“…Owing to this, we get a chance to remain true to our ideas, to keep faith in our dreams, and, when the decisive moment comes, to choose not hatred but love, not darkness but light. Katarzyna Marciniak, University of Warsaw, From the introductory chapter…”

“…After a meeting with him in Cortona, Helle Busacca, a poet and writer from Messina, began drafting an epistolary diary dedicated to Corrado Pavolini, a well-known intellectual and film director of Tuscan origins with whom she had been in love for over twenty years. Through the so far unpublished pages she dedicated to "una storia senza storia" ("a story without history"), the writer brings to life an incandescent theatre of the self, in which the dramatization of personal experience, the self-representative elaboration and the expression of a living and restless inner self combine in a mixture of strongly hybrid characters, which is conveyed by a disruptive communicative force. …”

“…In John McMurry's words, "I wrote this book because I love writing. I get great pleasure and satisfaction from taking a complicated subject, turning it around until I see it clearly from a new angle, and then explaining it in simple words." …”

“…Real-world examples show you how data structures are used in practice, from making your searches faster to handling triage in an emergency room. You’ll love the fun cartoons, insightful stories, and useful Python code samples that make data structures come alive. …”

“…The authors show the value in deeply loving a team but also how a condition of this value is recognizing that the love of a fan comes with real limits and responsibilities.Key FeaturesProvides an accessible introduction to a key area of the philosophy of sportClosely looks at some of the salient ethical concerns around sports fandomProposes that the value of community in partisan fandom should not be underestimated as a key feature of the good lifeExamines how the same emotions and environments that can lead to violence are identical to those that lead to virtuous loyaltyArgues for a fan's responsibility in calling out violence or racist behavior from their fellow fans…”

“…In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become a woman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. …”

“…Stoeger -- Introduction -- Characteristics of the universe revealed by the sciences -- A universe that evolves at all levels -- A universe constituted by patterns of relationship -- A universe where natural processes have their own integrity -- A directional universe -- The cost of evolution -- Divine action in the Christ-event -- Jesus' vision of divine action : the reign of God -- Parables of divine action -- Healing -- The open table -- The community of disciples -- Divine action for Jesus -- Divine action in the light of the whole Christ-event -- God who lovingly waits upon creation -- The vulnerability of divine love -- Creation as divine self-bestowal -- The specific and historical character of divine acts -- Creation as the self-bestowal of God -- Enabling and empowering evolutionary emergence -- Noninterventionist divine action -- Enabling creaturely autonomy to flourish -- Divine action that accepts the limits of creaturely processes -- Creating through chance and lawfulness -- Special divine acts -- Special acts in the providential guidance of creation -- Approaches to special divine acts -- Divine action through secondary causes -- God's special acts in evolutionary emergence -- The dynamism and the creaturely limits of special divine acts -- Special divine acts in the life of grace -- Experiences of the Holy Spirit -- Personal providence -- Disruptive grace -- Special divine acts in the history of salvation -- Mediation by created realities -- Sacramental structure of special divine acts -- Miracles and the laws of nature -- The miracles of Jesus -- Aquinas on the dignity of secondary causes -- The laws of nature -- A theological approach -- The divine act of resurrection -- Resurrection : a free act of God from within creation that gives creation its deepest meaning -- Central expression of God's act of self-bestowal -- Evolutionary christology -- Sacrament of salvation -- Resurrection as ontological transformation -- Resurrection expressed in creation through secondary causes -- Experience of the risen Christ in the Christian community today -- The Easter appearances -- The eschatological transformation of creation -- God's redeeming act : deifying transformation -- Redemption and deification through incarnation in Athanasius -- The God-creation relationship -- The central place of Christ's death and resurrection -- Deification in Christ -- Exploring a theology of redemption as deifying transformation -- The deifying transformation of human beings -- The deifying transformation of the material universe -- The deifying transformation of the biological world -- A participatory theology of redemption -- God's redeeming act : evolution, original sin, and the Lamb of God -- The scapegoat mechanism -- Evolutionary science on human emergence -- Original grace and original sin in evolutionary history -- The end of scapegoating and the beginning of new creation -- Final fulfilment : the deifying transformation of creation -- We hope for what we do not see : God as absolute future -- Hope for the whole creation in the New Testament : Romans 8:18-25 -- Hope for the universe in patristic tradition : Maximus the Confessor -- The deification of the universe : Karl Rahner -- The deification of matter -- Radical transformation -- Real continuity -- Hope for the animals -- Prayers of intercession -- God wants our participation -- Sharing what matters with the beloved -- Entrusting ourselves to God -- Prayer as desire for God…”

