Love against all Reason

Love against all Reason

Author: Helene Krulich-Ghassemlou

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3643909225

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It was during a party at the university, in a Czechoslovakia then under communist rule, that Hélène Krulich, nicknamed here Léna, met Abdol Rahman Ghassemlou. In her slight accent, she thinks he is Slovak. He is Kurdish, Muslim, but claims to be unbeliever. To be able to marry her at the Iranian embassy in Prague, Lena converted to Islam. In convoking, she marries with him the Kurdish cause: her husband will become, over the years, general secretary of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan of Iran (PDKI) and the most respected leader among the Kurdish movements of his country, and elsewhere. Lena and Abdol Rahman move to Tehran. What is exceptional about Lena is the love she will now bring to Kurdistan, whose landscapes invade her and will not leave her, and to the Kurds, who are gradually learning to know and love. This Westerner will become Kurdish in her soul, without departing from the strong awareness she has of the necessary equality between men and women. One day, Lena was alone with her daughters. AR Ghassemlou paid with his life for his fight. In Vienna, in July 1989, he was shot dead in ambush by the emissaries of Ayatollah Khomeini's successor, with whom he was supposed to begin peace talks. Lena still wonders how this man, so sharp and so fine, was able to trust the promises of the Iranian leaders whose duplicity he knew yet. A political trajectory that restores Marc Kravetz in the afterword of this book. without departing from the strong awareness that she has the necessary equality between men and women. One day, Lena was alone with her daughters. AR Ghassemlou paid with his life .--Amazonfr.prenium


Love Against All Odds

Love Against All Odds

Author: Rosie Harris

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1407011375

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Let much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris sweep you away to Cardiff in this captivating and emotionally charged wartime saga. Perfect for readers of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin. 'A tale of triumph over tragedy in the tradition of Catherine Cookson, and a rattling good read' -- activelife 'Enjoyed from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review 'I loved this book and read it in a couple of days' -- ***** Reader review 'Excellent' -- ***** Reader review 'I was hooked from the first page right to the end' -- ***** Reader review ****************************************************************** WAS SHE ALWAYS TO BE FATED IN LOVE? When Gaynor's God-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. But a young German soon helps her to forget her sorrows - that is until, with war looming, he must return home and Gaynor is left heartbroken once more. When her parents discover she's pregnant and insist she cannot keep the child, Gaynor runs away to Cardiff. Penniless and alone in a strange city she is forced to give birth in the workhouse. Luckily, shortly afterwards she is taken in by a friendly Spanish family who care for her and little Sara. She quickly falls for the charms of the eldest son. But just when she thought she'd found love and a chance of happiness at last, a telegram shatters her dreams...


A Love Against All Odds

A Love Against All Odds

Author: Emily Forbes

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 1760375047

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One life-changing moment... Three years ago, Dr Henry Cavanaugh walked out of nurse Maia Tahana's life, unable to allow himself a happy future after his family lost their lives. But now he's back — and working in her emergency department! Worse still, he's more irresistible than ever... Henry might have sworn off love, but when a powerful earthquake hits Christchurch he's faced with a prospect he can't bear...losing Maia forever. Now he has to fight with everything he has to win her back for good!


Why Love Hurts

Why Love Hurts

Author: Eva Illouz

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0745672116

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Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience. Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives. The purpose of this book is to change our way of thinking about what is wrong in modern relationships. The problem is not dysfunctional childhoods or insufficiently self-aware psyches, but rather the institutional forces shaping how we love. The argument of this book is that the modern romantic experience is shaped by a fundamental transformation in the ecology and architecture of romantic choice. The samples from which men and women choose a partner, the modes of evaluating prospective partners, the very importance of choice and autonomy and what people imagine to be the spectrum of their choices: all these aspects of choice have transformed the very core of the will, how we want a partner, the sense of worth bestowed by relationships, and the organization of desire. This book does to love what Marx did to commodities: it shows that it is shaped by social relations and institutions and that it circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors.


