Pleasures
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The Chinese Pleasure Book
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Author : Michael Nylan
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-14
The Chinese Pleasure Book written by Michael Nylan and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Philosophy categories.
This book takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and to the health of the body politic. Unlike Western theories of pleasure, early Chinese writings contrast pleasure not with pain but with insecurity, assuming that it is right and proper to seek and take pleasure, as well as experience short-term delight. Equally important is the belief that certain long-term relational pleasures are more easily sustained, as well as potentially more satisfying and less damaging. The pleasures that become deeper and more ingrained as the person invests time and effort to their cultivation include friendship and music, sharing with others, developing integrity and greater clarity, reading and classical learning, and going home. Each of these activities is explored through the early sources (mainly fourth century BC to the eleventh century AD), with new translations of both well-known and seldom-cited texts.
Small Pleasures
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Author : Clare Chambers
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Small Pleasures written by Clare Chambers and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Fiction categories.
In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett—an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion. "With wit and dry humor...quietly affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details."--The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but with limited career opportunities and on the brink of forty, Jean lives a dreary existence that includes caring for her demanding widowed mother, who rarely leaves the house. It’s a small life with little joy and no likelihood of escape. That all changes when a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Jean seizes onto the bizarre story and sets out to discover whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys, including Gretchen’s gentle and thoughtful husband Howard, who mostly believes his wife, and their quirky and charming daughter Margaret, who becomes a sort of surrogate child for Jean. Gretchen, too, becomes a much-needed friend in an otherwise empty social life. Jean cannot bring herself to discard what seems like her one chance at happiness, even as the story that she is researching starts to send dark ripples across all their lives…with unimaginable consequences. Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a literary tour-de-force in the style of The Remains of the Day, about conflict between personal fulfillment and duty; a novel that celebrates the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable.
An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures
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Author : Clarice Lispector
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-04-06
An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures written by Clarice Lispector and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Fiction categories.
'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian 'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Tóibín 'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned' Lóri yearns for love yet is scared of herself, and of connecting with another human. When she meets Ulisses, a Professor of Philosophy, she is forced to confront her fears. As both of them will learn, to be worthy of another person, they must first be fully themselves. The book of which Clarice Lispector said, 'I humanized myself', An Apprenticeship is about the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, and what it means to love and be loved. Translated by Stefan Tobler Edited by Benjamin Moser with an Afterword by Sheila Heti
Unexpected Pleasures
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Author : Penny Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Unexpected Pleasures written by Penny Jordan and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Secrets from the past emerge in the present—and the consequences are unexpected for these two couples. YESTERDAY'S ECHOES Tragedy had befallen Rosie when she was a vulnerable sixteen-year-old—and Jake Lucas had witnessed the entire thing. Since then Rosie has built a successful career, not allowing anyone near the woman behind the cheerful face she shows to the world. But Jake has entered her life again, and he isn't about to let her forget the past. MASTER OF PLEASURE Sasha walked away from handsome millionaire Gabriel Calbrini to marry another—and he's never forgiven her. Now widowed, Sasha is shocked when Gabriel is named heir to her late husband's wealth and guardian to her two sons. But Sasha won't surrender. There's far too much at stake—especially the one thing that Gabriel must never know.…
The Poems Of The Pleasures
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1841
The Poems Of The Pleasures written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1841 with Friendship categories.
The Pleasures Of Life
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Author : Sir John Lubbock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
The Pleasures Of Life written by Sir John Lubbock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Conduct of life categories.
The Pleasures Of Matrimony
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1701
The Pleasures Of Matrimony written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1701 with categories.
Ambiguous Pleasures
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Author : Rachel Spronk
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Ambiguous Pleasures written by Rachel Spronk and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Among both male and female young urban professionals in Nairobi, sexuality is a key to achieving a ‘modern’ identity. These young men and women see themselves as the avant garde of a new Africa, while they also express the recurring worry of how to combine an ‘African’ identity with the new lifestyles with which they are experimenting. By focusing on public debates and their preoccupations with issues of African heritage, gerontocratic power relations and conventional morality on the one hand, and personal sexual relationships, intimacy and self-perceptions on the other, this study works out the complexities of sexuality and culture in the context of modernity in an African society. It moves beyond an investigation of a health or development perspective of sexuality and instead examines desire, pleasure and eroticism, revealing new insights into the methodology and theory of the study of sexuality within the social sciences. Sexuality serves as a prism for analysing how social developments generate new notions of self in postcolonial Kenya and is a crucial component towards understanding the way people recognize and deal with modern changes in their personal lives.
Night Pleasures
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Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-12-03
Night Pleasures written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-03 with Fiction categories.
Amanda Devereaux has a crazy family. Her mother and older siblings are witches and psychics, and her twin sister is a vampire hunter. All Amanda wants is a quiet, normal life. Only when she finds herself the target of an attack meant for her twin, she wakes to find herself handcuffed to a sexy, blond stranger. He is Kyrian of Thrace. And while Amanda's first thought is that this might be another of her sister's attempts at extreme match-making, it soon becomes clear that Kyrian is not boyfriend material. For Kyrian is a Dark-Hunter: an immortal warrior who has traded his soul for one moment of vengeance upon his enemies. Kyrian spends his eternal days hunting the vampires and daimons that prey upon mankind. He is currently on the hunt for a very old and deadly daimon named Desiderius who has deemed it sport to handcuff Kyrian to a human while he hunts him. Now Kyrian and Amanda must find a way to break their bond before they give into their dangerous attraction to one another. Or Desiderius kills them both.
Pleasures
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Author : Lonnie Garfield Barbach
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1985
Pleasures written by Lonnie Garfield Barbach and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Erotica categories.