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The Annotated Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679727299 (0-679-72729-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annotated Lolita'Book summary:In 1954 Vladimir Nabokov asked one American publisher to consider "a firebomb that I have just finished putting together." The explosive device: Lolita, his morality play about a middle-aged European's obsession with a 12-year-old American girl. Two years later, the New York Times called it "great art." Other reviewers staked a higher moral ground (the editor of the London Sunday Express declaring it "the filthiest book I've ever read"). Since then, the sinuous novel has never ceased to astound. Even Nabokov was astonished by its place in the popular imagination. One biographer writes that "he was quite shocked when a little girl of eight or nine came to his door for candy on Halloween, dressed up by her parents as Lolita." And when it came time to casting the film, Nabokov declared, "Let them find a dwarfess!"
The character Lolita's power now exists almost separately from the endlessly inventive novel. If only it were read as often as it is alluded to. Alfred Appel Jr., editor of the annotated edition, has appended some 900 notes, an exhaustive, good-humored introduction, and a recent preface in which he admits that the "reader familiar with Lolita can approach the apparatus as a separate unit, but the perspicacious student who keeps turning back and forth from text to Notes risks vertigo." No matter. The notes range from translations to the anatomical to the complex textual. Appel is also happy to point out the Great Punster's supposedly unintended word play: he defends the phrase "Beaver Eaters" as "a portmanteau of 'Beefeaters' (the yeoman of the British royal guard) and their beaver hats." [via]
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Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeby Marjorie GarberISBN 0415926610 (0-415-92661-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life'Book summary:"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."
-Gore Vidal
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Care of the Self the History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394741552 (0-394-74155-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Care of the Self the History of Sexuality'Book summary:The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences. [via]
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The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Textby Alain DanielouISBN 0892815256 (0-89281-525-6)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text'Book summary:The galaxy of pleasures in Alain Daniélou's translation of the Kama Sutra takes you back to an India where sexuality was an integral part of life and an avenue to spiritual bliss. As Devadatta Shastri says in his commentary: "At the moment when the peak of bliss is attained, the internal and external world vanish. The man and woman cease to be separate entities and lose themselves in the beatitudes of being." Daniélou's elegant rendering includes not only the entire sutra, much of which is excluded in other versions, but two essential commentaries as well. More than just a pillow book, the Kama Sutra is a guide to the labyrinth of sexual etiquette, from how to bathe before meeting a lover to how lovers should entertain each other after making love. Admittedly, the text is dated and culture bound in places; it can be chauvinistic, bizarre, and even violent. The commentators are careful to point out, however, that the work is an overview of all sexual practices, some of which are not recommended. Take from this encyclopedia of amour what you will and let it keep you moving down the path of spiritual practice. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Complete Kama Sutra: The 1st Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Textby Vatsyayana, Alain DanielouISBN 0892814926 (0-89281-492-6)
Hardcover, Inner Traditions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Kama Sutra: The 1st Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text'Book summary:The galaxy of pleasures in Alain Daniélou's translation of the Kama Sutra takes you back to an India where sexuality was an integral part of life and an avenue to spiritual bliss. As Devadatta Shastri says in his commentary: "At the moment when the peak of bliss is attained, the internal and external world vanish. The man and woman cease to be separate entities and lose themselves in the beatitudes of being." Daniélou's elegant rendering includes not only the entire sutra, much of which is excluded in other versions, but two essential commentaries as well. More than just a pillow book, the Kama Sutra is a guide to the labyrinth of sexual etiquette, from how to bathe before meeting a lover to how lovers should entertain each other after making love. Admittedly, the text is dated and culture bound in places; it can be chauvinistic, bizarre, and even violent. The commentators are careful to point out, however, that the work is an overview of all sexual practices, some of which are not recommended. Take from this encyclopedia of amour what you will and let it keep you moving down the path of spiritual practice. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilitiesby Dossie Easton, Catherine A. LisztISBN 1890159018 (1-890159-01-8)
Softcover, Greenery Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities'Book summary:At last..a comprehensive, no-holds-barred guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Here are all the skills you need for successful...and ethical...sluthood, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners to resolving conflict, raising children to caring for your health. If you've ever envisioned a universe beyond traditional lifetime monogamy, this is the book for you! [via]
