2,002 Romantic Ideas


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Completely revised and updated, this adventurous and exotic guide helps couples make Valentine's Day--or any day--extra special.




2002 Ways to Say I Love You


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Perfect for Valentine's Day, this little book is filled with ideas for finding and wooing that special someone.




40 Unforgettable Dates with Your Mate


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In The 5 Love Needs of Men and Women, the Rosbergs taught us how to recognize our spouse's most important love needs. Now it's time to put those ideas into action! In 40 Unforgettable Dates with Your Mate, America's favorite family counselors offer forty ideas for dates that are not only fun and romantic but also help readers meet their spouse's love needs. From picnics to day trips to snuggling at home, these ideas are guaranteed to put your marriage into high gear.




The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History


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The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In this book, the Golden Age is seen from a new angle by discussing it in the context of the works of Friedrich Schlegel, who saw it not as bygone, but to be produced in the future.




Cheap Dates


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Great Dates, FUN Dates -- for Less! Let's face it: Coming up with a creative yet affordable night out can be a challenge. But there "are" ways to put a charge in your dating life without putting a big charge on your credit card. If you're looking for entertaining, adventurous, or just plain fun dating ideas that won't break the bank, this refreshing guide is your ideal companion. Steve Smith's Top 3 Cheap Dates: 3. Sidewalk Cafe Date -- What sets this date apart from any ordinary lunch date is that this Cafe's location is truly on a sidewalk--outside your own residence! Surprise your date with a bistro for two complete with a cozy table, centerpiece, menu, food cart and your own server (ask a friend for help). This lunch is sure to win a rave review from your date. 2. Dazzling Dessert Date -- Surprise your date with a post-dinner scavenger hunt that leads to a fun location for a creative dessert. Once your date has collected all the clues and found your hiding spot, impress your date with a wonderful gourmet dessert that you have prepared-- a sweet ending to a delightful evening! 1. Your Lucky Day Date -- Add a little flair with this date! Prior to picking up your date go to each place that you will be taking him or her and pay in advance. As the evening unfolds, enjoy the surprised look on your date's face when, time after time, the two of you become the winner of "free" dinners, "free" movie passes, and so on. Have an employee greet you and your date with the "good news" such as "Congratulations, this is your lucky day! You have just won a free dinner." Whether you are a young adult looking for new ideas for fun, a married couple looking for some spark, or someone new to the dating scene, inside is everything from energizing first dates to sizzling romantic dates-and each is a date to remember. -Fun and frugal dates -Romantic dates -Sport and leisure dates -Outdoor dates -Splurge dates




2002 Romantic Ideas


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In the tradition of 2002 Things to Do on a Date, 2002 Ways to Say I Love You, and 2002 Ways to Find, Attract, and Keep a Mate, Cyndi Haynes and Dale Edwards offer 2002 new romantic ideas that are perfect for every relationship.




A Year of Romance


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Following the cycle of the year, from season to season and month to month, A Year of Romance includes hundreds of tips, activities and ideas for creating sparkling romantic moments in your relationship. From the Spring of the relationship, when everything is new and exciting, through the heat of the Summer, the bright colorful Fall and finally the rest and renewal of Winter, you'll find activities to match every mood, every personality and every budget. Includes making your anniversary more than just a once-a-year event, showing appreciation every single day and seasonal ways to shower your sweetheart with romance. -- Visit a horse farm in the springtime during foaling season. Watching the birth of a foal is a miraculous experience the two of you can share. -- Keep cool on hot summer nights getting creative with ice cubes, or go down to the beach at midnight and make body sand sculptures, then wash off the sand by skinny-dipping. -- On one of those perfect, crisp autumn days, roll around in the fallen leaves together, laughing like children. -- Take a winter sleigh ride, complete with jingling bells and hot toddies by the fire afterwards.




The Romantic Conception of Life


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"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the world influenced (and was influenced by) both the lives of the people who held it and the development of nineteenth-century science. Integrating Romantic literature, science, and philosophy with an intimate knowledge of the individuals involved—from Goethe and the brothers Schlegel to Humboldt and Friedrich and Caroline Schelling—Richards demonstrates how their tempestuous lives shaped their ideas as profoundly as their intellectual and cultural heritage. He focuses especially on how Romantic concepts of the self, as well as aesthetic and moral considerations—all tempered by personal relationships—altered scientific representations of nature. Although historians have long considered Romanticism at best a minor tributary to scientific thought, Richards moves it to the center of the main currents of nineteenth-century biology, culminating in the conception of nature that underlies Darwin's evolutionary theory. Uniting the personal and poetic aspects of philosophy and science in a way that the German Romantics themselves would have honored, The Romantic Conception of Life alters how we look at Romanticism and nineteenth-century biology.




Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time


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"A beautiful and brilliant reexamination of love and its perils."—Barbara Fisher, Boston Globe Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationships—it becomes increasingly dangerous. What we regard as the transience of love is really risk management. Mitchell shows that love can endure, if only we become aware of our self-destructive efforts to protect ourselves from its risks. "Those who read this book will love more wisely because of it."—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon "[A] work on romance that is rich and multi-layered."—Publishers Weekly "Cheerful, open, and humane—you'd definitely have wanted him as your analyst."—Judith Shulevitz, The New York Times Book Review "[T]houghtful, compassionate, and profoundly optimistic."—JoAnn Gutin, Salon.com




Romantic Style


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Lovely homes, pretty rooms, gentle settings.