"A fascinating look into the BDSM culture like never before, The Devil In The Detatils trilogy is a refreshing new perspective on the sustainability of power exchange relationships, in the 21st century."--Publisher's description.

"A fascinating look into the BDSM culture like never before, The Devil In The Detatils trilogy is a refreshing new perspective on the sustainability of power exchange relationships, in the 21st century."--Publisher's description.

The critical real life issues facing all master-slave couples. Developing skills and the framework for healthy living within the M/s dynamic, is the Art of Mastery. Volume III is where the pedal meets the metal! Where words become things; ideas become action; and happiness is achieved in the reality of day-to-day life. No theory, philosophy, knowledge of skills, or issues is worth a pinched nipple, if it cannot translate into sustainable structure. Theory and talk is over, now to apply a master's values and skills into a consensual relationship with a slave, 24/7, same roof, intended to endure. Entertaining and funny, yet providing the detailed management tools needed to sustain a master-slave relationship for a lifetime. All the issues masters face are addressed with workable solutions. Tracing his thirty-year journey through the lifestyle, the author clarifies and demystifies mastery like never before, in ways aspiring dominants can learn. It truly is a masters mentoring series, like no other. Even slaves will insist masters read it. Extraordinarily informative, with in depth analysis of the BDSM continuum, it's joys and pitfalls, providing the theory and tools to live a power exchange relationship, happily over time. Understanding of the slave mind, the fundamentals of relationships, and mostly his knowledge of power and its application, make this a must read for both slaves and masters alike. Everyone will learn from this. Hysterically funny, wildly erotic and as entertaining a read as there is. The anecdotal "mindfucks" he shares are sometimes breathtaking, deeply poignant, often hilarious, and always provide a unique view into the world of sustainable and healthy BDSM. But it is the explanation of what happens inside a master slave relationship, and the detailed look at the issues, why they occur, what they mean, and most importantly, how to address them that elevates these books in the genre. Written magically, without an air of condescension, with expertise and authority, yet he makes no claims to a definitive path on anything more than his own life. A must read for anyone considering a relationship of master-slavery. This is a resource long needed in the BDSM community.

Want To Find Your Voice? Learn from the Best. Time and time again you've been told to find your own unique writing style, as if it were as simple as pulling it out of thin air. But finding your voice isn't easy, so where better to look than to the greatest writers of our time? Write Like the Masters analyzes the writing styles of twenty-one great novelists, including Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Franz Kafka, Flannery O'Connor, and Ray Bradbury. This fascinating and insightful guide shows you how to imitate the masters of literature and, in the process, learn advanced writing secrets to fire up your own work. You'll discover: • Herman Melville's secrets for creating characters as memorable as Captain Ahab • How to master point of view with techniques from Fyodor Dostoevesky • Ways to pick up the pace by keeping your sentences lean like Ernest Hemingway • The importance of sensual details from James Bond creator Ian Fleming • How to add suspense to your story by following the lead of the master of horror, Stephen King Whether you're working on a unique voice for your next novel or you're a composition student toying with different styles, this guide will help you gain insight into the work of the masters through the rhetorical technique of imitation. Filled with practical, easy-to-apply advice, Write Like the Masters is your key to understanding and using the proven techniques of history's greatest authors.

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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.

From the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a vital work revealing that the secret to mastery is already within you. Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master. Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship, absorb the hidden knowledge possessed by those with years of experience, surge past competitors to surpass them in brilliance, and explode established patterns from within. Study the behaviors of Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Leonardo da Vinci and the nine contemporary Masters interviewed for this book. The bestseller author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene has spent a lifetime studying the laws of power. Now, he shares the secret path to greatness. With this seminal text as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters.