The Power Couple
The Power Couple

Author: Alex Berenson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 198210371X

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Alex Berenson comes a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep. Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs—Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian serving as a coder for the National Security Agency. Their lives stand to improve even more as Brian, in his off-hours, has just developed and sold a highly profitable app. However, the Unsworths’ marriage isn’t as perfect as it seems. After two decades together, they’ve drifted apart, talking little and having sex even less. Seeking to revive their strained relationship, they decide for their twentieth wedding anniversary to take their two kids, Kira and Tony, on a European getaway. They have a blast…until one night in Barcelona when Kira doesn’t come home from a dance club. She’s gone. Abducted. Over the course of a single weekend, the Unsworths will do everything possible to find her—as Kira herself discovers just how far she’ll go to break free of the trap that’s been set for her. And even as Rebecca and Brian come together for Kira, they realize their marriage is more tenuous than they realized. The Power Couple is both a fast-paced, globe-trotting espionage novel full of surprising twists and a nuanced look at modern marriage—the challenges of balancing career, parenthood, sex, and love.

Power Couples in Antiquity
Power Couples in Antiquity

Author: Anne Bielman Sánchez

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 135127242X

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Everyone can name a couple made up of famous, rich, or powerful partners, who cultivate a joint media image which is stronger than either of their individual identities. Since the 1980s they have been known as "power couples". Yet while the term is recent, the concept is not. More than 2,000 years ago, Greeks and Romans became aware of the media potential of couples and used it as an instrument to reinforce political power. Notable examples are Philip II of Macedonia and Olympias, Cleopatra and Mark Antony, or the Emperor Augustus and his wife Livia. Power Couples in Antiquity brings together the reflections of ten specialists on Greek and Roman power couples from the fourth century BCE to the first century CE. It is focused on the birth and the development of the "ruling couple" in the Hellenistic Greek kingdoms and in Rome between the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire. By taking some emblematic cases, this book analyses the redistribution of public and private roles within these couples, examines the sentimental bonds or the relations of domination established between partners, explores how these relationships played out in private, and highlights the many common points between ancient and contemporary power couples. This book offers a fascinating insight into power dynamics in the ancient world, exploring not only the subtleties within these often complex relationships, but also their relationships with their subjects through the cultivation and manipulation of their joint public image.

Power Couple: A Steamy Rocker Love Story
Power Couple: A Steamy Rocker Love Story

Author: Laramie Briscoe

Publisher: Laramie Briscoe

Published: 2020-11-20

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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The next generation of The Rockin' Country Series is here! Enjoy the first book in this sexy friends to lovers, rocker series by USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Laramie Briscoe. Everett James Thompson I've been in the spotlight since I was born, thanks to my famous parents. Reaper and Harmony have been the gold standard when it comes to celebrity love stories. It's hard to be in that shadow, to live up to that precedent. Which is why I stopped trying when my band, Grey Skies hit the big time. But when I go to Vegas to support my Mom, in her new residency, I have absolutely no idea I'll leave Vegas with a new pop-star wife. Brianna Jenkins As one of the top pop-stars in the world right now, I don't have time for anything. Much less love, or even a night out. When my best friend surprises me with tickets to the sold-out Harmony Stewart show in Vegas on my one off weekend of the month, I'm beyond excited. Especially when we find out our seats are next to her family . Harboring a crush on her oldest son added with a few more drinks than I normally have equals consequences neither one of us bargained for. The next morning, I wake up no longer Brianna Jenkins, pop star. I'm Brianna Thompson, member of the new power couple, about to take the world by storm. Whether we want to, or not. EJ & Bri's love story is perfect for readers who love opposites attract, rockers, alpha heroes, smart sassy heroines, friends to lovers, happily ever after, slow burn, emotional romance with plenty of swoon. Search Terms: contemporary romance books, romance series, new adult romance, rocker romance, contemporary romance, beach reads, romance novels, romance books, alpha male, age gap, southern romance, opposites attract romance, alpha male, emotional reads, sexy, friends to lovers For fans of: Kristen Ashley, Terri Anne Browning, Kylie Scott, Kristen Proby, Heidi McLaughlin, Olivia Cunning

The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy
The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy

Author: Serena Laiena

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2023-12-15

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1644533170

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Who were the first celebrity couples? How was their success forged? Which forces influenced their self-fashioning and marketing strategies? These questions are at the core of this study, which looks at the birth of a phenomenon, that of the couple in show business, with a focus on the promotional strategies devised by two professional performers: Giovan Battista Andreini (1576–1654) and Virginia Ramponi (1583–ca.1631). This book examines their artistic path – a deliberately crafted and mutually beneficial joint career – and links it to the historical, social, and cultural context of post-Tridentine Italy. Rooted in a broad research field, encompassing theatre history, Italian studies, celebrity studies, gender studies, and performance studies, The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy revises the conventional view of the Italian diva, investigates the deployment of Catholic devotion as a marketing tool, and argues for the importance of the couple system in the history of Commedia dell’Arte, a system that continues to shape celebrity today.

