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Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex ...

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

DescriptionAward-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefull...

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

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

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

The book covers the author's time reporting from the former Soviet Union not long after the fall of communism.

Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the c...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded re...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916-18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love i...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anth...

Reducere. This new volume of Rumi s works, the first-ever English translation of his Arabic poems, will be exciting for the newcomer to Rumi s verses as well...

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...

Contributor(s): Author: Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevTranslator: Richard FreebornBringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this ...

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...

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

Reducere. This is a newly translated collection of poetry - in a bilingual edition - by Francophone writer Nadia Tueni, including more than forty selected po...

Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of th...

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. 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...

Raymond Carver called Anton Chekhov ``the greatest short story writer who has ever lived.`` This unequivocal verdict on Chekhov's genius has been e...

Reducere. After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us; s...

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

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...

This book is about the reshaping of women's lives, loves and dreams. It tells the story of how expectations and emotional landscapes have shifted s...

Reducere. Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the directi...

A new translation of the classic, optimistic theological book written in the Middle Ages by one of the earliest female authors, Julian of Norwich. ...

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

Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth li...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...

Reducere. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more – the Oxford Bookworms Library has a book for every student. Written for secondary and adult student...