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How to Love

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How to Love By:"Gordon Livingston" Published on 2011-04-01 by ReadHowYouWant.com Large print. This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword love.

The Arts of Love

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The Arts of Love By:"Duncan F. Kennedy" Published on 1993-01-01 by Cambridge University Press An examination of the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid. This Book was ranked 33 by Google Books for keyword love.

Food and Love

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Food and Love By:"Jack Goody" Published on 1998 by Verso Describes the evolution of cuisines from both the East and West, their influence on the rest of the world, and taboos associated with certain foods and drinks. This Book was ranked 4 by Google Books for keyword love.

Love in the Western World

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Love in the Western World By:"Denis de Rougemont" Published on 1983 by Princeton University Press In this classic work, often described as \ This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword love.

On Love

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On Love By:"Rusmir Mahmutćehajić" Published on 2007 by Fordham Univ Press This rare and important contribution to the field of Islamic studies, philosophy, and comparative religion achieves a twofold objective. First, it draws from a broad and authoritative well of sources, especially in the domain of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism. The scholarship is impeccable. Second, it is an in-depth meditation on the relationship between love and knowledge, multiplicity and unity, the example of the Prophet Muhammed viewed as Universal Man, spiritual union, heart and intellect, and other related themes--conveyed in fresh, contemporary language.The book is as much a work of Sufism as it is a book about Sufism. Many of these themes have a universal appeal for students of mysticism; consequently, there are distinct resonances with other traditions, especially within certain schools of Christian mysticism dominated by the language of love.In our day, when the divisions between many Muslims an...

Love

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Love By:"Florence Montreynaud" Published on 1998-11 by Taschen Offering a most distinctive take on the subject, \ This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword love.

On Love

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On Love By:"Alain de Botton" Published on 2015-11-03 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 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 Botton’s first novel in twenty years and one about mature love—we celebrate the timeless debut about young love that serves as The Course of Love’s precursor and companion. Reissued with a brilliant introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of How Should a Person Be?, Shelia Heti, On Love is a contemporary...