An Infinity Kind Of Love

Author : Lane Clarke
Publisher : Poppy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0759556695

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Love Times Infinity by Lane Clarke Pdf

High school junior Michie is struggling to answer the question of who she is for her scholarship essays, the only chance she has at making it into Brown as a first-generation college student. The essay prompts would be hard for anyone, but since Michie's been estranged from her mother since she was seven, her concept of family has long felt murky. Enter new kid and basketball superstar Derek de la Rosa, an instant crush who sends Michie's focus into a tailspin. At their teacher's suggestion, Derek enlists Michie as a tutor to help him catch up in Spanish class, turning life upside down. Because Derek? He is very cute, very talented, very popular, and very much has his eye on Michie, no matter how invisible she believes herself to be. When Michie's mother unexpectedly reaches out to make amends, and with her scholarship deadlines looming, Michie will have to decide if she wants to reopen old wounds or close the door on her past once and for all. And as she spends more time with Derek, she will have to figure out how close she can risk getting to him, and how much of her heart she is willing to share. Because while Michie may not know who she is, she's starting to realize who she wants to become, if only she can take a chance on Derek, on herself, and on her future.

Author : Kate Hosford
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467737913

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Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford Pdf

When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity? Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins to wonder about infinity. Is infinity a number that grows forever? Is it an endless racetrack? Could infinity be in an ice cream cone? Uma soon finds that the ways to think about this big idea may just be . . . infinite.

Author : Tullia d'Aragona
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226136363

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Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tullia d'Aragona Pdf

Celebrated as a courtesan and poet, and as a woman of great intelligence and wit, Tullia d'Aragona (1510–56) entered the debate about the morality of love that engaged the best and most famous male intellects of sixteenth-century Italy. First published in Venice in 1547, but never before published in English, Dialogue on the Infinity of Love casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Sexually liberated and financially independent, Tullia d'Aragona dared to argue that the only moral form of love between woman and man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the spiritual needs of humankind. Declaring sexual drives to be fundamentally irrepressible and blameless, she challenged the Platonic and religious orthodoxy of her time, which condemned all forms of sensual experience, denied the rationality of women, and relegated femininity to the realm of physicality and sin. Human beings, she argued, consist of body and soul, sense and intellect, and honorable love must be based on this real nature. By exposing the intrinsic misogyny of prevailing theories of love, Aragona vindicates all women, proposing a morality of love that restores them to intellectual and sexual parity with men. Through Aragona's sharp reasoning, her sense of irony and humor, and her renowned linguistic skill, a rare picture unfolds of an intelligent and thoughtful woman fighting sixteenth-century stereotypes of women and sexuality.

Author : William H. Houff
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1558963111

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Infinity in Your Hand by William H. Houff Pdf

You will find in this book both a challenging personal story and a review of the great religious thinking of our time. -- Robert Fulghum, author of All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.

Author : James Kuzner
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823294527

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The Form of Love by James Kuzner Pdf

Can poetry articulate something about love that philosophy cannot? The Form of Love argues that it can. In close readings of seven “metaphysical” poems, the book shows how poets of the early modern period and beyond use poetic form to turn philosophy to other ends, in order not to represent the truth about love but to create a virtual experience of love, in all its guises. The Form of Love shows how verse creates love that can’t exist without poetry’s specific affordances, and how poems can, in their impossibility, prompt love’s radical re-imagining. Like the philosophies on which they draw, metaphysical poems imagine love as an intense form of non-sovereignty, of giving up control. They even imagine love as a liberating bondage—to a friend, a beloved, a saint, a God, or a garden. Yet these poems create strange, striking versions of such love, made in, rather than through, the devices, structures, and forces where love appears. Tracing how poems think, Kuzner argues, requires an intimate form of reading: close—even too close—attention to and thinking with the text. Showing how poetry thinks of love otherwise than other fields, the book reveals how poetry and philosophy can nevertheless enter into a relation that is itself like love.

Author : Michael H. Mitias
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781725280496

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Death, Family, and Love by Michael H. Mitias Pdf

What does it mean to die? What is the role of death in human life? The theme of this novel focuses on these two questions in the medium of a duel between the god of death, Mowt, and Dr. Athenaion, a devotee of the god of love. In the course of delineating the duel, the author spotlights the meaning of death as a human phenomenon in the context of a truly loving family. Mowt inflicts several devastating calamities upon Dr. Athenaion, but in spite of this infliction, two love affairs sprout and see the light of day in the Athenaion family.

