Embracing Love

Author: Youka Nitta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933440187
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"It's a yummy manga."-SequentialTart.com "A bumpy ride . . . one I'm happily strapping in for."-AnimeOnDVD.com "Adds a voyeuristic edge to the fictional man's world."-GameSpot.com Once again, Iwaki and Katou find their lives turned upside down, this time due to the antics of Iwaki's devious new personal assistant Asano. It seems that Asano craves more than merely a professional relationship with the impossibly beautiful actor, and he misses no opportunity to drive a wedge between the star-crossed lovers. This time Asano is determined to take full advantage of the friction he's created between Iwaki and Katou, and he won't rest until the explosive situation reaches its boiling point! This volume also contains an erotic bonus story. Embracing Love 1__4 are available in our Recent & Recommended and backlist catalog sections. Youka Nitta is one of the most popular yaoi creators due to her beautiful illustrations, intense characterizations, and graphic sexual depictions. In February 2006, Nitta traveled to the United States for the first time to meet her American fans and to autograph copies of Embracing Love. She hails from Fukui Prefecture in municipal Tokyo.

Outside the Lines

Author: Mihee Kim-Kort
Publisher: Augsburg Books
ISBN: 1506408974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
GodÕs love for us breaks every boundary. So should our love for each other. Mihee Kim-Kort is a wife, a mom, and a Presbyterian minister. And she's queer. As she became aware of her queer sexuality, Mihee wondered what that meant for her spirituality. But instead of pushing her away from God, her queerness has brought her closer to Jesus and taught her how to love better. In Outside the Lines, Mihee shows us how God, in Jesus, is oriented toward us in a queer and radical way. Through the life, work, and witness of Jesus, we see a God who loves us with a queer love. And our faith in that God becomes a queer spirituality--a spirituality that crashes through definitions and moves us outside of the categories of our making. Whenever we love ourselves and our neighbors with the boundary-breaking love of God, we live out this queer spirituality in the world. With a captivating mix of personal story and biblical analysis, Outside the LinesÊshows us how each of our bodies fits into the body of Christ. Outside the lines and without exceptions.

LOVE MODE Volume 1: (Yaoi)

Author: Yuki Shimizu
Publisher: Blu
ISBN: 9781598160109
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Sakashita Izumi, a typical straight high school student, gets into a sticky situation with a gay translator, Takamiya Katsura, when he gets mistaken for an escort. The two go on a date, Izumi goes all the way, and the older man's in love with him and possibly converting this initial homophobe into that which he fears.

The Nature of Love, Volume 3

Author: Irving Singer
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262512742
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
The final volume of Singer's trilogy discusses ideas about love in the work of writers ranging from Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy to Freud, Proust, D. H. Lawrence, Shaw, and others in the contemporary world. Irving Singer's trilogy The Nature of Love has been called "majestic" (New York Times Book Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Nous), "wise and magisterial" (Times Literary Supplement), and a "masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round" (Christian Science Monitor). In the third volume, Singer examines the pervasive dialectic between optimistic idealism and pessimistic realism in modern thinking about the nature of love. He begins by discussing "anti-Romantic Romantics" (focusing on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy), influential nineteenth-century thinkers whose views illustrate much of the ambiguity and self-contradiction that permeate thinking about love in the last hundred years. He offers detailed studies of Freud, Proust, Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, and Santayana, and he maps the ideas about love in Continental existentialism, particularly those of Sartre and de Beauvoir. Singer finally envisages a future of cooperation between pluralistic humanists and empirical scientists. This last volume of Singer's trilogy does not pretend to offer the final word on the subject, any more than do most of the philosophers he discusses, but his masterful work can take its place beside their earlier investigations into these vast and complex questions.

Every Moment Holy, Volume Two

Author: Douglas Kaine McKelvey
Publisher: Every Moment Holy
ISBN: 9781951872052
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
EVERY MOMENT HOLY, Vol. 2: DEATH, GRIEF, & HOPE, is a book of liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving--liturgies such as "A Liturgy for the Scattering of Ashes" or "A Liturgy for the Loss of a Spouse" or "A Liturgy for the Wake of a National Tragedy" or "A Liturgy for the Weighing of Last-Stage Medical Options." These are ways of reminding us that our lives are shot through with sacred purpose and eternal hopes even when, especially when, suffering and pain threaten to overwhelm us. -over 100 liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving -beautiful leather-bound hardcover -over 20 illustrations by Ned Bustard -silk bookmark -gilded edges

Beyond the Meme

Author: Alan C. Love
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145296162X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421

Book Description
Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time How do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of the meme, posited as a basic unit of culture analogous to the gene, has been central to debates about cultural transformation. Despite the appeal of meme theory, its simplification of complex interactions and other inadequacies as an explanatory framework raise more questions about cultural evolution than it answers. In Beyond the Meme, William C. Wimsatt and Alan C. Love assemble interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution, providing a nuanced understanding of it as a process in which dynamic structures interact on different scales of size and time. By focusing on the full range of evolutionary processes across distinct contexts, from rice farming to scientific reasoning, this volume demonstrates how a thick understanding of change in culture emerges from multiple disciplinary vantage points, each of which is required to understand cultural evolution in all its complexity. The editors provide an extensive introductory essay to contextualize the volume, and Wimsatt contributes a separate chapter that systematically organizes the conceptual geography of cultural processes and phenomena. Any adequate account of the transmission, elaboration, and evolution of culture must, this volume argues, recognize the central roles that cognitive and social development play in cultural change and the complex interplay of technological, organizational, and institutional structures needed to enable and coordinate these processes. Contributors: Marshall Abrams, U of Alabama at Birmingham; Claes Andersson, Chalmers U of Technology; Mark A. Bedau, Reed College; James A. Evans, U of Chicago; Jacob G. Foster, U of California, Los Angeles; Michel Janssen, U of Minnesota; Sabina Leonelli, U of Exeter; Massimo Maiocchi, U of Chicago; Joseph D. Martin, U of Cambridge; Salikoko S. Mufwene, U of Chicago; Nancy J. Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard U; Paul E. Smaldino, U of California, Merced; Anton Törnberg, U of Gothenburg; Petter Törnberg, U of Amsterdam; Gilbert B. Tostevin, U of Minnesota.

Bond of Dreams, Bond of Love, Vol. 1 (Yaoi Manga)

Author: Yaya Sakuragi
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1421549573
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
High school student Ao has been dreaming about his longtime neighbor Ryomei, a priest at the local Shinto shrine. A little freaked out--and a lot excited--at the prospect of having a relationship with Ryomei, Ao gathers up his courage, confesses his feelings...and gets turned down flat. Luckily, Ao's not the kind to give up easily. Thanks to some creative persistence (and Ryomei's weakening resolve), he finally gets a kiss. But one single kiss won't satisfy him for long! -- VIZ Media

Embracing the Rainbow

Author: Embracing the Rainbow
Publisher: Global Insights Publications
ISBN: 9781893157057
Category : Spirit writings
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
The final series of messages guiding you to accept the concepts contained within them for the purpose of creating a new life experience for the 'human becoming' on planet Earth. Each message broadens the conceptual understanding of the necessity to release the limitations that have been thrust upon humanity.

Embracing Cuba

Author: Byron Motley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813061153
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Photographs of the art, culture, and everyday life of Cuba taken from 2005-2015.

Embracing the Exile

Author: John E. Fortunato
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Pastoral psychotherapy, by president of Integrity International.--Misha Schutt.