Love In Motion

This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Motion presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book argues that film has been particularly well suited for depicting love in this way, in virtue of its special narrative language. This is a language of expression that has developed in the course of film history. The book spans this history from early silent directors such as Joseph von Sternberg to contemporary filmmakers like Sophia Coppola. At the centre of this study is a comparison between Classical French and American love films of the forties and a series of modernist films by Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut and Wong Kar Wai.

This is a book about how film encountered love in the course of its history. It is also a book about the philosophy of love. Since Plato, erotic love has been praised for leading the soul to knowledge. The vast tradition of poetry devoted to love has emphasized that love is a feeling. Love in Motion presents a new metaphysics and ontology of love as a reciprocal erotic relationship. The book argues that film has been particularly well suited for depicting love in this way, in virtue of its special narrative language. This is a language of expression that has developed in the course of film history. The book spans this history from early silent directors such as Joseph von Sternberg to contemporary filmmakers like Sophia Coppola. At the centre of this study is a comparison between Classical French and American love films of the forties and a series of modernist films by Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut and Wong Kar Wai.

Love, an emotion that stirs us all, possesses the ability to shape our lives in profound and subtle ways. It serves as a wellspring of inspiration, igniting dreams and propelling us to explore the realms of our imagination. Yet, simultaneously, it anchors us in the intricate tapestry of our experiences, embracing the richness and complexity they offer. Through my collection of poems, "Love in Motion: Poems of Dreams and Fjord Fantasies," I extend an invitation to delve into the myriad dimensions of this universal theme, as witnessed through my eyes as an accomplished poet. Embark on a poetic voyage through the landscapes of the heart, where the interplay of luminosity and shadow, elation and sorrow, hope and despair, intertwine to form an unadorned tapestry of raw emotions. From the dizzying heights of rapture to the abyss of desolation and grief, these verses capture the quintessence of love—its multifaceted nature, its complications, and its reciprocation. Drawing from a vast palette of vivid imagery and metaphor, I encourage you to immerse yourself in the splendor of nature, the marvels of the human spirit, and the potency of the imagination. Together, we shall traverse the themes of love, passion, and yearning. Whether you find solace in the mesmerizing cadence of fjords or soar amidst the clouds, carried by the wings of your dreams, "Love in Motion" promises an expedition that is both exhilarating and deeply gratifying. Therefore, I implore you to join me on this journey, allowing my poems to transport you through the realms of the heart—a sojourn that shall linger within you long after the final page has been turned.

Mind-body wellness and fitness expert combines mantra, self-reflection, and movement into an accessible 14-day routine for manifesting your best self. Holistic wellness and fitness expert Erin Stutland harnesses all the body's mental, physical, and spiritual energy in her tri-fold approach to creating change. When you move your body while repeating mantras--speaking your desires aloud--manifesting is no longer a purely intellectual exercise or an occasional craft project. Instead, you are expressing your passion through your voice and your body, putting every ounce of your energy in service of what you want. Each chapter breaks down one mantra to use to focus on a key step to achieving your best self, including unearthing your desires, releasing resistance, and taking inspired action. Alongside each mantra, Stutland provides stories from her own life and those of her clients, a meditation or visualization, a journaling exercise, and an easy movement to accompany the mantra to help enhance its resonant power. And to put it all together, you are provided with a 14-day plan so you can design the life you want, infusing the power of movement, mantra, and self-reflection.

Together they'll unravel the secrets of the universe Astrophysicist Olivia Romano has always preferred to stay close to her family in Brooklyn--even at the expense of her academic career. But with her advisor missing in action and an unscrupulous professor undermining her work, she's forced to rely on the reformed hacker turned elite computer genius whose sexy smile she can't get out of her head. Nicholas DeSantis cut ties with his family at eighteen, running away from his old-school Italian American neighborhood to make it big in Silicon Valley. When Livie comes to him for help, he can't resist the project or the quirky woman behind it. Moving into the Romano house in his old neighborhood seems like the perfect short-term solution, if he can just continue to avoid his own family. But while living together makes working with Livie easier, fighting his growing attraction to her becomes a whole lot harder. When Livie's research is sabotaged, Nick takes a huge risk to get her the proof she needs to salvage her career. Moving forward means leaving Brooklyn and spreading her wings at last--just when Nick might finally be ready to put down some roots. The Romano Sisters Book 1: The One I Love to Hate Book 2: Love and the Laws of Motion Book 3: Love Around the Corner

DaltonThe thing about love...It's kind & beautiful, soft & hard, forgiving & emotional, but love can also be blind. Love can twist and turn you into someone unrecognizable.That's the way it was for Josie and me. She became my everything. I fell heart over mind, allowing her to take the only thing that I could call my own. The life I envisioned for us was blurred by secrets, hard to overcome. She made me question whether what we had was based on truth or a lie.JoselynDalton was an obstacle in the way of what I'd always shied away from, and the only way to reach my end was through him. So, I made a choice to get close to him, even when I shouldn't have. We were never meant to be what we became. I didn't intend for something forced to turn into something real. In the end, Dalton was so much more than just a means to an end. He held the key to everything, including my heart. It was his to have, to hold, to break, and to mend.That's the thing about love...It can't be forced. It just happens, and once it's in motion, it's impossible to stop.***This book is intended for adults 18+.

Sarah MacNeil is about to put her heart in the hands of a beautiful woman who could be her salvation...or her ruin! Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. She knows the right people, goes to all the right parties, says all the right things. When she meets the quiet, elegant Sarah MacNeil at a hotel bar, Melissa makes all the right moves to get Sarah to her bed, then makes all the right promises to convince the usually cautious young attorney to come live with her in San Francisco. Totally captivated for the first time in her life, Sarah surrenders herself completely. Blinded by the glow of Melissa's white-hot sensuality, is Sarah setting herself up for a total meltdown?

An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words. In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas. Spatial thinking even underlies the structure and meaning of language: why we say we push ideas forward or tear them apart, why we're feeling up or have grown far apart. Like Thinking, Fast and Slow before it, Mind in Motion gives us a new way to think about how--and where--thinking takes place.

"Maybe it didn't end there. Maybe it started with a kiss..." The only thing Ilan Nadav knows about relationships and marriage is that they ruin people. He's committed himself to the bachelor life, and he's never been happier-until his best friend had to go and fall in the sort of toe-curling, sonnet-writing kind of love. Witnessing that created a hunger in Ilan, and now all he can see is the people standing near him who deserved better than they got. And one of those people makes his heart beat a little bit harder and a little bit faster-but he's the last man in the world Ilan is allowed to want. After all, Fredric Pedalino is his best friend's dad. When Fredric comes to him for advice about dating men, Ilan is forced to re-write his own reality-and maybe his stance on love, because Fredric is the sort of man with the ability to sweep him off his feet. Even when he isn't trying. Ilan wants Fredric more than he's ever wanted anyone before, but he's not sure he's willing to take the risk. After all, loving that man might cost him everything.