On the Dark Side of Passion
Title | On the Dark Side of Passion PDF eBook |
Author | Corlis Martin |
Publisher | On the Dark Side of Passion |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780977946013 |
On The Dark Side of Passion is about deeply intimate moments and the penalties of those who choose love over all else, regardless of the consequences.
The Dark Side of Passion
Title | The Dark Side of Passion PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Bonham |
Publisher | Playboy Paperbacks |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780872166387 |
The Dark Side of Passion
Title | The Dark Side of Passion PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Bonham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1981-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780722117668 |
Dark Side of Love
Title | Dark Side of Love PDF eBook |
Author | Rafik Schami |
Publisher | Haus Publishing |
Pages | 952 |
Release | 2010-10-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1906697329 |
A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer and he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out to interrogate the man’s mysterious widow, the Secret Service takes the case away from him. Barudi continues to investigate clandestinely and discovers the murderer’s motive: it is a blood feud between the Mushtak and Shahin clans, reaching back to the beginnings of the 20th century. And, linked to it, a love story that can have no happy ending, for reconciliation has no place within the old tribal structures. Rafik Schami dazzling novel spans a century of Syrian history in which politics and religions continue to torment an entire people. Simultaneously, his poetic stories from three generations tell of the courage of lovers who risk death sooner than deny their passions. He has also written a heartfelt tribute to his hometown Damascus and a great and moving hymn to the power of love.
The Passion Paradox
Title | The Passion Paradox PDF eBook |
Author | Brad Stulberg |
Publisher | Rodale Books |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2019-03-19 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1635653444 |
The coauthors of the bestselling Peak Performance dive into the fascinating science behind passion, showing how it can lead to a rich and meaningful life while also illuminating the ways in which it is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to cultivate a passion that will take you to great heights—while minimizing the risk of an equally great fall. Common advice is to find and follow your passion. A life of passion is a good life, or so we are told. But it's not that simple. Rarely is passion something that you just stumble upon, and the same drive that fuels breakthroughs—whether they're athletic, scientific, entrepreneurial, or artistic—can be every bit as destructive as it is productive. Yes, passion can be a wonderful gift, but only if you know how to channel it. If you're not careful, passion can become an awful curse, leading to endless seeking, suffering, and burnout. Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness once again team up, this time to demystify passion, showing readers how they can find and cultivate their passion, sustainably harness its power, and avoid its dangers. They ultimately argue that passion and balance--that other virtue touted by our culture--are incompatible, and that to find your passion, you must lose balance. And that's not always a bad thing. They show readers how to develop the right kind of passion, the kind that lets you achieve great things without ruining your life. Swift, compact, and powerful, this thought-provoking book combines captivating stories of extraordinarily passionate individuals with the latest science on the biological and psychological factors that give rise to—and every bit as important, sustain—passion.
The Quiet Side of Passion
Title | The Quiet Side of Passion PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2018-07-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307908976 |
Isabel finds herself grappling with ethically-complex matters of the heart as she tries to juggle her responsibilities to friends, family, and the philosophical community. With two small boys to raise, a mountain of articles to edit for the Review of Applied Ethics, and the ever-increasing demands of her niece, Cat, who always seems to need a helping hand at the deli, Isabel barely has any time for herself. Her husband, Jamie, suggests acquiring extra help, and she reluctantly agrees. In no time at all, Isabel and Jamie have a new au pair, and Isabel has an intelligent assistant editor to share her workload. Both women, though, have romantic entanglements that threaten to interfere with their work, and Isabel must decide how best to navigate this tricky domestic situation. Can an employer ever inject herself into her employees’ affairs? Meanwhile, Isabel makes the acquaintance of Patricia, the mother of Charlie’s friend Basil. Though Isabel finds Patricia rather pushy, she tries to be civil and supportive, especially given that Patricia is raising her son on her own, without the help of his father, a well-known Edinburgh organist, also named Basil. But when Isabel sees Patricia in the company of an unscrupulous man, she begins to rethink her assumptions. Isabel must once again call on her kindness and keen intelligence to determine the right course of action, at home, at work, and in the schoolyard.
On the Dark Side of the Moon
Title | On the Dark Side of the Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Medberry |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2012-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0870045695 |
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press In the spring of 2000, Mike Medberry, a longtime advocate of conservation with American Lands, the Wilderness Society, and the Idaho Conservation League, suffered a stroke in the remote wilderness of the Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. He was rescued after nearly a full day lying alone and contemplating death in one of the harshest yet most beautiful landscapes in the lower forty-eight states. Medberry was flown to a nearby hospital about the same time that Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, on behalf of President Clinton, came to Craters of the Moon to support protecting three-quarters of a million acres as a unique national monument, a conservation effort in which Medberry himself had already been personally involved. This story interweaves Medberry’s own struggle to speak, walk, and think with the struggle to protect this brutal, lava-bound, but for him gentle landscape. Medberry’s recovery from the stroke and his struggle to protect Craters of the Moon is a story of renewal, restoration, accommodation, and, ultimately, of finding workable compromises to some of life’s most difficult problems.