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In the bestselling tradition of "The Rules" and "The Surrendered Wife" comes a controversial, empowering guide that says what women know already--that men are primarily responsible for marital problems.
In the bestselling tradition of "The Rules" and "The Surrendered Wife" comes a controversial, empowering guide that says what women know already--that men are primarily responsible for marital problems.
n this short and entertaining book are the secrets to having great sex with the most wonderful woman a man will ever know-his wife. In plain, pointed, often funny language psychotherapist Robert Alter says that the marriage bed is the best place on the planet for great sex, that marriage is the best sexual position there is. If a man learns a few things about his manhood, his wife's womanhood, about marriage and about sex, if he's willing to become the kind of husband who knows how to truly love his wife, in and out of bed, he'll win her-heart, soul, and body. SEX WITH A MARRIED WOMAN is a husband's guide for how to become that man. It's a vision of how marital sex is supposed to be, and could be, if you, the man, do your part in creating it. In a short 120 pages, in 20 short chapters, in a voice that both men and women will love, Alter tells men what their part is. If you're a married man, or want to be a married man-or if you're a woman who loves this man and wants him to become a truly lovable man- SEX WITH A MARRIED WOMAN is for you.
Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years.
A tool for overcoming life's obstacles - large and small - this book by psychotherapists Robert and Jane Alter shows how you can unlock your own inner power to heal the psyche and the soul. Using case studies, the authors show how to turn painful moments from the past into stepping stones toward a more fulfilling future. Based on the authors' 20 years of experience as psychologists, this guide is packed with examples and anecdotes to inspire and heal. For readers in need of comfort during difficult times, this book offers an look at how challenging life transitions can be positive growth experiences and opportunities for empowering change.
Examines the way that the King James version of the Bible--especially the Old Testament--has influenced literary style in the works of Melville, Hemingway, Faulkner, Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy.
In his brilliant new translation of one of the Bibles most cherished and powerful books, Alter captures the simplicity, physicality, and coiled rhythmic power of the Hebrew, restoring the remarkable eloquence of these ancient poems.
In Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space, the urban panorama became less coherent—a metropolis defying traditional representation and definition, a vast jumble of shifting fragments and glimpses—and writers were compelled to create new methods for conveying the experience of the city.In a series of subtle and convincing interpretations of novels by Flaubert, Dickens, Bely, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka, Alter reveals the...
Work hard to get ahead; the poor are mostly minorities in inner cities living lazily off of welfare fraud; the government spends more on welfare than anywhere else in the world; America is a land of equal opportunity with easy social mobility for all. These are but a handful of the many myths about poverty in America, some of which have persisted for decades, with significant and harmful consequences on our social policy, our social compacts, and ourselves.Poorly Understood seeks to challenge and debunk these myths, along the way asking tough questions about how and why they have persisted and what it would take to replace them with true stories.
"The courageous Robert Spencer busts myths and tells truths about jihadists that no one else will tell." —MICHELLE MALKIN While many choose to simply blame the West for provoking terrorists, Robert Spencer’s new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)™ reveals why it is time to ignore political correctness and identify the enemy - if we hope to ever defeat them. In a fast-paced, politically incorrect tour of Islamic teachings and Crusades history, Spencer reveals the roots of Islamic violence and hatred. Spencer refutes the myths popularized by left-wing academics and Islamic apologists who justify their political agendas with contrived historical “facts.” ...