Selfish Gifts

Selfish Gifts
Author: Alison V. Scott
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838640821

Selfish Gifts examines how early modern clients moved quickly and strategically to assimilate the language of competition and equality, characteristic of an emerging market economy, within their existing discourses of gift exchange, in order to maximize the rewards they might induce from an increasingly diverse group of patrons."--Jacket.

Selfish Gifts

Selfish Gifts
Author: Lisa McNee
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2000-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791445877

Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.

The Simply Self.Wonderful Inner Workout Book: Celebrating the Gifts of Being Uniquely You

The Simply Self.Wonderful Inner Workout Book: Celebrating the Gifts of Being Uniquely You
Author: Judith Ellen Slater
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2023-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1961757028

Selflove isn’t always easy. In fact, there is no selflove destination, only an ongoing journey you take in the relationship with yourself. This book will help you love yourself. In The Simply SelfWonderful Inner Workout Book, companion to the Simply SelfWonderful Card Deck, you can learn to love yourself wholly in five focus areas, known as MEPSS: Mentally, Emotionally, Physically, Socially, and Spiritually. Your relationship with yourself is key to your relationship with everyone and everything else in your life. You are a complete package. You have all you need at every given moment to be Simply SelfWonderful!

Wine and The Gift

Wine and The Gift
Author: Peter J. Howland
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000802671

Wine as commodity has received enormous academic attention, while wine as gift has largely eluded significant dedicated research and analysis. This book addresses this lacuna with insights from leading scholars from a range of disciplines exploring wine as gift in different moments of history, across a variety of production to consumption contexts, and across societies and cultures. The book draws on examples from Australia, China, Croatia, France, Italy, Moldova, United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand. Through the analysis of wine as gift, indeed often as a commodity-gift hybrid, this book significantly enhances understandings of the intertwined economic, societal, political and moral aspects of wine and its production, exchange, and consumption. Wine and the Gift: From Production to Consumption will appeal to researchers and undergraduates from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, geography, marketing, and business studies.

The Gift of Self Love

The Gift of Self Love
Author: Mary Jelkovsky
Publisher: Blue Star Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1950968278

Build self-esteem and discover true self-love with this inspiring and interactive self-love workbook. Crafted for women of all ages, this interactive and heartfelt guide features exercises that empower you to rewrite limiting beliefs, embrace positive self-talk, and nurture genuine self-worth. Unleash your confidence, foster self-acceptance, and embark on a journey of inner strength and empowerment with this comprehensive workbook. The Gift of Self-Love includes: • A self-esteem and self-confidence quiz to assess how you feel about yourself today and identify areas to give yourself more compassion and love • Writing exercises to help you get in touch with your feelings, rewrite limiting beliefs, and stop pressuring yourself to meet other people’s expectations • A positive self-talk guide to help you reframe your thoughts and silence the negative voice in your head • Recommendations for loving your body and embracing healthy living at any size • Stories, research, and meaningful advice to help you build self-worth The Gift of Self-Love workbook is your path to enhanced self-esteem and genuine self-love. Don't miss this opportunity to boost confidence, rewrite limiting beliefs, and embrace a positive mindset. Get your hands on the best self-esteem workbook for women and embark on a life-changing journey today!

Gifts from Grandpa

Gifts from Grandpa
Author: Grandpa Doc
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2021-03-22
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1663218021

The aim of this volume originally was to occupy my time during the start of and worst of the Pandemic of 2020. As I started, I realized that I could write. For me writing was like surgery without anesthesia. The subject of the volume was to allow others to perhaps learn from my self-induced pain and pain brought by others, Although the sentiments are true to my heart, the examples used and people referred to are not meant to be actual history but lessons and teachings. The aim was not to generate money from my endeavors. It was to give those now and forever life lessons. All net proceeds will be directed to charitable endeavors. I do hope that these pages which follow serve to satisfy this dream.

Selfish Gifts

Selfish Gifts
Author: Lisa McNee
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2000-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791445884

Investigates the politics and poetics of women's gendered identity in West Africa.

