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How Did Love Become A Reality Show? - The Destruction of Intimacy In a Culture Built On Image

Author : Peter Schmidt

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 19,59 MB

Release : 2017-06-19

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 1483469069

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We're made for relationships of trust, but today's cultural insanities fuel suspicions and relational insecurities. We love the fun of our screens, but their images are poisoning our perceptions and loves in the real world. Using case studies from the author's counseling practice, combined with the latest media research, How Did Love Become A Reality Show? provides psychological and cultural keys to understand our social disintegration. What role does our environment of powerful brain stimulation by electronic screens play as it interacts with human vulnerabilities? How do we get back to reality? "It's analysis of the problems in marital (and other) relationships today is based on a truly profound Christian understanding of human psychology combined with a fascinating analysis of how our mass media culture exacerbates age-old problems, it's Paul Tournier meets Marshall McLuhan." Harold Fickett CEO of Scenes Media, LLC This book is a cultural and relationship survival guide for the 21st century.



Captive Audience

Author : Lucas Mann

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 29,52 MB

Release : 2018-05-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0525435557

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An intimate portrait of a marriage intertwined with a meditation on reality TV that reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. In Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching "real" people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious, and in confronting some of our most suspect impulses achieves a heightened sense of what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person.



Love and Work

Author : Marcus Buckingham

Publisher : Harvard Business Press

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 46,96 MB

Release : 2022-04-05

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 164782124X

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A Wall Street Journal bestseller World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best—both at work and in life. You've long been told to "Do what you love." Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. Most of us actually don't know the real truth of what we love—what engages us and makes us thrive—and our workplaces, jobs, schools, even our parents, are focused instead on making us conform. Sadly, no person or system is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others. In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity—how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love. How can you use love to reveal your unique gifts? How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else? How can you choose roles in which you'll excel? Love and Work unlocks answers to these questions and others, so you can: Choose the right role on the team. Describe yourself compellingly in job interviews. Mold your existing role so that it calls upon the very best of you. Position yourself as a leader in such a way that your followers quickly come to trust in you. Make lasting change for your team, your company, your family, or your students. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives—our work, teams, and classrooms. It's time we brought love back in. Love and Work shows you how.



Made for Love

Author : Alissa Nutting

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 12,62 MB

Release : 2017-07-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0062280570

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Now an HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Milioti From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love—and how far some will go to escape it. Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane—his extremely lifelike sex doll—as her roommates. Life with Hazel’s father is strained at best, but her only alternative seems even bleaker. She’s just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life. For over a decade, Hazel put up with being veritably quarantined by Byron in the family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. But when he demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips in a first-ever human “mind-meld,” Hazel decides what was once merely irritating has become unbearable. The world she escapes into is a far cry from the dry and clinical bubble she’s been living in, a world populated with a whole host of deviant oddballs. As Hazel tries to carve out a new life for herself in this uncharted territory, Byron is using the most sophisticated tools at his disposal to find her and bring her home. His threats become more and more sinister, and Hazel is forced to take drastic measures in order to find a home of her own and free herself from Byron’s virtual clutches once and for all. Perceptive and compulsively readable, Made for Love is at once an absurd, raunchy comedy and a dazzling, profound meditation marriage, monogamy, and family.



Love Reality

Author : Nana Malone

Publisher : Sankofa Girl

Page : 347 pages

File Size : 20,21 MB

Release : 2015-02-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Dive into this secret dating, sexy romantic romance. A romantic who believes in love... Walking love disaster, Mia Donovan, is a reality television production assistant by day, secret dating blogger, Lonely Girl, by night. All she has to do to get the job of a lifetime is face her fears and step in front of the camera. Unfortunately that also means dating her nemesis, Single Guy, for the entire world to see. A cynic giving love advice... Reluctant, dating columnists, Ryan Matthews, otherwise known as Single Guy, thinks reality-dating shows are soul-sucking endeavors that have more to do with selling unrealistic expectations than love. But for a shot at writing serious stories, he's willing to go undercover on Love Reality to do an exposé on the dating competition. What he doesn't count on is falling in love. ********* Read the other books in The Donovans Series! Come Home Again Love Reality Race For Love Love in Plain Sight Eye of the Beholder Hot For Teacher Topics: contemporary romance, roommates to lovers romance, forbidden romance, family series, romantic comedy series, comedy, comedy series, interracial romance, funny romance, laugh romance, modern romance, urban romance, san diego, san diego romance, wealthy, USA today, USA today bestseller, friendship, enemies to lovers romance, friends to lovers romance, city romance, smart romance, romantic suspense, something funny to read, best friends in romance, brothers, wealthy romance, white collar romance, lighthearted romance, light romance, hot romance, nana malone, nana malone romance, proposal, proposal romance, engagement, engagement romance, free ebook, freebie, free book, free reads, free romance novel, free romance book, free billionaire book, romantic comedy books free, romance books free, billionaire romance for adults, billionaire romance books free, contemporary romance free, funny romance, funny romance free, funny books free, comedy books free, rom com, hilarious, romance series, romance series, romance books, beach reads, new adult, college, funny, female, stories, sensual, sensual romance, alpha male, dominant male, hot guy, racy, billionaire romance free, sexy, heartwarming, heart-warming, family, love, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, contemporary, contemporary romance, romance series, long series, long romance series, wealthy hero, wealthy heroes, sassy, captivating romance, hot, hot romance, forbidden love, sparks, loyalty, swoon, mystery, action adventure romance, romantic suspense, suspense romance, action scene romance, ugly duckling romance. For fans of Tamara Webber, Kendall Ryan, Rachel Van Dyken, Emma Hart, Staci Hart, and Kandi Steiner, Megan Quinn



