Love...What is it? Can we define it? What is its role in our lives? What causes love, and what dooms it? No single theory adequately answers all our questions about the nature of love, yet there are many theories that can contribute to our understanding of it. This fascinating book presents the full[...]
Mystery, the marvelous, the city of Paris transmuted by love, and Sanglot the Corsair's pursuit of the siren Louise Lame: these are the essential ingredients of "Liberty or Love ," a masterpiece of early Surrealism written by Robert Desnos (1900-1945) and first published in 1924 to immediate acclaim[...]
Once upon a time I was falling apart. Now I'm always falling in love.Pick up the microphone.When Rob Sheffield moved to New York City in the summer of 2001, he was a young widower trying to start a new life in a new town. Behind, in the past, was his life as a happily married rock critic, with a wif[...]
Provides an illuminating explanation of the origins and meaning of romantic love and shows how a proper understanding of its psychological dynamics can revitalize our most important relationships.[...]
Lisa Atwood and her family are on vacation, but it isn't all fun in the sun. Something is wrong between her parents. She thinks it's serious, and she's worried. Then a handsome guy sweeps Lisa off her feet and all of her problems seem to melt away. But can she keep the romance alive after she return[...]
âDefinitely, a game changer! Design experience is the power shift to our era what mass marketing was to the last century.âJohn Sculley former CEO, Pepsi and AppleâGreat design is about creating a deep relationship with your customers. If you donât, youâre roadkill. This book[...]
"Rollicking and well-researched...A story of scandal, financial shenanigans, bodily discipline, oversize egos and bizarre love triangles." -"Wall Street Journal"
More than fifteen million Americans currently practice yoga (according to "Yoga Journal"), but how many of them know the true story o[...]
Reflecting the trend over the last twenty years to examine more thoroughly the nature of love and sexuality within a philosophical context, this eclectic anthology presents numerous perspectives on sexual roles and norms, eroticism, pornography, feminism, prostitution, perversion, friendship, and fa[...]
The struggle to understand the infant-parent bond ranks as one of the great quests of modern psychology, one that touches us deeply because it holds so many clues to how we become who we are. How are our personalities formed? How do our early struggles with our parents reappear in the way we relat[...]
In this groundbreaking work, Robert Sternberg opens the book of love and shows you how to discover your own story-and how to read your relationships in a whole new light. What draws us so strongly to some people and repels us from others? What makes some relationships work so smoothly and others bur[...]
When a tangled web of international politics in the eighteenth century leaves Isabel Grameson and her husband Jean Godin stranded at opposite ends of the Amazon River, Isabel makes a treacherous solo journey to reunite with her husband after twenty years of separation. Reprint. 20,000 first printing[...]
*Provides conceptual framework, not isolated techniques *Offers a psychotherapeutically useful version of radical behaviorism *Contains ethical guidelines *Covers borderline, narcissistic and multiple personality disorders "In 1991 Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) was among the first new appr[...]
The Song of Songs; Ruth; Esther; Jonah; and Daniel offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. As distant in time from the Five Books of Moses as Updike is from Shakespeare, these Late Biblical books are innovative, entertaining literary works. Women often stand center [...]
The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, Time Enough For Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop liv[...]
Everything you need to know about Linux is in this book. Written by Stephen Figgins, Ellen Siever, Robert Love, and Arnold Robbins -- people with years of active participation in the Linux community -- "Linux in a Nutshell," Sixth Edition, thoroughly covers programming tools, system and network admi[...]
Linux Kernel Development details the design and implementation of the Linux kernel, presenting the content in a manner that is beneficial to those writing and developing kernel code, as well as to programmers seeking to better understand the operating system and become more efficient and productive [...]
For the 70 million single people in America, who are searching for the love of their lives, this is the self-help manual. Love Tactics will provide the answers for those who are very shy, a little on the quiet side, or sinmply not the social successes they want to be.[...]
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all -- a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But[...]
"Love Is a Choice Workbook" provides a ten-stage plan to help you find healing from the pain that created your codependency and then guides you through the plan using interactive questions, self-tests, exercises, and journaling. This workbook helps you to step back and examine your life and then eff[...]
Outlines ten stages of recovery from co-dependency, explaining how to overcome a need to control external circumstances and end unhealthy relationships by establishing a deeper relationship with Jesus. Original.[...]
Just as there are many types of heterosexualities (Platonic, erotic, fraternal, repressed, master-slave), there are many types of homosexualities: the "typical" homosexual does not exist. In this beautifully written volume, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Vittorio Lingiardi traces the journey of gay [...]