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| kamasutra 2011: The Kama Sutra Diaries Sally Howard, 2013-11-07 A provocative ‘sexploration’ of the cultural and political landscape of modern India. |
| kamasutra 2011: Scissors and Rock Manfred J. Holler, Barbara Klose-Ullmann, 2020-04-22 This book introduces readers to basic game theory as a tool to deal with strategic decision problems, helping them to understand the complexity of such problems – to extract a solution, if possible – and to manage the complexity by revising the game if appropriate. The authors discuss basic decision situations modeled as Prisoners’ Dilemma, Chicken Game, and Stag Hunt Game, as well as concepts like the Nash equilibrium, Trembling Hand Perfectness, Rationalizable Strategies and the Theory of Moves to introduce game theoretic thinking. Further, the book presents pioneers of strategic thinking, e.g., Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Adam Smith, and Goethe, and includes cases of conflict and cooperation to illustrate practical applications. Readers learn to apply game theory in business and in daily life – to manage their decision problems and to better understand the decision problems of others. |
| kamasutra 2011: Kama Sutra Expert DK, 2011-12-19 For centuries, the Kama Sutra has been the ultimate model for sexual advice and position guides. Now a new version shows couples exactly how to achieve the sensational pleasures promised by the ancient text. More than 80 positions are featured, combining the wisdom of the Kama Sutra with related texts: the Perfumed Garden, Ananga Ranga, and Tao. Bold, step-by-step photography illustrates every position in detail, while explicit text describes each sensual move and touch, so you can maximize pleasure at every step. Four chapters cover seduction and lovemaking tips for every mood. Sensuous seduction introduces classic Kama Sutra techniques for kissing, embracing, and massage. Intimate union lists sensual positions for when you and your partner want to enjoy closeness and tenderness. Passionate adventures covers deeply pleasurable positions for maximum erotic stimulation. Erotic expertise shows you how to experience the most exotic and acrobatic positions that the ancient love texts have to offer. Every position features why it works text, outlining the sensations in detail, while turn on and turn off tip boxes ensure couples of all expertise can get the most out of every technique. Taking it further panels offer nuggets of sexual wisdom, ancient and modern, to bring you and your partner to the peak of erotic expertise. The most intricate and exotic positions, such as the The Top and Reciprocal Sights of the Posterior, are covered in extra detail, with showreel spreads of up to 30 images demonstrating each position, and background text explaining exactly how to do it and why you'll want to. Feature topics offer guidance for the spiritual and emotional, as well as physical elements of a relationship, covering topics from the movements of sex to post-coital happy endings. With a full range of positions and techniques, Kama Sutra Expert offers new ideas for sexual adventurers and novices alike. |
| kamasutra 2011: Superfreaks Arielle Greenberg, 2023-08-01 A deliciously subversive and endlessly informative celebration of “kinky f*ckery,” as told by a lifelong student of kink and fetishism Neither a how-to guide to getting it on nor a collection of sensational erotica, Superfreaks is instead an empathetic journey into the widely misunderstood world of kink. Lifelong practitioner and student of “kinky f*ckery” Arielle Greenberg draws on her study and teaching of BDSM and fetishism to introduce kink’s history and trailblazing kinksters like Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Mollena Williams-Haas, and Tom of Finland explain the science behind sexual fetishes delve into the psychology behind power exchange parse the politics of sexual deviance Superfreaks is an accessible, interactive. and raunchy experience that invites the reader to engage their kinky curiosity. Written with folks of all genders and sexual orientations in mind, the book features resources like quizzes readers can take with their partners to help assess sexual compatibility sidebars with lists of kinky representation in literature, film, music, and more an A-to-Z glossary of kinky gear, from collars and floggers to zentai suits and beyond Superfreaks challenges and dismantles longstanding myths about kink perpetuated by pop culture phenomena like Fifty Shades of Grey and 365 Days. In doing so, Greenberg names the systemic marginalization kinky people experience and argues that we must build a society that accepts and celebrates sexual diversity of all kinds. The book also affirms the importance of consent and not “yucking someone’s yum”—key concepts inherent to the practice of kink that are essential building blocks for safer, more inclusive sex. |
| kamasutra 2011: Redeeming the Kamasutra Wendy Doniger, 2016 In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature. In investigating, and helping us understand, a much celebrated but under-appreciated text, Wendy Doniger has produced a rich and compelling text of her own that will interest, delight, and surprise scholars and lay readers alike-- |
