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| Author | : MA PsyD Cassandra A George Sturges |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 89 |
| Release | : 2007-07 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0595460224 |
Women intuitively know that most heterosexual males find extraordinarily beautiful women sexually irresistible and if that extraordinarily beautiful woman wanted her man, he would be hers for the taking.
| Author | : David Ocasio |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2021-09-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1543498213 |
“Illusion of Beauty” is a work of real insights from an action that makes good cheese and fine wine get their incredible taste - it’s a glorification of the glory of wisdom that gloaming days generate. During his salad days, David Ocasio had the luck and privilege of coming across of elders who not only loved him and cared but believed him enough that they shared their invaluable life lessons and eclectic wisdom.
| Author | : David Ocasio |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2019-05-24 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781733056021 |
This parable is about a young lady's journey through the circumstances of life that can affect us for better, or worse. She starts out life disfigured but through the wonder of cosmetic surgery is transformed into a beauty queen. During this time, she gets caught up in a world that affords her all the advantages that come with pronounced physical beauty. On the other hand, having come from a humble background where beauty is determined by who we are rather than one's outward appearance, she never completely embraces all of the superficialities laid before her. While she is on this path, she encounters an older man of significant stature and prominence who is caught in a conflict between good and evil, but has always sided with good by using evil to achieve that outcome. He embraces her with the love and affection of a father, and brings attention to her humble beginnings reminding her that, that which makes her truly beautiful is who she should hold on to, if she wishes to avoid the pitfalls of the world that she's encountered. Later, she is embraced by a matriarch who possesses a good heart, along with a generous and giving nature, over time, the two of them become close. The strength of their bond along with their kind natures create a mother daughter type relationship between them, enabling both to grow into even better and greater loving souls, which further strengthens them as women. Eventually, the young lady experiences an accident which leaves her temporarily blind. Once again, she comes across another matriarch who aids her during this time of crisis. The elderly lady shares her love, time, knowledge, and wisdom enabling the girl to attain an even greater height of emotional and spiritual maturity. During this moment of darkness, the young lady encounters a gentleman who through their experience together returns her to the true essence of her being. And, by the love and guidance of the elder come to discover they are kindred spirits. Finally, when the girl is threatened, the older father like gentleman protects her from any acts of evil against her, or her love by once again using evil in the defense of good. Though "The Illusion of Beauty" is but a work of fiction, it is routed in, and speaks to the good and bad in all of us. Also, the choices we make that at times may be imposed upon us, or the ones we make simply because the circumstances allow us to, for better or worse.
| Author | : Samar Al-Mahiawi |
| Publisher | : Partridge Publishing Singapore |
| Total Pages | : 81 |
| Release | : 2013-08-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1482897717 |
Once she was a princess who smelled of roses and pure delight. Her parents named their new treasure Maysam, in order to reflect all of life’s beautiful virtues. With her rich brown eyes, she came to know the world as shapes and sounds. In her mother’s sweet voice, she heard only love—and the secret of bliss: “Smile, sweetheart. Smile always and bring happiness to nice people’s hearts.” Her young life is one without trouble or fear—until things turn upside down as her country is rattled by financial crisis, forcing young Maysam and her family to move in with her grandmother. In that angry household, the young girl learns some of life’s more unpleasant lessons. Years pass, and poor Maysam grows into a young, unsociable, and forgotten lady. She struggles to reconnect with the joyful and optimistic child she once was, as the burden of finding her own way in a culture that cannot see the beauty within her wears her down. Lonely, sad, and depressed, she is lost in her own troubles. To protect herself, she builds internal walls around her pain, resigning herself to a fate in which she merely exists, instead of lives. But the joyful child inside refuses to accept this new self-imposed destiny. She vows to find a way to harness the happiness she sees around her. Can Maysam recapture the dreams of her innocent childhood in time to save her life and self-esteem?
| Author | : Al-Mahiawi Samar |
| Publisher | : Partridge Publishing Singapore |
| Total Pages | : 85 |
| Release | : 2013-08-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1482897695 |
Once she was a princess who smelled of roses and pure delight. Her parents named their new treasure Maysam, in order to reflect all of life's beautiful virtues. with her rich brown eyes, she came to know the world as shapes and sounds. In her mother's sweet voice, she heard only love--and the secret of bliss: "Smile, sweetheart. Smile always and bring happiness to nice people's hearts." Her young life is one without trouble or fear--until things turn upside down as her country is rattled by financial crisis, forcing young Maysam and her family to move in with her grandmother. In that angry household, the young girl learns some of life's more unpleasant lessons. Years pass, and poor Maysam grows into a young, unsociable, and forgotten lady. She struggles to reconnect with the joyful and optimistic child she once was, as the burden of finding her own way in a culture that cannot see the beauty within her wears her down. Lonely, sad, and depressed, she is lost in her own troubles. to protect herself, she builds internal walls around her pain, resigning herself to a fate in which she merely exists, instead of lives. But the joyful child inside refuses to accept this new self-imposed destiny. She vows to find a way to harness the happiness she sees around her. Can Maysam recapture the dreams of her innocent childhood in time to save her life and self-esteem?
