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Enchanted Desire

Author : Wanda Thomas
Publisher : Genesis Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1585715115
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Desire written by Wanda Thomas and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manette Walker is pregnant when, on the day of their wedding, the father of her unborn child leaves her stranded at the altar. Alone, she carries her daughter to term, but the baby is delivered still born. Now, 17 years later, Manny has managed to pull her life together and move forward. Detective Christopher Coltrane Mills is only ten when he sees his father shot down and killed in the street. Two years later, Christopher's mother commits suicide, leaving him an orphan. Putting dating and relationships on hold, he has spent his entire adult life hunting the man responsible for his father's murder. Then he meets Manny and, somehow, she is able to break through the barriers he has built up to keep women from getting too close. Christopher is honing in on his prey, and the danger to everyone involved in escalating. In addition, Manny is pregnant again, and the man she loves may not make it to the wedding. Is this the past repeating itself? If so, will she be able to survive one final time?

Where I Want to Be

Author : Maryam Diaab
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9781585712687
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Where I Want to Be written by Maryam Diaab and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen investigates the sensational story of a minister who seduced four of his female congregants, and hatched a cold-blooded plot to murder his wife. On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, a house went up in flames. In it was the shy, beloved minister's wife Dawn Hacheney. When the fire was extinguished, investigators found only her charred remains. Her husband Nick was visibly devastated by the loss. What investigators failed to note, however, was that Dawn's lungs didn't contain smoke. Was she dead before the fire began? So begins this true crime story that's unlike any other. It investigates Nick Hacheney, a philandering minister who had been carrying on with several women in the months before and just after his wife's death. He would be convicted for the murder five years to the day after the crime. From one of the foremost names in true crime, Twisted Faith is a gripping and truly unforgettable story of a man whose charisma and desire rocked an entire community.

Enchanted Objects

Author : David Rose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476725632
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Objects written by David Rose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Who Owns the Future? and The Second Machine Age, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs and improve our lives. We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development: the Internet of Things. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and learn to think on our behalf. David Rose calls these devices—which are just beginning to creep into the marketplace—Enchanted Objects. Some believe the future will look like more of the same—more smartphones, tablets, screens embedded in every conceivable surface. Rose has a different vision: technology that atomizes, combining itself with the objects that make up the very fabric of daily living. Such technology will be woven into the background of our environment, enhancing human relationships and channeling desires for omniscience, long life, and creative expression. The enchanted objects of fairy tales and science fiction will enter real life. Groundbreaking, timely, and provocative, Enchanted Objects is a blueprint for a better future, where efficient solutions come hand in hand with technology that delights our senses. It is essential reading for designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and anyone who wishes to understand the future and stay relevant in the Internet of Things.

Fairwynd

Author : Christopher Seargeant
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525573403
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Fairwynd written by Christopher Seargeant and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of good winning over evil. It tells how much the Father God loves His children and the sacrifice He makes for them. It will make you laugh in places and cry in others. It is a delightful read. If you liked the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, you will love this book.

THE LAST BACHELOR

Author : Carolyn Andrews
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459264339
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book THE LAST BACHELOR written by Carolyn Andrews and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last manSheriff Mac Delaney couldn't believe it—he'd lost all his poker buddies to matrimony! All over Barclayville, bachelors were dropping like flies. But not Mac. Never Mac. After all, as the only lawman in town, he was too busy to fall in love. That was until he met… The only woman For Mac, at least. Dr. Francesca "Frankie" Carmichael was smart, brave…and breathtakingly sexy, too! But Frankie was running from her past—and it had just caught up with her. Wasn't that just Mac's luck? The Last Bachelor was finally ready to commit…to a woman who wouldn't stick around long enough to say "I do"!

Quixotic Desire

Author : Ruth Anthony El Saffar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501734202
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Quixotic Desire written by Ruth Anthony El Saffar and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this venturesome collection, scholars representing a variety of approaches contribute fifteen essays that shed new light not only on the uses of psychoanalysis for reading Cervantes, but also on the relationship between Freud's reading of Cervantes in the summer of 1883 and the very foundation of psychoanalytic paradigms.

