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Book Synopsis People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures by : Myrna Schkolne
Download or read book People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures written by Myrna Schkolne and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All lovers of British history and ceramics enthusiasts will want to own the first comprehensive collectors' reference book devoted exclusively to early 19th century enamel painted figures made in the Staffordshire potteries. In this lavish volume, over 400 superb color photographs of figures from museums and private collections serve as time capsules. Along with a meticuously researched text, they reveal astonishing information about life almost two centuries ago. The book also explores and illustrates design sources used for the figures and divulges a wealth of information for collectors.
Download or read book Roman Passions written by Ray Laurence and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may be the most in-depth study yet published of a film star's body of work, Susan Hayward charts the career of Simone Signoret, one of the great Frech actresses of the 20th Century.Signoret- who won an Oscar in 1960 for her performance in Room at the Top- was a key figure in French cinema for 40 years. But it is not so much her longevity that impresses, as it is the quality of work she produced as her career progressed. She started out as a stunningly beautiful woman, winning major international awards five times for her roles, and yet was only moderately in demand during those years. From the 1960s onwards, when her looks began to decline significantly, Signoret was in greater demand, and produced most of her output. She insisted on playing roles consonant with her real age, and often chose to play roles that portrayed wher as even more ugly than she had become.Simore Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign is a remarkable achievement, a labor of love from one of the world's leading scholars of French cinema.
Book Synopsis God, Technology, and the Christian Life by : Tony Reinke
Download or read book God, Technology, and the Christian Life written by Tony Reinke and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Does God Think about Technology? From smartphones to self-driving cars to space travel, new technologies can inspire us. But the breakneck pace of change can also frighten us. So how do Christians walk by faith through the innovations of Silicon Valley? And how does God relate to our most powerful innovators? To build a biblical theology of technology, journalist and tech optimist Tony Reinke examines nine key texts from Scripture to show how the world's discoveries are divinely orchestrated. Ultimately, what we believe about God determines how we respond to human invention. With the help of several theologians and inventors throughout history, Reinke dispels twelve common myths in the church and offers fourteen ethical convictions to help Christians live by faith in the age of big tech. Biblical, Informed Look at Technology: Written by the author of 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You and Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age Gathers Ideas from Industry Experts and Theologians: Interacts with Christian and non-Christian sources on technology and theology including John Calvin, Herman Bavinck, Wendell Berry, and Elon Musk Educational: Discusses the history and philosophy behind major technological innovations
Book Synopsis Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions by : Richard G. Parker
Download or read book Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions written by Richard G. Parker and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Originally published in the early 1990s, Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions quickly became a classic ethnographic study of the social, cultural and historical construction of sexuality and sexual diversity. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews, together with the analysis of historical and literary texts, anthropologist Richard Parker mapped out the multiple cultural systems that structure gender, sexuality, and erotic practices in Brazil, and helped to open up a new wave of social science research on sexuality. Using ethnographic methods focusing on sexual meanings as an alternative to traditional surveys of sexual behavior, Parker argues that sexual life can only be fully understood through an analysis of the cultural logics that shape experience. Drawing on the tradition of interpretive anthropology, he focuses on the diverse sexual scripts that have been articulated in Brazilian culture and examines the often contradictory ways in which these scripts shape the sexual experience of different individuals. He highlights the sexual socialization of children and young people, and the changing sexual realities of adults living in a rapidly changing world. He underlines the ways in which complex cultural forms such as carnaval can be understood as stories that Brazilians tell themselves about themselves and about the meaning of sexuality in contemporary Brazilian life.
Book Synopsis Passions and Pleasures by : Katie Santee
Download or read book Passions and Pleasures written by Katie Santee and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve stories with a touch of romance, lust, love, the loss of innocence, passion and pleasure. Each has something that will touch you in a different but meaningful way. Some are filled with fun, laughter and hot burning sex. Others are subtle, seductive and alluring. From my first book, You Were Mine For A Time, Hot Stuff returns. Dixie and Ricky continue their trip across the country. Its even hotter and sexier than before. A New Kind Of Love also is back, with a twist you wont see coming. Whatever your fantasy is, Im sure you will find something to your liking in this hot, sexy, erotic short story book.
