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Her Billionaire Cowboy's Inconvenient Marriage Blessing


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He needs a temporary wife to save his business and his parent's legacy, she needs money to save her dream...will an inconvenient wedding be a blessing of love? Beck McCoy would have given up every cent of his inheritance to have his mother and father back from the fatal plane crash that killed them when he was a boy. Instead of being afraid to fly he grew up obsessed with flying. It has always been his connection to his father, who also loved to be in the sky. Part owner of a private jet charter service he loves every moment of it. When his grandfather demands he find a bride or lose his inheritance, the legacy his dad and mom helped build for him, Beck is furious but determined to do whatever it takes. He must marry or start from scratch--something he's not afraid to do but losing the inheritance from his parents makes his heart hurt. He needs a plan and he needs it fast. Mollie Mae Darling is about to lose everything. First her beloved grandfather and now she's just learned that the ranch she loves is about to belong to the bank. In a fateful moment she meets a handsome, sympathetic cowboy and unexpected sparks flame to life inside of her hurting heart. But she's suspicious when he makes her a crazy offer of marriage in exchange for the money she needs to keep her dream alive. Can this be for real? Her heart says yes, but that makes his offer all the more dangerous. Is this the blessing she's needed for so very long? McCoy Billionaire Brothers series...Two Billionaire Brothers determined to marry off their grandchildren...one is going to do it from the grave using his last will and testament...can the other do it before it's too late!




Her Billionaire Cowboy's Fake Marriage


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The last thing cowboy Wade McCoy expected when his beloved billionaire granddad died was for him to require Wade to marry in order to keep the vast McCoy Ranch that they both loved and built together. But that is exactly his granddaddy's requirement: Wade was to marry within three months, stay married for three months or he lost it all, for him and his brothers. He didn't like it one bit, but one thing his granddaddy knew about him was that Wade never let a challenge get the better of him and he had no plans to lose the ranch he loved. His granddaddy had him over a barrel, and he knew it. Now he just had to find someone to go along with this crazy idea. Allie Jordon was desperate. Every bad piece of luck that could have befallen her had done so and now, after losing everything, including her sweet father, she needed funds to get her mother the best care available or she just might lose her too. A chance meeting with a lonely looking cowboy at the truck stop she was waitressing at could change her life?if she says yes to an absolutely off-the-wall proposal that could be the miracle she's been praying for.




Biennials/Triennials


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A rapid proliferation of large-scale perennial exhibitions has resulted in the biennial / triennial becoming an integral part of field of architecture. Biennials / Triennials questions a range of curatorial agents and visits sites of recent exhibitions that reveal what is at stake in the newfound ubiquity of the architectural -ennial.




Seamless


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During the past fifty years, documentary photography and architecture have become increasingly interdependent, blurring the disciplinary boundary between the two. Seamless looks at the work of a new generation of European photographers and architects working together to produce images of architecture made from fragments of reality. At the same time, it investigates how shared digital technologies influence the creation of architecture and its photographic representation through images. Based on a series of interviews, Seamless discusses the collaborations between Filip Dujardin and Jan De Vylder, Philipp Schaerer and Roger Boltshauser, and Bas Princen and OFFICE Kersten Geers David van Severen. Each of the three sections is illustrated with a series in images that form parallel narratives within the book. In the concluding essay, architect Jes s Vassallo pulls together the treads of the conversations to investigate questions about the impact of digital technology on the value assigned to images, how shared technological platforms enhance the influence photographers and architects have on each other, and why they have often chosen to focus on the dirty realism of the urban spaces.




Narcissism


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A groundbreaking, “thoughtful and provocative” (Los Angeles Times) study of narcissism that will relieve hidden anxieties and heal the tension between mind, body, and feelings. Are you a narcissist? Do you interact with someone who is? Contrary to popular belief, narcissists do not love themselves or anyone else. They cannot accept their true selves, constructing instead fixed masks that hide emotional numbness. Influenced by forces in culture and predisposed by factors in the human personality, narcissists tend to be: • More concerned with how they appear than what they feel • Seductive and manipulative, striving for power and control • Egotists, focused on their own interests but lacking the true values of the self -- self-expression, self-possession, dignity, and integrity • Without a solid sense of self, which leads them to experience life as empty and meaningless In this groundbreaking study, Dr. Alexander Lowen uses his extensive clinical experience to demonstrate how narcissists can recover their suppressed feelings and regain their lost humanity. By the use of Bioenergetic Analysis, the psychotherapy created by Dr. Lowen, a new possibility of a fulfilling and authentic life is presented for people with narcissistic characteristics and for those who interact with them.




Her Billionaire Cowboy


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Stet thinks all he needs is a high-powered wall street career. AJ just wants the quiet life. When they meet in the middle, Stet's career is threatened and JC's company almost goes under. Will Stet's efforts to fix everything only make them worse?The first book in the Texas Ranch Romance series. Look for the other titles soon.Stetson will inherit his grandfather's huge Wyoming ranch, but all he wants to do is make his way on Wallstreet.Abby Jane tires of the pressures of running her New York publishing house. As soon as she can, she wants to move to a ranch of her own.They meet when Stet steals her cab and AJ gets slammed with a wall of dirty NYC street puddle water.Sparks fly when they meet again at the Texas Ranch resort, but when Stet's boss interferes with a suggestion of his own and pressures from the public sale of Abby Jane's company weigh her down, the matchmaking wiles of the ranch hand and the romantic atmosphere in Texas may not be enough to bring them together.




Foster's Complete Hoyle


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The Exform


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Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A “realist” theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions between the productive and unproductive, product and waste, and the included and excluded. To do this we must go back to the towering theorist of ideology Louis Althusser and examine how ideology conditions political discourse in ways that normalize cultural, racial and economic practices of exclusion.




Building Upon Building


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Forty-five contemporary European architects were given the task to design a fictional building expansion in line with the principles of the existing building -- a relevant question in an era when architecture increasingly seems to occur without the context being taken into account. The result is a collection of dialogues between contemporary architects and the past. A new generation of European architects is looking for rooted values rather than indiscriminate forms. Architecture as evolution, rather than revolution. How can the views that underlie the historical city be interwoven with the stories of the present? This question is answered in 45 designs and four essays.