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Book The Country of Marriage

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  • Author : Anthony Giardina
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2008-12-10
  • ISBN : 0307483339
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Country of Marriage written by Anthony Giardina and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America. The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence. Giardina looks at our relationships with an eye capable of clinical precision but never devoid of compassion, and gives voice to the emotions that lie unexplored and unexpressed beneath their seemingly placid surface. In “Days with Cecilia,” a highly articulate shop teacher reveals by attrition the sexual secret of his marriage. In “The Lake,” a young fireman confronts his complicity in the murder of his best friend’s wife. And in “The Films of Richard Egan,” the aborted career of an almost-was film star finds its echo in a suburban boy’s life. These are emotional landscapes at once familiar and unsettling, with characters who are instantly recognizable but endlessly surprising. Brilliantly observed and masterfully told, The Country of Marriage is an unforgettable montage of lives of dwindling promise, of stubborn hope, of emotional atrophy, and of the courage to take root in the indifferent soil of modern existence. “Anthony Giardina has an exquisite sense of the nuances of gesture and voice, the clamor of things unsaid.”—The New York Times Book Review

Book A Country of Marriage

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  • Author : Wendell Berry
  • Publisher : Counterpoint
  • Release : 2013-03-26
  • ISBN : 9781619021082
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Country of Marriage written by Wendell Berry and published by Counterpoint. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, The Country of Marriage is Wendell Berry's fifth volume of poetry. What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer's relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation." "Similarly, marriage is the basic and central community tie; it begins and stands for the relation we have to family and to the larger circles of human association. And these relationships are in turn basic to, and may stand for, our relationship to God and to the sustaining mysteries and powers of creation." Each of the thirty–five poems in this collection is concerned with this metaphor. The long sequence that is itself entitled "The Country of Marriage," perhaps the finest single work in the book, is a grave, moving, and beautifully wrought love poem. But the shorter lyrics have an equal grace and beauty—writing that contains the exhilarating lucidity of mountain spring water. And there are most notably, several more poems about the "Mad Farmer," who advises us here to 'every day do something that won't compute.' Berry has here perfected a work that is immediately accessible but that becomes, as we read it again, always more satisfying, reverberant with manifold meanings.

Book The Country of Marriage

Download or read book The Country of Marriage written by Sarah Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Country of Marriage

Download or read book The Country of Marriage written by Jon Cleary and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Country of Marriage

Download or read book The Country of Marriage written by Wendell Berry and published by Harvest Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Download or read book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work written by John Gottman, Ph.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2002-02-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as Masters and Johnson were pioneers in the study of human sexuality, so Dr. John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage. As a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute, he has studied the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over the course of many years. His findings, and his heavily attended workshops, have already turned around thousands of faltering marriages. This book is the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward in their approach, yet profound in their effect, these principles teach partners new and startling strategies for making their marriage work. Gottman helps couples focus on each other, on paying attention to the small day-to-day moments that, strung together, make up the heart and soul of any relationship. Being thoughtful about ordinary matters provides spouses with a solid foundation for resolving conflict when it does occur and finding strategies for living with those issues that cannot be resolved. Packed with questionnaires and exercises whose effectiveness has been proven in Dr. Gottman's workshops, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the result of Dr. John Gottman's many years of closely observing thousands of marriages. This kind of longitudinal research has never been done before. Based on his findings, he has culled seven principles essential to the success of any marriage. Maintain a love map. Foster fondness and admiration. Turn toward instead of away. Accept influence. Solve solvable conflicts. Cope with conflicts you can't resolve. Create shared meaning. Dr. Gottman's unique questionnaires and exercises will guide couples on the road to revitalizing their marriage, or making a strong one even better.

Book Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce  and Evidence in Matrimonial Suits

Download or read book Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce and Evidence in Matrimonial Suits written by Joel Prentiss Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Standing by Words

Download or read book Standing by Words written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time–honored values against the ravages of modern society. . In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever–widening cleft between the words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals and their communities from the land. “This skillfully conceived book is one of the strongest contemporary arguments for literary tradition: a challenging credo, un–glib, calmly assured, clearly illuminating—and required reading for those seriously interested in the interplay between literature, ethics, and morality.” —Kirkus Reviews “[Berry’s] poems, novels and essays . . . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America’s agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal.” —Publishers Weekly

Book The Central Law Journal

Download or read book The Central Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 64-96 include "Central law journal's international law list".

Book The Weekly Reporter

Download or read book The Weekly Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce  with the Evidence  Practice  Pleading  and Forms  Also of Separations without Divorce  and of Evidence of Marriage in All Issues

Download or read book Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce with the Evidence Practice Pleading and Forms Also of Separations without Divorce and of Evidence of Marriage in All Issues written by Joel Prentiss Bishop and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Book The Future of Christian Marriage

Download or read book The Future of Christian Marriage written by Mark Regnerus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage has come a long way since biblical times. Women are no longer property, and practices like polygamy have long been rejected. The world is wealthier, healthier, and more able to find and form relationships than ever. So why are Christian congregations doing more burying than marrying today? Explanations for the recession in marriage range from the mathematical--more women in church than men--to the economic, and from the availability of sex to progressive politics. But perhaps marriage hasn't really changed at all. Instead, there is simply less interest in marriage in an era marked by technology, gender equality, and secularization. Mark Regnerus explores how today's Christians find a mate within a faith that esteems marriage but in a world that increasingly yawns at it. This book draws on in-depth interviews with nearly two hundred young-adult Christians from the United States, Mexico, Spain, Poland, Russia, Lebanon, and Nigeria, in order to understand the state of matrimony in global Christian circles today. Regnerus finds that marriage has become less of a foundation for a couple to build upon and more of a capstone. Meeting increasingly high expectations of marriage is difficult, though, in a free market whose logic reaches deep into the home today. The result is endemic uncertainty, slowing relationship maturation, and stalling marriage. But plenty of Christians innovate, resist, and wed, and this book argues that the future of marriage will be a religious one.

Book The Jurist

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1859
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1586 pages

Download or read book The Jurist written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce  of Separations Without Divorces  and of the Evidence of Marriage in All Issues

Download or read book Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce of Separations Without Divorces and of the Evidence of Marriage in All Issues written by Joel Prentiss Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Ruling Cases as Determined by the Courts

Download or read book The American Ruling Cases as Determined by the Courts written by Basil Jones and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: