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Author: Eleanor Harris Howard
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780822207405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE STORY: Writing an etiquette column for a chain of small town newspapers does not shape up for Kelly Lewis, as a particularly promising or lucrative career. But Kelly has prospects because of her romance with Bruce Barrett, a successful publishe
Author: Lia Davis
Publisher: Davis Raynes Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2020-07-06
Total Pages: 169
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe’d fought fate against one, but she’s no match for two. Senior enforcer, Cameron Nickels has found her perfect mate. Blaine Andrews, leopard Pack Marshal, is strong, dominate, loyal, and passionate. He knows all her strengths and weaknesses—not to mention her pleasure points. Cam’s known Blaine most her life, but she’s always felt like something was missing and her jaguar refuses to fully accept him. Yet, she can’t walk away from him. When architect and sexy mountain lion shifter, Graham Griffin, comes to town to design the new den nursery and school, Cameron finds herself in a mating dance that throws her and her jaguar into flight mode while Blaine must decide if he cannot only share his mate, but welcome another. After his lover walked out on him a year ago, Graham has no intentions of entering another relationship any time soon. But he realizes that the fates have other plans for him when he meets Blaine and Cameron. When his ex-lover’s children are chased into Ashwood territory by a group of rogues, he discovers the male he shared a life with had died freeing the kids from the Onyx Pack. Graham must work side-by-side with the two enforcers to uncover lies from the past while his heart opens to his true mates.
Author: Robin Eddy
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0244604959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this story, the three main characters face challenges: Piers Moriston finally admits his sexuality, having failed with girls, Roland Millan, while still devoted to his two boys, Piers and the adolescent Andre, invites them to his cottage in Normandy - but frictions inevitable occur between the members of this uneasy triangle, Piers always trying to protect Andre, who was once his pupil in Paris. When Roland's plane goes missing over the Atlantic, Piers is thrust into the unwelcome role of his executor. With such a potent mix, dramatic moments keep occurring, driving the story forwards.
Author: Merryn Dexter
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Published: 2016-06-17
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 1683610482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Matrons of the Tao Pack are on the hunt, seeking out unmated couples who would be a perfect match – even if they don’t know it yet. Sander Burrows is a wolf with a broken spirit. During thirty-five years away from home and pack, he made a life for himself among the humans. Now, tragedy and a sense of failure drive him home into the arms of his loving family. Aurora “Rory” Hanson hates Sander almost as much as she loves him. Humiliated at seventeen when he stood her up at the annual spring dance, she has since lived a life of relative solitude on the fringes of the pack. When Sander catches sight and scent of Rory, feelings run hot. His wolf recognizes his mate and he’ll do just about anything to overcome Rory’s dislike of him. Even accept the assistance of four interfering busybodies. The matrons want the old spring dance revived and what better way to “help” two fated wolves to happiness than to force Rory and Sander to work together on the organizing committee. Finding love doesn’t get any easier even for wolves in their fifties. Misunderstandings, old hurts, and the sharp edge of Miss Kathy’s tongue must all be overcome if two old friends are to achieve true happiness.
Author: Radha (Swami Sivananda)
Publisher: Palo Alto, CA ; Kootenay Bay, B.C. : Timeless Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Downer
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Published: 2016-08
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1467785717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book discusses courtship, sex, and mating habits across the animal kingdom, covering birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and mammals, as well as select invertebrates."--
Author: Helen Fisher
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0393350916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contemporary classic about love now completely revised and updated. From love at first sight and infidelity to hook-up culture and "slow love," Dr. Helen Fisher, the biological anthropologist and "renowned expert on the science of love" (Scientific American), explains it all in this thoroughly revised classic on the evolution and future of human sex, romance, and partnership. Examining marriage and divorce in 58 societies and adultery in 42 cultures, she argues that we are returning to patterns of business, sex, and love that echo our ancient past…and she is optimistic about our future.
Author: Bradd Shore
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2023-12-12
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0262546582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illuminating overview of the development, benefits, and importance of ritual in everyday life, written by a leading cognitive anthropologist. The Hidden Powers of Ritual is an engaging introduction to ritual studies that presents ritual as an evolved form of human behavior of almost unimaginable significance to our species. Every day across the globe, people gather to share meals, brew caffeinated beverages, or honor their ancestors. In this book, Bradd Shore, a respected anthropologist, reaches beyond familiar “big-R” rituals to present life’s humbler, overshadowed moments, exploring everything from the Balinese pelebon to baseball to family Zoom sessions in the age of Covid to the sobering reenactment rituals surrounding the Moore’s Ford lynchings. In each ritual, Shore shows how our capacity to ritualize behavior is a remarkable part of the human story. Encompassing both the commonly unlabeled “interaction rituals” studied by sociologists and the symbolically elaborated sacred rituals of religious studies, Shore organizes his conception around detailed case studies drawn from international research and personal experience, weaving scholarship with a memoir of a life encompassed by ritual. A probing exploration that matches breadth with accessibility, The Hidden Powers of Ritual is a provocative contribution to ritual theory that will appeal to a wide range of readers curious about why these unique repetitive acts matter in our lives.
Author: Judith Lynne Hanna
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988-05-15
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780226315515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Ambitious in its scope and interdisciplinary in its purview. . . . Without doubt future researchers will want to refer to Hanna's study, not simply for its rich bibliographical sources but also for suggestions as to how to proceed with their own work. Dance, Sex, and Gender will initiate a discussion that should propel a more methodologically informed study of dance and gender."—Randy Martin, Journal of the History of Sexuality
Author: Stephen M. Shuster
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-12-31
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 0691206880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual selection, the authors illustrate how and why sexual selection, though restricted to one sex and opposed in the other, is one of the strongest and fastest of all evolutionary forces. They offer a statistical framework for studying mating system evolution and apply it to patterns of alternative mating strategies. In doing so, they provide a method for quantifying how the strength of sexual selection is affected by the ecological and life history processes that influence females' spatial and temporal clustering and reproductive schedules. Directly challenging verbal evolutionary models that attempt to explain reproductive behavior without quantitative reference to evolutionary genetics, this book establishes a more solid theoretical foundation for the field. Among the weaknesses the authors find in the existing data is the apparent ubiquity of condition-dependent mating tactics. They identify factors likely to contribute to the evolution of alternative mating strategies--which they argue are more common than generally believed--and illustrate how to measure the strength of selection acting on them. Lastly, they offer predictions on the covariation of mating systems and strategies, consider the underlying developmental biology behind male polyphenism, and propose directions for future research. Informed by genetics, this is a comprehensive and rigorous new approach to explaining mating systems and strategies that will influence a wide swath of evolutionary biology.
