Author: Isla Dennes
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1786864266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Who would have thought a group of working girls would help Brooke find not only herself but the love of her life, too? But at Heavenly Pleasures, quite a lot of things are possible... Meet Brooke, a self-confessed shopaholic turned reluctant brothel receptionist, as she stumbles through life, trying to live up to her parents' and fiancé's high expectations—at the cost of her now low self-esteem. Who would have thought a group of working girls would help her rediscover her inner strength and finally tackle her personal demons? But at Heavenly Pleasures, the rules are made to be broken and new opportunities are just around the corner...
The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure
Author: Adam Williams
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466872276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Northern China, 1899. As the Boxer Rebellion erupts, a cast of innocents, fanatics, sinners, and lovers are drawn to the Palace of Heavenly Pleasure - an infamous brothel that overlooks an execution ground - where the fury of the East will meet the ideals of the West and all will face their destiny. Adam Williams's first novel is a historical tour-de-force and a triumphant return to traditional storytelling on a truly grand scale.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466872276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Northern China, 1899. As the Boxer Rebellion erupts, a cast of innocents, fanatics, sinners, and lovers are drawn to the Palace of Heavenly Pleasure - an infamous brothel that overlooks an execution ground - where the fury of the East will meet the ideals of the West and all will face their destiny. Adam Williams's first novel is a historical tour-de-force and a triumphant return to traditional storytelling on a truly grand scale.
Heaven in Ordinary
Author: David Jasper
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718847768
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five poets who are haunted by God. Poets, in times of great faith and times of doubt, have expressed for us their sense of both the presence and the absence of God in language that is sometimes almost sacramental in its weight of beauty, love, fear, anger or despair. The poets considered here all relate, in some way, to the traditions of Anglicanism through the centuries, reflecting both a common humanity and a wide breadth of human experience as it struggles with God. Heaven in Ordinary is deliberately autobiographical in approach, as it is grounded in David Jasper's own lifetime experience of reading poetry since his school years, and over four decades as a priest. The poets he so beautifully discusses have related both positively and negatively to the Christian faith and the Anglican tradition. Some are deeply religious, others are haunted by God and the divine mystery.
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718847768
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five poets who are haunted by God. Poets, in times of great faith and times of doubt, have expressed for us their sense of both the presence and the absence of God in language that is sometimes almost sacramental in its weight of beauty, love, fear, anger or despair. The poets considered here all relate, in some way, to the traditions of Anglicanism through the centuries, reflecting both a common humanity and a wide breadth of human experience as it struggles with God. Heaven in Ordinary is deliberately autobiographical in approach, as it is grounded in David Jasper's own lifetime experience of reading poetry since his school years, and over four decades as a priest. The poets he so beautifully discusses have related both positively and negatively to the Christian faith and the Anglican tradition. Some are deeply religious, others are haunted by God and the divine mystery.
An approach to self
Author:
Publisher: Gokuldas Bagdi
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Miss-conception of achieving happiness from worldly objects through wealth, health, prestige and power and being ignorant of vast unfathomable ocean of bliss in Self-realization is the cause of suffering and bondage in the circle of life and death..This eternal truth preached by Upanishads along with four measures—विवेक,वैराग्य,षट् सम्पति -मुमुक्षा-- to be adopted for being eligible for self -realization and thereafter meditating on four Mahavakyas ---अयम् आत्मा ब्रह्म - --अहम ब्रह्मास्मि---तत्त्वमसि –प्रज्ञानम् ब्रह्म—extracted one from each of four Vedas –is the only way to feel eternal Bliss and to be free from bondage of life and death. --- has been explained by me in my two books ---Aatm-chintnam in Hindi and “An Approach to self in English.
Publisher: Gokuldas Bagdi
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Miss-conception of achieving happiness from worldly objects through wealth, health, prestige and power and being ignorant of vast unfathomable ocean of bliss in Self-realization is the cause of suffering and bondage in the circle of life and death..This eternal truth preached by Upanishads along with four measures—विवेक,वैराग्य,षट् सम्पति -मुमुक्षा-- to be adopted for being eligible for self -realization and thereafter meditating on four Mahavakyas ---अयम् आत्मा ब्रह्म - --अहम ब्रह्मास्मि---तत्त्वमसि –प्रज्ञानम् ब्रह्म—extracted one from each of four Vedas –is the only way to feel eternal Bliss and to be free from bondage of life and death. --- has been explained by me in my two books ---Aatm-chintnam in Hindi and “An Approach to self in English.
Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India
Author:
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9394701281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Leisure is a corollary to pleasure. Essays in this historical exploration trace how leisure and recreation were often imagined and celebrated during premodern times, from the ancient to the precolonial period. This book takes into account the differential access to leisure and pleasure based on class and gender where masculinity is projected through manly sports and femininity though beauty and indulgence in the projection of recreation, entertainment and luxury. The counter-discourse representing labour for those who cater for this leisure is invisibilized as is their transactional nature. The volume dwells on the attitudes, prescribed and proscribed, and brings to the fore the differences across religious ideologies such as Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jaina and Muslim in various periods. Further it looks at leisure in the various classes and cultural spaces such as the elite, women, the king in the bed chamber, the court with dancing girls, public areas such as orchards and gardens and performance spaces.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9394701281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Leisure is a corollary to pleasure. Essays in this historical exploration trace how leisure and recreation were often imagined and celebrated during premodern times, from the ancient to the precolonial period. This book takes into account the differential access to leisure and pleasure based on class and gender where masculinity is projected through manly sports and femininity though beauty and indulgence in the projection of recreation, entertainment and luxury. The counter-discourse representing labour for those who cater for this leisure is invisibilized as is their transactional nature. The volume dwells on the attitudes, prescribed and proscribed, and brings to the fore the differences across religious ideologies such as Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jaina and Muslim in various periods. Further it looks at leisure in the various classes and cultural spaces such as the elite, women, the king in the bed chamber, the court with dancing girls, public areas such as orchards and gardens and performance spaces.