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| Author | : Srećko Horvat |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2016-05-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0745691161 |
What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly naïve questions about love? Although all important political and social changes of the 20th century included heated debates on the role of love, it seems that in the 21st century of new technologies of the self (Grindr, Tinder, online dating, etc.) we are faced with a hyperinflation of sex, not love. By going back to the sexual revolution of the October Revolution and its subsequent repression, to Ches dilemma between love and revolutionary commitment and to the period of 68 (from communes to terrorism) and its commodification in late capitalism, the Croatian philosopher Srecko Horvat gives a possible answer to the question of why it is that the most radical revolutionaries like Lenin or Che were scared of the radicality of love. What is so radical about a seemingly conservative notion of love and why is it anything but conservative? This short book is a modest contribution to the current upheavals around the world - from Tahrir to Taksim, from Occupy Wall Street to Hong Kong, from Athens to Sarajevo - in which the question of love is curiously, surprisingly, absent.
| Author | : Karen Davies |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2002-05-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 059522475X |
Poeternitry is a comet's ride through the human mind to the spiritual world beyond. You'll be taken on a journey through love and darkness to the shores of faith and fantasy. This collection of poems by Karen Davies shows her ability to write across a wide range of subjects from the "Gates of Heaven" to the darkest parts of the human mind. Her ability to write multiple forms, such as, the simple and thought provoking "haiku" to the rhythmic flow of the "Shakespearean Sonnet." She'll take you on a muse's journey through imagination to all that is eternal.
| Author | : Kate Lord Brown |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2016-05-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250084547 |
In 2000, Sophie Cass, an ambitious journalist, may have finally found her big break. Convinced a celebrated painter in the Hamptons is hiding a dark secret, she sets off to unravel the truth about his past. Her research takes her back decades to 1940, as an international group of artists and intellectuals gather at The House of Dreams, a beautiful villa just outside Marseilles where American journalist Varian Fry and his remarkable team are working to help them escape France. Despite the incredible danger they all face, The House of Dreams is a place of true camaraderie and creativity—and the setting of a love affair that changed the course of the painter’s life forever. But as Sophie digs further into his past, she begins to wonder whether some secrets are better left untouched. Inspired by the real-life heroism of Varian Fry and the volunteers who risked their lives to help save legendary figures like Marc Chagall, Hannah Arendt, and Max Ernst, Kate Lord Brown’s The House of Dreamsis a lyrically told novel of great courage, love, and the power of art.
| Author | : Lynn Jacobs |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2012-07-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1459285123 |
Stranded! Alix had worked hard to become a top-notch journalist. So she wasn't about to let the interview of a lifetime escape her—even if it meant flying thousands of miles to track down the elusive Jake Hunter. But the cynical tycoon wasn't willing to cooperate—he had no time for pushy reporters. Which left Alix no choice but to force her way on board his yacht. And if a sudden storm hadn't left them stranded on a deserted island, she would have gotten her story without any problem….
| Author | : Elyse Sommer |
| Publisher | : Visible Ink Press |
| Total Pages | : 641 |
| Release | : 2013-05-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1578594693 |
Language "Appealing As Sunlight After a Storm." A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. —Henry David Thoreau Prose consists of ... phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. —George Orwell Whether it invokes hard work or merely a hen-house, a good simile is like a good picture—it's worth a thousand words. Packed with more than 16,000 imaginative, colorful phrases—from “abandoned as a used Kleenex” to “quiet as an eel swimming in oil”—the Similes Dictionary will help any politician, writer, or lover of language find just the right saying, be it original or banal, verbose or succinct. Your thoughts will never be "as tedious as a twice-told tale" or "dry as the Congressional Record." Choose from elegant turns of phrases “as useful as a Swiss army knife” and “varied as expressions of the human face”. Citing more than 2,000 sources—from the Bible, Socrates, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and H. L. Mencken to popular movies, music, and television shows—the Similes Dictionary covers hundreds of subjects broken into thematic categories that include topics such as virtue, anger, age, ambition, importance, and youth, helping you find the fitting phrase quickly and easily. Perfect for setting the atmosphere, making a point, or helping spin a tale with economy, intelligence, and ingenuity, the vivid comparisons found in this collection will inspire anyone. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. —William Shakespeare A face like a bucket —Raymond Chandler A man with little learning is like the frog who thinks its puddle a great sea. —Burmese proverb Peace, like charity, begins at home —Franklin Delano Roosevelt You know a dream is like a river ever changing as it flows. —Garth Brooks Fit as a fiddle —John Ray’s Proverbs He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. —Arthur Miller Ring true, like good china. —Sylvia Plath Music yearning like a God in pain —John Keats Busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. —Pat Conroy Enduring as mother love —Anonymous
| Author | : Linda Steinberg |
| Publisher | : Linda Steinberg |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2021-10-08 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : |
She's always played by the rules. E.R. doc Elizabeth Carr studied hard in school, became a doctor, and married the chief of surgery. She's checked every box in the Success column except Happiness. Now in the midst of a contentious divorce, struggling to find her own way, she's treating a patient who refuses to obey her orders and seems to think life is all about having fun. He challenges her to say yes instead of no to opportunity, and develop a new attitude. Can Liz open her outlook enough to take a chance--with him? He believes rules are for other people. Born with a bad ticker, Jack Hardy spent most of his childhood in and out of hospitals. Since receiving a new heart and tasting freedom, he's indulged in every dangerous sport and daredevil opportunity activity presented him. But a life heavy on adventure has left him light on relationships. As he becomes less thrilled with thrills, he yearns to settle down with someone who will love and accept him for who he is. Has he played around too long to make a serious relationship work? Women empowering women--and the Men who love them If Not For You is the third book in the Rainy Day Women series. In a converted warehouse near downtown Dallas, Texas, a group of strong, professional women come together to volunteer their services to women of an under-served community. They name their facility the Rainy Day Women's Center. Each book is a stand-alone romance about competent, independent women and the equally competent, independent men they can't ignore--or live without.
