Edge Play

Author : Jane Boon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682451342

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Edge Play by Jane Boon Pdf

“Masters of the Universe have a new mistress—a protagonist who learns to wield power in the excessive, fascinating cultures of Wall Street and BDSM-for-hire. BOW DOWN.” —WEDNESDAY MARTIN, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Primates of Park Avenue and Untrue EDGE PLAY by Jane Boon National Leather Association's Pauline Reage Novel Award, Finalist CORRECTION: Amy Lefevre’s second language is risk. A gorgeous young investment banker, she navigates Wall Street’s toxic culture with ease—until the stock market collapses. CRISIS: Amy starts investigating the failed deals her boss engineered. Drawn to a treacherous ride on the edge, will her efforts to expose him cause her to lose it all? CONSENT: Amy’s best friend is a dominatrix with an offer: take over her elite S&M dungeon, catering to the pervy needs of millionaires and billionaires and learn the true nature of power. EDGE PLAY is a universe beyond Fifty Shades of Grey and The Big Short, set in the most elite, twisted circles of Wall Street mega-power and S&M. Amy Lefevre dives into an underground realm of Big Swinging Dicks only to find that, in this arena, the women wield the whips and the men submit. “Edge Play explores obsession and ambition with a fetishist's eye for detail. From the sleek Syren latex to the sexy Louboutins, to power moves found in both the dazzling hustle of high finance and the darkness of the dungeon, this book delivers.” —LILY BURANA, Author of Strip City “This is such a fun book! Smart, sexy, and full of surprises. It's also full of stingingly authentic details of Wall Street and the BDSM culture simmering just below it. It's a New York where everyone wants to come out on top, and power is a skill that can be learned.” —JO WELDON, Author of Fierce: The History of Leopard Print and The Burlesque Handbook

Author : Jayne Pilling
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Animated films
ISBN : 9780231161985

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Animating the Unconscious by Jayne Pilling Pdf

As critical interest has grown in the unique ways in which art animation explores and depicts subjective experience - particularly in relation to desire, sexuality, social constructions of gender, confessional modes, fantasy, and the animated documentary - this volume offers detailed analysis of both the process and practice of key contemporary filmmakers, while also raising more general issues around the specificities of animation. Combining critical essays with interview material, visual mapping of the creative process, consideration of the neglected issue of how the use of sound differs from that of conventional live-action, and filmmakers' critiques of each others' work, this unique collection aims to both provoke and illuminate via an insightful multi-faceted approach.

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Play Blackjack by Nicolae Sfetcu Pdf

A short guide about how to play blackjack, blackjack variants, strategies, tournaments, card counting, advantage gambling techniques, terminology. The rules of casino blackjack are generally determined by law or regulation, which establishes certain rule variations allowed at the discretion of the casino. The rules of any particular game are generally posted on or near the table, failing which there is an expectation that casino staff will provide them on request. Over 100 variations of blackjack have been documented. Each blackjack game has a basic strategy, which is playing a hand of any total value against any dealer’s up-card, which loses the least money to the house in the long term. Blackjack can be played in tournament form, where players start with equal numbers of chips and the aim is to finish among the top chip-holders.

Author : Staci Newmahr
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253005120

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Playing on the Edge by Staci Newmahr Pdf

Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space in which experiences of "violence" intersect with experiences of the erotic. She shows that SM is a recreational and deeply gendered risk-taking endeavor, through which participants negotiate boundaries between chaos and order. Playing on the Edge challenges our assumptions about sadomasochism, sexuality, eroticism, and emotional experience, exploring what we mean by intimacy, and how, exactly, we achieve it.

