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Do You Know a Dog
Who Could Use Some Petiquette?
Does your dog:
Jump on your guests?
Bark incessantly?
Beg for food?
Get aggressive with other dogs?

Then relax! In all the years she's helped owners better relate to their dogs, animal behavior consultant Darlene Arden knows there's no dog (or human) who can't be helped in the behavior department--and she's there to provide the 411 for all kinds of doggie dilemmas in this must-have primer on the essentials of pet etiquette.

Filled with the most often asked questions, plus humorous tales of dogs and owners gone bad--and over the top--this complete guide to canine comportment will teach you how to solve any problem, from the embarrassing to the downright unacceptable, including when your dog . . .

• humps your guests
• gives you "love bitesÓ
• ignores you
• has a gas problem
• pees everywhere except outside
• eats strange things
• uses your furniture as a chew toy
• acts like the Òsex policeÓ
• is afraid of thunder
and more!

With this ultimate how-to-handle-it book, you and your canine friend will be the envy of the dog park (or at least you will not be asked to leave).

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Improper Pursuits By Dawn Ryder Victorian Boston is full of proper etiquette, sweet innocence and cold marriage beds. Newly widowed, Lynette Edwardmoore views another round of socially dictated marriage less than appealing. Nigel Spencer is the one man who might just change her mind. On the surface, he is polished and practiced in the gentlemanly arts but there is something lurking in his eyes that tells a much different story. Dark whispers of forbidden pleasures fuel a growing need to escape the strict dictates of her chaperones. It is a dangerous pursuit to discover what happens in those rooms where society loses its hold and nature takes over. In a sensual, highly erotic journey, Nigel opens Lynette's eyes to the pleasures to be found in sharing, where watching your partner receive pleasure at the hands of another is a scintillating pleasure few are brave enough to experience. As his lover, and perhaps as his wife, Nigel will offer Lynette a world full of erotic experiences. He has but one rule: first and last, Lynette will always be his. If she is brave enough to say yes… Improper Lessons By Dawn Ryder Being a schoolmarm in 1886 means looking the part. Evelyn knows that well and has never deviated from the path of the strict and somber. Until she walked into a supply closet and saw her new employer consorting with his lover. But it was hard to condemn the lovers when her heart raced and her body breathed to life like it never had before. Brenton Ashton should have left his little schoolmarm in chaste peace but the innocent curiosity of her sensuous gaze told him she didn't want that. No, burning right there was desire that the right man could unleash and he just couldn't stop thinking about being the man to set her free. All love begins as lust. When human nature is aroused, the fire never dies, it only recedes until the right tinder is applied. When Brenton takes over her "education", Evelyn discovers that the improper lessons are far better than any she has ever received. Behind locked doors, lust mingles with love and only pleasure matters. But more is at stake than either initially realize..
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It begins with three ordinary women and their separate, unexpected discoveries of a lover's guidebook by Miss Matilda, the impish tutor of snag-a-man sexual decorum, circa 1949. All three ladies originally scoff at the hopelessly outdated, ridiculous etiquette book. But soon they find themselves leafing through its pages for some timeless, explicit, and very frank advice.

What seemed like a relic of another time is about to open up a whole world of deliciously erotic possibilities for three modern women, learning to properly tantalize whomever they please..
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Since the 17th century, Boston has played a vital role in the history of the United States as a center of society and intellectual ferment. So it's not surprising that the city also has a deeply rooted gay and lesbian culture. Improper Bostonians is a lavishly illustrated, astutely researched look at the role that homosexuals have played in constructing Boston society. From the private homoerotic letters of John Winthrop (the first Governor of Massachusetts) to the 19th-century concept of the "Boston Marriage"--the widely-used term for two unmarried women living together as partners--to the open and brash gay and lesbian life that existed in Boston's notorious Scully Square in the 1920s and 1930s, Improper Bostonians deftly shows how gay men and lesbians were always present in the social, political, and intellectual life of the city.

But as smart as its text is, the best feature of the book is its stunning array of engravings, paintings, news clippings, and photographs (many from personal collections) illustrating the book's themes. Looking over the portraits of politicians, poets (including Katherine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful"), and performers one is reminded that gay and lesbian history is really not a separate category, but a single aspect of our collective history. --Michael Bronski.
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Journalism has long been a major factor in defining the opinions of Russia’s literate classes. Although women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female editors, publishers, and writers have been consistently omitted from the history of journalism in Imperial Russia. An Improper Profession offers a more complete and accurate picture of this history by examining the work of these under-appreciated professionals and showing how their involvement helped to formulate public opinion.
In this collection, contributors explore how early women journalists contributed to changing cultural understandings of women’s roles, as well as how class and gender politics meshed in the work of particular individuals. They also examine how female journalists adapted to—or challenged—censorship as political structures in Russia shifted. Over the course of this volume, contributors discuss the attitudes of female Russian journalists toward socialism, Russian nationalism, anti-Semitism, women’s rights, and suffrage. Covering the period from the early 1800s to 1917, this collection includes essays that draw from archival as well as published materials and that range from biography to literary and historical analysis of journalistic diaries.
By disrupting conventional ideas about journalism and gender in late Imperial Russia, An Improper Profession should be of vital interest to scholars of women’s history, journalism, and Russian history.

Contributors. Linda Harriet Edmondson, June Pachuta Farris, Jehanne M Gheith, Adele Lindenmeyr, Carolyn Marks, Barbara T. Norton, Miranda Beaven Remnek, Christine Ruane, Rochelle Ruthchild, Mary Zirin
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