Book Synopsis The Pleasures of Passion: Sinful Suitors 4 by : Sabrina Jeffries
Download or read book The Pleasures of Passion: Sinful Suitors 4 written by Sabrina Jeffries and published by Eternal Romance. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pleasures of Passion is the fourth charming book in the Sinful Suitors series by New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries. Sabrina's witty, sexy historicals will be loved by fans of Sarah MacLean, Eloisa James and Julia Quinn. When Niall Lindsey, the Earl of Margrave, is forced to flee after killing a man in a duel, he expects his secret love, Brilliana Trevor, to go with him, or at the very least wait for him. To his shock, she does neither and sends him off with no promise for the future. Seven years and one pardon later, Niall returns to England disillusioned and cynical. And being blackmailed by the government into working with his former love to help catch a counterfeiter connected to her father doesn't improve his mood any. But as his role as Brilliana's fake fiance brings his long-buried feelings to the surface once again, he wonders who is more dangerous - the counterfeiter or the woman rapidly stealing his heart. Forced to marry another man after Niall was exiled, the now widowed Brilliana wants nothing to do with the reckless rogue who she believes abandoned her to a dreary, loveless life. So having to rely on him to save her father is the last thing she wants, much less trusts him with... But as their scheme strips away the lies and secrets of their shared past, can she let go of the old hurt and put her pride aside? Or will the pleasures of their renewed passion finally enable them both to rediscover love? For more dazzlingly romantic and witty historical romance, don't miss Sabrina's other gorgeous series including, The Hellions of Halstead Hall, The School for Heiresses and The Royal Brotherhood.
Book Synopsis Consuming Passions by : Judith Flanders
Download or read book Consuming Passions written by Judith Flanders and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the close of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution had brought with it not just factories, railways, mines and machines but also fashion, travel, leisure and pleasure. This book explores this revolution in science, technology and industry - and how a world of thrilling sensation and theatricality was born.
Book Synopsis An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by : Clarice Lispector
Download or read book An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.” Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller. Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: “I humanized myself,” she said. “The book reflects that.”
Book Synopsis 3P's - Pleasure, Pain, & Passion by : Gregory Whiteside
Download or read book 3P's - Pleasure, Pain, & Passion written by Gregory Whiteside and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "3P's - Pleasure, Pain, & Passion has something for every person from all walks of life. It will make you laugh; it will make you cry, but in the end, it will touch your heart and make you really think. It is an outpouring of the heart and mind of a man that has been abused and broken but has been rebuilt and spiritually reborn. These poems will take you on a journey to the highs of Life's Pleasures, the lows of Life's Pains, and the Love through Life's Passions; and all expressed through the eyes of a man who has seen it all. These poems are from the simplistic to the complex to the abstract but will be easy for most to relate to. This poetry book is a must read for those who can use a refreshing of your spirits, a renewal of your perspective, and even a rejuvenation to your physical well-being. Life is full of ups and downs, but I've found that in Life you get what you give. So to sum it up 3P's - Pleasure, Pain & Passion was crafted out of the love within my heart and it's many aspects, sometimes "Pleasure," sometimes "Pain," and sometimes "Passion." So from my heart to yours enjoy the "3 P's" of my heart...
Book Synopsis Pleasures and Follies by : Anonymous
Download or read book Pleasures and Follies written by Anonymous and published by Blue Moon Books. This book was released on 2004-10-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This infamous novel is the story of the good-natured Libertine half-siblings Genovefette and Cupidonnet, whose collective sexual awakening finds our heroes coupling with numerous partners in a bevy of illicit acts. Divested of scruples and constraints, Genovefette and Cupidonnet revel in the brute passions of sex where animal instincts take over and sexual love appears only in a voluptuous guise and always comes wearing a smile.
