Free Download Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence by Emanuele Lugli
English | March 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0226822516 | True EPUB/PDF | 344 pages | 17.8/24.5 MB
An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence.

Free Download Jadranka Skorin-Kapov, "The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation"
English | ISBN: 149851846X | 2015 | 212 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence, immanence, surprise). The proposed term desire||surprise captures the phenomenological-speculative character of the pair not yet and no longer. Non-obvious parallels between different thinkers are drawn, and the argumentation is organized around philosophical figures relevant in the sequence desire - excess -pause (rupture, break) - recuperation (surprise). The works of Levinas, Žižek, Bataille, Blanchot, Foucault, and Ricoeur are interpreted and positioned according to the proposed template of desire - excess - pause. The consideration of limit experiences involves authors fascinated by transgression, and the question of whether excess is immanent or transcendent. This discussion considers works by Nietzsche, Deleuze, Žižek, and Foucault. The analysis of surprise and the beginning of recovery after the pause considers works by Fink, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Lyotard, Dufrenne, Bachelard, and Seel. The provocative argument elaborated in this work is that surprise starts with indifference. Furthermore, the argument is that surprise begins where the concept reaches its ending, hence that the limit of speculative thinking at its ending is the limit of aesthetics at its beginning. The work of Hegel, Schelling and Jaspers are discussed in order to argue for the beginning of aesthetics there where knowledge ends.

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Album: Dream & Desire (Mixed Tracks)
Artist: Manuel Göttsching
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Date/Year: 2023

Free Download Mairead Sullivan, "Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer"
English | ISBN: 1517910021 | 2022 | 204 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity

Free Download Desire for the Star by Averil Ives
English | MP3@192 kbps | 7h 23m | 60.4 MB
Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn.Valerie was once saved from a life in a wheelchair by the charming Dr. Axel Anton. Years later, when looking after his young niece in Vienna, Valerie comes across the doctor again. Her long-standing affections towards him are soon rekindled, but their budding romance, though steamy and exciting, sets off some dramatic turns. What makes matters more complicated is that the doctor's brother, Rudi, is the one who has proposed to Valerie. Do Valerie and the doctor stand a chance? A vintage romance novel by one of Ida Pollock's pseudonyms, Averil Ives. A must-read for fans of literary romance and surprising twists of fate.

Free Download Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Audiobook)
English | February 16, 2016 | ASIN: B01BIA3KOI | M4B@64 kbps | 10h 56m | 298 MB
Author: Aja Raden | Narrator: Justine Eyre
What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and often startling story about our unshakeable addiction to beauty and the darker side of human desire.
What moves the world is what moves each of us: desire. Jewelry - which has long served as a stand-in for wealth and power, glamour and success - has birthed cultural movements, launched political dynasties, and started wars. Masterfully weaving together pop science and history, Stoned breaks history into three categories - want, take, and have - and explains what the diamond on your finger has to do with the GI Bill, why green-tinted jewelry has been exalted by so many cultures, why the glass beads that bought Manhattan for the Dutch were initially considered a fair trade, and how the French Revolution started over a coveted necklace. Studded with lively personalities and fascinating details, Stoned tells the remarkable story of our abiding desire for the rare and extraordinary.

Desire Unbound by Juliette N Banks | 365.77 KB
English | 288 Pages

Title: Desire Unbound: A steamy billionaire romance (The Dufort Dynasty Book 4)
Author: Juliette N. Banks
Year: 2023

Mind the Gap The Truth about Desire, and How to Futureproof Your Sex Life by Karen Gurney | 807.29 KB
English | 336 Pages

Title: Mind The Gap: The truth about desire and how to futureproof your sex life
Author: Gurney, Dr Karen
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Free Download The Power of 2: Work + Desire = Success by Eric Kirk
English | September 3, 2021 | ISBN: 1736661329 | 152 pages | EPUB | 5.09 Mb
Since the foundation of the world, mankind and animals were created in pairs. Adam and Eve, male and female, two by two... togetherness. However, throughout the test of time, or life as we call it, the togetherness that was once strong begins to weaken.

Free Download Aymon Kreil, "Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures: Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day "
English | ISBN: 0755637135 | 2022 | 264 pages | EPUB | 822 KB
What have different ideas about sex and gender meant for people throughout the history of the Middle East and North Africa? This book traces sex and desire in Muslim cultures through a collection of chapters that span the 9th to 21st centuries. Looking at spaces and periods where sexual norms and the categories underpinning them emerge out of multiple subjectivities, the book shows how people constantly negotiate the formulation of norms, their boundaries and their subversion. It demonstrates that the cultural and political meanings of sexualities in Muslim cultures - as elsewhere - emerge from very specific social and historical contexts.