| kamasutra 2011: The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra Maxim Jakubowski, 2012-03-01 The original Kama Sutra was designed to help lovers to explore the height of sensual and erotic pleasure. Since then numerous variations have been produced on this manual for love-making. Here, in one giant volume, is the fullest ever collection of Kama Sutra positions and its modern variants, including all the positions featured in the original text plus over 50 more. Each position is clearly explained, with specially commissioned illustrations by award-winning artist Carolyn Weltman and Louisa Minkin. Also included are little known, revelatory stories of how each position developed, plus the full, unexpurgated hstory of the Kama Sutra's own genesis. Packed with beautiful illustrations and sensual nuggets of inspiration, The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra is the fullest ever collection of the world's most popular lovemaking text. |
| kamasutra 2011: Spirituality, Mental Health and Quality of Life Naveen Pant, 2023-06-21 This book is about spiritual intelligence and its effects on mental health and quality of life. As mental health and related problems are increasing rapidly and have become a matter of great concern, there has not been a unanimous and empirical approach to assess and cure it, due to its divergence or other causes. This book is based on the most developed construct: spiritual intelligence and its effects on mental health and quality of life. Spirituality and its other constructs are one of the most interesting topics nowadays in the area of positive/indigenous/transpersonal psychology and among social/behavioral scientists. This book provides content on spirituality, spiritual intelligence, mental health, and quality of life. The book also attempts to review related literature (whether review or empirical), to have a look at past and current scenarios on spirituality and mental health and quality of life research. Through an exploration of Indian indigenous psychology, this book provides a look at mental health and the mind from an Indian psychological perspective and examines Indian psychology, taking into consideration modern psychological concepts. |
| kamasutra 2011: Queer Crimes & Criminal Justice Mithilesh Narayan Bhatt, 2022-06-01 The Queer/Sexual minority which interalia includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (hereinafter LGBT) people is not a new phenomenon in today’s scenario. LGBT share a particular experience of their own sexual desires, as potentially directed toward a person of the same gender. They have transformed these experiences, desires, and practices into a social identity, a sexual orientation, which serves as a marker of individual selves and of a group. This study shows that discrimination and abuse from homophobic/transphobic world in which there is full permission to treat LGBT with cruelty makes it difficult for them to maintain a strong sense of well-being and self-esteem. Study reveals that in India LGBT lives are more secretive as they are suppress to come out easily. This book based on study concludes with some strong and viable recommendations, which are requisite to ensure safe and proper place to LGBT people in society, inculcating humane approach into laws and the criminal justice system. Education and awareness programmes through various means and various places can bring positive changes. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. |
| kamasutra 2011: The Illustrated Kama Sutra Hamlyn, 2013-02-14 From flirtation and lust to sexual passion and ecstasy, Kama Sutra Erotica takes you on a journey through all the stages of a relationship and shows you how exploring the physical, emotional and spiritual dimensions of love-making can lead to mind-blowing sex and an extraordinary state of openness and intimacy with your partner. Taking you beyond the original Kama Sutra, a dozen special features illustrate unique transitions through a range of sexual positions. Sensuous descriptions accompany the dramatic photography so you can enjoy more exciting and playful lovemaking in a variety of classic poses. |
| kamasutra 2011: The Mistress Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar, 2024-05-29 The Mistress despite the statements in R.M. Shanmugam's poetry 'dissecting' love into its stages as 'attraction', 'obsession', and 'attachment', and how it continues to perfection or aborts itself on its way, love is torn into pieces in the days of lockdown. On the other hand, The Mistress, which is not essentially a book of love poems, but one on love, is a balm to the wounded heart, when the poet sprinkles his short poems as petals of a fragrant rose. 'Rain is love or love is rain', But Shanmugam feels the rain in love and love in the rain. |