Gifts, Romance, and Consumer Culture

Gifts, Romance, and Consumer Culture
Author: Yuko Minowa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351385046

How do people communicate their romantic feelings? Gift giving is one way. Giving and receiving of gifts is a characteristic of intimate relationships. Gifts are a message, a form of communication with a tangible material object, about love, affection, or concern for the recipient. The "romantic gift" evokes a multitude of intertwined meanings: passion, intimacy, affection, persuasion, care, celebration, altruism, and nostalgia. They can also connote the negative images of obligation and reciprocity. Romantic gift giving may be practiced at rituals, during rites of passage, or for casual occasions, to affirm the continued importance of the romantic relationship. We may even romanticize the giving of gifts to the self, to nonhuman companions, and to others we do not know personally. If loving and giving are a practice, then romantic gift giving is a practice of loving with intimate—or would-be intimate—others. This book addresses gift giving among consumers attempting to express and construct romantic love. It lies at the intersection of consumption, markets, and culture. In societies shaped by the globalizing neo-liberal economic order, increasing wealth disparity, and a partially digitized social environment that they help to co-construct, it may be time to rethink romantic love. Gift giving is a key arena to do so, as gifts make love tangible and act as carriers of meaning as well as cultural symbols. In gift giving the meanings of romance are renewed, renegotiated, and reconstructed. Gifts, Romance, And Consumer Culture demonstrates a wide variety of scholarly work bearing on romantic gift giving using an interpretive consumer research perspective. The book introduces critical studies by scholars in this unfolding and new interdisciplinary field.

The Power of Gifts

The Power of Gifts
Author: Felicity Heal
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-10-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191020133

Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes. The gift also performed these roles in early modern English culture: and assumed a more significant role because networks of informal support and patronage were central to social and political behaviour. Favours, and their proper acknowledgement, were preoccupations of the age of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Hobbes. As in modern society, giving and receiving was complex and full of the potential for social damage. 'Almost nothing', men of the Renaissance learned from that great classical guide to morality, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 'is more disgraceful than the fact that we do not know how either to give or receive benefits'. The Power of Gifts is about those gifts and benefits - what they were, and how they were offered and received in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the mode of giving, as well as what was given, was crucial to social bonding and political success. The volume moves from a general consideration of the nature of the gift to an exploration of the politics of giving. In the latter chapters some of the well-known rituals of English court life - the New Year ceremony, royal progresses, diplomatic missions - are viewed through the prism of gift-exchange. Gifts to monarchs or their ministers could focus attention on the donor, those from the crown could offer some assurance of favour. These fundamentals remained the same throughout the century and a half before the Civil War, but the attitude of individual monarchs altered specific behaviour. Elizabeth expected to be wooed with gifts and dispensed benefits largely for service rendered, James I modelled giving as the largesse of the Renaissance prince, Charles I's gift-exchanges focused on the art collecting of his coterie. And always in both politics and the law courts there was the danger that gifts would be corroded, morphing from acceptable behaviour into bribes and corruption. The Power of Gifts explores prescriptive literature, pamphlets, correspondence, legal cases and financial records, to illuminate social attitudes and behaviour through a rich series of examples and case-studies.

Four Gifts

Four Gifts
Author: April Yamasaki
Publisher: Herald Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781513803340

Sarah Bessey's Field Notes Book Club January 2019 Selection Is self-care different from being selfish or self-indulgent? Is it the same as caring for your soul? And what does self-care look like in light of following Jesus, who called his followers to deny themselves? In Four Gifts, pastor and author April Yamasaki addresses these and other questions about self-care. Drawing on the ancient scriptural command to love God with our heart, soul, mind, and strength, Yamasaki helps readers think about the spiritual dimensions of attending to your own needs, setting priorities, and finding true rest in a fast-paced world. She weaves together personal stories, biblical and theological insights, questions for reflection, and practical ideas for self-care. Four Gifts helps readers sustain their spirits and balance competing demands. Feeling overwhelmed by the pace and stress of daily life? Find respite from superficial definitions of self-care and move toward deeper engagement with God. Featured by Focus on the Family Canada