| Author | : Jami Attenberg |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2007-04-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307337839 |
“We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. It’s enough to make you give up entirely.” —from Instant Love But we don’t give up. We keep trying. We’re either too stupid to learn from our mistakes or we honestly believe that the next time will be different; it’s hard to say which. Driven by the mad hopefulness that is part of the human condition, we are constantly falling in and out of love with a slightly different version of the person who came before. Jami Attenberg chronicles those exact moments with heartbreaking realism in her powerful debut, Instant Love. Told through the eyes of three young women and their friends and lovers, Instant Love explores what it means to be in love, what it means to be lonely, and what it means to be both at the same time. Holly turns to computer dating to find love even as she thinks wistfully of a former boyfriend who loved her well and fed her ice cream. Maggie recounts the story of her one crazy summer to her disbelieving husband and feels the distance between them grow wider than the void across their king-sized bed. And Sarah Lee remembers the one who got away and the one she ran away from, all the while moving toward the one she can actually love. As Holly, Maggie, and Sarah Lee move through the rituals of modern love, they have to decide who is worth taking a chance on in a world where things don’t fall into place easily, people are often difficult, and disappointment is the rule. Through their stories, Attenberg presents a rare, honest look at love. Also available as an eBook.
| Author | : Kara McDowell |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2022-03-01 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1338746243 |
Sophie Kinsella meets Sarah Dessen in the most hilarious, romantic book of the summer about a girl with social anxiety and the boy who refuses to let her hide herself away. Seventeen-year-old Gemma’s favorite kind of beach is an empty one. Social interactions are too much for her to handle. She always says the wrong thing—if she manages to say anything at all. She can’t even bring herself to speak to her longtime crush, Beau Booker, without losing sleep over her own awkwardness. During a solo outing to her favorite beach, Gemma realizes—to her horror—that the popular kids from school have shown up to throw a party. Before she can sneak away (and possibly puke behind her car) Gemma is pulled into the action and ends up talking to Beau, who asks her to pretend that they’re “close.” Gemma is too flustered and flattered to refuse, and mostly, she’s wondering why Beau is talking to her at all . . . right up until the moment when he falls off the boat, hits his head, and ends up in a coma. After rescuing Beau from the water, Gemma is mistaken for Beau’s girlfriend by his friends and family, including his mysterious older brother, Griff, who has returned to town after a year away. Gemma tries to correct the record, but her social anxiety (and a nosy reporter) gets in the way at every turn. Before she knows it, she’s in too deep to backtrack. And when Beau’s warm, boisterous family pulls Gemma into their orbit, she realizes how much she wants to keep them in her life. For the first time, Gemma has everything she’s ever wanted: friends, big family dinners, and Griff—a boy who she can be herself around. But how can she embrace her new dream life when everything is built on a lie?
| Author | : Christian von Scheve |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2019-09-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 135113325X |
Emotions have moved center stage in many contemporary debates over religious diversity and multicultural recognition. As in other contested fields, emotions are often one-sidedly discussed as quintessentially subjective and individual phenomena, neglecting their social and cultural constitution. Moreover, emotionality in these debates is frequently attributed to the religious subject alone, disregarding the affective anatomy of the secular. This volume addresses these shortcomings, bringing into conversation a variety of disciplinary perspectives on religious and secular affect and emotion. The volume emphasizes two analytical perspectives: on the one hand, chapters take an immanent perspective, focusing on subjective feelings and emotions in relation to the religious and the secular. On the other hand, chapters take a relational perspective, looking at the role of affect and emotion in how the religious and the secular constitute one another. These perspectives cut across the three main parts of the volume: the first one addressing historical intertwinements of religion and emotion, the second part emphasizing affects, emotions, and religiosity, and the third part looking at specific sensibilities of the secular. The thirteen chapters provide a well-balanced composition of theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches to these areas of inquiry, discussing both historical and contemporary cases.
| Author | : Oliver K. Langmead |
| Publisher | : Titan Books (US, CA) |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2022-05-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1789097975 |
A Clockwork Orange and RuPaul's Drag Race meet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in this fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and feckless billionaires. Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave to the ever-changing tides – and brutal judgements - of fashion, he is immaculate. To be anything else is to be unfashionable, and no one wants to be unfashionable, or even worse, ugly… When Simone accidentally starts a new fashion with a nosebleed at a party, another Glitterati takes the credit. Soon their rivalry threatens to raze their opulent utopia to the ground, as no one knows how to be vicious like the beautiful ones. Enter a world of the most fantastic costumes, grand palaces in the sky, the grandest parties known to mankind and the unbreakable rules of how to eat ice cream. A fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and the feckless billionaire class.