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Gender Troubleby Judith ButlerISBN 1428815627 (1-4288-1562-7)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble'Book summary:Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780415924993 [via]
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identityby Judith ButlerISBN 0415389550 (0-415-38955-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity'Book summary:In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender). The book was produced, according to Butler, "as part of the cultural life of a collective struggle that has had, and will continue to have, some success in increasing the possibilities for a livable life for those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins." An attack on the essentialism of French feminist theory and its basis in structuralist anthropology, Gender Trouble expands to address the cultural prejudices at play in genetic studies of sex determination, as well as the uses of gender parody, and also provides a critical genealogy of the naturalization of sex. A primer in gender studies--and sexy reading for college cafés. --Regina Marler [via]
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- Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity: ISBN 0415924995 (0-415-92499-5)
Softcover, Routledge - Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity: ISBN 0415900433 (0-415-90043-3)
Softcover, Routledge - Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity: ISBN 0415900425 (0-415-90042-5)
Hardcover, Routledge - Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity: ISBN 0415389550 (0-415-38955-0)
Softcover, Routledge
- Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity: ISBN 0415924995 (0-415-92499-5)
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Guide to Getting It On!: America's Coolest & Most Informative Book About Sex for Adults of All Agesby Paul Joannides, Daerick GrossISBN 1885535007 (1-885535-00-7)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guide to Getting It On!: America's Coolest & Most Informative Book About Sex for Adults of All Ages'Book summary:The award-winning Guide To Getting It On! is the most comprehensive how-to book on sex that is currently available. It is used as required reading in sex ed classes at more than 30 colleges and universities, and is said to have been responsible for cracked plaster in bedroom ceilings all across America. The Guide makes reading about sex almost as much fun as doing it. [via]
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- Guide to Getting It On!: The Universe's Coolest and Most Informative Book About Sex for Adults of All Ages: ISBN 1885535104 (1-885535-10-4)
Softcover, Pub Group West - Guide to Getting It On!: America's Coolest & Most Informative Book About Sex for Adults of All Ages: ISBN 1885535007 (1-885535-00-7)
Softcover, Pub Group West
- Guide to Getting It On!: The Universe's Coolest and Most Informative Book About Sex for Adults of All Ages: ISBN 1885535104 (1-885535-10-4)
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Guide to Getting It On!: Best Little Sex Guide in the Whole Wide Worldby Daerick Gross, Paul JoannidesISBN 1885535694 (1-885535-69-4)
Softcover, Goofy Foot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guide to Getting It On!: Best Little Sex Guide in the Whole Wide World'Book summary:The Guide To Getting It On! has won five awards and has been translated into 12 foreign languages. It has sold hundreds of thousands of copies from the dorms of UC San Diego to the bedrooms of Tripoli. Some people say The Guide is the best how-to book on sex ever written--we say it's the most fun to read. It is smart enough to be used in sex education courses, but is also a favorite at stores that sell the kind of sex toys that will land you in the slammer in Mississippi, Alabama and Texas. Schools even use it to train doctors. The Guide covers a full range of topics from romance, necking and losing your virginity, to things we can't even mention here. [via]
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Guide to Getting It On!: Includes Dating, Kissing, Love, Sex, Romance, Marriage, Oral Sex, Fellatio, Cunnillingus, Intercourse, Orgasms, Masturbation, Cybersex, the Prostate,by Paul Joannides, Daerick GrossISBN 1885535678 (1-885535-67-8)
Softcover, Goofy Foot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guide to Getting It On!: Includes Dating, Kissing, Love, Sex, Romance, Marriage, Oral Sex, Fellatio, Cunnillingus, Intercourse, Orgasms, Masturbation, Cybersex, the Prostate,'Book summary:The Guide To Getting It On marks a new generation in the story of sex manuals. The 1960s saw a new sexual revolution leading to the publication of The Joy Of Sex, which has graced many millions of bookshelves. This is a guide to come from the 1990s, now published in the United Kingdom for the first time in its third edition.
The Guide To Getting It On is frank, explicit, humorous and informative. Like that other popular guide to emerge from the nineties, the computer manual, this is a pretty weighty and wordy book. And, like the computer manual, it is divided into very specific chapters, 51 in total, and is equipped with a comprehensive glossary and index. The chapters cover all manner of kinks and curves. Is anal sex your thing? Then there's a chapter on it. Want to learn about vaginal massage? There's a chapter on it. Oral sex, masturbation, sex toys--it's all covered.
