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Harlequin Historical October 2017 - Box Set 1 of 2

Author : Ann Lethbridge

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 491 pages

File Size : 16,41 MB

Release : 2017-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1488021791

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Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders, muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! AN INNOCENT MAID FOR THE DUKE The Society of Wicked Gentlemen by Ann Lethbridge (Regency) Jacob, Duke of Westmoor, kisses a woman who breathes life back into him. Then he discovers she’s a maid! Living under the same roof, their attraction becomes impossible to resist… COURTING DANGER WITH MR. DYER Scandal and Disgrace by Georgie Lee (Regency) Spy Bartholomew Dyer is forced to enlist the help of Moira, Lady Rexford, who jilted him five years ago. He’s determined not to succumb to her charms again, because Bart suspects it’s not just their lives at risk—it’s their hearts… SCANDAL AND MISS MARKHAM by Janice Preston (Regency) Lord Vernon Beauchamp offers to find Thea Markham’s missing brother. Unsure whether to trust the handsome peer, Thea dresses up as a boy and follows him! The scandalous adventure soon gives way to desire… Look for Harlequin® Historical’s October 2017 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories! Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.



Revolutionary Desires

Author : Ania Loomba

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 601 pages

File Size : 49,17 MB

Release : 2018-07-24

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1351209698

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Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, when it fractured. This close study demonstrates how India's revolutionary women shaped a new female – and in some cases feminist – political subject in the twentieth century, in collaboration and contestation with Indian nationalist, liberal-feminist, and European left-wing models of womenhood. Through a wide range of writings by, and about, revolutionary and communist women, including memoirs, autobiographies, novels, party documents, and interviews, Ania Loomba traces the experiences of these women, showing how they were constrained by, but also how they questioned, the gendered norms of Indian political culture. A collection of carefully restored photographs is dispersed throughout the book, helping to evoke the texture of these women’s political experiences, both public and private. Revolutionary Desires is an original and important intervention into a neglected area of leftist and feminist politics in India by a major voice in feminist studies.



Harlequin Presents October 2017 - Box Set 1 of 2

Author : Lynne Graham

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 476 pages

File Size : 38,79 MB

Release : 2017-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1460382358

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Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes: CLAIMED FOR THE LEONELLI LEGACY Wedlocked! by Lynne Graham Tia Grayson has lived a sheltered life—until Max Leonelli arrives with the news that she is a wealthy heiress. Her grandfather expects a match, but Max is not a marrying man. Until incendiary desire overtakes them, and he must consider the consequences! BUYING HIS BRIDE OF CONVENIENCE Bound to a Billionaire by Michelle Smart Eva Bergen is the perfect candidate for Daniele Pellegrini's convenient wife—her body is pure temptation, and she can't stand him! Eva has buried any hope of loving again. Until her new husband changes the rules with his expertly ruthless seduction! THE TYCOON'S MARRIAGE DEAL by Melanie Milburne Ruthless Blake McClelland needs a fiancée to clinch a deal—so he cold-heartedly chooses a woman who's completely innocent! Matilda Toppington knows she should refuse Blake's outrageous proposition! Unless Tillie dares to surrender to the pleasures his sinful gaze promises… HIS MAJESTY'S TEMPORARY BRIDE The Princess Seductions by Annie West Cat Dubois's life as an illegitimate royal hasn't been luxurious. But when her princess half-sister disappears ahead of her engagement to King Alexander, Cat agrees to step in! She didn't anticipate Alex's electric attraction—and Cat cannot hold back from his caress… Be sure to collect Harlequin® Presents' October2017 Box Set 2 of 2!



Eros and Illness

Author : David B. Morris

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 361 pages

File Size : 32,64 MB

Release : 2017-02-27

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 0674659716

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When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into disarray, our routines are interrupted, our beliefs shaken. David Morris offers an unconventional, deeply human exploration of what it means to live with, and live through, disease. He shows how desire—emotions, dreams, stories, romance, even eroticism—plays a crucial part in illness.



LEAGUE Magazine, September-October 2017 Issue

Author : The League Publishing Company, Inc.

Publisher : The League Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 84 pages

File Size : 37,2 MB

Release : 2017-09-01

Category : Antiques & Collectibles

ISBN :

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Rekindling Desire

Author : Barry McCarthy

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 47,88 MB

Release : 2013-12-17

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1135919291

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For over a decade Rekindling Desire has helped to restore and restructure sexuality in thousands of lives. This expanded edition continues the exploration of inhibited sexual desire and no-sex relationships by the author, who brings decades of knowledge and the expertise that comes from having treated almost 3,000 couples for sexual problems. Contained within are suggested strategies and exercises that help develop communication and sexual skills, as well as interesting case studies that open the doors to couples’ sexual frustrations. The shame, embarrassment, and hesitancy that individuals feel with themselves, and the resentment and blame they can feel towards their sexual partners, are explored and put into context. Whether you are married, cohabitating, or dating, or if you are 25, 45, or 75, reading this book will help renew your sexual desire and put you on the path towards healthy, pleasure-oriented sexuality.



