Love, Loyalty and Deceit
Title | Love, Loyalty and Deceit PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Firth |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2023-09-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 180073977X |
How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century. Told by Rosemary and Raymond Firth's son, and the daughter of Celia and Edmund Leach, the man Rosemary loved all her life, this part love-story, part biography, part social history is the tale of a highly influential circle of social anthropologists in Britain from the 1930s, through the Second World War, to the end of the century. The book explores their early influences, their insecurities, their flaws, struggles and achievements. It is a story of passion and commitment, but also of deceit and betrayal, including the inexplicable disappearance, death and alleged murder of a very close friend. It also narrates Rosemary's struggles for emotional and intellectual independence in the face of societal expectations of women and her own guilt, loss and self-doubt. From the Prologue: Rosemary loved many people in many different ways, but she loved two men in particular throughout most of her life. One was her husband, Raymond Firth, regarded by some as among the founding fathers of social anthropology. Yet she also retained a passionate devotion to her first love, Edmund Leach, who would subsequently become the public intellectual face of social anthropology in the later 1960s. Both separately and together they were part of the process of defining the nature of this still growing discipline in the first part of the mid-twentieth century.
Our Cheating Hearts
Title | Our Cheating Hearts PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Figes |
Publisher | Virago |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-08-12 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 9781844087297 |
By the author known and respected for her acclaimed books on relationships. Most of us manage to be monogamous, most of the time, but who cannot imagine themselves committing the 'crime' of adultery? Does being 'faithful' mean the same to everyone? Why DO people have affairs? Using real life testimony alongside the most current research, Our Cheating Hearts looks at the big questions around love and commitment. It lifts taboos, asks the tough questions and shows how in our progressive time monogamy has become the new ideal. Some people manage monogamy. For the countless others that don't, Our Cheating Hearts opens the debate and provides the honest approach that's essential.
Ghosts of the Bx
Title | Ghosts of the Bx PDF eBook |
Author | Adonis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-03-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780990368502 |
Ready to read a book that is going to grab you right from the intro with money, shadiness, and all out betrayal?...Ghosts of the BX is definitely one for you! The story keeps you interested from beginning to end. The story takes many twists and turns right up to an end you don't expect. You name it, its happening in this book. You would think the good guys would win... But not in this one.
All this Could be Yours
Title | All this Could be Yours PDF eBook |
Author | Jami Attenberg |
Publisher | Ecco |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0544824253 |
Now that her power-hungry father Victor is on his deathbed, Alex travels to New Orleans to unearth the secrets of who Victor is and what he did over the course of his life and career
Verity
Title | Verity PDF eBook |
Author | Colleen Hoover |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2021-10-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 153872474X |
Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Loyalty in Death
Title | Loyalty in Death PDF eBook |
Author | J. D. Robb |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1999-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780425171400 |
In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series known for its tantalizing blend of romance, suspense, and futuristic police procedural, New York cop Eve Dallas faces her most ingenious foe: a “secret admirer” who taunts her with letters…and kills without mercy. An unknown bomber is stalking New York City. He is sending Eve Dallas taunting letters promising to wreak mass terror and destruction among the “corrupt masses.” And when his cruel web of deceit and destruction threatens those she cares for most, Eve fights back. It’s her city...it’s her job...and it’s hitting too close to home. Now, in a race against a ticking clock, Eve must make the pieces fit—before the city falls.
Unfounded Loyalty
Title | Unfounded Loyalty PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne Perryman |
Publisher | Hara Publishing Group |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Unfounded Loyalty offers a profound look at the influences that have shaped the cultural development of modern Black America. The book re-examines historic assumptions about the role of Christianity and the Democratic Party as supporters of civil-rights and black voters. In an investigative style, Perryman reveals shocking events and deceptions which are part of America's untold history. Unfounded Loyalty is a compelling, well researched and documented historical study.