| kamasutra 2011: Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics Richard Shusterman, 2018-02-12 This collection of essays explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, while further advancing inquiry in both. After the editor’s introduction and three articles examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience in existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the book’s nine remaining articles apply somaesthetic theory to the fine arts (including detailed studies of the body’s role in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, photography, and cinema) but also to diverse arts of living, considering such topics as cosmetics and sexual practice. These interdisciplinary, multicultural essays are written by a distinctively international group of experts, ranging from Asia (China and India) to Europe (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Italy) and the United States. |
| kamasutra 2011: Kama Sutra for Women Sandhya Mulchandani, 2006-09 Kama Sutra for Women takes a leaf from the Kama Sutra, and helps women understand their emotions and their bodies, while also explanining the need, as well as the means, to pleasuring men for mutual gratification. |
| kamasutra 2011: The Little Bit Naughty Book of Kama Sutra Positions Ann Summers, 2012-11-01 A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. |
| kamasutra 2011: The Art of the Kama Sutra Vātsyāyana, Douglas Mannering, 1994 |
| kamasutra 2011: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality Brian James Baer, Serena Bassi, 2024-08-19 The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality questions what it would mean to think of sexualities transnationally and explores the way cultural ideas about sex and sexuality are translated across languages. It considers how scholars chart the multilingual rise of the modern sexual sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, how translators, writers, and readers respond to sexual modernities and to what extent the keywords of queer social movements travel across borders. The handbook draws from fields as diverse as translation studies, critical multilingualism studies, comparative literature, European studies, Slavic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Latin American studies, and East Asian studies. This pioneering handbook maps out an emerging brand of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies that approaches sexualities as translational formations. Divided into two parts, the handbook covers: - Theoretical chapters on the interdisciplinary dialogue between translation studies and queer studies - Empirical studies of both canonic and minor scientific, religious, literary, philosophical, and political texts about sex and sexuality in translation across a variety of world languages. With 20 chapters written by leading academics from around the world, The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality will serve as an important reference for students and scholars in the fields of translation studies, applied linguistics, modern languages, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. |
| kamasutra 2011: Psychology of Sexuality & Mental Health Vol. 1 Naveen Pant, 2024-03-30 This book focuses on indigenous and Indian concepts of sexuality, exploring its psychology and its relationship with mental health. Through theoretical, review, exploratory and mixed approaches, the book delves into common fields of thought regarding indigenous sexuality which relate to psychology and mental health. In the first section of the book, ‘Psychology of Sexuality & Indigenous Approaches’, the book discusses various indigenous aspects of sexuality, such as Indian indigenous, Hindu, and Buddhist. The second section of the book, ‘Indigenous Psychology of Sexuality and Mental Health’, discusses indigenous aspects combined with sexuality and mental health. |
| kamasutra 2011: Encyclopedia of Sex and Sexuality Heather L. Armstrong, 2021-03-01 Providing a comprehensive framework for the broad subject of human sexuality, this two-volume set offers a context of historical development, scientific discovery, and sociopolitical and sociocultural movements. The broad topic of sex—encompassing subjects as varied as sexuality, sexual and gender identity, abortion, and such crimes as sexual assault—is one of the most controversial in American society today. This two-volume encyclopedic set provides readers with more than 450 entries on the subject, offering a comprehensive overview of major sexuality issues in American and global culture. Themes that run throughout the volumes include sexual health and reproduction, sexual identity and orientation, sexual behaviors and expression, the history of sex and sexology, and sex and society. Entries cover a breadth of subjects, such as the major contributors to the field of sexology; the biological, psychological, and cultural dimensions of sex and sexuality; and how the modern-day political climate and the government play a major role in determining attitudes and beliefs about sex. Written in clear, jargon-free language, this set is ideal for students as well as general readers. |
| kamasutra 2011: The Lesbian Kama Sutra Kat Harding, 2015-08-04 Using clear, empowering text to celebrate the love between women, The Lesbian Kama Sutra encourages love and sex, pleasure and sensuality, uninhibited erotic indulgence, and play. Visually stunning, it features beautiful historical artworks, erotic illustrations, and sophisticated instructional drawings that offer an illustrated journey through the different sexual positions. |
