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Book Passion s Promise

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  • Author : Danielle Steel
  • Publisher : Dell
  • Release : 2009-06-03
  • ISBN : 0307566749
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Passion s Promise written by Danielle Steel and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart, beautiful, and very rich, Kezia Saint Martin leads two lives: one as a glamorous socialite jetting between the poshest places in Europe and America; the other, under a false name, as a dedicated journalist committed to justice and her profession. But the two worlds are pulling her apart, leaving her conflicted about her identity and the lies she tells to every man she meets. Then she meets Lucas Johns, a bold, dynamic crusader for social change -- and an ex-con. Their attraction is immediate, but their love may be just one step from tragedy at any time.

Book Passion s Promise

Download or read book Passion s Promise written by Danielle Steel and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recognizing Resentment

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  • Author : Michelle Schwarze
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-22
  • ISBN : 1108478662
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Recognizing Resentment written by Michelle Schwarze and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative theory surrounding the liberal demand for sympathetic resentment, which entails a recognition of the political equality of victims of injustice.

Book Success on Your Own Terms

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  • Author : James Rosseau, Sr.
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-06-23
  • ISBN : 9780578445151
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Success on Your Own Terms written by James Rosseau, Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people-perhaps four out of five or more-are dissatisfied with their jobs. Why not pursue a dream?It's up to you to create your custom-tailored career and define success your way. But how? Combine your burning passion with drive, determination, strategy, and commitment to pay it forward; find and nurture mentor support, stay steady on your path, and see the fireworks. SUCCESS ON YOUR OWN TERMS will show you exactly how to do it. Living parallel lives as a Christian hip-hop artist/producer and a Fortune 100 executive and author, James Rosseau has merged the streams of his dual passions to make a difference in his own life and the lives of countless others.

Book The Passions of Jean Baptiste Carpeaux

Download or read book The Passions of Jean Baptiste Carpeaux written by Draper, James David and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2014 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875) was an extraordinarily gifted sculptor, the greatest in 19th-century France before Rodin, and embodied the emotionally charged artistic climate of his era ... Carpeaux's wrenching representations of human forms, shown in beautiful color details and illustrations, echo his turbulent personal life, fraught with episodes of violence and fatal illness. The book covers the entire span of Carpeaux's career, and includes the masterpiece Ugolino and His Sons, newly discovered drawings, and a number of rarely seen or studied works. Previously unpublished letters between Carpeaux and his family and friends, a wealth of archival material, and the most detailed chronology of the artist's life ever published."--Yale University Press website.

Book Seven Deadly Sins

Download or read book Seven Deadly Sins written by Joseph Krauskopf and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bringing the Passions Back In

Download or read book Bringing the Passions Back In written by Rebecca Kingston and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rationalist ideal has been met with cynicism in progressive circles for undermining the role of emotion and passion in the public realm. By exploring the social and political implications of the emotions in the history of ideas, contributors examine new paradigms for liberalism and offer new appreciations of the potential for passion in political philosophy and practice. Bringing the Passions Back In draws upon the history of political theory to shed light on the place of emotions in politics; it illustrates how sophisticated thinking about the relationship between reason and passion can inform contemporary democratic political theory.

Book The Vehement Passions

Download or read book The Vehement Passions written by Philip Fisher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking off the ordinary flow of experience, the passions create a state of exception. In their suddenness and intensity, they map a personal world, fix and qualify our attention, and impel our actions. Outraged anger drives us to write laws that will later be enforced by impersonal justice. Intense grief at the death of someone in our life discloses the contours of that life to us. Wonder spurs scientific inquiry. The strong current of Western thought that idealizes a dispassionate world has ostracized the passions as quaint, even dangerous. Intense states have come to be seen as symptoms of pathology. A fondness for irony along with our civic ideal of tolerance lead us to prefer the diluted emotional life of feelings and moods. Demonstrating enormous intellectual originality and generosity, Philip Fisher meditates on whether this victory is permanent-and how it might diminish us. From Aristotle to Hume to contemporary biology, Fisher finds evidence that the passions have defined a core of human nature no less important than reason or desire. Traversing the Iliad, King Lear, Moby Dick, and other great works, he discerns the properties of the high-spirited states we call the passions. Are vehement states compatible with a culture that values private, selectively shared experiences? How do passions differ from emotions? Does anger have an opposite? Do the passions give scale, shape, and significance to our experience of time? Is a person incapable of anger more dangerous than someone who is irascible? In reintroducing us to our own vehemence, Fisher reminds us that it is only through our strongest passions that we feel the contours of injustice, mortality, loss, and knowledge. It is only through our personal worlds that we can know the world.

Book Governing Passions

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  • Author : Mark Greengrass
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2007-09-13
  • ISBN : 0191526851
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Governing Passions written by Mark Greengrass and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French kingdom dissolved into civil wars, known as the 'wars of religion', for a generation from 1562 to 1598. This book examines the reactions of France's governing groups to that experience. Their major political endeavour was securing peace. They attempted to achieve it through a religious pluralism not envisaged in any other state on this scale in this period. Its achievement would only be fulfilled, however, alongside a reform of the kingdom's institutions and society. Peace and reform went hand in hand - a moral agenda for restoration. France's notables drew on reservoirs of classical and Christian moral philosophy and wisdom to find practical answers to the difficult problems of governance that confronted them. The resulting public introspection and vocal debates are difficult to match anywhere else in Europe at this time. They were an essential part of the profound sense of crisis that France's governing elites experienced during the later sixteenth century. Drawing extensively on manuscript and printed sources not hitherto examined, this book analyses for the first time the debates at the Estates General of Blois (1576-7) and the Assembly of Notables at Saint-Germain-en-Laye of 1583-4. It shows the French polity in a fresh light, presenting major issues of political thought in their public and practical context. And it re-examines the crucial and little-understood reign of Henri III, the last Valois king, suggesting how Bourbon France could have emerged very differently from the civil wars of the late sixteenth century.

