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images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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A middle-aged hack joins Kate in the Sahara for the world's
toughest foot-race, The Marathon des Sables. Pain, heat and the
biggest blisters on the planet - it's the perfect recipe for
falling in love.
Kim is a rookie reporter in the heart of the Cotswolds -
learning his trade and desperate for love. But there's only one
woman he wants: the beautiful, ethereal, unobtainable Sasha.
Men throw themselves at Sasha. Every week, they're buying her
flowers and offering her Champagne - and if Kim would win her
heart, then he must do something completely different.
After a year of cool courtship, and after the pair have nearly
drowned, Kim makes his move, and they fall helplessly, hopelessly
in love. Kim's got everything he wants; Sasha has too.
For this love-struck couple, life doesn't get any better.
They've got everything going for them. And they've got everything
to lose.
Kim is a waiter in a Dorset hotel, an absolute hot-bed of sex. But
he's seeing none of it. Instead he falls for Cally, a 43-year-old
artist who is steaming with chutzpah. She is a woman who grabs life
by the throat; she knows what she wants - and most of the time she
gets it, too. She lives only in the moment, losing so many of her
nine lives that it's almost as if she has a death wish. Kim finds
love as he has never known it before - but even when he's
completely in Cally's thrall, he's still unable to resist the
allure of other younger women.
It's 1998 and Kim is 'The Sun''s correspondent in New York City,
zigzagging across America chasing exclusives, among them President
Bill Clinton's infamous relations with Monica Lewinsky, an affair
symbolic of a climate in which multiple lovers are increasingly
becoming the norm. Back in Manhattan, though, Kim thinks he's found
the only woman for him: Elise is beautiful, witty, intelligent and,
it goes without saying, a sensational lover. The only catch is that
she doesn't want just him - and he's agreed to it. Kim still can't
really remember the details of the deal made over a boozy dinner,
but he's agreed that for one day a week, Elise can continue to see
her French lover. For months on end, Kim is tormented by the
knowledge that on Thursday nights his Elise is sleeping with
someone else. But he loves her so much that he's not even tempted
to play the field himself.
Can a man be so desperate for a woman's love that he allows
himself to be ruled by her entirely? It's something that he'll
never forget. And forgiveness... Forgiving her, that he can do, but
will he ever be able to forgive himself?
A bittersweet love story about how far you can go for the woman
you love - and at what cost.
Originally published in 1956, this survey of the interpretations of
sex by the major figures in Christian thought and in psychoanalysis
made an important contribution to the re-thinking of our sexual
morality at the time. The author refutes the common belief that the
negative attitude toward sex and the body, which had been
predominant in western civilization, originated with Christianity.
He shows that such a viewpoint was widespread in the early
Hellenism Age, nearly three centuries before Christ. He emphasizes
the essentially positive view which Biblical religion demands and
shows how Christianity's attitude early became corrupted by the
dualism of the Orient. He points to the need for a return to
essential naturalism and the Biblical interpretation of sex. The
first part of the book consists of a historical treatment in the
Christian tradition, touching upon the teaching of Jesus, Paul,
Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin and others. He analyses the
classical and contemporary attitudes and ideas in both Catholic and
Protestant circles and shows how Christian understanding comes into
conflict with psychoanalysis. In the later portions of the book the
author discusses sex and psychoanalysis and the major problems in
sexual mores. He ends with a synthesis of the religious and
psychoanalytic points of view and a critical reconstruction of a
Christian interpretation.
'Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like
this?' Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal 'This is a
charming and uplifting book' Piers Morgan Seventeen-year-old
schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most
extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a
thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the
Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears
his new piano teacher, the beautiful but pained India, playing
Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Kim's life is destined never to be
the same again. An intensely passionate affair develops and he
wallows in the wild and unaccustomed thrill of first love.
Twenty-five years on, Kim recalls that heady summer and how their
fledgling relationship was so brutally snuffed out - finished off
by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, and by his own
withering jealousy. The Eton Affair is the bittersweet story of a
life-changing love.
Originally published in 1956, this survey of the interpretations of
sex by the major figures in Christian thought and in psychoanalysis
made an important contribution to the re-thinking of our sexual
morality at the time. The author refutes the common belief that the
negative attitude toward sex and the body, which had been
predominant in western civilization, originated with Christianity.
He shows that such a viewpoint was widespread in the early
Hellenism Age, nearly three centuries before Christ. He emphasizes
the essentially positive view which Biblical religion demands and
shows how Christianity's attitude early became corrupted by the
dualism of the Orient. He points to the need for a return to
essential naturalism and the Biblical interpretation of sex. The
first part of the book consists of a historical treatment in the
Christian tradition, touching upon the teaching of Jesus, Paul,
Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin and others. He analyses the
classical and contemporary attitudes and ideas in both Catholic and
Protestant circles and shows how Christian understanding comes into
conflict with psychoanalysis. In the later portions of the book the
author discusses sex and psychoanalysis and the major problems in
sexual mores. He ends with a synthesis of the religious and
psychoanalytic points of view and a critical reconstruction of a
Christian interpretation.
Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like
this? Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal This is a charming
and uplifting book. Piers Morgan Seventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim
is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary
institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and
not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a
possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano teacher,
the beautiful but pained India, playing Bach's Well-Tempered
Clavier. Kim's life is destined never to be the same again. An
intensely passionate affair develops and he wallows in the wild and
unaccustomed thrill of first love. Twenty-five years on, Kim
recalls that heady summer and how their fledgling relationship was
so brutally snuffed out - finished off by his enemies, by the
constraints of Eton, and by his own withering jealousy. "The
Well-Tempered Clavier" is the bittersweet story of a life-changing
love.
Care and Repair of Advanced Composites, 3rd Edition has been
extensively updated to keep pace with the growing use of composite
materials in commercial aviation. A worldwide reference for repair
technicians and design engineers, the book is an outgrowth of the
course syllabus that was developed by the Training Task Group of
SAE's Commercial Aircraft Composite Repair Committee (CACRC) and
published as SAE AIR 4938, Composite and Bonded Structure
Technician Specialist Training Document.
1656. Where the definitions, divisions, places, descriptions,
differences, names, virtues, times of flourishing and gathering,
uses, temperatures, signatures and appropriations of plants are
methodically laid down. Whereunto is added, a discovery of the
lesser world. Partial Contents: Physics, Philosophy, Herbs, Proper
places where plants are to be found, Roots, Stalks, Leaves,
Flowers, Seeds, Plants, Plants used in, and against Witchcraft,
Myriad uses of plants.
This book provides a clear introduction to musical forms and
structures used by composers since the 17th century. Dealing first
with the terms phrase and cadence, it extends from simple binary
and ternary forms to cover all the principal classical and
pre-classical forms, with analyses of key works. Throughout, the
text is illustrated with plentiful music examples. This classic
text is invaluable to those seeking a concise guide to musical
form. It will assist higher grade candidates with the aural section
of graded examinations and with the Practical Musicianship
examinations.
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