Chart Throb

Author : Ben Elton

Publisher : Random House

Page : 468 pages

File Size : 16,74 MB

Release : 2008-12-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1407040944

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Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest. Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner. And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show. Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his carefully scripted 'search' for a star, he has no idea that the rules are changing. The 'real' is about to be put back into 'reality' television and Calvin and his fellow judges (the nation's favourite mum and the other bloke) are about to become ex-factors themselves. Ben Elton, author of Popcorn and Dead Famous returns to blistering comic satire with a savagely hilarious deconstruction of the world of modern television talent shows. Chart Throb. One winner. A whole bunch of losers.



Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes into TV

Author : Bathroom Readers' Institute

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 446 pages

File Size : 35,17 MB

Release : 2012-06-01

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1607106531

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Uncle John channel-surfs through America’s favorite pastime: television. What does Homer Simpson call “friend…mother…secret lover?” Television, you meathead! Here comes your wacky neighbor Uncle John to present TV the way only he can. From test patterns to Top Chef, from My Three Sons to Mad Men, as well as TV news, advertising, scandals, sitcoms, dramas, reality shows, and yadda yadda yadda, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes into TV is “dy-no-mite!” Read about… * Gilligan’s seven deadly sins * The inside story of TV’s first commercial * What goes on behind the scenes of Jeopardy! * The most incredibly bizarre shows from around the world * Why Gene Roddenberry tried to beam the original Star Trek cast into space * What reality show producers don’t want you to know * How the King of Late Night crushed his competition * What really went down on the island of LOST * Unexpected sitcom fatalities * TV’s greatest chimps And much, much more!



Double Negative

Author : Racquel J. Gates

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 14,28 MB

Release : 2018-07-16

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1478002239

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From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. In Double Negative Racquel J. Gates examines the generative potential of such images, showing how some of the most disreputable representations of black people in popular media can strategically pose questions about blackness, black culture, and American society in ways that more respectable ones cannot. Rather than falling back on claims that negative portrayals hinder black progress, Gates demonstrates how reality shows such as Basketball Wives, comedians like Katt Williams, and movies like Coming to America play on "negative" images to take up questions of assimilation and upward mobility, provide a respite from the demands of respectability, and explore subversive ideas. By using negativity as a framework to illustrate these texts' social and political work as they reverberate across black culture, Gates opens up new lines of inquiry for black cultural studies.



Free Will

Author : Sam Harris

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 96 pages

File Size : 20,9 MB

Release : 2012-03-06

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1451683405

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith, a thought-provoking, "brilliant and witty" (Oliver Sacks) look at the notion of free will—and the implications that it is an illusion. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.



Cookie Love

Author : Chico

Publisher : Dorrance Publishing

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 26,7 MB

Release : 2020-04-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1644265990

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Cookie Love: The Cookie Love Chronicles By: Chico In this collection of short stories, set in different time periods and genres, all feature the elegant and gorgeous Cookie Love. No matter where, no matter what, you will fall under her spell – and you won’t want to escape! In the mythical Kingdom of Fantasia, Cookie Love is under a dangerous curse that can only be broken with true love’s kiss. In South Carolina in the 1990s, she is a young woman preparing to compete in a music competition. In the future, she is an ancient goddess, frozen until she is needed to save her people. In space, she is a warrior, rescuing a kidnapped princess and fighting the Dark Lord Vega. In each story, Cookie Love realizes her destiny as the Goddess of Love, saving and inspiring people, and always destined to be with her handsome hero, Mark Eric. Filled with action, magic, adventure, and passion, these stories feature powerful women saving the day and being rewarded true love.