyer, Elizabeth Heineman, Ulrich Herbert, Maria Höhn, Karin Hunn, Kaspar Maase, Richard McCormick, Robert G. Moeller, Lutz Niethammer, Uta G. Poiger, Diethelm Prowe, Frank Stern, Arnold Sywottek, Frank Trommler, Eric D. Weitz, Juliane Wetzel, and Dorothee Wierling.

Over the Fireside

Author : Richard King
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752372931
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Over the Fireside written by Richard King and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Over the Fireside by Richard King

God of the Machine

Author : Julius Athens
Publisher : Julius Athens
ISBN 13 : 196108905X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book God of the Machine written by Julius Athens and published by Julius Athens. This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ONLY JOURNEY IS THE ONE WITHIN A beloved companion is now dead. Three from Mortem Ex’s squad remain—to their misfortune. For they want nothing more from life: better their hearts expire with life’s nonexistent meaning. But Fortune is never so willing. Others soon find them and compel the desperate Magnesans to travel with their company. And a most unusual company they are. Among their number is an old companion of Mortem Ex, a cybernetically enhanced SAO and another with “moon-eyes.” Even Acolyte. But this ragtag group isn’t traveling the post-apocalyptic ruin of Magnella for nothing. They’ve a destination in mind— The Canyons of Punt in the ancient land of Gengtu. Of course, the Magnesans have never heard of such a place. They can’t even bother to remember its name. But there is a special power in those Canyons. It could very well change the Magnesans’ lives forever. Or it could destroy them utterly. Either way, they will discover that a world without civilization, without meaning, can still contain secrets able to bend the mind. God of the Machine is the third book in the God’s Crusade Timeline. Get it today to see what wonders await Mortem Ex's remaining squad—and how their journey comes to a close. Note: This is a gritty series. Thus, contains adult language and situations that some readers might find offensive and or disturbing. Series also contains occasional violence, against both human and animal.