A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the SensesKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1 de jun. de 2011 - 384 páginas The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss. Enchantingly written and stunningly informed, this "audaciously brilliant romp through the world of romantic love" (Washington Post Book World) is the next best thing to love itself. |
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... find a history vague and confusing , stretching back to the Sanskrit lubhyati ( " he desires " ) . I'm sure the etymology rambles back much farther than that , to a one - syllable word heavy as a heartbeat . Love is an ancient delirium ...
... find a history vague and confusing , stretching back to the Sanskrit lubhyati ( " he desires " ) . I'm sure the etymology rambles back much farther than that , to a one - syllable word heavy as a heartbeat . Love is an ancient delirium ...
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... find . Like most people , I believed what I had been told : that the idea of love was invented by the Greeks , and romantic love began in the Middle Ages . I know now how misguided such hearsay is . We can find romantic love in the ...
... find . Like most people , I believed what I had been told : that the idea of love was invented by the Greeks , and romantic love began in the Middle Ages . I know now how misguided such hearsay is . We can find romantic love in the ...
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... find a woman hunting birds : * We get our word paper from the Greek papyros , the word given to a material used by the Egyptians for writing and wrapping . To make papyrus , the Egyptians flat- tened and crisscrossed strips of pith from ...
... find a woman hunting birds : * We get our word paper from the Greek papyros , the word given to a material used by the Egyptians for writing and wrapping . To make papyrus , the Egyptians flat- tened and crisscrossed strips of pith from ...
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... find it particularly odd that , every now and then , people go haywire , lose their ability to think clearly , have stomachaches , can't sleep properly , and spend hours daydreaming . Such a state has all the earmarks of disease and ...
... find it particularly odd that , every now and then , people go haywire , lose their ability to think clearly , have stomachaches , can't sleep properly , and spend hours daydreaming . Such a state has all the earmarks of disease and ...
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... a frequent temptation , or it wouldn't have been forbidden . We do find fetishism , masochism , and other fringe elements , plus a practical concern with contraception , for which women used a pessary 16 Diane Ackerman A Long Desire.
... a frequent temptation , or it wouldn't have been forbidden . We do find fetishism , masochism , and other fringe elements , plus a practical concern with contraception , for which women used a pessary 16 Diane Ackerman A Long Desire.
Conteúdo
The Hair | 190 |
Women and Horses | 196 |
Men and Cars | 217 |
Sex and Flying | 227 |
Men and Mermaids | 236 |
Kissing | 249 |
On the Sensuality of Looking | 255 |
The Courtship | 261 |
Marcel Proust and the Erotics of Waiting | 112 |
The Origins of Desire | 123 |
Attachment Theory | 131 |
THE NATURE OF LOVE | 137 |
The Neurophysiology of Love | 146 |
The Plastic Brain | 152 |
The Chemistry of Love | 159 |
Aphrodisiacs | 169 |
THE EROTICS OF LOVE | 175 |
The Face | 181 |
The Marriage | 267 |
Of Cocks and Cunts | 277 |
VARIETIES OF LOVE | 287 |
Life and Death in the South Seas | 308 |
On Religious Love | 314 |
On Transference Love | 322 |
The Museum | 332 |
Selected Bibliography | 338 |
Index | 345 |
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