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Love of family. Love of friends. God's love. Love-in every area of life. These are just a few of the timely topics included in this refreshing volume designed to lighten your day and lift your spirit. Each reading will speak to your heart as you experience the perpetual love found only in God's Word. The more than 200 love-themed devotions are succinct and power packed, perfect to fit into even your busiest day. All wrapped up in a beautiful package, you'll want to buy two-one for yourself and one to bless the life of a friend

The Prudence of Love focuses upon the intersection of philosophical, theological, and psychological issues related to love. Eric Silverman defends an account of love derived from the views of Thomas Aquinas and argues that love provides numerous psychological and relational benefits that increase the lover's happiness. Furthermore, he argues that love is beneficial according to all major contemporary accounts of happiness

"There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. Yet the ways in which we live sexuality and intimacy have been profoundly shaped by theories — especially psychoanalytic ones, which have helped to place sexuality and desire at the center of the modern story about what a person is and how her history should be read. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. In these domains, sexual desire is not deemed the core story of life; it is mixed up with romance, a particular version of the story of love. In this small theoretical novella-cum-dictionary entry, Lauren Berlant engages love and desire in separate entries. In the first entry, Desire mainly describes the feeling one person has for something else: it is organized by psychoanalytic accounts of attachment, and tells briefly the history of their importance in critical theory and practice. The second entry, on Love, begins with an excursion into fantasy, moving away from the parent-child structure so central to psychoanalysis and looking instead at the centrality of context, environment, and history. The entry on Love describes some workings of romance across personal life and commodity culture, the place where subjects start to think about fantasy on behalf of their actual lives.

Barry Long's groundbreaking book about the difference between love and sex. What are the real secrets of love-making? What mistakes does everyone make before learning the truth about love? What can men do to avoid sexual failure? What do women need to know before they can discover a real and fulfilling love? These revolutionary tantric teachings have inspired, challenged and profoundly changed the love-lives of many thousands of couples and are surely needed today more than ever.

Intro -- Contents of Set -- The 5 Love Languages -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. What Happens to Love After the Wedding? -- 2. Keeping the Love Tank Full -- 3. Falling in Love -- 4. Love Language #1: Words of Affirmation -- 5. Love Language #2: Quality Time -- 6. Love Language #3: Receiving Gifts -- 7. Love Language #4: Acts of Service -- 8. Love Language #5: Physical Touch -- 9. Discovering Your Primary Love Language -- 10. Love Is a Choice -- 11. Love Makes the Difference -- 12. Loving the Unlovely -- 13. A Personal Word -- Frequently Asked Questions -- The 5 Love Languages Profile for Couples-for Him -- The 5 Love Languages Profile for Couples-for Her -- Notes -- The 5 Love Languages for Men -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: What's New in 5 Love Languages for Men -- 1 How Many Languages Do You Speak? -- 2 How to Become Fluent in Words of Affirmation (Love Language #1) -- 3 How to Become Fluent in Quality Time (Love Language #2) -- 4 How to Become Fluent in Gift Giving (Love Language #3) -- 5 How to Become Fluent in Acts of Service (Love Language #4) -- 6 How to Become Fluent in Physical Touch (Love Language #5) -- 7 What Languages Do You Speak? -- 8 Troubleshooting -- 9 How Can You Work Through Anger Together? -- 10 The Art of Apologizing -- Frequently Asked Questions -- The 5 Love Languages® Profiles for Couples-For Him -- The 5 Love Languages® Profiles for Couples-For Her -- Acknowledgments -- The 5 Love Languages of Children -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Speaking Your Child's Love Language -- 1. Love Is the Foundation -- 2. Love Language #1: Physical Touch -- 3. Love Language #2: Words of Affirmation -- 4. Love Language #3: Quality Time -- 5. Love Language #4: Gifts -- 6. Love Language #5: Acts of Service.

"Presents a form of activism based on kindness and a response to cruelty, violence, and injustice. Elaborates on Love Activism through a description of its eight elements: service, empathy, non-violence, self-care, hope, creativity, feminism, and mindfulness. Includes interviews with ten activists throughout the United States who are involved in various types of activism in their communities"--

"The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and sexuality. Love Is Love Is Love looks to the Broadway musicals of the past decade for help understanding the current state of LGBTQ politics in the United States. Through analyses of Promises, Promises, Newsies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Color Purple, and Frozen, this book attempts to move past the question of representational politics and asks us instead to think in more complex ways about LGBTQ identity, what LGBTQ politics are, and the politics of Broadway musicals themselves. Producing new, complex readings of all five of these musicals, author Aaron C. Thomas places each of them within the context of the LGBTQ politics of their day. Some of the issues the book treats are controversies of casting, the closetedness and openness of musical theatre, LGBTQ identities, adaptation from movies into musicals, and the special power of the musical form by examining how these shows differ from the books and movies on which they're based. Love Is Love Is Love places contemporary LGBTQ political tensions and conversations in a new light, making this an essential companion for students and scholars of contemporary theatre, musical theatre, cultural studies, Queer studies and gender studies"--

"The politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and sexuality. Love Is Love Is Love looks to the Broadway musicals of the past decade for help understanding the current state of LGBTQ politics in the United States. Through analyses of Promises, Promises, Newsies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Color Purple, and Frozen, this book attempts to move past the question of representational politics and asks us instead to think in more complex ways about LGBTQ identity, what LGBTQ politics are, and the politics of Broadway musicals themselves. Producing new, complex readings of all five of these musicals, author Aaron C. Thomas places each of them within the context of the LGBTQ politics of their day. Some of the issues the book treats are controversies of casting, the closetedness and openness of musical theatre, LGBTQ identities, adaptation from movies into musicals, and the special power of the musical form by examining how these shows differ from the books and movies on which they're based. Love Is Love Is Love places contemporary LGBTQ political tensions and conversations in a new light, making this an essential companion for students and scholars of contemporary theatre, musical theatre, cultural studies, Queer studies and gender studies"--

"Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society reflects on relationships in contemporary society and the role of love and intimacy in framing lives. The book draws on sociological perspectives, cultural sociology and gender theory perspectives. It looks at how love and intimacy is experienced differently and intersected by gender, ethnicity, race and sexuality. This book aims to encourage people to understand theories of intimacy, emotions and desire by examining these concepts contemporaneously and cross-culturally. It also explores how love and intimacy is experienced by young people and how it is impacted by age. It looks at its representation in the media and film and focuses on how gender, ethnicity and sexuality offer different perspectives on love and intimacy. The book shows how relationships are impacted by social networking and new technologies and the opportunities and challenges posed by these new platforms for building relationships. Finally, the book examines how intimacy has become commercialised in late capitalism and how that acts to change relationships. The book is written in an accessible way and explores a range of theoretical debates and contemporary research around emotions, which can be useful for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral study"--