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On Love: A Novel
- ASIN: 0802142400
- ISBN: 0802142400
- Brand: Brand: Grove Press
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
On Love is globally bestselling novelist-philosopher Alain De Botton’s iconic debutthe novel that launched his decorated literary career; and a funny, profound, and searingly true-to-life exploration of love.A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love storyfrom fist kiss to first argu... [Read More]
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Three essays on universal law: The laws of Karma, will, and love
- ASIN: 0914374079
- ISBN: 0914374079
- Brand: Brand: Shanti Publications, Inc.
- Manufacturer: Shanti Publications, Inc.
THE LAW OF KARMA: Modern science has found undeniable evidence that there are laws governing the structure and movement of every atom in Nature. Yet man continues to live as though the various events happening to him throughout his life are random -- occurring only by "chance." This essay formally presents a Universal Law which not only incorporate... [Read More]
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Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Thinking Gender)
- ASIN: 0415904137
- ISBN: 0415904137
- Manufacturer: Routledge
This fascinating study of women carers explores the significance of dependency work by analyzing John Rawls' influential liberal theory and two examples of public policy - welfare reform and family leave - to show how both theory and policy fail women when they miss the centrality of dependency to questions of justice. A vision of an equal society ... [Read More]
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Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India
- ASIN: 1400067863
- ISBN: 1400067863
- Manufacturer: Random House
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s next to impossible—and the proper way fo... [Read More]
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For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
- ASIN: B00QL9LFCG
- Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
For the Love is now a New York Times bestseller! Don't miss Jen's latest title, also a New York Times bestseller, Of Mess & Moxie.Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She reveals with humor and style how Jesus’ embarrassing grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challeng... [Read More]
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The Girl's Best Friend: A Collection of Essays on Love, Life, & Sharing Your Light
- ASIN: 0692971963
- ISBN: 0692971963
- Manufacturer: WHyN Press
The Girl's Best Friend is a collection of essays from the popular Essence.com column of the same name, which serves as the inspiration for the award-winning and best-selling novel, Ladies Who Lunch & Love. Nathan starts from the premise that you are amazing just as you are and works from there. His advice is practical and uses the art of storytelli... [Read More]
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The Course of Love: A Novel
- ASIN: 1501134515
- ISBN: 1501134515
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
“An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought” (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership. We all know the headiness and excitement of the ear... [Read More]
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Kill as Few Patients as Possible: And Fifty-Six Other Essays on How to Be the World's Best Doctor
- UPC: 884199882995
- ASIN: 1580089178
- ISBN: 1580089178
- Brand: Ten Speed Press
- Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
This oft-quoted all-time favorite of the medical community will gladden--and strengthen--the hearts of patients, doctors, and anyone entering medical study, internship, or practice. With unassailable logic and rapier wit, the sage Dr. Oscar London muses on the challenges and joys of doctoring, and imparts timeless truths, reality checks, and poigna... [Read More]
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For Love of Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Philosophy
- ASIN: 1586170872
- ISBN: 1586170872
- Manufacturer: Ignatius Press
In these elegant and engaging essays, the internationally acclaimed Thomist, Josef Pieper, defines and defends philosophy as the search for and love of wisdom. True philosophy is not the work of joyless academics pondering over esoteric writings that have no relation to real life. Rather, the philosophical act, in which all reasonable men can parti... [Read More]
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Calypso
- ASIN: B0796QV121
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
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AmongUS: Essays on Identity, Belonging, and Intercultural Competence (2nd Edition)
- ASIN: 0205453538
- ISBN: 0205453538
- Manufacturer: Pearson
AmongUS presents readings from individuals whose intercultural experiences give insights on how to achieve an effective and fair multicultural society where cultural identities are celebrated and maintained. The essays provide a rich source of materials to teach a broad array of interpersonal, sociological, and psychological concepts that apply to... [Read More]
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Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature
- ASIN: 0195074858
- ISBN: 0195074858
- Brand: Oxford University Press USA
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of et... [Read More]
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Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives From Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
- ASIN: 0375701125
- ISBN: 0375701125
- Manufacturer: Vintage
In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically impo... [Read More]
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Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
- ASIN: B00V37BC4C
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Flatiron Books
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Grief and Grace: Essays on Love and Beauty in the Midst of Dying
- ASIN: 179161289X
- ISBN: 179161289X
- Manufacturer: Independently published
In the darkest of times, unexpected moments of exquisite beauty would shine through. This was the experience of a former hospice chaplain as she was besieged by a string of losses in her personal life. Both parents, a niece, several clients and uncles, and a couple former boyfriends all died within a three-year period. Caring for her parents in the... [Read More]
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Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
- ASIN: 1590307593
- ISBN: 1590307593
- Brand: Shambhala Publications
- Manufacturer: Shambhala
Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master’s many volumes of work, focus on one of his greatest themes: how love grows ... [Read More]
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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0140444599
- ISBN: 9780140444599
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world - the cherry blossom, the leaping frog, the summer moon or the winter snow - suggesting the small... [Read More]
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The Wine Bible
- ASIN: B00U0OBRAS
- Brand: Workman Publishing Company
- Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Announcing the completely revised and updated edition of The Wine Bible, the perennial bestselling wine book praised as “The most informative and entertaining book I’ve ever seen on the subject” (Danny Meyer), “A guide that has all the answers” (Bobby Flay), “Astounding” (Thomas Keller), and “A magnificent masterpiece of wine writin... [Read More]
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Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: On New Jobs, Old Loves, Fighting the Man, Having a Kid, Saving the World, and Everything in Between
- ASIN: 0812975669
- ISBN: 0812975669
- Brand: Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Selected as the winners of Random House’s national contest, a stunning collection of essays ranging from comic to poignant, personal to political, by the brightest young writers you haven’t heard of . . . yet. Here, for the first time, current twentysomethings come together on their own terms, in their own words, and begin to define this remar... [Read More]
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
- ASIN: 0156003651
- ISBN: 9780156003650
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. “Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity” (Kirkus R... [Read More]
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