But this guide isn't just about the sexual mechanics. There are sensitively written chapters here about the nature of eroticism and fantasy. There is good advice for first timers with sections such as "On The Penis", "What's Inside a Girl", and "The How-To Part", which stress the importance of emotional consideration and consent. There are also brief explanations on how to recognise the early indications of breast, testicular, and prostate cancer.
Each chapter is illustrated with cartoon-style line drawings, complete with the occasional witty caption, and with first-hand accounts of how people like to "get it on". These confessionals are reassuringly honest and sometimes touching. They elevate this guide from a "how to", to a "have done and it's great!" The depth of coverage in this guide is as comprehensive as it can be without breaching any laws. How do you like it? Well if it's legal it's likely to be covered by The Guide To Getting It On. It's fair to say that no matter what your level of sexual experience is, or how much of a great lover you might think you are, this book is guaranteed to put a smile on your face--and perhaps someone else's. --Iain Robinson [via]
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The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394417755 (0-394-41775-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of Sexuality: An Introduction'Book summary:The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. [via]
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The Hite Reportby Shere HiteISBN 0440136903 (0-440-13690-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexualityby Shere HiteISBN 1583225692 (1-58322-569-2)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality'Book summary:This book presents a new theory of female sexuality, which unfolds gradually, chapter by chapter, and can best be understood by reading the book in chapter order. [via]
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- The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality: ISBN 0025518518 (0-02-551851-8)
Hardcover, Macmillan - The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality: ISBN 0671069632 (0-671-06963-2)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co - The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality: ISBN 1583225692 (1-58322-569-2)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
- The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality: ISBN 0025518518 (0-02-551851-8)
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in Americaby John D'Emilio, Estelle B. FreedmanISBN 0226142647 (0-226-14264-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America'Book summary:The first full length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans, from colonial times to today. D'Emilio and Freedman give us a deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics and culture throughout our history.[via]
"The book John D'Emilio co-wrote with Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters, was cited by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy when, writing for a majority of court on July 26, he and his colleagues struck down a Texas law criminalizing sodomy. The decision was widely hailed as a victory for gay rights--and it derived in part, according to Kennedy's written comments, from the information he gleaned from D'Emilio's book, which traces the history of American perspectives on sexual relationships from the nation's founding through the present day. The justice mentioned Intimate Matters specifically in the court's decision."--Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
"Fascinating. . . . [D'Emilio and Freedman] marshall their material to chart a gradual but decisive shift in the way Americans have understood sex and its meaning in their lives." --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review
"[With] comprehensiveness and care . . . D'Emilio and Freedman have surveyed the sexual patters for an entire nation across four centuries." --Martin Bauml Duberman, Nation
"Intimate Matters is comprehensive, meticulous and intelligent." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"This book is remarkable. . . . [Intimate Matters] is bound to become the definitive survey of American sexual history for years to come." --Roy Porter, Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesMore editions of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America:
- Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America: ISBN 0060915501 (0-06-091550-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America: ISBN 0060158557 (0-06-015855-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America: ISBN 0226142647 (0-226-14264-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
- Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America: ISBN 0060915501 (0-06-091550-1)
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Kama Sutraby Vatsyayana, Richard Francis BurtonISBN 185326606X (1-85326-606-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kama Sutra'Book summary:The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it is more than a book about sex. It is about the art of living--about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs--and also, of course, about the many and varied positions available to lovers in sexual intercourse and the pleasures to be derived from each.
The Kamasutra was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, sometime in the third century, probably in North India. It combines an encyclopedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual psychology and a dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction, consummation, and disentanglement. Best known in English through the highly mannered, padded, and inaccurate nineteenth-century translation by Sir Richard Burton, the text is newly translated here into clear, vivid, sexually frank English. This edition also includes a section of vivid Indian color illustrations along with three uniquely important commentaries: translated excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (thirteenth century) and from a twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the two translators.
The lively and entertaining introduction by translator Wendy Doniger, one of the world's foremost Sanskrit scholars, discusses the history of The Kamasutra and its reception in India and Europe, analyses its attitudes toward gender and sexual violence, and sets it in the context of ancient Indian social theory, scientific method, and sexual ethics.