| kamasutra 2011: Found in Translation Nataly Kelly, Jost Zetzsche, 2012-10-02 Translation. It’s everywhere we look, but seldom seen—until now. Found in Translation reveals the surprising and complex ways that translation shapes the world. Covering everything from holy books to hurricane warnings and poetry to peace treaties, Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche offer language lovers and pop culture fans alike an insider’s view of the ways in which translation spreads culture, fuels the global economy, prevents wars, and stops the outbreak of disease. Examples include how translation plays a key role at Google, Facebook, NASA, the United Nations, the Olympics, and more. |
| kamasutra 2011: Kama Sutra Year Eleanor McKenzie, 2005-02-01 A beautifully illustrated guide to the kama sutra with 52 positions, one to practice each week of the year! With all-new original photography, this book is bound to be a successful addition to your sex library. |
| kamasutra 2011: Manara's Kama Sutra Milo Manara, 1998 Beautiful Manara temptress Parva gets a mysterious box by accident. Inside, she finds a magic phallic snake that, when rubbed, brings out a male genie of her dreams who tells her that for him to become flesh she must undergo a series of arduous sexual tests from the ancient Kama Sutra. She's ready and willing! Another beautifully sensuous, irresistible album from the Italian master of erotica yet even more hardcore than any he's done! |
| kamasutra 2011: Mouthwatering Vegan Miriam Sorrell, 2013-06-18 From the author of the successful blog, mouthwateringvegan.com, comes over 130 incredible recipes to showcase how accessible, varied, delicious and nutritious vegan eating can be. In this book you'll find recipes for your favourite comfort foods in all their vegan glory. Here are meat-free, egg-free and dairy-free recipes that combine the idea of eating healthily, with food that is immediately satisfying, tastes great and is easy to prepare. From delicious dips, appetizers and soups; to main courses including curries, pastas, stews, burgers and salads. There are a whole host of recommended juices and smoothies and--at the sweeter end of scale--cookies, cakes and desserts. Mouthwatering Vegan transforms home cooking classics into vegan-accessible, delicious dishes. Miriam challenges herself to replicate dishes that are usually impossible to include in a vegan diet and opens up the scope for what vegan eating can be. Included in the book are recipes for vegan cheese, cream and mayonnaise; Chilli Con 'Carne', Shepherd's Pie, Mince & Ale Pie, Stroganoff Supreme and the Perfect Roast. As well as delicious dishes that celebrate pulses and vegetables, such as Aubergine, Chickpea and Potato Curry; Stuffed Tomatoes and Zucchini Casserole; Red Bean Nut Burgers; Spicy Rice & Quinoa Eggplant Bake; and Super Mushroom & Walnut Loaf. Many of Miriam's recipes are inspired by the Mediterranean and the Far East, and all of them have the health benefits of vegan cooking without sacrificing the taste. Mouthwatering Vegan opens up new possibilities for vegan eating that will make you rethink vegan cuisine. |
| kamasutra 2011: Sex Secrets of the Kama Sutra and Other Eastern Pleasures Kayla Ricci, 2011-08-15 Sex Secrets of the Kama Sutra and Other Eastern Pleasures is a guide to the best sex positions and techniques from Arabia, India, China, and Japan. Classic erotic manuscripts and traditions from each country provide the source of eye-opening secrets that will take couples on a sexual adventure and push erotic pleasure to dizzying heights. Alongside the classic Kama Sutra, there are lesser-known sources of sexual teaching, such as the Tao, Perfumed Garden, Ananga Ranga, Tantra, and the erotic arts of Japan, each showing you mind-blowing ways of achieving sexual bliss with your partner. Discover the Tantric ways of erotic massage, or indulge in the deeply fulfilling postures of the Perfumed Garden, or spice things up with an array of fun Geisha games. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on the practical. Within each chapter the positions are grouped into ascending moods to suit every occasion. Sex Secrets of the Kama Sutra and other Eastern Pleasures takes readers on an inspiring erotic voyage through the East-one that guarantees to turn them into more confident and daring and super-skilled lovers. |
