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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... Hair Women and Horses Men and Cars The Indy 500 The Lightest Longing: Sex and Flying Wings over Africa Men and Mermaids Sexual Chic: Perversion as Fashion Kissing On the Sensuality of Looking PASSING STRANGE AND WONDERFUL: l.OVE'S ...
... Hair Women and Horses Men and Cars The Indy 500 The Lightest Longing: Sex and Flying Wings over Africa Men and Mermaids Sexual Chic: Perversion as Fashion Kissing On the Sensuality of Looking PASSING STRANGE AND WONDERFUL: l.OVE'S ...
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... Hair 184 186 188 190 Women and Horses 196 Men and Cars 217 The Indy 500 218 The Lightest Longing : Sex and Flying 227 Wings over Africa 230 Men and Mermaids 236 Sexual Chic : Perversion as Fashion 241 Kissing 249 On the Sensuality of ...
... Hair 184 186 188 190 Women and Horses 196 Men and Cars 217 The Indy 500 218 The Lightest Longing : Sex and Flying 227 Wings over Africa 230 Men and Mermaids 236 Sexual Chic : Perversion as Fashion 241 Kissing 249 On the Sensuality of ...
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... hair carefully plaited and perfumed with unguents. Egyptian women did not take part in government (except for the occasional female pharaoh), but they traveled freely, enjoyed many of the same pastimes and activities that men did, and ...
... hair carefully plaited and perfumed with unguents. Egyptian women did not take part in government (except for the occasional female pharaoh), but they traveled freely, enjoyed many of the same pastimes and activities that men did, and ...
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... hair carefully plaited and perfumed with unguents . Egyptian women did not take part in government ( except for the occasional female pha- raoh ) , but they traveled freely , enjoyed many of the same pastimes and activities that men did ...
... hair carefully plaited and perfumed with unguents . Egyptian women did not take part in government ( except for the occasional female pha- raoh ) , but they traveled freely , enjoyed many of the same pastimes and activities that men did ...
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... hair lapis lazuli in its glitter , her arms more splendid than gold . Her fingers make me see petals , the lotus ' are like that . Her flanks are modeled as should be , her legs beyond all other beauty . Noble her walking ( vera incessu ) ...
... hair lapis lazuli in its glitter , her arms more splendid than gold . Her fingers make me see petals , the lotus ' are like that . Her flanks are modeled as should be , her legs beyond all other beauty . Noble her walking ( vera incessu ) ...
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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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A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural ... Diane Ackerman Visualização parcial - 1995 |
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