Playing Around

Discover a new world, where you can bridge the gap from virtual to reality. The world of Internet Bridge. You will meet people from all over the world. Get to know them and their cultural differences. You will find they are nice, intelligent, interesting, and very humorous men and women who have enriched my life. Bridge brought us together, and many have become my friends. My partners have ranged in age from 14 to 94. I have played with doctors, lawyers, and an Indian Chief. There have also been teachers, writers, engineers, miners, ranchers, and scientists in every field. I have played with Bill Gates. People I would never have met within the boundaries of my real life. This is not an all-inclusive list. This is a book for bridge players and everyone else. Internet Bridge has some different rules, which are quickly explained, as are basic facts about the game. However, my focus is on the people. You will find yourself smiling, laughing, and touched by their stories. Variety is the spice of life and you will find it here. "Bill Gates Finds Duplicate Bridge a 'Window' to Fun." --ACBL Bulletin, August 20, 2000

This book provides an up-to-date description of the methods needed to face the existence of solutions to some nonlinear boundary value problems. All important and interesting aspects of the theory of periodic solutions of ordinary differential equations related to the physical and mathematical question of resonance are treated. The author has chosen as a model example the periodic problem for a second order scalar differential equation. In a paedagogical style the author takes the reader step by step from the basics to the most advanced existence results in the field.

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This book provides an accessible space for interdisciplinary scholarship and narrative through an analysis of the power of media and sports, focusing on the intersectionality of identity, politics, social justice, and social movements within this context. Contributors examine how identities coalesce in sports and discuss the ways in which sports provide spaces for marginalized communities and create unique platforms that shift how society defines identity. Athletes’ identities and actions—and mass media’s representation thereof—can influence both the perceptions of society as a whole and how individuals view themselves, contributors argue. Each chapter delves into how different aspects of identity, including race, gender, disability, and sexuality, have developed and influenced social change, with a strong focus on lived experiences of both scholars and athletes from marginalized communities. Scholars of media studies, communication, sociology, and kinesiology may find this book particularly useful.

I was meditating over a list of tips and tricks that could help us improve our lives ... and i think the main trick we should have in mind is just ... try to not control anything at all. Only play on the stage of our own lives ... and even being surrounded by so, so many energy forces ... we should embrace all of them ... no matter if they are positive and negative. We should somehow dance with those energies and enjoy the dance itself, which actually means accept everything happens, even if it happens for a reason difficult to be understood now. You see, we have lots of options in life, like live in society and interact with it, no matter what that means ... live in society, but practice the solitude and avoid the interaction ... but also leave this world, go in a place where you can’t find anyone around and be just you with your inner self. For most of us, what really happens ... we live inside the society and even if we don’t want to interact with it ... we are somehow forced to do it ... to better understand the life lessons we have to learn during this life time. Trying to see this art of playing around with energies ... becomes a must and we can’t survive without it. And even if we don’t want to become artists .... it’s the only art the Universe is asking us to study. But ... connecting to people becomes many times really annoying. Indeed ... there will be times when the connection will give us joy, like in a love story or the relations we have with good friends or our children ... but there will be many, many occasions when the connections will just ... hurt us. So ... do we have a choice to decide when we should stop interacting?! Well ... being an art ... you will actually understand that in the process, using some tips and tricks that i will write about ... we can connect, disconnect and then re connect anytime we want. We should not be afraid of any kind of energy ... no matter if it is positive or negative energy ... cause all around us is just a reflection of our own souls. You just can’t be afraid of ... you. If we see beautiful things, events and situations in our present moment ... it means we are in good spiritual shape ... on the right frequency. If we somehow totally dislike and disagree everything around us ... it means ... something is wrong inside of the inner soul. I’ve read lots of books over the years and i was also meditating a lot over the meaning of life ... and all i can say today is that the trick for a beautiful life is just embrace reality, no matter how that is. And if you want to change something ... try to change in the inner world ... not the outside world. You will never be able to change the reflection from the mirror ... if you don’t change what is in front of the mirror. The art of dancing with the energies from our lives ... can be learnt just as you learn the art of dancing. Connect with the partner ... and the music ... and synchronize all the movements ... for a beautiful dance.

He’s a single dad. She his best friend’s younger sister and suffers from foot-in-mouth disease. Can they manage their attraction and a precocious six-year-old who wants to play cupid? Lilly: I can't believe I asked him if he was the DILF!?!?! Anyone who knows me knows I suffer from foot-in-mouth disease, but this gaffe is next level. He's shocked, I'm embarrassed, my sister's mortified, and my brother-in-law is rolling around on the ground laughing his butt off. But the more I get to know Robert—now that I know what a DILF is—I’m thinking my first impression was correct, and he's definitely a dad I'd like to, well, you know. Robert: I can't get involved with a woman when I have an impressionable little girl at home who is my everything. But Lilly isn't only my best friend's sister, she's the first woman I can't seem to resist. Can I risk my heart to her and protect my little girl at the same time? Girl Dads are a special breed…

Intimate, explosive, revelatory American women talk about having been unfaithful to their primary sexual partners. Why did they cheat? How and where did they manage to meet with their lovers? Were the affairs more sexually satisfying than the women’s primary relationships? More emotionally satisfying? Did they feel guilt? Did they keep their affairs secret or admit them to partners or friends? And, whether confessed or not, how did infidelity affect the women’s lives? Intimate and explosive, Playing Around explores the pleasures and pains of female infidelity and illuminates women’s participation in a behavior that is often viewed as predominantly male.

London in the 1960s, and the city is swinging - what could be more exciting than being eighteen? But there is a dark side to Soho. . . Angie is eighteen years old, and, with the help of a mini skirt, a pair of false eyelashes and a tube of pale pink lipstick, has made herself into a beauty. She's living in London in the Swinging Sixties, and knows she's in the best city in the world at the best possible time. She's got that world at her pretty, white-booted feet as she dances the night away with every handsome bloke on the booming, strobe-lit floor of the Canvas Club. She's heard all the scare stories of course, about what drink, drugs and discotheques can do to young girls, but Angie knows she's different. After all, she's only playing around. But that was before that rainy night, when Angie got into the big, shiny car, leaving her friend Jackie in Soho to find her own way home.

Following hot on the heels of Playing For Keeps comes Playing Around, the second book in the racy Scarlet series. Rugby fanatic Clare has spent her life focusing on herself and her career. When the undeniably charismatic Alex Prince sets his sights on her, she's sure it's only to add to the number of ever-growing notches on his bedpost and vows to keep herself away, despite her attraction. Alex has other plans, and when he admits he needs her help in securing a family inheritance, he makes her an offer she can't refuse. Suddenly, Clare finds herself caught up in more than she can handle - and that includes meeting the extended Prince family. Clare reassures herself it's just a business transaction, but sparks fly between them - and wonders, is there more to lose than what's just on the surface?