The Passions

What Would You Focus On If You Were No Longer Weighed Down By Your Unwanted Responsibilities?If you want to add something meaningful to your life, ...

Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

Marino Marini: Visual Passions places the postwar Italian sculptor (1901-80) and his famed equestrian figures in their art-historical context for t...

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ...

Examining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory, 'Improving Passions' is an in...

DescriptionFor centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate w...

Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.Publisher: University of Toronto PressAuthor(...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling autho...

Reducere. DescriptionPhysicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body--blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler--determining a pe...

A sympathetic yet honest and nonjudgmental account that goes behind the palace doors and into the private lives of these iconic public figures Thei...

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

Senior New Testament scholar F. Scott Spencer focuses on a neglected area in the study of Jesus and the Gospels: the emotional life of Jesus. This ...

Reducere. In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideo...

An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with a preface and a conclusion by the author.Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s):...

'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.'Descartes is most often thought of as i...

Reducere. Scot Sellers shares his 10 essential lessons gleaned from a life devoted to better understanding relationships and sources of real satisfaction. Re...

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

Reducere. Poet, romantic, lover and carouser.Robert Burns blazed into Edinburgh in 1786 like a comet. The seat of the Scottish Enlightenment was electrified ...

Examines the manners in which modern artists use boredom as a form of aesthetic resistance that, at its most positive, is the will to boredom.

Reducere. The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and st...

Published for the first time as a Granta Books paperback: Barbara Ehrenreich's groundbreaking investigation into the roots of war, with a new intro...

Revisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between bo...

This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions....

Reducere. DescriptionThe Ethics and Passions of Dressage, Expanded Edition calls the reader to a re-dedication to the art of riding and the traditions of cla...

Contributor(s): Editor: J. Patrick LewisIt's all about us Join former U.S. Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis on a lyrical journey through t...

An "exciting and engaging" investigation (Jonah Berger) of the secret, tangled emotional relationships people have with things-drawing on cutting-e...

Reducere. Girls have the power to make a difference, whether that's in their own lives, their community, or even the world But it can be confusing to know wh...

Passions run high when the past releases its secrets in this stunning novel