Best Essays On Love - April 2024

On Love: A Novel

On Love is globally bestselling novelist-philosopher Alain De Botton’s iconic debut—the novel that launched his decorated literary career; and a funny, profound, and searingly true-to-life exploration of love.A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London, and so begins a love story—from fist kiss to first argument, elation to heartbreak, and everything in between. Each stage of the relationship is illuminated with starling clarity, as de Botton explores emotions often felt but rarely understood. Now, in tandem with the arrival of The Course of Love—de Bo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0802142400
• ASIN: 0802142400
• ISBN: 0802142400
• Brand: Brand: Grove Press
• Manufacturer: Grove Press

Three essays on universal law: The laws of Karma, will, and love

THE LAW OF KARMA: Modern science has found undeniable evidence that there are laws governing the structure and movement of every atom in Nature. Yet man continues to live as though the various events happening to him throughout his life are random -- occurring only by "chance." This essay formally presents a Universal Law which not only incorporates all of the existing scientific laws, but also explains the underlying order which governs the conditions of our everyday lives. THE LAW OF WILL: Will power is a force nearer to us than any of the external forms of power which we utilize each day. Y... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0914374079
• ASIN: 0914374079
• ISBN: 0914374079
• Brand: Brand: Shanti Publications, Inc.
• Manufacturer: Shanti Publications, Inc.

Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Thinking Gender)

This fascinating study of women carers explores the significance of dependency work by analyzing John Rawls' influential liberal theory and two examples of public policy - welfare reform and family leave - to show how both theory and policy fail women when they miss the centrality of dependency to questions of justice. A vision of an equal society is required, one which recognizes that those who care for others require the support of the larger community.

• ASIN: 0415904137
• ASIN: 0415904137
• ISBN: 0415904137
• Manufacturer: Routledge

Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India

When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s next to impossible—and the proper way for women in India to ride scooters—perched sideways—are early signs that life here is less Westernized than she’d counted on. Living in Delhi for more than five years, and finding a city pulsing with possibility and hope, Kennedy experiences fri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400067863
• ASIN: 1400067863
• ISBN: 1400067863
• Manufacturer: Random House

For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

For the Love is now a New York Times bestseller! Don't miss Jen's latest title, also a New York Times bestseller, Of Mess & Moxie.Best-selling author Jen Hatmaker is convinced life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind. She reveals with humor and style how Jesus’ embarrassing grace is the key to dealing with life's biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, go to church with, don’t like, don’t understand, fear, compare oursel... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00QL9LFCG
• ASIN: B00QL9LFCG
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

The Girl's Best Friend: A Collection of Essays on Love, Life, & Sharing Your Light

The Girl's Best Friend is a collection of essays from the popular Essence.com column of the same name, which serves as the inspiration for the award-winning and best-selling novel, Ladies Who Lunch & Love. Nathan starts from the premise that you are amazing just as you are and works from there. His advice is practical and uses the art of storytelling to share his thoughts on love, life, relationships, and sharing your spirit with the world. He includes essays from some of his favorite and dearest "sister-friends" to give color and support for why he is considered, "The Girl's Best Friend." The... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0692971963
• ASIN: 0692971963
• ISBN: 0692971963
• Manufacturer: WHyN Press

The Course of Love: A Novel

“An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought” (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership. We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as “happily ever after.” The Course of Love explores what happens af... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501134515
• ASIN: 1501134515
• ISBN: 1501134515
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Kill as Few Patients as Possible: And Fifty-Six Other Essays on How to Be the World's Best Doctor

This oft-quoted all-time favorite of the medical community will gladden--and strengthen--the hearts of patients, doctors, and anyone entering medical study, internship, or practice. With unassailable logic and rapier wit, the sage Dr. Oscar London muses on the challenges and joys of doctoring, and imparts timeless truths, reality checks, and poignant insights gleaned from 30 years of general practice--while never taking himself (or his profession) too seriously.The classic book on the art and humor of practicing medicine, celebrating its 20th anniversary in a new gift edition with updates thro... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1580089178
• UPC: 884199882995
• ASIN: 1580089178
• ISBN: 1580089178
• Brand: Ten Speed Press
• Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