| kamasutra 2011: Kama Sutra Vatsyayana, 2012-01-31 A gorgeous deluxe edition of the world's most celebrated guide to life, love, relationships and pleasure Little is known about Vatsyayana, who is reputed to have composed the Kama Sutra while observing a celibate's life in full meditation. In Sanskrit the word kama means desire, especially for sensual pleasure, and its proper pursuit was considered an essential part of a young, urbane gentleman's well-rounded education. Untold numbers of readers are curious about the Kama Sutra but put off by its clichéd image as an erotic Oriental curiosity. This elegant edition offers a compelling modern translation of a classic Indian masterpiece-and a wry and entertaining account of human desire and foibles. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| kamasutra 2011: The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium Prabhat K. Singh, 2013-08-19 The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium is a book of sixteen pieces of scholarly critique on recent Indian novels written in the English language; some on specific literary trends in fictional writing and others on individual texts published in the twenty-first century by contemporary Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, K. N. Daruwalla, Upamanyu Chatterjee, David Davidar, Esterine Kire Iralu, Siddharth Chowdhury and Chetan Bhagat. The volume focuses closely on the defining features of the different emerging forms of the Indian English novel, such as narratives of female subjectivity, crime fiction, terror novels, science fiction, campus novels, animal novels, graphic novels, disability texts, LGBT voices, dalit writing, slumdog narratives, eco-narratives, narratives of myth and fantasy, philosophical novels, historical novels, postcolonial and multicultural narratives, and Diaspora novels. A select bibliography of recent Indian English novels from 2001–2013 has been given especially for the convenience of the researchers. The book will be of great interest and benefit to college and university students and teachers of Indian English literature. |
| kamasutra 2011: Female Reproductive System & Herbal Healing Vs. Prescription Drugs and Their Side Effects Chela Ram Bathija MH RH, 2014-01-21 This is a comprehensive guide to the female reproductive system with Ayurvedic and Western herbalism. The ailments of female genitalia and herbal cures focus mainly on three age ranges (adolescent, childbearing and menopausal). Readers will easily adopt and learn about the genital ailments by reading the introductory outlines and will choose the treatment options that best fit their needs. Several of the approximately nine hundred female cases consulted during the authors herbal practice, are presented in this book as an example. Herbal treatments and prescription drugs are outlined in this book. It also includes cures with Ayurvedic and Western herbalism, and many testimonials are described in detail. |
| kamasutra 2011: The Rock Who's who Brock Helander, 1996 This volume presents 395 serious biographical and historical entries on every significant or innovative performer, personality, or group since the early 1950s. Each entry includes a complete discography and original issue numbers for LPs as well as information on CD reissues. More than 75 photos. |
| kamasutra 2011: Provincials Sumana Roy, 2024-03-26 An enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world Who is a provincial? In this subversive book, Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guides, English teachers, lovers and letter writers, private tutors and secret-keepers whose lives and work provide varied answers to that question. Combining memoir with the literary, sensory, and emotional history of an ignored people, she challenges the metropolitan's dominance to reclaim the joyous dignity of provincial life, its tics and taunts, enthusiasms and tragicomedies. In a wide-ranging series of postcards from the peripheries of India, Europe, America, and the Middle East, Roy brings us deep into the imaginative world of those who have carried their provinciality like a birthmark. Ranging from Rabindranath Tagore to William Shakespeare, John Clare to the Bhakti poets, T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee, V. S. Naipaul to the Brontës, and Kishore Kumar to Annie Ernaux, she celebrates the provincials' humor and hilarity, playfulness and irony, belatedness and instinct for carefree accidents and freedom. Her unprecedented account of provincial life offers an alternative portrait of our modern world. |
| kamasutra 2011: Sex, Desire, and Taboo in South Asia Tulasi Acharya, 2024-08-15 Sex, Desire, and Taboo in South Asia: Religion, Culture of Ability, and Patriarchy explores the intersection of religion, culture of ability, and patriarchy in relation to sex, desire, and taboo. Divided into six chapters, this book utilizes Western theorists such as Foucault and Freud in conjunction with Spivak’s theory of the subaltern to establish a theoretical context on sexuality. Through this lens, Acharya evaluates the intersection between religion, patriarchy, and gender and their impact on the perception of sex and desire as a taboo within a South Asian context. The book also examines how individuals contend with their sexual desires, using literature and social media to display the stark difference between the cultural promotion of antisexualism and existing ancient texts on the art of erotica, such as the Kamasutra. In doing so, Sex, Desire, and Taboo in South Asia expands on Eurocentric notions of sexuality and addresses the conditions of the subaltern to explore the complex dynamics of sex in South Asia. |
| kamasutra 2011: The Undead Kama Sutra Mario Acevedo, 2009-10-13 Ex-infantryman Felix Gomez came back from Iraq decidedly undead. Back home in Denver, he embarked upon a new career where nighttime work is the norm: private investigator. Since then, he's managed to survive lustful extraterrestrials, manic nymphomaniacs, and x-rated bloodsuckers, while satisfying his own unorthodox hungers with blood-laced Mexican food. But some thirsts aren't as easily assuaged, and that's where The Undead Kama Sutra comes in—a hands-on manual that illustrates how sex can help a lonely vampire increase his psychic energies. Felix's search for missing parts of the coveted manuscript is, of course, purely professional. And now the dying words of an alien interloper (Find Goodman and save Earth's women!) are thrusting the immortal (if he's lucky) P.I. and a bodacious undead sexpert, Carmen Arellano, into a seamy mess of otherworldly abductions, shady military irregularities, and unexplained murder. |
| kamasutra 2011: Goldmine Records & Prices John Koenig, 2006-10-04 In addition to listings for more than 30,000 American records of the 1950s-1980s, this edition also provides current collector pricing for every record listing, giving collectors more information for their dollar. |
| kamasutra 2011: Against Dharma Wendy Doniger, 2018-03-20 An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma,artha, and kama. Translated, these might be called religion, politics, and pleasure, and each is held to be an essential requirement of a full life. Balance among the three is a goal not always met, however, and dharma has historically taken precedence over the other two qualities in Hindu life. Here, historian of religions Wendy Doniger offers a spirited and close reading of ancient Indian writings, unpacking a long but unrecognized history of opposition against dharma. Doniger argues that scientific disciplines (shastras) have offered lively and continuous criticism of dharma, or religion, over many centuries. She chronicles the tradition of veiled subversion, uncovers connections to key moments of resistance and voices of dissent throughout Indian history, and offers insights into the Indian theocracy’s subversion of science by religion today. |
| kamasutra 2011: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design Geoffrey Engelstein, Isaac Shalev, 2022-03-02 If games were lands to be explored, they would be far too large for one explorer to master. Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design is a much-needed atlas for the explorer—giving a framework of what to look for in a game, and a focus for game play that will be useful for understanding the whole. The game scholar will find this invaluable. —Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering People talk about the art of game design or the craft of game design. Engelstein and Shalev hone in on the science of game design with a razor-sharp scalpel. This book will be within arm’s reach as I work on games and I expect it to be consulted often. —Rob Daviau, creator of Risk: Legacy and Chief Restoration Officer of Restoration Games The most comprehensive and well-researched encyclopedia of game mechanisms that I’ve seen to date. —Matt Leacock, creator of Pandemic Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms, Second Edition compiles hundreds of game mechanisms, organized by category. The book can be read cover-to-cover and used as a reference to solve a specific design problem or for inspiration and research on new designs. This second edition collects even more mechanisms, expands on and updates existing entries, and includes color images. Building Blocks is a great starting point for new designers, a handy guidebook for the experienced, and an ideal classroom reference. Each Game Mechanisms Entry Contains: The definition of the mechanism An explanatory diagram of the mechanism Discussion of how the mechanism is used in successful games Considerations for implementing the mechanism in new designs Geoffrey Engelstein is a game designer and educator. His designs include the Space Cadets series, The Dragon & Flagon, The Expanse, and Super Skill Pinball. He has published several books on game design, including GameTek: The Math and Science of Gaming, Achievement Relocked, and Game Production. He is on the faculty of the NYU Game Center as an adjunct professor for Board Game Design and has been invited to speak about game design at PAX, GenCon, Metatopia, and the Game Developers Conference. Isaac Shalev is a game designer, author, and educational games consultant. He has designed tabletop titles including Seikatsu, Waddle, and Show & Tile. He runs Sage70, Inc., a data strategy and games-based learning consultancy that serves nonprofit organizations. He lives in Cary, North Carolina with his wife, three children, and a dog. |
