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Caught Red-Handed
THE FOURTH IN THE SERIES OF SIX STANDALONE ROMANCES. Maya Montgomery has been in love with Roger Llewellyn, her older brother Sebastian’s best friend since she was about fourteen but knows that he doesn’t see her as anything but a little tomboy. Roger has been Sebastian Montgomery’s best friend for over sixteen years and almost as good friends with the other three Montgomery brothers. He knows that they would tear him limb from limb if he so much as looks at their beloved only sister. After seeing her all cleaned up and feminine at her sweet sixteen party, Roger realizes for the first time that he has feelings for her and runs away as though pursued by the Devil. Two years later, when ...
Desert Geomorphology
Including recent research findings from terrestrial satellite imagery, the study of planetary landscapes, and advances in laboratory work, this also covers the environmental processes involved in desertification and the solution of planning and
Beauty Matters
The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters, Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major authors of the late Meiji (1868–1912) and Taishō (1912–1926) periods illuminated themes and perspectives that resonated broadly in modern Japanese society. This approach presents an alternative to conventional accounts in which Japanese literature before the modernist turn of the 1920s has tended to be defined by an insular focus on subjective representation and autobiographical realism. Yasuda investigates how Natsume Sōseki, Mori Ogai...
Maximum Embodiment
Maximum Embodiment presents a compelling thesis articulating the historical character of Yoga, literally the “Western painting” of Japan. The term designates what was arguably the most important movement in modern Japanese art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Perhaps the most critical marker of Yoga was its association with the medium of oil-on-canvas, which differed greatly from the water-based pigments and inks of earlier Japanese painting. Yoga encompassed both establishment fine art and avant-gardist insurgencies, but in both cases, as the term suggests, it was typically focused on techniques, motifs, canons, or iconographies that were obtained in Europe and d...
The Utopians
'Fascinating and richly documented . . . Few books manage to be so informative and so entertaining.' – Sunday Times Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America: six experimental communities established in the aftermath of the First World War, each aiming to change the world. Anna Neima's The Utopians is an absorbing and vivid account of these collectives and their charismatic leaders and reveals them to be full of eccentric characters, outlandish lifestyles and unchecked idealism. Dismissed and even mocked in their time, yet, a century later, their influence still resonates in progressive education, environmentalism, medical research and mindfulness training. Without such inspirational experiments in how to live, post-war society would have been a poorer place. 'Thanks to Neima’s rigorous research, each chapter offers something new.' – Spectator 'Neima ranges with impressive confidence across the world'. – Literary Review
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Bittersweet Vibes: Jason & Sophie
Mit vierundzwanzig heiratet Sophie ihre große Liebe. Drei Jahre später ist sie Witwe und hat nur noch eine Sicherheit: Ihr Herz gehört Markus – für immer. Jason „Toffifee“ Hart ist nicht nur verboten attraktiv. Der erfolgreiche Unternehmer setzt sich für Obdachlose und verfolgte Frauen ein – und ist der Liebling der Wiener Presse. Heute beneiden ihn diejenigen, die ihn früher als Bastard beschimpften und verprügelten. Doch ändert das nichts daran, dass seine Mutter die Tochter eines Schwarzen ist und sein Vater eine berühmte Dragqueen. Bekommt man einen Stempel aufgedrückt, wird man ihn nicht mehr los. Daher ist es das einzig Richtige, sich mit einem Eispanzer zu umgeben, Mitmenschen auf Distanz zu halten und Frauen ausschließlich als kurzfristige Ablenkung anzusehen. Als ausgerechnet Sophie und Jason aufeinandertreffen, ist das emotionale Chaos vorprogrammiert ...
The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature
The first book-length study to explore the links between Christianity and modern Japanese literature, this book analyses the process of conversion of nine canonical authors, unveiling the influence that Christianity had on their self-construction, their oeuvre and, ultimately, the trajectory of modern Japanese literature. Building significantly on previous research, which has treated the intersections of Christianity with the Japanese literary world in only a cursory fashion, this book emphasizes the need to make a clear distinction between the different roles played by Catholicism and Protestantism. In particular, it argues that most Meiji and Taishō intellectuals were exposed to an exclus...
Explosive Vibes: Julian & Marie
Mit vierzehn wurde Marie wegen ihres Übergewichts gemobbt. Der einzige Lichtblick in ihrem Dasein war ihr arabischer Märchenprinz, der ein paar Klassen über ihr war. Als sie endlich ihren Babyspeck loswird, hat er die Schule längst beendet. Viele Jahre später findet sie ihren Traumjob – und ausgerechnet er ist einer ihrer neuen Chefs. Julian pfeift auf sein Bad-Boy-Aussehen, das er seinen saudi-arabischen Genen verdankt, und auf seinen beruflichen Erfolg, denn privat hat er einfach kein Glück. Mit den Frauen erlebt er nur Märchen, die verkehrt herum ablaufen: Innerhalb kürzester Zeit werden aus den vermeintlichen Prinzessinnen hässliche Kröten. Am Tiefpunkt angelangt, stellt sein Partner eine neue Architektin ein. Ihre blitzblauen Augen ziehen ihn an. Ihre Wahnsinnsfigur erregt ihn. Ihr launenhaftes Verhalten bringt ihn zur Weißglut. Aber das ist erst die Ruhe vor dem Sturm ...
