“…Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? …”

“…Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard give a name to the kind, warm, tender, and affectionate love that babies expect before they can speak of it and that we all desire our whole lives long. As adults, they note, we all desire our whole lives long. …”
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“…Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. …”

“…Progressive-era reformers, holding the middle-class childhood as ideal, found the lives of poor urban children especially troubling. …”
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“…This is the story of the year--1875 to 1876--when the young novelist moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols living at the center of the early modern movement in art. …”
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“…We meet three children: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father . . . …”
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“…Such an experience of living together with Asian elephants night and day for a month brought him enthusiasm and emotion for elephants. …”
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“…Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian, archaeologist, sailor, artist, and musician. …”

“…Starting with Aristotle and moving on to Darwin, Marco Solinas outlines the basic steps from the birth, establishment and later rebirth of the traditional view of living beings, and its overturning by evolutionary revolution. …”

“…For its content, the work examines the lives of three mid-century psychologists, Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, and Fritz Perls. …”
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“…We are living in the age of packaging, where books really are judged by their covers. …”

“…Instead, Hochschild finds lives ripped apart by stagnant wages, a loss of home, an elusive American dream--and political choices and views that make sense in the context of their lives. …”

“…"I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses". …”

“…Taking its lead from ancient critical preoccupations with poetry's ethical significance, this book argues that the Argonautica produces an understanding of time and temporal experience which ramifies variously in readers' lives. When describing the people and creatures who lived the past, Apollonius extends readers' capacity for empathetic response to the worlds inhabited by others. …”

“…It's a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has assumed a central role in our houses and our lives, just as satellite dishes and aerials have become features of urban skylines. …”

“…What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? …”
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“…Almost hypnotic in its narrative drive, The March stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself…”

“…This is a book about the family and its journey of faith .Ruth Evans is a contemplative sister who lives and writes in the diocese of Shrewsbury. She owes her adult spiritual formation to the Poor Clare Order where she lived until the closure of the Poor Clare Convent at Woodchester in 2011. …”