Destructive Desires

Author : Robert J. Patterson

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 36,58 MB

Release : 2019-04-05

Category : Music

ISBN : 1978803583

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Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities. As an important form of black cultural production, rhythm and blues music helps us to understand black political and cultural desires and longings in light of neo-liberalism’s increased codification in America’s racial politics and policies since the 1970s. Robert J. Patterson provides a thorough analysis of four artists—Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Adina Howard, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton—to examine black cultural longings by demonstrating how our reading of specific moments in their lives, careers, and performances serve as metacommentaries for broader issues in black culture and politics.



On Desire

Author : Bernd Kracke

Publisher : transcript Verlag

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 39,12 MB

Release : 2018-07-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3839442850

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Desire indicates phenomena that are implicated in a productive ambiguity. These phenomena associate basic elements of human coexistence, while also referencing complex social processes and institutions. With today's new media we experience an assemblage of desire that maps out new relationships to the social body, to sexuality and gender questions, to ownership, and to the production, perception, and appropriation of moving images. This book brings together a broad spectrum of international positions relating to the time-based, immersive arts presented at the third B3 - the Biennial of the Moving Image Frankfurt/Main 2017 - which focuses on desire in the contemporary world. An extensive essay by Marc Ries develops a theoretical framework relating the moving image to desire. Contributions by Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon, Johan Grimonprez, Jonas Mekas, Larissa Sansour, Igor Simic, and Frederico Solmi. Desire/Begehren benennt Phänomene, die in eine produktive Ambivalenz eingeschrieben sind. Sie assoziieren Grundelemente menschlichen Zusammenlebens, verweisen aber zugleich auf komplexe gesellschaftliche Prozesse und Institutionen. Mit den gegenwärtigen Medien erleben und erfahren wir ein Gefüge des Begehrens, das neue Verhältnisse zum sozialen Körper, zur Sexualität und Geschlechterfrage, zum Eigentum und auch zur Produktion, Wahrnehmung und Aneignung von Bewegtbildern entwirft. Der Band versammelt ein Spektrum an internationalen Positionen zeitbasierter und immersiver Künste der dritten B3 - Biennale des Bewegten Bildes Frankfurt/Main 2017 - zum Begehren in der Gegenwart. Ein umfassender Essay von Marc Ries entwickelt einen theoretischen Rahmen der Beziehung des bewegten Bildes zum Begehren. Beiträge von Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon, Johan Grimonprez, Jonas Mekas, Larissa Sansour, Igor Simic und Frederico Solmi.



Dreadful Desires

Author : Charlie Yi Zhang

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 134 pages

File Size : 21,3 MB

Release : 2022-02-07

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1478022612

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In Dreadful Desires Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population and secure China’s place in the global economy. Zhang shows how the state frames love as a set of desires that encompass heteronormative intimacy, familial and communal attachment, upward mobility, and private property ownership. These desires—as circulated in performance in the nationalistic ceremony, same-sex romantic fan fiction, the wildly popular reality television dating show If You Are the One, and the cult of patriarchal personality around Xi Jinping—are explicitly based in oppressive systems of gender, class, and sexuality. Zhang contends that such desires connect love to economic survival and gender normativity in ways that underwrite Chinese neoliberalism at the expense of individual flourishing. By outlining how state-framed forms of love create desires that cannot be fulfilled, Zhang places China at the forefront of using affective attachments to nation, leader, and family in the global shifts toward exploitation and authoritarianism.



Competing Desires

Author : Debamita Banerjee

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 131 pages

File Size : 43,35 MB

Release : 2023-06-23

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1000957292

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India’s Look East policy opened up a new strategic dimension to Indian foreign policy. India had significant cultural and diplomatic linkages with the Southeast Asian nations. But India’s non-aligned diplomatic position created a distance between India and Southeast Asia. The adoption of the Look East Policy led to the establishment of economic and strategic ties with Southeast Asia. The policy was revised in the form of the Act East Policy in 2015 in the face of China’s increasing influence in South and Southeast Asia which posed a threat to India’s security. Moreover the Sino-Pakistan liaison necessitated the strengthening of India-Southeast Asia relations. This book is an attempt to trace the development of the Look East Policy, its transition into Act East Policy and its aftermath. These changing parameters will show the decisive impacts on the transformative phases of India’s foreign policy.