Best of
Love

1985

The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright


Leslie Marmon Silko - 1985
    Leslie Marmon Silko is a poet and novelist. James Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his "Collected Poems." They met only twice. First, briefly, in 1975, at a writers conference in Michigan. Their correspondence began three years later, after Wright wrote to Silko praising her book "Ceremony." The letters begin formally, and then each writer gradually opens to the other, venturing to share his or her life, work and struggles. The second meeting between the two writers came in a hospital room, as James Wright lay dying of cancer. The "New York Times" wrote something of Wright that applies to both writers-- of qualities that this exchange of letters makes evident. "Our age desperately needs his vision of brotherly love, his transcendent sense of nature, the clarity of his courageous voice."

What Do You Really Want for Your Children?


Wayne W. Dyer - 1985
    You want to see them growing up happy, healthy, self-reliant, and confident in themselves and their abilities. You’ve also probably wondered if you'll be able to give them all this. There's good news: you can. Wayne Dyer shares the wisdom and guidance that have already helped millions of readers take charge of their lives and shows how to make all your hopes for your children come true.Learn valuable advice including Dyer’s original seven simple secrets for building your child's self-esteem every day; how to give very young children all the love they need without spoiling them; how to encourage risk-taking without fear of failure; action strategies for dealing with both your own anger and your child's; the right way (and the wrong way) to improve your child's behavior; the secrets of raising kids relatively free of illness; techniques that encourage children to enjoy life, and much more.It's all here – straightforward, commonsense advice that no parent can afford to do without.

The Psychology of Romantic Love


Nathaniel Branden - 1985
    Nathaniel Branden, licensed psychotherapist, lecturer, corporate consultant, and the bestselling author of twenty books including The Psychology of Self-Esteem; The Six Pillars of Self Esteem; and The Art of Living Consciously, explores the nature of romantic love on many levels the philosophical, the historical, the sociological, and the psychological. In The Psychology of Romantic Love, Dr. Branden explores why so many people believe that romantic love is just not possible in today's world. Drawing on his experience with thousands of couples, Dr. Branden finds that romantic love is still possible for anyone who understands its nature and is willing to accept its challenges. Love, according to Dr. Branden, is a pathway not only to extraordinary joy but also to profound self-discovery.

This Shining Land


Rosalind Laker - 1985
    In one terrifying night, her gentle life is shattered and her innocence ends. Then she meets Steffen Larsen who ignites in her feelings as fierce as the war raging around them. Risking everything, Johanna joins Steffen in Norway's Resistance and enters a dangerous double life...

The Fantasy Bond: Effects of Psychological Defenses on Interpersonal Relations


Robert W. Firestone - 1985
    This book offers a hypothesis centering around the concept of the "Fantasy Bond," an illusion of connection formed with the mother and later with significant others in the individual's environment.

Disciplines for the Inner Life


Bob Benson - 1985
    Using both practical applications and scholarly content, Disciplines for the Inner Life takes readers to a new level of spiritual understanding.

A Poet to His Beloved: The Early Love Poems of W.B. Yeats


W.B. Yeats - 1985
    Although she repeatedly refused to marry Yeats, Maud would become the object of his passion and his poetry. The emotional power in many of Yeats' early poems is shaped by the one-sidedness of his affair with Maud, but the poems themselves remain hopeful and bitter-sweet, pure in their language and attitudes about love.The forty-one poems collected in A Poet to his Beloved represent some of Yeats's most evocative and passionate early love poems. These versed are simple, lyrical, and often dreamy, and they speak knowingly of innocence and beauty, passion and desire, devotion and the fear of rejection.

Magic in Vienna


Betty Neels - 1985
    It was everything Cordelia hoped it would be. She couldn't say the same for her charge's uncle, Dr. Charles Trescombe! He regarded Cordelia as plain and dull and sensible. She looked at Charles with pity—still young, handsome, but buried in books and medical studies. What a waste, she thought. It was foolish to fall in love with him. Only when he smiled at her could she believe in the magical possibility that he might return her love…Betty Neels is a sales opportunity that simply cannot be missed. She is a consistent #1 seller whose books are eagerly anticipated and sought after by her readers. A retired nurse herself, Betty is particularly well-known for her tender romances set in Holland, featuring Dutch doctors. Fans of Betty Neels will love these Reader's Choice books, all set amidst the lowlands of Holland and the English countryside—all four are Betty Neels at her best.

The Stellar Man (Hermetic Philosophy, Bk. 2)


John Baines - 1985
    He explains that the only possibility for freedom from this perpetual slavery consists in transcending oneself to finally cut the cord that connects us to this central computer.

Letters of Francis A. Schaeffer: Spiritual Reality in the Personal Christian Life


Francis A. Schaeffer - 1985
    Schaeffer's work comes shining through so clearly. Each of us will find here something of ourselves, our frailty and our human need, but also something of what we might become through the transforming presence of Jesus Christ in our lives.

Pavanakathcha Dhondi


G.N. Dandekar - 1985
    An inspiring story of an influential man who prefers to fight with the conflicts arising into his life than to accept to get carried away with the situations.

Rio Tigre & Beyond: The Amazon Jungle Medicine of Manuel Córdova-Rios


Frank Bruce Lamb - 1985
    Bruce Lamb’s Rio Tigre and Beyond recounts an unparalleled Amazonian adventure, completing the life story of Manuel Córdova Rios who at the beginning of the 20th century was abducted by Native American tribals to be trained as their new shaman. Here he remembers the rest of his life, a series of missions and adventures guided by his pre-Columbian training but in the context of the upper Amazonian Peruvian river city of Iquitos, in a world intricately changed by its millennial contact with the imported Columbian civilization.

Sawānih: Inspirations from the World of Pure Spirits


Ahmad Ghazali - 1985
    Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change


Robin Norwood - 1985
    Therapist Robin Norwood describes loving too much as a pattern of thoughts and behaviour which certain women develop as a response to problems from childhood.

A Visit to the Sesame Street Hospital


Deborah Hautzig - 1985
    

The Sacrament of Love


Paul Evdokimov - 1985
    But, since the Fall, only Christ can truly reconcile man and woman and bring about the harmony of Eros and the person. The sacrament of marriage regulates the communion between man and wife in all its sacramental fullness. True love is fruitful, but this fruitfulness is not only expressed through children; in can also be manifested through hospitality, through service, and sometimes through a common creation. The Sacrament of Love is a unique reflection on marriage, as well as on monastic and non-monastic celibacy. It places the relationship of man and woman within the context of the most perfect relationship of persons: the Trinitarian communion of the Divine Persons.