Merrily Weisbord, "The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0773537910 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 3.7 mb
Kamala Das (1934-2009) is one of India's most beloved and controversial literary figures. She was hailed and reviled as the first Indian woman to write an autobiographical cult classic about love and desire. Admirers dubbed her, "The First Feminist Emotional Revolutionary of Our Time." The tabloid press called her "The Love Queen of Malabar." Merrily Weisbord found Das's work so compelling that she flew to South India to meet her. The Love Queen of Malabar is the story of their decade-long friendship, an experiment in mutual revelation. Recounting the development of their relationship, Weisbord relates the dramatic events of Das's life, including her transition from celibacy to sexual awakening at age sixty-seven when, provoking the greatest scandal of her notorious life, she converted to Islam for love and renewal. Both observer and direct participant, Weisbord elegantly presents new biographical insights and cultural details about Kerala and India without exoticisation or stereotyping. The Love Queen of Malabar is an evocative and beautifully crafted work, as seamless as the finest novel, and will captivate readers across the globe.

Robert Holschuh Simmons, "Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon"
English | ISBN: 1350214485 | 2023 | 192 pages | EPUB, PDF | 432 KB + 5 MB
What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of several genres of literature of the late 5th and early-to-mid 4th centuries BCE. Such connection was particularly effective with lower classes of Athenians, who had been accustomed to being excluded from politicians' friendship-based approaches to coalition-building.

Norma Clarke, "Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love - The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle "
English | ISBN: 1032263474 | 2022 | 260 pages | PDF | 17 MB
How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer?

Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama by Saladin Ambar
English | June 1st, 2022 | ISBN: 0197621996 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 1.52 MB
A sweeping look into interracial friendship's significance in American democracy from the founding to the present.

B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B4WWVFYZ | 2023 | 9 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 265 MB
Author: Christie Tate
Narrator: Christie Tate

Jeffrey S. Cramer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, "Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1640091319, 1640093834 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 3.2 mb
A thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual-biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to find the ideal friend with whom they could share their journey through our imperfect world.

Amy Andrews, "Love & Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters"
English | ISBN: 0829438319 | 2013 | 324 pages | EPUB | 582 KB
When Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith met in a creative writing class in graduate school, they both confessed to writing about God. They bonded one night while reading the Book of Ruth and came to truly understand the unlikely friendship of Ruth and Naomi. In these two Old Testament women, they witnessed a beautiful spiritual friendship and a way of walking with one another toward God.

Gary Chartier, "Understanding Friendship: On the Moral, Political, and Spiritual Meaning of Love"
English | ISBN: 1506479081 | 2022 | 247 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
What is friendship? Is it ethically important? Does it exist outside ethics? Is it a potential distraction from the love of God or from moral responsibility? How might it nourish our spiritual lives? How should we make sense of the moral responsibilities we often take ourselves to have to our friends? Does friendship have anything to do with politics?

Friendship as a Social Institution By Michal M. McCall (editor), George J. McCall, Norman K. Denzin, Gerald D. Suttles, Suzanne B. Kurth
2010 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 0202363554 | PDF | 20 MB
What is the social organization of love, friendship, rivalry, marriage, admiration, collegiality, parenthood, acquaintance, and clientage? How are these types of relationships similar and how do they differ? Few sociological works exist on relationships between friends, business partners, customers and clerks, mailmen and homeowners, and employers and employees, as social rather than role relationships. This classic book remains of interest because it focuses on voluntary personal relationships relationships that people need not enter, whose content is up to the participants, whose rules are what the participants agree they will be.The authors create an analytic framework within which to describe and compare the enormous range of relationships between two persons. They detail the shape and structure of such relationships, consider their organizational dynamics, their range and the nature of deviance in them, and point out analytical variables and dimensions upon which relationships can be located for comparative purposes. Organizational change in terms of how relationships are formed, developed, and transformed is covered, as is their function and dysfunction for the individual and society.By regarding social relationships consistently from the viewpoint of social organization theory, the book assimilates them to sociological concepts in general, but with an eye to the social psychological and organizational features that render them distinctive as a type. Friendship as a Social Institution sustains the study of friendship by making distinctions and outlining the problems connected with the study of social relationships.

Stylist Magazine, "Life Lessons On Friendship: 13 Honest Tales of the Most Important Relationships of Our Lives"
English | ISBN: 0241384974 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
How have your friends shaped you into who you are today? What would you do if you fell in love with your best friend? What happens when a friend dies suddenly? And what are the golden rules of going into business with a close friend?