Great Lovers

Author : Marty Crump
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226122083

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Headless Males Make Great Lovers by Marty Crump Pdf

The natural world is filled with diverse—not to mention quirky and odd—animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the male hip-pocket frog that carries his own tadpoles; the baby spiders that dine on their mother; the beetle that craves excrement; or the starfish that sheds an arm or two to escape a predator's grasp. Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories celebrates the extraordinary world of animals with essays on curious creatures and their amazing behaviors. In five thematic chapters, Marty Crump—a tropical field biologist well known for her work with the reproductive behavior of amphibians—examines the bizarre conduct of animals as they mate, parent, feed, defend themselves, and communicate. Crump's enthusiasm for the unusual behaviors she describes-from sex change and free love in sponges to aphrodisiac concoctions in bats-is visible on every page, thanks to her skilled storytelling, which makes even sea slugs, dung beetles, ticks, and tapeworms fascinating and appealing. Steeped in biology, Headless Males Make Great Lovers points out that diverse and unrelated animals often share seemingly bizarre behaviors—evidence, Crump argues, that these natural histories, though outwardly weird, are successful ways of living. Illustrated throughout, and filled with vignettes of personal and scientific interest, Headless Males Make Great Lovers will enchant the general reader with its tales of blood-squirting horned lizards and intestine-ejecting sea cucumbers—all in the service of a greater appreciation of the diversity of the natural histories of animals.

Author : Walter Dorin,George Melly
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0517545373

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Great Lovers by Walter Dorin,George Melly Pdf

Author : Elbert Hubbard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752371550

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard

Author : Elbert Hubbard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Biography
ISBN : CORNELL:31924097890838

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Great lovers by Elbert Hubbard Pdf

Author : Emily Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593334843

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Book Lovers by Emily Henry Pdf

“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily ∙ Today ∙ Parade ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ PopSugar ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ Book Bub ∙ SheReads ∙ Medium ∙ The Washington Post ∙ and more! One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

Author : Elbert Hubbard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Biography
ISBN : UCLA:L0084036342

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall. Balzac and Madame Hanska. Fenelon and Madam Guyon.Ferdinand Lassalie & Helene von Donniges. Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne by Elbert Hubbard Pdf

Author : Mandy Len Catron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781501137464

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How to Fall in Love with Anyone by Mandy Len Catron Pdf

“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

Author : Gary Smalley,Ted Cunningham
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414353159

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Great Parents, Lousy Lovers by Gary Smalley,Ted Cunningham Pdf

Author : Jordanna Max Brodsky
Publisher : Redhook
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316417143

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The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky Pdf

"If you liked American Gods by Neil Gaiman or Circe by Madeline Miller, be sure to pick this one up." -- Timeworn A sweeping tale of forbidden love and warring gods, where a young Inuit shaman and a Viking warrior become unwilling allies in a war that will determine the fate of the new world. There is a very old story, rarely told, of a wolf that runs into the ocean and becomes a whale. . . Born with the soul of a hunter and the spirit of the Wolf, Omat is destined to follow in her grandfather's footsteps-invoking the spirits of the land, sea, and sky to protect her people. But the gods have stopped listening and Omat's family is starving. Desperate to save them, Omat journeys across the icy wastes, fighting for survival with every step. When she encounters Brandr, a wounded Viking warrior, they set in motion a conflict that could shatter her world. . .or save it.

Author : Poem Master
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781728330143

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Cosmic Lovers by Poem Master Pdf

I see my soul in your eyes in your heart I feel your love on my body, I feel your embrace. Whispering to my soul, “It’s me who you have”. Have you ever been driving by urges and dreams to follow and explore new world? Or just living life by doing what you feel like doing and sharing your deeper level as human being. Experiencing the six sense of emotion through the daily life. Together let us break new grounds of expressing our love in different ways to the world. My writing comes from the core of my soul and it will take you to another world. To a place where you will see and feel what I feel as I write poetry. So, buckle up and ride with me in this universe energy wave. You will feel the sparks of your soul urging you to explore the curiosity of words.

Author : Fannie Flagg
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425286555

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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg Pdf

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again. Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “A real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.”—The New York Times “Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved [the Threadgoodes] in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure.”—Harper Lee “This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten.”—Los Angeles Times “Funny and macabre.”—The Washington Post “Courageous and wise.”—Houston Chronicle

Author : Vicki Callahan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814336878

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Reclaiming the Archive by Vicki Callahan Pdf

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History brings together a diverse group of international feminist scholars to examine the intersections of feminism, history, and feminist theory in film. Editor Vicki Callahan has assembled essays that reflect a range of methodological approaches—including archival work, visual culture, reception studies, biography, ethno-historical studies, historiography, and textual analysis—by a diverse group of film and media studies scholars to prove that feminist theory, film history, and social practice are inevitably and productively intertwined. Essays in Reclaiming the Archive investigate the different models available in feminist film history and how those feminist strategies might serve as paradigmatic for other sites of feminist intervention. Chapters have an international focus and range chronologically from early cinema to post-feminist texts, organized around the key areas of reception, stars, and authorship. A final section examines the very definitions of feminism (post-feminism), cinema (transmedia), and archives (virtual and online) in place today. The essays in Reclaiming the Archive prove that a significant heritage of film studies lies in the study of feminism in film and feminist film theory. Scholars of film history and feminist studies will appreciate the breadth of work in this volume.

Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954279

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Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel by Neil Roberts Pdf

The book recounts the story of how Sons and Lovers was written, how Lawrence’s life was transformed during the writing, and the contributions of the women in his life to his work.

Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1761
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCI:31970033859379

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The Specator, no. 507-600. The Guardian. The lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of an augmentation, considered. The Whig-examiner. The Free-holder. Of the Christian religion by Joseph Addison Pdf

Author : Dave Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0890814813

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The Great Lover's Manifesto by Dave Grant Pdf