This Year's Model

Author : Elizabeth Wissinger
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814794181
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book This Year's Model written by Elizabeth Wissinger and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and desirable. They are a fixture in tabloids, magazines, fashion blogs, and television. Why exactly are models so appealing? And how do these women succeed in so soundly holding our attention? In This Year’s Model, Elizabeth Wissinger weaves together in-depth interviews and research at model castings, photo shoots, and runway shows to offer a glimpse into the life of the model throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Once an ad hoc occupation, the “model life” now involves a great deal of physical and virtual management of the body, or what Wissinger terms “glamour labor.” Wissinger argues that glamour labor—the specialized modeling work of self-styling, crafting a ‘look,’ and building an image—has been amplified by the rise of digital media, as new technologies make tinkering with the body’s form and image easy. Models can now present self-fashioning, self-surveillance, and self-branding as essential behaviors for anyone who is truly in the know and ‘in fashion.’ Countless regular people make it their mission to achieve this ideal, not realizing that technology is key to creating the unattainable standard of beauty the model upholds—and as Wissinger argues, this has been the case for decades, before Photoshop even existed. Both a vividly illustrated historical survey and an incisive critique of fashion media, This Year’s Model demonstrates the lasting cultural influence of this unique form of embodied labor.

The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts

Author : M. Kronegger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401732345
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts written by M. Kronegger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment! In the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense. It lies at the imaginative heart of all arts there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'.

The Enchantment of Words

Author : Denis McManus
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019161503X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Enchantment of Words written by Denis McManus and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Enchantment of Words is a study of that book, offering novel readings of all its major themes and shedding light on issues in metaphysics, ethics and the philosophies of mind, language, and logic. McManus argues that Wittgenstein's aim in this deeply puzzling work is to show that the 'intelligibility of thought' and the 'meaningfulness of language', which logical truths would delimit and metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and language would explain, are issues constituted by confusions. What is exposed is a mirage of a kind of self-consciousness, a misperception of the ways in which we happen to think, talk and act as reasons why we ought to think, talk and act as we do. The root of that misperception is our confusedly endowing words with a life of their own: we 'enchant', and are 'enchanted by', words, colluding in a confusion that transposes on to them, and the world which we then see them as 'fitting', responsibilities that are actually ours to bear. Such words promise to spare us the trouble, not only of thinking, but of living. In presenting this view, McManus offers readings of all of the major themes of the Tractatus, including its discussion of logical truth, objects, names, inference, subjectivity, solipsism and the ineffable; McManus offers novel explanations of what is at stake in Wittgenstein's comparison of propositions with pictures, of why Wittgenstein declared the point of the Tractatus to be ethical, of how a bookwhich infamously declares itself to be nonsensical can both clarify our thoughts and require of us that we exercise our capacity to reason in reading it, and of how Wittgenstein later came to re-evaluate the achievement of the Tractatus.

Savage Theory

Author : Rachel O. Moore
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822323884
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Savage Theory written by Rachel O. Moore and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious and original work which uses early film theory, anthropological insights, and avant--garde film to explore the relation of cinema to ritual healing.

Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good

Author : Joshua Hren
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532650396
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good written by Joshua Hren and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political philosophy is nothing other than looking at things political under the aspect of eternity. This book invites us to look philosophically at political things in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, demonstrating that Tolkien's potent mythology can be brought into rich, fruitful dialogue with works of political philosophy and political theology as different as Plato's Timaeus, Aquinas' De Regno, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Erik Peterson's "Monotheism as a Political Problem." It concludes that a political reading of Tolkien's work is most luminous when conducted by the harmonious lights of fides et ratio as found in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. A broad study of Tolkien and the political is especially pertinent in that the legendarium operates on two levels. As a popular mythology it is, in the author's own words "a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them." But the stories of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings contain deeper teachings that can only be drawn out when read philosophically. Written from the vantage of a mind that is deeply Christian, Tolkien's stories grant us a revelatory gaze into the major political problems of modernity--from individualism to totalitarianism, sovereignty to surveillance, terror to technocracy. As an "outsider" in modernity, Tolkien invites us to question the modern in a manner that moves beyond reaction into a vivid and compelling vision of the common good.

