{"product_id":"all-about-love-the-deluxe-collectors-edition","title":"All About Love: The Deluxe Collector's Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNow available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth case stamping with red foil, bold endpapers, and red sprayed edges! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestseller and enduring classic,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAll About Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' \"Love Song to the Nation\" trilogy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAll About Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAll About Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness—not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Utne Reader\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAll About Love \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us.” — Maya Angelou\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Readers Venue","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45049221251280,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/6983\/9568\/files\/allaboutlove_bc2c152d-428b-47cc-ae42-98fbc2eda4b7.jpg?v=1782333300","url":"https:\/\/the-book-readers-venue.myshopify.com\/products\/all-about-love-the-deluxe-collectors-edition","provider":"The Book Readers Venue","version":"1.0","type":"link"}