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Download or read book Dragon's Desire written by Eva Chase and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ren is finally getting used to the idea that she's the last dragon shifter alive-destined to take four alpha shifters as her mates and unite all shifter kind-when more trouble looms on the horizon. The rogue group that slaughtered her family is still out for blood, and they don't care who they hurt along the way. Ren and her mates set out to quash the rebellion once and for all. But the rogues have allies in unexpected places, startling enough to shake Ren's resolve. Throw in a challenger hoping to wrench the position of alpha from one of her guys, and this dragon shifter has reached her limit. How can a girl who's only known she's a shifter for three weeks heal sixteen years of chaos?
Book Synopsis Methods of Desire by : Aurora Donzelli
Download or read book Methods of Desire written by Aurora Donzelli and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Indonesia has undergone a radical program of administrative decentralization and neoliberal reforms. In Methods of Desire, author Aurora Donzelli explores these changes through an innovative perspective—one that locates the production of neoliberalism in novel patterns of language use and new styles of affect display. Building on almost two decades of fieldwork, Donzelli describes how the growing influence of transnational lending agencies is transforming the ways in which people desire and voice their expectations, intentions, and entitlements within the emergent participatory democracy and restructuring of Indonesia’s political economy. She argues that a largely overlooked aspect of the Era Reformasi concerns the transition from a moral regime centered on the expectation that desires should remain hidden to a new emphasis on the public expression of individuals’ aspirations. The book examines how the large-scale institutional transformations that followed the collapse of the Suharto regime have impacted people’s lives and imaginations in the relatively remote and primarily rural Toraja highlands of Sulawesi. A novel concept of the individual as a bundle of audible and measurable desires has emerged, one that contrasts with the deep-rooted reticence toward the expression of personal preferences. The spreading of foreign discursive genres such as customer satisfaction surveys, training sessions, electoral mission statements, and fundraising auctions, and the diffusion of new textual artifacts such as checklists, flowcharts, and workflow diagrams are producing forms of citizenship, political participation, and moral agency that contrast with the longstanding epistemologies of secrecy typical of local styles of knowledge and power. Donzelli’s long-term ethnographic study examines how these foreign protocols are being received, absorbed, and readapted in a peripheral community of the Indonesian archipelago. Combining a telescopic perspective on our contemporary moment with a microscopic analysis of conversational practices, the author argues that the managerial forms of political rationality and the entrepreneurial morality underwriting neoliberal apparatuses proliferate through the working of small cogs, that is, acts of speech. By examining these concrete communicative exchanges, she sheds light on both the coherence and inconsistency underlying the worldwide diffusion of market logic to all domains of life.
Download or read book Engenderings written by Naomi Scheman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naomi Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition but from conditions of privilege. Her books represents a powerful challenge to the notion that gender makes no difference in the construction of philosophical reasoning. At the same time, it criticizes the narrow focus of most feminist theorizing and calls for a more inclusive form of inquiry.
Download or read book Dire Desires written by Stephanie Tyler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feared by humans, envied by werewolves, the Dire wolves are immortal shifters, obeying no laws but their own bestial natures. Once they were many, but now only a few remain, a dangerous wolfpack forever on the hunt… Jinx is a Dire wolf without a pack. Kicked out of the house by his king, and living with a vampire named Jez, Jinx has been trying to undo the damage he’d unintentionally caused during the reign of the Dire ghost army, which unleashed some of Purgatory’s worst monsters on the world at large. But when he hears that an unshifted Were is being held in a psychiatric hospital, he immediately drops everything to help her. Gillian Black has no idea what’s happening to her—and Jinx discovers that she’s not just any Were, but a Dire wolf from the original Greenland pack. He helps her escape and promises to keep her safe from the men—and wolves—who are hunting her, and teach her everything about being a wolf. He must also fight his feelings, wanting to claim her as his mate…at least until after he defeats the supernatural enemies that threaten all of them.
Book Synopsis Recreative Minds by : Gregory Currie
Download or read book Recreative Minds written by Gregory Currie and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreative Minds develops a philosophical theory of imagination that draws upon recent theories and results in psychology. Ideas about how we read the minds of others have put the concept of imagination firmly back on the agenda for philosophy and psychology. Currie and Ravenscroft present atheory of what they call imaginative projection; they show how it fits into a philosophically motivated picture of the mind and of mental states, and how it illuminates and is illuminated by recent developments in cognitive psychology. They argue that we need to recognize a category ofdesire-in-imagination, and that supposition and fantasy should be classed as forms of imagination. They accommodate some of the peculiarities of perceptual forms of imagining such as visual and motor imagery, and suggest that they are important for mind-reading. They argue for a novel view about therelations between imagination and pretence, and suggest that imagining can be, but need not be, the cause of pretending. They show how the theory accommodates but goes beyond the idea of mental simulation, and argue that the contrast between simulation and theory is neither exclusive nor exhaustive.They argue that we can understand certain developmental and psychiatric disorders as arising from faulty imagination. Throughout, they link their discussion to the uses of imagination in our encounters with art, and they conclude with a chapter on responses to tragedy. The final chapter also offersa theory of the emotions that suggests that these states have much in common with perceptual states.Currie and Ravenscroft offer a lucid exploration of a fascinating subject, for readers in philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics.