“…Anger and fear, tenderness and reconciliation, jealousy and love, social support and falling through the cracks, unexpected courage and unshakable faith-- all of these are part of facing death in late twentieth-century North America, and this book brings them to life in an extraordinary portrait of the processes of giving and receiving palliative care…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Myers (4:07) -- Ain't no ordinary love / T. Lee James-R. Lerner (3:40) -- Every heart / M. …”

“…They are all seeking a better life (and in their different ways they are also, of course, looking for love) and they've come to England, some legally, some illegally, to find it. …”
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“…Chapters investigate the self-imposed barriers that contribute to human suffering and offer scientific explanations as to how the environment can systematically be shaped and generate a sociocultural system that promotes harmony, equality, fulfilment, and love. The goal of this text is to help the reader focus overwhelming feelings of confusion and upheaval into action and to make a stand for social justice while mobilizing others to take value-based actions; be cause in the matter. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creative writing: fiction: the magic of writing -- Theatre: embracing vulnerability -- Visual arts: on ideas -- Songwriting: tapping into the sounds of the universe -- Creative writing: poetry: inviting creative writing -- Dance: looking for artistry -- Music: I channel the child in me -- Theatre: inside the Tardis -- Dance: choreography: learning to be a cairn -- World languages: French: let the beauty we love be what we do -- Social studies: thinking outside the blocks -- Literature: naivete, imagination, and a glimpse of the sublime -- Mathematics: the mess of mathematics -- Physics: beginning with the totally unexpected -- General science: once upon a time, there were no acids -- Arts/dance education: visceral creativity -- Educational psychology: one piece jumpsuit -- Intuition in CPS: the missing link -- G/T resource room: cars on blocks and road kills -- The mirror: creativity and being seen: the creativity journey of a teacher -- Elementary administration: imagining school communities -- School counseling: that uh-oh feeling…”

“…His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. …”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Notes on The last laugh -- "Thinking the emergence of the event" -- The divine comedy and The convent -- Surplus seeing : Histoire(s) du cinéma -- Considerations on the current state of cinema -- The cinematic capture of the sexes -- An unqualified affirmation of cinema's enduring power -- Passion, Jean-Luc Godard -- "Say yes to love, or else be lonely" : Magnolia -- Dialectics of the fable : The matrix -- Cinema as philosophical experimentation -- On cinema as a democratic emblem -- The end of a beginning : Tout va bien -- The dimensions of art : Forgiveness -- The perfection of the world, improbable yet possible…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…(Bill Monroe & his Blue Grass Boys)--Blue Ridge cabin home (Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys)--Daniel prayed (Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys)--Love, please come home (Don Reno, Red Smiley, and the Tennessee Cut Ups)--You'd better wake up (Mac Wiseman and the Country Boys)--Your old standby (Jim Eanes and the Shenandoah Valley Boys)--Twenty-one years (Lonesome Pine Fiddlers)--Springhill disaster (Bill Clifton and the Dixie Mountain Boys)--Old age (Dave Woolum and his Kentucky Mountain Boys)--Blackberry blossom (Billy Baker)--Hold watcha got (Jimmie Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys)--Diesel train (Jim and Jesse and the Virginia Boys)--A pathway of teardrops (Osborne Brothers)--Hills and home (Country Gentlemen)--Raise a ruckus tonight (Lonesome River Boys)--Fox on the run (Emerson and Waldron)--Body and soul (Newgrass Revival)--Dill pickles rag (Bluegrass All-Stars)…”

“…Using Aristotle's notion of friendship and Plato's conception of the soul to describe the ideal marriage as based on a mutual love of character (philia), supported by an enduring erotic attraction, Beneker examines how Plutarch applied his system of ethics both to his reading of history and to his writing of biography. …”
Sumario

“…Chapter Two: Jonathan Riley -Smith, "Crusading as an Act of Love." Chapter Three: Giles Constable, "The Orders of Society." …”

“…The essays approach this topic from a variety of angles, ranging from questions concerning the normativity of logic to an application of Peirce's semiotics to John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme." A recurrent question throughout is whether a moral theory can be grounded in Peirce's work, despite his rather vehement denial that this can be done. …”