For Love of Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Philosophy

In these elegant and engaging essays, the internationally acclaimed Thomist, Josef Pieper, defines and defends philosophy as the search for and love of wisdom. True philosophy is not the work of joyless academics pondering over esoteric writings that have no relation to real life. Rather, the philosophical act, in which all reasonable men can participate, begins in wonder at what is, and gratitude for what is given, and ends in love.In his encyclical letter Fides et Ratio (On the Relationship between Faith and Reason), Pope John Paul II called for a revitalization of true philosophy, for man... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1586170872
• ASIN: 1586170872
• ISBN: 1586170872
• Manufacturer: Ignatius Press

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• ASIN: B0796QV121
• ASIN: B0796QV121
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

AmongUS: Essays on Identity, Belonging, and Intercultural Competence (2nd Edition)

AmongUS presents readings from individuals whose intercultural experiences give insights on how to achieve an effective and fair multicultural society where cultural identities are celebrated and maintained. The essays provide a rich source of materials to teach a broad array of interpersonal, sociological, and psychological concepts that apply to educational, business, and cultural settings. The authors have arranged the book around four themes: Identity, Negotiating Intercultural Competence, Racism and Prejudice, and Belonging to Multiple Cultures.

• ASIN: 0205453538
• ASIN: 0205453538
• ISBN: 0205453538
• Manufacturer: Pearson

Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature

This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotiona... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195074858
• ASIN: 0195074858
• ISBN: 0195074858
• Brand: Oxford University Press USA
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives From Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer

In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian novelist Nina Berberova and the English naturalist Miriam Rothschild. And here is Fraser herself, learning... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375701125
• ASIN: 0375701125
• ISBN: 0375701125
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

• ASIN: B00V37BC4C
• ASIN: B00V37BC4C
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

Grief and Grace: Essays on Love and Beauty in the Midst of Dying

In the darkest of times, unexpected moments of exquisite beauty would shine through. This was the experience of a former hospice chaplain as she was besieged by a string of losses in her personal life. Both parents, a niece, several clients and uncles, and a couple former boyfriends all died within a three-year period. Caring for her parents in their final months was especially challenging. It was a great blessing but also a marathon that took her to the brink of exhaustion. Fortunately, over and over again, moments of Grace would light the path and remind her that she was never alone. All was... [Read More]

• ASIN: 179161289X
• ASIN: 179161289X
• ISBN: 179161289X
• Manufacturer: Independently published

The Girl's Best Friend : A Collection of Essays on Love, Life, & Sharing Your Light

The Girl's Best Friend is a collection of essays from the popular Essence.com column of the same name, which serves as the inspiration for the award-winning and best-selling novel, Ladies Who Lunch & Love. Nathan

• UPC: 305778546

For the Love of Mike : More of the Best of Mike Royko

This follow-up to "One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko" features more than 100 vintage Royko columns and a Foreword by Roger Ebert. 4

• UPC: 1724909
• Rating: 4.0

I Love Life, I Just Wish I Were Better At It: The Best of Christopher Hudspeth, Vol. 1 - eBook

You know the phrase “sugar, spice and everything nice?” Well, this collection of essays and lists is more like self-conscious, awkward and everything relatable. Christopher Hudspeth is a writer in Tucson, Arizona. He created the

• UPC: 671144845

The Polite Preceptor : Or, a Collection of Entertaining and Instructive Essays; Selected from the Best English Writers, ... with a View to Inspire ... the Love of Virtue, and the Principles of ... Just Reasoning.

The Polite Preceptor: Or, a Collection of Entertaining and Instructive Essays; Selected from the Best English Writers, ... with a View to

• UPC: 430728735

The World's Best Poetry : Love; Introductory Essay: The Future of Poetry, by J.V. Cheney

The World's Best Poetry

• UPC: 958706020

Poems My Children Love Best of All (1917)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important,

• UPC: 585265679

Poems My Children Love Best of All

Poems My Children Love Best of All

• UPC: 546031641

Poems My Children Love Best Of All

Poems My Children Love Best Of All

• UPC: 362382306

The Writer's Garden : How Gardens Inspired Our Best-Loved Authors

"Writer's Garden goes inside the lives of 20 influential authors to discover the roles that gardens played. From Sir Walter Scott's fairytale Scottish castle to Rupert Brooke's riverside retreat in Cambridge; from Virginia Woolf's rural

• UPC: 50722575

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• Category: Non-Fiction
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