Author: Mary Ann Cahill
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452256903
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Heart Has Its Own Reasons
Author: Mary Ann Cahill
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452256903
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452256903
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Heart Has Its Reasons
Author: Maria Duenas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451668368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Declared “a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author María Dueñas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances. A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions. But in delving into the past, Blanca finds herself simultaneously awakened to the present by Daniel Carter, a charismatic professor with crucial knowledge about the dead writer that he has never before revealed. Amid this web of passion, conflict, and hidden feelings, including her own, Blanca advances like an avid detective, refusing to quit, and ultimately discovers startling answers that resonate deeply in her own life. Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a journey of the soul from the pangs of the past to the vibrant present. It is a story about the thrill of creating one’s life anew.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451668368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Declared “a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author María Dueñas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances. A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life behind, she is gradually drawn into his haunted world, with its poignant loves and unfulfilled ambitions. But in delving into the past, Blanca finds herself simultaneously awakened to the present by Daniel Carter, a charismatic professor with crucial knowledge about the dead writer that he has never before revealed. Amid this web of passion, conflict, and hidden feelings, including her own, Blanca advances like an avid detective, refusing to quit, and ultimately discovers startling answers that resonate deeply in her own life. Evocative, lyrical, and humorous, The Heart Has Its Reasons is a journey of the soul from the pangs of the past to the vibrant present. It is a story about the thrill of creating one’s life anew.
Pascal's Pensees
Author: Blaise Pascal
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627933646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627933646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
The Heart Has Its Reasons
Author: Wallis Warfield Duchess of Windsor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Duchess writes of her first two marriages, her divorce, her escape from the abdication publicity, and her marriage to Edward VIII.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Duchess writes of her first two marriages, her divorce, her escape from the abdication publicity, and her marriage to Edward VIII.
The Reasons of Love
Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400826063
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we love In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Through caring, we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with stable ambitions and concerns, and it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we lead our lives. Love is a nonvoluntary, disinterested concern for the flourishing of what we love—and self-love, as distinct from self-indulgence, is at heart of this concern. The most elementary form of self-love is no more than the desire to love, and self-love is simply a commitment to finding meaning in our lives.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400826063
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a profound meditation on how and why we love In The Reasons of Love, leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Through caring, we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with stable ambitions and concerns, and it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we lead our lives. Love is a nonvoluntary, disinterested concern for the flourishing of what we love—and self-love, as distinct from self-indulgence, is at heart of this concern. The most elementary form of self-love is no more than the desire to love, and self-love is simply a commitment to finding meaning in our lives.
The Duchess of Windsor
Author: Diana Mosley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903933404
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Diana Mosley is the last intimate friend of the Duchess of Windsor still alive. In this revised and updated biography, she addresses the latest allegations of secret service reports about the Windsors' conduct during the war and the abdication. A new chapter has been added.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903933404
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Diana Mosley is the last intimate friend of the Duchess of Windsor still alive. In this revised and updated biography, she addresses the latest allegations of secret service reports about the Windsors' conduct during the war and the abdication. A new chapter has been added.
The Heart Has Reasons
Author: Mark Klempner
Publisher: hearthasreasons.com
ISBN: 0988567407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Recounts the stories of men and women who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and explores what others can learn through their stories about courage, determination, and compassion.
Publisher: hearthasreasons.com
ISBN: 0988567407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Recounts the stories of men and women who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and explores what others can learn through their stories about courage, determination, and compassion.
Reasons and Persons
Author: Derek Parfit
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622443
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622443
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.
Hope Has Its Reasons
Author: Rebecca Manley Pippert
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830822782
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Rebecca Manley Pippert invites you to join her on a journey exploring the region between faith and unbelief where hope and doubt mingle. Citing freely from her own experiences she addresses the big questions of life including questions about our significance, meaning, love, life and truth.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 9780830822782
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Rebecca Manley Pippert invites you to join her on a journey exploring the region between faith and unbelief where hope and doubt mingle. Citing freely from her own experiences she addresses the big questions of life including questions about our significance, meaning, love, life and truth.
The Heart Has Its Reasons
Author: Beáta Tóth
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498202659
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book explores a hitherto neglected area of theological anthropology: the unity of human emotionality and rationality embodied in the biblical concept of the heart. While the theological contours of human reason have for long been clearly drawn and presented as the exclusive seat of the image of God, affectivity has been relegated to a secondary position. With the reintegration of the body into recent philosophical and theological discourses, a number of questions have arisen: if the image (also) resides in the body, how does this change one's view of the theological significance of human affectivity? In what way is our likeness to God realized in the whole of what we are? Can one overcome the traditional dissociation between intellect and affectivity by a renewed theory of love? In conversation with patristic and medieval authors (e.g., Irenaeus, Tertullian, Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus, Aquinas) and in dialogue with more recent interlocutors (Pascal, Ricoeur, Marion, Milbank, John Paul II), this work pursues a novel theological vision of the essential unity of our humanity.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498202659
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book explores a hitherto neglected area of theological anthropology: the unity of human emotionality and rationality embodied in the biblical concept of the heart. While the theological contours of human reason have for long been clearly drawn and presented as the exclusive seat of the image of God, affectivity has been relegated to a secondary position. With the reintegration of the body into recent philosophical and theological discourses, a number of questions have arisen: if the image (also) resides in the body, how does this change one's view of the theological significance of human affectivity? In what way is our likeness to God realized in the whole of what we are? Can one overcome the traditional dissociation between intellect and affectivity by a renewed theory of love? In conversation with patristic and medieval authors (e.g., Irenaeus, Tertullian, Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus, Aquinas) and in dialogue with more recent interlocutors (Pascal, Ricoeur, Marion, Milbank, John Paul II), this work pursues a novel theological vision of the essential unity of our humanity.