When Broadway Was the Runway

Author : Marlis Schweitzer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206169
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book When Broadway Was the Runway written by Marlis Schweitzer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture. Long before Hollywood's red carpet spectacles, Broadway theater introduced American women to the latest styles. At the beginning of the twentieth century, theater impresarios captured the imagination of their largely female patrons by transforming the stage into a glorious site of consumer spectacle. Theater historian Marlis Schweitzer examines how these impresarios presented the dresses actresses wore onstage, as well as the jewelry and hairstyles they chose, as commodities that were available for purchase in nearby department stores and salons. The Merry Widow Hat, designed for the hit operetta of the same name, sparked an international craze, and the dancer Irene Castle became a fashion celebrity when she anticipated the flapper look of the 1920s by nearly a decade. Not only were the latest styles onstage, but advertisements appeared throughout theaters, in programs, and on the curtains, while magazines such as Vogue vied for the rights to publish theatrical costume sketches and Harper's Bazar enticed readers with photo spreads of actresses in couture. This combination of spectatorship and consumption was a crucial step in the formation of a mass market for consumer goods and the rise of the cult of celebrity. Through historical analysis and dozens of early photographs and illustrations, Schweitzer aims a spotlight at the cultural and economic convergence of the theater and fashion industries in the United States.

The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures

Author : Pauline Greenhill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317368797
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures written by Pauline Greenhill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear, detailed, and expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, media studies, and cultural studies, addressing, among others, issues of reception, audience cultures, ideology, remediation, and adaptation. Examples and case studies are drawn from a wide range of pertinent disciplines and settings, providing thorough, accessible treatment of central topics and specific media from around the globe.

Ethics and the Between

Author : William Desmond
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791491218
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and the Between written by William Desmond and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ethics and the Between William Desmond addresses our current perplexities regarding the devaluation of being in modernity and the shadow of ethical nihilism. He rethinks the sources of value, the diverse ethical ways, the nature of ethical selving and communities, and articulates the necessity for a comprehensive reconstructive thinking about the meaning of being good, consonant with the response to the question of being in Being and the Between, the first book of a planned trilogy.

Enchantment and Disenchantment

Author : Wai-yee Li
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400863325
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Enchantment and Disenchantment written by Wai-yee Li and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yü, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory impulses of attachment and detachment, tells Pao-yü that the purpose of his dream visit is "disenchantment through enchantment," or "enlightenment through love." Examining a range of genres from different periods, Wai-yee Li reveals the persistence of the dialectic embodied by the goddess: while illusion originates in love and desire, it is only through love and desire that illusion can be transcended. Li begins by defining the context of these issues through the study of an entire poetic tradition, placing special emphasis on the role of language and of the feminine element. Then, focusing on the "dream plays" by T'ang Hsien-tsu, she turns to the late Ming, an age which discovers radical subjectivity, and goes on to explore a seventeenth-century collection of classical tales, Records of the Strange from the Liao-chai Studio by P'u Sung-ling. The latter half of the book is devoted to a thorough analysis of The Dream of the Red Chamber, the most profound treatment of the dialectic of enchantment and disenchantment, love and enlightenment, illusion and reality. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Re-Enchanted

Author : Maria Sachiko Cecire
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452959439
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Re-Enchanted written by Maria Sachiko Cecire and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why are so many people drawn to fantasy set in medieval, British-looking lands? This question has immediate significance for millions around the world: from fans of Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones to those who avoid fantasy because of the racist, sexist, and escapist tendencies they have found there. Drawing on the history and power of children’s fantasy literature, Re-Enchanted argues that magic, medievalism, and childhood hold the paradoxical ability to re-enchant modern life. Focusing on works by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, and Nnedi Okorafor, Re-Enchanted uncovers a new genealogy for medievalist fantasy—one that reveals the genre to be as important to the history of English studies and literary modernism as it is to shaping beliefs across geographies and generations. Maria Sachiko Cecire follows children’s fantasy as it transforms over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—including the rise of diverse counternarratives and fantasy’s move into “high-brow” literary fiction. Grounded in a combination of archival scholarship and literary and cultural analysis, Re-Enchanted argues that medievalist fantasy has become a psychologized landscape for contemporary explorations of what it means to grow up, live well, and belong. The influential “Oxford School” of children’s fantasy connects to key issues throughout this book, from the legacies of empire and racial exclusion in children’s literature to what Christmas magic tells us about the roles of childhood and enchantment in Anglo-American culture. Re-Enchanted engages with critical debates around what constitutes high and low culture during moments of crisis in the humanities, political and affective uses of childhood and the mythological past, the anxieties of modernity, and the social impact of racially charged origin stories.

The Fires Within

Author : Beverly Clark
Publisher : Genesis Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1585715573
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Fires Within written by Beverly Clark and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business mogul, Julian Palmer has his sights set on Pan Co a highly successful investment firm owned by Pandora Cooper (a.k.a.) the Black Widow of Wall Street. But after meeting the formidable, sexy lady at a charity dinner, Julian decides that he just might want to take over Ms. Pandora Cooper as well as her company.