The Law of the Heart
The Law of the Heart

Author: Sam B. Girgus

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1979-05-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0292739699

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The Law of the Heart is a vigorous challenge to the prevailing concept of the “antidemocratic” image of the self in the American literary and cultural tradition. Sam B. Girgus counters this interpretation and attempts to develop a new understanding of democratic individualism and liberal humanism in American literature under the rubric of literary modernism. The image of the individual self who retreats inward, conforming to a distorted “law of the heart,” emerges from the works of such writers as Cooper and Poe and composer Charles Ives. Yet, as Girgus shows, other American writers relate the idea of the self to reality and culture in a more complex way: the self confronts and is reconciled to the paradox of history and reality. In Girgus’ view, the tradition of pragmatic, humanistic individualism provides a foundation for a future where individual liberty is a major priority. He uses literary modernism as a bridge for relating contemporary social conditions to crises of the American self and culture as seen in the works of writers including Emerson, Howells, Whitman, Henry James, William James, Fitzgerald, Bellow, and McLuhan.

Law of Connection
Law of Connection

Author: John C. Maxwell

Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership

Published: 2012-08-27

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 1400275695

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Elizabeth Dole has mastered it. If husband Bob had done the same, he might have become the forty-third president of the United States. It's called the Law of Connection.

Heart of Gold
Heart of Gold

Author: Michael Pryor

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1864718633

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Honey forms a bond with the horse Moonlight Minuet and wants to help after the horse becomes injured. Meanwhile, she is also keeping a secret from her friends.

The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power

Author: Robert Greene

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0670881465

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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

I Heart My In-Laws
I Heart My In-Laws

Author: Dina Koutas Poch

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Published: 2007-06-26

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1429916095

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A practical, laugh-out-loud guide to adopting your man's family—from your first date to your firstborn Girlfriends, fiancées, and wives rejoice! Here, at last, is a book you can turn to in times of stress, panic, and family vacations to the smallest cottage ever built on the island of Nantucket. Mirroring the natural progression of a relationship and incorporating interviews from women just like you, this hilarious, savvy guide will help you survive your first meeting with future in-laws, from the holidays, weddings, and new babies, to the day they retire to the house next door because "it's a great real estate investment." Discover a wide array of sanity-retention techniques and tips on scoring major points with each and every in-law. Learn how to sweet-talk his sister, mollify his mother, and defuse potentially explosive situations—like when your pumpkin pie gives Nana a bad case of hives. Stories range from the tragic "my father-in-law just pinched my ass and not in that sportsmanship kind of way," to the triumphant "I'm now CEO of my grandfather-in-law's cement company—Thanks Pupup!" Offering handy translation charts with curse words in Persian and compliments in Cantonese, a list of gifts and how to interpret their hidden meaning, tips for reclaiming the holidays one Bastille Day at a time, and your very own set of Mother-in-Law MadLibs, I Heart My In-laws embodies the old saying, "It's funny because it's true."

Physiology of the Heart
Physiology of the Heart

Author: Arnold M. Katz

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2010-11-09

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 1608311716

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Dr. Arnold Katz's internationally acclaimed classic, Physiology of the Heart, is now in its thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, incorporating the latest molecular biology research and extensively exploring the clinical applications of these findings. In the single authored, expert voice that is this book's unique strength, Dr. Katz provides a comprehensive overview of the physiological and biophysical basis of cardiac function, beginning with structure and proceeding to biochemistry, biophysics, and pathophysiology in arrhythmias, ischemia, and heart failure. Emphasis is on the interrelationships of basic processes among the cell, cardiac muscle function, and the biophysics of contractile and electrical behavior. This edition includes new material on cell signaling and molecular biology.

Basic Physiology for Anaesthetists
Basic Physiology for Anaesthetists

Author: David Chambers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1108463991

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Easily understood, up-to-date and clinically relevant, this book provides junior anaesthetists with an essential physiology resource.