Book Synopsis Subjects of Desire by : Judith Butler
Download or read book Subjects of Desire written by Judith Butler and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the subject, all while revealing ambiguities within his position. The result is a sophisticated reconsideration of the post-Hegelian tradition that has predominated in modern French thought, and her study remains a provocative and timely intervention in contemporary debates over the unconscious, the powers of subjection, and the subject.
Book Synopsis The Shifters by : Alexandra Sokoloff
Download or read book The Shifters written by Alexandra Sokoloff and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charged with overseeing the shapeshifters of New Orleans, Caitlin MacDonald has her reasons for being wary of their kind. So when charismatic bounty-hunting shifter Ryder Malloy blows into town claiming to be on the trail of a horde of malevolent entities called Walk-Ins, Caitlin has no reason to trust him—with her city or her heart. But as tourists start dropping dead from supernatural possession, Cait must team with Ryder to navigate his shadowy, ephemeral world… Fiercely independent, Ryder usually hunts alone—but this case requires an exception. To prevent a supernatural massacre, he needs the beautiful Keeper on his side—and, if possible, even closer. In his world, appearances can be deceiving and deadly. And the only way they'll survive is if this woman who tempts him like no other trusts in him completely….
Book Synopsis Quixotic Desire by : Ruth S. El Saffar
Download or read book Quixotic Desire written by Ruth S. El Saffar and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A value of the collection is its multiple trajectory, as commentary on the Cervantine corpus, on authorial and fictional psyches, and on the dialectical (hi)story of literature and psychoanalysis. The editors and their distinguished collaborators have produced a monumental work of scholarship.'--Choice 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.
Download or read book A Bear's Desire written by Vicki Savage and published by Savage Publishing. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mykala Brach vows to kill the shifters who have murdered her family, but her convictions start to waver when she meets the handsome Knox. Not only does he save her life, but his wild ways feed her need for adventure and intimacy. As she decides what to do about her new feelings, her vigilante organization puts Knox and his clan in danger. Now Mykala must decide if she should fulfill her sworn oath, or to follow her heart. Knox Goodman will do anything to help his bear shifter clan, including seducing the beautiful hunter into helping their cause. The closer he becomes to Mykala, the more he learns about a secret society intent on destroying everything he loves. Can he convince her that shifters are more human than her friends? He must do it soon, or risk losing his lover and his clan forever. This is part one in a five-part e-serial.
Book Synopsis The Shift Series Box Set by : Beca Lewis
Download or read book The Shift Series Box Set written by Beca Lewis and published by Perception Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-03 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of readers have transformed their lives through Beca Lewis’ Shift Series. Now you can get the first five books of The Shift Series in one box set. Readers claim that these are the best spiritual self-books they have ever read. At least one of these books will shift your life forever. Contains: Living In Grace, The Four Essential Questions. The 28-Day Shift To Wealth, The Daily Shift, The Intent Course
Download or read book Desire's Promise written by Bethany Drake and published by Blushing Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heather is taken. Storm will move mountains and galaxies to bring her home. Earth and Vespia are working well together for the betterment of both societies. Heather and Storm, the Vespian ambassador to Earth, are finally settled into their marriage and home, when she is called back to Earth. Heather is now six months pregnant and finds her mate a bit overprotective. She can’t help it if she glows when she’s frustrated. Things get a little more complicated when she is called home because of Ialog, the man who keeps trying to separate them. He released information, making it appear she was being mistreated by the Vespians. How is she going to hide her pregnancy? She left Earth sterile. Storm isn’t happy about his mate leaving the safety of Vespia, but also wants to prove that Heather is happy and safe under his care. He knows Ialog and is worried the man is going to try to take his mate from him again. His fears become very real when Ialog kidnaps her. Now he has to find a way to bring her home. This is book three in The Vespian Way series but can be enjoyed independently.
Book Synopsis The Body and Desire by : Raphael A. Cadenhead
Download or read book The Body and Desire written by Raphael A. Cadenhead and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought. The Body and Desire sets out to retrieve the full range of Gregory’s thinking on the challenges of the ascetic life by examining within the context of his theological commitments his evolving attitudes on what we now call gender, sex, and sexuality. Exploring Gregory’s understanding of the importance of bodily and spiritual maturation for the practices of contemplation and virtue, Raphael A. Cadenhead recovers the vital relevance of this vision of transformation for contemporary ethical discourse.