Book Life s Progress Through the Passions

Download or read book Life s Progress Through the Passions written by Eliza Fowler Haywood and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Life's Progress Through the Passions by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Book Why Horace

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  • Author : William Scovil Anderson
  • Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780865164178
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Why Horace written by William Scovil Anderson and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one essays make a cogent case for reading Latin poet Horace as a verse form innovator--E.A. Fredricksmeyer seconds spring-song Odes 4.7 as a candidate for the most beautiful poem in ancient literature; espouser of the carpe diem theme in his love poems; and astute observer of Augustan era politics. In reprinted articles from classical studies journals and books (1956-89), the contributors address the Odes from Books 1-3 circa 30-23 BC, plus the Satire from his first publication of 35 BC. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Promise of Passion

Download or read book Promise of Passion written by Natalie Fox and published by Ulverscroft Large Print Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nationalist Passions

Download or read book Nationalist Passions written by Stuart J. Kaufman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalist and ethnic conflict can take many forms, from genocidal violence and civil war to protest movements and peaceful squabbles in democracies. Nationalist Passions poses a stark challenge to extreme rationalist understandings of political conflict. Stuart J. Kaufman elaborates a compelling theory of ethnic politics to explain why ethnic violence erupts in some contexts and how peace is maintained in others. At the core of Kaufman's theory is an assertion that conflicts are initiated due to popular "symbolic predispositions"—biases of all kinds—and perceptions of threat.Kaufman puts his theory to the test in a range of conflicts. He examines some highly violent episodes, among them the Muslim rebellion in the southern Philippines beginning in the 1970s; the civil war in southern Sudan that began in the 1980s; and the Rwanda genocide of 1994. Kaufman also analyzes other situations in which leaders attempted to tame the violence that nationalist passions can generate. In India, Mahatma Gandhi mobilized an overtly nonviolent movement but failed in his efforts to prevent the rise of Muslim-Hindu communal violence. In South Africa, Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk ended apartheid, but not without terrible cost—more than fifteen thousand people died while the negotiations were under way. In Tanzania, however, Julius Nyerere led one of the few ethnically diverse countries in the world with almost no ethnic violence. Nationalist Passions is essential reading for policymakers, international aid workers, and all others who seek to find the best possible outcomes for future internal and interstate clashes.

Book My Literary Passions

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  • Author : William Dean Howells
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-09-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book My Literary Passions written by William Dean Howells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Literary Passions" is a literary critic of various works by the American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, William Dean Howells nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". The book is written in an autobiographical flow in terms of his introduction to and appreciation of the various writings. Howells admits that various authors have shaped his own writing career profoundly. Among the authors he critiques include: Cervantes, Goldsmith, Byron, Dickens and Chaucer.

Book Not Passion s Slave

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  • Author : Robert C. Solomon
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-30
  • ISBN : 0199881847
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Not Passion s Slave written by Robert C. Solomon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents a "cognitive" theory of emotions in which emotions are construed primarily as evaluative judgments. The second proposes an "existentialist" perspective in which he defends the idea that, as we are responsible for our emotions. Indeed, sometimes it even makes sense to say that we "choose" them. While the first claim has gained increasing currency in the literature, his claim about responsibility for emotions has continued to meet with considerable resistance and misinterpretation. The new emphasis on evolutionary biology and neurology has (mistakenly) reinforced the popular prejudice that emotions "happen" to us and are entirely beyond our control. This volume is also a kind of intellectual memoir of Solomon?s own development as a thinker. The essays written in the 1980s elaborate the themes of the "intentionality" of emotion and the claim that emotions are "judgments"; in this period, he is also increasingly preoccupied with how emotions vary and are identified in a variety of cultures. In the 1990's, his interests evolve to consider the social and political role of emotions and theories about emotion. The final section presents his current philosophical position on the seeming "passivity" of the passions. Despite his own critical assessment of his earlier work, he continues to argue that, in the final analysis, we are responsible for our emotions and existential quality of our lives.

Book Unruly Passions

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  • Author : Kate Charles
  • Publisher : Sphere
  • Release : 2012-11-30
  • ISBN : 140552345X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Unruly Passions written by Kate Charles and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Phillips is one of the first women to achieve the office of Archdeacon. She is intelligent, confident and capable, and though things have not always gone smoothly for her, she has reached a stage in her life where both her career and private life are harmonious. If there is one thing she can be sure of, it is the love and support of her husband, Hal. Valerie Marler, bestselling author, creates a fictional world where her privileged heroines always end up with the men of their dreams. She's in control of her own life as well: talented, beautiful, rich, and with as many men as she wants, Valerie calls the shots. Until she meets Hal Phillips, who revels in his status as a happily married man and who is not interested in what she has to offer. Rosemary Finch, the vicar's wife, hasn't been blessed with the same gifts as Valerie Marler; she is neither rich nor beautiful, and her life has not been an easy one. But she loves her husband and they both adore their Down's Syndrome daughter, Daisy. However, when she meets Hal Phillips, the man Valerie Marler wants and can't have, her life spirals out of control...