| Author | : Christie Nelson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781631523342 |
When a brash and beautiful American newspaper reporter, Lily Nordby, falls into a forbidden love affair with Tokido Okamura, a sophisticated Japanese diplomat whom she suspects is a spy, at the Golden Gate International Exposition, a brilliant Mayan art scholar, Woodrow Packard, tries to save her.
| Author | : Shamsur Rahman Faruqi |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 1325 |
| Release | : 2014-03-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 8184759932 |
It is the sunset of the Mughal Empire. The splendour of imperial Delhi flares one last time. The young daughter of a craftsman in the city elopes with an officer of the East India Company. And so we are drawn into the story of Wazir Khanam: a dazzlingly beautiful and fiercely independent woman who takes a series of lovers, including a Navab and a Mughal prince—and whom history remembers as the mother of the famous poet Dagh. But it is not just one life that this novel sets out to capture: it paints in rapturous detail an entire civilization. Beginning with the story of an enigmatic and gifted painter in a village near Kishangarh, The Mirror of Beauty embarks on an epic journey that sweeps through the death-giving deserts of Rajputana, the verdant valley of Kashmir and the glorious cosmopolis of Delhi, the craft of miniature painting and the art of carpet designing, scintillating musical performances and recurring paintings of mysterious, alluring women. Its scope breathtaking, its language beguiling, and its style sumptuous, this is a work of profound beauty, depth and power.
| Author | : Daniel M. Wegner |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 725 |
| Release | : 2003-08-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0262290553 |
A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain. Yet if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior, how could we have conscious will? The feeling of conscious will, Wegner shows, helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines the issue from a variety of angles. He looks at illusions of the will—those cases where people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing or, conversely, are not willing an act that they in fact are doing. He explores conscious will in hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, automatic writing, and facilitated communication, as well as in such phenomena as spirit possession, dissociative identity disorder, and trance channeling. The result is a book that sidesteps endless debates to focus, more fruitfully, on the impact on our lives of the illusion of conscious will.
| Author | : Erika Robuck |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2014-03-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0451418905 |
“Without sin, can we know beauty? Can we fully appreciate the summer without the winter? No, I am glad to suffer so I can feel the fullness of our time in the light.” Upstate New York, 1928. Laura Kelley and the man she loves sneak away from their judgmental town to attend a performance of the scandalous Ziegfeld Follies. But the dark consequences of their night of daring and delight reach far into the future.… That same evening, Bohemian poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her indulgent husband hold a wild party in their remote mountain estate, hoping to inspire her muse. Millay declares her wish for a new lover who will take her to unparalleled heights of passion and poetry, but for the first time, the man who responds will not bend completely to her will.… Two years later, Laura, an unwed seamstress struggling to support her daughter, and Millay, a woman fighting the passage of time, work together secretly to create costumes for Millay’s next grand tour. As their complex, often uneasy friendship develops amid growing local condemnation, each woman is forced to confront what it means to be a fallen woman…and to decide for herself what price she is willing to pay to live a full life. “Lovers of the Jazz Age, literary enthusiasts, and general historic fiction readers will find much to love about Call Me Zelda. Highly recommended.” –Historical Novel Society, Editors’ Choice
| Author | : Stephen Fried |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2011-12-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1451676409 |
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of moguls and movie stars, royalty and rockers. Gia was also a girl in pain, desperate for her mother's approval—and a drug addict on a tragic slide toward oblivion, who started going directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting galleries on New York's Lower East Side. Finally blackballed from modeling, Gia entered a vastly different world on the streets of New york and Atlantic City, and later in a rehab clinic. At twenty-six, she became on of the first women in America to die of AIDS, a hospital welfare case visited only by rehab friends and what remained of her family. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Gia's gamily, lovers, friends, and colleagues, Thing of Beauty creates a poignant portrait of an unforgettable character—and a powerful narrative about beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.
