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Author |
: Cary Levine |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2013-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226026060 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022602606X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pay for Your Pleasures by : Cary Levine
Focuses on work by the three artists from the 1970s through the 1990s. Examines their participation in subcultural music scenes and discovers a common political strategy which lead them to create strange and unseemly imates that test the limites of art, gender roles, sex, acceptable behavior, poor taste, and the gag reflex.
Author |
: Paul Bloom |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2010-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393077117 |
ISBN-13 |
: 039307711X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by : Paul Bloom
"Engaging, evocative…[Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling." —NPR Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and touch but by our beliefs about that thing’s history, origin, and deeper nature.
Author |
: Clare Chambers |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2021-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780063091009 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0063091003 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Small Pleasures by : Clare Chambers
In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett—an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion. "With wit and dry humor...quietly affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details."--The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but with limited career opportunities and on the brink of forty, Jean lives a dreary existence that includes caring for her demanding widowed mother, who rarely leaves the house. It’s a small life with little joy and no likelihood of escape. That all changes when a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Jean seizes onto the bizarre story and sets out to discover whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys, including Gretchen’s gentle and thoughtful husband Howard, who mostly believes his wife, and their quirky and charming daughter Margaret, who becomes a sort of surrogate child for Jean. Gretchen, too, becomes a much-needed friend in an otherwise empty social life. Jean cannot bring herself to discard what seems like her one chance at happiness, even as the story that she is researching starts to send dark ripples across all their lives…with unimaginable consequences. Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a literary tour-de-force in the style of The Remains of the Day, about conflict between personal fulfillment and duty; a novel that celebrates the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable.
Author |
: Laurell K. Hamilton |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2002-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101146385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101146389 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Guilty Pleasures by : Laurell K. Hamilton
Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today
Author |
: Raoul Vaneigem |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 48 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1132911191 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book of Pleasures by : Raoul Vaneigem
Author |
: Mary Gaitskill |
Publisher |
: Pantheon |
Total Pages |
: 97 |
Release |
: 2019-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524749149 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524749141 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Is Pleasure by : Mary Gaitskill
Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
Author |
: The School of Life |
Publisher |
: School of Life |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2018-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0993538738 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780993538735 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Small Pleasures by : The School of Life
So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures - while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - if only we paid more attention - could daily bring us solace and joy at little cost and effort. But we need some encouragement to focus our gaze. This is a book to guide us to the best of life's small pleasures: everything from the distinctive delight of holding a child's hand to the enjoyment of disagreeing with someone to the joy of the evening sky; an intriguing, evocative mix of small pleasures that will heighten our senses and return us to the world with new-found excitement and enthusiasm.
Author |
: Adam Phillips |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2016-05-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374712716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374712719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unforbidden Pleasures by : Adam Phillips
Much has been written of the forbidden pleasures. But what of the "unforbidden" pleasures? Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the unforbidden, from the fall of our "first parents," Adam and Eve, to the work of the great psychoanalytic thinkers. Forbidden pleasures, he argues, are the ones we tend to think about, yet when you look into it, it is probable that we get as much pleasure, if not more, from unforbidden pleasures than from those that are taboo. And we may have underestimated just how restricted our restrictiveness, in thrall to the forbidden and its rules, may make us. An ambitious book that speaks to the precariousness of modern life, Unforbidden Pleasures explores the philosophical, psychological, and social dynamics that govern human desire and shape our everyday reality.
Author |
: Elizabeth Dunn |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2013-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476740706 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476740704 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Happy Money by : Elizabeth Dunn
If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money explains why you can get more happiness for your money by following five principles, from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. And the five principles can be used not only by individuals but by companies seeking to create happier employees and provide “happier products” to their customers. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton show how companies from Google to Pepsi to Crate & Barrel have put these ideas into action. Along the way, the authors describe new research that reveals that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models, that commercials can actually enhance the enjoyment of watching television, and that residents of many cities frequently miss out on inexpensive pleasures in their hometowns. By the end of this book, readers will ask themselves one simple question whenever they reach for their wallets: Am I getting the biggest happiness bang for my buck?
Author |
: Robert Hellenga |
Publisher |
: Soho Press |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2009-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781569478110 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1569478112 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sixteen Pleasures by : Robert Hellenga
Art and poetry, mystery and desire collide in this sensual and “elegantly moving” literary romance set in the cobbled streets and painted halls of Florence, Italy (New Yorker). Margot Harrington, an American volunteer in Florence, is an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she comes across a fabulous volume of 16 erotic drawings by Giulio Romano, accompanying 16 steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino. When first published over 4 centuries ago, the Vatican ordered all copies destroyed. This one—now unique—volume has survived. The abbess prevails upon Margot to save the order’s finances by selling the magnificently illustrated erotica discreetly—meaning without the bishop’s knowledge. Margot’s other clandestine project is a middle-aged Italian who is boldly attempting radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission and soon her bed in this daring story of spiritual longing and earthly desire.