Lustful Appetites
Lustful Appetites

Author: Rachel Hope Cleves

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2024-11-18

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1509553649

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We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel so natural for us to link food and sexual pleasure? Rachel Hope Cleves explores the long association between indulging in good food and an appetite for naughty sex, from the development of the Parisian restaurant as a place for men to meet with prostitutes and mistresses, to the role of sexual outlaws like bohemians, new women, lesbians and gay men in creating epicurean culture in Britain and the United States. Taking readers on a gastronomic journey from Paris and London to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, Lustful Appetites reveals how this preoccupation changed the ways we eat and the ways we are intimate―while also creating stigmas that persist well into our own twenty-first century.

Lexicon of the Mouth
Lexicon of the Mouth

Author: Brandon LaBelle

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1623561884

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Expands understandings of voice to and the poetics of gibberish showing how speech is fundamentally shaped by the complex dynamics of the mouth..

The Land Mines in Our Spiritual Journey
The Land Mines in Our Spiritual Journey

Author: Paul Barham

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2021-07-30

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1098086066

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The Land Mines in our Spiritual Journey-this book is a Christian spiritual manual inspired by the Holy Spirit. It teaches us how to recognize Satan's lies and deceptions. How to love, honor, and worship God. How to observe and obey God's laws. How to govern your life responsibly and take responsibility as God's designated authority over the earth. It teaches us how to love and appreciate life and be confident. Everything is made perfect by God-the Creator of all things. God designed our pains, suffering, and failures, not to destroy our lives but to shape our destiny to His glory, to draw us closer to Himself.

Mindfulness as Sustainability
Mindfulness as Sustainability

Author: Maria Jaoudi

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1438482361

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The inundation of terrifying environmental news in recent years has left many people exhausted and in despair about our planet's future. In Mindfulness as Sustainability, Maria Jaoudi addresses the need to take care of ourselves intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally during the current global climate crisis. Drawing on specific teachings, stories, and explorations of consciousness and reality from Buddhist, Christian, Daoist, Hindu, Indigenous, Islamic, and Jewish traditions, Jaoudi demonstrates that mindfulness is sustainability, and that mindfulness practice, applied both personally and politically, can help mitigate global climate change and rectify environmental injustice. Through illuminating discussions of primary scriptures, key spiritual figures, discoveries of modern science, and moments of social transformation, she offers practical ways to live our lives mindfully, ethically, and sustainably. Written for students and lay readers, the book makes the case that we can sustain our planet if we maintain our strength, increase our knowledge, and remain sensitive to the beauty and the sentience that is both within us and around us.

Revival Leadership: Vol 1
Revival Leadership: Vol 1

Author: K. Bobie Amankwatia DMIN.

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2020-01-10

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1973677725

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A variety of books on spiritual leadership exist written by respected authors with unique insights and perspectives. This book on revival leadership is no exception. Dr. K. Bobie Amankwatia, having served in several ministry capacities, including youth leader, senior pastor, church planter, Bible college teacher/administrator and Christian counselor for over 40 years, brings a fresh perspective to this important subject. He explores the leadership principles that helped Zerubbabel usher the Jews from the doldrums of brokenness, desolation and discouragement back to their ancestral home. There they reclaimed and maintained their inheritance with renewed vigor and faith in their God. Today’s body of Christ can benefit from these principles. Some of the principles addressed in this book help leaders set priorities, move in faith and conviction to accomplish the seemingly impossible, and confront challenges to ensure harmony in times of revival.