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Do gentlemen really prefer blondes? : bodies, behavior and brains : the science behind sex, love, and attraction

Do gentlemen really prefer blondes? : bodies, behavior and brains : the science behind sex, love, and attraction

by J. Pincott

How long does it take to decide if a person is hot? Is your lover more likely to get you pregnant than your husband? Can men tell when a woman is fertile? If you’ve ever wondered how scientists measure love—or whether men really prefer blondes over brunettes—this smart, sexy book provides real answers to these and many other questions about our most baffling dating and mating behaviors. Based on the latest... (more)

Women Who Run with the Wolves

Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Combining themes from multicultural stories with her own clinical work, the author of this book shows women how to tap into the healing and creative energies of the "wild" woman - the wise and ageless presence in the feminine psyche.

LGBTQ America today : an encyclopedia

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture is a vibrant and rapidly evolving segment of the American mosaic. This book gives students and general readers a current guide to the people and issues at the forefront of contemporary LGBTQ America. Included are more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries on literature and the arts, associations and organizations, individuals, law and public policy... (more)

The awakening

by Kate Chopin

Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an illustrated introduction to the contexts and major issues of the text in its time and ours; an annotated bibliography for... (more)

My secret garden : women's sexual fantasies

My secret garden : women's sexual fantasies

by Nancy Friday

Welcome to Nancy Friday's secret garden, a hidden place where ordinary women are free to express the sexual dreams they have never dared to confide before. Safe behind the walls of anonymity, hundreds of real women responded to Nancy Friday's call for details of their own most private fantasies. My Secret Garden is the daring compilation of those fantasies. When it first appeared, it created a storm of outrage... (more)

Why boys & girls are different

by Carol Greene

Don't Get Too Comfortable

by David Rakoff

The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud , established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable , Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty that is contemporary North America. Rarely have greed, vanity,... (more)

Brokeback Mountain : story to screenplay

Brokeback Mountain : story to screenplay

by Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece. Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love... (more)

Thong on Fire: An Urban Erotic Tale

by Noire

I was just a lost little girl forced to make it in a grown woman's world. A child turned out by the rulers of the game. When you get thrown into a snakepit you better learn how to wiggle! It's all about survival, baby. And not only did I learn the code of the streets, I made my own damn rules and got paid in the process. So listen close, but watch your pockets. I'm a Harlem girl. A scandalous chick. A ruthless... (more)

Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman of Pleasure (Wadsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Classics)

Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman of Pleasure (Wadsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Classics)

by John Cleland

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the subject of a trial, yet in the eighteenth century John Cleland's open celebration of sexual enjoyment was a best selling novel. Fanny's story, as she falls into prostitution and then rises to respectability, takes the form of a confession... (more)

Chaucer : an Oxford guide

The most comprehensive guide to Chaucer's work available, this volume features thirty-seven specially commissioned chapters by an international team of esteemed contributors. Offering work from both academics with long-standing reputations and newer voices in the field, it combines general essays that provide background and contextual information with detailed readings of specific Chaucerian texts. The book... (more)

The essential Rene? Magritte

by Todd Alden

This book reveals the many tantalizing guises of Magritte as painter, writer, Surrealist, thinker, chess player, graphic designer, advertising man, magazine editor, anti-Fascist, moviegoer, pulp mystery fan, and classical music lover. Finally you'll understand (and laugh at) the meaning of that train zooming out of the fireplace and the giant green apple that fills an entire room. Rich with background information... (more)

Ka?masu?tra. (English)

by Vatsyayana

Utterly frank in its attitude to sex, the Kama Sutra is Vatsyayana's classic study of the arts of love. In this new translation, Indra Sinha captures the beautiful, vivid language of the original as well as the humor that's been lost in previous versions.

Identity games : globalization and the transformation of media cultures in the new Europe

Identity games : globalization and the transformation of media cultures in the new Europe

by Aniko?. Imre

Eastern Europe's historically unprecedented and accelerated transition from late communism to late capitalism, coupled with media globalization, set in motion a scramble for cultural identity and a struggle over access to and control over media technologies. In Identity Games, Anikó Imre examines the corporate transformation of the postcommunist media landscape in Eastern Europe. Avoiding both uncritical... (more)

For Her Own Good

Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women

by Barbara Ehrenreich

A provocative new perspective on female history, the history of American medicine and psychology, and the history of child-rearing unlike any other.

The Good Vibrations guide : adult videos

The Good Vibrations guide : adult videos

by Cathy Winks

Salmonella men on Planet Porno : stories

Salmonella men on Planet Porno : stories

by Yasutaka Tsutsui

This collection of marvelously off-kilter short stories – the American debut of acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui – portrays the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide and throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray. In “The Dabba Dabba Tree” Tsutsui describes the hilarious side effects of a small conical tree that, when placed at the foot of one’s bed, creates... (more)

The way of the superior man : a spiritual guide to mastering the challenges of women, work, and sexual desire

The way of the superior man : a spiritual guide to mastering the challenges of women, work, and sexual desire

by David Deida

The Way Of The Superior Man takes the reader on a powerful journey into the heart of the contemporary masculine experience. With uncommon honesty and unparalleled insight into the deepest desires of the masculine heart, David Deida explores the most challenging and important issues in men's lives. Covering everything from work and career, to dealing with sex, women, and love, to finding purpose in an increasingly... (more)

Love, lust, desire : masterpieces of erotic photography for couples

Love, lust, desire : masterpieces of erotic photography for couples

by Michelle Olley

Love Lust Desire is the ultimate book of erotic photography for couples, featuring the best work of the leading erotic photographers. These photographs celebrate the ways in which people express their sexuality, from fetishism to fantasy, and show the beauty of the naked male and female form. The images of couples bring a new dimension to the nude study, while the range of photographers, with their different... (more)

The Pact

by Jodi Picoult

Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is dead&#8212shot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father's... (more)

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