"[This] new translation is fascinating, thought-provoking and occasionally even amusing."--Salon.com [via]More editions of Kama Sutra:
- Kama Sutra: ISBN 0192839829 (0-19-283982-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Kama Sutra/a Pillow Book: ISBN 0062508318 (0-06-250831-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Kama Sutra: ISBN 0192802704 (0-19-280270-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Kama-Sutra: ISBN 8495002574 (84-95002-57-4)
Softcover, Edimat Libros - Kama Sutra: ISBN 8174360824 (81-7436-082-4)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services - Kama Sutra: ISBN 185326606X (1-85326-606-X)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
- Kama Sutra: ISBN 0192839829 (0-19-283982-9)
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The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyanaby Called Mallanaga VatsyayanaISBN 014019360X (0-14-019360-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana'Book summary:The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrated as a literary event of highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature.[via]Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the Kama Sutra's importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained an indispensable key to understanding it.
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayanaby Vatsyayana, Richard F. BurtonISBN 1420925849 (1-4209-2584-9)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana'Book summary:Written by Vatsyayana sometime between the 1st and 6th centuries A.D., "Kama Sutra" is literally translated as "Aphorisms on Love." Intended as a manual for not only love and intimacy but also a treatise on the politics and customs of relationships between men and women. The "Kama Sutra", while sought after for its instruction on sexual positions, is much more than just a guide for lovemaking. Presented here is the classic translation of Sir Richard Burton. [via]
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: The Classic Burton Translationby Richard F. Burton, VatsyayanaISBN 0486452379 (0-486-45237-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: The Classic Burton Translation'Book summary:A classic of world literature for 1,700 years, this is the most explicit and fascinating book ever written for lovers. Its methods of cultivating sensual pleasure, sexual desire, and loving union offer a wellspring of erotic knowledge and inspiration. It also serves as a window into Indian culture and mysticism.[via]More editions of The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: The Classic Burton Translation:
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Kama Sutra: The Arts of Loveby Zek Halu, Misha Halu, Jane Graham-MawISBN 0722532377 (0-7225-3237-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kama Sutra: The Arts of Love'Book summary:The Kama Sutra is the most famous book on the art and skills of sex and love ever written. [via]
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The Kama Sutra: The Hindu Art of Loveby Moti Chandra, S. C. UpadhyayaISBN 1842930656 (1-84293-065-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra: The Hindu Art of Love'Book summary:This is the only truly authentic translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra from the ancient Sanskrit. [via]
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Kama Sutra: The Rules of Love and Erotic Practiceby Vatsyayana, Manuela Dunn-Mascetti, Manuela Dunn MascettiISBN 060960726X (0-609-60726-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kama Sutra: The Rules of Love and Erotic Practice'Book summary:Including never-before-published art drawn from the classical Indian text on the rules of love and erotic practice, this Kama Sutra box contains an exotic talisman in the form of a statuette of two lovers from the tantric Khajuraho temple in India, a talisman that will enhance lovers' passion and effectiveness simply through touch and the observance of the rituals and sutras found in the beautifully illustrated book. Filled with teachings on the art of making love, the text spans the spectrum of erotic practice, from the foundation of love to the best matches between partners, techniques of kissing, different sexual positions, reversal of roles, and how to approach the eternal dilemma of infidelity. Illustrated with exquisite miniatures of Indian art, this box is a wonderful gift for lovers that reflects the ancient and elegant tradition of passionate sexuality. [via]
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Kamasutraby Wendy Doniger, Sudhir KakarISBN 0762416084 (0-7624-1608-4)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Kamasutra of Vatsyayanaby Richard F. Burton, Called Mallanaga VatsyayanaISBN 0375759247 (0-375-75924-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana'Book summary:Sir Richard F. Burtons translation of The Kama Sutra remains one of the best English interpretations of this early Indian treatise on politics, social customs, love, and intimacy. Its crisp style set a new standard for Sanskrit translation.
