Inspiring essays on love shared by men, women, and young people from all walks of life In the 1950's, Edward R. Murrow's radio program, This I Believe, gave voice to the feelings and treasured bel
In a book laced with her trademark humor, a veteran comedian and co-host of the The View shares stories of when she has been forced to deal with tough situations in family, marriage, friendship and bu
In this, her eighth book, Jodi shares a powerful message meant for every person who has touched your life with friendship. This book provides a way to honor and give thanks to those precious people y
"Maurice I lamington has constructed a dynamic. historically informed theoretical framework to explore the relationship between feminism and hospitality. Its relevance to social issues. from houses o
Thomas Carson offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and deception. Part I addresses conceptual questions and offers definitions of l
In this book, two communication scholars explore both the science and art of the best-female-friend-connection. They do so by sharing the stories of over 50 sets of sistahs and their sometimes silly,
Integrating continental and Anglo-American traditions, the author exposes empathy as the foundation of the being-with-one-another of human beings. The interpretation of empathy is applied to story tel
In Socrates on Friendship and Community, Mary P. Nichols addresses Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's criticism of Socrates and recovers the place of friendship and community in Socratic philosophizing. This approach stands in contrast to the modern philosophical tradition, in which Plato's Socrates has been viewed as an alienating influence on Western thought and life. Nichols' rich analysis of both dramatic details and philosophic themes in Plato's Symposium, Phaedras, and Lysis shows how love finds its fulfilment in the reciprocal relation of friends. Nichols also shows how friends experience another as their own and themselves as belonging to another. Their experience, she argues, both sheds light on the nature of philosophy and serves as a standard for a political life that does justice to human freedom and community.
"In this book, Mark Vernon offers penetrating insights on the idea of friendship, using philosophy and modern culture to ask about friendship and sex, work, politics and spirituality. He also explores
A trenchant analysis of the vast array of "bullshit" that is undermining twenty-first century life skewers everything from corporate communications and wartime propaganda to scripted political events,
Small things can often mean a great deal. For the past five years readers of the Toronto Star's website have been telling each other that, as they shared their stories in a feature called "Acts of Kin
A scholarship-based, easy-to-read exploration looks at who lies, how and why lies are told, and what we can do to protect ourselves from being manipulated.
The Prudence of Love focuses upon the intersection of philosophical, theological, and psychological issues related to love. Eric Silverman defends an account of love derived from the views of Thomas A
Osterberg (history, Lund University, Sweden) gives in the annual Natalie Zemon Davis lecture an analysis of the concepts of friendship and love in medieval and Early Modern Europe. She begins with the
Deception, also known as 'lying', is a pervasive and fundamental social behavior in which a person attempts to persuade another to accept as true what the deceiver believes to be untrue. This issue sa
Describes the importance of interpersonal relationships, including the bonds between members of a family and friends, and explains how to maintain these relationships while avoiding bullying and peer
Award-winning watercolor artist Claire Stoner's sweet illustrations have been described as simple, fresh, and pure. Filled with unmistakable joy and goodness, they depict the beauty in the common ever