Why We Love

Why We Love

Author: Helen Fisher

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2005-01-02

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1466829443

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A groundbreaking exploration of our most complex and mysterious emotion Elation, mood swings, sleeplessness, and obsession—these are the tell-tale signs of someone in the throes of romantic passion. In this revealing new book, renowned anthropologist Helen Fisher explains why this experience—which cuts across time, geography, and gender—is a force as powerful as the need for food or sleep. Why We Love begins by presenting the results of a scientific study in which Fisher scanned the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love. She proves, at last, what researchers had only suspected: when you fall in love, primordial areas of the brain "light up" with increased blood flow, creating romantic passion. Fisher uses this new research to show exactly what you experience when you fall in love, why you choose one person rather than another, and how romantic love affects your sex drive and your feelings of attachment to a partner. She argues that all animals feel romantic attraction, that love at first sight comes out of nature, and that human romance evolved for crucial reasons of survival. Lastly, she offers concrete suggestions on how to control this ancient passion, and she optimistically explores the future of romantic love in our chaotic modern world. Provocative, enlightening, and persuasive, Why We Love offers radical new answers to the age-old question of what love is and thus provides invaluable new insights into keeping love alive.


The Love Hypothesis

The Love Hypothesis

Author: Ali Hazelwood

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0593336828

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The Instant New York Times Bestseller and TikTok Sensation! As seen on THE VIEW! A BuzzFeed Best Summer Read of 2021 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding...six-pack abs. Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.


Wrong Text, Right Love

Wrong Text, Right Love

Author: Claudia Burgoa

Publisher: Claudia Burgoa

Published: 2020-06-11

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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USA TODAY Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa presents an engaging love story full of mistaken identity, drunk texts, and hysterical mishaps. Sex talk is my job. I’m an influencer. I run a popular blog where I give all kinds of dating tips, and girls all over the world thank me for helping them with their love lives. I wish I could follow my own advice because my love life is totally dead. I just drunk texted my ex-boyfriend… except, I didn’t. That text ended up going to someone else. Oops. This new relationship is almost picture-perfect, just like my online life. I guess I give good…text. He doesn’t have to put up with my colorful personality--as my hot next-door neighbor describes me. Or my messy schedule. This long-distance relationship is the best thing that’s happened to me and I plan to keep it that way. Until we agree to meet up, and I’m freaking out. When he meets the real me, will he hate me forever? Or will we be one day telling our grandkids about that wrong text, right love? *** Wrong Text, Right Love is a cute rom-com of two secret lovers who prepare to risk it all for love. Claudia Burgoa brings the flirty fun in this cozy novel of risking it all for romance.


In Praise of Love

In Praise of Love

Author: Alain Badiou

Publisher: New Press/ORIM

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1595588892

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The renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud’s famous line “love needs reinventing,” In Praise of Love is the celebrated French intellectual’s passionate treatise in defense of love. For Badiou, love is an existential project, a constantly unfolding quest for truth. This quest begins with the chance encounter, an event that forever changes two individuals, challenging them “to see the world from the point of view of two rather than one.” This, Badiou believes, is love’s most essential transforming power. Through thought-provoking dialogue edited from a conversation between Badiou and Truong, a vibrant cast of thinkers are invoked: Kierkegaard, Plato, de Beauvoir, Proust, and more, create a new narrative of love in the face of twenty-first-century modernity. Moving, zealous, and wise, Badiou’s “paean to the anticapitalist, antiessentialist, unifying power of love” urges us not to fear it but to see it as a magnificent undertaking that compels us to explore others and to move away from an obsession with ourselves (Publishers Weekly). “Finally, the cure for the pornographic, utilitarian exchange of favors to which love has been reduced in America. Alain Badiou is our philosopher of love.” —Simon Critchley, author of The Faith of the Faithless


Memory of a Dream - Love against all odds

Memory of a Dream - Love against all odds

Author: Catrin Zahn

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2012-01-11

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 3864791235

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It started out as a spontanncous idea between friends over an ice cream: Jennny and Tina would love to meet their idol in Palm Springs - the incredible American entertainer Barry. When their wildest dreams come true and the two woman arrive in California, a passionate liaison start between Jenny and Barry. But is this love strong enough to continue in the face of a bewildering life inn a foreign country, the challenges of show business and Jenny's homesicknness? When Barry suffers a heart attack annd subsequently falls into a coma, Jenny's big dream ends with a rude awakenning. Is there still hope for a comeback - in love and in show business?


Conversations on Love

Conversations on Love

Author: Natasha Lunn

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-04-19

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0593296583

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An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love--How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?--to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.