Rough Desires
Rough Desires

Author: Celia Crown

Publisher: Celia Crown

Published: 2024-01-14

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13:

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“Dangerously intimate. Possessive. He’s an inch of fixation and a mile of obsession.” His magnetism surpasses his flaws. Claude’s true colors explode with kaleidoscopic shards, burning discoloration on her fragile skin like a salacious emblem of ownership. When his mouth breaks to reveal the sharp points of his teeth, he wants to scare that little girl into obedience. She—too young, too innocent, too impressionable—smiles like stained porcelain and provocation. Claude lives with blood on his hands, and Odette walks with carnage in her steps. The cat-and-mouse game begins with throttling exhilaration and a promise of insatiability. He’s going to kill her with love.

Rough Rider in the White House
Rough Rider in the White House

Author: Sarah Watts

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2003-10-15

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0226876071

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"In this book, Sarah Watts probes this dark side of the Rough Rider, presenting a fascinating psychological portrait of a man whose personal obsession with masculinity profoundly influenced the fate of a nation. Drawing on his own writings and on media representations of him, Watts attributes the wide appeal of Roosevelt's style of manhood to the way it addressed the hopes and anxieties of men of his time. Like many of his contemporaries, Roosevelt struggled with what it meant to be a man in the modern era. He saw two foes within himself: a fragile weakling and a primitive beast. The weakling he punished and toughened with rigorous, manly pursuits such as hunting, horseback riding, and war. The beast he unleashed through brutal criticisms of homosexuals, immigrants, pacifists, and sissies - anyone who might tarnish the nation's veneer of strength and vigor. With his unabashed paeans to violence and aggressive politics, Roosevelt ultimately offered American men a chance to project their longings and fears onto the nation and its policies. In this way he harnessed the primitive energy of men's desires to propel the march of American civilization - over the bodies of anyone who might stand in its way."--BOOK JACKET.

Zandian Masters Complete Set: Books 1-9
Zandian Masters Complete Set: Books 1-9

Author: Renee Rose

Publisher: Burning Desires

Published: 2022-11-22

Total Pages: 1213

ISBN-13:

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Zandian Masters Complete Set is a Limited-Time Edition nine-book set of the steamy alien warrior Zandian Masters series by USA Today Bestselling romance author Renee Rose... HIS HUMAN SLAVE HIS HUMAN PRISONER TRAINING HIS HUMAN His HUMAN REBEL HIS HUMAN VESSEL HER MATE AND MASTER ZANDIAN PET HIS HUMAN POSSESSION THEIR ZANDIAN MATE Publisher's Note: This collection of stand-alone erotic romances contains spankings and intense sexual scenes with dominant alien masters who claim their human female for life. HEA guaranteed. If such material offends you, do not read it.

Hard Atheism and the Ethics of Desire
Hard Atheism and the Ethics of Desire

Author: Joel Marks

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-16

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 3319437992

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This book challenges the widespread assumption that the ethical life and society must be moral in any objective sense. In his previous works, Marks has rejected both the existence of such a morality and the need to maintain verbal, attitudinal, practical, and institutional remnants of belief in it. This book develops these ideas further, with emphasis on constructing a positive alternative. Calling it “desirism”, Marks illustrates what life and the world would be like if we lived in accordance with our rational desires rather than the dictates of any actual or pretend morality, neither overlaying our desires with moral sanction nor attempting to override them with moral strictures. Hard Atheism and the Ethics of Desire also argues that atheism thereby becomes more plausible than the so-called New Atheism that attempts to give up God and yet retain morality.

Regimes of Desire
Regimes of Desire

Author: Thomas Baudinette

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2021-11-17

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 047212918X

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Shinjuku Ni-chōme is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where same-sex attracted men and women from across Japan’s largest city can gather to find support from a relentlessly heteronormative society, Regimes of Desire reveals that the neighborhood may not be as welcoming as previously depicted in prior literature. Through fieldwork observation and interviews with young men who regularly frequent the neighborhood’s many bars, the book reveals that the district is instead a space where only certain performances of gay identity are considered desirable. In fact, the district is highly stratified, with Shinjuku Ni-chōme’s bar culture privileging “hard” masculine identities as the only legitimate expression of gay desire and thus excluding all those men who supposedly “fail” to live up to these hegemonic gendered ideals. Through careful analysis of media such as pornographic videos, manga comics, lifestyle magazines, and online dating services, this book argues that the commercial imperatives of the Japanese gay media landscape and the bar culture of Shinjuku Ni-chōme act together to limit the agency of young gay men so as to better exploit them economically. Exploring the direct impacts of media consumption on the lives of four key informants who frequent the district’s gay bars in search of community, fun, and romance, Regimes of Desire reveals the complexity of Tokyo’s most popular “gay town” and intervenes in debates over the changing nature of masculinity in contemporary Japan.

Ornithologies of Desire
Ornithologies of Desire

Author: Travis V. Mason

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2013-09-03

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 155458647X

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Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry invites a critical humility in the face of environmental crises and evolutionary history. The poetry and poetics of Don McKay provide Ornithologies of Desire with its primary subject matter, which is predicated on attention to ornithological knowledge and avian metaphors. This focus on birds enables a consideration of more broadly ecological relations and concerns, since an awareness of birds in their habitats insists on awareness of plants, insects, mammals, rocks, and all else that constitutes place. The book’s chapters are organized according to: apparatus (that is, science as ecocritical tool), flight, and song. Reading McKay’s work alongside ecology and ornithology, through flight and birdsong, both challenges assumptions regarding humans’ place in the earth system and celebrates the sheer virtuosity of lyric poetry rich with associative as well as scientific details. The resulting chapters, interchapter, and concordance of birds that appear in McKay’s poetry encourage amateurs and specialists, birdwatchers and poetry readers, to reconsider birds in English literature on the page and in the field.

What Philosophers Should Know About Truth
What Philosophers Should Know About Truth

Author: Fred Stoutland

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-05-06

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 3110620782

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Fred Stoutland was a major figure in the philosophy of action and philosophy of language. This collection brings together essays on truth, language, action and mind and thus provides an important summary of many key themes in Stoutland’s own work, as well as offering valuable perspectives on key issues in contemporary philosophy.

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes
Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes

Author: W. D. Westervelt

Publisher: Graphic Arts Books

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1513223836

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (1916) explores Hawaiian folktales and myths collected by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultures, Westervelt provides an invaluable resource for understanding the historical and geographical scope of Hawaiian culture. Beginning with the origin story of Pele, the goddess of volcanoes, Westervelt introduces his groundbreaking collection of legends on the volcanic nature of the Hawaiian Islands. When the goddess Pele comes to the island of Hawaii seeking a permanent home, she finds Ai-laau, another god of fire, already in possession of the territory. Despite his fearsome power over creation and destruction, Ai-laau disappeared the moment he became aware of Pele’s presence. Having traveled across the limitless ocean, her name was already known far and wide, along with her reputation for strength, anger, and envy. Establishing herself within the crater of Kilauea, Pele quickly took command over the gods, ghost-gods, and the people inhabiting the islands. Central to Hawaiian history and religion, Pele continues to be celebrated in Hawaii and across the Pacific today. With a professionally designed cover and manuscript, this edition of W. D. Westervelt’s Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes is a classic of Hawaiian literature reimagined for modern readers. Add this beautiful edition to your bookshelf, or enjoy the digital edition on any e-book device.