Couple Relationships in a Global Context
Couple Relationships in a Global Context

Author: Angela Abela

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-04-03

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 3030377121

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This book examines the significance of the couple relationship in the 21st century, exploring in depth how couple relationships are changing in different parts of the world. It highlights global trends and cultural variations that are shaping couple relationships. The book discusses diverse relationships, such as intercultural couples, same sex couples, long distance couples, polygynous marriages, and later life couples. In addition, chapters offer suggestions for ways to best support couples through policy, clinical practices, and community support. The book also investigates aspects of a relationship that help predict fidelity and stability. Topics featured in this book include: Couple relationships when one partner has an acquired physical disability. Impact of smartphones on relationships. Online dating and its implications for couple relationships. Assessment and intervention in situations of infidelity and non-monogamy. Parenting interventions for the transition from partnership to parenthood. Online couple psychotherapy to support emotional links between long distance partners. Couple Relationships in a Global Context is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and practitioners in family therapy, clinical psychology, general practice/family medicine, social work, and related psychology and medical disciplines.

Offline Dating
Offline Dating

Author: Joe Elvin

Publisher: Joe Elvin

Published: 2023-10-13

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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Your full guide to attracting women without the apps. Joe Elvin has spent the last 10 years perfecting the art of meeting women in busy streets, shopping malls, cafes, beaches, bars and nightclubs. He was a regular guy who had no luck meeting women online or anywhere else. Now, after setting himself a mission to master offline dating, he spends his days travelling the world seducing women of every culture. In this book, you’ll discover all of the tips and tricks that turned him from an average nobody to a master seducer. This book outlines: * why dating apps are rigged against men; * how to overcome the fear of approaching women; * how to develop the mindset of an elite player; * a step-by-step guide to approaching women in public; * how to build sexual tension and flirt like a natural; * how to talk and talk without running out of things to say; * how to make jokes effortlessly and become the life of any party; * how to meet women in college, university, at work or the gym; * how to arrange epic first dates that end in hot steamy sex; * how to seduce party girls at the club and have sex within hours of meeting; * and a lot more. There are also detailed sections on decoding female psychology, making the most of hook-up culture and progressing into a relationship with the right woman. Offline Dating reveals all the unknown truths about seducing modern women in the real world. If you want step-by-step instructions explaining how to meet women, land dates and get laid with ease, this is the book for you. It features all you need to know about daygame, nightgame, social circle game and everything in between. The instructions in this book have transformed the lives of the author and his dating coaching clients. Buy it if you want to date beautiful women without ever having to deal with the frustrations of dating apps again.

The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration
The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration

Author: Karima Kourtit

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 303048291X

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This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe. In recent years, cross-border migration has become an important and intriguing issue, from both a scientific and policy perspective. In the ‘age of migration’, the volume of cross-border movements of people continues to rise, while the nature of migration flows – in terms of the determinants, length of stay, effects on the sending and host countries, and legal status of migrants – is changing dramatically. Based on a detailed economic-geographical analysis, this handbook studies the motives for cross-border migration, the socio-economic implications for sending countries and regions, the locational choice determinants for cross-border migrants, and the manifold economic-geographic consequences for host countries and regions. Given the complexity of migration decisions and their local or regional impacts, a systematic typology of migrants (motives, legal status, level of education, gender, age, singles or families, etc.) is provided, together with an assessment of push factors in the place of origin and pull factors at the destination. On the basis of a solid analytical framework and reliable empirical evidence, it examines the impacts of emigration for sending areas and of immigration for receiving areas, and provides a comprehensive discussion of the policy dimensions of cross-border migration.

Mean Girl Feminism
Mean Girl Feminism

Author: Kim Hong Nguyen

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2024-01-09

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0252055233

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White feminists performing to maintain privilege Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form, and content from racial oppression and protest while aiming meanness toward people in marginalized groups. Kim Hong Nguyen’s feminist media study examines four types of white mean girl feminism prominent in North American popular culture: the bitch, the mean girl, the power couple, and the global mother. White feminists mime the anger, disempowerment, and resistance felt by people of color and other marginalized groups. Their performance allows them to pursue and claim a special place within established power structures, present as intellectually superior, substitute nonpolitical playacting for a politics of solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more enlightened masters than patriarchy. But, as Nguyen shows, the racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects performative civility in favor of turning anger into liberation.

The Town of Witching Tree
The Town of Witching Tree

Author: Andrew E. Chirico

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1669838838

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The move to a new town is never ordinary, especially for 13-year-old Libby that has just discovered she is a descendant of an ancient witch coven. Taking on life in this town is anything but easy and if she wants to survive, she has to play by the rules. Here, anyone can be a witch or warlock, alive or spirit and deciphering these possibilities can be nearly impossible. Are you a witch?