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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... tell you : I went to the field where birds gather . I held in one hand a trap , and in the other a net and spear . I saw many birds flying from the land of Punt Laden with sweet fragrance to alight on Egypt's soil . The first snatched ...
... tell you : I went to the field where birds gather . I held in one hand a trap , and in the other a net and spear . I saw many birds flying from the land of Punt Laden with sweet fragrance to alight on Egypt's soil . The first snatched ...
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... tell his parents that he has fallen in love . Why be furtive about it ? One's * At that level of high - voltage emotion , there's a thin line between sweet fanaticism and acute psychosis . Twist the love just a little , keeping the same ...
... tell his parents that he has fallen in love . Why be furtive about it ? One's * At that level of high - voltage emotion , there's a thin line between sweet fanaticism and acute psychosis . Twist the love just a little , keeping the same ...
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... telling them what to do . Love makes such mischief that the idea of mortals causing it by themselves seemed impossible . Homer doesn't explore the psychology of love , as Greek lyric poets would later . Told from the outside , with the ...
... telling them what to do . Love makes such mischief that the idea of mortals causing it by themselves seemed impossible . Homer doesn't explore the psychology of love , as Greek lyric poets would later . Told from the outside , with the ...
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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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A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural ... Diane Ackerman Visualização parcial - 1995 |
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