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Staged Seduction

Author : Akiko Takeyama
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804798559
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Staged Seduction written by Akiko Takeyama and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums of money. Staged Seduction reveals a world where all intimacies and feigned feelings are fair game for the hosts who employ feathered bangs, polished nails, fine European suits, and the sensitivity of the finest salesmen to create a fantasy for wealthy women seeking an escape from the everyday. Akiko Takeyama's investigation of this beguiling underground "love business" provides an intimate window into Japanese host clubs and the lives of hosts, clients, club owners, and managers. The club is a place where fantasies are pursued and the art of seduction isn't merely about romance; a complex set of transactions emerges. Like a casino of love, the host club is a site of desperation, aspiration, and hope, in which both hosts and clients are eager to roll the dice. Takeyama reveals the aspirational mode not only of the host club, but also of a Japanese society built on the commercialization of aspiration, seducing its citizens out of the present and into a future where hopes and dreams are imaginable—and billions of dollars can be made.

The Art of seduction

Author : Robert Green
Publisher : Imharjeetsingh
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of seduction written by Robert Green and published by Imharjeetsingh . This book was released on with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a mesmerizing handbook on seduction: the most subtle and effective form of power When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four maneuvers and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over his target. Understand how to "Poeticize Your Presence," “Keep them in Suspense – What Comes Next” and “Master the Art of the Bold Move”. Every bit as essential as The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion that reveals one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate form of power.

Silicon Seduction

Author : M.K. Poe
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462052223
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Silicon Seduction written by M.K. Poe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Industrial espionage tests personal and national ethics, risking the unthinkable, when ex-lovers cross paths in Silicon Valley. After graduating from Stanford in 1968 with a degree in international law, Michael Whitaker honored his fathers last wish to serve his country and lead a good and meaningful life by committing to protect proprietary technology from dangerous factions and governments. But that was before he fell for Charmaine Walker, cruel fate separated and scared them, and a French industrial secrets broker slaughtered Michaels partners from Jackson Hole to Manila. When circuit designs that could trigger Armageddon are stolen from a secret facility, Michael is driven to to find the technology and avenge his mentors murder. Though warned of dangerous and beautiful woman sourcing the lethal commerce, he tracks the thiefs exotic accomplice from Cebu to Silicon Valley not realizing that following the package to her door may jeopardize everything that matters to himand endanger the safety of the world. A juicy genre bending tale by a Silicon Valley insider a smart read filled with action, romance, and espionage that readers will think about long after they close the book.

Casanova

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476716528
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Casanova written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining” (Huffington Post)—the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius in decadent eighteenth-century Europe. Today, “Casanova” is a synonym for “great lover,” yet the real story of this remarkable figure is little known. A figure straight out of a Henry Fielding novel, Giacomo Casanova was erotic, brilliant, impulsive, and desperate for recognition; a self-destructive genius. Over the course of his lifetime, he claimed to have seduced more than one hundred women, among them married women, young women in convents, girls just barely in their teens, women of high and low birth alike. Abandoned by his mother, an actress and courtesan, Casanova was raised by his illiterate grandmother, coming of age in a Venice filled with spies and political intrigue. He was intellectually curious and read forbidden books, for which he was jailed. He staged a dramatic escape from Venice’s notorious prison, I Piombi, the only person known to have done so. He then fled to France, ingratiated himself at the royal court, and invented the national lottery that still exists to this day. He crisscrossed Europe, landing for a while in St. Petersburg, where he was admitted to the court of Catherine the Great. He corresponded with Voltaire and met Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte—assisting them as they composed the timeless opera Don Giovanni. And he wrote what many consider the greatest memoir of the era, the twelve-volume Story of My Life. Laurence Bergreen’s Casanova recounts this astonishing life in rich, intimate detail, and at the same time, paints a dazzling portrait of eighteenth-century Europe, filled with a cast characters from serving girls to kings and courtiers, “great fun for any history lover” (Kirkus Reviews).

The Language of Pick-Up Artists

Author : Daria Dayter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000541363
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Pick-Up Artists written by Daria Dayter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists, offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online community that uses speed-seduction practices for short-term dating and sex. Drawing on a multi-million-word corpus comprising data from online forums, social media, informational websites, and YouTube videos, the volume explores the verbal practices and narrative framing techniques that pick-up artists (PUAs) draw upon in their interactions with women and the terminology-heavy language used in teaching pick-up to foster perceptions of scientific validity. The book also unpacks videos and reports of live interactions to study naturally occurring PUA discourse from different perspectives but also to more closely examine conceptual metaphors of competition and violence and critically reflect on the ethical considerations of working with such communities. This book will appeal to students and scholars in such disciplines as discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, computer-mediated communication, and language and media, as well as those interested in the study of language use online.

