Download or read book Romantic Love in America written by Victor C. de Munck and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Love in America: Cultural Models of Gay, Straight, and Polyamorous Relationships introduces the reader to the love and sex lives of two polyamorous,five gay, and eight straight individuals. Coupled with rich interviewmaterial, Victor C. de Munck provides a guided tour through the variablegeography of love relationships as studied in the social sciences. de Munckdescribes evolutionary, cognitive, social, prototypical, triadic, and neural theoriesof romantic love and sex, concluding with an American cultural model ofromantic love that also includes its relational properties as a dyad.

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Download or read book The Road to Missoula written by Laurence Amuso and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road to Missoula is an engrossing story of an Italian immigrant family, portraying the challenges, joys, and triumphs they face from the time of their arrival at Ellis Island at the beginning of the 20th century and through the ensuing decades as they learn to balance their Italian cultural heritage with the ways of their new home in America. Recounting childhoods, marriages, love, death, and the occasional brush with the law, the story interweaves significant and true world political events of the time with their traumatic, exciting and suspenseful effects on the family. It personalizes cultural and religious clashes, and provides insight into ethnic identity crises and solutions. The Road to Missoula skillfully explores through one family's experience the human emotions and drives we all share love, anger, jealousy, fear, ambition, disappointment, adventure, and happiness.

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Download or read book Three Brothers Plus One written by Alfred S. Hamby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Brothers Plus One is a fictional, historical, romantic and adventurous novel presented in TWO PARTS Part One—A baby girl (3-1/2 years old) was kidnapped by the Naples Italian Mafi a—1933 and brought to New York City and transported to a section in lower Manhattan called Little Italy. Seven members of a neighborhood street gang from Astoria, Queens coming home from seeing an Opera while walking through the Greenwich Village Park, discover this baby girl on a park bench. The balance of the adventure is about her growing up in America and the locating of the roots of this kidnapped baby girl. Part Two—After WW11 1945 Retired Colonel Alfred S. Habetrawongo had been requested by the U.S. State Department to look into the leading industry in Europe—The Counterfeiting of the U.S. American Dollars and Coins.

Download or read book Embedded in America The Onion Complete News Archives written by Carol Kolb and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology encompassing hundreds of articles from October 2003 through November 2004, including "Catholic Church Condemns Metrosexuality" and "Documents Reveal Gaps in Bush's Service as President."