Author : Joseph McGuire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472826633

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Reality's Edge by Joseph McGuire Pdf

Hyper-reality. The area between the thriving mass of humanity known as the Sprawl and the digital refuge of Cyberspace. This is your playground. As a Showrunner, you can see and manipulate the flow of digital data through the real world – for you, reality is limitless. Welcome to Reality's Edge, a skirmish wargame set in a dystopian cyberpunk future, where players take on the roles of Showrunners – mercenary hackers who lead small teams of trusted operatives and disposable freelancers. Funded by shadow backers, the Showrunners accept jobs from faceless clients for profit, glory, and better chrome... always better chrome. Battles take place in the concrete jungle known as the Sprawl, but Showrunners must remain wary of the threat posed by Cyberspace. Hacking is pivotal to the game, with data nodes, robots, machines, and even enemy chrome presenting potential targets for a cunning Console Cowboy. In an ongoing campaign, each skirmish offers you the opportunity to earn experience and equipment, from advanced weaponry and synthetics to cyber-implants, biological enhancements, clones, and much more. This is a world obsessed with whether something can be done, not whether it should.

Author : Tristan Taormino
Publisher : Cleis Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781573447829

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The Ultimate Guide to Kink by Tristan Taormino Pdf

The Ultimate Guide to Kink is the first major guide to BDSM in a generation—a bold and sexy collection of essays that run the gamut from expert how-to tutorials to provocative essays that delve into complex questions about desire, power, and pleasure. The book brings together diverse voices from the kink community in an unprecedented way: each chapter is written by a different sexuality/BDSM educator. Divided into two sections, the first section features thorough, thoughtful pieces—on everything from flogging to bondage—packed with techniques and beautifully illustrated with original images from artist Katie Diamond. The second section is dedicated to role-playing fantasies and personal manifestos. From age play to masochism, these chapters cover some of the edgiest, most taboo and controversial elements of kink in depth. The Ultimate Guide to Kink features the expertise of renowned educators writing passionately on their favorite subjects, including Patrick Califia, Midori, Laura Antoniou, Barbara Carrellas, Lee Harrington, Jack Rinella, Lolita Wolf, Madison Young, Hardy Haberman, Felice Shays, Ignacio Rivera, Sarah Sloane, Mollena Williams, FifthAngel, and Edge. It will educate, inspire, and challenge both newcomers to the world of kink and experienced BDSM players.

Author : Adrienne Shaw
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452943442

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Gaming at the Edge by Adrienne Shaw Pdf

Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people of color, and LGBT people, are often brutalized in forums and in public channels in online play. Discussion of representation of such groups in games has frequently been limited and cursory. In contrast, Gaming at the Edge builds on feminist, queer, and postcolonial theories of identity and draws on qualitative audience research methods to make sense of how representation comes to matter. In Gaming at the Edge, Adrienne Shaw argues that video game players experience race, gender, and sexuality concurrently. She asks: How do players identify with characters? How do they separate identification and interactivity? What is the role of fantasy in representation? What is the importance of understanding market logic? In addressing these questions Shaw reveals how representation comes to matter to participants and offers a perceptive consideration of the high stakes in politics of representation debates. Putting forth a framework for talking about representation, difference, and diversity in an era in which user-generated content, individualized media consumption, and the blurring of producer/consumer roles has lessened the utility of traditional models of media representation analysis, Shaw finds new insight on the edge of media consumption with the invisible, marginalized gamers who are surprising in both their numbers and their influence in mainstream gamer culture.

Author : Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781626365964

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Aircraft Inspection and Repair by Federal Aviation Administration Pdf

With every deadly airplane disaster or near-miss, it becomes more and more clear that proper inspection and repair of all aircraft is essential to safety in the air. When no manufacturer repair or maintenance instructions are available, the Federal Aviation Administration deems Aircraft Inspection and Repair the one-stop guide to all elements of maintenance: preventive, rebuilding, and alteration. With detailed information on structural inspection, protection, and repair, including aircraft systems, hardware, fuel and engines, and electrical systems, this comprehensive guide is designed to leave no vital question on inspection and repair unanswered. Sections include: • Wood, fabric, plastic, and metal structures • Testing of metals and repair procedures • Welding and brazing, including fire explosion and safety • Nondestructive inspection (NDI) • Application of magnetic particles • Common corrosive elements and corrosion proofing • Aircraft hardware, from nuts and bolts to washers and pins • Engines, fuel, exhaust, and propellers • Aircraft systems and components • Electrical systems This is a book that should be available to everyone who works on aircraft or is training to do so. The official FAA guide to maintenance methods, techniques, and practices—essential for all pilots and aircraft maintenance workers. 200 B&W 200 B&W

