Author: RALPH NEVILLPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
THE MAN OF PLEASURE
Author: RALPH NEVILLThe Man of Pleasure's Pocket-book: Or, the Bon Vivant's Vdde Mecum, for the Year 1780 ... Containing Fifty-two Double Ruled Pages ... and ... Original Articles, Viz. I. An Account of All Public Diversions ... VIII. A Dictionary for the Polite World ... By a Member of the Club of Savoir-vivres
Author: Pleasure Me
Author: Monica BurnsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101478764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From the author of Assassin's Honor, a bold and sexy new historical romance. Youth and beauty are a courtesan's greatest assets. Concerned, at forty-one, that she is no longer desirable, Lady Ruth Attwood is uncertain whether to be offended or flattered when a younger man makes her an unusual offer. In need of funds, she agrees. But then she does the unthinkable-she falls in love...
The Pleasure of My Company
Author: Steve MartinPublisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401398804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Shopgirl comes the tender story of a troubled man who finds love, and life, in the most unexpected place. Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a bystander: He watches from his window as the world goes by, and his only relationships seem to be with people who barely know he exists. He passes the time idly filling out contest applications, counting ceiling tiles, and estimating the wattage of light bulbs. It is through Daniel's growing attachment to Clarissa, and to Teddy, that he finally gains the courage to begin to engage the world outside, and in doing so, he discovers love, and life, in the most surprising places. Filled with his trademark humor, tenderness, and out and out hilarious wordplay, The Pleasure of My Company is a tour de force sure to delight all of Steve Martin's fans.
Plato, the Man and His Work
Author: Alfred Edward TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
History of a Pleasure Seeker
Author: Richard MasonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307949281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“Just try to resist.... A Continental Downton Abbey plus sex, with a dash of Dangerous Liaisons tossed in.” —Seattle Times Piet Barol has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. When his mother dies, Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe's leading hotelier—a child who refuses to leave his family’s mansion on one of Amsterdam’s grandest canals. As Piet enters this glittering world, he learns its secrets and finds his life transformed. A brilliantly written portrait of the senses, History of a Pleasure Seeker is an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe’s Belle Époque, written with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original.
Pleasure and Purpose
Author: Megan HartPublisher: Chaos
ISBN: 1940078776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Three women, bound to serve so that they might bring their patrons absolute solace. Stillness, Honesty and Determinata, all Handmaidens in the Order of Solace, and all women in their own regard. Edward, Cillian and Alaric, three best friends torn apart by the tragedies of their youth, each unable to find the solace they crave. Each Handmaiden must do her best to provide peace, passion and optimism to the man she’s been sent to soothe – no matter how they are fought or discouraged or refused. Love is not the endgame in this war for solace, yet it’s entirely possible that in the end, love might be the only real victory.
Pleasure, Mind, and Soul
Author: W. C. W. TaylorPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191527645
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
C. C. W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists (including the Epicureans), showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central concept for the atomists. Pleasure, Mind, and Soul provides a fascinating survey of a range of important topics in the work of some of the greatest ancient philosophers, and which remain the subject of lively philosophical debate today.
Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Author: David WolfsdorfPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
An examination of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure, which is the first book to compare them to contemporary conceptions.
The Pursuit of Pleasure
Author: Arsen DallanPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838269500
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.