![]() 'Seismic shifts' happened in a lot of relationships ![]() He also hopes that people just find it to be a good, helpful read. An isolating pandemic and deteriorating planet has made people focus more on themselves and their relationships. The book's enduring appeal, he says, is possibly because the world seems a lot scarier than it did 10 years ago. "For the longest time I didn't even know about 'Attached' being so popular on TikTok," Levine says. ![]() Avoidant people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness.Anxious people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back. ![]() Secure people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving.The three attachment styles, as defined in the book by Levine, are: Amir Levine and Rachel Heller posit that children's attachment styles, first pioneered by John Bowlby in the 1950s, can be applied to romantic relationships between adults. ![]()
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He joined the militia and took part in the battle of Lepanto against the Turks where he was severely injured and his left hand became useless. In 1569, he left Spain fleeing justice and installed himself in Rome. His father was a barber-surgeon and due to his job and debts, the family lived in different Spanish cities like Valladolid, Cordova, Seville and Madrid. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was born in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) in 1547. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was the Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at New College from 1998 to 2008, when she took up the Presidency of Wolfson College. She has taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, at the University of Liverpool (where she was given an Honorary DLitt in 2002) and at the University of York, from 1977 to 1998, where she had a personal Chair in the Department of English and Related Literature, and where she received an Honorary DLitt in 2007. She took a first-class degree in English Literature from St Hilda's College Oxford in 1968 and an MPhil from St Cross College in 1970. She grew up in London where she went to school at the French Lycée, the City of London School for Girls, and Queen's College. Professor Dame Hermione Lee is a renowned biographer and President of Wolfson College. ![]() ![]() ![]() One was “Brown Girl Dreaming,” a memoir in verse that would win the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. ![]() Woodson is a prolific author of books for children and young adults, and at the time, she was at work on a few different projects. 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When Jacqueline Woodson’s mother died, late in the summer of 2009, the writer and her siblings had to sort out what to do with the Brooklyn building where they spent much of their childhoods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We want you to leave your world and enter ours to receive a smile, a book, and friendship. We believe books change lives and want you to pick a book out as a gift when you come in. In this pulse-pounding thriller, the White House orders elite FBI. At that point choose shipping & we will send all we have held for you! Irene Hannon (Author of Against All Odds) Irene Hannon, who writes both contemporary romance and romantic suspense, is the author of more than 60 novels. RITA Award winner Irene Hannon has also won the Holt Medallion for her romantic suspense. You can choose to ship later at checkout until you have 10-15 ready to ship (depending on weight of books ordered). We ship each box of books for $11.99 each shipment. 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She began her writing career five years after her graduation by publishing short magazine articles. She especially values her many state awards which were voted on by the readers of the state.īetsy attended public schools in North Carolina and graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, NC with a major in English. ![]() ![]() Among them are the Newbery Medal in 1971 for her novel T he Summer of the Swans, the American Book Award in 1981 for The Night Swimmers, The Edgar (for the best mystery for young people) in 1992 for Wanted.Mud Blossom and the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association for the body of her work. Her books have been translated into nineteen languages and she gets thousands of letters from readers in the United States and from all over the world. Her first book was published in 1962 and since then she has published regularly. Betsy Byars has written over sixty books for young people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Religious trance is trance." He believed that religious experiences can have "morbid origins" in brain pathology and can be irrational but nevertheless are largely positive. He believed that religious experiences were simply human experiences: "Religious happiness is happiness. Theology and the organizational aspects of religion were of secondary interest. ![]() James was most interested in direct religious experiences. Soon after its publication, Varieties entered the Western canon of psychology and philosophy and has remained in print for over a century. The lectures concerned the nature of religion and the neglect of science in the academic study of religion. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 19. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. ![]() ![]() These questions of neatness and truth rear up at the beginning of In the Margins, a slim book containing four lectures written by Ferrante, but delivered by actors last year. ![]() Who gets to tell whose story? What if the story I’m telling leads nowhere? Is fiction more truthful when seen behind a veil of lies? She has always been fascinated by the way reality is transformed into art. The sense of self-estrangement, the ugly-beautiful imagery, the mood of anguish – these are the constants in Ferrante’s fiction, from her early first-person stories about desperate women whose lives are going to pieces to her Neapolitan Quartet that made Ferrante an international phenomenon – as well as the world’s most famous literary recluse. ![]() Describing herself as “only a tangled knot”, she says: “Nobody, not even the one who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.” “I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story,” she writes. ![]() A t the beginning of Elena Ferrante’s last novel, The Lying Life of Adults (2020), the narrator recalls a moment of shame from early adolescence that left her feeling permanently untethered. ![]() |