Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Author: John Gray
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1999
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780091827106

There's no doubt about it; the relationship between men and women is extremely complex. This title includes comforting and helpful advise on: giving and receiving emotional support; discovering and awakening your hidden qualities; keeping passion alive; reacting to, and coping with, stress; and, maintaining your zest for life.

See You on Venus

See You on Venus
Author: Victoria Vinuesa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2023-09-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1398529389

The runaway romance now a major motion picture starring Virginia Gardner and Alex Aiono! Two teens embark on a journey to Spain to discover the meaning of love, death and everything in between in this star-crossed love story perfect for fans of The Fault in our Stars, Five Feet Apart and All the Bright Places. Mia has had a heart condition her whole life. She’s not afraid of dying but something has always stopped her from her biggest fear: tracking down her biological mother in Spain . . . until now. Kyle has always been the life of the party . . . that was until the car accident that killed his best friend. Now he’s willing to do just about anything to escape his reality. After a twist of fate, Mia and Kyle meet and make the decision to travel to Spain together for a once-in-a-lifetime road trip. But what starts as a hunt for Mia’s mother soon turns into a whirlwind summer romance. Did the universe bind them together to change how they feel about love and death forever? See You on Venus is a heartwrenching novel perfect for readers looking for: Contemporary teen romance books Complex emotional YA stories Books to finish before or after seeing the film TikTok favourites like If He Had Been With Me, Girl in Pieces and You've Reached Sam Colleen Hoover books

The Transit of Venus

The Transit of Venus
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0143135651

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.

See you on Venus

See you on Venus
Author: Victoria Vinuesa
Publisher: Hachette Romans
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9782017181668

Chasing Venus

Chasing Venus
Author: Andrea Wulf
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307958612

A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size of the solar system, and paints a vivid portrait of the collaborations, rivalries, and volatile international politics that hindered them at every turn. • From the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun in more than a century. Through that observation, astronomers could calculate the size of the solar system—but only if they could compile data from many different points of the globe, all recorded during the short period of the transit. Overcoming incredible odds and political strife, astronomers from Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden, and the American colonies set up observatories in the remotest corners of the world, only to be thwarted by unpredictable weather and warring armies. Fortunately, transits of Venus occur in pairs; eight years later, they would have another opportunity to succeed. Thanks to these scientists, neither our conception of the universe nor the nature of scientific research would ever be the same.

See you on Venus

See you on Venus
Author: Victoria Vinuesa
Publisher: Hachette Romans
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2023-11-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 2017241857

Deux jeunes quittent les États-Unis pour aller voyager en Espagne. Dans ce conte maudit pour les fans de Five Feet Apart, les deux héros découvriront le sens de l’amour, de la mort et bien d’autres choses encore. Une histoire avec Virginia Gardner et Alex Aiono dans les rôles principaux. Mia est atteinte d’une maladie cardiaque, mais n’a pas peur de mourir. Sa plus grande crainte a toujours été de rencontrer sa mère biologique qui vit en Espagne. Jusqu'à présent. Avant sa prochaine opération, Mia veut rencontrer celle qui l’a abandonnée à la naissance. Kyle a toujours été un joyeux drille, l’amuseur des fêtes... jusqu’à l’accident de voiture qui a tué son meilleur ami. Depuis, il est rongé par la culpabilité, prêt à tout pour échapper à la réalité. Un coup du sort réunit Kyle et Mia. Ils décident de partir en Espagne chercher les réponses dont ils ont désespérément besoin pour panser leurs cœurs brisés... Le destin les a-t-il rapprochés pour changer ce qu’ils pensent de la mort et de l’amour éternel ?

Venus in Furs

Venus in Furs
Author: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616409584

A novella that was originally part of the epic series Legacy of Cain by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs is an exploration of the themes of sado-masochism and female dominance in a time when the terms had yet to be conceived. The main character dreams of the goddess Venus wearing furs while he speaks to her about love. Unable to let go of the fantasy, he reads a book that tells the story of Severin and Wanda, a couple involved in a sado-masochistic relationship. Severin enslaves himself to Wanda, who treats him with ever-increasing brutality and disdain. The novel was translated into English in 1921 by Fernanda Savage, and has been adapted multiple times for film and theater. In 2013, it was adapted for film again into a French movie by the same title, based on the 2010 play by American playwright David Ives, which was in turn inspired by this classic.