The Kama Sutra stands uniquely as a work of psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, and sexology. It has been a celebrated classic of Indian literature for 1,700 years and a window for the West into the culture and mysticism of the East.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative text of Sir Richard F. Burtons 1883 translation. [via]More editions of Kamasutra of Vatsyayana:
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Susan Ostrov WeisserISBN 1593082398 (1-59308-239-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterly's Lover'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0141441496 (0-14-144149-6)
Softcover, Penguin Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 014303961X (0-14-303961-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0375758003 (0-375-75800-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451528883 (0-451-52888-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0486452344 (0-486-45234-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0553212621 (0-553-21262-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0802133347 (0-8021-3334-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0899663753 (0-89966-375-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451515196 (0-451-51519-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451517873 (0-451-51787-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451522478 (0-451-52247-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0451524985 (0-451-52498-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0802130682 (0-8021-3068-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0140014845 (0-14-001484-5)
Hardcover, Penguin - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0394601483 (0-394-60148-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 039460430X (0-394-60430-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0517385872 (0-517-38587-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0517436264 (0-517-43626-4)
Hardcover, Chatham River Press - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0521222664 (0-521-22266-4)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0679600655 (0-679-60065-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0816156514 (0-8161-5651-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0848805593 (0-8488-0559-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - Lady Chatterly's Lover: ISBN 1593082398 (1-59308-239-8)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
- Lady Chatterley's Lover: ISBN 0140187863 (0-14-018786-3)
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Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'by Michael Squires, D. H. Lawrence, M. H. Black, James T. Boulton, Lindeth VaseyISBN 0521007178 (0-521-00717-8)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover''Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Comic Bookby Hunt EmersonISBN 0861660498 (0-86166-049-8)
Softcover, Knockabout Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover: The Comic Book'Book summary:Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters. [via]
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0679723161 (0-679-72316-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Lolita:
- Lolita: ISBN 0822206838 (0-8222-0683-8)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service - Lolita: ISBN 0297819100 (0-297-81910-0)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited - Lolita: ISBN 0679410430 (0-679-41043-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Lolita: ISBN 0425099601 (0-425-09960-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Lolita: ISBN 0676514197 (0-676-51419-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Lolita: ISBN 0882332287 (0-88233-228-7)
Softcover, Ardis - Lolita: ISBN 0517388081 (0-517-38808-1)
Hardcover, Greenwich House - Lolita: ISBN 0783880804 (0-7838-8080-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - Lolita: ISBN 0679723161 (0-679-72316-1)
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- Lolita: ISBN 0822206838 (0-8222-0683-8)
Lolitaby Harold BloomISBN 0791009610 (0-7910-0961-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Middlesexby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0312422156 (0-312-42215-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlesex'Book summary:"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory.
Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor:
Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." & I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
When you get to the end of this splendorous book, when you suddenly realize that after hundreds of pages you have only a few more left to turn over, you'll experience a quick pang of regret knowing that your time with Cal is coming to a close, and you may even resist finishing it--putting it aside for an hour or two, or maybe overnight--just so that this wondrous, magical novel might never end. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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- Middlesex: ISBN 0312991738 (0-312-99173-8)
Softcover, Picador USA - Middlesex: ISBN 0374199698 (0-374-19969-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Middlesex: ISBN 0786257008 (0-7862-5700-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Middlesex: ISBN 8433970100 (84-339-7010-0)
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruitby Jeanette WintersonISBN 0802135161 (0-8021-3516-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'Book summary:Jeanette, the protagonist of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and the author's namesake, has issues--"unnatural" ones: her adopted mam thinks she's the Chosen one from God; she's beginning to fancy girls; and an orange demon keeps popping into her psyche. Already Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical first novel is not your typical coming-of-age tale.
Brought up in a working-class Pentecostal family, up North, Jeanette follows the path her Mam has set for her. This involves Bible quizzes, a stint as a tambourine-playing Sally Army officer and a future as a missionary in Africa, or some other "heathen state". When Jeanette starts going to school ("The Breeding Ground") and confides in her mother about her feelings for another girl ("Unnatural Passions"), she's swept up in a feverish frenzy for her tainted soul. Confused, angry and alone, Jeanette strikes out on her own path, that involves a funeral parlour and an ice-cream van. Mixed in with the so-called reality of Jeanette's existence growing up are unconventional fairy tales that transcend the everyday world, subverting the traditional preconceptions of the damsel in distress.
In Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Winterson knits a complicated picture of teenage angst through a series of layered narratives, incorporating and subverting fairytales and myths, to present a coherent whole, within which her stories can stand independently. Imaginative and mischievous, she is a born storyteller, teasing and taunting the reader to reconsider their worldview. --Nicola Perry [via]
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Sex in Historyby Reay TannahillISBN 0812885406 (0-8128-8540-6)
Softcover, Madison Books, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sex in History'Book summary:Thoroughly fascinating.--New York Post [via]
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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinsonby Camille PagliaISBN 0300091273 (0-300-09127-3)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394751221 (0-394-75122-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality'Book summary:In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior? [via]More editions of The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality:
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The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Editionby Eve EnslerISBN 0375756981 (0-375-75698-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition'Book summary:"I say vagina because I want people to respond," says playwright Eve Ensler, creator of the hilarious, disturbing soliloquies in The Vagina Monologues, a book based on her one-woman play. And respond they do--with horror, anger, censure, and sparks of wonder and pleasure. Ensler is on a fervent mission to elevate and celebrate this much mumbled-about body part. She asked hundreds of women of all ages a series of questions about their vaginas (What do you call it? How would you dress it?) that prompt some wondrous answers. Standouts among the euphemisms are tamale, split knish, choochi snorcher, Gladys Siegelman--Gladys Siegelman?--and, of course, that old standby "down there." "Down there?" asks a composite character springing from several older women. "I haven't been down there since 1953. No, it had nothing to do with [American president] Eisenhower." Two of the most powerful pieces include a jagged poem stitched together from the memories of a Bosnian woman raped by soldiers and an American woman sexually abused as a child who reclaims her vagina as a place of wild joy. [via]
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Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeby Marjorie GarberISBN 0684824124 (0-684-82412-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life'Book summary:Despite the flood of sexuality theory and queer cultural studies in 20th-century academia, bisexuality--and the many questions and problems surrounding it--has been little considered. In Vice Versa, Marjorie Garber, director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University, takes on this enormous project with refreshing academic rigor and compelling enthusiasm. Covering cultural influences from antiquity through early psychoanalysis to such recent provocateurs as Geraldo Rivera and Susie Bright, Garber calls into question the basic underpinnings of even the most radical views of human sexuality. She suggests that bisexuality is "not just another sexual orientation but rather a sexuality that undoes sexual orientation as a category," and leads us through the ensuing ruckus with wit and grace.
Vice Versa offers personal accounts, clinical studies, and analysis from every possible camp to demonstrate Garber's thesis that bisexuality as an idea and an experience "disappears" or is erased from our discussions of sexuality at every turn through the normalizing (not to mention limiting) influence of the terms of the discussion itself. Her call to recognize bisexuality as not only valid but deeply transgressive--and therefore useful--in our culture is urgent and marked by a great affection for her subjects, from Freud to Madonna. "One of the key purposes of studying bisexuality is not to get people to 'admit' they 'are' bisexual," she says, "but rather to restore to them and the people they have loved the full, complex, and often contradictory stories of their lives." --Jessica Peterson [via]
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Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Placesby Peter NabokovISBN 0670034320 (0-670-03432-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places'Book summary:From the author of Native American Testimony comes a revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian
For thousands of years Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious locations in their homelands. In Where the Lightning Strikes, Peter Nabokov offers sixteen "biographies of place" that dramatize the rich diversity of Indian cultures and their religious systems across North America. From the mountains of Maine to Tennessees Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona to the high country of northwestern California, each chapter explores a host of relationships between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths, legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.Based on years of research and personal experience, Where the Lightning Strikes reveals a range of holy lands containing beneficial as well as malevolent forces and reminds us of the stubborn persistence of Indian beliefs in the sacredness of the American earth. [via]
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Histoire De La Sexualiteby Michel FoucaultISBN 2070273822 (2-07-027382-2)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Histoire De La Sexualite'Book summary:211pages. in12. broché. [via]
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Lolitaby Vladimir Nabokov, Enrique TejedorISBN 8433920383 (84-339-2038-3)
Hardcover, Anagrama Editorial S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Esta es la historia de la obsesion de Humbert Humbert, un profesor cuarenton, por la doceañera Lolita. Es una extraordinaria novela de amor en la que intervienen dos componentes explosivos: la atraccion "perversa" por las ninfulas y el incesto. Narrada con autoironia y lirismo desenfrenado, es tambien un retrato acido y visionario de los Estados Unidos, de los horrores suburbanos y de la cultura del plastico y del motel. [via]
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