cover image El Amor Como Forma de Vida: Siete Claves Para Transformar su Vida

El Amor Como Forma de Vida: Siete Claves Para Transformar su Vida

Gary Chapman. Vintage Books USA, $13.95 (283pp) ISBN 978-0-307-45457-7

Chapman follows up his five million-copy best seller Los cinco lenguajes del amor (The Five Love Language) with this wise, heartfelt guide to cultivating seven traits that lead to loving relationships. Whereas his work on love languages explored the primary ways people give and receive love, this book explores the nitty-gritty of an entire ""attitude of love,"" with chapters on kindness, patience, forgiveness, humility, courtesy, generosity, and honesty. Each chapter includes quizzes, questions for reflection, and ideas for applying that chapter's teachings. Chapman manages to make tried-and-true material feel fresh through carefully chosen examples from his pastoral counseling practice and his own life. This book is head and shoulders above the bulk of self-help literature precisely because it is not about ""self"" so much as helping others. [A fluid translation; recommended for general Spanish-language collections.-Ed.][PW 4/28/08]