Modes of Seduction

Author : Deborah Houk Schocket
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640432
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Modes of Seduction written by Deborah Houk Schocket and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its examination of Balzac's and Sand's representations of seduction from the perspectives of feminism, psycho-analysis, and cultural studies, this book sheds lights on erotic relations and the ways in which they are embedded in wider issues of subjectivity and political and social structures."--Jacket.

One Hot Summer in Kyoto

Author : John Haylock
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611725089
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book One Hot Summer in Kyoto written by John Haylock and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot and sticky describes the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto in summer. And that is just the situation Peter Meadowes finds himself in when he flees to Kyoto for his summer vacation. During the rest of the year the middle-aged Meadowes teaches in Tokyo, a circumstance which conveniently enables him to leave his commanding wife (who hates Japan) back in England. In the old capital Meadowes also expects to find relief from Noriko, his grim Japanese mistress. But in the small wood-and-paper Japanese house he has rented, he finds something unexpected: another woman to desire. Kazumi is seductive, yet she always manages to slip away. Then Noriko arrives, oddly possessive but sharing giggles with Kazumi—perhaps about Meadowes's prowess? Next on the scene is Miss Goto, polite, apologetic, a serious lover of theater who turns an elaborately staged seduction into a comedy of errors. When wife Monica shows up from England, Meadowes must choose...and fast. John Haylock's novel vividly evokes the languid torpor of summer in the fabled city of temples and gardens. Yet hidden within this steamy farce about obsessive lust is an underbelly of duplicity, discontent, and fear. When making his choice, Peter Meadowes confronts the love-hate relationship that afflicts the typical gaijin—foreigner—in Japan. Remaining in Japan may be impossible, but escaping only creates the desire to return. John Haylock was educated at Cambridge University and spent 14 years in Japan as a teacher and writer.

The Idiot

Author : Elif Batuman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014311106X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Idiot written by Elif Batuman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions

His Wicked Seduction

Author : Lauren Smith
Publisher : Lauren Smith
ISBN 13 : 0997423765
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book His Wicked Seduction written by Lauren Smith and published by Lauren Smith. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton Series and Johanna Lindsey’s Malory Series will love the passionate romances and gripping adventures of the League of Rogues. Can the League’s most wicked rakehell be tamed? Or has this Rogue fallen too far? Horatia Sheridan has been hopelessly in love with Lucien, her brother’s best friend, ever since he rescued her from the broken remains of her parents’ wrecked carriage. His reputation as London’s most notorious rakehell doesn’t frighten her, for under his veneer of cool authority she has glimpsed a man whose wicked desires inspire her own. Lucien, Marquess of Rochester, has deliberately nurtured a reputation for debauchery that makes every matchmaking mother of the ton quake with fear. His one secret: he is torn between soul-ripping lust for Horatia, and the loyalty he owes her brother. That loyalty is put to the test when an old enemy of the League threatens Horatia’s life. With Christmas drawing near, he sweeps her away to his country estate, where he can’t resist granting her one wish—to share his bed and his heart. But sinister forces are lurking, awaiting the perfect moment to exact their revenge by destroying not only whatever happiness Lucien might find in Horatia’s arms, but the lives of those they love. Warning: This book contains an intelligent lady who is determined to seduce her brother’s friend, a brooding rake whose toy of choice in bed is a little bit of bondage with a piece of red silk, a loyal band of merry rogues and a Christmas love so scorching you’ll need fresh snow to extinguish it. *Includes Exclusive Scene Art and Illustrations! This book was previously published by Samhain Publishing and is now re-released.

Don Giovanni

Author : Jonathan Miller
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Don Giovanni written by Jonathan Miller and published by Schocken Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A very powerful book. The final chapter, in particular, is one of the most provocative political-theoretical statements that I have read in a long time."--Bill Martin, Radical Philosophy Review of Books."An impressive sequel to Marxism and Deconstruction

Draft No. 4

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712395
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Draft No. 4 written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer’s craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny. In one essay, he considers the delicate art of getting sources to tell you what they might not otherwise reveal. In another, he discusses how to use flashback to place a bear encounter in a travel narrative while observing that “readers are not supposed to notice the structure. It is meant to be about as visible as someone’s bones.” The result is a vivid depiction of the writing process, from reporting to drafting to revising—and revising, and revising. Draft No. 4 is enriched by multiple diagrams and by personal anecdotes and charming reflections on the life of a writer. McPhee describes his enduring relationships with The New Yorker and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and recalls his early years at Time magazine. Throughout, Draft No. 4 is enlivened by his keen sense of writing as a way of being in the world.