Book Synopsis The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga by : Richard J. Gray II
Download or read book The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga written by Richard J. Gray II and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years after entering the pop music scene, Lady Gaga became the most well-known pop star in the world. These thirteen critical essays explore Lady Gaga's body of work through the interdisciplinary filter of performance identity and cover topics such as gender and sexuality, body commodification, visual body rhetoric, drag performance, homosexuality and heteronormativity, Surrealism and the theatre of cruelty, the carnivalesque, monstrosity, imitation and parody, human rights, and racial politics. Of particular interest is the way that Lady Gaga's œuvre, however popular, strange, raw or controversial, enters into the larger sociopolitical discourse, challenging the status quo and altering our perceptions of reality.
Book Synopsis The Shift Series Box Set Volume Two by : Beca Lewis
Download or read book The Shift Series Box Set Volume Two written by Beca Lewis and published by Perception Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perception is Reality: Dive into Four Mind-Bending Books on the Power of Perception Are you ready to question everything you think you know? Dive into the world of perception and reality with this box set featuring four mind-bending books that explore the idea that perception shapes our understanding of the world. "What we perceive to be reality magnifies," said Beca Lewis, and this box set of four powerful books takes that idea to the next level. In this collection, you'll delve into the intersection of spirituality and perception, discovering how our beliefs shape our experiences of the world. “Perception is not only the basis of our reality, but also an integral part of quantum physics," said physicist Neils Bohr. This box set of four powerful books explores the fascinating link between perception and quantum physics, revealing how our beliefs shape the very fabric of the universe. All four of these books will challenge your beliefs and open your mind to new possibilities. With thought-provoking ideas and fascinating insights, this box set is a must-read for anyone interested in the mysteries of the mind and the nature of reality. This box set contains: Imagination Mastery, Seven Steps To Right Thinking, Perception Mastery, Blooming Your Life
Book Synopsis Meditations on the Human Condition in an Imperial Age by : Irina V. Boca
Download or read book Meditations on the Human Condition in an Imperial Age written by Irina V. Boca and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of empire contains features that are both irreducibly spectral and terrifyingly real. With much of both aspects prevailing at subliminal levels, it is nearly impossible for the casual observer to think through the maze of contradictions and constitutive forces inherent in the imperial system. In her latest work of nonfiction, Meditations on the Human Condition in an Imperial Age, author and political philosopher Irina V. Boca uses her expertise and research to help readers analyze the presence of empire as an indelible contemporary political force. This intricate work unravels the Gordian knot of imperial politics and allows the reader to consider overlapping concepts from multiple perspectives, finally making it possible for the general audience to get all the facts. From post-Hegelian philosophy to political science and popular culture, the author has identified the intricately woven forces of imperial politics and invites readers to reconsider any easy location of power and any clear-cut path to resistance or liberation.
Download or read book Shades of Noir written by Joan Copjec and published by Verso. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, French critics were again given the opportunity to view films from Hollywood. The films they saw, including The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity. Laura, Murder, My Sweet, and The Woman in the Window, prompted the naming and theorization of a new phenomenon: film noir. Much of what has been written about the genre since has remained within the orbit of this preliminary assessment. While sympathetic towards the early French critics, this collection of original essays attempts to move beyond their first fascinated look. Beginning with an autonomy of that look—of the 'poujadist' climate that nourished it and the imminent collapse of the Hollywood studio system that gave it its mournful inflection—Shades of Noir re-explores and calls into question the object first constructed by it. The impetus for this shift in perspective comes from the films themselves, viewed in the light of contemporary social and political concerns, and from new theoretical insights. Several contributions analyze the re-emergence of noir in recent years, most notably in the hybrid forms produced in the 1980s by the merging of noir with science fiction and horror, for example Blade Runner and Angel Heart, and in films by black directors such as Deep Cover, Straight out of Brooklyn, A Rage in Harlem and One False Move. Other essays focus on the open urban territory in which the noir hero hides out; the office spaces in Chandler, and the palpable sense of waiting that fills empty warehouses, corridors and hotel rooms. Finally, Shades of Noir pays renewed attention to the lethal relation between the sexes; to the femme fatale and the other women in noir. As the role of women expands, the femme fatale remains deadly, but her deadliness takes on new meanings. Contributors: Janet Bergstrom, Joan Copjec, Elizabeth Cowie, Manthia Diawara, Frederic Jameson, Dean MacCannel, Fred Pfeil, David Reid and Jayne L. Walker, Marc Vernet, Slavoj Zizek.
