![]() Develop and apply effective approaches to maintaining eroticismĮsther Perel is a celebrated speaker sought around the globe for her expertise in emotional and erotic intelligence, work-life balance, cross-cultural relations, conflict resolution and identity of modern marriage and family.Recognize sexual fantasies and compare them with common fantasies.Explore the impact of parenthood on intimacy. ![]() Outline the pitfalls of modern intimacy.Describe the importance of emotional intimacy. ![]() Discuss difficulties of maintaining eroticism in long-term relationships.Wise, witty, and as revelatory as it is straightforward, Mating in Captivity is a sensational book that will transform the way you live and love. Through case studies and lively discussion, Perel demonstrates how more exciting, playful, and even poetic sex is possible in long-term relationships. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.ĭrawing on more than twenty years of experience as a couples therapist, Perel examines the complexities of sustaining desire. ![]() One of the world's most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Unlocking Erotic Intelligence Esther Perel ![]()
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![]() ![]() I live in a rather unlovely industrial area of Birmingham, and yet it is often surprisingly peaceful in my little garden. So there I was about four o’clock Saturday afternoon, sitting in the garden a cup of tea at my side, contemplating the word wake, and the beautifully simple cover of this debut novel. I love the title, beautifully apt – the word wake with its associations of awakenings, endings and aftermaths. Wake is such a brilliantly compelling, engaging novel that a little over twenty four hours later I finished it. No one seemed to have anything but praise for it, and so I was eagerly anticipating it as I sat down with it after a hard afternoon of gardening on Saturday. ![]() ![]() Since the beginning of the year I have seen so much about this novel on Twitter and book blogs that eventually I had to just give in and buy it for myself. ![]() ![]() ![]() He claimed to have written the novel in six weeks and that he did not change a word of it. ~ As I Lay Dying is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. ~ In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century also on the list were 1930's As I Lay Dying and Light in August (1932). Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ![]() ![]() Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. ~ Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood. Faulkner worked in a variety of media he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. From Wikipedia: William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, SeptemJuly 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reality is that she's a city girl, shoeless and without food or clean water, and there are dangers all around: parasites and bacteria in the streams, disease-carrying mosquitoes, wild monkeys, hyenas, and even lions. Using what she knows about the geography, wildlife and plants of the region, she manages to get away from her captors and hide in the wilderness. After negotiations for her return don't go well, Lucy decides to escape. She can't even go to the market in the capitol city to shop with a friend! When she manages to escape her driver and protection detail, she is kidnapped and held for ransom by drug dealers in a remote area. ![]() She's read her books on wildlife so many times she practically has them memorized. Lucy is 13, lonely, bored with official tours and state dinners, and irritated beyond belief at all of the rules that she has to follow in the closely guarded American compound. Lucy's mother is the very busy American ambassador to Ethiopia. ![]() |