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Natural Resources Canada
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1695 by Anonim Pdf

Author : REV. THOMAS DAVIDSON
Publisher : VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS, Aaradhana, Deverkovil 673508 India
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by REV. THOMAS DAVIDSON Pdf

EDITED BY REV. THOMAS DAVIDSON ASSISTANT-EDITOR OF 'CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA' EDITOR OF 'CHAMBERS'S ENGLISH DICTIONARY Since there are many other updated English dictionaries online and otherwise in the digital form, downloading this dictionary of the yesteryears might not be of any use as a means to find the meaning of English words. However to those who would like to know the whereabouts of the pristine-English that was there in pristine-England, this dictionary would be an ideal possession. It was an age when many English letters came in various combined form - the so-called Alphabetic ligatures. Another mentionable item would be insights that can be had on what were original meanings of various English words. There are so-many words whose meaning has altered much over the past few years and decades.

Author : Dale Anthony Girard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135858063

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Actors on Guard by Dale Anthony Girard Pdf

Actors on Guard is the most comprehensive and detailed book on the art of theatrical swordplay available today. It provides the reader with the historical, theoretical and practical basis for learning, practicing and presenting theatrical sword fights. Focusing specifically on the Elizabethan rapier and dagger (the most popular weapons used in stage fights), Actors on Guard provides actors, directors, teachers, stage managers and technicians the skills and knowledge essential to presenting safe and effective fights, both for stage and screen.

Author : Quentin Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134143962

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The Ludic City by Quentin Stevens Pdf

Featuring extensive observation of behaviours in public spaces and detailed studies of Melbourne, London, Berlin, New York and Brisbane, this book represents a fresh and detailed depiction of play in the specific context of urban public space.

Author : Ruby Blondell,Mary-Kay Gamel,Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,Bella Vivante
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135964610

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Women on the Edge by Ruby Blondell,Mary-Kay Gamel,Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,Bella Vivante Pdf

Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the category woman conveyed in ancient Athens. The female protagonists in these plays test the boundaries--literal and conceptual--of their lives. Although women are often represented in tragedy as powerful and free in their thoughts, speech and actions, real Athenian women were apparently expected to live unseen and silent, under control of fathers and husbands, with little political or economic power. Women in tragedy often disrupt "normal" life by their words and actions: they speak out boldly, tell lies, cause public unrest, violate custom, defy orders, even kill. Female characters in tragedy take actions, and raise issues central to the plays in which they appear, sometimes in strong opposition to male characters. The four plays in this collection offer examples of women who support the status quo and women who oppose and disrupt it; sometimes these are the same characters.

Author : James Carse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781451657296

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Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse Pdf

“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite.” Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may change—as long as the game is never allowed to come to an end. What are infinite games? How do they affect the ways we play our finite games? What are we doing when we play—finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite games affect the ways in which we live our lives? Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world—from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion—leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed. Along the way, Carse finds new ways of understanding everything from how an actress portrays a role, to how we engage in sex, from the nature of evil, to the nature of science. Finite games, he shows, may offer wealth and status, power and glory. But infinite games offer something far more subtle and far grander. Carse has written a book rich in insight and aphorism. Already an international literary event, Finite and Infinite Games is certain to be argued about and celebrated for years to come. Reading it is the first step in learning to play the infinite game.

Author : Fantasy Flight Games,Lisa Farrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 1616616911

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Star Wars Edge of the Empire RPG by Fantasy Flight Games,Lisa Farrell Pdf

"Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Far Horizons, a sourcebook for Colonists making their living at the galaxys fringes in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire. Far Horizons offers new options for Colonists, along with new gear, spaceships, and species that all players (and GMs) will find useful." -- Publisher website.