Pleasure Dome

Pleasure Dome

Author: Yusef Komunyakaa

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2004-09-20

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0819567396

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Yusef Komunyakaa is best known for "Neon Vernacular", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam. "Pleasure Dome" gathers over two and a half decades of Komunyakaa'swork, 25 early uncollected poems and 18 new poems.


Pleasure Dome

Pleasure Dome

Author: L. F. Hampton

Publisher: ImaJinn Books

Published: 2009-02-28

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1933417811

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The Pleasure Dome - where the sex is out of this world... Forced into retirement, Captain Soledad Scott, a former warship captain, has decided on a new career as a mother. She's come to the Pleasure Dome where a computer-matched male will donate his sperm the old-fashioned way and make her dream of motherhood come true. But Sol's worm-hole dyslexia sends her to Room 990 instead of Room 660. Commander Gabriel Merriweather, half-breed Chakkra and master empath with the Diplomatic Corps, awaits his sterile playmate of the evening. When she arrives and orders him to pleasure her as if he were the paid sex toy, Gabe willingly complies. But the next day he learns that the woman isn't a Dome employee, but a maternity client who has stolen his sperm and disappeared. Sol can't believe that the man she just spent the night with is the very man who destroyed her warship career. What will he do if he discovers that she's carrying his child? Unwilling to find out, Sol decides to disappear. But is the universe big enough to hide her from him? L.F. Hampton is a So. California futuristic romance writer. She loves to read and write fantasy stories that entertain by taking readers out of reality. For more information please visit her at [email protected].


Delamotte's Crystal Palace

Delamotte's Crystal Palace

Author: Ian Leith

Publisher: Historic England

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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This book presents 47 photographs, which were all taken in 1859 by Philip Henry Delamotte and showed the interior of the Crystal Palace after it had been rebuilt in Sydenham, London and before it was destroyed for the first time by fire in 1866. These photographs are now housed in English Heritage's photographic archive, the National Monuments Record. All 47 photographs are beautifully reproduced in this book, as well as shots of the building in its original Hyde Park site where it was built for the great exhibition of 1851. Also included are views of the Crystal Palace when it was rebuilt after the 1866 fire and then when it was destroyed again by fire in 1936. The book also tells the story of this legendary Victorian pleasure dome and its many incarnations. Much of our previous knowledge of this important building and its contents came almost entirely from engravings. The reproduction of these high quality original photographs allows, for the first time, a much fuller appreciation of one of the most important architectural and cultural features of mid-Victorian England, which in its heyday was visited by many millions of people.


Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan

Author: Samuel Coleridge

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 1443442216

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Though left uncompleted, “Kubla Khan” is one of the most famous examples of Romantic era poetry. In it, Samuel Coleridge provides a stunning and detailed example of the power of the poet’s imagination through his whimsical description of Xanadu, the capital city of Kublai Khan’s empire. Samuel Coleridge penned “Kubla Khan” after waking up from an opium-induced dream in which he experienced and imagined the realities of the great Mongol ruler’s capital city. Coleridge began writing what he remembered of his dream immediately upon waking from it, and intended to write two to three hundred lines. However, Coleridge was interrupted soon after and, his memory of the dream dimming, was ultimately unable to complete the poem. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.


Pleasure Dome

Pleasure Dome

Author: Megumu Minami

Publisher: Media Blasters

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781598830521

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Throughout the ages, the passions of men have been the source of much turmoil. Their emotions have ruined lives and laid waste to entire civilizations. Megumu Minami brings you five tales that erupt with the yearning of men searching desperately to fill the emptiness in their lives. What they find is perversion, torture, and sometimes, even love.


Interpreting the Moving Image

Interpreting the Moving Image

Author: Noel Carroll

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-05-28

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780521589703

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A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.


Inside the Pleasure Dome

Inside the Pleasure Dome

Author: Mike Hoolboom

Publisher: Coach House Books

Published: 2011-01-26

Total Pages: 833

ISBN-13: 1770561153

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Everybody loves the movies. But a movie about the colour blue, or an isolated mountain range, or a man grown so thin the world floats through his perfect transparency? Welcome to the strange and wonderful universe of fringe cinema. Twenty-three interviews with Canada's finest underdogs. Includes a foreword by Atom Egoyan.


Half-Bads in White Regalia

Half-Bads in White Regalia

Author: Cody Caetano

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-05-31

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0735240868

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*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* NATIONAL BESTSELLER A family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice. The Caetanos move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties Scoop origin story, embarks on a series of fraught relationships and fresh starts. His dad, O Touro, a Portuguese immigrant and drifter, falls back into “big do, little think” behaviour, despite his best intentions. Left alone at the house in Happyland, Cody and his siblings must fend for themselves, even as the pipes burst and the lights go out. His protective big sister, Kris, finds inventive ways to put food on the table, and his stoic big brother, Julian, facilitates his regular escapes into the world of video games. As life yanks them from one temporary solution to the next, they steal moments of joy and resist buckling under “baddie” temptations aplenty. Capturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood, Cody Caetano delivers a fever dream coming-of-age garnished with a slang all his own. Half-Bads in White Regalia is an unforgettable debut that unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour, and deep generosity.