Vénus Noire

Vénus Noire
Author: Robin Mitchell
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820354333

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Mars and Venus Starting Over

Mars and Venus Starting Over
Author: John Gray
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0061861871

Is it possible to find love again after a breakup, death, or divorce? The end of a relationship can sometimes feel like the end of the world. Devastation, loneliness, and bitterness are some emotions that exist due to a breakup, divorce, or the loss of a loved one. But with the help of this compassionate guide, Dr. John Gray expresses that you will survive and tells you how to find love again. While the process of healing is similar with both sexes, there are distinct differences between the ways men and women heal their bruised hearts. In Mars and Venus Starting Over, Dr. Gray offers gender-specific advice on how to: Deal with pain Find forgiveness Discover the strength to let go Rebuild confidence Rise to the challenge of finding fulfillment again Filled with gentle guidance, healing practices, and compassionate wisdom, Mars and Venus Starting Over will help men and women explore the meaning of loss, find their way through the healing process, and discover the secret to moving on.

See You On Venus!

See You On Venus!
Author: Geoffrey j Canavan
Publisher: DoctorZed Publishing
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2011-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 186476063X

See You on Venus! is a book about learning to let go of your investment in self-imposed limitations so that you can dismantle the blocks you have created to your innate freedom, success, choice, happiness and completion. It is also a book about hope, observation and reconnecting with your lost self - the self of perfect success, happiness and harmony. Like a half-remembered song, each one of us carries a distant memory of how that perfection feels, but this memory is clouded by what we have learned on our journey through life. The message is simple: you have the power to bring together the parts of yourself that have become fragmented and to become one daring and truthful realization of the perfect star you truly are. See You on Venus! shows that you can stop undermining yourself and that you can hold the belief of the truth of what you can be. Remember, never lose moments in your own time when a decision to make a new choice or to see the world in a new way can be so freeing. Whatever aspect of your life you want to focus on, however you define 'success' or 'happiness', wherever you want to take that inner perfection, it's really only a matter of realizing the unlimited resource that you already are (and always were) and reconnecting with what you have forgotten about your perfect self. We all start perfectly successful. We all start complete. We acquire failure. Real success is based on who we are within rather than anything we come by externally. The willingness to look at ourselves in a light of perfection, success, inclusion and completion provides a real opportunity to move forward in the true meaning of peace and happiness. "In this book, Geoffrey Canavan explores the intrinsic nature of success and produces a universal road map for real life that can be tailored to corporate or individual needs. A must-read for business and individual decision-making." - Jerry Flynn, MD Sony Pictures "There is a way of thinking that will bring peace and happiness into our life; that will free us to the memory of a perfectly whole, completely loving and forgotten Self. It is an awareness that mystics and philosophers through the ages have tried to explain and teach how to access. Geoffrey Canavan is a modern mystic with the unique ability of explaining why and how our lives function the way they do and- most importantly-in concepts we can relate to and using language we understand, showing us how to make choices that will change our self-perception, and then the world that it has made for us. In a world made from the belief that there is 'something wrong with me, ' See You On Venus, offers a refreshing and needed alternative to the beliefs that have made the ego's perception seem true. In a world given to finding better ways to defend ourselves and maintain the 'distance' between us, it offers a way to find real healing through forgiveness and joining. For anyone willing to be truly happy or to 'risk' finding the truth of who and what they really are, See You On Venus, will be a blessing and a joy!" - Tom Carpenter, Author and founder of The Forgiveness Project "More than ever, individuals, families, organizations, and governments need to create a vision for success that helps to deliver true happiness, abundance and freedom. Geoffrey Canavan shows us the way." - Robert Holden Ph.D author of Shift Happens, Happiness Now, Success Intelligence and Be Happy "As things tighten up, the drive to succeed grows stronger. Widespread exploration of getting to the root and playing the inner game of succeeding in life - achieving results from the inside out - is fast gaining traction. Geoffrey Canavan presents as highly evolved, insightful and succinct a view as you'll get. World-class!" - Stephen Russell, the Barefoot Doctor, author of Supercharged Taoist and 12 other titles