Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work.E...

Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work.E...

One can love and not forgive or out of love decide not to forgive. Or one can forgive but not love, or choose to forgive but not love the ones forgiven. Love and forgiveness follow parallel and largely independent paths, a truth we fail to acknowledge when we pressure others to both love and forgive. Individuals in conflict, sparring social and ethnic groups, warring religious communities, and insecure nations often do not need to pursue love and forgiveness to achieve peace of mind and he...

THE NEW ASTROLOGY™ FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (Updated and Revised By The Author) is INGENIOUS! Suzanne White's revolutionary book of astral character study offers her readers A Unique Blend Of Chinese and Western Astrology. Indeed there are not 12 but 144 signs of the zodiac! By blending the two zodiacs, White has hatched a synthesis of the World's Two Greatest Astrological systems. White's accuracy with character reading is positively uncanny! You will wonder if she has been reading your mail....

Fourteen years since its first publication, the bestsellerNasty People has been revised and updated to cover the motivations of nasty people, how to avoid confrontation with a nasty boss, how to handle a nasty spouse, and much more, including:How to break the cycle of nastinessA new understanding of personality disorders and depressionNarcissism, nasty behavior, and self-doubtNasty people and self-validationThe role adrenaline ...

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Henry Grayson shares his breakthrough techniques for creating deeper and more lasting connections with our loved ones.Henry Grayson, a psychologist, relationship counselor, psychoanalyst, and former minister who has been working with couples and individuals to improve their relationships for over thirty years, has found that most people are actually more unhappy after marriage counseling or couples therapy. In Mindful Loving

This book will teach you what to look for and how to protect yourself so that you can come out on top and avoid being the subject of manipulation. It taps into deep levels of psychological functions which can show you how to influence other people, making them agree with you and your wants, but at the same time how to be in control of the situation.Personal and business relationships can go a lot smoother with the help of the techniques offered in this book. You can also direct oth...

Bringing attachment theory essentials to everyday life.Veteran therapist and specialist in attachment disorders Daniel Hughes skillfully reveals how we can becomes better friends, spouses, siblings, and children. For anyone interested in how to develop meaningful new relationships, or how to deepen and enrich their current ones, this book will make sense of it all.

Have you ever listened to a really great speaker give a presentation? With no effort at all they can take a crowd who is listless and bored, grab their interest and then at the end, be overrun with people trying to take advantage of their offer or buy their product? How can one person manage to be so persuasive? That can be you. Imagine never struggling to get your point across again.You can be the person who only gets told yes instead of no. Streamline your path to success by lear...

The Psalms are the most-read part of the Old Testament, but their importance for ethics has often been overlooked. However, the Psalms offer some of the most potent ethical instruction in the Bible. In this book internationally renowned Old Testament scholar Gordon Wenham examines the source of the Psalms' power, reflects on their main ethical themes, and shows how they function as prayers that change us. Wenham makes an important contribution to biblical scholarship and breaks new ground ...

A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live? began with an undergraduate course taught by Robert W. Jenson at Princeton University in the spring of 2008. Based on a series of twenty-three course lectures, it offers a concise and accessible overview of Christian theology while retaining the atmosphere of Jenson's classroom. Much as does Jenson's Systematic Theology, A Theology in Outline treats a standard sequence of doctrines in Christian theology--God, Trinity, creation,...

In contemporary discussions of abortion, both sides argue well-worn positions, particularly concerning the question, When does human life begin? Though often invoked by the Catholic Church for support, Thomas Aquinas in fact held that human life begins after conception, not at the moment of union. But his overall thinking on questions of how humans come into being, and cease to be, is more subtle than either side in this polarized debate imagines. Fabrizio Amerini—an international...