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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... Bride A Long Desire Greece The World of the Citizen King The Woman's World Men Loving Men The Family Orpheus and Eurydice Rome The Nightmare of Girls Dido and Aeneas The Family Oh , Victoria ! 23 38 Ovid and the Art of Love Decorating ...
... Bride A Long Desire Greece The World of the Citizen King The Woman's World Men Loving Men The Family Orpheus and Eurydice Rome The Nightmare of Girls Dido and Aeneas The Family Oh , Victoria ! 23 38 Ovid and the Art of Love Decorating ...
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... BRIDE One custom of the ancient Egyptians that shocks most of us is incest . Lovers in the poems frequently address one another tenderly as brother or sister . Yet to us , and to peoples throughout the world , throughout the ages ...
... BRIDE One custom of the ancient Egyptians that shocks most of us is incest . Lovers in the poems frequently address one another tenderly as brother or sister . Yet to us , and to peoples throughout the world , throughout the ages ...
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... bride and bring her back . He'd heard a rumor that a cave at Tainaron led down to the Underworld , and so he went there , carrying his lyre . This was a fearsome journey he planned , but he couldn't bear the thought of losing his ...
... bride and bring her back . He'd heard a rumor that a cave at Tainaron led down to the Underworld , and so he went there , carrying his lyre . This was a fearsome journey he planned , but he couldn't bear the thought of losing his ...
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... bride in death . But the boatman would not ferry him . Nothing would persuade Charon . For a week , Orpheus sat sobbing on the shore , starving away to nothing , covered in mud and slime . Finally , he brokenheartedly returned to Thrace ...
... bride in death . But the boatman would not ferry him . Nothing would persuade Charon . For a week , Orpheus sat sobbing on the shore , starving away to nothing , covered in mud and slime . Finally , he brokenheartedly returned to Thrace ...
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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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