Author : David Thirgood
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398485761

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Reciprocated by David Thirgood Pdf

Upon discovering a substantial vein of copper ore nestled beneath the conserved lands of the Blue Mountains, a zealous mining tycoon sees a fortune within his grasp. However, his ambitions are thwarted by a dedicated local environmental group. A diverse coalition, ranging from scholarly academics to homeless drifters, rallies against the formidable forces of big business and government, vowing to safeguard the extensive sanctuary of flora and fauna residing within the unspoiled mountain forests. Yet, the battle they’ve embarked upon isn’t without its shades of moral ambiguity and legality. As the trail is strewn with hurdles of murder, love, and greed, a close-knit cadre of impassioned strangers forges an alliance to wage a valiant defensive. No stone is left unturned, no alliance too audacious in their pursuit to unearth the culprit behind the sinister murder and shield the beloved environment from desolation. Immerse in a narrative that introduces you to the most unexpected of heroes, evoking both love and despair as you witness the lengths some would traverse in the face of greed and the quest for opulence.

Author : Akemi Dawn Bowman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534456501

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The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman Pdf

Includes an excerpt from The Genesis War.

Author : Ron Rosenbaum
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780385536561

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In Defense of Love by Ron Rosenbaum Pdf

From the acclaimed author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler comes a stirring manifesto on love in the modern age. Who wrote the book of love? In an impassioned polemic, Ron Rosenbaum—who has written books on the mysteries of Hitler’s evil, the magic of Shakespeare’s words, and the terrifying power of thermonuclear explosions—takes on perhaps his greatest challenge: the nature of love. Rosenbaum argues that what we know as love is imperiled now by the quantifiers, the digitizers, and their algorithms, who all seek to reduce love to electrical, chemical, and mathematical formulas. Rosenbaum brings excitement to his thinking as he interrogates the neuroscience of love, with its “trait constellations,” and the efforts of others to turn all human lovers into numerical configurations. He asks us why our culture has become so obsessed with codifying and quantifying love through algorithms. The very capacity that makes us human, Rosenbaum argues, is being taken over by numerical methods of explanation. In Defense of Love is more than an examination of the intersection of love with literature and science. It is a celebration of the persistence of a mysterious and uncanny phenomenon: the inexorable power of love.

Author : Martin Riedelsheimer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110712407

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Fictions of Infinity by Martin Riedelsheimer Pdf

This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a book and finds an answer that combines conceptual metaphor theory with concepts from classical narratology and beyond, such as mise en abyme, textual circularity, intertextuality or omniscient narration. It argues that texts with such structures may be conceptualised as infinite via Lakoff and Núñez’s Basic Metaphor of Infinity. The catachrestic transfer of infinity from structure to text means that the texts themselves are understood to be infinite. Taking its cue from the central role of the infinite in Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics, the function of such ‘fictions of infinity’ turns out to be ethical: infinite textuality disrupts reading patterns and calls into question the reader’s spontaneity to interpret. This hypothesis is put to the test in detailed readings of four 21st-century novels, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, Ian McEwan’s Saturday and John Banville’s The Infinities. This book thus combines ethical criticism with structural aesthetics to uncover ethical potential in fiction.

Author : J. Hick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230283961

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Evil and the God of Love by J. Hick Pdf

When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly became recognized as a modern theological classic, widely viewed as the most important work on the problem of evil to appear in English for more than a generation. Including a foreword by Marilyn McCord Adams, this reissue also contains a new preface by the author.

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Didactic drama, English
ISBN : 9780195128611

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Shakespeare's Twenty-first Century Economics by Frederick Turner Pdf

Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, this text demonstrates that terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments.

Author : Ian Mills
Publisher : FLF Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 9781891855665

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A Divine Ecology by Ian Mills Pdf

Author : M. Jamie Ferreira
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190284756

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Love's Grateful Striving by M. Jamie Ferreira Pdf

Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love (1847), a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbor, has often been condemned by critics. Here, Ferreira seeks to rehabilitate Works of Love as one of Kierkegaard's most important works. He shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics, including impartiality, duty, equality, mutuality, reciprocity, self-love, sympathy, and sacrifice. Ferreira also argues that Works of Love bears on issues peculiar to a religious ethic, such as the role of God as "middle term," and the possibility of preserving the aesthetic dimensions of love in a religious ethic of relation.

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : New Jerusalem Church
ISBN : PSU:000053028167

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On the Worship and Love of God by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf