East Berlin, 1983. One dissident rock band. One plan to defect to the west. One traitor. Udo Dirkmeyer, the charismatic and feckless Mick Jagger of East Germany, is having a tough time of it. It's hard enough being an outlaw rock star in the world's harshest police state.
True Tales of Cults, Crackpots, Cranks, Cretins, Crooks, Creeps, Con artists, and Charlatans
In the 17th century, critics of John Milton observed that in Paradise Lost, Lucifer steals the show. The same thing holds true today. We begin with a fanciful tale of God and Satan. What follows is a collection of true stories about Society's rogues the flimflam artists, whores, painted ladies, voodoo queens, and honky-tonk angels that inhabit the world. We depict the lives of a few favorites among these captivating, infuriating, (sometimes) horrifying, and larger than life frauds.
Dangerous Characters is about people of all kinds, stuck with their unique personalities and trying to negotiate their ways through lifes bramble strewn path. As intellectual historians, psychologists of love, and psychotherapists, Elaine Hatfield and Richard L. Rapson bring to bear their sharp and wry observations upon a constellation of vivid characters.
The book explores cross-cultural research on the dynamics of romantic relationships, examining how individuals meet, fall in love, engage intimately, and experience heartbreak, often leading them to seek love again. Noted scholars Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson delve into the passionate beginnings and complexities of love, providing insights into the universal patterns and variations in romantic experiences across different cultures.
A study of the phenomenon of emotion contagion, or the communication of mood to others.