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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... Things Past, Volume Tu/o by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Translation ID 1981 by Random House, Inc. and Chatto and Windus. Published in the United States Kingdom by Chatto and Windus ...
... Things Past, Volume Tu/o by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Translation ID 1981 by Random House, Inc. and Chatto and Windus. Published in the United States Kingdom by Chatto and Windus ...
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... Things Past , Volume Two by Marcel Proust , translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin . Translation 1981 by Random House , Inc. and Chatto and Windus . Published in the United States Kingdom by Chatto and Windus ...
... Things Past , Volume Two by Marcel Proust , translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin . Translation 1981 by Random House , Inc. and Chatto and Windus . Published in the United States Kingdom by Chatto and Windus ...
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... thing you can imagine . Now double it . I love you a hundred times that much ! " When Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote her famous sonnet " How do I love thee ? " she didn't " count the ways " because she had an arithmetical turn of mind ...
... thing you can imagine . Now double it . I love you a hundred times that much ! " When Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote her famous sonnet " How do I love thee ? " she didn't " count the ways " because she had an arithmetical turn of mind ...
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... things down . And , if they did , such documents may not have sur- vived . Of those that did , some may be exaggerated or hide political motives . The best we can do is surmise , that sunstruck word that sounds like an ancient kingdom ...
... things down . And , if they did , such documents may not have sur- vived . Of those that did , some may be exaggerated or hide political motives . The best we can do is surmise , that sunstruck word that sounds like an ancient kingdom ...
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... things were more soul - drenching than the idea of an oasis . A hidden garden in the aridity of life soon became a metaphor for love . In the biblical Song of Solomon - which was preceded by similar songs in ancient Egypt and Sumeria ...
... things were more soul - drenching than the idea of an oasis . A hidden garden in the aridity of life soon became a metaphor for love . In the biblical Song of Solomon - which was preceded by similar songs in ancient Egypt and Sumeria ...
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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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