Origins Of Love

Author : Nicole Krauss
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393342840
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Love: A Novel written by Nicole Krauss and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).

Author : Ian Dishart Suttie
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415210423
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Love and Hate written by Ian Dishart Suttie and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kishwar Desai
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471101495
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Love written by Kishwar Desai and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel from the winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2010; a stunning story of the value of life. In Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted - until she was born with a fatal illness. No one knows how the infection could have been transferred to the child, but one thing is certain: no one wants her now. Thousands of miles away in London, Kate and Ben are desperate for a baby. But, despite all their efforts, fate seems to be skewed against them. Then, as Kate suffers another miscarriage, she knows something has to change. She has heard of women who are prepared to carry a baby for others, and she knows this might be a way to finally find happiness. But will her desire for a baby stop at nothing…? And between the two, feisty social worker Simran Singh is determined to uncover the truth behind the shadowy façade of the multi-million dollar surrogacy industry. Women and children are being exploited, their lives thrown away like so much dust. Is she is the only person prepared to stand up for what is right...? Praise for Witness the Night: 'Terrific' Toby Clements, Telegraph 'No "next-best-thing" novel has been as literary, bold and compelling as Witness the Night... it is a taut, gripping and complex thriller with two enigmatic heroines at its core … I dare you - woman, man, neither or both - not to love Witness the Night.' Huffington Post

Author : Humberto Maturana Romesín
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845403762
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love written by Humberto Maturana Romesín and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors' basic question is: ‘How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical concerns, and at the same time deny all that through the rational justification of aggression?' The authors answer this basic question indirectly by providing a look into the fundaments of our biological constitution, concentrating on what they term emotioning, that is the flow of emotions in daily life that guides the flow of the systemic conservation of a manner of living. Maturana and Verden-Zöller claim that the fundamental emotion that gave rise to humans as sapient languaging beings was love, and that this remains our fundament even when other emotions become socially prevalent.

Author : María Rosa Menocal
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822314196
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shards of Love written by María Rosa Menocal and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often their practice, to purge it of an offending vulgarity. The cultural fragments left behind following this exile form the core of Shards of Love, as María Rosa Menocal confronts the difficulty of writing their history. It is in exile that Menocal locates the founding conditions for philology--as a discipline that loves origins--and for the genre of love songs that philology reveres. She crosses the boundaries, both temporal and geographical, of 1492 to recover the "original" medieval culture, with its Mediterranean mix of European, Arabic, and Hebrew poetics. The result is a form of literary history more lyrical than narrative and, Menocal persuasively demonstrates, more appropriate to the Middle Ages than to the revisionary legacy of the Renaissance. In discussions ranging from Eric Clapton's adaption of Nizami's Layla and Majnun, to the uncanny ties between Jim Morrison and Petrarch, Shards of Love deepens our sense of how the Middle Ages is tied to our own age as it expands the history and meaning of what we call Romance philology.

Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199357579
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Songs written by Ted Gioia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the unexplored history of the love song, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day, and discusses such topics as censorship, the legacy of love songs, and why it is a dominant form of modernmusical expression.

Author : Claire Langhamer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199594430
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English in Love written by Claire Langhamer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimate history of love, marriage, and emotional revolution in twentieth century Britain

Author : Simon May
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300118309
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love written by Simon May and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of love and how it developed from its Hebraic and Greek origins to an ideal that obsesses the modern Western world, and highlights philosophers that have challenged conventional thoughts on love and happiness.

Author : Humberto Maturana Romesín
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845403770
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love written by Humberto Maturana Romesín and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors' basic question is: ‘How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical concerns, and at the same time deny all that through the rational justification of aggression?' The authors answer this basic question indirectly by providing a look into the fundaments of our biological constitution, concentrating on what they term emotioning, that is the flow of emotions in daily life that guides the flow of the systemic conservation of a manner of living. Maturana and Verden-Zöller claim that the fundamental emotion that gave rise to humans as sapient languaging beings was love, and that this remains our fundament even when other emotions become socially prevalent.

Author : Jonathan Weiner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804153361
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time, Love , Memory written by Jonathan Weiner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s circadian rhythm. How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing ones, to these questions. Part biography, part thrilling scientific detective story, Time, Love, Memory forcefully demonstrates how Benzer's studies are changing our world view--and even our lives. Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize or knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human.