| kamasutra 2011: Window to Ancient India : A Tryst with Ancient Science & Philosophy | Part II : Languages, Linguistic Systems and Indian Logic System vis-a-vis the Greeks Satish S. Joglekar, 2023-06-10 About the Book: Part II traces the evolution of languages from pre-Vedic Sanskrit to modern vernaculars via the Prakrit and the Apabravsha way. Coverage of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabravsha and Vernacular literature is illuminating - examples of Chitra Kavya, a genre of Sanskrit poetry, reflect the ingenuity of Sanskrit poets. The evolution of modern scripts from Brahami and families of Indian languages are well exemplified. It explains, why Panini's grammar is sufficiently detailed to qualify as the earliest known computing language. His grammar is one of the earliest context-sensitive grammars with a hint of transformational grammar. Part II covers topics like the Philosophy of Language and Sphota Theory. The latter anticipated psycholinguistics ahead of its time. Indian languages are phonetic and the only languages that are word order independent. Thanks to Panini's Karaka (Case) theory and his categorization of phones depending on various movements of mouth and tongue. No wonder Chomsky has acknowledged Panini as his Guru. Lastly, it compares the Indian and Greek Logic systems through examples, bringing out differences in their approach. For example, Indians were not restricted by the principle of 'Excluded Middle' leading very on to the recognition of multi-valued logic. About the Author: Satish Joglekar is an engineer from IIT Bombay, with a Master’s in computer science. He has worked with several software companies for more than 30 years which included a long stint at Bell Laboratories, USA. Satish is trained in Hindustani classical music and has intense interest in history, non-fiction literature, and travel. |
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| kamasutra 2011: Foucault and the Kamasutra Sanjay K. Gautam, 2016-06-22 Gautam has here laid out the first serious reading of Michel Foucault in relation to key Sanskrit texts, and--what may be a surprise to many--he has written the first book-length work in English on the nature and origin of the Kamasutra. Gautam also takes up the Natyasastra (the Kamasutra's twin), locating in the first the themes of sexual-erotic pleasure, and locating in the second the classical Indian view of theater, music, dance, and aesthetic pleasure. The book shows how closely intertwined the history of erotics in ancient Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics. Foucault provides a framework for opening up the intellectual horizon of Indian thought; it is his distinction between ars erotics (erotic arts) and scientia sexualis (science of sexuality) that fuels Gautam's exploration of the courtesan as symbol of both erotic and aesthetic pleasure, particularly in her role as a wife to her patron, which entails the morphing of erotics into a form of theater. The scope broadens ambitiously, to an inquiry on the nature of knowledge formation, erotics, theater, and gender relations in premodern Indian society and culture--as they converged on the historical figures of the courtesan and her male counterpart, the dandy. Gautam's twining of aims and subjects--Foucault's western philosophy of pleasure and India's classic text on eros (anchored in art and aesthetics)--transforms both the modern and the ancient texts with new understandings, and as new forms of investigating erotics and subjectivity itself. |
| kamasutra 2011: The Couple and Family Technology Framework Katherine M. Hertlein, Markie L. C. Blumer, 2013-07-18 Couples and families worldwide have a constant electronic connection to others, a fact that is influencing the concerns and issues they bring to therapy. The authors of this resource help mental health practitioners to better deal with concerns such as online infidelity, online dating, internet addictions, cyber bulling, and many more by introducing the Couple and Family Technology (CFT) framework, a multi-theoretical approach that doesn’t require clinicians to change their preferred clinical approach. The CFT framework acknowledges the ways in which couples navigate their relationship with technology and a partner simultaneously, and it attends to, and in some cases incorporates the role of technology in therapeutic ways. Included in the authors’ discussion of how different technologies affect relationships is • a survey of what individuals’ motivations of usage are • an examination of the specific issues that emerge in treatment • a study of the risks particularly relevant to intimate relationships, and • an introduction of the first-ever technology-based genogram. They also examine technological usage across different developmental points in a couple’s lifespan, with attention given throughout to people from various cultural backgrounds. Along with the CFT framework, the authors also introduce a new discipline of family research: Couple and Family Technology. This discipline integrates three broad perspectives in family science and helps therapists maintain a systemic focus in assessing and treating couples where issues of the Internet and new media are problematic. Online resources can be accessed by purchasers of the book and include videos, additional case studies, glossary, and forms. |
| kamasutra 2011: Eighty Very Short Poems Cupideros, 2012-01-01 Eighty Very Short Poems by Cupideros take you on a long and inspirational feminist journey through very short poetry. |
