Book review: Why love matters: How affection shapes a baby’s brain. Sue Gerhardt. London, Routledge, 2008. 256pp, ISBN 9781583918173 by Irene Stevens

Embodying the Spirit (<i>meyppāṭu</i>): A <i>puttiṇai</i> Perspective by Nirmal Selvamony

“…Using this tool, I outline the idea of <i>meyppāṭu</i> in the primal community, in the state society, and also in the industrialist state, and show how the understanding of <i>meyppāṭu</i> in the primal world (what I have called <i>viḻuttiṇai</i>) ensured a love-based lifeway necessary for the wellbeing of the people and all the beings other than humans that were also part of that world, and why this understanding is necessary today to end the present Anthropocenic industrialist lifeway, which has brought humans and beings other than humans to the brink of disaster.…”
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Amitiés particulières au Maghreb : sociabilités et discours homosexuels by Valérie Beaumont

“…In a region still immersed in homosensuality, we will try to point out the contrast between the new sexual practices and the discourse produced about them. We will explain why, in the course of ethnographic research on sexual practices in Maghreb, any attempt to confine relations between males to a typology that isolates friendship, love and sexual desires would be inappropriate. …”
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Oryginalne ujęcie kwestii wiary w encyklice papieża Franciszka Lumen fidei by Henryk Sławiński

“…What is quite original is the very deep connection between faith and love as well as the approach to the faith from the multidimensional, integrated perspectives of hearing, seeing and touching. …”
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Salaman and Absal in Abd al-Rahman Jami by Halilović Tehran

“…The king's sagacious adviser helps Salaman recognize the truth of eternal love in the image of Venus, the symbol of love in Persian literature. …”
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R. Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen through the philosophical prism of Positive Psychotherapy by Maria Sergeeva

“…Due to the complexity of the work, the research focuses on two main leitmotivs of The Ring: cyclicity of life and love vs. power. Generally, the results indicate that the prism of positive psychotherapy allows one to find the deeper meaning hidden in work, revealing psychological motives of ‘why.’ …”
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Imago Dei, Ontological and Relational Interpretations. Introducing Edith Stein to the Debate by Christof Betschart

“…(FEB 504 [422]) This ontological approach contributes to a consideration of interpersonal enrichment through love, as a way to personal fulfilment and to complementarity through communion. …”
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“Your mother is in the struggle!” The gender dimension of the search for the disappeared in Nuevo Leon, Mexico by Nadejda Iliná

“…This group is maintaining the legacy of women who have historically mobilized against disappearances, such as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo during the dictatorship in Argentina or the mothers of the Eureka Committee during the “dirty war” in Mexico. Why are women the ones who, in most cases, decide to search for their loved ones? …”
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‘If this is of God’: Choosing to Curse in Ghanaian Charismatic Christianity by Mark S. Aidoo

“…There is hardly a call to love the enemy. Moreover, it is about destroying physical or spiritual beings that oppose one’s wellbeing. …”
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Screening A Christmas Carol (Dickens, 1843): Adaptation as Completion by Florent Christol

“…This paper investigates cinema and television’s peculiar ‘love story’ with Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843). …”
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The Conditions of Public Opinion Action in Soviet Lithuania by Valdemaras Klumbys

“…Personal information, like diseases, love affairs, sexual orientations, crimes, and mistakes in the past was used also. …”
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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Metastatic Cancer by Søren Ventegodt, Elin Solheim, Mads E. Saunte, Mohammed Morad, Isack Kandel, Joav Merrick

“…The patient went through the following phases: (1) finding the purpose of life and hidden resources; (2) confronting denial; (3) taking responsibility for being very ill; (4) severe existential crises with no wish to live while still fighting; (5) integration of many repressed feelings and negative decisions thus rehabilitating character; (6) confronting lack of intimacy and trust in others and this way rehabilitating the ability to love; (7) rehabilitating the will to live, breaking through and falling in love with life; (8) assuming responsibility for the social relations; and sometimes (9) quality of life is improved radically with indications of spontaneous remission of the liver tumors.…”
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KGB Struggle with Antisoviet Manifestation in Lithuania and Abroad: People's Discreditation by Kristina Burinskaitė

“…Personal information, like diseases, love affairs, sexual orientations, crimes, and mistakes in the past was used also. …”
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Perceived costs and benefits of companion dog keeping based on a convenience sample of dog owners by Laura Gillet, Borbála Turcsán, Eniko Kubinyi

“…Even within a convenience sample, the diversity in dog and owner characteristics was sufficient to explain why certain facets of dog ownership are experienced differently.…”
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The Life Mission Theory III. Theory of Talent by Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…These three dimensions can be drawn as three axes, one saggital axis called purpose or love or me-you, one vertical axis called power or consciousness (light) or heaven-earth, and one horizontal axis called gender or joy or male-female. …”
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Effects of Bride Price on Women's Rights Among the Bakiga in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kitumba Sub-County. by Asiimwe, Bettus

“…This would help to deter people found of beating their wives and reducing them into objects and not loving them as partners.…”
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The sport and Lithuanian national identity by Ingvaras Butautas, Rasa Čepaitienė

“… Having reached its strategic objectives (membership in the EU and NATO), Lithuania encountered the problem of a trawl for new societal development visions. That is why the Lithuanian mentality, facing such strong challenges as EU integration and globalization, is in quest of national identity components "inventory" and reevaluation in the context of new circumstances.  …”
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