Showing results for "The Lovers" in Social Sciences

What does it look like to be hopelessly, serially, persistently, and stubbornly in love not with someone, but with longing itself? Journalist and late-in-life virgin Amanda McCracken dated over 100 men before she realized she was addicted to longing, setting her on a 10-year journey to...

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner—an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women’s rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but...

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was an American novelist and playwright who, in 1930, became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. His last distinctive pulp novel, The Innocents, follows a longtime married couple as they vacation away from their home in New York City and contemplate starting a business.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Natalie Dormer, best known for her standout role as Queen Margaery in Game of Thrones, as well as her roles in The Hunger Games and Captain America: The First Avenger. A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College...

Lovers by Shan is an education-first space where listeners come to better understand their own intimate lives through the life lessons and expertise of others. Shan Boodram’s mission is to empower everyone to be their own intimacy expert in the bedroom and beyond by treating guests of the podcast as educators in their own right.Past guests include Kelly Rowland who taught us about being a sensualist. Becky G who shared the importance of healthy love in an unhealthy body. Kerry Washington who warned about the dangers of keeping secrets. Kamie Crawford who taught us about the joys of breaking ...

Hey nature lover! Are you ready to make an art journey? Abstract art landscape paintings are the perfect way to connect nature lovers to art. These paintings, when painted by expert painters, are the perfect illustrations of the emotions that evoke inside anyone who loves nature. Read More: https://harrietzzart.com/news/how-do-abstract-art-landscape-paintings-attract-nature-lovers

"Good people can be crashing bores. Evil men who combine evil-doing with drunkenness, debauchery and making illicit money make more interesting characters because they pack their lives with action. They do what most of us would like to do but do not have the guts to.'-Khushwant SinghMalice. The...

Are you curious about Tantra? Maybe you have tried it a few times but are not sure how to make it a conscious practice to bring more happiness, pleasure, and peace into your life. Or maybe you've heard some Tantric stories about how Sting can last for hours - and wonder if you could too. Or you might feel that your sex and love life could and should be better, or even Sacred...This open, honest, explicit, heartfelt, and fun podcast by Anne Bland is for you if you are ready to explore your sensuality, sexuality, and spirituality through Tantra and Tantric Sex. Ancient Tantra teaches that there ...

He's the destroyer of evil, the pervasive one in whom all things lie. He is brilliant, terrifying, wild and beneficent. He is both an ascetic and a householder, both a yogi and a guru. He encompasses the masculine and the feminine, the powerful and the graceful, the Tandava and the Laasya, the...

Brought to you by Penguin. This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia...

Sita, the beloved princess of Mithila, is one of the most revered women in Indian history; so well known, yet probably the least understood. At every crossroad of her life, she chose acceptance and grace over self-pity. Her life was filled with sacrifice yet wherever she was, there was abundance...

Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on...

With style and straight talk, musician and changemaker Lachi flips disability and neurodivergence into an empowering identity, a cultural movement, and an innovation engine What if the most taboo parts of our identity—the parts we’re taught to mask—are exactly the ones that hold our...

If intimacy feels complicated, distant, or far from effortless, The Lovers Society is for you.Hosted by Marissa Nelson, award-winning relationship and sex therapist, this podcast explores intimacy as it shapes every part of our lives—from how we relate to money and nourish ourselves to how environment, hormones, and daily stress influence desire and connection.Each episode invites you into real, grounded conversations that help you step out of performance and back into connection, at your own pace. This is intimacy rooted in emotional safety, self-trust, and choice, with the reminder that...

Set in the picturesque coastal town of Monkshaven during the 1790s, Sylvias Lovers tells the poignant story of Sylvia Robson, a young woman caught between two worlds. While she lives a simple life on her familys farm and has the affections of her earnest but uninspiring Quaker cousin Philip, her heart truly belongs to Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor from a whaling ship. Their secret engagement promises a bright future, but fate intervenes when Charlie is forcibly taken to sea, leaving Sylvia heartbroken and longing for a love she can’t fully claim.

In the aftermath of World War I, Connie Chatterley grapples with an unfulfilling marriage, yearning for passion and connection. Her life takes a daring turn as she embarks on a forbidden affair with Oliver Mellors, her gamekeeper, challenging societal norms and exploring the depths of desire. Content warning This book contains explicit language. (Summary by Scarbo)

Sita is one of the defining figures of Indian womanhood, yet there is no single version of her story. Different accounts coexist in myth, literature and folktale. Canonical texts deify Sita while regional variations humanize her. Folk songs and ballads connect her timeless predicament to the...

"De unge løver" følger tre mænd, der kæmper hver sin kamp, mens anden verdenskrig hærger verden omkring dem. Østrigske Christian Diestl er tiltrukket af nazismens løfter om en bedre fremtid, og han er villig til at ofre jøderne for at opnå den. Men kan nazisterne holde deres løfte, og vil det være omkostningerne værd for ham? Den amerikanske jøde Noah Ackerman lider under den grove antisemitisme i den amerikanske hær, men aner ikke hvilke rædsler, der kan vente ham, hvis han ender i nazisternes udryddelseslejre.

Toute une nuit, une jeune femme armée d’un bazooka arpente une jungle extraterrestre à la recherche de son amour. Elle ignore que pendant ce temps, sur deux autres serveurs, quatre adolescents s’aiment désespérément, s’éprouvant lors de combats sanglants. Dans Lifespan, jeu vidéo fictif où cohabitent un univers galactique (Calycé), un médiéval (Arthéros) et un paradisiaque (L’île aux rochers), les relations naissent dans des paysages surréalistes, au gré de batailles trépidantes et de quêtes pour rendre le monde meilleur. Une vie aventureuse très différente de celle ...

A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if...