Tag: Love

Women Who Love Men Who Kill 35 True Stories of Prison Passion The 21st Century Edition, Updated with New Cases [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B09JHDR8G8 | 2021 | 9 hours and 47 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Sheila Isenberg
Narrator: Kate Zane

At once disturbing and fascinating, Women Who Love Men Who Kill is a compelling psychological study of prison passion in the new millennium. Through extensive research and interviews with women who seek relationships with convicted killers through snail and email, and through conversations with psychiatrists, social workers, and prison officials, Isenberg sheds light on why these women are drawn into relationships with incarcerated outcasts. Many of the women vulnerable to these relationships know exactly what they are getting into. But they are willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of a love without hope or promise or consummation.

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The Art Thief A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BJ54XP6W | 2023 | 5 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Michael Finkel
Narrator: Michael Finkel, Edoardo Ballerini

For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money.

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Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031147995 | 330 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 12 MB
This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism-in terms of visual spectacle (the military triumph), literary genre (epic in relation to elegy), material culture (art and luxury goods), and geographic space-as intersecting with ancient norms of gender and sexuality in a way that reinforces Rome’s dominance in the Mediterranean. The introductory chapter lays out the postcolonial frame, drawing from the work of Edward Said among other theorists, and situates love elegy in relation to Roman Hellenism and the varied Roman responses to Greece and its cultural influences. Four of the six subsequent chapters focus on the rhetorical ambivalence that characterizes love elegy’s treatment of Greek influence: the representation of the domina or mistress as simultaneously a figure for ‘captive Greece’ and a trope for Roman imperialism; the motif of the elegiac triumph, with varying figures playing the triumphator, as suggestive of Greco-Roman cultural rivalry; Rome’s competing visions of an Attic and an Asiatic Hellenism. The second and the final chapter focus on the figures of Osiris and Isis, respectively, as emblematic of Rome’s colonialist and ambivalent representation of Egypt, with the conclusion offering a deconstructive reading of elegy’s rhetoric of orientalism.

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I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl


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MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 7:52 h | 2011 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0054ISUB4 | English | 216 Mb
Laurie Notaro is married, mortgaged, and now – miraculously – employed in the corporate world, discovering that bosses come in all shapes, sizes, and degrees of mental stability. After maxing out her last good credit card at Banana Republic, she’s dressed for success and ready to face the jungle: surviving feral, six-foot-plus Gretchen ("The Three Thousand Faces of Eve") before battling the overbearing, overstuffed (in way-too-small pants) new mom Suzi, who ruthlessly cancels Laurie’s newspaper column and learns that payback can be a bitch.
Laurie also explores the backstabbing world of preschoolers at a Halloween party, the X-rated madness of a family trip to Disneyland, and the pressure from her QVC-addicted mother and the rest of the world to reproduce. But while losing more friends to babies than to booze, she realizes there’s a plus side: for at least a couple of months, she gets to be the thinner friend.
I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies) is Notaro at her deliciously quirky best. Can a woman prone to what her loved ones might term "meltdowns" (she considers them "Opportunities to Enlighten") put a smile on her face and love everybody? Take a guess.

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How to Be a Patriot Why Love of Country Can End Our Very British Culture War [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BXM46KZN | 2023 | 7 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 208 MB
Author: Sunder Katwala
Narrator: Sunder Katwala

On race, nationhood, belonging and Britain’s identity crisis. Sunder Katwala grew up with some identity questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic kid, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal. Yet he came to realise that, with that background, he could hardly be anything but proudly British. And feeling British was getting much easier once the banana-throwing racists on the football terraces and Norman Tebbit’s divisive cricket test gave way to a softer patriotism as the spirit of the Britpop era carried through to Danny Boyle’s Olympic opening ceremony. Gazza’s tears and Gareth Southgate had changed what it meant to be English too.

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For the Love of Go (2023 edition)


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Released 6/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 7 Lessons (6h 13m) | Size: 766 MB
Hello, and welcome to learning Go! It’s great to have you here. This is the bundled edition of ‘For the Love of Go’, a book introducing the Go programming language, suitable for complete beginners, plus an accompanying video course where I’ll walk you step-by-step through every part of the material. If you don’t know anything about Go yet, or programming, but would like to learn, you’re in the right place! If you do already know something about Go, you should still find the course and book fun and interesting. Includes free updates for life.

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