Author: John GaltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A Bachelor's Blunder
Author: William Edward NorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Bachelor's Wife
Author: John GaltMarine Encyclopaedic Dictionary
Author: Eric SullivanPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000287998
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Featuring over 20,000 definitions, this dictionary has been revised to reflect changes and advances in the marine industry. It covers every aspect of the business, including shipbroking, chartering, marine insurance, ship's agency, freight forwarding, oil and gas, and air transport.
Citizen Bachelors
Author: John Gilbert McCurdyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801457807
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was instrumental in the creation of American citizenship. In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. Single men were instrumental to the settlement of the United States and for most of the seventeenth century their presence was not particularly problematic. However, as the colonies matured, Americans began to worry about those who stood outside the family. Lawmakers began to limit the freedoms of single men with laws requiring bachelors to pay higher taxes and face harsher penalties for crimes than married men, while moralists began to decry the sexual immorality of unmarried men. But many resisted these new tactics, including single men who reveled in their hedonistic reputations by delighting in sexual horseplay without marital consequences. At the time of the Revolution, these conflicting views were confronted head-on. As the incipient American state needed men to stand at the forefront of the fight for independence, the bachelor came to be seen as possessing just the sort of political, social, and economic agency associated with citizenship in a democratic society. When the war was won, these men demanded an end to their unequal treatment, sometimes grudgingly, and the citizen bachelor was welcomed into American society. Drawing on sources as varied as laws, diaries, political manifestos, and newspapers, McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspicious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modern-day identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors, the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence of American citizenship.
Lord Bredon and the Bachelor's Bible
Author: Mia MarlowePublisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 1516106636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
“A delightful Regency romance, full of passion, humor, and love.” --Ella Quinn, USA Today bestselling author With the dowries of all the season’s debutantes exposed in its scandalous pages, The Bachelor’s Bible is a handy tool for an earl in need of an heiress . . . Edward Lovell, newly minted earl, bears a weighty responsibility: to restore his family’s estate to its former grandeur. The task requires not simply a wife, but a wealthy one. Thanks to The Bachelor’s Bible, he already has a particular lady in mind. He has only to convince her sponsor that he will make a suitable husband. There’s just one complication: the sponsor is none other than the only woman he’s ever loved—and inexplicably lost. Now a young widow, Lady Anne Howard is more beautiful than ever . . . Anne is not about to be taken for a fool a second time. When they last met, Edward was Lord Bredon, the man she adored—the man who destroyed her dreams of a happy future. Now he is pursuing the hand of the young lady Anne must keep safe from unscrupulous suitors. But who will protect Anne from the earl who still possesses her heart?. . . “Mia Marlowe is the mistress of saucy historical romances.” --Books Monthly “Mia Marlowe is a rising star!” --New York Times Bestseller Connie Mason “Mia Marlowe proves she has the ‘touch’ for strong heroines, wickedly sexy heroes!” --Jennifer Ashley, USA Today bestselling author of Lady Isabella’s Scandalous Marriage “Her three-dimensional characters truly steal readers’ hearts and keep the pages flying.”--Kathe Robin “A delightful Regency romance, full of passion, humor, and love.” --Ella Quinn, USA Today bestselling author
At the sign of the Cat and racket, A bachelor's establishment, and other stories
Author: Honoré de BalzacTHE BACHELOR'S BED
Author: Jill ShalvisPublisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460397037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story." - Robyn Carr, New York Times bestselling author Lani Mills had a secret crush on gorgeous diehard bachelor Colin West, along with half the women in town. But she was just his cleaning lady, so she'd have to content herself with dusting and dreaming…or would she? Colin needed a fictional fiancée to end his mother's matchmaking attempts. Lovely, loyal Lani was his first choice, and, to his relief, she agreed to pretend they were madly in love. But his relief turned to dismay when she kept forgetting the "pretend" part… A contemporary romance. Originally published in 2002.
The bachelor's wife, a selection of curious and interesting extracts
Author: John GaltThe celibates, Bachelor's establishment, and other stories
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe Bachelor's Wife
Author: Tamara KnightPublisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1617391271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Gage Stanton is a wealthy workaholic whose parents' sham of a marriage has given him less than ideal opinions about the lifelong commitment. Leah Morgan is the single mother of feisty six-year-old twin boys and also has a skewed outlook on marriage, having been burned by love once before. So what happens when the two are thrust together by a marriage contract drawn up by their scheming but well-meaning grandfathers? Both Gage and Leah have much to lose by refusing to follow the terms of the legal document, so a name-only marriage commences. Gage's well-ordered existence and Leah's hectic but manageable world are thrown into a tailspin. But having to put on an act for the public soon develops into much more-the type of relationship Gage and Leah had vowed to avoid at all costs. Find out what befalls this workaholic of a bachelor and skeptic single mom when they agree to abide by the contract and wind up with much more than they bargained for in The Bachelor's Wife.