The most dangerous game of all... Standing outside a decadent Las Vegas nightclub, innocent schoolteacher Daisy Wyndham has never felt more out of her depth. And that's before sultry Argentinian polo player Luiz Valquez rides to her rescue in front of the global media, leading to reports of their engagement.... It's a dangerous charade, but one they're both prepared to play! Luiz can shake his playboy image, and Daisy can cast aside her cloistered upbringing. With Luiz doing his best to be good and Daisy trying her hardest to be bad, it's only a matter of time before one of them gives in....

TheIndispensable Excess of the Aesthetic: Evolution of Sensibility in Nature traces the evolution of sensibility from the most primal indications detectable at the level of cellular receptors and plant tendril sensitivity, animal creativity and play to cultural ramifications. Taking on Darwin’s insistence against Wallace that animals do have a sense of beauty, and on recent evolutionary observations, this book compellingly argues that sensibility is a biological faculty that emerges together with life. It argues that there is appreciation and discernment of quality, order, and meaning by organisms in various species determined by their morphological adaptations and environmental conditions. Drawing upon Baumgarten’s foundational definition of aesthetics as scientia cognitionis sensitivae, this book proposes a non-anthropocentric approach to aesthetics as well as the use of empirical evidence to sustain its claims updating aesthetic understanding with contemporary biosemiotic and evolutionary theory. The text leads us along three distinct but entwined areas: from the world of matter to that of living matter to the realm of cultivated living matter for exploring how and why sensibility could have evolved. It points out that aspects traditionally used to demarcate and characterize human aesthetics—such as appreciation of symmetry, proportion and color, as well as pleasure, valuation and empathy, sensory seduction, creativity, and skills for representation, even fiction—are present not only in humans but among a variety of plant and animal species.

Don Juan is one of the most intriguing creations of Western literature, a perpetual source of fascination. In the popular imagination he exists as a legendary seducer of women, a trickster and transgressor of sacred boundaries. Crossing cultures from east to west, he has been the recipient of countless revisions, while the twentieth century has viewed the figure afresh through the prism of its own cultural terms of reference and social concerns. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Tales of Seduction focuses on the fascinating intersections between myth, culture and intellectual inquiry. Sarah Wright takes Don Juan back to Spain and examines the confluences of Spanish culture with aspects of Western intellectual history (such as medicine, psychoanalysis and linguistics), where she finds Don Juan continues to transgress the limits of culture until the present.

Knowing how to live is knowing how to love. Love at any age builds feelings that are cultivated throughout life. We are always going to find difficulties, disappointments, sadness and joy, but true love is also achieved when you least expect it. In this book conflicting passions, youthful loves, destinies of different people for long years left behind are evoked. Secret loves are outlined that culminate in tears, others with deep loneliness and many full of happiness. Sometimes they are memory torments that feed each memory. The shore of the ages reflects the epic and dazzling stages of life in each phase of love, the truces, the rudeness, the cruelty, the friendship and the spell of love, in each lived moment that was historical for each heart in its time. . It confirms humility and passion when loving. The pride of living in many souls in search of dreams embarked on the glory of the longing to love together with sweeping and prudent days as witnesses. Each poem in a different way, each situation with reins that suddenly go crazy. This book invites us to travel, stalking love, keeping the word love safe, saving our dreams in an unforgettable way, waiting for the precision of time to bring the protagonist of your life to your side. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saber vivir es saber amar. El amor a cualquier edad construye sentimientos que se cultivan a lo largo de la vida. Siempre nos vamos a encontrar con dificultades, decepciones, tristezas y alegrías, pero el amor verdadero también se logra cuando menos lo esperas. En este libro se evocan pasiones encontradas, amores juveniles, destinos de diferentes personas por largos años dejados atrás. Se perfilan amores secretos que culminan en llanto, otros con profunda soledad y muchos llenos de felicidad. A veces son tormentos de memoria que alimentan cada recuerdo. La orilla de las edades refleja las épicas y deslumbrantes etapas de la vida en cada fase del amor, las treguas, la rudeza, la crueldad, la amistad y el embrujo del amor, en cada momento vivido que fue histórico para cada corazón en su tiempo. Confirma la humildad y la pasión al amar. El orgullo de vivir en muchas almas en busca de sueños embarcados en la gloria del anhelo de amar junto a días arrebatadores y prudentes como testigos. Cada poema de una manera diferente, cada situación con riendas que de repente se vuelven locas. Este libro nos invita a viajar, acechando el amor, manteniendo a salvo la palabra amor, salvando nuestros sueños de manera inolvidable, esperando la precisión del tiempo para traer a tu lado al protagonista de tu vida.

¿Sabes cuántas personas han muerto en el mundo por hablar en público? Si crees que la respuesta es «ninguna», te equivocas. William Henry Harrison, noveno presidente de Estados Unidos (1773-1841), falleció después de dar su discurso de investidura. Los hechos sucedieron así: cuentan que pronunció su alocución del 4 de marzo sin estar lo suficientemente abrigado, por lo que murió un mes después... de neumonía. Hoy en día para casi el 90% de las profesiones se necesita hablar en público. Si eres emprendedor, es imprescindible que sepas hacer una efectiva y breve presentación para explicar cómo es tu empresa y venderte a posibles clientes (es lo que se viene llamando conversación del ascensor o elevator pitch). Si eres un profesional que pronuncia conferencias, conocer cómo se hace un Pecha Kucha es básico para aprender a sintetizar y controlar los tiempos. Si eres periodista tu oportunidad está en saber escribir discursos con Programación Neurolingu ̈ística (PNL), un trabajo de presente y futuro. Si diseñas presentaciones visuales para ti o para otros tienes que estar a la última en cuanto a tendencias de comunicación. Y, si no empleas la oratoria en tu vida profesional, en la personal también encontrarás oportunidades para utilizarla: en un brindis en una boda, al defender tu punto de vista ante la comunidad de vecinos o hacer una pregunta en un debate.

Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially her daring eroticism, her inventive appropriation of vampirism, and her morbid embrace of death and pain. No work until now, however, has shown how her poetry reflects a search for an alternative, feminized discourse, a discourse that engages in an imaginative dialogue with Rubén Darío's recourse to literary paternity and undertakes an audacious rewriting of social, sexual, and poetic conventions. In the first major exploration of Agustini's life and work, Cathy L. Jrade examines her energizing appropriation and reinvention of modernista verse and the dynamics of her breakthrough poetics, a poetics that became a model for later women writers.

¡YO NACI PARA TENER UNA VIDA MEJOR! En este libro de auto-ayuda yo quiero mostrarte una enseñanza que data más de 3000 años y te revelare paso a paso en una forma muy sencilla y fácil de de ver la vida en otro nivel. Vivirás tu vida como nunca, no importa si eres feliz, no tienes dinero, quieres tener una mejor relación con tu pareja, quieres lograr un mejor trabajo o negocio. No hay tiempos malos, ni una mala vida la solución está en Tú poder interno. Descubre la magia del amor, experimentaras una vida grata llena de bendiciones. Tú crearas los milagros que siempre has soñado. Descubre la magia de tu poder interno...vive tu vida como te lo mereces.