The Friendship Bond- Second Edition
Author: Melanie Ross Mills
Publisher:
Published: 2013-02-18
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780988247444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA purpose-based approach to connecting in friendship.
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The Identity Bond
Author: Ph D. Melanie Ross Mills
Publisher: Mills Productions, LLC.
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780988247475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout your lifetime you've consciously and unconsciously accumulated a set of beliefs, thought patterns, mindsets, and habits that influence your internal dialogue. Through a series of "life question's," The Identity Bond provides a step-by-step method for self-examination. Some life questions include topics such as; underlying fears, self-worth, intimacy, boundaries, codependency, forgiveness, and communication. You are challenged to take an honest assessment for the purpose of understanding your inner dialogue and what might be holding you back from living an authentic, fulfilled life. Upon completion of the book, you'll have gained greater self-awareness in your ability to make the choice to accept what you cannot change, implement changes needed for growth, embrace your unique identity, and share yourself with others - all decisions that can only come from you.
Uncommon Bonds
Author: Kersha Smith
Publisher: Counterpoints
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433148743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of essays written by women representing multiple identities; all addressing the experiences of race, ethnicity and friendship in the context of the United States. The essays explore the challenges of developing and maintaining cross-racial friendships between women. The book resists simplifying cross-racial friendships. The editors believe that there is a unique joy and pain in these relationships that is rarely easy to summarize.
Friendship
Author: Lydia Denworth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1472977726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe phenomenon of friendship is universal. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, and how do they affect our bodies and our minds? In Friendship, science journalist Lydia Denworth takes us in search of the biological, psychological, and evolutionary foundations of this important bond. She finds that the human capacity for friendship is as old as humanity itself, when tribes of people on the African savanna grew large enough for individuals to seek meaningful connection with those outside their immediate families. Lydia meets scientists at the frontiers of brain and genetics research, and discovers that friendship is reflected in our brain waves, our genomes, and our cardiovascular and immune systems; its opposite, loneliness, can kill. With insight and warmth, Lydia weaves past and present, biology and neuroscience, to show how our bodies and minds are designed for friendship, and how this is changing in the age of social media. Blending compelling science, storytelling, and a grand evolutionary perspective, she delineates the essential role that cooperation and companionship play in creating human (and non-human) societies. Friendship illuminates the vital aspects of friendship, both visible and invisible, and offers a refreshingly optimistic vision of human nature. It is a clarion call for putting positive relationships at the centre of our lives.
The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction
Author: Michael R. Kauth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1000226522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction presents an evolutionary history of romantic love, male-female pair-bonding, same-sex friendship, and sexual attraction, drawing on sexuality research, gay and lesbian studies, history, literature, anthropology, and evolutionary science. Employing evolutionary theory as a framework, close same-sex friendship is examined as an adaptive trait that has harnessed love, affection, and sexual pleasure to navigate same-sex environments for both men and women, ultimately benefiting their reproductive success and promoting the inheritance of traits for friendship. Chapters consider the desire to form close same-sex friendships and ask if this is embedded in our biology, concluding that most humans have the capacity to form loving, meaningful, and sexual relationships with men and women. This book takes on a unique interdisciplinary approach and is essential reading for those studying and working in sexuality research, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary psychology, and gay and lesbian studies. It will also be of interest to marriage and family therapists as well as sex therapists.
Animal Friendships
Author: Anne Innis Dagg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1139501321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch into social behaviour in animals has often focused on aggression, yet members of social species are far more likely to interact with each other in a positive way. Animal Friendships explores non-sexual bonding behaviours in a range of mammalian and avian species. Through analysis of factors which trigger and deepen friendships, Dagg uncovers a world of intricate and complex social interactions. These factors include sources of food, formation of coalitions, playdates for infants, mutual grooming and the apparent pleasure of simple companionship. Chapters cover different types of friendship: from those between two individuals, such as male-female or parent-offspring friendships, to those within family groups and even inter-species friendships. Not only does the book explore how and why friendships form, it also showcases the ingenious field techniques used by researchers enabling the reader to understand the scientific methodology. An invaluable read for both researchers and students studying animal social bonding.
Friendship's Bonds
Author: Richard Dellamora
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2004-08-31
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0812238133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Systematically bringing together discourses on queer identities in Victorian England, Jewish identities in nineteenth-century literary and political culture, and the ways these powerful forms of otherness intersect, Friendship's Bonds offers an analysis of how the dream of a perfect sympathy between friends continually challenged Victorians' capacity to imagine into existence a world not of strangers or enemies but of fellow citizens."--BOOK JACKET.
She Matters
Author: Susanna Sonnenberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1439190607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminates the friendships that have influenced, nourished, inspired, and haunted the author--and sometimes torn her apart--each of which has its own lessons that she seeks to understand.
Goodbye Stranger
Author: Rebecca Stead
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2015-09-03
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1448188075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBridge has always been a bit of an oddball, but since she recovered from a serious accident, she's found fitting in with her friends increasingly hard. Tab and Em are getting cooler and better and they don't get why she insists on wearing novelty cat ears every day. Bridge just thinks they look good. It's getting harder to keep their promise of no fights, especially when they start keeping secrets from each other. Sherm wants to get to know Bridge better. But he’s hiding the anger he feels at his grandfather for walking out. And then there is another girl, who is struggling with an altogether more serious set of friendship troubles... Told from interlinked points of view, this is a bittersweet story about the trials of friendship and growing up.
Friendship Matters
Author: William Rawlins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 135151895X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Dr. Rawlins traces and investigates the varieties, tensions, and functions of friendship for males and females throughout the life course. Using both conceptual and illustrative chapters, the book portrays the degrees of involvement, choice, risk, ambivalence, and ambiguity within friendships, and explores the emotional texture of interactions among friends. A concluding section examines the prospects for friendship in the course of our post-modern blurring of public and private domains and discursive sites.
