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Miss Molly Robbins Designs a Seduction

Author : Jayne Fresina
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402285028

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Praise for The Wicked Wedding of Miss Ellie Vyne: "[The characters] banter and quibble with comic perfection."—Publishers Weekly "Wickedly funny, fast and sassy romance."—RT Book Reviews She Designs Dresses for London's Leading Ladies Molly Robbins is finally stepping into the spotlight. Her unique dress designs have caught the eye of London's elite. And if it means her own dress shop, proper Molly will make a deal with the devil himself—the notoriously naughty Earl of Everscham. But becoming his mistress is not a part of their arrangement. It's right there in the contract's fine print: No Tomfoolery. He's an Expert at Taking Them Off Carver Danforthe has a reputation for beautiful mistresses, cutting remarks, and shirking his responsibilities—not for indulging the ambitions of his sister's maid. He must have been drunk when he signed that blasted contract. The stubborn female may thing she's gotten the best of him, but what this situation calls for is a little hands-on negotiating... All's Fair in Love and Fashion

The Bride Insists

Author : Jane Ashford
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402285707

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She Thinks She's Bought a Compliant Husband...They're Both in for a Shock Although Clare Greenough has inherited an unexpected fortune, her money is in the hands of a trustee until she marries—everyone knows a woman is incapable of managing funds. What she needs is an easygoing husband, right away... She makes a deal with impetuous young James Boleigh, seventh baron Trehearth: they will marry, Clare will get control of her money, and Jamie will get the funds he desperately needs to restore his lands. To stave off ruin, Jamie agrees, believing Clare will soon become a proper, submissive wife. But to expect a serene, passionless marriage was only their first mistake. Praise for Once Again a Bride: "A romance that shouldn't be missed."—Library Journal "A superbly crafted story."—Fresh Fiction

The Raven Prince

Author : Elizabeth Hoyt
Publisher : Forever
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759569495

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Widowed Anna Wren is having a wretched day. After an arrogant man on horseback nearly crushes her, she arrives home to learn that she is in dire financial straits. THERE COMES A TIME IN A LADY'S LIFE The Earl of Swartingham is in a quandary. Having frightened off two secretaries, Edward de Raaf needs someone who can withstand his bad temper and boorish behavior. WHEN SHE MUST DO THE UNTHINKABLE . . . When Anna becomes the earl's secretary, it would seem that both their problems are solved. But when she discovers he plans to visit the most notorious brothel in London, she sees red-and decides to assuage her desires . . .

Capitalism and Desire

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231542210

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Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.

The Most Improper Miss Sophie Valentine

Author : Jayne Fresina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402265972

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The Most Improper Miss Sophie Valentine by Jayne Fresina Pdf

When Lazarus Kane answers her ad for a husband in the Farmer's Gazette, Sophie Valentine is enamored by this mysterious stranger, who, unbeknownst to her, has known her for years and has come a long way to find her.

The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema

Author : Ronald Gregg,Amy Villarejo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190877996

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The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema by Ronald Gregg,Amy Villarejo Pdf

"Queer media is not one thing but an ensemble of at least four moving variables: history, gender and sexuality, geography, and medium. While many scholars would pinpoint the early 1990s as marking the emergence of a cinematic movement (dubbed by B. Ruby Rich, the "new queer cinema") in the United States, films and television programs that clearly spoke to LGBTQ themes and viewers existed at many different historical moments and in many different forms. Cross-dressing, same-sex attraction, comedic drag performance: at some points, for example in 1950s television, these were not undercurrents but very prominent aspects of mainstream cultural production. Addressing "history" not as dots on a progressive spectrum but as a uneven story of struggle, writers on queer cinema in this volume stress how that queer cinema did not appear miraculously at one moment but describes currents throughout the century-long history of the medium. Likewise, while queer is an Anglophone term that has been widely circulated, it by no means names a unified or complete spectrum of sexuality and gender identity, just as the LGBTQ+ alphabet soup struggles to contain the distinctive histories, politics, and cultural productions of trans artists and genderqueer practices. Across the globe, media makers have interrogated identity and desire through the medium of cinema through rubrics that sometimes vigorously oppose the Western embrace of the pejorative term queer, instead foregrounding indigenous genders and sexualities, or those forged in the global South, or those seeking alternative epistemologies. Finally, while "cinema" is in our title, many scholars in this collection see that term as an encompassing one, referencing cinema and media in a convergent digital environment. The lively and dynamic conversations introduced here aspire to sustain further reflection as "queer cinema" shifts into new configurations"--

The Leopard Prince

Author : Elizabeth Hoyt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 0446590800

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Originally published: New York: Warner Books, 2007.

New Keywords

Author : Tony Bennett,Lawrence Grossberg,Meaghan Morris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118725412

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New Keywords by Tony Bennett,Lawrence Grossberg,Meaghan Morris Pdf

Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society Builds on and updates Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.

The Wicked Wedding of Miss Ellie Vyne

Author : Jayne Fresina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Diamonds
ISBN : 1402266006

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By night Ellie Vyne fleeces unsuspecting aristocrats as the dashing Count de Bonneville. By day she avoids her sisters' matchmaking attempts and dreams up inventive insults to hurl at her childhood nemesis, the arrogant, far-too-handsome-for-his-own-good, James Hartley. Original.

How to Rescue a Rake

Author : Jayne Fresina
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402287831

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How to Rescue a Rake by Jayne Fresina Pdf

HOW TO RESCUE A RAKE: Reject his marriage proposal Nathaniel Sherringham has returned to Hawcombe Prior a changed man. Gone is the reckless rake who went out on a limb to propose to Diana Makepiece three years ago. Now Nate's mysterious new wealth has the town's rumor mill spinning. To stir things up (and get Diana's attention), Nate boldly announces his plans to marry "any suitable girl" under the age of 25. Run away Diana, now 27 and still single, is acutely aware of Nate's return. When her mother suggests a trip to visit a cousin in Bath, Diana leaps at the chance to escape the heartbreak and regret she can't help but feel in Nate's presence...and avoid his irritating charade to find a bride. But for Nate, Diana has always been the one. He might just have to follow her to Bath and once again lay his heart on the line to win her attention-and her heart. The Book Club Belles Society: Before the Kiss: A Book Club Belles Society Novella Once Upon a Kiss Sinfully Ever After How to Rescue a Rake Praise for Once Upon a Kiss: "Feisty dialogue and strong-willed characters make for...a winning love story."-Booklist "Deliciously funny."-RT Book Reviews "[A] witty romp."-Publishers Weekly

Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

Author : Kelly Sue DeConnick
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779523488

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Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick Pdf

Millennia ago, Queen Hera and the goddesses of the Olympian pantheon grew greatly dissatisfied with their male counterparts…and far from their sight, they put a plan into action. A new society was born, one never before seen on Earth, capable of wondrous and terrible things…but their existence could not stay secret for long. When a despairing woman named Hippolyta crossed the Amazons’ path, a series of events was set in motion that would lead to an outright war across heaven and Earth-and the creation of Earth’s greatest guardian! Legendary talents Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott unleash a critically lauded and Eisner Award-winning reading experience the likes of which you’ve never seen, with unbelievably sumptuous art and a story that will haunt you. Collects Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons #1-3.

Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities

Author : Susanne Kord,Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137016218

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Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities by Susanne Kord,Elisabeth Krimmer Pdf

Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths. Their in-depth analysis of over sixty films, from The Matrix and Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings, shows that movies, far from being mere entertainment, respond directly to today's social and political realities, from consumerism to "family values" to the War on Terror.

The Value of Culture

Author : Arjo Klamer
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789053562185

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The Value of Culture by Arjo Klamer Pdf

Culture manifests itself in everything human, including the ordinary business of everyday life. Culture and art have their own value, but economic values are also constrained. Art sponsorships and subsidies suggest a value that exceeds market price. So what is the real value of culture? Unlike the usual focus on formal problems, which has 'de-cultured' and 'de-moralized' the practice of economics, this book brings together economists, philosophers, historians, political scientists and artists to try to sort out the value of culture. This is a book not only for economists and social scientists, but also for anybody actively involved in the world of the arts and culture.

The Lady Mercy Danforthe Flirts with Scandal

Author : Jayne Fresina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1402266030

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The Lady Mercy Danforthe Flirts with Scandal by Jayne Fresina Pdf

Lady Mercy prides herself on being practicalNlike her engagement to Viscount Grey, whose dark coloring coordinates very well with her favorite furnishings. But things start to get messy when her best friend abandons her fianc at the altar. The problem? The jilted man is Mercy's former husband. Original.

The Un-Americans

Author : Joseph Litvak
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822390848

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The Un-Americans by Joseph Litvak Pdf

In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC’s) anti-Communism, Litvak draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, and Max Horkheimer to show how the committee conflated Jewishness with what he calls “comic cosmopolitanism,” an intolerably seductive happiness, centered in Hollywood and New York, in show business and intellectual circles. He maintains that HUAC took the comic irreverence of the “uncooperative” witnesses as a crime against an American identity based on self-repudiation and the willingness to “name names.” Litvak proposes that sycophancy was (and continues to be) the price exacted for assimilation into mainstream American culture, not just for Jews, but also for homosexuals, immigrants, and other groups deemed threatening to American rectitude. Litvak traces the outlines of comic cosmopolitanism in a series of performances in film and theater and before HUAC, performances by Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Zero Mostel, Judy Holliday, and Abraham Polonsky. At the same time, through an uncompromising analysis of work by informers including Jerome Robbins, Elia Kazan, and Budd Schulberg, he explains the triumph of a stoolpigeon culture that still thrives in the America of the early twenty-first century.