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100 1 _aAckerman, Diane,
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245 1 2 _aA natural history of love /
_cDiane Ackerman.
250 _aFirst Vintage Books edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bVintage Books,
_c1995.
300 _axxiii, 358 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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500 _aOriginally published: New York : Random House, c1994.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 338-344) and index.
505 0 0 _tIntroduction: Love's Vocabulary --
_tA Long Desire: The History of Love --
_tEgypt --
_tHistory's Paramour, the Serpent Queen --
_tArt in Ancient Egypt --
_tThe Hieroglyphic Love Poems --
_tMy Sister, My Bride --
_tA Long Desire --
_tGreece --
_tThe World of the Citizen King --
_tThe Woman's World --
_tMen Loving Men --
_tThe Family --
_tOrpheus and Eurydice --
_tRome --
_tThe Nightmare of Girls --
_tDido and Aeneas --
_tThe Family --
_tOh, Victoria! --
_tOvid and the Art of Love --
_tDecorating Leisure Time --
_tThe Middle Ages --
_tThe Birth of Chivalry --
_tBooks of Love --
_tTroubadours --
_tThe Heart's Rebellion --
_tThe Origins of Courtly Love --
_tAbelard and Heloise --
_tModern Days --
_tThe Angel and the Witch --
_tRomeo and Juliet --
_tBridled Hearts --
_tA Waking Swoon --
_tA Return to Courtly Love --
_tDomestic Paradise --
_tModern Love --
_tThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Ideas About Love --
_tPlato: The Perfect Union --
_tStendhal Meets the Deep South --
_tDenis de Rougemont: Love and Magic --
_tMarcel Proust and the Erotics of Waiting --
_tFreud: The Origins of Desire --
_tAttachment Theory --
_tAll Fires the Fire: The Nature of Love --
_tThe Loving Impaired --
_tDisabling Love --
_tThe Horror of the Ik --
_tBrain-Stem Sonata: The Neurophysiology of Love --
_tThe Evolution of Love --
_tThe Plastic Brain --
_tNew-Age Sensitive Guys --
_tAdultery --
_tThe Battle of the Sexes --
_tThe Chemistry of Love --
_tMother Love, Father Love --
_tThe Cuddle Chemical --
_tThe Infatuation Chemical --
_tThe Attachment Chemical --
_tThe Chemistry of Divorce --
_tAphrodisiacs --
_tA Necessary Passion: The Erotics of Love --
_tFire from the Flesh: Why Sex Evolved --
_tThe Spice of Life --
_tThe Face --
_tThe Evolution of the Face --
_tSurvival of the Cutest --
_tFacing Our Biases --
_tThe Hair --
_tWomen and Horses --
_tMen and Cars --
_tThe Indy 500 --
_tThe Lightest Longing: Sex and Flying --
_tWings over Africa --
_tMen and Mermaids --
_tSexual Chic: Perversion as Fashion --
_tKissing --
_tOn the Sensuality of Looking --
_tPassing Strange and Wonderful: Love's Customs --
_tPatterns in Nature --
_tThe Courtship --
_tFlesh of My Flesh: The Marriage --
_tOf Cocks and Cunts --
_tLove on the Edge: Adultery, Extravagant Gestures, and Crimes of Passion --
_tPoints for a Compass Rose: Varieties of Love --
_tAltruism --
_tFor the Love of Children: Interplast --
_tFor the Love of Strangers: Life and Death in the South Seas --
_tOn Religious Love --
_tOn Transference Love --
_tOn the Love of Pets --
_tPostscript: The Museum --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tIndex.
520 _a"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."--Publisher description.
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