Book Synopsis Hume, Passion, and Action by : Elizabeth Schmidt Radcliffe
Download or read book Hume, Passion, and Action written by Elizabeth Schmidt Radcliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume's theory of action is well known for several provocative theses, including that passion and reason cannot be opposed over the direction of action. Elizabeth S. Radcliffe defends an original interpretation of Hume's views on passion, reason, and motivation which is consistent with other theses in Hume's philosophy, loyal to his texts, and historically situated. She challenges the now orthodox interpretation of Hume on motivation, presenting an alternative that situates Hume closer to "Humeans" than many recent interpreters have. Part of the strategy is to examine the thinking of the early modern intellectuals to whom Hume responds. Most of these thinkers insisted that passions lead us to pursue harmful objects unless regulated by reason; and most regarded passions as representations of good and evil, which can be false. Understanding Hume's response to these claims requires appreciating his respective characterizations of reason and passion. The author argues that Hume's thesis that reason is practically impotent apart from passion is about beliefs generated by reason, rather than about the capacity of reason. Furthermore, the argument makes sense of Hume's sometimes-ridiculed description of passions as "original existences" having no reference to objects. The author also shows how Hume understood morality as intrinsically motivating, while holding that moral beliefs are not themselves motives, and why he thought of passions as self-regulating, contrary to the admonitions of the rationalists.
Book Synopsis Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric by : Jamie Dow
Download or read book Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric written by Jamie Dow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Aristotle, arousing the passions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction. On that basis a skill in doing so can be something valuable, an appropriate constituent of the kind of expertise in rhetoric that deserves to be cultivated and given expression in a well-organised state. Such are Jamie Dow's principal claims in Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric. He attributes to Aristotle a normative view of rhetoric and its role in the state, and ascribes to him a particular view of the kinds of cognitions involved in the passions. In the first sustained treatment of these issues, and the first major monograph on Aristotle's Rhetoric in twenty years, Dow argues that Aristotle held distinctive and philosophically interesting views of both rhetoric and the nature of the passions. In Aristotle's view, he argues, rhetoric is exercised solely in the provision of proper grounds for conviction (pisteis). This is rhetoric's valuable contribution to the proper functioning of the state. Dow explores, through careful examination of the text of the Rhetoric, what normative standards must be met for something to qualify in Aristotle's view as 'proper grounds for conviction', and how he supposed these standards could be met by each of his trio of 'technical proofs' (entechnoi pisteis)—those using reason, character and emotion. In the case of the passions, Dow suggests, meeting these standards is a matter of arousing passions that constitute the reasonable acceptance of premises in arguments supporting the speaker's conclusion. Dow then seeks to show that Aristotle's view of the passions is compatible with this role in rhetorical expertise. This involves taking a stand on a number of controversial issues in Aristotle studies. In Passions and Persuasion, Dow rejects the view that Aristotle's Rhetoric expresses inconsistent views on emotion-arousal. Aristotle's treatment of the passions in the Rhetoric is, he argues, best understood as expressing a substantive theory of the passions as pleasures and pains. This is supported by a new representationalist reading of Aristotle's account of pleasure (and pain) in Rhetoric 1. Dow also defends a distinctive understanding of how Aristotle understood the contribution of phantasia ('appearance') to the cognitive component of the passions. On this interpretation, Aristotelian passions must involve the subject's affirming things to be the way that they are represented. Thus understood, the passions of an emotionally-engaged audience can constitute a part of their reasonable acceptance of a speaker's argument.
Book Synopsis The Book of Pleasures by : Raoul Vaneigem
Download or read book The Book of Pleasures written by Raoul Vaneigem and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions by : Richard Guy Parker
Download or read book Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions written by Richard Guy Parker and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Considerable discussion of male homosexuality". -P. Thorslev.
Book Synopsis Passions of the Soul by : René Descartes
Download or read book Passions of the Soul written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1989-12-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum
Book Synopsis Where Books Fall Open by : Bascove Bascove
Download or read book Where Books Fall Open written by Bascove Bascove and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions & rewards of reading, about authors who are dedicated to the act of writing and readers who are devoted to the joys of words in the right order. Funny, moving, and beautiful, it features an eclectic selection from some of the world's finest writers, as well as sixteen full-color paintings by artist and editor Bascove. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis The Pleasures of the Imagination by : Mark Akenside
Download or read book The Pleasures of the Imagination written by Mark Akenside and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