| kamasutra 2011: Kama Sutra Step by Step , 2009-06-01 Every Kama Sutra position and how to do it� Re-discover the ultimate handbook of exotic sensuality, the Kama Sutra, with this bold new �how-to� guide. Over 500 explicit photographs help you and your partner achieve even the most elaborate positions, while revealing advice tells you how to experience every ecstatic moment. Whether you�re a Kama Sutra novice or a connoisseur, experience every position from the sweet and sensuous �Elephant� to the acrobatic �Suspended Congress�, and explore the erotic possibilities of massage, bathing and fantasy. Share the sensational pleasures of the world�s most celebrated sex manual, step by sensual step. |
| kamasutra 2011: Redeeming the Kamasutra Wendy Doniger, 2016-02-11 The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride - and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement and inspires magazine articles that offer mattress-quaking sex styles such as the backstairs boogie and the spider web. In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature. She reveals fascinating aspects of the Kamasutra as a guide to the art of living for the cosmopolitan beau monde of ancient India: its emphasis on grooming and etiquette (including post-coital conversation), the study and practice of the arts (ranging from cooking and composing poetry to coloring one's teeth and mixing perfumes), and discretion and patience in conducting affairs (especially adulterous affairs). In its encyclopedic social and psychological narratives, it also displays surprisingly modern ideas about gender and role-playing, female sexuality, and homosexual desire. Even as she draws our attention to the many ways in which the Kamasutra challenges the conventions of its time (and often ours) - in dismissing procreation as the aim of sex, for instance - Doniger also shows us how it perpetuates attitudes that have continued to darken human sexuality: passages that twin passion with violence, for example, and those that explain away women's protests and exclamations of pain as ploys to excite their male partners. In these attitudes, as in its more enlightened observations on sexual love, we see the nearly two- thousand-year-old Kamasutra mirror twenty-first-century realities. In investigating and helping us understand a much celebrated but under-appreciated text, Wendy Doniger has produced a rich and compelling text of her own that will interest, delight, and surprise scholars and lay readers alike. |
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The Kamasutra, states the Indologist and Sanskrit literature scholar Ludo Rocher, discourages adultery but then devotes "not less than fifteen sutras (1.5.6–20) to enumerating the reasons …
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Kamasutra, the oldest extant Indian prose treatise on the subject of pleasure (kama)—sexual pleasure, desire, love, and the pleasures of good living generally conceived.
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Aug 14, 2024 · Kama Sutra is big on giving pleasure, and what better way than with a little oral loving? "The entire Kama Sutra talks about pleasure and the build-up to pleasure," Anand …
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Aug 8, 2023 · Throughout its centuries-long history, the Kama Sutra has become an influential guide to achieve ultimate satisfaction in the sexual and emotional relationship between two …
18 Kama Sutra Sex Positions That Couples Can Easily Pull Off
Oct 19, 2023 · There's a reason why the Kama Sutra has been a go-to sex position guide for thousands of years: It's full of practical, actionable tips for couples who want to mix up their …
7 Kamasutra Sex positions you must know - Times of India
Apr 13, 2017 · Have you tried Kamasutra sex positions ever ? Try these 7 best Kamasutra inspired sex positions that were most popular in ancient times.
Kama Sutra Archives - Best Sex Positions
When you find the right depth and the right angle, the Kama Sutra Bull is sure to delight. There’s nothing like doggystyle sex for deep penetration, but if you really want to ring her bell, try the …
Kama Sutra - Wikipedia
The Kamasutra, states the Indologist and Sanskrit literature scholar Ludo Rocher, discourages adultery but then devotes "not less than fifteen sutras (1.5.6–20) to enumerating the reasons …
Kamasutra | Hinduism, Pleasure, Sex, History, Text ...
Kamasutra, the oldest extant Indian prose treatise on the subject of pleasure (kama)—sexual pleasure, desire, love, and the pleasures of good living generally conceived.
17 Best Kamasutra Sex Positions For Female Orgasm, Per Experts
Aug 14, 2024 · Kama Sutra is big on giving pleasure, and what better way than with a little oral loving? "The entire Kama Sutra talks about pleasure and the build-up to pleasure," Anand …
Exploring the Ancient Art of Love: The Life-Changing Power of ...
Aug 8, 2023 · Throughout its centuries-long history, the Kama Sutra has become an influential guide to achieve ultimate satisfaction in the sexual and emotional relationship between two …
18 Kama Sutra Sex Positions That Couples Can Easily Pull Off
Oct 19, 2023 · There's a reason why the Kama Sutra has been a go-to sex position guide for thousands of years: It's full of practical, actionable tips for couples who want to mix up their …
7 Kamasutra Sex positions you must know - Times of India
Apr 13, 2017 · Have you tried Kamasutra sex positions ever ? Try these 7 best Kamasutra inspired sex positions that were most popular in ancient times.