Seducing Steve

Author : Maggie Wells
Publisher : Margaret Ethridge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seducing Steve written by Maggie Wells and published by Margaret Ethridge. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eight years, erotic romance novelist Sara Wright has been harboring a secret lust for her best friend and sometimes muse, Steve Larson. Steve has loved Sara since the day he met her but has long since resigned himself to being firmly in the friend zone. Until the night until Sara confesses she's been using her fantasies about him as inspiration for the heroes in her novels. Determined to be the man to give her what she wants, he takes a page from Sara’s books and plots his every move to make her his.

Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England

Author : Eve Rachele Sanders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521582346
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England written by Eve Rachele Sanders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1999 book examines the role of literacy-education in promoting gender difference, as shown in English Renaissance texts.

The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb

Author : Jamin Goggin
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1400225248
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb written by Jamin Goggin and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor Jamin Goggin and theology professor Kyle Strobel invite you on a journey to uncover Jesus’ seemingly contradictory way to power: weakness. Why do so many rock-star pastors implode under the spotlight? How have so many Christian leaders and institutions been lured by toxic and abusive power? Why are so many Christians tempted to chase worldly success and status? Because, according to Jamin Goggin and Kyle Strobel, rather than seeking kingdom power embodied by Jesus, we have embraced a form of power that is antithetical to the cross. In The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb, Goggin and Strobel paint a richly biblical vision of power through weakness. This revised and updated edition features a brand-new chapter for those who’ve been impacted by toxic and abusive power. Join the authors on a journey to gather wisdom from great sages of the faith such as J. I. Packer, Dallas Willard, Marva Dawn, John Perkins, James Houston, and Eugene Peterson. Listen in on their conversations to rediscover the wisdom of the cross and the power that truly sets us free.

Intellectual Philanthropy

Author : Aurélie Vialette
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 161249546X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Philanthropy written by Aurélie Vialette and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's in a nineteenth-century philanthropist? Fear of an uprising. But the frightened philanthropist has a remedy. Aware that the urban surge of the working-class masses in Spain would create a state of emergency, he or she devises a means to seduce the masses away from rebellion by taking on himself or herself the role of the seducer: the capitalist intellectual hero invested in the caretaking of the unpredictable working class. Intellectual Philanthropy examines cultural practices used by philanthropists in modern Iberia. It explains the meaning and role of intellectual philanthropy by focusing on the devices and apparatuses philanthropists devised to realize their projects. Intellectual philanthropists considered themselves activists in that they aimed to impact social structures and deployed a rhetoric of the affect to convince the workers to join their philanthropic enterprise. Philanthropy, in the nineteenth century, was not necessarily linked to money. Motivations could be moral or political; they could arise from a desire to enhance social status or to acquire influence. To explicitly designate this conceptualization of the philanthropic act, the author proposes its own name: intellectual philanthropy. Intellectual philanthropy is the use of philanthropic platforms by intellectuals to deploy cultural and educational structures in which workers could acquire a cultural capital constructed and organized by the philanthropists. Vialette argues that intellectual philanthropy appeared as a reaction to the feared political and cultural organization of the working class, rather than as a process of worker emancipation. These philanthropic processes aimed at organizing the workers emotionally and rationally into what she calls micro-societies. Philanthropists used the technique of seduction and expressed love to and for a targeted class. However, this seduction prevented real communication, and created a moral and symbolic indebtedness. This process was perverse in that, through its cultural and educational structures, philanthropy would give workers cultural capital that was not just emancipatory, but also a way to restrict their agency.

Invisibility by Design

Author : Gabriella Lukács
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007184
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Invisibility by Design written by Gabriella Lukács and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were accessible to anyone. Enticed by the chance to build personally fulfilling careers, many young women entered Japan's digital economy by performing unpaid labor as photographers, net idols, bloggers, online traders, and cell phone novelists. While some women leveraged digital technology to create successful careers, most did not. In Invisibility by Design Gabriella Lukács traces how these women's unpaid labor became the engine of Japan's digital economy. Drawing on interviews with young women who strove to sculpt careers in the digital economy, Lukács shows how platform owners tapped unpaid labor to create innovative profit-generating practices without employing workers, thereby rendering women's labor invisible. By drawing out the ways in which labor precarity generates a demand for feminized affective labor, Lukács underscores the fallacy of the digital economy as a more democratic, egalitarian, and inclusive mode of production.

Aunt Dan and Lemon

Author : Wallace Shawn
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822200765
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Aunt Dan and Lemon written by Wallace Shawn and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action begins in the London flat of Lenora (Lemon), a rather frail, introspective young woman who tells us, with a chilling calm, why she rather admires the Nazis for their refreshing lack of hypocrisy, and who then, in a series of