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If you're looking for a laugh-out-loud, feel-good book that will engage you from start to end, look no further than here. Author Sue Stearns's debut work is a fast and funny read that is sure to put a cheek-to-cheek grin on your face and reawaken your inner child. Crazy Tuesdays is a highly entertaining collection of short stories, anecdotes, and insights plucked from Stearns's personal life experiences as a mother of two rebellious toddlers, Minka and Cooper. The stories focus on her kids and explain what a typical Tuesday is like in their home, although what's typical for them is not...

How do emotions change over time? When is hate honorable? What happens when "love" is translated into different languages? Such questions are now being addressed by historians who trace how emotions have been expressed and understood in different cultures throughout history. Doing Emotions History explores the history of feelings such as love, joy, grief, nostalgia as well as a wide range of others, bringing together the latest and most innovative scholarship on the history of the emotions. Spanning the globe from Asia and Europe to North America, the book provides a crucial overview of this...

How do emotions change over time? When is hate honorable? What happens when "love" is translated into different languages? Such questions are now being addressed by historians who trace how emotions have been expressed and understood in different cultures throughout history. Doing Emotions History explores the history of feelings such as love, joy, grief, nostalgia as well as a wide range of others, bringing together the latest and most innovative scholarship on the history of the emotions. Spanning the globe from Asia and Europe to North America, the book provides a crucial overview of this...

Offering a re-reading of Erasmus's works, this book shows that emotion and affectivity were central to his writings. It argues that Erasmus's conception of emotion was highly complex and richly diverse by tracing how the Dutch humanist writes about emotion not only from different perspectives—theological, philosophical, literary, rhetorical, medical—but also in different genres. In doing so, this book suggests, Erasmus provided a distinctive, if not unique, Christian humanist emotional style. Demonstrating that Erasmus consulted multiple intellectual traditions and previous works in his...