Love University Press

This book gives the fullest account so far of the origins, success and public impact of Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole in all three of its ver...

Reducere. The Family of Love charts a successful love intrigue between the cash-strapped Gerardine, and Maria, the sequestered niece of the mercenary Doctor ...

Reducere. Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids familiar clichés about ...

This is the first scholarly edition of Thomas Love Peacock's most ambitious and comprehensive satire, a novel brilliantly engaged with myriad early...

The first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same sex relationships, challenging the heteronormative model in domestic violence ...

Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. This wide-ranging work...

Reducere. Mattering, which is about feeling valued and adding value, is essential for health, happiness, love, work, and social well-being. We all need to fe...

Reducere. DescriptionAcclaimed as one of the most important writers of twentieth-century China, the late Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997) is known for his frank, ofte...

This book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire. It ranges from powerful contemporary dramas...

Venus and the Arts of Love offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300-1600. In the course of decons...

DescriptionThis book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism, asking what the term 'medievalist' means in t...

The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender ...

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary...

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

Nadia Bou Ali explores the formation of a modern Arab identity through the conceptions of politics, morality and language in Arab thought.

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Kiki GounaridouNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 147 x 222 x 11Cover type: Har...

DescriptionOn February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and t...

DescriptionMeke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Sharon (Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University ...

In this groundbreaking study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. By decentering romant...

Reducere. A celebration of the art, architecture, and timeless human passion of the Eternal City, Rome Is Love Spelled Backward explores Rome's best-known tr...

Reducere. Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. Davi...

Reducere. Catholic health care is about ethics but also "ethos" - not only what we shouldn't do but a vision for what we should do with love. The issues it f...

First published in hardcover as a monumental two-volume study, and called "a brilliant and original work, and a classic" by Mavis Gallant in The Ne...

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readershipPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Stan LaiIllustration(s...

DescriptionBest known for her Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds and The Property, Rutu Modan's richly colored compositions invite re...

Reducere. The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through The Diary of the Seducer a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William C. ChittickThis is the most accessible work in English on the greatest mystical poet of Islam, providing a survey o...

"I want my clothes to make you smile!"-Patrick KellyPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Laura L. CamerlengoNumber of pages: 200Publication d...

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time How do...

In 1919, Florence Deshon--tall, radical, and charismatic--was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clande...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean LeClercqThe Love of Learning and the Desire for God is composed of a series of lectures given to young monks at the In...

The memoirs of Ariadna Efron provide an intimate and indispensable perspective on the poet Marina Tsvetaeva's life and work, told from the point of...

Reducere. DescriptionWe are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog D...

Mattering, which is about feeling valued and adding value, is essential to our health, happiness, relationships, work, and society. Mattering impro...

Reducere. Explores the psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood. Bringing together historical, religious, philosophical, and cul...

Reducere. This book shows what psychosynthesis looks like in the empirical practice of psychotherapy. Originally conceived by Italian psychiatrist Robert Ass...

Reducere. Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and youn...

Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Richard Katrovas's memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other...

Reducere. How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love In the United States, more than seven million people claim to be multiracial, or ...

Reducere. James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Bor...

Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexua...

Contributor(s): Author: Lisa M. DiamondIs love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offe...

Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Written in ...

Reducere. For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon...

Amorous Aesthetics traces the development of intellectual love from its first major expression in Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, through its adoption and...

Reducere. It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson ...

Reducere. bill bissett and Milton Acorn are two of Canada's most significant, and most controversial, literary figures. In the 1960s, bissett's renown as an ...

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

Reducere. The Metaphysical Foundations of Love: Aquinas on Participation, Unity, and Union offers a systematic treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas's account of t...

DescriptionThis is a much-needed development from the first edition that provides an update on the theory and research on love by world-renowned sc...

A stimulating and highly readable introduction to the science of imperfections, this book focuses on their crucial role in technology, as well as t...

Explores the ups and downs of one of the most successful girl groups of the early 1960s. Telling their story for the first time, in their own words...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A celebration of one of the most important groups of Renaissance paintings

Using attachment theory, Maunder and Hunter provide a practical, clinically focused introduction to the influence of attachment styles on an indivi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

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 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...

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...

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....

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...

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

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...

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