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Reducere. The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love...

Reducere. DescriptionThe human reaction to insects is neither purely biological nor simply cultural. And no one reacts to insects with indifference. Insects ...

This Element outlines the environments of loving in contemporary technoculture and explains the changes in the manner of feelings (including the ex...

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Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and c...

Attilio Teruzzi, Mussolini's commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism's obsession with male strength. Through the story of his broken mar...

Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major national literary prizes and has twice ...

Reducere. In Love Stories, Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men's intimacies with men during the nineteenth century-including those of Abraham Lincoln-d...

Reducere. DescriptionE. Patrick Johnson's Honeypot opens with the fictional trickster character Miss B. barging into the home of Dr. EPJ, informing him that ...

Reducere. The seafood industry on the coast of Mississippi has attracted waves of immigrants and other workers--oftentimes folks who were either already acqu...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x ...

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressAuthor(s): Ayca CubukcuIllustration(s): 7 illus.Number of pages: 240Collection: Pennsylvania Studies in ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): RABBI Michael LernerNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 203 x 26Cover t...

Daniel Talbot changed the way the Upper West Side-and art-house audiences around the world-went to the movies. In Love with Movies is his memoir of...

Andil Gosine revises understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean, showing how the very concept of homosexuality in the Caribbean (and in the Am...

Reducere. The purpose of A Catechism for Family Life: Insights from Catholic Teaching on Love, Marriage, Sex, and Parenting is to present the teachings of th...

Reducere. About the AuthorChuck Kinder is the author of four novels--Snakehunter, The Silver Ghost, Honeymooners, and Last Mountain Dancer--and three collect...

Jeff Love reinterprets Alexandre Kojeve's works, showing him to be a provocative thinker who challenged modernity's valuation of self-interest. Joi...

A series of vignettes, in graphic novel format, that explore the lives of ten young Iranian men and women from diverse backgrounds.Publisher: Penns...

This is the extraordinary story of the British plot in the summer of 1918 to overthrow the Bolshevik government in Russia, murder the Bolshevik lea...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's...

A rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with U.S. immigration policy.Publisher: Stanfo...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Brooke Erin DuffyNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 140 x 30Cover type: Paperba...

A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the agesPublisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Dominic PettmanNumber of...

Reducere. Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togethernes...

Moves beyond the stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this b...

Engaging with the growing popular and academic interest in the "spiritual but not religious, " Andrea R. Jain explores the connections between the ...

Reducere. Oklahoma Book AwardWith such words, Kiowa and Comanche people express their deep connection to their traditional lattice cradles. Prevalent from 18...

Reducere. This book presents Paul Tillich at his very best--brief, clear, stimulating, provocative. Speaking with understanding and force, he makes a basic a...

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociali...

Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), the largest protected area in Central America, is characterized by rampant violence, social and ethnic in...

From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex w...

Jose David Saldivar offers a critical examination of Junot Diaz, showing how his influences converged in his fiction and how his work radically cha...

Reducere. An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of...

This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade p...

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This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in ...

A unique, wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our future in space Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgivi...

Reducere. When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it i...

Reducere. A stunningly illustrated look at the mating and parenting lives of the world's birdsBird Love looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in...

A pioneering look at same-sex desire in Japanese modernist writing.Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey AnglesNumber of pages...

The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese tradition. It...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressIllustration(s): 5 black & white photographsNumber of pages: 296Collection: Studies of World MigrationsPubli...

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Contributor(s): Translator: Paul Gordon SchalowAuthor: Ihara SaikakuThe first complete translation of Nanshoku okagami by Ihara Saikaku (1642-93), ...

During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antira...

Reducere. The Italian son of a barber. A failed hydraulic engineer. A giant who performed feats of strength and agility in the circus. Giovanni Belzoni (1778...

Reducere. In work, play, education, and even healthcare, we are using social media during COVID-19 to approximate normal life before the pandemic. In Screen ...

Reducere. Are 'Dear John' letters lethal weapons in the hands of men at war? Many US officers, servicemen, veterans, and civilians would say yes. Drawing on ...

A pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal communities in the era be...

Reducere. In a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patientl...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Kathryn MillardNumber of pages: 178Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperb...

The ways in which economic forces and increasing inequality shape the nature of parenting in various ways internationally are explored in this thor...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey A. BrownIllustration(s): 40 colour images, 1 tableNumber of pages: 230Publication date: 2021D...

Begins with a love story set in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India's Jammu and Kashmir State, but this is also a story about territory, and t...

Reducere. DescriptionThe toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and ...

DescriptionPhilosophers and poets in times past tried to figure out why the stainless moon "smoothly polished, like a diamond" in Dante's words, ha...

Reducere. The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of ...

Reducere. Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew ab...

This book delivers a comprehensive investigation into the historical context of the concept of love that Shakespeare inherited. Professor Schalkwyk...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Carolyn DeverIllustration(s): 10 b/w illus.Number of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

DescriptionHow interracial couples in Brazil and the US navigate racial boundaries How do people understand and navigate being married to a person ...

What Women Want--What Men Want offers evidence about the real reasons behind men's and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on...

DescriptionHudson & Halls is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock bad attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s to that un...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book traces the life of Isidor and Ida Straus, both German Jewish immigrants who arrived as children in America in the early 1850s....

Ann Swidler's work is an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how the culture of love shapes th...

A study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the ex...

Reducere. Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10, 000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Of Love and Papers explores how immigration policies are f...

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